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🗣 Followers 1 · Following 0 · Logs 19 · Docked 2 months ago
gemini://tilde.club/~winter/gemlog/2024/6-01.gmi Being someone without social media I never acquired a taste for block lists. Or, rather, the whole world is my blocklist, since I never connected in the first place. I find it interesting how much energy is spent analyzing the ideology of one's followers. It seems to me it would be better to have no followers at all. This is why I distrust those who promote codes of conduct: because they view every transaction in terms of an ideological cleansing. The most basic function of a community is stoning people to death. And this is why I will never come to Gemini without my condom on.
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gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/jetequitte NO COMMENT.
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This is pretty brilliant. Acidus has established an HTTP proxy for us to use, so we can access HTTP pages from inside Lagrange. I was surprised at how nice it was. I don't recommend using it for your personal web surfing, as Acidus will have a record of all of your activity. But for poking around Geminispace, it's pretty nice. Take a look. gemini://corscada.uk/dump/2024-05-28-living-in-lagrange.gmi
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Found this interesting TUI repository, but I cant clone the repository for the custom installer, sheepy. gemini://gmi.noulin.net/2024-02-11-my-tuis.gmi xxx@yyy:~/zzz$ git clone https://spartatek.se/git/sheepy.git Cloning into 'sheepy'... error: Failed to connect to spartatek.se port 443 after 0 ms: Couldn't connect to server (curl_result = 7, http_code = 0, sha1 = ea0246a2f62314ffc97b69d98c308f15c0429d73) error: Unable to find ea02...9d73 under https://spartatek.se/git/sheepy.git Fetching objects: 2, done. Cannot obtain needed commit ea02...9d73 while processing commit 92ea...1682. error: fetch failed. Anyone have better luck?
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In the past, when someone asked me why I was vegetarian, I'd say cows were too ugly to eat. But the real reason was that I didn't like killing animals. I'm not against other people eating meat, but I figure if you do you better be okay with killing animals. Some say "You don't have to kill them, the butcher does." To me it's immoral not to take responsibility for what you do. I would eat an animal if I killed it. But since I don't kill animals, I don't eat them. This perspective on vegetarianism allows me to avoid absolutism, and to respect people who make other choices. But I still find it strange when I realize how many people eat meat.
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1. re: Dr Who. Heard it was crap. Much better than expected for a /silly children's/ show. Good special effects. Didn't mind the Dr. Detest the rage-bait reporting surrounding it. 2. re: Rings of Power teaser trailer. Could be worse, but there's no way to save it after S01, which was like S08 of Game of Thrones, an almost complete disaster. The actor playing Sauron is too rugged to play Anatuur, the most beautiful elf ever. Looks like like an SNL parody. [Rant deleted] I'm dreading the questionable Tolkein content coming out. I'm especially disappointed in Andy Serkis for signing on to do a practically non-existent Gollum story. Shouldn't care. Barely do. Thanks "creatives".
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@martin Any reason why Station makes such hash of our gemtext? I tried to make some nice links here, but the result was not great. gemini://station.martinrue.com/breakfast_champion/2289ae7db942404c97d525a7c0c932f2 In the past I've tried to add lists and headers, and these get eaten up as well. Why can't we post gemtext here?
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Cohost has been mentioned recently a couple times in Geminispace: gemini://tilde.club/~winter/gemlog/2024/5-15.gmi "Day Off" @winter <tilde.club (2024-05-15) offers critical opinions on cohost late in the post gemini://midnight.pub/posts/1843 "Howdy, everyone!" @plasmon <midnight.pub (2024-05-15) mentions she's on cohost https://cohost.org/plasmon @plasmon's cohort page <cohost.org
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Winter is back. gemini://midnight.pub/posts/1826
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In your experience what differentiates Gemini most from Gopher? And what protocol features led to this difference? My thoughts 1. Gemtext vs Plaintext * wrappable lines - mobile users * unified document format - weblike experience, rather than a link map + linkless text experience * inexpensive visual appeal vs expensive ASCII formatting 2. TOFU encryption vs nothing - inband ID - services like Station and BBS I'm not very well versed in Gopher, only reading a few glogs from time to time, so I'd apprecate the input of experienced users. Has there ever been anything as interesting as Station on it? If so, were the signups in-band?
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Reply to \= gemini://auragem.letz.dev/devlog/20240506.gmi Gemini can handle any document type, not only gemtext. A new doc type needs to innovate. Adding a few markdown niceities to gemtext isn't especially compelling. It would be better to go with an existing solution like CommonMark, for which there are existing parsers out the wazoo. If you think the Gemini protocol doesn't handle streaming well, create a protocol that does streaming well, and offer it over the Gemini protocol. Titan is a good example of protocols playing nice with one another. Competing protocols like Spartan and Nex have not done especially well. A new protocol has to have a killer app quality to it. Good luck.
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gemini://scrollprotocol.us.to/software/profectus/ gemini://auragem.letz.dev/devlog/20240505.gmi A new fully-featured smallnet browser is being developed called Profectus. The beta just came out, but I can't get the precompiled binary to work. The Profectus page helpfully suggests installing some dependencies. I tracked down this command: $ sudo apt install libsdl2-dev 47 MB later, and Profectus still doesn't run: ./profectus: error while loading shared libraries: libSDL2_image-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Anyone having better luck?
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Pretty good evidence that headings, inline emphasis, and other markdown niceities aren't just slander against gemtext or snooty Overworldism. gemini://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/~solderpunk/gemlog/differentiating-myself-and-smol-earth-from-the-amish.gmi
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Worth reading: winter 's ruminations about geminispace. gemini://rawtext.club/~winter/gemlog/2024/4-11.gmi
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Not sure what it is, but I like it. gopher://triapul.cz:70/0/phlog/2024-04-12-sin-done-in-water.txt
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Tried running the prebuilt Linux binary for Profectus alpha0.3 and receive the following error message: ./profectus: error while loading shared libraries: libSDL2_image-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
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Some interesting bits and pieces coming together from @clseibold. He's got a new protocol up, Scroll, with a client and a server. gemini://scrollprotocol.us.to/ Not sure if internationalization and a couple drops of metadata are worth it, though. Still, he's thinking.
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In your opinion, what is the best text-based (TUI/terminal) Gemini client?
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What is your opinion about the size of Gemini protocol community? I downloaded some archives of Bubble (bbs.geminispace.org) and found that it had fallen off quite a bit. I don't have the numbers in front of me, but the archives went from a megabyte to half that, suggesting a fall-off from peak activity. Is there a graph indicating the Gemini population trend we can all look at and admire? Any stats?