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TELESCOPE: External editor support now available! β Great news the latest commit of Telescope 0.9.1 introduces the feature to call an external editor to type long text message like this one! Just press CTRL+x and it will open your default editor, it should follow regular Unix settings (BSD families) as well as the common Linux settings. In distros like Devuan and Debian you can add this line on your ~/.profile dot file. [preformatted] This message has been written with Telescope + Micro...
π¬ 4 comments Β· 2 likes Β· Jun 11 Β· 5 days ago Β· #clients
tilde.team user ~sumpygump hosts a service called "Exploration Surprise". Each day the page features three capsules pulled at random from the catalog of known capsules at geminispace.info. Now that geminispace.info's search function is offline, its catalog is gone as well, and Exploration Surprise now shows an empty list. I enjoy Exploration Surprise and use it alongside DiscoGem to find capsules, and I'd like to inform ~sumpygump about the issue. If anyone knows of a way to contact them,...
π¬ 3 comments Β· Jun 06 Β· 10 days ago
How do you prefer to write your gemlogs? β How do you prefer to write your gemlogs? In the past I've done it straight on my server with nano or vi, and I've also experimented with writing everything locally and then using scp to copy thew new files over. Both seem to be equally good for my purposes as long as I have my column width set appropriately in my editor. I considered writing things and then uploading with Titan, but my current capsule software doesn't support Titan that I'm aware of...
π¬ 10 comments Β· 2 likes Β· Jun 05 Β· 11 days ago
Heads-up with GMID 2.0 β GMID removed support for "CGI", if you update and you have a CGI voice in your config this will prevent GMID to start or work. CGI script had to go, I don't want code in gmid that can be used to execute almost everything. [gemini link] π
π¬ 5 comments Β· 1 like Β· Jun 05 Β· 12 days ago
engineering for slow internet β this text tells details about how is it to use modern web with limited internet. gemini & geminispace would be useful, given the current bloat of the web. but it's not all, the engineering of many day-to-day tasks, like system updates, are done by the assumptions that the internet speed is high. also, it is interesting, that when the space is not densely populated, it doesn't worth to invest in that space, even if it is a cyberspace. (:
π¬ 12 comments Β· 1 like Β· Jun 02 Β· 2 weeks ago
Why do people not like gemini anymore? β I remember a couple years ago i heard people talking about gemini like it was an escape from the bloat of the modern web, now i see people saying that gemini doesn't solve anything and isn't even comparable with the regular web
π¬ 11 comments Β· 2 likes Β· Jun 01 Β· 2 weeks ago
engineering for slow internet β very interesting south pole experiences. gemini would be just fine.
π¬ 5 likes Β· Jun 01 Β· 2 weeks ago
π Going full Gemini β Since I am extremely disappointed by the weird course of ActivityPub, Mastodon, Threads and BlueSky... I am seriously considering to do 30 or even 60 days challenge using exclusively Gemini for my online social activities... π€
π¬ 55 comments Β· 12 likes Β· May 22 Β· 4 weeks ago
Why choose a v3 X.509 certificate for your capsule (and your website too) β X.509 is the standard format of public key certificates which are used, among other uses, in TLS. The format has 3 versions, each one adding functionality that the previous one lacked. While the most popular library for processing these certificates, OpenSSL, supports all versions, this is starting to not be the case anymore for other libraries. In 2022, when I first heard about Gemini, I decided to write a client for...
π¬ 5 likes Β· May 14 Β· 5 weeks ago
privacy for hosting gemini site? β Hello friend I know gemini use the limited protocol itself to protect the privacy of the client, but what about the host? How do you protect your own privacy when you hosting a site? or do you not worry about exposing your information (like your IP or your email or anything people can get from your domain name) on the net? If you think it is not a concern, I would love to hear your reasoning. Maybe I am just overthinking? And if it does bother you, please...
π¬ 5 comments Β· Apr 21 Β· 8 weeks ago Β· #privacy
A Question About the Use of Irregular UTF-8 Expressions as the Solution to Emphasis in Gemtext β This is a response to this post: [gemini link] This is not a new idea. Someone, somewhere, has already shown they can construct complex mathematical diagrams using this technique. However, Pandion suggests we might use this method for bold and italics in Gemtext. Background: So I was looking for a way to insert a non-breaking-space* on android, when I stumbled upon the app: πͺπ³π³π¦π¨πΆππ’π³...
π¬ 4 comments Β· Apr 19 Β· 8 weeks ago
Anchors β This is a question about the limitations on the gemini protocool. It isn't a criticism or a complaint, more of ... seeking understanding. Why doesn't the gemini protocool have anchors? I don't mean the <a href='link'> part of the "anchor" tag, but the <a href="#anchor_on_this_page'> sort. I remember this was one of the first bits about HTML that struck my interest when I was learning it back in the day. You could have a table of contents at the beginning of a document, and then link...
π¬ 23 comments Β· Apr 17 Β· 2 months ago
Vimini 0.5.0 β I'm releasing a new version of my browser, with added support for Gopher and other niceties. I've also added build instructions and a short demo video to its README. Up next I'm planning to rewrite the network code so it handles incoming data in a more stream-like fashion, instead of downloading it all and then parse it, which would support long-lived TCP connections (like the one chat.mozz.us uses) or downloads. If you manage to run it on a non-linux system let me know! I haven'...
π¬ 20 comments Β· 4 likes Β· Apr 10 Β· 2 months ago
oddities with gemini
π¬ 3 comments Β· 1 like Β· Apr 07 Β· 2 months ago
How Can We Determine Files Types and Text File Encodings? β Determining File Types I have a security question. How can we verify that a UTF-8 file contains only UTF-8 encoded bytes? Running iconv all the time (the preferred solution) isn't appropriate in every situation, and only pushes back the question: how does iconv perform the verification? Other proposals suggest pushing text through UTF-8 language tools, like `read().decode('UTF-8')` in Python, but, again, the /how/ remains...
π¬ 7 comments Β· Apr 04 Β· 2 months ago
How much are emoji and non-ASCII used in Geminspace over all? I'm currently trying to allow WebTVs to use Gemini, and one major limitation is that it only supports ASCII and a subset of Windows-1252. I'm can use Twemoji in my proxy to substitute emoji, and Unifont for other things in the basic multilingual plane. How much stuff would that miss? Text presentation emoji-like things might be missed unless in the basic multilingual plane, and Twemoji likes turning text presentation characters...
π¬ 3 comments Β· Mar 29 Β· 3 months ago
Can the metadata in a Gemini response be completely arbitrary? Like can I include custom parameters other than the lang attribute? I'm aware I can return whatever text I want, but is arbitrary metadata allowed by the spec?
π¬ 3 comments Β· 1 like Β· Mar 29 Β· 3 months ago
CGI: I am interested in CGI tutorials for Gemini applications. I have basic knowledge but need some best practice tutorials. maybe to get more insights on common pitfalls. would be very interested in getting some hints. thankx
π¬ 10 comments Β· Mar 26 Β· 3 months ago
Examples of handling TOFU and client certificates with mbedTLS (in C)? β As a rite of passage I've decided to make a Gemini client in C, and as I'm new to SSL/networking, I have no idea how to handle TOFU or client certificates with mbedTLS. Has anyone else specifically made a gemini client with it? Or would you recommend that I try to figure out another SSL library? I avoided OpenSSL because the documentation seemed incomprehensible, but mbedTLS' documentation isn't much better. As an aside, I...
Valid Gemini response with invalid media type? β Valid Gemini response with invalid media type? This is an interesting URL: [gemini link] It returns a status code 20, and a META of "text/plain\n" with a literal new line. A \r\n follows this, so per the Gemini spec, the META field contains a trailing \n character. The Gemini spec says that "For [SUCCESS status] responses, <META> is a MIME media type as defined in RFC 2046." RFC-2046 defines the media type as part of the grammar for a `...
π¬ 1 comment Β· Mar 21 Β· 3 months ago
Gemini on old platforms. β With AmiGemini existing for the Amiga platform. What other old platforms does have Gemini client? With my limited knowledge I think that SSL is the limiting factor, right? I would love to see a MS-DOS/FreeDOS etc. client.
π¬ 8 comments Β· 1 like Β· Feb 25 Β· 4 months ago
Apollo Days by Solderpunk β new post about Gemini from solderpunk.
π¬ 2 comments Β· Feb 23 Β· 4 months ago
Gemini on bare IPs β So, in case there are more people who know this stuff here, is it *in practice* possible to have a Gemini server on a bare IP? So far I haven't seen a single server that can do it, but then again I haven't checked in a while. Currently I've chosen to use Gemini-like simple HTML pages (over Yggdrasil), but still curious if things changed.
π¬ 9 comments Β· Feb 14 Β· 4 months ago Β· #dns_is_dead
hello everybody i got a question to ask. what are some cool places to look at on the gemini protocol? i like gemini but im trying to find places to explore on here.
π¬ 9 comments Β· Feb 14 Β· 4 months ago
I made a tool for Linux (it'll probably work on quite a few flavors of *BSD as well and maybe macOS) that converts gemtext files to pdf using groff, aptly named "gmi2pdf". Can save as "A4", "Letter", "Tabloid", and "Legal" sized PDFs. It can take a local file or a gemtext/plaintext remote gemini resource as input. Has support for TLS client certs as well. Currently only supports ASCII characters, but can optionally convert unicode characters to squares. Some lines can look a bit weird for now...
π¬ 4 comments Β· 3 likes Β· Feb 08 Β· 4 months ago
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