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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?