so this path has been trod and its bad lmao https://web.archive.org/web/20230926192451/https://gemini.spam.works/~emery/sigil-report.gmi

So, today I created a space where you can send an email to the void: https://void.si3t.ch/ gemini://void.si3t.ch/ #smolnet

I was not suggesting to that everyone need to setup a working webfinger endpoint, but that we take the format of nick+(sub)domain as base for generating the hashed together with the message date and content.

If we omit the protocol prefix from the way we do things now will that not solve most of the problems? In the case of gemini://gemini.ctrl-c.club/~nristen/twtxt.txt they also have a working twtxt.txt at https://ctrl-c.club/~nristen/twtxt.txt … damn I just notice the gemini. subdomain.

Okay what about defining a prefers protocol as part of the hash schema? so 1: https , 2: http 3: gemini 4: gopher ?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de @prologic@twtxt.net Hey! I may have found a silly trick to announce my following to people hosting their feeds on the Gemini space using the requested URI itself instead of relaying on the USER Agent 😂. I’ve copied my current feed over to my (to be) Gemlog for testing. And if I do a jenny -D "gemini://gem.aelaraji.com/twtxt.txt?follower=aelaraji@https://aelaraji.com/twtxt.txt" and this happens:

A) As a follower, I get the feed as usual.
B) As the feed owner, I get this in logs:

hostname:1965 - “gemini://gem.aelaraji.com/twtxt.txt?follower=aelaraji@https://aelaraji.com/twtxt.txt” 20 “text/plain;lang=en-US”

You could do the same for Gopher feeds but only if you want to announce yourself by throwing in an error in their logs, then you’ll need a second request to fetch the feed. jenny -D "gopher://gopher.aelaraji.com/twtxt.txt&follower=aelaraji@https:/aelaraji.com/twtxt.txt" gave me this :

gopher.aelaraji.com:70 - [09/Sep/2024:22:08:54 +0000] “GET 0/twtxt.txt&follower=aelaraji@https:/aelaraji.com/twtxt.txt HTTP/1.0” 404 0 “” “Unknown gopher client”

NB: the follower=... string won’t appear in gopher logs after a ? but if I replace it with a + or a & and it works. There will be a missing / after the https:. Probably a client thing.

how little data is needed for generating the hashes? Instead of the full URL, can we makedo with just the domain (example.net) so we avoid the conflicts with gemini://, https:// and only http:// (like in my own twtxt.txt) or construct something like like a webfinger id nick@domain (also used by mastodon etc.) from the domain and nick if there, else use domain as nick as well

@cuaxolotl@sunshinegardens.org Ah, thanks for reporting back! Okay, so you’re basically manually “crawling” feeds right now. 🤔 What do you think about the idea of adding something like # follow_notify = gemini://foo/bar to your feed’s metadata, so that clients who follow you can ping that URL every now and then? How would you even notice that, do you regularly read your gemini logs? 🤔

It’s a shame that so many public Wi-Fi networks block traffic on ports 70 and 1965, completely cutting off both Gopher and Gemini. Restricting Internet access to only the “most common” use cases like YouTube and Wikipedia is a great way to ensure they eventually become the “only” use cases.

Google Chrome will have Gemini LLM built into the browser.

Happy (late) fifth birthday, Gemini protocol!

gemini prolapsed my backend. swing lo sweet chariot.

Maybe, you find gemini browsers on damaniel.xyz

What browser for DOS for Gemini?

What browser for Windows 98 for Gemini?

I_use_lagrange_its_fun_and_has_gemini_and_spartan_too

Wait a minute! Nyxt browser can surf gopher, gemini aaaaaand http!? 😲

@Rob@jsreed5.org Coming from HTTP and discovered both at the same time, my preference might be biased towards Gemini because of the content syntax but I love both equally.

I suspect that people who came to Gemini from Gopher are more satisfied with the protocol than people who came to Gemini from HTTP.

@dev1ls@texto-plano.xyz First replay to your first twtxt from Spain! (I guess) Welcome back in! 🖖

hewwo :3 I love gemini protocol. gemini://gemlog.blue/users/546pvp/1709922234.gmi

Je teste gmid pour remplacer vger+inetd+relayd. Reste à configurer le cgi, il faut que je prépare un slowcgi en parallèle de celui pour httpd :/. https://gmid.omarpolo.com #openbsd #gemini

#gemini readers, I wrote a tool to download new gemfeeds entries instead of opening a client: gemini://si3t.ch/log/2024-02-28-gemfeeds-downloader.txt

Ça m’agace, il y a trop de trucs à propos de #gemini qui n’ont rien à voir avec #gemini. Rendez-moi le vrai #gemini : le #smolweb !

I would love to see a world where ones twtxt feed is defined by webfinger. So @xuu@txt.sour.is => https://text.sour.is/user/xuu/twtxt.txt

Then my identity can exist independent of the feed location. And I can host multiple protocol types for my feed. Ie. http/gopher/Gemini/irc DCC/etc

I’ve recently parsed html and gemini, and I can say the best part of #gemini is it’s simplicity <3

Je suis en plein réflexion. Je cherche à me déconnecter, et lire hors ligne après synchronisation. Un peu comme le fait offpunk. Cependant, ça ne me convient pas, la navigation en ligne revient trop vite; Je veux récupérer les changements des sites puis les lire. RSS/ATOM (mastodon en génère), c’est parfait pour ça, je lis tout avec rss2email. Comment faire de même pour #gemini et #gopher? Je rêve d’ouvrir mon terminal, puis de parcourir les nouveautés sans clics

After seeing Google’s Gemini video, will everyone now need to invest in one of this pointing-downwards camera stands for the home?

Commentaire du code pour un service de lecture over ssh (et je me la pète au passage avec plein de liens #C ) : https://si3t.ch/log/2023-11-13-txtoverssh.c.txt gopher://si3t.ch/0/log/2023-11-13-txtoverssh.c.txt gemini://si3t.ch/log/2023-11-13-txtoverssh.c.txt http://6gvb6fzoxv72mtlpvr2fgj7ytpeggwuerdawspt24njlkwfxir6jncid.onion/log/2023-11-13-txtoverssh.c.txt gopher://of2w2p5f4hsslk63hmo6tid6r7inhlxuxviq4pb5cxg45enswpbrfjad.onion/0/log/2023-11-13-txtoverssh.c.txt gemini://b2khgkvb2wn4avjshjp63kknsjwikgwff5dwwydldia6qwf4kdnueyad.onion/log/2023-11-13-txtoverssh.c.txt ou encore ‘ssh lire@si3t.ch’ numéro 45.

Pensée désagréable du jour: le protocole #gemini n’est pas écologique car il n’est pas accessible sur du vieux matériel à cause du TLS forcé. Servir des fichiers textes écrits en gemtext en #http est mieux dans ce cas

Check out the Nex Protocol. It’s designed to be even simpler than Gemini and Gopher. What do you think? Could be great to host a twtxt feed on.

[lang=en] By the way, have you played with Station on Gemini?

I like that using Gemtext, you can have a pretty decent microblogging platform. Imagine that with decentralization from twtxt. That sounds appealing to me!

¿Qué seguirá para este cliente de Twtxt?

• Agregar RSS (para que otras personas puedan seguirlo en su cliente favorito)
  
• Agregar hilos (para dar seguimiento a futuras contestaciones)
  
• Soporte para Gemtext y Gemini (para la comunidad de Smol net)
  

¿Tú que diceS?

¿Qué seguirá para este cliente de Twtxt?

• Agregar RSS (para que otras personas puedan seguirlo en su cliente favorito)
  
• Agregar hilos (para dar seguimiento a futuras contestaciones)
  
• Soporte para Gemtext y Gemini (para la comunidad de Smol net)
  

¿Tú que diceS?

Happy 4th birthday, Gemini protocol!

He replicado mi cápsula gemini a la web, necesita algunos arreglos pero se lee.

Actualizaré algunas cosas por acá, haré mirror de Gemini a HTML, más visible.

[Agate] un servidor Gemini fácil de correr https://github.com/mbrubeck/agate 🚀

Llevo tiempo sin escribir un nuevo artículo para mis cápsulas gemini y gopher.

It feels like every time I come across a Gemini capsule I find interesting, the owner suddenly stops posting and leaves the protocol. Maybe that’s a lesson for me: if I like their content, reach out to them and let them know.

@eaplmx@twtxt.net This exact thing happened to me last night. I happened to be watching some random Youtube video, then this Ad came on, normally they are short 3-5s ads and I just tolerate them (sometimes) – But this particular ad was 20+ mins long! Somehow I kept listening to it too, despite my daughter telling me I could hit that “Skip Ad” button.

What was it you ask?! 😅 It was one of those testimonial-style, hyped up marketing videos of some product called “Gemini 2” (a currency trading app, allegedly), I kept watching all the way through, it was fantastic! 🤣

Then I went and read up on it! …

Short answer: TOTAL FUCKING SCAM 🤣

En estos próximos días subiré algunos artículos a mi cápsula gemini y gopherhole.

@prologic@twtxt.net It’s called “cgod” and it isn’t written in C or Go? I want my money back…

I also like Gopher more than Gemini. The problem Gemini is trying to solve is better solved by just writing static HTML 4.01 pages.

Port 1965 is blocked on the park WiFi at Walt Disney World, so no Gemini for me.

Today’s “Where in the World” puzzle was tough. gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/witw.cgi/play

Al fin funciona mi cápsula Gemini, el problema [text wrapping en nano].

En un mundo perfecto mi cápsula Gemini funcionaría, pero no lo hace como quiero.

I might be in the minority on this, but given what small Web projects like Gemini aim to achieve, I don’t like the idea of establishing standards for Gemini capsules purely for the purpose of aiding automation.

All the scripts on my Gemini capsule (except chess) have now been rewritten using Python and storing data in a SQLite database. This is the first time I’ve ever worked with database in a “production” environment, and I’m inordinately excited.

My gemini capsule has a gemlog now and I update it usign a script I made…

My Gemini log posts have been getting very long recently.

There are some Gemini feeds that Antenna is failing to connect to, and it looks like it’s clogging up the log pretty badly. I hope it’s not putting too much strain on the server.