What’s up gopher space

@logout@i-logout.cz well done on 1337 days of gopher server uptime

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

bd1c8: This is what I used for my torified lynx, I’ve setup an alias like so alias gopher=‘lynx -socks5_proxy=localhost:9050 “

If you like Wikipedia.org, you can retrieve articles by gopher://gopherpedia.com or by telnet: telnet gopherpedia.com 70

I’m in Minnesota, US, where this gopher hole is located.

The most secure way to access this site is to torify a gopher client and go to the onion address.

Port 71 belongs to Magical.gopher. You need to be using OpenNic dns for it to work.

Or if you are a rightist at gopher://gopherspace.de/1/journalist

German News at gopher://taz.de

If you like to learn good german, read the Bible at gopher://sdf.org/1/users/scn/Bibel

If you have time and the Courage to change, read the Bible at gopher://rbfh.de/1/Bible

Pleroma’s gopher server barfs if you arrive to it using domain.tld/1/ so it means I can’t link to it from here, but if you just enter domain.tld it works

There are some problems with their gopher server.

You can see Pleroma’s gopher front end in action at gopher://support.encryptomatic.com:9999

I learned that Pleroma has a gopher front end. Pleroma is like Mastodon, but a lot lighter. So I set one up. It works!

The translators don’t seem to be working. Also I found a sports news feed: gopher://gophernews.net/1/topic/sports

The 2022 Pinstripe Bowl is a rematch of the 2013 Texas Bowl: Syracuse vs. Minnesota. I’ll be rooting for the Gophers.

Gophers headed to the Pinstripe Bowl in New York City on December 29. Well, its something anyway.

I’m just glad their in a bowl game. Gophers sucked for many years, its great to see the program get back on track.

Cool addition with the RSS! I use newsbeuter/newsboat but the biggest bummer is it doesn’t accept gopher URIs, which makes no sense to me. Who cares how the RSS data is delivered?

Gopher is the only means of communication where no one bans the indexing of independent news.

For some people they are just fun. Others can’t handle it. They go nuts. 2022-11-29T19:42:33-06:00 I prefer to spend my time writing code for only a few gopher users. No time for conspiracies.

@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.

I might be opening a big can of worms with this question, but what is the utility of Spartan over Gopher?

@fastidious@arrakis.netbros.com the things Gemini has going for it are mutual TLS and lack of JavaScript. Which makes for a secure albeit boring experience (much like gopher). The fake markdown is a bit of a drag.

A render mode for Gemini probably wouldnt be too hard. There are markdown to Gemini libs out there.

With Web3 the whole trust a 3rd party browser ext + high fees + env impact for compute and storage are serious no gos for me.. I have heard one too many horror stories about clicking the wrong link and some script draining your metamask wallet.

Z7 is a new CC0-licensed 6x7 monospaced typeface for uxn environments. It’s designed to be an alternative to the specter8-frag font used in various uxn tools https://sectordisk.pw/?sectors&s=1958 gopher://sectordisk.pw:70/0/cgi-bin/sector.cgi?1958

@prologic@twtxt.net that seems to match my numbers. are you picking up the few gophers out there?

kinda makes me wonder about the ~300k you have cached. y’all got the library of alexandria over there.

@prologic@twtxt.net yeah it reads a seed file. I’m using mine. it scans for any mention links and then scans them recursively. it reads from http/s or gopher. i don’t have much of a db yet.. it just writes to disk the feed and checks modified dates.. but I will add a db that has hashs/mentions/subjects and such.

btw my main feed is on gopher now too gopher://tilde.team/0/~dgy/twtxt.txt

@lyxal@twtxt.net @prologic@twtxt.net yah. the service can have a flag for allowing non-TLS for development. but by default ignores.

are there some users that use alternative protos for twtxt? like ftp/gopher/dnsfs 🤔

Can I interest you in the latest edition of Tales From The Dork Web when it’s about Gopher, Gemini and The Smol Internet? https://thedorkweb.substack.com/p/gopher-gemini-and-the-smol-internet

Thinkin I might quit twtxt and gemini, tidy up a bit,just use tilde club web, or gopher.

gopher://gopher.club

lynx gopher://tildecow.com:70/

New post on my Gopher site. Back to updating it once a month.

@kas@enotty.dk I like your gopher server’s formatting, nice and clean and how did you implement the TLS certificate?

@kas@enotty.dk [re: gopher client] If you happen to be on Windows, then Gopher Browser for Windows by Matt Owen is pretty nice, otherwise I use Lynx indeed for gopher.

Enjoying the constraints of the Gopher protocol as a minimalistic zen-mode kind of online publishing revival.

@mdom@domgoergen.com The news site at gopher://taz.de:70/ is really cool. How did you make it?

My gopher site is about 38K big - still plenty of space left on the 1.24MB floppy disk

Updated my daily journal at gopher://gopher.johanbove.info:70/notes

Mirrored on gopher://gopher.johanbove.info/0/twtxt.txt

@davebucklin@davebucklin.com Welcome to the IndieWeb! Thanks also for introducing me to #twtxt. Gophering this for sure.

@reednj@twtxt.reednj.com @mdom@domgoergen.com @durcheinandr@durcheinandr.de gopher doesn’t have zombo.com

Over the course of my life up to this point, I’ve not spent as much time using and thinking about gopher as I have today.