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Gemini Articles of Interest

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 12, 2023

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A Gemini client* is needed for the following links.

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Technology and Free Software

Bad Loops

=> Bad Loops

A bad loop might be "10 open up reddit, read all the posts, close reddit, open hacker news, read all the posts, close hacker news, GOTO 10". Sure, you might learn a few things, and put even more things into the ever-growing list of things to get to, but then where did the day go? Where were the other things you wanted to do?

Yet Another Homelab Setup

=> Yet Another Homelab Setup

I have a new homelab setup. I've been homelab-hopping for the past year or so, and with each new setup, something or other just never sit right with me. It always felt like there was something that could be made better or more effcient with the resources I had. I recently discovered the wonderful world of LXD, and I was excited over how robust the technology is, so I endeavored to make my homelab setup with it.

so many standards

=> so many standards

This is also a way of identifying a URL as the location of an avatar, and works pretty decently as just an extra class that can be added to what would otherwise be a normal HTML page containing information about a person.

Internet/Gemini

Identity Again: Visual Hashing

=> Identity Again: Visual Hashing

Feedback on my ideas around identity on Gemini has emphasized the need for decentralizaton and privacy.

I am Spartacus — Anonymous Identities on Gemini

=> I am Spartacus — Anonymous Identities on Gemini

After a few days of musing, I am of the opinion that Morgan's Gemini identity proposals are fundamentally flawed and I am not going to implement them in Bubble.

gemini client testing

=> gemini client testing

The original torture tests that were up at => gemini://gemini.conman.org/test/torture had been taken down some time ago, and I started writing some new ones for shits and giggles and talked about it in

Software Releases/Announcements

Opal 1.7.0 - now with Titan!

=> Opal 1.7.0 - now with Titan!

Last night I finished the initial implementation of support for the Titan protocol in Opal.

Opal is a Gemini client library written for the C# world (.NET Standard 2.0 and .NET 7).

  * Gemini links can be opened using =>	https://gemini.circumlunar.space/software/	↺ Gemini software

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