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Gemini Age Survey — As this came up in another thread [gemini link] let's try a small age survey for fun to see, how old the current user group of Gemini and this BBS is. So if you know someone who uses Gemini but isn't aware of this BBS, let that person know so they can take part!
Unicode shenanigans — How does the gemini protocol handle unicode zero-width emoji manipulation? 😀 This emoji above contains information. Can you decode it? Does gemini preserve...
I am toying with the idea of creating a software store in gemini. (pay and download binaries kind of workflow) My idea is to port what I have here: to a text based experience. I think it is possible. I believe it would be the first of its kind as well.
A small non-functional browser — I've been coding a small 'browser' from scratch these days. The idea was to keep dependencies at minimum. So, I would use raw sockets to do everything and use raylib to render it. In the end I gave up understanding how open_ssl cryptography worked from specification and ended up just calling openssl and including it as dependency. it can handle [http link] [https link] (both on text mode) and did I say it can also display gemini capsules if given a [gemini link]...
A social experiment on getting to know people on gemini — Here's an idea, we write about something we are comming across on life/cyberspace/minds for a next 31 days. It can be anything, a single word, a single line each some blank dashes. At the end of the 31 days, we take a jab about what we think of other. The idea is to build a fun little group of 3-5 people, you know the go to cyberspace gang to chill out. You can either put your homepage here now or ping when you feel like. The only...
Thoughts about TOFU and gemini URLs — I thought about alternative to how to provide some semblence of trust that certificate was in fact created by authour of capsule without centralized points of authority: embedding fingerprints into gemini URLs in place of userinfo component. This way validity of certificate would be determined not by luck or by capital, but by community consensus. It seems to me that it is much...
Titan it! — Just for your information, I recently created yet another file share server for the Gemini protocol: [https link] Titan it! It is not actually complete because @byte has launched another service called OSIRIS. Anyway, I wanted to announce my work, as it follows slightly different goals, such as: Short addresses (based on Unix time) Guest access (without an identity certificate) Database-less, file system only Performance-oriented Later, some features should be implemented (like...
Is there a gemini version of github? Theres nothing wrong with github, just curious. As I was really supprised that BBS existed!
Introducing my grandfather to gemini! — I've had a number of conversations with my grandfather about his past as a bulletin board system admin, and you can really tell how infrequently he gets talk about it by how much his eyes light up when he gets the chance. I really love hearing his stories, but I think he might be under the impression that there's no longer any space for such things on the internet... I'm hoping today to introduce him to gemini and this bulletin board, so I can re-...