👻 u/mediocregopher
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New Caddy plugin just dropped! — It's not Gemini related, but I've implemented an AI scraping blocker plugin for the Caddy webserver. I'm pretty happy with it, and if anyone else is using Caddy they may find it useful too.
Fumble Around Discussion — Hey BBS, I was inspired to write a gemini discovery service today, and figured I'd start a discussion thread on it here. Any and all feedback is welcome 🙏 (I know that at the moment the user is liable to get repeated pages; I seeded the dataset with about 40 pages that I know of, some obvious, like BBS itself, and others less so. Everyone is welcome to add any other pages they know of now or come...
Train Called In Sick — We regret to inform passengers that the AI train operator has had to call in sick due to a virus. We remind passengers that our AI operators receive up to ten sick days by law each year, and to plan backup routes accordingly.
re: Are You a Terminal Emulator Hipster? — I stopped using Gnome Terminal when I stopped using Gnome. It's a fine terminal, but it requires a ton of library packages that you don't need unless you're already running gnome. I think I might have had some problems with fonts as well, but it's so long ago that I doubt that would still be an issue. I switched to Konsole for a while, which...
If I could add one thing to the gemtext spec, it would be a horizontal line rule (like <hr/>). You can do it manually, but you can't know how wide the reader's screen is and if you guess badly it looks weird.