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Looks very nice. Please, add also basic HTML (no CSS, no JS) rendering. Link tags like next in header are sometimes used to add some structure, that is seldom exposed by browsers.
For anyone curious, because Gemini is relatively new and kind of has flown under the radar: ### 1.1 What is Gemini? Gemini is a new application-level internet protocol for the distribution of arbitrary files, with some special consideration for serving a lightweight hypertext format which facilitates linking between files. Gemini is intended to be simple, but not necessarily as simple as possible. Instead, the design…
any idea about how to make the font in castor bigger? the default size is impossible for me to read. I tried the usual keyboard shortcuts but doesn't work. Do I have to set some gtk env variables maybe so it uses the correct size font?
There are still a few Gopher and Finger services on the Internet. * Gopher: https://beta.shodan.io/search?query=port%3A70+gopher * Finger: https://beta.shodan.io/search?query=product%3Afingerd
Create ~/.plan and clients can query it remotely, just like in the old days.
IIRC, John Carmack used finger for blogging for the longest time.
Hi there, I'm the maintainer of Castor, if you have questions feel free to ask! I also make a ncurses command line client Asuka https://git.sr.ht/~julienxx/asuka
The settings used by `install` break on macOS, btw, where it's (annoyingly) -d instead of -D to create directories, so I've just been running it directly from the releases folder for now.
I am not used to using GTK on macOS but the performance is not good, but it does run and loads pages.
- written in C
- Dumb simple
- Fast
Bombadillo is a bit sluggish for my taste.
I've read about children climbing up old towers and waiting hours (!) for the school website to load so they can access their homework during the quarantine days. I bet the same information could be delivered in seconds if that was a Gemini or a Gopher page rather than a "modern" web page bloated with JavaScript frameworks and everything.
I would even suggest discussing an idea of making maintaining a good lo-fi (e.g. Gemini/Gopher or pure HTML) site mandatory for organizations of certain kinds, the same way having wheelchair ramps and proper fire safety equipment is required.
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I was delighted when I saw that Gemini is maintained by someone on SDF (named Solderpunk, never heard of him before). This seems as good a time as any to plug https://sdf.org , a great little community which has the feel of a 90s BBS that never went offline.
The site isn't at www.sdf.org for the record, it's just at sdf.org. There's a big difference in what you'll find!
This would require a community focus on tooling and content.
First, common tools must support Gopher/Gemini output:
* Pandoc * Template engines like Jinja and Mustache * Static site generators like Hugo, Gatsby & Jekyll * Webservers like Apache and Caddy
Then those tools can be used to mirror content like:
* Wikipedia * ReadTheDocs * Docsets (eg for Dash) * HackerNews, Lobste.rs, Reddit? * RFC archives * Github/Gitlab repo READMEs
Suddenly you could spend your whole day in pure-text mode and never open a browser that does enough twitter to kill your flow.