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Re: Project Gemini

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Post by prmoustache »

mattlondon wrote: post #64
RealCodingOtaku wrote: post #49

I have got only two annoyance on Gemini, lack of inline links and _font styling_, and they are by design ( https://geminiprotocol.net/docs/faq.gmi#44-questions-about-t... ) It's fine for something like HN, but I heavily rely on named links and emphasis on all my blogs and is a dealbreaker.

Yeah they missed an opportunity to more fully support something more like markdown that offered in-line links and basic text formatting. Missing tables is also quite the deal breaker for a bunch of things. But yeah it seems like these lack of features is a willful and highly-opinionated approach to what the author of the protocol wants to take a stance on (their excuse is ease of implementation for clients, but I thi…

The thing is, while I agree we could just make decent and frugal websites, gemini not being based on html is a feature. It allows us separate both worlds.

When I open lagrange (a gemini client) and click on a gemini link from any gemini capsule (site), I am confident it will open something similar.

If I am opening a website, even a good frugal one made in HTML without js and click on an https link, I can't be sure if that won't send me to a page full of ads, tracking and heavy javascript with an embedded crypto miner.

You often find some http/https links on gemini capsules, but most clients will render the link in a different color so you kbow what to expect when clicking on a web link.

Re: Project Gemini

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Post by enbywithunix »

I rather like Gemini. I have several presences on the protocol, as well as a hefty list of gemlogs I follow. The somewhat slow and niche nature of this corner of the internet has meant that I come and go, rather than using it daily (like I do with the web); but it always feels sort of cozy and welcoming when I do eventually return.

Re: Project Gemini

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Post by spc476 »

zzo38computer wrote: post #95
RealCodingOtaku wrote: post #49

I have got only two annoyance on Gemini, lack of inline links and _font styling_, and they are by design ( https://geminiprotocol.net/docs/faq.gmi#44-questions-about-t... ) It's fine for something like HN, but I heavily rely on named links and emphasis on all my blogs and is a dealbreaker.

I had a different set of criticisms, such as: mandatory TLS, no file size in the response, no range requests, etc. (I made up my own in order to address these and some others.)

There was (and still is to a degree) a group of people critical of TLS. One half of the group (which I think you belong to) bitch about it being mandatory. The other half bitched about the use of TLS instead of . TLS was the main point of Gemini.

And about the lack of file size: I proposed a way to sneak it in, and it was rejected outright. Oh well.

Re: Project Gemini

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Post by afc »

mmaunder wrote: post #92

Read the 100 word intro and still don't know what this is. Left.

Agree, that was exactly my reaction. What a terrible introduction, wasting many words on such platitudes as telling me that the idea isn't new but it isn't old fashioned either, or that they want to provide "some respite for those who feel the internet has been disrupted enough already."

Re: Project Gemini

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Post by comex »

immibis wrote: post #112
dylan604 wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean, yeah. What percentage of searches for "Amazon" in today's world do you think is going to not be about acquiring cheap shit very quickly? I would expect the tech company to be a better answer than most when someone searches for Amazon. Searching for "the amazon" gives the expected results as that's how it is more commonly referred. So it does seems like your search query as performed was just a bad search

I bet it would be a few percent less and the world would be a fraction of a percent better if the first result was the rainforest. I wonder how much they pay Google for the top spot.

Amazon does not need to pay Google for this. There is no world where Google puts an organic result about the rainforest in the top spot, because it's not what most users are looking for.

At most there might be a world where Google puts someone else's ad above the organic results.

Re: Project Gemini

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Post by InitialLastName »

morkalork wrote: post #35
ChipopLeMoral wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Back when I was a Googler, I used to play a little game where I would think of a random word and then check if there was a Google internal project code named for it. It was a bit hard finding stuff that wasn't some system or project, and often there would be multiple ones. I actually found one that I thought would be a nice name and reserved the go link for it, but naming anything after it never panned out, when I fi…

Google eats their own with names. Their latest and greatest AI framewofk is Agent Development Kit (ADK). Not to be confused with the Android Development Kit...

Try being Microsoft and having two different LLM products and an entire office suite named Copilot.

Re: Project Gemini

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Post by NBJack »

afc wrote: post #124
mmaunder wrote: post #92

Read the 100 word intro and still don't know what this is. Left.

Agree, that was exactly my reaction. What a terrible introduction, wasting many words on such platitudes as telling me that the idea isn't new but it isn't old fashioned either, or that they want to provide "some respite for those who feel the internet has been disrupted enough already."

Reminds me of a commercial where an artist attempted to convince their friend in excited terms how amazing their new masterpiece was, only to reveal its a blank canvas and they ran out of paint.

Edit: Ah, found it. https://youtu.be/11EwyJ5fcBI?si=d4IxlsNADvl4zeG9

Re: Project Gemini

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Post by rattan12138 »

Gemini's simplicity is refreshing! It feels like a cozy corner of the internet focused purely on words and ideas. Kinda perfect for offline reading sessions, almost like finding a quiet spot to when bored. Definitely not for sharing my doodles, but I get why some folks love this minimalist vibe. Exploring random capsules through Lagrange is oddly relaxing.
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