Gemini Articles of Interest

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 08, 2023

A Gemini client^* is needed for the following links.

• Technology and Free Software

  • When /ChatGPT/ would actually be so smart and help the small net

    Since today's large network is based largely on average-quality content, you can imagine how it fills up automatically based on responses from /ChatGPT/. Reportedly, legislative work is underway to [require marking of the automatic content generated].

  • When /ChatGPT/ would actually be so smart and help the small net

    AI would remove decorations, interactive scripts, adverts, cookie pop-ups, affiliate texts, and so on. AI would merge all scattered information into a single content. AI could detect the real sources of copy-pasted text, and show the original and nondistracted content. AI finally will lay out that data into a gemtext form. It would be a kind of magic.

  • Sourcehut looks really good

    I've talked about software forges previously on this gemlog. I host pretty much everything I write on Codeberg and I've been overall happy with it, but I find myself more and more thinking sourcehut might have been a better choice.

    I'm definitely oldschool when it comes to computers. My first box was a Tandy TRaSh80, which is to say my earliest computer experience was with a DOS interpretor on an 8-bit POS. I still prefer command line interfaces a lot of the time, even when a gui is really full featured. Codeberg runs Forgejo, a light fork of Gitea. Gitea has obviously been designed from the ground up to be as much like GitHub and GitLab as possible, which makes it immediately comfy for younger devs. In contrast, Sourcehut gives you a really minimal web interface that can fairly be described as "spartan" or even "ugly". But what it does give you, and I like this a lot, is a more traditional way of working that is centered around the command line and email rather than the web browser.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Gemini Identity

      Bubble moved to bbs.geminispace.org; I learned about identity certificates!

      Initially I just created a new certificate for `bbs.geminispace.org`, then realized that this was the wrong thing to do: it meant I was effectively creating a new “account” and could not make use of my post history or keep using the “Morgan” display name.

      Of course I then discovered that Lagrange makes it easy to reuse certificates across sites.

      Not really understanding how to use certificates effectively I’ve been creating them all over the place, and with random expiry years.

    • BBS Comments on Cosmos

      There is a new update to Cosmos: posts on bbs.geminispace.org that link to aggregated Cosmos feed entries now appear as comment entries in Cosmos. This behaves pretty much exactly like logs on Station.

^* Gemini links can be opened using Gemini software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter.