Gemini Articles of Interest

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 17, 2023

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

• Technology and Free Software

  • announcing svhop

    svhop is a new piece of software. Its name stands for: simple virtual hosts for oneliner protocols. If you have a super-server and multiple server programs - that speak, for example, the gemini protocol - designed to run under that super-server, svhop lets you dispatch incoming requests to different server programs depending on the hostname in the request.

    A super-server is a program that sits between the server program and the client. It handles incoming connections and for every connection, it invokes the actual server. This server program then doesn't need to know about IP addresses or ports, it doesn't need to do TCP nor potentially TLS; the server program itself just reads the request from its standard input and sends a response to its standard output.

  • v is for v

    i heard of v and i had a go.

    after the necessary "hello me" i decided to rewrite one of my raku scripts in v.

    i sometimes want to apply the golden-ratio (phi) to dimensions; my script in raku does that.

  • Re: A four five nine

    Someone on Bubble got really rude, just because I told him yesterday, that I "wanted" to visit his capsule aka I've showed interest in that person.

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    No, it doesn't imply self-hosting. I've never said so and even if, it wouldn't be an elephant in the room. It takes five mins to register a domain and ten more to setup an Ubuntu server with a gemini server of your choice.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Do I really need to have a capsule to enjoy Gemini?

      I read somewhere about someone apparently not having a capsule.

      I think I missed out on an Official description of what a capsule is. Posts here and there have me imagining a proper capsule implies self-hosting - something I'm uninterested in for (I think) it requiring setting up a domain, paying "infinity minus one" attention to security mania, and whatever else.

      That seems akin to how simply wanting to play/sing a few songs in public requires transporting equipment from the house/garage to the vehicle, driving to a venue, transporting the equipment from the vehicle to a stage, setting up the equipment, testing for setup errors, and *finally* doing the playing/singing part - and then, of course, having to get all the equipment (Beatles reference coming..) back to where it once belonged.

    • Alone in (Gemini) Space

      So I recently saw a cool post about a guy saying he wants to wear a dress, because it makes sense in a practical way. And I agree, it does make sense. However, after his post, the Gemini Space exploded with people responding, and made me wonder...

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