Video download link | md5sum 31aa39bc7abd9051d9713302394d1a11 Geminispace Has GitHub Proxy Now Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0



Summary: Thanks to Gemini, you can now get stuff from GitHub without giving direct traffic to any servers of Microsoft; the address to use is gemini://auragem.space/github.

THE Gemini community is amazing. Creative coders and hackers keep crafting all sorts of useful tools. They scratch an itch and share their solution with everyone, e.g. UK weather forecasts and Wikipedia proxies (our Wiki too is in Gemini). A lot of stuff that people got accustomed to doing over the World Wide Web (with a bloated Web browser) can instead be done from the command line or a lightweight GUI, a Gemini reader/client. There's no single Gemini reader/client; there are dozens of them! Nothing gets blocked on the basis of cookies or JavaScript support. No such thing.

"There's no single Gemini reader/client; there are dozens of them!"The other day I showed the YouTube proxy in Gemini. Now you can browse YouTube and watch videos without a Web browser and without command line tools. It's possible with Gemini. It's possible owing to a proxy. Invidious aside (it's still requiring a Web browser).

That same capsule now boasts this GitHub proxy, which allows searching, browsing and downloading projects or code (files). That's shown in the video abobe (my very first experience with it).

As far as we're aware, this sort of solution -- a much-needed solution to a big and growing problem -- is uniquely Gemini-based. "Nice to use a Gemini source," an associate noted, and "also the SFC had a long article encouraging people to drop GitHub already. Regardless of past problems, their in-house decision to drop GitHub should be praised even if no traffic is pointed their direction." Here's the corresponding discussion in SoylentNews. ⬆