Bonum Certa Men Certa

Record Traffic and 6 Months of Uptime for Our Gemini Capsule

Video download link | md5sum 073a3c6bcc8d795848b9133fac5d3e8d 6 Months of Gemini Uptime Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0



Summary: Our Gemini capsule has just broken another record and today's video explains what makes us proud of the way it evolved in less than 3 years (Techrights as a whole turns 17 soon)

THIS month has started very strongly for us. In HTTP/S we're looking at 5.5 hits/second, on average, and in Gemini about 25,000 page requests per day. One noteworthy milestone is that for the first time (ever) our Gemini server, agate, exceeded 6 months in uptime (today it's exactly 6 months) and some time this month or next month we expect to have 50,000 pages in Gemini.



"In many ways, the Web controls users, the users do not control the Web. Or the real users are advertisers, spies etc."As a side note or addendum to the above video, I presented this IPFS index page exactly when the list was being refreshed (around 4AM every night) and that alone is the reason it was incomplete. There are many reasons to prefer for our readers to use Gemini, especially seeing the bad direction the World Wide Web has taken in recent years. It does not exist to serve users but to serve advertisers and today's Web browsers, not just Web sites, help companies control people. In many ways, the Web controls users, the users do not control the Web. Or the real users are advertisers, spies etc. There's no simple fix because very few companies control the Web and its future direction.

"Everything that makes the Web browser "better" is something that takes away from the Web platform something that the Web browser allowed it to do to begin with," Ryan notes in IRC this morning. "Ad blockers, JavaScript blockers, Brave putting in "random garbage" in an API readout so the site can't follow you around everywhere. Overriding cookie and local storage handling..."

"In the 90s, they called it the "World Wide Wait", because it was over a phone line and you had to wait minutes sometimes for a site to load. And now it's because you go to read the news and they want to pull in 600 MB of data, and part of that is a video you didn't want to see. Pretty much the only thing you can do with the Web is turn a bunch of crap off and use it in a partially-working state. Otherwise there's just going to be too much junk loading."

"Gemini pods [sic] aren't like Web sites because they don't have a way to FORCE the user to do anything, even load an image if they don't want to. This Fediverse thing is sort of a lie. Because ideally there wouldn't be a way to run a server for tons of users. Every user would be in a Peer-to-Peer system. There would be no way to block a user at a server level, only on a user-to-user basis. Then it would be up to the users to decide who they want to see. The Fediverse is federated between clusters of users on someone else's server. So it's like "FEDRA Colonies" from The Last of Us. Maybe it would be humorous to call it the FEDRAverse. Small groups of people living under the control of a local tyranny. In the game/TV show, pockets of the former United States government, forcing starving people to "earn their keep" incinerating plague victims and digging latrines.

"The Fediverse lie is that because it's a lot of tyrants in control of a small cluster, that's better somehow than one great big tyrant running Twitter. You run into more interesting stuff on Mastodon by looking at the public list of servers that the administrator decided to ban. A lot of times they don't even give a reason. It's just that nobody using his server can see that other server because the administrator didn't like it and won't tell you why."

Recent Techrights' Posts

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Hijacked Again by Patent Litigation Industry, as President Cheeto Prioritises Aggressors
The "mafia" has taken over the "industry" and the Federal system (justice and constitutions trampled upon)
Ubuntu Slop and FUD Manufactured With LLMs and Funded (by Oneself) 'Studies'
Slop and FUD are ruining the Web
Gemini Links 01/04/2025: Games and More
Links for the day
Why We're Reporting Brett Wilson LLP for Apparently Misusing Their Licence to Protect American Microsofters Who Attack Women
For those who have not been keeping abreast
Stefano Maffulli and His Microsoft-Funded OSI Staff Are Killing the OSI and Killing "Open Source" (All for Money!)
This is far from over
Techrights Headlines as Semaphore
"If you are hearing this, thank you"
 
Gemini Protocol Has Growing Appeal (the Web Got Too Bloated and Full of LLM Slop)
For any "data plan" with bandwidth limits or "tiers" it would be cheaper to use/browse Geminispace
The Web Can Survive LLM Slop, But Only If We Collectively Shun and Discourage Serial Sloppers
Doing nothing ought not be a possibility
Amid Secret Shut-downs and Mass Layoffs at Microsoft (4 Waves of Layoffs in 3 Months of 2025) Some Microsoft Staff Expected to Go On Strike
workers going on strike
Gemini Links 02/04/2025: No more on Mastodon and Gemini Mention Script in Go
Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, April 01, 2025
IRC logs for Tuesday, April 01, 2025
My Motion Disbarring or “Striking Off” Brett Wilson LLP for Enabling Violent Americans Who Try to Crush Microsoft Critics in the United Kingdom by Multiple SLAPPs
"Guns for hire" (for Microsoft people who received Microsoft salaries)
Links 01/04/2025: Apple Fined $162M for Privacy Abuses, Disinformation Online a Growing Concern
Links for the day
Newer Press Reports Confirm That Microsoft Shuts Down 'Hey Hi' (AI) Labs Despite All the Hype
The "hey hi" (AI) bubble is not sustainable
Links 01/04/2025: Mass Layoffs at Eidos and "Microsoft Pulls Back on Data Centers" (Demand Lacking); "Racist and Sexist" Slop From Microsoft
Links for the day
Gemini Links 01/04/2025: XKCDpunk and worldclock.py
Links for the day
50 Years of Sabotage and a Gut Punch to Computer Science (and Science in General)
Will we get back to science-based computing rather than cult-like following?
3 Months in 2025, 4 Waves of Mass Layoffs at Microsoft, Now Offices Shut Down Permanently
"A recent visit by the South China Morning Post confirmed that the office was dark, unoccupied, and had its logo removed."
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Monday, March 31, 2025
IRC logs for Monday, March 31, 2025
Links 31/03/2025: China Tensions, Bombs Falling in Myanmar After Earthquake
Links for the day
Gemini Links 31/03/2025: Falling Out of Love With Tech, Sunsetting openSNP
Links for the day
R.T.O. at IBM in Texas and Atlanta (State of Georgia) Expected as "Soft Layoffs" Catalyst This Coming Year
It also sounds like more IBM layoffs are in the making
Law Firms Can Also Lose Their Licence for Clearly Misusing It
The bottom line is, never made the false assumption that because you can pile up SLAPPs in a docket you will not suffer from bad reputation or even get disbarred
Link between institutional abuse, Swiss jurists, Debianism and FSFE
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
LLM Slop Piggybacking News About GNU/Linux and Distorting It
new examples
Links 31/03/2025: Press and Democracy Under Further Attacks in the US, Attitudes Towards Slop Sour
Links for the day
Open Source Initiative (OSI) Privacy Fiasco in Detail: The OSI Does Not Respect Anybody's Privacy
The surveillance mafia that bans dissent or key people (even co-founders) with dissenting views
Gemini Links 31/03/2025: More X-Filesposting and Dreaming in Emacs
Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, March 30, 2025
IRC logs for Sunday, March 30, 2025