Unboxing Geminispace at 1,900 (Updated)

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2021-12-26 12:54:57 UTC
Modified: 2021-12-26 20:18:07 UTC

Will we be there by the end of the day? 4 more.

Summary: We're nearly there now at 1,900; this past year has been a phenomenal one for Gemini Protocol, which tackles many of the issues with the World Wide Web

Update (8:16 PM/GMT): We're there now.

How Many Web Requests From "Linux"...: If one was to assert that "Linux == Android" or "Android == Linux" (it's not that simple), then "Linux" already accounts for about 30% of Web requests
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Analogue So Much Better and Faster: From what we can gather, the tram ticketing system does not use Windows; we never saw it crashing or rebooting (or showing some Windows logo) in decades, so we assume it runs some kind of Linux
Linux Today Dumped All Social Control Media Last December: Linux Today seems to have concluded that all Social Control Media is just a waste of time
Don't Say X.com is OK Because People Can Access It by Alternative Means: Can Mozilla please clarify who inside Mozilla greenlit a return to X.com?
The Reach of techrights.org Is Increasing: We are on the side of women victims
SLAPP Censorship - Part 162 Out of 200: An Outline of Events: An outline of events
Pushed to Live: We still have some other work - stuff related to the editing of pages - which is work in progress and has been subjected to testing for many months
GNU/Linux Measured at 10% in Germany, Based on Cloudflare: It's peaking late at night
Richard Stallman's GNU Project Began 42 Years Ago With GNU Emacs and More: GNU Project announced almost 43 years ago (next month it's the anniversary)
Fake Articles "Sponsored by HPE" Published in The Register MS: Selling proprietary products as 'alternatives' to other proprietary products
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, August 25, 2026: IRC logs for Tuesday, August 25, 2026
Gemini Links 26/08/2026: Journal Plans and Extending Finger Protocol: Links for the day
An Explainer About Injunctions Done Wrong - Part I - Saving Money Where Money Cannot be Saved: Of course Garrett not being able to afford his own case is a key factor here
Links 25/08/2026: "U.S. Marines Cancel Drill With South Korea", "UK Prime Minister Burnham Arrives in Ukraine": Links for the day
Not for the First Time This Week, Site Called "It's FOSS" is Promoting Software That is NOT FOSS (And It Knows It): Is this an editorial choice? Advertising? What is it?
Gemini Links 25/08/2026: Geometry and FidoNet History, "Goodbye I2P and Yggdrasil, Welcome Telnet!": Links for the day
Links 25/08/2026: Microsoft Salaries Leaked Again, "Oasis Photograph Sparks Copyright Lawsuit": Links for the day
GNU/Linux Did Not Start in 1991 and America Wasn't Discovered by Europeans: it'll be 43 next month
SLAPP Censorship - Part 161 Out of 200: Low Standards in Defamation Cases Just Muddy the Waters and Distract From Legitimate Cases: The judge at the trial said that Garrett's case was a waste of the court's money
Rolling Out Some Changes Soon: To the regular reader no change will be seen
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Monday, August 24, 2026: IRC logs for Monday, August 24, 2026
Gemini Links 25/08/2026: Separated by Plexiglass, Low-Tech Information Networks, Jörg Rippel Comes to Geminispace: Links for the day
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Evri Makes Us Optimistic About the Collapse of the Slop Pyramid Scheme (Bubble): Do not be seduced by false promises of "automation" or "intelligence" where only automation may exist but no intelligence at all
Congrats to Linux.org for Adopting or Getting Back to IRC: This is the way the Net ought to work and was originally designed to work [...] IRC as a protocol turns 38 this month
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Gemini Links 24/08/2026: Soul Mentality, Words to Live by, Mozz.us Gemlog Resumes, Smol Conversations: Links for the day
Today The Register MS Published Greenwashing Spam for the Slop Pyramid Scheme, It Mentions "AI" 29 Times: More people need to talk about the role of the media in this pyramid scheme
Slop Plagiarism and Chatbots Are Killing Evri (They Infuriate and Insult Clients): Slop destroys companies and leads to misery (miserable clients, time-wasting)
Links 24/08/2026: Re-defining the IndieWeb and "Data Center Backlash Bursts Into the Midterms": Links for the day
The Issue With Omarchy is the Slop, the Politics Are a Side Issue: Those corporations do not oppose slop, they participate in it
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Links 24/08/2026: Vision and Skill, Doing Good, Chiperia Project: Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, August 23, 2026: IRC logs for Sunday, August 23, 2026

Unboxing Geminispace at 1,900 (Updated)

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