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Gemini Links 29/05/2023: Rosy Crow 1.1.1 and Smolver 1.2.1 Released



  • Gemini* and Gopher

    • Personal

      • Fighting Thermodynamics

        It’s too darned hot.

        I have a particular weakness, and it’s this: I can’t take the heat.

        I’ve always lived in parts of the world where it’s mostly not too hot; unfortunately this means that when it does get hot there isn’t air conditioning.

        It all comes to a head at night; if it’s hotter than about 24€° (75€° Fahrenheit) then I find it really, really hard to sleep.

      • 🔤SpellBinding: EWMORVH Wordo: GENOA
      • 2023 Week 19/20/21: Status and Photos

        On the heels of visiting Boston for the first time, we traveled to England this month to attend my sister-in-law's wedding. She moved to the UK last year and was legally wed to an Englishman she'd been dating for over a decade, but this year the couple were able to arrange a proper ceremony. My wife served as one of the bridesmaids in a small, intimate ceremony near the southern coast of Britain.

    • Politics

      • War is over?

        Friends in my country's military branches tell me the effects of peace China brokered over the last two months---between Saudi and Iran, in Yemen, in Syria, and peace's stabilizing influence in Iraq.

        Navy sailors are coming home in large numbers from land bases in the region with trauma from on-base sexual assault and such. It's hard to exploit Saudi-Iran peace. Three US administrations over more than 15 years wanted out, wanted to "pivot."

    • Technical

      • Rosy Crow 1.1.1 Released (Maintenance)

        Version 1.1.1 is a maintenance release intended to fix a couple of issues with 1.1.0; it includes the following changes: * I modified the color of links while using the Black theme to make them more readable. * I fixed an issue that was causing settings to overwrite each other. Settings (including the last-visited-page and current active identity) will persist after restarting.

      • Internet/Gemini

        • Bubble

          I'm a big fan of skyjake's work on Lagrange. I use amfora on the CLI to proofread my gemlog, but all my actual browsing, my exploration, is in Lagrange. It's well laid out. It's beautiful. Just a singular and deeply impressive piece of software, one I like using very much. I've been a developer professionally for seventeen years in September. There's very little software I like, and a lot that I don't.

        • Missing The Point

          Gemtext does not support CSS, JS, or inline images. Daniel does note similarities to gopher elsewhere (deridingly), but doesn't put 2 and 2 together here. Yes, gemini defines a very poor transport for the modern (large) web, *yawn*. But for gemtext documents the way the protocol is actually used (and in fact specified in the doc he read), gemini pages consistently load much, much faster than web pages in practice.

          [...]

          By my count: 3 of these are really great points that are so clear they were probably just missed by Solderpunk, the final one definitely misses the point, and the first and third points are debatable (changing the TOFU recommendation is probably a cultural non-starter but I'm glad he calls attention to the burden it imposes on client implementors).

          Kneejerk defensiveness is just going to prevent us from learning what we can, even from imperfect sources.

      • Announcements

        • Public Service Announcement - smolver Security Hole Mitigated

          I have mitigated smolver's security defect mentioned about a week ago.

          If you are running smolver, please update to v1.2.1 (or later, if you find this in the future) and follow the instructions in the 'For smolver Admins' section as soon as possible.


* Gemini (Primer) links can be opened using Gemini software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter.



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