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by alexwennerberg 5y ago
> what they're doing is a waste of time. I fundamentally disagree here. There are ways that people waste their time on the web that are far more pernicious than "learning how to write gemtext markup" The web is in a serio
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by alexwennerberg 5y ago
Probably someone would submit a PR complaining. A lot of folks in the gemini community are strict about the spec. In my view, they would be justified in doing so — I think adherence to specs is important in any domain, not just gemini.
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by alexwennerberg 5y ago
With Gemini, the philosophy of intentional austerity means that everyone is going to be a bit unhappy, and want some feature added to it. Its "incompleteness" is a necessary consequence of its design philosophy -- it calls on us t
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by alexwennerberg 5y ago
It's not OK in the sense that it is a spec violation, at least. Some clients have images that load in-line on mouseover or click, which isn't a spec violation. You could do that with HTML.
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by alexwennerberg 5y ago
> If you want people to use it, you have to provide some utility People do use it, though. > you may as well print up stickers that say 'get off the internet and talk to people in person'. Gemini is basically a movement in t
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by alexwennerberg 5y ago
Kineto might be what you're looking for: https://sr.ht/~sircmpwn/kineto/ Inline images is a violation of the Gemini spec: > clients MUST NOT automatically make any network connections as part of displaying
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by alexwennerberg 5y ago
> reducing the possibilities Gemini can have Gemini is all about reducing possibilities. If you want more possibilities, use the web IMO
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by alexwennerberg 5y ago
Property taxes are a form of wealth tax
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by alexwennerberg 5y ago
A great book about this topic is "Daily Rituals: How Artists Work" -- which covers the routines of actual artists and thinkers, with their wild, idiosyncratic inconsistency: from waking up hungover most days and only writing when
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by alexwennerberg 5y ago
Typefaces should not be copyrightable. Print ones are not, it makes no sense that digital ones are.
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by alexwennerberg 5y ago
I agree, but I think this is largely because the tooling and ecosystem around it isn’t great.
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by alexwennerberg 5y ago
Don’t have ads.
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by alexwennerberg 5y ago
> IMO the actual problem is you want to interact with the people reading what you write. What about email? I.e. put together a mailing list for your blog and host the archives online?
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by alexwennerberg 5y ago
> that’s an art form or a statement, not a tool. (Author here) I would definitely view Gemini more along those lines. Gemini is an interesting space to inhabit and explore -- a space dramatically different than the modern web due to its
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by alexwennerberg 5y ago
> Why am I going to use anything if I'm not trying to extract value? (Author here) What "value" is there to extract from a public park? Some things are just places meant to be appreciated and enjoyed, and lack a "prac
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by alexwennerberg 5y ago
People have said this for years, and yet, no such formal community has been created, while Gemini only grows in popularity. I think such a community would be great, but it's hard to maintain a strict separation with the "rest of t
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by alexwennerberg 5y ago
> As far is I can tell this has (mostly) nothing to do with constrained resources and just with the extremely technical perspectives of the maintainers. Discord, for example, has 450 full-time employees and is valued at $7 billion. I sim
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by alexwennerberg 6y ago
At least he still has his Mastodon account https://mastodon.social/@Nicolas_Maduro
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by alexwennerberg 6y ago
> Honestly, I think it is our job as the creators/hackers to come up with a better solution. The problem is very real, and needs to be fixed. But no good solution has ever been created by lawyers. Ever. We could stop using tracking
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by alexwennerberg 6y ago
I really enjoy working with the go-gemini library: https://sr.ht/~adnano/go-gemini/
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by alexwennerberg 6y ago
> I find Gemini pretty accessible overall. There are no images, so including alt descriptions isn't even a concern. There's no CSS, so you can't make controls that visually look like check boxes, but are much less accessib
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by alexwennerberg 6y ago
I deleted that part of my comment because it wasn't my main point
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by alexwennerberg 6y ago
I don't come to Gemini from the Gopher community, but the advantages are listed in section 2.2 of the FAQ: https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/faq.html
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by alexwennerberg 6y ago
Gemini is fantastic. For anyone interested in experimenting with it without setting up a server, I've been working on a simple Gemini site builder that works over HTTP and serves the content via Gemini and HTTP proxy: https:/&#x2
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by alexwennerberg 6y ago
> no javascript To be clear, sourcehut does occasionally use JavaScript, it’s just very conservative and optional.
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by alexwennerberg 6y ago
> Average users value performance, cost, and battery life. The cost efficiency and capabilities of cloud compute will always outpace that of consumer mobile devices. So remote compute with zero user control is inevitable. I don't th
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by alexwennerberg 6y ago
> Contrast this with the (hypothetical) option to record everything using your phone, without meaningfully impacting its battery life, while it was still in your pocket. I think most people would actually opt to do that, even if it was t
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by alexwennerberg 6y ago
> We're living in the gold ages before everything we do within eyeshot of anyone is recorded like that Black Mirror episode anyone can review/share anything they've seen with their own eyes. I very much doubt that. Just be
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by alexwennerberg 6y ago
The security and privacy implications of this are horrifying to me, as are they to enough of the population that I doubt this will get widespread adoption.
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by alexwennerberg 6y ago
Is anyone concerned about the effect this has on the night sky and astronomical observation? https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/space-science/starlink-sa...

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