peteyboy

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by peteyboy 6y ago
I agree in part, and disagree in part. I like that gemini has a "native" markup format, and that its simple and bare-bones as it is. It's a communications baseline, and other things are negotiable between client and browser?
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by peteyboy 6y ago
I think both. But, hey, they are paying attention, I guess?
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by peteyboy 6y ago
...or more specifically, re-implemented http 0.9 but with TLS. What here is wrong?
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by peteyboy 6y ago
I don't know, are there? I don't know, do you?
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by peteyboy 6y ago
I'm waiting for folks to look at gemini, see only part of what they want, and make markdown-native web protocol, a wiki protocol, basically. I think that would be very cool, and it is what drew me to gemini before I figured out it was
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by peteyboy 6y ago
You could make a regular http web page for your interactive chart...
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by peteyboy 6y ago
It's not better except that a person browsing doesn't know what pages are or aren't done with a simple site generator.
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by peteyboy 6y ago
I'd like to say again that by competing with the modern web to do things that gemini isn't good at, gemini gets to lose those contests, and this should limit the success of efforts to to make dancing bears out of gemini.
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by peteyboy 6y ago
So you say the "effort". There are 50-some line gemini clients, and more than a few people have coded graphical clients in a few days by themselves. Same with servers. Is modifying firefox or palemoon really going to be a &quot
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by peteyboy 6y ago
there are gateways if all you want is to peek into gemini web, as several people have noted. How does that ruin anything?
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by peteyboy 6y ago
The thing is, when the web grew up, there was no not-web. Gemini occupies a swim lane, and if you want more, even a gemini page can link to a web page to do the heavy lifting of the modern web. So aside from making the bear dance, there&#x2
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by peteyboy 9y ago
SDF is awesome. It's just nice to have an account on a cluster that is straight on the internet and lets you play with whatever unix and web things you want.