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Dovete sapere che io avevo una radiosveglia da comodino, era una bella radiosveglia con la ricezione digitale, uno schermo persino troppo luminoso e un altoparlante dotato di buon volume. L'unico grosso problema è che la configurazione dell'allarme constava, per quanto riguarda la periodicità dello stesso, di tre opzioni:

* allarme che si attiva ogni giorno;
* allarme che si attiva solo i giorni feriali;

#lisp #sveglia #DIY #raspberrypi #geminiprotocol
gemini://omg.pebcak.club/~cage/archive/le-mie-disavventure-con-una-sveglia.gmi
https://portal.mozz.us/gemini//omg.pebcak.club/~cage/archive/le-mie-disavventure-con-una-sveglia.gmi

@hyperreal

Many of us started using the #GeminiProtocol hash-tag once the #Gemini hash-tag got flooded with stuff about the Google Gemini LLM.

I like the Gemini Protocol, but — I think too many of the other small-net protocols try to mimick Gemini.

I think things would be better in some ways if — those so inclined to create a new small-net protocol would be more creative (rather than conforming to the patterns that the Gemini Protocol has used or established).

Sure, you can accept the small-net values, but — try something new, as far as designing a protocol goes.

#Gemini #GeminiProtocol #SmallNet #SmallWeb

#Lagrange v1.19.4 released — https://codeberg.org/skyjake/lagrange/releases/tag/v1.19.4

• Fixed Windows file path encoding (!)
• Fixed crash when opening WebP images on Windows
• Fixed Nex protocol link context menu

Release notes: gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/s/Lagrange/34748

The mobile builds have not been updated at this time.

#GeminiProtocol

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Dovete sapere che io avevo una radiosveglia da comodino, era una bella radiosveglia con la ricezione digitale, uno schermo persino troppo luminoso e un altoparlante dotato di buon volume. L'unico grosso problema è che la configurazione dell'allarme constava, per quanto riguarda la periodicità dello stesso, di tre opzioni:

* allarme che si attiva ogni giorno;
* allarme che si attiva solo i giorni feriali;

#lisp #sveglia #DIY #raspberrypi #geminiprotocol
gemini://omg.pebcak.club/~cage/archive/le-mie-disavventure-con-una-sveglia.gmi
https://portal.mozz.us/gemini//omg.pebcak.club/~cage/archive/le-mie-disavventure-con-una-sveglia.gmi

#Lagrange v1.19.4 released — https://codeberg.org/skyjake/lagrange/releases/tag/v1.19.4

• Fixed Windows file path encoding (!)
• Fixed crash when opening WebP images on Windows
• Fixed Nex protocol link context menu

Release notes: gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/s/Lagrange/34748

The mobile builds have not been updated at this time.

#GeminiProtocol

But as I've already mentioned in other threads, the #GeminiProtocol approach IMO throws away the baby with the bathwater. Many of the web formats and technologies are actually extremely useful even for the “web of documents”: the problem isn't with #HTML, #CSS, #XML, #XSLT, #SVG or even #JavaScript, the problem is that browsers have been catering exclusively to the “web of apps” instead of the “web of documents”. We *can* keep that tech *and* the “web of documents”.

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If anything, the biggest issue would be that, since the “web of documents” and the “web of apps” use the same protocol, switching from one to the other won't be “natural”.

In this sense, the #GeminiProtocol folks have arguably had the right idea: “we'll make our own web, with simple text and image formats”. This, to steal @witchescauldron's expression <https://kolektiva.social/@witchescauldron/115592900566471848>, pushes the “web of documents” away from the “web of apps”.

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@bortzmeyer salut, Je découvre ton article sur #geminiprotocol j'adore le coté bien minimaliste.
Je me demandais si il est possible d'installer le serveur (agate) ou un autre sur un #synology ? Je précise que je bidouille sur #linux depuis longtemps, mais je suis une "quiche" en reseau/server, port forward...
Si tu as des conseils, par avance, merci

Project Gemini

https://geminiprotocol.net/

#HackerNews #ProjectGemini #GeminiProtocol #TechInnovation #OpenSource #FutureOfWeb

La complainte du technopunk ringard

https://ploum.net/2025-11-17-techpunk.html

Évidemment aussi dispo sur #gemini #geminiprotocol :

gemini://ploum.net/2025-11-17-techpunk.gmi

My latest story Ticker (flash fiction, medical horror, sci-fi) is now up on my Gemini capsule!

gemini://ferenbrooke.com/short-stories/ticker.gmi

Web link for normal people:

https://www.ferenbrooke.com/short-stories/ticker.html

#horrorlit #smallweb #geminiprotocol

@monterosato : c’est que fait le #geminiprotocol mais sans prétention.

Un réseau conçu pour empêcher le flicage, empêcher la monétisation des vues et interdire toute évolution car il fait ce qu’il doit faire, car un navigateur Gemini doit pouvoir être programmé en un week-end par une personne seule.

Moi, j’adore. (et oui, j’ai même mon propre navigateur)

Mais c’est vraiment très geek ! Ça ne va pas arranger l’image que tes collègues ont de toi ;-)

https://ploum.net/gemini-le-protocole-du-slow-web/index.html

@monterosato : c’est que fait le #geminiprotocol mais sans prétention.

Un réseau conçu pour empêcher le flicage, empêcher la monétisation des vues et interdire toute évolution car il fait ce qu’il doit faire, car un navigateur Gemini doit pouvoir être programmé en un week-end par une personne seule.

Moi, j’adore. (et oui, j’ai même mon propre navigateur)

Mais c’est vraiment très geek ! Ça ne va pas arranger l’image que tes collègues ont de toi ;-)

https://ploum.net/gemini-le-protocole-du-slow-web/index.html

This, by the way, is part of the same rant. There is absolutely nothing preventing, say, #Firefox from adding support for the #GeminiProtocol and for the gemtext format. It would have been a better time investment for their engineers than the time they wasted adding integration with #LLM chatbots that people now have to waste their time disabling (or removing from the code).

(I don't dislike gemtext. And I love the idea of a web built on lightweight markup. I would love it if user agents had native support for plain formats like markdown or asciidoc. I even like the #GeminiProtocol. And I see no reason why you shouldn't ship text/gemini over HTTP or HTML over Gemini.)

Quand éclatera la bulle IA…

Et de la saturation technologique

https://ploum.net/2025-11-01-eclatement-bulle-ia.html

lire sur #gemini #geminiprotocol : gemini://ploum.net/2025-11-01-eclatement-bulle-ia.gmi

@jaredj On the BBS someone wanted to use generative AI to populate Gemini with more content. It was a pointless and stupid idea and it never went anywhere, to my knowledge. Not quite crawling but it shows the AI boosters are there (or at least were) on Gemini too.

For now I think Gemini is only protected by obscurity and that to implement a Gemini crawler would not be profitable for crawling companies.

I haven't yet seen AI crawlers in my server logs that I could identify, but there is even less protection with Gemini than with HTTP because of the protocol. Like you cannot require cookies, and javascript things (captchas, Anubis) won't work either. And because it is plaintext it would be easier for crawlers to ingest as well.

I have been thinking about this and I see three lines of defense for #Geminiprotocol possible:

1) firewall level blocking of crawler ip's
2) Requiring client certificates for simply viewing content
3) For a harsher lockdown require server certificates

Something like Iocaine by @algernon with an SNI-based reverse proxy in front of Capsukes would be also great fun.

I'm feeding bots with #FreeBSD. https://j.agrue.info/bot-feeding-on-freebsd.html. Many thanks to https://maurycyz.com/projects/trap_bots/ ! I (think I) improved the software slightly.

Do you know of AI bots using #GeminiProtocol ? Do you know what AI crawlers do and don't do, and what defenses work this week and don't? What are the next moves in what feels like a long game of cat-and-mouse?