Re: Gemini Digest, Vol 26, Issue 36

Gday

1.
I would love to see newsgroup rival
for news (textural), low bandwidth photos/pics and low bandwidth files 
(podcasts,recipies, wood working/3d printing plans)

Problem is gemini protcol would have to support
* Username and password
* Encyption
* Proper text entry

I dont see the current workaround as a valid solution
that pass's text input back to the site as a half baked
workaround for search engines currently

It would be good if old opensource/foss newsgroup clients
were patched to support GNG (Gemini News Group)
both CLI + UI

Would the newsgroups support opt in multi server linking system
eg
Kitty Server
- cotton balls
- treats
- those dogs
- silly owner

You could connect to treats if other sections were down

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2.
I would like to see secure
IRCS , FTPS, newsgroupS and fingerS come back
without bloated http web, corporations, , centralised cloud servers , subverive elements

Along with support for alt DNS such as IPFS/OpenNic or something else to 
get around Centralised Censorship

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3.

Also has anyone dissussed a method to transfer email in bulk at certain 
times using gemini like the old fido mail BBS system
for gemini situations of low bandwidth, bandwidth limits
or partial uptime periods of time or different quota/speeds on the 
connection if self hosting at home or grid down issues

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4.

Also whats the best Gemini server progrma to use
without systemd, dbus, policykit, java, python, dotnet
, snap, flatpak
for a low end vps to serve gemlog, gemcast stream
and a few picutures



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People's Republic of Australia
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> On Mon Sep 27, 2021 at 12:39 PM +03, Jason Evans wrote:
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> > Hi all,
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> > If anyone is interested, I can start putting together a proposal for a
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> > Gemini Usenet newsgroup. comp.infosystems.gopher is still around and
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> > active. A new comp.infosystems.gemini could be created in the classic
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> > Usenet Big-8 hierarchies but we need people who are willing to say that
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> > they would use it before it could be created.
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> This is great news. I think Gemini and Usenet have some audience overlap
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> and it's a good idea to have an avenue of discussion that does not rely
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charliebrownau <charliebrownau@protonmail.com> writes:

> Gday
>
> 1.
> I would love to see newsgroup rival
> for news (textural), low bandwidth photos/pics and low bandwidth files 
(podcasts,recipies, wood working/3d printing plans)
> 2.I would like to see secure> IRCS , FTPS, newsgroupS and fingerS come back
> without bloated http web, corporations, , centralised cloud servers ,
> subverive elements

I'd say that none of these are really in-scope for Gemini. A lot of the
things in (2) already exist. For example, I access a couple of NNTP
servers that use TLS. NNTP has its problems, and I'd love to see
something that both modernizes and simplifies it, but that's going to be
its own protocol, not something build on Gemini.

> 3. Also has anyone dissussed a method to transfer email in bulk at 
certain times using gemini like the old fido mail BBS system
> for gemini situations of low bandwidth, bandwidth limits
> or partial uptime periods of time or different quota/speeds on the 
connection if self hosting at home or grid down issues

What you want to look into for this is NNCP
(http://www.nncpgo.org/). It is a successor protocol to UUCP, which was
traditionally used for those purposes.  Building on top of NNCP is a
really promising approach to any attempt to rethink news and mail.

> 4.
>
> Also whats the best Gemini server progrma to use
> without systemd, dbus, policykit, java, python, dotnet
> , snap, flatpak
> for a low end vps to serve gemlog, gemcast stream
> and a few picutures

There are several Gemini servers in C with limited dependencies.

-- 
Jason McBrayer      | “Strange is the night where black stars rise,
jmcbray@carcosa.net | and strange moons circle through the skies,
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