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After re-reading the document three times, it is still not clear to me

- what ports this protocol uses

- a simple example of communication

- the reason of the technical choices (commonmark!?)

- the reason why one should use this protocol

also gemini has some flaws but they are debatable and have their deep reason why they are there, in this "kyuweb" here we have a scattered collection of thoughts about "how it would be nice if" without head nor tail nor a reason why

so, at the moment more than a proposal it seems to me an exercise in style or whishful tinking, but if someone has some other insights I read it very gladly!

anything was better, the "new things" were really new things and everyone aspired to progress and research, while the old things coexisted peacefully with the new ones

now everything is fake and marketing, empty words and profiling, pure and constant consumerism, and "research" is just a constant justification for the staggering costs of marketing departments that have to sell "new things" to someone

once we were the freaks, instead now everyone is a master of everything while no one knows how anything really works anymore, because layers of layer of layers of crap

...I'm very tired, I'd just like to know nothing more about anything and do something else with the little time I have left (time that I will spend anyway to infiniscrolling empty things)

the day reddit will end up like digg is always a day too late

now they have in sight the IPO so they are doing great cleaning, even of the past, they are rewriting it to be more attractive to sponsors and investors; a monstrous number of posts and subs are deleted every hour every day with the excuse that they apply [new] rules not specified anywhere and even often contrary to the well-established customs

they have gone from total administrative absenteeism to be a Kafkaesque nightmare, primarily for moderators (volunteers)

as a European I did not understand the concept of the word "cancel culture" but now that I'm seeing it with my own eyes I hope reddit fail very soon because now has become a spite to everything that Aaron wanted

so no, they have not become chinese/russian/"destiny manifest" propaganda machines, they are just a horrible horrible horrible place (with 10mb of javascript per connection as cherry on top)

let's be realistic:

(outside of certain self-referential bubbles - like this site) no one cares anything about encryption, if in public chats I am anonymous and untraceable (example: no one can know my phone number and there are granular privacy settings) this is enough for 98% of people out here

"yes, encryption is useful if I want to send nudes to my partner or if I want to buy drugs but not while I'm asking mom for the sufflè recipe or I'm organizing a dinner with friends" this is what people think, and they are not completely wrong

good luck china, December 8 was celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of the dissolution of the last socialist state to make this same move ...

Well, windows XP was the peak of gui... only when set to classic mode (like windows millennium)! the plastic edges and colors of XP offered nothing extra to 9x-class interfaces;

the absolute peak of interfaces was mac system 9

I don't know them either, never heard before... also missing the more generic "I care a saw" or "dicks keying".

one customized by me from a gray plain (I think it was a macosx like)

i lost a lot of hours instead of studying for that skin, somewhere in the Ark-HDs I should still have it (I hope)

> normalised alcohol abuse

I don't think alcohol will ever be banned, man has been using alcohol for more than 10k years[0] and according to some theories[1] it was the consumption of alcohol and protein that favored brain development

(disclosure: I come from an Italian region that has the use and abuse of alcohol as one of cornerstones of society, so maybe I'm biased)

[0]https://www.foodtimeline.org/foodbeverages.html#winebeer

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drunken_monkey_hypothesis

arduino is one of those things in life that you love and hate: you love it because (its success) has opened up the world of microcontrollers on a commercial/production level, it has made it easy for amateurs to use smart electronics and its open source nature has generated millions of different libraries, all things that 10 or 15 years ago were only possible for big industries with big budgets; at the same time you hate it because it is a horrible cardbox-walled garden that hides how things really work, it is full of bugs and the documentation is often embarrassing;

and of course you hate it because it is the result of ugly dealings "all'Italiana" (who wants to understand, understand)

ahhh nice, it's been years since i've seen a obfuscated .bat!

very nice use of substring, but a bit too linear... with some input redirects and nested spaced variables it would have become more robust and unpredictable, but i suppose nowadays batch chiselers are rare.

edit: by the way in the article is missing a -useless- decoded line (n.4)

buying the book is just a way to thank the author, all the contents are freely available in the official site:

sina toki ala e lon, toki pona li pona.

in Italian means "goal" or "half" (with an accent on the a)

A fantastic work, one of the few true graphic libraries that are not the usual pset and drawcircle but true gui management in plain C!

regarding esp32 porting, i have seen that it is possible to use in conjunction with other graphics libraries as 'low level drivers' (e.g. bodmer's classic TFT_eSPI[0]) but i still don't understand the pros and cons of this approach; hypothetically, if i used faster LovyanGFX[1], would LVGL gain in responsiveness?

if so, how to do this?

[0] https://github.com/Bodmer/TFT_eSPI

[1] https://github.com/lovyan03/LovyanGFX

is not even remotely complete, in italy we have two regions dedicated to the creation of blasphemies so advanced in ingenuity that two telephone books in regexp would not be enough to stop them

Once again, in my view, the so called "limitations" exposed here (hyphen and "long-ass lines") are just problems of imperfect clients; while I can understand the long rant about lack of inline links and italics and bold, the analysis of how limited a developer is in "expressing his creativity" in my view shows that the author has not understood that gemini is *user/information first*, so these limitations are there to convey information with a low signal-to-noise ratio, any "embellishment" is useless and not recommended on gemini

gemini is designed in these ways to make the content consumable everywhere, separate from its representation

The idea is to be able to read text anywhere, from an arduino to a 64qbit Qwave sunBreaze, where "reading" also includes blind and deaf people (via text to speech), people who do not care about the possible "text justification mania" that the author seems to care a lot about

Finally, I think that gemini together with small companion protocols and file formats (e.g. amb[1], uxntal/subleq) are fully compatible with permacomputing concepts and this, in my naive but very tired view of the current state of the internet, is enough to understand what is good and what is bad.

[1] http://amb.osdn.io/

full disclosure: I really like this protocol and have developed a full unicode client for esp32

yeah I just read here in some comments that he also makes television appearances... i didn't know that, i thought he was more of a "internet random guy"! ...you never stop learning

I come to think of it, this is a client problem (specifically the client used to write the pages): gemini is natively utf8, bold and italic are present in unicode!

In general, on gemini, all "problems" are with the client and not with the protocol ;)

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Aw, beautiful project!

I don't seem to see "The eyes of the heart 2"[0]! Unfortunately the programmer only accepts additions via github and I don't have an account (yet)...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_(TV_series)

动态网自由门 天安門 天安门 法輪功 李洪志 Free Tibet 六四天安門事件 The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 天安門大屠殺 The Tiananmen Square Massacre 反右派鬥爭 The Anti-Rightist Struggle 大躍進政策 The Great Leap Forward 文化大革命 The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution 人權 Human Rights 民運 Democratization 自由 Freedom 獨立 Independence 多黨制 Multi-party system 台灣 臺灣 Taiwan Formosa 中華民國 Republic of China 西藏 土伯特 唐古特 Tibet 達賴喇嘛 Dalai Lama 法輪功 Falun Dafa 新疆維吾爾自治區 The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region 諾貝爾和平獎 Nobel Peace Prize 劉暁波 Liu Xiaobo 民主 言論 思想 反共 反革命 抗議 運動 騷亂 暴亂 騷擾 擾亂 抗暴 平反 維權 示威游行 李洪志 法輪大法 大法弟子 強制斷種 強制堕胎 民族淨化 人體實驗 肅清 胡耀邦 趙紫陽 魏京生 王丹 還政於民 和平演變 激流中國 北京之春 大紀元時報 九評論共産黨 獨裁 專制 壓制 統一 監視 鎮壓 迫害 侵略 掠奪 破壞 拷問 屠殺 活摘器官 誘拐 買賣人口 遊進 走私 毒品 賣淫 春畫 賭博 六合彩 天安門 天安门 法輪功 李洪志 Winnie the Pooh 劉曉波动态网自由门

because it is literally written in Italian (with specific regional inflections)?

Besides, this guy (Italian) has been writing these harassing things for years.

Oh God, here we go again! I confirm that by searching on lumendatabase[0] requests to remove defamation posts are found;

again these requests are very specific and in Italian, so I suspect it is from the same victim of the stalker/harasser, so I suppose that ONCE AGAIN[1] instead of removing individual defamatory posts, google has 'decided' to nuke the entire group.

For the sake of completeness, the last time I couldn't get anything out of, the whole experience with multinationals of a certain calibre nowaday is to talk to cheap and dummy bots or worse: people who are so underpaid or unprepared or uninterested in solving the problem that they don't even try to understand it.

[0] https://www.lumendatabase.org/notices/search?sort_by=&term=%...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23982603

AN UPDATE:

Well, that's a big one. Apparently the stalker annoyed the wrong person.

This[2] "Court Order Complaint to Google" was compiled and sent by Mediolanum (yes that mediolanum, Berlusconi's company shell), I have downloaded the attached documents and they actually are court orders and biglawyers' stuff... I don't think it's over.

[2] https://www.lumendatabase.org/notices/19295670

I can't even downvote.

Having said that: if you are a such a believer, there is no one in the world who can convince you otherwise: for every oddball argument that gets taken apart, three more will pop up to work on. If it's not the tinyballs it's the stems and if it's not the stems it's the nuances of something else.

I don't have the preparation, time or patience to argue with a believer: so yes, those are definitely mushrooms, Have a nice day.

Yes, the article explains the "blueberres"[0] literally halfway through (but evidently there was more hurry to put a downvote on me than to read an article already published in March 2019 and easily found with little searching)

I would like to reiterate this: the author has already 'published' this 'paper' in the past in (vanity)newspapers of dubious reputation and has already been debunked (by nasa, esa, scholars and ordinary geologists) several times. They don't even fall for it on reddit anymore, and that's saying something.

[0] a.k.a. iron oxide/hematite

this rubbish was already been debunked years ago[0], the author has only published the paper in another rubbish-journal

[0] https://www.sciencealert.com/here-s-the-truth-about-that-pho...

...few things are certain but that voynich's manuscript is NOT in Latin is sure: they would have already translated it centuries ago (i.e. when it was written). This person by his admission has only been studying the problem "online" for a year on "so-called secondary literature" and "hi-res scans", so writing things like:

> What compels me to come out is the discovery over this past year that for the most part commentators really do not know what they are doing.

is simply ridiculous.

This man is arrogant and full of himself and like all arrogant people he ignores hundreds of papers on the topic written by hundreds of people before him.

This is not how research is done.

Okay, I did some research, and I think I figured out what caused these usenet group banning.

A Genoese lawyer has been a victim of harassing and heavy doxing for some time, you can find many twitter accounts accusing him of paedophilia in cahoots with epstein, berlusconi, the pope and so on (no, I'm not kidding; clearly the stalker has obvious mental sanity problems).

The stalker is very prolific and is wallpapering the internet with his copy-paste-accouse in every corner, from newspaper comments to ancient forums to usenet. The lawyer report and ask for removation where he can but also he does not seem very worried because it seems that this issue goes on from two years ...

I don't think I can say the name of the subjects in question but in any case I'm archiving the harassment accounts before proceeding with the report, then I'll try to get in touch with the lawyer and see if he can request a new, less "coarse" censorship.

I am Italian and this is very interesting: all the requests were made with the topic "Stalking Diffamation Illegal processing of personal data" but this (https://www.lumendatabase.org/notices/21395773) is simply fantastic. It seem that a fool with persecution mania has reported half usenet and the bots was auto-triggered...

"0" was coded with 10 pulses