Beni Grind ~HB9HNT

Tue, 05 Sep 2023 17:03:45 +0200

navigium@grindcore.ch

It's basically @Velocipede Rider's fault that I installed #vivaldibrowser on my desktop to set my mobile search engine to Kagi. Now I'm tempted to use it as my main browser for some time... I'm sure with @Velocipede Rider on the team it will soon get #gemini, #gopher and #finger support, right? RIGHT? ;)

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Wed, 06 Sep 2023 13:48:34 +0200

Urs Naegeli

bjoern52@nerdpol.ch

Is there Vivaldi for Linux? I will have to look.

Wed, 06 Sep 2023 14:46:00 +0200

Beni Grind ~HB9HNT

navigium@grindcore.ch

@Urs Naegeli ⭐ yes, there is. It's basically a heavily modified Chromium.

Fri, 08 Sep 2023 13:45:44 +0200

Urs Naegeli

bjoern52@nerdpol.ch

I see, but I am not very fond of Chromium, I prefer Mozilla 😉

Fri, 08 Sep 2023 15:01:04 +0200

Beni Grind ~HB9HNT

navigium@grindcore.ch

@Urs Naegeli ⭐ Honestly, I prefer neither. Nowadays you can decide between derivatives of the browser made by Google or the browser mostly paid for by Google. I'd love to use a browser that doesn't depend on Google and still mostly works for the modern web. As far as I know there is no such thing... correct me if I'm wrong.

Sun, 10 Sep 2023 16:40:24 +0200

Urs Naegeli

bjoern52@nerdpol.ch

..as far as I have read somewhere, probably at Matthias Schüssler's blog, Mozilla i.e. Firefox is not based on Gougle's chrome. I will check it.

Sun, 10 Sep 2023 17:03:39 +0200

Beni Grind ~HB9HNT

navigium@grindcore.ch

@Urs Naegeli ⭐ no it is not but Mozilla receives a huge chunk of its funding from Google, so its development is indirectly paid for by Google. So this leaves us with two separate browsers, both paid for by Google.

Sun, 10 Sep 2023 22:14:02 +0200

Urs Naegeli

bjoern52@nerdpol.ch

I see. And browsers lije Epiphany or Midori are not really helpful, either

Mon, 11 Sep 2023 05:43:10 +0200

Beni Grind ~HB9HNT

navigium@grindcore.ch

@Urs Naegeli ⭐ not if you want to use the JS based web. The only option that's mostly independent from Google is Safari - which is not an option on Linux anyway.

Mon, 11 Sep 2023 22:57:33 +0200

Urs Naegeli

bjoern52@nerdpol.ch

👍

Sun, 13 Aug 2023 21:20:27 +0200

Beni Grind ~HB9HNT

navigium@grindcore.ch

I finally got my mostly empty #gemini capsule on #sdf working on gemini://sdf.org/beni/ and wrote #python script to generate some html on #^http://beni.sdf.org. The next steps are to run my own gemini server and add some CSS to the html export. It's all still very rough around the edges...

Fri, 04 Aug 2023 21:31:37 +0200

Beni Grind ~HB9HNT

navigium@grindcore.ch

Great, the moment I want to spend some more time with #gemini and start setting something up on #SDF, their gemini instance (or whatever you call a gemini server) goes down...

Sun, 06 Aug 2023 10:44:02 +0200

Ken Fallon (PA7KEN, G5KEN)

ken_fallon@mastodon.sdf.org

@navigium with the new hpr setup we should be able to gemeni the site easily enough. A few @hpr shows on your journey would be great.

Sun, 06 Aug 2023 11:02:52 +0200

Beni Grind ~HB9HNT

navigium@grindcore.ch

@Ken Fallon (PA7KEN, G5KEN) A the moment my journy abruptly stopped with SDFs gemini capsule being down... but I'll keep this in the back of my mind. As you know, I always need a cohost.... 🫣

Sun, 06 Aug 2023 15:26:51 +0200

Ken Fallon (PA7KEN, G5KEN)

ken_fallon@mastodon.sdf.org

@navigium Narie a probliem

Thu, 03 Aug 2023 12:30:37 +0200

Beni Grind ~HB9HNT

navigium@grindcore.ch

I discovered #gemini again and now I'm considering migrating my outdated #gopher space to gemini.... Somehow I'm attracted to doing useless stuff and acquiring useless skills....

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Thu, 03 Aug 2023 12:34:34 +0200

Thomas

tpheine@mstdn.io

@navigium
I can relate.

Thu, 03 Aug 2023 13:15:09 +0200

Beni Grind ~HB9HNT

navigium@grindcore.ch

@Thomas that one of my regular activities is to unicycle while listening to morse code training audio files is very telling... 🫣

Thu, 03 Aug 2023 13:19:39 +0200

Giovanni - ZL2GX

gmoretti@libranet.de

I found talk of #gemini again a couple of days ago when someone was asking about the #nex protocol, which is even simpler than gemini. That discussion popped up a few .gmi links so load them into Emacs using the elpher package to browse.

Elpher is very functional but the Lagrange gemini browser is a nicer UI so I updated that too. I'd forgotten how tranquil browsing gemini is. It does slow one down ...

Nex

Thu, 03 Aug 2023 14:38:49 +0200

Thomas

tpheine@mstdn.io

@navigium
Well, I can understand the unicycle thing, but the Morse code training...well, you know, erm...look a squirrel

Runs

Thu, 03 Aug 2023 15:38:31 +0200

Beni Grind ~HB9HNT

navigium@grindcore.ch

@Thomas Morse code is the only way to operate a hf station on a mountain top in complete silence.... which of course doesn't explain why you'd want to operate a radio on a peak in the first place. As I said: doing useless stuff..

Thu, 03 Aug 2023 17:34:11 +0200

Thomas

tpheine@mstdn.io

@navigium
I fully understand. I don't judge you. You think it is necessary in your life, so do it.

Fri, 04 Aug 2023 07:59:57 +0200

Szczeżuja

szczezuja@mastodon.online

@navigium To use the power of both, you must, Luke. Embrace them, you should. Strength in balance, there lies.

Fri, 04 Aug 2023 13:24:59 +0200

Giovanni - ZL2GX

gmoretti@libranet.de

@Szczeżuja Nicely said: so much unspoken - yet understood.

Fri, 04 Aug 2023 16:03:44 +0200

Urs Naegeli

bjoern52@nerdpol.ch

Oh, gibt's #gopher immer noch? Damit gatte ich vor über 30 Jahren zu tun 😊

Fri, 04 Aug 2023 20:24:00 +0200

Beni Grind ~HB9HNT

navigium@grindcore.ch

@Urs Naegeli ⭐ ja, ist noch da, aber #gemini ist nur damit verwandt. Gopher war glaubs sowas wie die Vorlage, welche aber mit TLS, UTF-8 und einer anderen Markupsprache angereichert wurde....

Sat, 05 Aug 2023 22:42:25 +0200

Urs Naegeli

bjoern52@nerdpol.ch

@Beni Grind: vielen Dank, es ist immer nett zu sehen, dass es auch im IT Bereich langlebige Sachen gibt 😉

Sun, 06 Aug 2023 10:09:19 +0200

Beni Grind ~HB9HNT

navigium@grindcore.ch

@Urs Naegeli ⭐ Eigentlich gibts ja ganz viele langlebige Sachen in der IT.... DNS, TCP/IP, Emacs, Vi, Unix, viele noch relevante RFCs... alles noch da. Leider auch IPv4 und die Windows Registry. Zum Glück kann ich das zweite weitgehend ignorieren. 😉

Tue, 08 Aug 2023 18:10:04 +0200

Urs Naegeli

bjoern52@nerdpol.ch

Same with me: Windows generell kann ich schon lange ignorieren, habe zuhause nur noch Linux, und auf dem FP4 halt notgedrungen Android, aber die Verson der e.foundation 😉

Tue, 08 Aug 2023 21:30:33 +0200

Beni Grind ~HB9HNT

navigium@grindcore.ch

@Urs Naegeli ⭐ ja, hier auch FP3 mit /e/os. Ich hab auf Arbeit eien Windows-Laptop, dessen hauptaufgabe es ist, meine Linux Shells anzuzeigen. Hab auch einen Fedora Client im Büro auf dem Tisch, aber der mag die Docking Station nicht.. 😞