Any old gopher users care to share their earliest experiences?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/209144
> I've been delving into Gemini protocol and gopher quite a bit lately and came across a good historical dig about gopher by ~szczezuja and wanted to find more. Love to hear what it was used for and the community it had, especially in the 90s. I feel the community is different these days. Source on gopher: > gopher://sdf.org:70/1/users/szczezuja/novice
How to build a Gemini application
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Another video by tomasino that covers basic setup with client cert authentication.
I had to modify a bit for SCGI usage but generally works the same.
Gemini Input
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Tomasino posted a couple more videos. This one helped me understand basic user inputs.
SCGI
It took me a while but I figured out SCGI for molly-brown. This page helped quite a bit: //gemini.bunburya.eu/gemlog/posts/2021-04-07-dynamic-content-scgi-gemini.gmi
Now to implement something.
Side note, I've been spending quite a bit of time there...it's nice.
Lagrange browser pre-release for Gemini protocol
Highly suggest looking at this if you are interested in using Gemini (protocol) on Android. Very polished, seemingly feature complete. With Ariane gone, might be your best bet - Deedum is good but this has it beat.
Lagrange prerelease for Android on Fdroid
Pre-release for Lagrange on fdroid.
Just got it and looks slick.
Deedum client certificate
I saw a guide on making a client certificate but I'm not sure how to get this to deedum. Simply copy paste the text of the generated keys? Can this be done on android?
Brown bag
Brown paper bag lunches used to be common but you rarely see them anymore (where I'm from) despite the phrase "brown bagging it today" (or something similar) still being used.
The only time it's generally / socially acceptable to call your kid big, chunky, or hefty, is their baby/infant years.
Look at you packing on the pounds! You killed that bottle!
Cribbage
This might be obscure, but I liked playing cribbage on my phone before I started using fdroid. Is there an ad-free version somewhere?
"Rub off on someone" is a phrase that sounds way more exciting than it really is.
Stole from a friend of mine but they said it was okay :)
Is Telegram FOSS legit?
I feel like someone tooling with a secure messaging app makes it less...reliable that its secure, despite yanking google play parts out of the code. Thoughts?