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Leave the debate on plain web javascripted ethics at the door, let this thread be a collection of `gopher://` urls that you personally want the cyber world to know of. Advertise yourselves. "Shy or not, slow or fast, let it be read." - Michel Foucalt, probably
There are many amazing projects and alternative front-ends strewn about the gopherverse, some of which can completely eliminate the dependency on their plain-web versions. There are also holes that provide tools unique to gopher. Let's make this thread an on the fly database of front-ends, services and useful tools.
`gopher://umbrellacorp.io` I'm just getting it spun up and off the ground, using a fork of gophernicus I've been tinkering with. More content to come.
toobnix.org
the World Wide Web can kiss my ass
(from: gopher://triapul.cz/0/phlog/2024-01-28-underside.txt) govidious was a toy, now you too can be a toy maker. I grew comfortable enough to make something useful. the `triapul.cz` gopher hole now hosts lists of various privacy respecting foss front-ends in /files/underside/[1], sourced from the fantastic farside[2] project. Instances for each service are divided up into individual txt files in the said directory. While you're welcome to manually visit every time you're looking for a front end, the idea behind creating this was to have an updated list that is easily accessible and can be incorporated into custom scripts. For example, to get a random instance for gothub, a github front-end, try the following: `$ echo "/files/underside/gothub.txt" | nc triapul.cz 70 | sort -R | head -n1` A simple parser for replacing github links could look a little something like this (let's imagine it's called `parser.sh`): ``` #!/bin/sh instance=$(echo "/files/underside/gothub.txt" | nc triapul.cz 70 | sort -R | head -n1 | cut -d"/" -f3) parse() { echo "$1" | sed "s/github.com/$2/" } parse $1 $instance ``` Now if we run: ` $ sh parser.sh https://github.com/benbusby/farside` We get back a front-ended url. It's up to you how/if you make use of this. _technicalities: The lists are refreshed once a day. It is entirely possible for a project to go dark and exist for a while with no known instance. In that case the file will contain "NOTHING" instead. I think of farside as a successor to the once shining simple-web[3] project and I wanted to make sure its legacy is felt even in the gopherspace. May this project help you navigate the web-world. _resources: - [1] gopher://triapul.cz/1/files/underside - [2] https://farside.link - [2] https://sr.ht/~benbusby/farside/#about - [2] https://github.com/benbusby/farside - [3] gopher://triapul.cz/0/phlog/2023-06-04-simple-web-memorial-service.txt
I made a small gopher service. You give it a youtube url and it returns a random invidious instance. `gopher://triapul.cz/0/phlog/2024-01-27-govidious.txt`
gopher://katolaz.net/0/ed_tutorial.txt
`gopher://embryonic.church` cat's latest
`gopher://perma.computer` Worth a read.
Every week Wednesday 000UTC (so 19 hours from now) I do an aNONradio show about lisp and the gopher ! This week my gopher oriented topic is mainly old computer challenge final phosts, but if you know a good gopher topic I should mention, please share it here ! Mastodon toot: https://mastodon.sdf.org/@screwtape/110733226063800243
My recent musings on Gopher-commerce. Humbly submitted to the community for discussion...
My most recent musings on Gopher-commerce. I'm posting here in order to have ready discussion via Lemmy...
Are you stranded with just your basic Unix toolkit? No internet browser? No gopher client? Use netcat! `echo "/directory/file" | nc domain.name port` For example: To view tilde.institute root goohermap: `echo / | nc tilde.institute 70` or to get a .txt file from: occ.deadnet.se in /users/how.txt `echo /users/how.txt | nc occ.deadnet.se 70`
My main frustration with the phlogosphere is that it's not trivial to comment or discuss a phlog entry by other means that the web (which we all despise, right?) There are solutions of course, but I find them inconvenient: - emails - instant messaging (IRC/matrix/...) - /7/ item trick - ??? What's your take on that ?
