Agate is a popular and actively maintained server that only serves static files, and it hosts images on ghcr.io. It’s a pretty short Dockerfile.

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Free tech tip: https://cht.sh/ serves practical, usage-focused help on common command-line tasks. You can visit the website, or even better, curl for what you want.

$ curl cht.sh/touch

gets you this:

 cheat:touch 
# To change a file's modification time:
touch -d <time> <file>
touch -d 12am <file>
touch -d "yesterday 6am" <file>
touch -d "2 days ago 10:00" <file>
touch -d "tomorrow 04:00" <file>

# To put the timestamp of a file on another:
touch -r <refrence-file> <target-file>

Append with ~ and a word to show only help containing that word:

$ curl cht.sh/zstd~compress

Result:

 tldr:zstd 
# zstd
# Compress or decompress files with Zstandard compression.
# More information: <https://github.com/facebook/zstd>.

# Decompress a file:
zstd -d path/to/file.zst

# Decompress to `stdout`:
zstd -dc path/to/file.zst

# Compress a file specifying the compression level, where 1=fastest, 19=slowest and 3=default:
zstd -level path/to/file

# Unlock higher compression levels (up to 22) using more memory (both for compression and decompression):
zstd --ultra -level path/to/file

For more usage tips, curl cht.sh/:help.

Is there for example a Gemini search engine?

Yes. Two, actually (that I know of).

• gemini://tlgs.one
• gemini://kennedy.gemi.dev

Will FF display a Gemini page as text only?

Firefox doesn’t directly support Gemini, but you can view pages through a proxy like portal.mozz.us. Gemtext, the standard page format, has basic formatting syntax, and yes, it’s text only. There’s no mechanism for embedding images in pages - the best you can do is just link to them. In this one popular client, Lagrange, clicking on a link to an image displays it under that link, but other clients handle image links differently.

Where do you hang out and exchange links 😁 ?

I just lurk and read gemlogs (of course they can’t be called blogs, that’s short for web log!). There are sites with feeds of latest gemlog posts, and many sites that offer Gemini hosting have a list of recently updated pages. There are some minimal social networks, too. The front page of portal.mozz.us has a few links to these kinds of spots.

Playing face to face, even with friendly strangers, feels so much more rewarding than online.

RIP this legend

What an absolutely baller job title

IMO this is more of a Newgrounds classic than a YouTube one.

2004, baby! https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/178546

This and Marginalia Search are so much fun to explore.

This is a good question that’s often asked about Gemini. The creator addresses this in a part of the FAQ: Why not just use a subset of HTTP and HTML?

Personally, I find Gemini nice because its utter basicness guarantees that there’s no room for the kind of bullshit you might find on the web. Sure, you and some other nerds could make a “friendly HTML” club, but participation is voluntary and there’s no way to enforce the rules to keep the pages simple. And how would you know what sites are “friendly” just by looking at the hyperlink? Gemini creates a universe where sites have to be “friendly”; there is no other way.

Anyway, here’s my contribution to Geminispace, an homage to a legendary Geocities site.

Now I’m curious why it hit general release at 3.2.

I’ve always thought it was funny that panic has an exclamation mark in Rust. Among all the macros, it’s the most fun one to yell.

It would be more concerning if it wasn’t.

It descends even faster!

The soundtrack of Within a Deep Forest. It’s an ambient gem from indie mid-00s gaming. Fun fact: it was made in Impulse Tracker.

Mattel could just print whatever the hell they wanted onto cards and release it without rules and people would find a way to play them.

Egg Conference

six dolar srimp special

Now this is the real internet funeral