Re: Hey-Hoy!

["Mr. Leveck" <leveck@leveck.us>]

On Sat, 27 Jan 2018 17:07:36 +0100
Alex Schröder <kensanata@gmail.com> wrote:

> I've written a Gopher Server wrapper for Oddmuse and use it for my
> personal wiki. [1]
> Then I got interested in adding a TLS layer and did that, so this
> should also work. [2]
> I needed some clients to test it, so I added TLS to the Emacs Gopher
> client. [3]
> Right now this branch only does everything using TLS, there is no
> switching back and forth.
> I would have liked to work on that, but then I saw a new command-line
> client written in Python. [4]
> I added TLS to VF-1. Basically users get a switch "all connections are
> unencrypted" or "all connections are encrypted." [5]
> But I should go back to the Emacs Gopher client and add such a
> switch, too. I really wanted to find the Gophernicus sources but all
> I found was three or four year old sources on Github. [10]
> I wanted to see whether the TLS I added to clients would work with
> other Gopher servers.
> 
> Then I got distracted by the idea of having a Wiki working over
> Gopher and I proposed a new "write" item which allows you to upload a
> file. [6] I added that to VF-1, on a different branch. [7]
> I added it to the Emacs Gopher client, too. [8]
> 
> There has been a lot of discussion of Gopher on Mastodon. [9]
> 
> [1] gopher://alexschroeder.ch:70
> [2] gophers://alexschroeder.ch:7443
> [3] https://github.com/kensanata/gopher.el/tree/ssl
> [4] https://github.com/solderpunk/VF-1
> [5] https://github.com/kensanata/VF-1/tree/ssl
> [6] https://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2017-12-30_Gopher_Wiki
> [7] https://github.com/kensanata/VF-1/tree/write
> [8] https://github.com/kensanata/gopher.el/tree/write
> [9] e.g. https://octodon.social/tags/gopher
> [10] https://github.com/prologic/gophernicus
> 
> 
> On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 4:22 PM, Kim Holviala
> <kimholviala@fastmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > What’s happening with gopher lately? I’m too lazy to look at the
> > archives so I’ll just ask :-)
> >
> > As for me… I was in prison for a while because the local customs
> > thought I was the biggest drug lord ever in the history of Finland
> > - unfortunately for them I was just a slightly alcoholic nerd
> > coding highly suspicious “C" projects in my free time :D. “Gopher”
> > must have an alternative meaning, right? Can’t be that old protocol
> > - must have something to do with drugs, right? :D :D :D
> >
> > This is me: https://www.deepdotweb.com/2017/11/10/finnish-police-
> > quietly-seize-darknet-imageboard/
> >
> > Also - does anyone happen to have the latest sources (git repo
> > clone) to Gophernicus? I had some things I needed to fix but the
> > original sources have been all confiscated for being part of the
> > suspected drug ring I apparently ran LOL OMG WTF :D
> >
> >
> >
> > - Kim
> >
> >  

I checked two Raspberry Pi's, and this laptop. All git clones I have of
Gophernicus have 2014 as the last entry in the ChangeLog...

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Nathaniel Leveck
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