Re: Hey-Hoy!

[Hiltjo Posthuma <hiltjo@codemadness.org>]

On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 03:30:50PM -0700, Mr. Leveck wrote:
> 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...
> 
> -- 
> Nathaniel Leveck
> gopher://gopher.leveck.us
> https://www.leveck.us
> 

gophernicus has many ugly non-standard extensions and last time it didn't even
compile on OpenBSD for me.

Just use geomyidae:
Git repo: git://bitreich.org/geomyidae
Project: gopher://bitreich.org/1/scm/geomyidae

-- 
Kind regards,
Hiltjo