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(DIR) Post #AsMOo1KRdF8mjDTMDw by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2025-03-23T22:37:49Z
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OK I have a tentative gopher server up at gopher://squirrel.ble eve.me:70#gopher I'll stick with this for a while, but I'm not sure I'm ready to give up the ability to display images, or see PDFs. Those are just too valuable.And it hangs, handing off to the h... URL: handler. The lynx client locks up.I can't seem to get the server to serve from any root except /var/gopher, which means I'm editing sudo'd, which is gross, and I'm tolerating it only because I'm testing (and assume I'm making some stupid config misteak).But the experiment has me rethinking presentation of content. I'm now writing simple, compliant HTML5, and doing pulldown menus in css. I'm using basic tables, lists, and some wrap around images. I may simplify this further. I could ditch the menus going forward.But I don't think I give up inline images. They're just too meaningful.
(DIR) Post #AsMPY9Lk8tXcvS4mJc by anthk@paquita.masto.host
2025-03-23T22:46:06Z
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@screwtape @tomjennings on gopher, the tildes have a ~/public_gopher directory per user, much better. On inline images, my approach is to use a subdir link near to one pointing to an article. Cumbersome, but it's 2025, you can multitask fine even from a 386. And I set up lynx and sacc to open PDF's and images with sxiv, mupdf and so on.
(DIR) Post #AsMT6gFobw3agXSbrc by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2025-03-23T23:25:59Z
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@riley Yeah, but I want user files in user directories so that various backup systems, machine to machine copying, etc can get to them. I hate having stuff in non-home places.I want to symlink things, at least, down to ~/ folders. My whole computer using schema relies on this.
(DIR) Post #AsMTP0A5KkSrdjW4eG by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2025-03-23T23:29:19Z
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@anthk ~/public_gopherWon't that effect the URL? > images subdir linkI can't visualize what you mean.... lynx doesn't do images, how would one render an image stored on remote port 70 onto the local screen?I can configure clients for my *own* use OK, but for the hypothetical other-user, if they have to manually configure a viewer for each file type, yeah, that won't fly. Unless I'm missing somethign, which is often the case?@screwtape
(DIR) Post #AsMfiYYirslvH18CUS by screwtape@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-03-24T01:47:08Z
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@tomjennings Good questions. While images would probably be sent as item type 9 (binary), I think ; is used as an unofficial item-type. So gopher browsers could in general use magic(5) / xdg to guess what to do with a itemtype 9 link visited. In principle.I just save itemtype 9s using elpher at the moment ;p.I think public_gopher was the convention that is expected by the server. That ends up as tile.institute/1/username normally.@anthk
(DIR) Post #AsNGbvDxtiLbqT7blo by anthk@paquita.masto.host
2025-03-24T08:40:40Z
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@tomjennings @screwtape lynx in the cfg file has settings for external viewers. On sacc I use 'soap' from https://2f30.org set with sxiv -a for images, mupdf for cbz/pdf/epub and mpv for videos.