I am increasingly worried about the current AI hype cycle taking down all of computer science with it. The more I think about it, the field is on the verge of a legitimacy crisis from several root-causes.
I've seen some AI/ML people (Timnit, etc) talk about the need for an anti-AGI movement. I think that applies to #CS generally. If the public at large comes to equate CS with AGI, it will kill the whole field for a decade when AGI implodes.
@rysiek@emc2 Neo-luddites are already here, yet often they stay either on other networks than http-based ones (like #gopher, #gemini,#pubnix, etc) or they stay with non-IT tech.
Another approach that I find super logical is what communities like Amish do : before adopting a particular tech, they gather together and discuss - what are the pros, what are the cons and if it is worth it.
Unfortunately, in our freedom-chanting modern world, there is little space left for real choice.
Bubble has now been running on Geminispace.org for a week, and I think things are going rather well. Here are some technical and non-technical observations.
Set up a gemini capsule on a subdomain of my website today to use as a little personal blog/thought dump. Got it running off of a raspberry pi I had sitting around which was pretty fun getting going. Also meant I finished up a prototype of a sound thing I've been working on so that I had something to actually write a log about #gemini#geminiprotocol
Le problème avec http+html, c'est que même un site qui fait la promo pour la simplicité, la légèreté et l'efficacité du html "pure" embarque un tracker Google
#gemini and smolnet enthusiasts or just curious folks. Have you seen this new addition to the realm? Kind of a combo of multiple social media style platforms but on gemini. You can post to your own personal feed/tinylog as if it were fedi/twitter, there are topic-centered subspaces kind of like subreddits. It could be used as a small community bulletin board over gemini or even as the management software for publishing to your own personal capsule.
My website https://beta.phundrak.com/en, which should replace within a few days my main website, is now written in #orgmode instead of Markdown! This makes the CI a bit slower (not that much though), but it should make supporting #gemini much easier.
@ajroach42 I think this might be something you'll find interesting. Just came across this #gemini capsule with a LOT of info about book binding, self-publishing etc.
So. Anyone know of any good markdown converters/editors for either Windows or Mac? Had an idea for a project and I feel like Markdown would help tremendously.
This is rad! Goodbye playing on my phone when I'm stuck somewhere and bored. Hello reading (ok, and playing) on my PDA when I'm stuck somewhere and bored.
P.S. I just tried to slide my PDA stylus into the headphone jack of my cellphone. In my defense the headphone jack is in roughly the same location as the stylus slot on the PDA.
Plucker is pretty slick stuff once you get good sources to feed it. It's like a little offline window into the web content you want to read, nicely formatted for the PDA screen. I love how it converts and dithers the images for the monochrome display too.
I've got a proof of concept working for converting a #gemini page and the links contained on that page to simple html and then feed that into plucker so you can browse for instance an aggregated gemini feed page of all the recent posts on the PDA in the same fashion as if they were websites you sent to plucker. A comitium page, antenna, etc.
#Gemini is cool but I think it is too restrictive and it needs a specific format.
IMHO, #markdown ( #CommonMark ) over http/https would be very efficient.
Markdown is really a common format for content and there many tools able to manage.
It's easy to put md files on an existing http server.
I've not found a really easy to use markdown extension for Firefox or Chromium. I don"t know if there are browsers that render mardown natively ??