• Croquette@sh.itjust.works
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    21 hours ago

    I will look up Gopher because I’m curious, but for less curious people and for other users to see, what is Gopher?

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        16 hours ago

        This is what I found too after specifying gopher protocol and not gopher the animal. It’s a pretty good write-up.

        I am definitely going to check out some gopher sites to see what this is all about.

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      20 hours ago

      Do we do GPT here?

      Gopher is a 1990s-era internet protocol that delivers text and files through simple hierarchical menus.

      The small web is a loose movement of minimalist, personal, and non-commercial websites built outside the corporate web.

      Gemini is a 2019 protocol for browsing encrypted, text-first sites using a simple markup language called Gemtext.

      To connect to Gemini, install a Gemini client like Amfora and open a gemini:// URL.

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        20 hours ago

        No we dont. Look, I struggled writing something too but make the effort to find a credible source. For example, my other post referers “hackaday” which is incredibly more legitimate and informative than anything an LLM could come up with.

        I applaud your effort to reply instead of simply answering “are you too lazy to google/gpt” as engagement is why we are here, but I wouldn’t recommend just reformulating a question and post an LLM reply. If anything, small user made errors and all makes the engagement more genuine and meaningful, no need to be right all the time for example.

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          20 hours ago

          Fair enough. I just consider it quicker wikipedia, especially for very simple lookups. For what it’s worth, I googled “gopher”, which, shockingly, showed me pictures of gopher. “Gopher network” showed me an online network dedicated to gophers. XD

          I 100% get the AI hate, but it did explain it to me, pointed me to a browser, which I installed, and now I’m on Gemini, so I learned something and gemini got a new user.

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            16 hours ago

            If you search DuckDuckGo for “gopher alternative web”, the very first few hits are about the gemini protocol, relevant wikipedia links, and an article to small internet hypertext movements.

            AI already rot your brain, you can’t identify the three basic keywords, from the original comment, that will lead you to a sensible web search. Of course, if you just search “gopher” most things will be about the animal that it is named after. However, even if you just search gopher, DDG still sneaks a result to the wikipedia disambiguation page. Where you’d learn that gopher is also the name of a species of turtle, a french last name, a biblical character, and an US university’s sport teams. I wonder which of those has anything to do with web development? It’s not hard, just use your brain and stop delegating your every thought to LLMs.

            Also, it is extremely rude to interject in a human conversation with AI.

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        20 hours ago

        First impression: good! Looks pretty cool. this is the start page when I launch Amfora

        this is the start page when I launch Amfora

        then I went to Gemini Project, just some address I found on the net:

        then I went to Gemini Project, just some address I found on the net