Comment by 🦎 bluesman
Re: "After years of using the Gemini protocol, I see only one..."
@norayr You can always pipe gemget into less.
Sep 25 · 3 weeks ago
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👾 jecxjo · Oct 02 at 01:31:
the issue i see with embedding is you are now forced into the defined method of media consumption. the choice of how to consume goes away.
As an example I like running on low power hardware as my daily driver. it was nice to be able to load videos in an mpeg format and pipe them to a player that directly decode them on my video card so there was almost no CPU. cant always do that when the browser decides the player.
🚀 stack · Oct 02 at 12:59:
There is usually a configurable subsystem that decides how to open files of different MIME types. I always forget how to do that and have to look it up.
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After years of using the Gemini protocol, I see only one significant issue in this beautiful ecosystem: its incompatible Markdown format, Gemtext. It requires constant adaptation, and I definitely can't adjust everything in large articles, such as one-line links or links with URLs in scopes. It's madness - just thoughts. Yes, you might argue that "it's for privacy," for example, to prevent the preloading of inline images. However, Gemini allows for external redirections, so why not make it...
💬 ps · 18 comments · 1 like · Sep 19 · 4 weeks ago
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