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Nobody Mentioned Gemini

The TechRights website is pushing the Gemini facility/protocol (much like Gopher) and I think this is an alternative technology to pay attention to as it's attracting mindshare. Most browsers don't speak gemini so you need one that does, with bollux (a bash script) preeminent. It's like using lynx or links2 to a large extent. To get it:

cd ~/my_git_tree

git clone https://tildegit.org/acdw/bollux

cd bollux

cp -p bollux bollux.sh

chmod a+x bollux.sh

man -l bollux # to read the man page

man -l bollux.conf # to read about configuration

./bollux.sh gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/02/28/gemini-ddos-protection/index.gmi

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