I enjoyed Visiblink's vignette about Gopherly and Geminiville.

I enjoyed Visiblink's vignette about Gopherly and Geminiville.

gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/0/~visiblink/phlog/20210716a

I just wanted to add that my own gopher use/participation has waxed
and waned since I've been using it (I started my phlog at SDF in
2009), and I'm not worried that gemini or some other protocol will
somehow eclipse gopher. These things are cyclic and I'm sure there
will be another surge in gopher use at some point, and maybe even a
corresponding decrease in gemini use as the newness wears off.

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For graphical gopher browsing, I've been enjoying Pale Moon. It's a
fork of Firefox but using the old network architecture, before
Mozilla made changes that broke OverbiteFF. So that plugin works
with a small modification to the RDF file in the XPI installer. The
change is very simple - unzip the XPI installer into a temporary
directory, and add this snippet in the 'install.rdf' file (you'll
see similar blocks for Firefox and Seamonkey at the top of the file,
just add this below those), then zip everything back up and install
the newly formed XPI in Pale Moon by just opening it with the File
menu.


<em:targetApplication>
<Description>
<em:id>{8de7fcbb-c55c-4fbe-bfc5-fc555c87dbc4}</em:id>
<em:minVersion>25.*</em:minVersion>
<em:maxVersion>30.*</em:maxVersion>
</Description>
</em:targetApplication>

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Some personal good news: My wife's Canadian citizenship application
has been fully processed and approved, as of today. We're just
waiting for her oath ceremony, which will be virtual. The
application process itself has taken almost two years, with major
delays due to the pandemic. As anyone who has been through similar
processes knows, it's a huge relief to finally know when it's over,
as you never know what is really happening behind the scenes and
what surprises the government might throw at you.