Gopher on an Amazon Swindle [28 Sep 2019]

As the deadline of ROOPHLOCH '19 [1] approaches, I have been looking into ways
to go minimalist and mobile with gopher posting.

I have two Amazon Swindles [2]. I use one of them almost daily, but I have never
registered it or paid for books to read on it. I use it mostly to read longer
articles that I convert to .mobi format to read offline, and for reading books
that I have "found", either in the public domain or on file sharing sites.

The other one is an Amazon "Touch" Swindle, which was given to me by my sister,
but which I have no use for. Until today.....

After much perusal of online tutorials about "jailbreaking" or "rooting"
Swindles, I found a method that worked. I installed the jailbreak .bin, along
with the KUAL plugin launcher and the MRPI package installer. I also grabbed a
terminal application called "kterm", which is very similar to xterm, the USB
network .bin, and the elinks browser.

After several system restarts, I was up and running. Elinks worked flawlessly on
kterm to surf sites that are still using the complex, bloated "html" protocol. I
also grabbed a program called "Skipstone", which allows one to browse html sites
even more slowly, with Javascript and images.

Anyway, I was able to visit gopher sites via ssh at sdf, using kterm. I could
also view them through the floodgap proxy while using the Skipstone browser.

As far as I know, elinks is not able to use the gopher protocol. If anyone knows
of a hack or work-around for this, please let me know.

I would prefer to use Lynx on kterm as a gopher client, but I have not been able
a version of it that has been ported to Swindle.

In the meantime, I can ssh into sdf, or into my personal server, and use Lynx,
or VF1 from there.

I am able to edit my gopher sites on the road, in the park, or from the treetops
with my jailbreaked Swindle, and that is the main thing. Hopefully, I will be
able to get a remote post up in time for the ROOPHLOCH '19 cut-off on Monday.

Happy gophering!

[1] gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space:70/0/~solderpunk/phlog/announcing-roophloch-2019.txt
[2] https://stallman.org/amazon.html