[gopher] Should we be mirroring Gopher sites via FTP?

[Jeff Greer]

I have added onion to gopher://faroutscience.com

I learn so much from this mail list.

tnx

On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 11:39 AM, Mr. Leveck <leveck at leveck.us> wrote:

> I pretty much saw LE as exactly that as well. It took me five minutes to
> apt-get the python script on my raspberry pi and have a cert installed, and
> cron job setup. Tested fine with lynx and firefox.
>
> Tor is very much in keeping with my disdain for the modern corporate
> datamining spy operation we call the web, and my dislike of using it. By
> the same token, it is a US Navy initiated project and there are so many
> fast nodes in Virginia (Langley? a decade ago Tor was painfully slow, like
> an idiot I used to torrent via Tor and it took forever -- ain't slow any
> more). It smacks of three letter agencies. I get that the private nodes
> existing makes it unlikely that you are entering and exiting via the
> government, and that it is still more secure and anonymous than plain-net.
> It just feels at some level like asking big brother the sit next to you
> while you duckduckgo search for a LaTeX command. The act is innocuous, yet
> no one's business.
>
> I think typing that just made me feel silly enough to install Tor tonight
> on my Arch Linux laptop and play around.  Is there a good console Tor
> browser? Everyone says that not using the Tor bundle, and using vanilla
> firefox or chrome over Tor is not as secure. Would w3m or lynx be any
> better? I suppose the tor.org/check (hopefully I remembered that right, I
> am at work) would tell me one way or the other...
>
> Got any onion links to hit on gopher you feel like sharing?
>
> --
> Leveck
>
> 17. Sep 2017 09:51 by 20h at r-36.net:
>
>
> Greetings.
>
> On Sun, 17 Sep 2017 17:51:16 +0200 "Mr. Leveck" <leveck at leveck.us> wrote:
>
> Is electron a library akin to the QT you are currently using? Gtk would be
> super sweet, just saying... I do not want to have to install a large
> portion of KDE to run a gopher client. I do applaud the notion of
> supporting TLS. There a quite a few things that have become standard in the
> past when someone took the initiative to Just Do It (TM) in the absence of
> consensus. Thank you Kim and James
>
>
> To remember people, that there is not just one »just‐do‐it« initiative,
> there’s the Gopher Onion Initiative too:
>
> gopher://bitreich.org/1/onion
>
> This initiative has already inspired more than one person to setup some
> onion service, which will make your gopherhole available in a secure and
> anonymous way.
>
> Let’s Encrypt is the death for the certification mafia and the whole
> certification system. We need to move forward.
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Christoph Lohmann
>
>
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