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Gemini: Antidote to the modern advertiser web

In short, I think Gemini is a better alternative to HTTPS for document exchange. For web applications I hold that HTTPS is better, but web applications are usually not about document or information exchange, at least not useful documents or informations.

=> You can find the video I made about it here.

I may do some more videos on Gemini, I don't know.

Published on 2021/01/16

Articles from blogs I follow around the net

THE REPUBLIC #4

FUNHOLE My wife isn't coming back. Should have seen that one coming. It's funny. Some jurisdictions have given themselves over completely to personalist regimes, wherein each nominal leader they've installed is said to embody their legislation …

via I'm not really Stanley Lieber. July 9, 2025

Old Computer Challenge 2025 > -- Old Tech, New Tricks

Hello and welcome to the Old Computer Challenge - 2025 Edition! This is the second year when I’m participating, and if you didn’t see my previous year’s entry, you can check the OCC24 - Party like it’s 2004 article, although it’s not mandatory. Since last …

via andrei.xyz July 9, 2025

My Apple iBook G4 - hardware upgrades

This is the sixth part of the “My Apple iBook G4” series of articles, and it’s all about the hardware upgrades you can do to your iBook G4 12". As you probably know by now, I bought myself an Apple iBook G4 12" laptop (1.2GHz/256/30G/Combo/APX) at …

via sizeof(cat) July 8, 2025

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