# Gemini Links 19/09/2026: The Fundamental Human Assets, The History of Gopher's "i" Type, and ROOPHLOCH 2026 > Source: > Published: 2026-09-19 15:46:00+00:00 # Gemini Links 19/09/2026: The Fundamental Human Assets, The History of Gopher's "i" Type, and ROOPHLOCH 2026 ### Contents - ### Gemini* and Gopher - ### Personal/Opinions - [comfort](gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/comfort) ``` comfort is your hand in the dark slightly touching mine you whisper sweet secrets in my ear and worry leaves my body in a blink comfort is your hand in the dark tightly holding mine ``` - [Hiking near Bojinj](gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2026-09-17-bohinj)Today we needed to move out from the hotel in Kranjska Gora at 10:00 and couldn't move into the hotel in Bled until 15:00. Plus the weather forecast said it would rain all day. So what we did was drive past Bled to lake Bojinj and we went for a small walk along the lake, in the rain. Then we had coffee and lunch and desert and drove back to the hotel. - [The Fundamental Human Assets](gemini://www.fosskers.ca/assets.gmi)A certain experience from some years ago wrenched me from a trance I had caught myself in. In shock I wandered the arid back hills of my father's community, and the ideas written here came to me over the course of that walk as I gazed down at the Okanagan Lakes. I think the pain granted me momentary clarity. I realized that we have confused the Moon for its reflection, the thing itself for its abstraction, actual possession for Money its proxy. - - ### Technology and Free Software - [Not happy with Dario's AI slow down proposal](gemini://gemini.clehaxze.tw/gemlog/2026/09-13-not-happy-with-darios-ai-slowdown-proposal.gmi)Dario (CEO of Anthropic) released on his bolog today (my time) that he thinks AI development should be slowed down. FINALLY! My P(doom) is finally going down a tad bit. But reading the blog made me immidatelly down a can of beer and maybe a few shots of vodka when I am done writing this. - [Things I Refuse to Automate](gemini://sava.rocks/blog/things-i-refuse-to-automate/)If something else starts making infrastructure decisions without asking me, I'm taking its keyboard and permissions away. - [Cardputer preparations](gemini://kunulo.smol.pub/2026-09-18-cardputer)I spent quite a bit of yesterday on the road: an elderly relative who lives some distance away is in hospital and the ward gave us a urgent call, prompting an unscheduled journey. Several hings had to get "bumped", but this kind of need should always take priority imho.Perhaps I'm getting old, or maybe I'm just tired, but I found that it took more out of me than it might have. The upshot is that I haven't felt like doing much today, presenting me with an excuse to play around with my Pi4 and the SDF server. - ### Internet/Gemini - [The History of Gopher's "i" Type](gemini://mozz.us/journal/2021-05-27.gmi)The "i" type is probably most pivotal contribution to the gopher protocol made from outside of the original UMN gopher team. The "i" type allows plain text to mingle alongside links to files in gopher directories. It transforms a gopher directory from what was originally a "bag-of-links" style listing ala FTP into a true hypertext document. The "i" type is now ubiquitous in modern gopherspace and is an absolute minimum requirement for any new gopher client. - [Gopher history question: when and how was the non-standard 'i' prefix added for info text in menus?](gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/s/gopher/48638)Out of curiosity I fired up some really old web browsers to see how they presented gopher menus, and while Netscape 4.8 did just fine, Mosaic 3 treated every 'i' line as an unknown-type link. - [Another beginning](gemini://wilcosky.smol.pub/another-beginning)Hello, I'm Billy Wilcosky. I live near Atlanta, GA, US. This is my first post for consumption via the Gemini Protocol. Another beginning... I'll use this first post to talk about what let me to this point. I grew up in a middle class family. Mom, Dad, Grandma, and three older sisters lived with me. I'm the youngest and only son. Since my sisters were older than me and into different things I was alone a lot. Plus we moved a lot. It was hard to make and keep friends. That, in part, might have contributed to why I enjoy the Internet so much. You can communicate with people throughout the world instantly. Plus, you can create things and share them with people throughout the world. - [ROOPHLOCH 2026: @Brand Park](gopher://sdf.org:70/1/users/xiled/phlog/2026/20260918_rphlch_bp)At Brand Park over by the baseball diamonds. Got the TANK05. I was walking for a bit earlier and I saw an elderly couple doing their daily walk. The woman had her arms raised like creepy werewolf lady and was trying to scare Mr. Coyote. Mr. Coyote just walked around her. She kept following doing some squawking noize. Mr. Coyote just kept on, keeping distance from the squwaky lady. I was entertained. - - - ### Programming - [Progress update on generating slide rule scales using GIMP Scheme interpreter](gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20260918-0.gmi)I've continued to work on this during an occasional lunch break here and there. The basic approach I'm taking is to start with a set of equally spaced points on the number line from 0 to 1. [...] I am intending to release all the code for this project on codeberg, under a GPLv3 or later license. - - * [Gemini (Primer)](https://techrights.org/gemini) links can be opened using [Gemini software](https://geminiprotocol.net/software/). It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter.