Hello all,

I was looking at easy ways to browse random gemini or gopher links.
There are a number of sites like fumble around, discogem and the like.
Then I found this post: 

http://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20240322-0.gmi
The user is pulling in capsules from kennedy, randomising the list and browsing the top 10 or
50 etc.
Could something like this be done better with offpunk and tours?

My thought was have a function called random. You enter like random 10,
random 50 etc and it pulls data from kennedy or lupa for gemini and  other sites for gopher. Puts
X randoms on your tour list. Once you have viewed them they are added
to a list not to put on random again.

thoughts? 

Dylan

One other thing to include the small web on http. There is https://kagi.com/smallweb/

Dylan

On Fri Nov 29, 2024 at 3:20 PM AEDT, Dylan D'Silva wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I was looking at easy ways to browse random gemini or gopher links.
> There are a number of sites like fumble around, discogem and the like.
> Then I found this post: 
>
> http://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20240322-0.gmi
> The user is pulling in capsules from kennedy, randomising the list and browsing the top 10 or
> 50 etc.
> Could something like this be done better with offpunk and tours?
>
> My thought was have a function called random. You enter like random 10,
> random 50 etc and it pulls data from kennedy or lupa for gemini and  other sites for gopher. Puts
> X randoms on your tour list. Once you have viewed them they are added
> to a list not to put on random again.
>
> thoughts? 
>
> Dylan

Le 24 nov 29 03:20, Dylan D'Silva a écrit :
>Hello all,
>
>I was looking at easy ways to browse random gemini or gopher links.
>There are a number of sites like fumble around, discogem and the like.
>Then I found this post:
>
>http://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20240322-0.gmi
>The user is pulling in capsules from kennedy, randomising the list and browsing the top 10 or
>50 etc.
>Could something like this be done better with offpunk and tours?
>
>My thought was have a function called random. You enter like random 10,
>random 50 etc and it pulls data from kennedy or lupa for gemini and  other sites for gopher. Puts
>X randoms on your tour list. Once you have viewed them they are added
>to a list not to put on random again.
>
>thoughts?

I think that there are already gemini capsule providing link to random 
capsules. Wouldn’t it better to simply make a bookmark to those ?


I’m not a against a "random X" function that will allows you to randomly 
tour X gemini capsules (and "random web X" for the small web part) but I 
see little use myself for it and think it would be better server on an 
exeternal ressource.

On Fri Nov 29, 2024 at 9:08 AM CET, Ploum wrote:
 
> [I] think it would be better server on an exeternal ressource.

Yeah, since the tour list is just a file with links, you can create a random.sh
script that will fetch the random links and write the tour file

That is a good idea. I'll do that.

Thanks
Dylan

On Sat Nov 30, 2024 at 7:45 AM AEDT, Matthieu Rakotojaona wrote:
> On Fri Nov 29, 2024 at 9:08 AM CET, Ploum wrote:
>  
> > [I] think it would be better server on an exeternal ressource.
>
> Yeah, since the tour list is just a file with links, you can create a random.sh
> script that will fetch the random links and write the tour file

Le 24 nov 29 09:45, Matthieu Rakotojaona a écrit :
>On Fri Nov 29, 2024 at 9:08 AM CET, Ploum wrote:
>
>> [I] think it would be better server on an exeternal ressource.
>
>Yeah, since the tour list is just a file with links, you can create a random.sh
>script that will fetch the random links and write the tour file

That’s a very good idea! 

And I will go further: thanks to the newly implemented "alias", you can 
integrate it your offpunk:

alias random !~/myscripts/random.sh


And voilà, you now have your own random function in offpunk!

(the "!" allows to launch shell commands from within offpunk)


Commands can also be placed in XDG_CONFIG/offpunk/offpunkrc to be 
launched at every startup.