More silly text/gemini spec proposals

[Jason McBrayer]

solderpunk <solderpunk at SDF.ORG> writes:

>  Mostly I was just annoyed at learning that these data:// URLs exist.
> I hadn't been aware of them. And frankly...what the hell? Who thought
> it was a good idea to turn a harmless way to indicate *where* some
> data can be found into a way to shoehorn in the data itself? What are
> we supposed to use in a context where we don't want that to be a
> possibility? Bah!

On the web, they make sense as a way of inlining short content, like
icons, and avoiding a server round-trip. But obviously, they don't make
sense for Gemini, and there's no reason clients should support them.

If you want lolcats, just link to the image file. I do it all the time
in my gemlogs.

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