[off-topic] [tech] talkat

[mbays]

Apologies to those who already saw my glogposts on this. Nothing much 
new here.

I've been thinking for a while that it should be possible to repeat 
Gemini's trick of updating a classic protocol (gopher) to take into 
account the realities of the modern internet -- its international 
character, meaning unicode support is essential, and mass surveillance, 
meaning solid encryption and authentication are also necessary -- while 
aiming for maximal simplicity, and keeping it inextensible to avoid the 
potential for future complexity.

A couple of months ago, I realised that unix talk would make a great 
candidate for this kind of update, and now I've completed my attempt at 
that. Like gemini, it consists of little more than TLS+UTF8.

=> gemini://gemini.thegonz.net/talkat/spec.gmi Spec
=> gemini://gemini.thegonz.net/htalkat/ Implementation in Haskell

Maybe people here could be interested in playing with it, picking holes 
in it, or even writing their own implementations. All would be welcome!

Meanwhile, any thoughts on what else could do with geminification?
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