Nate

https://nate.mecca1.net/

Random person on the internet. I sometimes blog or work on projects I might talk about here.

Public Key

npub1jy90jpcdl447ae3lp4924s65khdpvnttkg7fepmvmafycusyueksrvllx9

NIP-05 Address

nate@nate.mecca1.net

Profile Code

nprofile1qqsfzzhequxl66lwucls6j42cd2ttkskf44my0yusakd75jvwgzwvmgpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduqs6amnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0ds5wn3de

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relay.damus.io

nos.lol

Author Public Key

npub1jy90jpcdl447ae3lp4924s65khdpvnttkg7fepmvmafycusyueksrvllx9

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2026-03-30 17:14:08 UTC

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On Android using Amber
https://cdn.hzrd149.com/f4824e00b1105642b9514bf7234625269b6016ba31bcd5d7bcae5928b9c1ec8d.jpeg https://cdn.hzrd149.com/24cf28ce558026b6d9ccd55d01fa9112cd1510531e79a9e5983b6b3e3dbb6f80.jpeg
It lets me sign in just fine, but forever reason whenever I go to do something join a community it prompts me to login.

2026-03-30 14:52:52 UTC

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Are there any known issues with bunker sign ins? I look to be signed in, but actions (e.g. subscribing to a community) just prompt me to login.

2026-03-29 00:07:10 UTC

Also just won a game of quake. Webdx is cool.
https://blossom.ditto.pub/d8c8b7c0eae61342154f3fdf458c6a5baa859b5f15dc38b8b5651ccb56b906fc.png
#nevent1q…ervl

2026-03-28 23:55:05 UTC

https://blossom.ditto.pub/b82eac147785c4f173e42f6ab6d129a0b9603c0d065554bf554e2a558bb012b9.jpeg
Made it to the top 10 on the Ditto Dino game

2026-03-27 11:44:29 UTC

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Devuan might be worth looking into. It's Debian based, but free of SystemD.

2026-03-26 21:12:28 UTC

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Out if curiosity, are these standard Nostr communities or something new? Looks like a neat project.

2026-03-26 16:24:04 UTC

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I meant to say "Shavian is cool, I tried to learn it a while back but cheated with a tool here."

2026-03-26 15:24:41 UTC

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𐑖𐑱𐑝𐑰𐑩𐑯 𐑦𐑟 𐑒𐑵𐑤 𐑯 𐑲 𐑑𐑮𐑲𐑛 𐑑 𐑤𐑼𐑮𐑯 𐑦𐑑 𐑱 𐑢𐑲𐑤 𐑚𐑨𐑒 𐑞𐑴 𐑲 𐑗𐑰𐑑𐑦𐑛 𐑢𐑦𐑞 𐑱 𐑑𐑵𐑤 𐑣𐑽
Also, lol, Amythest keeps deleting my message. I don't think it likes those characters.

2026-03-24 21:57:01 UTC

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Is cereal a soup?
If not, why?

2026-03-24 01:43:36 UTC

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https://bookstr.xyz/ might be what you're looking for.
And I think ditto.pub is also implementing some of the same features

2026-03-23 22:07:19 UTC

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Out of curiosity, what's an behind the decision to use Wikipedia and Archive.org instead of being able to comment on any URL?

2026-03-21 17:07:52 UTC

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Private social media - Facebook style posts for semi private communication with friends (lol I know "Facebook" and "Private" in the same sentence is a bit of an oxymoron lol).

2026-03-21 16:59:45 UTC

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I *think* (assuming courts don't strike the laws down, which I hope they do) the laws mostly focus on companies. If Zapstore and GrapheneOS are outside jurisdictions that require it, and somebody in a restricted jurisdiction get their hands on it one way or another, nobody's going to jail.
Which is good, since I'm in NY and there's an even more restrictive bill than California already in the works. Props to people who'd flaunt the laws, but I'm not going to jail or getting saddled with more debt in fines than I'll make in my life for software.
But again, fingers crossed they're struck down in the US. If a lower court already struck down a much less restrictive Texas law, maybe there's some hope for that at least.

2026-03-15 22:27:22 UTC

Well, I might have just had a 'productive' all night gaming session followed by sleeping into 4PM. Got called to do a set of 9PM-9AM shifts, because of some rather high winds, at the local power company I recently started working at. Wish me luck.

2026-03-10 23:27:37 UTC

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Definitely something I'd consider (joining at least, hosting services without verifing users in my home state of NY is likely going to come with a 10k per user fine in a bit)

2026-03-08 19:53:21 UTC

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Scratch that on sharing it in NIP-23 form. Habla won't accept a post over 65,000 bytes, I can't seem to log into Yakihonne via Amber, and clicking publish on Primal does nothing.

2026-03-08 19:18:09 UTC

Made a revised version of my older social media protocol comparison post
https://nate.mecca1.net/posts/2026-03-08_microblogging-protocols-v3/
And a meme to go along with it:
https://nate.mecca1.net/img/protocol-meme-4.mp4
I'll also share as a NIP-23 Nostr post in a few moments.
#blog #blogstr #nostr #activitypub #bluesky #meme

2026-03-08 16:50:51 UTC

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In my experience as a non-engineer with very mild development experience, when I toy with AI it has the feeling of a skill multiplier. With a skill of 0.1 I can give it instructions (eg comply with these NIPs, keep it all local within the browser using web storage, etc) doing way more than I could have on my own. Multiplying a skill of zero, though ("dear AI: build this thing on your own without oversight") makes for a broken mess of incompatibility and unnecessary (and probably insecure) back-ends.

2026-03-07 20:59:06 UTC

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I seem to have run into an issue where the color picker on themes pops up behind the theme editor, is anyone seeing that? Seems to do that on all my browsers (Brave/Librewolf & Desktop/Mobile), but can't rule out jank on my own setup.
https://blossom.ditto.pub/7351a90d30a7ac4f1de546eb8383caaa907cfdd3db502f1ae4d87f06f88de72e.jpeg

2026-03-04 16:55:11 UTC

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I use ncmpcpp for music in Termux.
Also, Emacs (or your favorite text text editor) when docked to a screen is real nice.

2026-03-03 12:44:12 UTC

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I used Librewolf for a while until the memory leaks got to me, now I mostly use Brave. Not sure if MAC would have the same Gecko issues though, Firefox/Librewolf might be worth a shot. Vivaldi is also cool, it's a bit more suite-like than my liking, but it's more of a preference thing than a knock against the browser.

2026-03-02 12:27:38 UTC

🚀
#nevent1q…wxlv
#nevent1q…4c3e
#GrapheneOS

2026-03-02 12:25:23 UTC

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I've toyed around with setting up a relay, although haven't actually setup a public one before. The Python one by DCS is exceptionally easy to setup.

2026-03-01 18:32:03 UTC

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I haven't seen much spam honestly. I keep hearing people talk about it, and assume I don't have the reach worth the attention of spammers, but I don't see any in the replies here either. Unless maybe it's just Amythest cleaning things up or something.

2026-03-01 18:23:20 UTC

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I think the Voyage client handles data well, not loading things like images/videos by default. Tried it in the past, a tad bit too minimalist for my taste (and I never browse on cellular), but has a nice charm to it.
For ram/cpu, I don't think things are all that crazy intense, unless the client is unoptimized. My Chromebook running Debian (dual core cpu that's very out of date, 1.88 gb usable RAM) runs Nostrudel. The page freezes or runs slow occasionally, but fairly rarely and usually only when loading my feed after opening the page. And that's with all the works (outbox model, nsec bunker, relay authentication, and following 100+ accounts - albeit some being inactive).
At least my observations anyway.

2026-02-28 23:21:27 UTC

@nprofile…z2n3 @nprofile…lf00 @nprofile…55kn @nprofile…2szn
Hey, random thought, if it was a useful idea figured you all would be the people to make use of it. Has there been any consideration of using Nostr for age verification?
A user verifies their age in a semi private way (say, a small credit card transaction) -> provider creates an event or badge of some kind and applies it to their profile -> the user of the profile can be assumed to be of age without needing to provide proof to relays or other services.
It wouldn't exactly be anonymous, but it'd probably be about as pseudonymous as you could get for an age verification (the npub with an age attested isn't publicly tied to any details that were used to verify it).
I know age verification isn't really in line with cypherpunk ideals, but a lot of jurisdictions are moving to require it. At some point soon everything from a Nostr relay to a GitLab server could require age verification, and as much as ignoring it now might an option, it might be good to get ahead of things and get the infrastructure for that sort of stuff in place. A verified npub or gpg key might be the least evil of all the options, and could probably be useful to verify an account for just about any small project or service (Nostr & beyond) without requiring the people verifying to pay for some external age verification service, and without requiring the people being verified to hand over their personal details to ever service.

2026-02-24 12:20:44 UTC

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IMO, I feel like Nostr and Bluesky are struggling for two different reasons - Nostr with minimal exposure and a high barrier to entry, and Bluesky because it got very heavily political captured. I'd bet there'd be a lot to learn on the Nostr side about Bluesky's easyness to join and abstraction of keys (or forgoing them for domain based accounts in some cases).

2026-02-19 15:48:36 UTC

Looks like a new bridge is being developed, supporting newsreader groups and Lemmy (plus presumably any Activity Pub Groups supported software):
https://github.com/rjolina/leNNyTP
#activitypub #lemmy #bridging

2026-02-13 23:21:17 UTC

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!!! I have no idea what I'm talking about, so take it with a grain of salt. !!!
I think publishing to Kindle Unlimited might have its benefits - readers get it for free, but you get a portion of their subscription revenue. It requires it to be exclusive to Amazon for the duration, but might be a way of bootstrapping an audience.
If you weren't planning to do Kindle Unlimited, then I'd say go wide. Amazon is a pain when it comes to reading books. No DRM free content (generally, though they may have changed slightly very recently), and good luck reading it the way you want (e.g. reading offline on Linux is impossible without running a Windows VM). It's also got a lot of people publishing on it - something like Smashwords might have less users, but it's also probably got a lot less competition.
Good luck!

2026-02-10 14:58:02 UTC

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"Ads plus AI is sort of uniquely unsettling to me," Altman said during an event at Harvard University in May 2024. "I kind of think of ads as a last resort for us for a business model."

2026-02-10 14:52:31 UTC

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No cocomelon and skibidi toilet 🥺

2026-02-10 14:51:06 UTC

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It might be a bit rough around the edges, but I'm hoping Matrix wins out on becoming the chat standard.

2026-02-08 23:16:39 UTC

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Thou offer the wisdom to rival the greatest of tomes

2026-02-04 23:33:49 UTC

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I don't know of many Orthodox books, though The Papacy and the Orthodox by A. Edward Siecienski has been on my reading list for a bit. I think it's written by an Orthodox scholar, but I'm not 100% that's the case.
The book is crazy expensive, but the NYPL gave me free web access which I downloaded for later reading. If you do consider it, check out some libraries before dumping three figures on a book.

2026-02-02 23:37:16 UTC

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Maybe I'm just misunderstanding the graph, but based on it alone it looks to me like Brexit had no effect on UK/EU GDP per capita? Everything's the same until the covid crash, then the UK remained in a lead until ~2023 when it dropped below. That's ~7 years after the referendum and ~3 years after officially leaving the EU. Unless post covid recovery due to the UK's independence is what you're referring to?

2026-01-31 21:42:48 UTC

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Amythest & Nostrudel

2026-01-30 17:57:24 UTC

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Google Bard?

2026-01-14 03:08:25 UTC

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https://i.postimg.cc/G2VCM2rM/Screenshot-20250424-024530.png

2026-01-10 02:59:11 UTC

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@nprofile…7f7k usually posts daily news

2026-01-05 19:01:04 UTC

Just finished reading Exit Strategy by Jen J. Danna. It's been on my (metaphorical) shelf for a while, I think I found it a few years ago Dollar Tree. Started reading it during a power outage the other day, and got hooked pretty fast.
A lot of books are a bit bulkier, scifi/fantasy books that have a lot of world building and really detailed plotlines. Exit Strategy has a lot "smaller" of a story for a lack of a better term (smaller stakes, humanity isn't at stake or anything, + a smaller cast of characters), and it takes probably a dozen or so pages to introduce the setting and then gets right into the main plot.
It moves quickly, in the ~300 or so pages it has a self contained story that's moves rapidly. There's not a lot of subplots and it doesn't meander too much, so it's a fairly linear story throughout the entire book that doesn't get boring. Characters seem human, not just cardboard cutouts or with crazy inhuman smarts/skills/etc. Definitely worth a read.
#bookstr

2026-01-02 03:51:50 UTC

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Of course, all the voices in my head wouldn't have it any other way.

2025-12-30 20:39:51 UTC

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I had a Nokia phone before, they've got a decent camera and are often absurdly cheap if you get one locked to your carrier. I think the one I used had an unlockable bootloader too, though no idea if the newer ones do.

2025-12-20 02:29:32 UTC

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You think a quick docker compose file with cloudflare tunnel and a relay would be something to consider as well (or, alternatively, just a bash script to install cloudflared + a relay)? Most people here are probably technical enough to do something like that, and running it on an old laptop or Raspberry Pi might be something interesting to a lot of people if it was pretty much plug and play without need of a static IP or open port.

2025-12-18 20:46:48 UTC

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Just logged into Primal, I'm seeing all your posts. It seems like that'd be an odd topic to have one off censorship on. Do you think there's a chance that they just failed to broadcast to the Primal relay, and now that people are talking about it, they've been re-broadcast? I believe you when you say they were missing earlier, but it doesn't look like anything's being actively censored (from what I can see anyway).

2025-12-17 23:30:23 UTC

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Ḡ̶̢̰̬̦͖̙̭̮̺̗͖͎̻͎̅̅̆͒͛́̿̀̉̚̕͘͝ͅo̴̧̧̨̗̺̙͇̭̩̭͖̖͙̻̺̺̮̔͋͐̓͘ǫ̷̝̬̦͈̼̲̣̥̥͗̈̊̈́͛̓̽̀̉̏̉͒̆̒̚̕ͅͅd̵̛͇̤͈̙̳̰͛̋̽̂̆̌̓͆͂̏͌͐͝ ̶̡̠͇̙̙̱̮̮̫͇̮͓̭̩̦̀̈̽̋̀̉́͜͜o̴̡̗͉̩̼͓͖̗͎̺̐̈́͊̋̀̓̑͗̒̑͝͝l̶͖̗̊̈̊̅̽͂̀̅̐̈́d̶͎̄̐̏̐̐͝ ̶̙̪̜̬̏̾́̔͌̓̂̉̽͛̊̂̓̊͝ͅz̸̳͎̣̼͎͓̝̱̫̪̬̳͇͈͇͊͜a̵̡̨̱͉͔̝̱̹̞̩̘͆̃̈͌ļ̶̝͔̲̗̙̭̯͓̖̱̑͂̓̈́͐̒̉̌̑̇̈̂̆͝ͅg̶̢̱͚̼̜̱͐̿̀͊͂̿̈̉̕̚̚ợ̷̤̦̹̯͖̖̺͇̣̞̜̤̳̤̄̔͂̆̇̑͋̆͂͂̈́̉̔͜ ̸̧̨̧̯̞̘̝̜̬͇̭̞͇̣̫͔̰́͛͒̊́͂͒͗̆͝t̵̨̨̛̘̮̳̱͈̞̦̬͙͒̈̓̀̔̆̓̚͘̚͜e̴͍͖͎̟̲̩̯̜̤͉̦̖̻̎͂̌̐̅̍͆̎͛̈́̀͐̈́͐͒x̸̯̮͂̿͋̓͜t̷̛̜̺̫̖͋̌͋͑̈̍ (good old zalgo text)

2025-12-17 04:22:56 UTC

Finished reading Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin recently, it's a really good read. At the start it feels like the writing keeps branching in unrelated ways, only to abandon the plotlines and jump to something seemingly unrelated, but it all comes together in the latter half of the book. A very interesting read with a fairly unique execution.
#bookstr

2025-12-15 03:26:32 UTC

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I personally think that Bluesky's PDSs should have remained neutral infrastructure. Before, when they were like that, you could effectively build out your own platform using Bluesky's infrastructure for hosting, kinda bootstrapping the protocol and letting anyone build a platform with the rules of their choosing.
Now that Bluesky moderates at the PDS layer AND the relay layer, and since they host the vast majority of AT Proto infrastructure, they've more or less locked the entirety of AT into Bluesky's community guidelines. (Who'd want to build a platform on AT with different guidelines, if no user of Bluesky - which is practically the entire network - could partake in said alternative AT platform?)
As far as other platforms though, I'm more agnostic on neutral PDSs - if I understand the issue with that controversy it was with Blacksy. If an alternative platform moderates at the PDS layer that's not going to effectively apply the rules to all of AT like Bluesky can. Once a protocol is more widespread individual instances of it can have a diverse set of rules, but if one instance (e.g. Bluesky Corporate) can apply it's rules to the entire network before it expands, then the protocol could be captured and prevented from expanding beyond that initial niche base that captured it.
My 2c anyway.

2025-12-15 02:36:29 UTC

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My reading kinda ebbs and flows, but I've been reading a fair but lately. Over the last month or so I've read two books in their entirety, read parts of another one or two, and re-listened to a 6 book audiobook series. A lot of times I use audiobooks and ebooks via TTS as background audio when working/gaming/driving etc.
Overall, if audiobooks count, maybe 30-50. If audiobooks (and using TTS to read some or all of an ebook) don't count then maybe 2-10 depending on the year. But just a rough guess.

2025-12-14 03:51:40 UTC

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DiVine, a Vine style shortform video app using Nostr, is in the process of being launched.

2025-12-10 14:03:57 UTC

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Read and reed ryme with lead, read and red ryme with lead.

2025-11-28 18:01:18 UTC

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Maybe if paired it with Tor/I2P's naming system, or we just copy-pasted IPs. Accounts are already DNS free (minus NIP-05), but just need a way to locate relays.

2025-11-28 15:10:52 UTC

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> But social media companies will have to compensate banks if it’s clear that they failed to remove an online scam that had been reported.
I think that's no different than the US; social media companies aren't liable for what's their users do if they moderate in good faith. But if something is reported and then if they fail to remove it, or they otherwise know about problematic content and don't remove it, they become liable.

2025-11-26 22:47:26 UTC

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> using the TSA airport security check as analogy
So security theater that greatly disadvantages your everyday person while failing to actually stop the bad people?
https://www.flyertalk.com/articles/dhs-tsa-failed-95-of-undercover-weapon-smuggling-trials-acting-administrator-immediately-reassigned.html

2025-11-25 01:58:56 UTC

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(7/7) And then finally some misc. photos. The first three are AI sky swaps, using a Milky Way photo of mine on top of a few of my other photos:
Some AI Sky swaps, combining my Milky Way photo with some other landscape photos:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/edit/11.avif
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/edit/10.avif
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/edit/09.avif
As well as some fireworks from the fourth of July '25
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/buildings/38.avif
And a photo from a flip phone:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/flipphone/11.avif

2025-11-25 01:57:03 UTC

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(6/7) Plus some B&W + Sepia Photos:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/desat/15.avif
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/desat/14.avif
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/desat/13.avif
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/desat/12.avif
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/desat/11.avif

2025-11-25 01:55:40 UTC

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(5/7) Beyond that, I also got a bunch of film photos developed recently:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/film/69.avif
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/film/68.avif
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/film/67.avif
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/film/66.avif
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/film/65.avif
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/film/64.avif
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/film/63.avif
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/film/62.avif
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/film/61.avif
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/film/60.avif
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/film/59.avif
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/film/58.avif
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/film/57.avif
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/film/56.avif
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/film/55.avif
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/film/54.avif
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/film/53.avif
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/film/52.avif

2025-11-25 01:54:42 UTC

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(4/7 - oops, I can't count) And some photos of individual subjects/objects:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/portraits/53.avif
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/portraits/52.avif
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/portraits/51.avif
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/portraits/50.avif
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/portraits/49.avif
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/portraits/48.avif
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/portraits/47.avif
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/portraits/46.avif

2025-11-25 01:52:33 UTC

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(3/6) As well as a few of water photos:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/wny-water/72.avif
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/wny-water/71.avif
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/wny-water/70.avif
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/wny-water/69.avif
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/wny-water/68.avif

2025-11-25 01:51:35 UTC

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(2/6) Had a bunch of landscape photos:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/wny-landscapes/44.avif
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/wny-landscapes/43.avif
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/wny-landscapes/42.avif
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/wny-landscapes/41.avif
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/wny-landscapes/40.avif
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/wny-landscapes/39.avif
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/wny-landscapes/38.avif
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/wny-landscapes/37.avif
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/buildings/39.avif

2025-11-25 01:49:48 UTC

Added a bunch of photos to my photos page on my site, been a bit so I had quite a few to add.
https://nate.mecca1.net/photos/
Going to make a 🧵 here below with most of the photos I added. Fingers crossed relays don't block me for having a whole bunch of links to images.
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#photos #photography #film

2025-11-21 22:54:39 UTC

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I have coreboot on a Chromebook running Debian, but that's more so just because I needed a real bootloader than me seeking out coreboot. I've never had coreboot on a device that had a functional bootloader by default.

2025-11-21 20:06:41 UTC

Big pay at KeyOpp real estate.
https://image.nostr.build/98fc188947f15eb63db33c03e7711c56f6345df3501e00db7d58e593e7109724.png
https://image.nostr.build/2212e4999710a65c169d876d54def83234410cc932bd4d441661c2ad8bbd2a65.png

2025-11-21 20:03:02 UTC

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I certainly prefer it, although I sometimes go with legacy BIOS on PC since I'm lazy and don't feel like dealing with graphics drivers shenanigans. A locked bootlocker on my phone though (as apposed to my laptop that is only ever at home or a workplace) feels more non negotiable to me. My 2c anyways.

2025-11-20 22:23:28 UTC

The games industry's self-induced traumatic brain injury
https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/17/stop-killing-games-again/
"No matter the reason, there is nothing good about the games industry's decades-long project of erasing its own past. It's bad for gamers, it's bad for game developers, and it's bad for games. No art form can exist in a permanent, atemporal now, with its history erased as quickly as it's created."

2025-11-19 03:37:22 UTC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTdOBjph-4s
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/11/android-developer-verification-early.html
I don't know exactly what the "advanced flow" to install 'unverified' software is going to look like, but Google backtracking on requiring their approval to install apps on your phone is certainly a good thing to hear.
I'm sure they're going to make some sort of really inconvenient hoop to jump through, but I guess just about anything is better than outright preventing it.
As always, though, it's a good time to de-Google you're phone if that's something you'd be up to. It puts a nice little buffer in between you and Google's shenanigans. It's rather nice to be able to treat my phone as ... *checks notes* ... my phone.

2025-11-13 21:47:32 UTC

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https://nostrhub.io/naddr1qvzqqqrcvypzpyg2lyrsmlttamnr7r224tp4fdw6zexkhv3unjrkeh6jf3eqfendqyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnswf5k6ctv9ehx2aqqqan8yetwwd68y7wsn6f
I've been on and off toying around with something along those lines. It's a bit tricky (especially for me, who's not a good dev), everything on Nostr is just yeeted everywhere.
Seems like you either need to do encrypted messages like the old DMs, or just do the simple dumb method of trusting relays to only hand off events to people they're supposed to. I'm sure if somebody who knew what they were doing could get something better up and running.

2025-11-06 23:30:38 UTC

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I usually do 9 & 3 when I've got both hands on the wheel, though a lot of times I drive one handed.

2025-11-06 00:45:52 UTC

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No, unfortunately what I can tell manually approving things is pretty much baked into the NIP. Though could be missing something.

2025-11-04 05:18:20 UTC

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It sounds like they won't, but I don't know why, or even for sure they won't. But assuming they dont, best guess is Google wants to KYC devs individually and won't give the okay for F droid to compile apps in bulk.

2025-11-03 23:20:39 UTC

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Thanks for the share, though I was curious about trying to auto approve posts on community groups rather than on relays.

2025-11-03 23:18:37 UTC

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Zapstore, IIRC, distrubutes apks that were signed by the dev (either directly uploaded to the Zapstore or just yoinked from GitHub) - it shouldn't matter whether Google signed the dev's keys or not.
Though I'm not a fan of Google's power grab, it shouldn't effect alternative app stores. It only really effects whether devs themselves can sign apps with a Google approved key. If you're not on a Google certified device (e.g. GrapheneOS) you'll be able to install any app anyway (Google approved or otherwise). If you are on a Google certified device, as long as the person compiling the app had their key approved by Google, you can install that apk from anywhere.
The only store I think it effects is F-Droid. They're insistent on compiling apps themselves, instead of following the standard Android security model and having the dev compile the app. If neither Google or F-droid reverse course F-droid will break on certified Android devices, but otherwise as far as I know everything else should continue as usual.

2025-11-03 18:59:54 UTC

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How would I do that? There doesn't seem to be a way in most clients, and I just tried that on Chorus which adds a user as a member, but doesn't actually approve their posts automatically. It shows up as approved in Chorus but all other clients list posts from Chorus members in the mod queue.

2025-11-03 18:42:07 UTC

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Thanks, yeah I'm referring to NIP 72. Amythest supports it too, but by default both Amythest and Chorus only show annually approved posts by admins/mods AFAIK. I'm more curious is there's a way around needing to manually approve things, since that sounds like a pretty big commitment to micromanage a community like that.

2025-11-03 01:57:51 UTC

How exactly do Nostr communities work? From the looks of it, if I create a community, I (or people I set as mods) would need to manually approve every single post.
Is there an alternative - be it automatically allowing posts, using WoT, pre-approving people, or some third party bot that auto approves some/all posts?
Or am I just misunderstanding how the modlog works in communities?
#asknostr

2025-11-01 02:38:55 UTC

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Puts are also safer than a short. A short has potentially infinite losses, the worst you can lose on a put is the fee you paid up front.

2025-11-01 02:37:42 UTC

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I think that's a put, you can pay a fee to be able to sell a stock at current price before a set date of your choosing. If it goes from say 5$ to 1$, you can buy it at 1$ and sell it for 5$, making $4 per stock minus the fees you paid (the longer period in the option the higher the fee).

2025-10-25 17:50:44 UTC

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I'm working on a story that's ongoing. Though I'm not sure if it's quite you'd be looking for - it's free to read and not quite structured like a standard book (I'm just sharing one chapter at a time). But I'll probably still be adding chapters in a year from now.
Either way, good luck with your release.
https://untitlednovel.dns7.top/contents/
#naddr1qq…fhrc

2025-10-21 20:11:48 UTC

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I've really come to appreciate the simplicity of my ebike and motorcycle. Both are super simple and easy to work on, and parts (first and third party) are super easy to swap out. While the ebike is probably more "computer" than most cars, the controller could be swapped out by unplugging a couple wires (replacing it with a completely different controller if I wanted).
Way better than hooking a code reader to my car or popping the hood - which especially is nice since despite what my post makes it sound, I'm not very good at working on mechanical things.

2025-10-20 21:47:01 UTC

Piece of life advice: a credit card solves most problems - including shoving one in between brake pads that are stuck together.

2025-10-15 02:15:02 UTC

I'm gonna make a blind guess and say Motorola. They're probably getting desperate to stay relevant, but they've got size and decent quality phones.
No matter who, it'd be cool to have more supported devices (as long as Pixels don't get dropped in favor of a device with poorer specs).
#nevent1q…th0u

2025-10-10 21:51:27 UTC

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Is cereal a soup? If not, explain.

2025-10-05 21:06:46 UTC

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Depends on definitions. I could forsee a lot of otherwise centralized platforms adopting decentralized protocols - along the lines of Threads adopting ActivityPub or banks utilizing stable coins.
I doubt most people will ever be managing keys, just like most people will probably never be changing their car's oil. But they might very well be using a service that uses decentralized systems under the hood, and would work with people who are using the systems directly.
The only way I'd expect to see a huge bump in people doing this directly is if countries end up completely debasing their currencies or if they completely lock down social media - then there might be a big bump in users in those particular nations.
My 2c anyway

2025-10-04 22:25:57 UTC

I'm accepting applications for my newly formed biker gang, we'll ride around and annoy people by talking about protocols and operating systems.
#nevent1q…h7qv

2025-10-04 22:24:52 UTC

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Sounds neat, what kind if fish do you have?
Also as to what I've been up to - probably a bit ironic to reply to someone with the last name of Harley - I bought a motorcycle.

2025-10-03 21:44:37 UTC

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https://nate.mecca1.net/img/protocol-meme.mp4

2025-09-23 14:39:00 UTC

On a similar note, Hamburg NY's continued failure to paint their water tower to look like a giant hamburger - as they voted to do years ago - is also up there.
#nevent1q…8vpz

2025-09-23 14:35:47 UTC

Sorry to get political, but New York's refusal to use an Oxford comma is unforgivable.

2025-09-15 19:24:24 UTC

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Honestly, outside of signing my name, it's probably been a decade - and never for anything outside of school. I can still read cursive (albeit slowly), but I don't even remember all the letters off the top of my head and probably couldn't write a paragraph in it without consulting a letter guide.

2025-09-15 19:21:21 UTC

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I just recently looked at a house with a plant in it. Unfortunately, it was not potted.

2025-09-15 19:18:59 UTC

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I always enjoy a good video essay, and it's probably a bit of a different niche that'd reach a different audience (+ more likely to be picked up in a social algo). Though it'd probably take a bunch of extra work scripting and editing to convey approximately the same information as a podcast would.
Also, I'd assume that few who doesn't make a hobby out of tech would find protocols interesting - but might find the benefits of a protocol interesting if it's slightly abstracted from explaining how things work under the hood.
That said, I've never done a podcast or made a long form video essay, so don't put too much stock in my 2c.

2025-09-12 18:31:28 UTC

The future is now
#nevent1q…ucyj

2025-09-11 14:13:36 UTC

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Though honestly, usually I'd be the one to compliment Microsoft on their Saas. It's *usually* very reliable, and trusted to operate a lot of important systems. But I guess nothings free of jank.

2025-09-11 14:10:41 UTC

Lol, I swear, last night I was checking out some photos on my chomebook-turned-into-a-standard-laptop and wanted to transfer them to my main computer. There were a fair amount of them, and I didn't want to take up more of my limited space in proton drive, so I thought:
"Hey, might as well use Onedrive. I don't have any files there, so I got like 15gb to spare, and it's not like the photos contain anything I'd care about encrypting (I'll probably post some of my favorites here and on my blog) so no worries about privacy or the lack thereof."
The page wouldn't load, so I figured it was probably something on my end. Tried again this morning and it's still down, turns out they've been down for a bit now. Google nuked peoples drives accidentally not that long ago, and now MS is been down for probably nearly a day. I guess moral of the story, big tech isn't jank free. Syncthing, Proton, and my (no longer existing) Nextcloud installation all are *yet* to have any extended unavailability or data loss.

2025-09-09 22:55:39 UTC

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Speaking of it - reading through some of their articles, looks like they would up covering recorded music.
https://newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/when-hollywood-union-members-embraced

2025-09-09 22:28:26 UTC

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Looks like a fun read.
Also, reminds me about reading about the backlash and congressional hearings about recorded music. Many of the arguments were not that different from LLMs now over a century later. That darned mechanical canned music that was putting sheet music makers out of business.

2025-09-09 19:27:17 UTC

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I2Pd, a C++ implemented of I2P, is BSD if that'd help.
https://github.com/PurpleI2P/i2pd

2025-09-05 17:53:24 UTC

#nevent1q…muvz
#nevent1q…9udt
Random goodies you might find handy. Plus a password manager, I forgot about that.

2025-09-05 17:48:32 UTC

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* A good browser - Fennec, Brave, Vandium, etc. Something that works with PWAs while blocking ads and minimizing tracking. Most apps can be replaced with a web version.
* A maps app, Organic Maps or OsmAnd work great
* A media player like VLC if you're switching away from something like Spotify or regularly download audio/video from Youtube
* A notes app. I like Joplin for its sync feature, but other tools like Markor, Notally, and Simple notes are all good.
* An RSS reader, its great for following accounts across platforms and beats out most dedicated apps. Read You + Fresh RSS goes great, but Feeder works great too (& has Nostr article support)
* A YT client like NewPipe or Grayjay if you watch/listen to YT on your device
* Some form of cloud storage/sync - be it Proton Drive, Syncthing, Nextcloud, or something else
* Basic offline tools - equate (unit conversion) tape measure, tasks (to do reminders), trail sense (outdoor oriented tools), pocketpal (local llms), Snapseed (photo editor - by Google but runs offline with no G services needed), TTSutil (text to speech or audio file tool)
* Messaging apps - I use Beeper (for Google chat) and Signal because that's what family uses, it'll vary depending on what you need
* App stores - Aurora, F-Droid, Acresent, Zap Store, Obtanium - take your pick
* Termux or the integrated Linux terminal if you want to run CLI software
* Games, there's plenty of foss games to kill time with. A few recommendations: Anuto TD, SuperTuxKart, Unciv, Endless Sky, Tri Peaks, Solitaire, Domination, emulators.
* An ebook reader (I use Librera) + optionally a TTS engine
* And since we're on Nostr: Nostr clients/tools, proxies (vpns, orbot, Tor Browser, I2P), and/or crypto wallets depending on what you're personally looking for.

2025-08-28 17:31:34 UTC

RIP to my tomato and pepper plants. They survived last winter after I brought them inside, giving me a few tomatoes and peppers mid winter, but I'm moving and they're not going to be surviving that.

2025-08-24 00:32:30 UTC

Random pro tip, pocket notebooks are really handy. They don't actually need to be kept in your pocket, if you regularly carry a backpack or purse/manbag you can toss it in there.
I use my phone for reminders/alarms, and Joplin for syncing long form notes and more reference sort of stuff, but a notebook feels more 'accessible' (for a lack of a better term) and it's easier to flip through a notebook of random stuff than to scroll through an unorganized notes app. For me, I also feel a little more mentally organized having things written out over being typed up. Life's been busy, and having one on hand seems to have helped preserve a bit of sanity.