Nostr notes by Andy Baio

Razor 1911 made a PC demo for Revision 2026 that's a ...

2026-04-07T00:03:23Z

Razor 1911 made a PC demo for Revision 2026 that's a whirlwind retrospective of the group, touching on a lot of warez/art/demoscene tech, tools, and history since they started in 1985. It won the PC Demo category and clearly earned it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AnbYNudAyM

20 years ago today. ...

2026-03-21T17:51:19Z

20 years ago today.

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2025-12-24T18:25:50Z

open a terminal and type `ssh tiny.christmas`

Hands-on reviews of the new Commodore 64 Ultimate are starting to ...

2025-12-16T18:46:51Z

Hands-on reviews of the new Commodore 64 Ultimate are starting to come in, and I'm suddenly feeling VERY good about my preorder. It consolidates every great homebrew hardware improvement for the C64 into one machine. Even the packaging is well done, a faithful update to the original. https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/commodore-64-ultimate-review

I knew scammers were ripping off @npub1f6w…7940's ...

2025-12-10T17:59:37Z

I knew scammers were ripping off Simone Giertz (npub1f6w…7940)'s delightful edge-piece jigsaw puzzles with cheap low-quality bootlegs, but I just saw a new low on TikTok: I got an ad using *her stolen video* to advertise their knockoff. When you click the "Shop Now" link, it goes to their store with the near-identical fake minus the Yetch branding.

"We are so hungry for conflict that we turn something as ...

2025-11-16T19:32:20Z

"We are so hungry for conflict that we turn something as boring as Wikipedia into a part of the culture war." If you saw that clip of Jimmy Wales walking out of an interview, or just care at all about Wikipedia, Hank Green (npub10r0…ecmc) provides some useful context. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zi0ogvPfCA

for a time, calculators in the shape of floppy disks were a ...

2025-10-24T23:39:16Z

for a time, calculators in the shape of floppy disks were a popular promotional item

I have a folder in my feedreader for infrequently-updated feeds. ...

2025-10-22T18:07:48Z

I have a folder in my feedreader for infrequently-updated feeds. Occasionally, one wakes up from a long nap and surprises me. Today, I saw Johanna Beyenbach posted to her Blogspot for the first time since September 2013. Yet another reason why I love RSS. https://tokyohanna.blogspot.com/

My son just did a Silksong deathless 100% run in Steel Soul mode ...

2025-09-17T00:01:23Z

My son just did a Silksong deathless 100% run in Steel Soul mode with no quit-outs (i.e. quitting when you're about to die to restore from a savepoint) in a little over 12 hours. I've never played the game, apparently this is pretty hard to do?

A followup to my post two weeks ago, I found the couple at the ...

2025-09-09T20:32:59Z

A followup to my post two weeks ago, I found the couple at the center of the Will Smith AI crowd video. I wanted to know what it was like to find yourselves in the middle of a hypermodern problem: being confused for AI slop. https://waxy.org/2025/09/interviewing-the-couple-in-the-will-smith-ai-crowd-video/

After 22 years, Typepad is shutting down with one month's ...

2025-08-27T18:17:19Z

After 22 years, Typepad is shutting down with one month's notice. Go back up your old blogs, old-school blogger friends. https://everything.typepad.com/blog/2025/08/typepad-is-shutting-down.html

Another wrinkle: it turns out Alistair wasn't even hosting ...

2025-07-22T18:17:59Z

In reply to nevent1q…9l35
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Another wrinkle: it turns out Alistair wasn't even hosting the Open Graph images himself! The Twitter archives produced by Tweetback use 11ty's OpenGraph Image proxy service, which hotlinks the optimized images from their servers. https://www.11ty.dev/docs/services/opengraph/

One big difference is that, at least in the U.S., the DMCA ...

2025-07-22T18:15:38Z

In reply to nevent1q…5prm
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One big difference is that, at least in the U.S., the DMCA shields platforms/ISPs from copyright lawsuits for hosting content posted by their users, as long as they honor takedowns, remove accounts from repeat infringers, etc. Those protections don't exist for individual publishers and bloggers. (thx Russ Garrett (npub1hg9…wwtk))

EVERY major social media platform and messaging app hosts local ...

2025-07-22T16:34:15Z

In reply to nevent1q…femh
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EVERY major social media platform and messaging app hosts local copies of Open Graph images for links posted by users, including Facebook, Threads, X, Bluesky, Mastodon, Slack, Reddit, LinkedIn, etc. They're just shaking down individuals who don't have the legal resources to fight a claim.

Putting an image URL in an Open Graph meta tag implies permission ...

2025-07-22T16:19:01Z

In reply to nevent1q…tdrr
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Putting an image URL in an Open Graph meta tag implies permission to display that *hotlinked* image on your own website, but in this case, he was hosting a copy of the photo for his static Twitter archive. It's a copyright grey area that's ripe for image licensors to exploit. Not great!

I'm amazed I've never seen this before: a photo licensing ...

2025-07-22T16:17:03Z

I'm amazed I've never seen this before: a photo licensing company shaking down someone for hosting an image used in an Open Graph tag. https://www.alistairshepherd.uk/writing/open-graph-licensing/

this is a real page on a vaccines.gov subdomain! see for yourself ...

2025-06-11T16:39:56Z

In reply to nevent1q…umgs
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this is a real page on a vaccines.gov subdomain! see for yourself at http://es.vaccines.gov

My secret hobby is feeding story ideas to the 404 Media crew via ...

2025-06-11T16:31:38Z

My secret hobby is feeding story ideas to the 404 Media crew via Signal group chat. This was one of them! https://www.404media.co/spam-blogs-ai-slop-domains-wowlazy/

The Tiny Awards are back, and so am I! After a year off, I'll ...

2025-06-06T17:11:15Z

The Tiny Awards are back, and so am I! After a year off, I'll be a judge helping to decide "the best of the small, poetic, creative, handmade web" made in the last 12 months. Nominations open until the end of June, submit anything you love! https://tinyawards.net/

Anyone know Madison, WI? I'm headed there for the first time ...

2025-05-16T03:04:50Z

Anyone know Madison, WI? I'm headed there for the first time next week. Recs for food/drink, neighborhoods, and off-beat and/or nerdy things to do welcome! (House on the Rock and the two big retro arcades are on my radar.)

You should try Phanpy, it’s the best Mastodon client I’ve ...

2025-03-04T17:13:58Z

In reply to nevent1q…xfqn
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You should try Phanpy, it’s the best Mastodon client I’ve used on both desktop and mobile, and it’s a free web app! https://phanpy.social/

Figured it out! Apple is pulling the Wikipedia data for its ...

2025-01-28T17:46:20Z

In reply to nevent1q…5ewj
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Figured it out! Apple is pulling the Wikipedia data for its Safari suggestions from the Wikidata datastore instead of Wikipedia itself. On December 4, 2019, someone vandalized the Wikidata entry for "A rising tide" to say "a scrambled egg makes all happy" and it stayed there until February 24, 2024.

This is such a bizarre iOS/Wikipedia mystery! I can reproduce it ...

2025-01-28T17:29:15Z

This is such a bizarre iOS/Wikipedia mystery! I can reproduce it on my own iPhone and I'm totally stumped. I searched the Wikipedia edit history and the "scrambled egg" phrase is nowhere to be found. Any ideas? https://pdx.social/@neven/113907136478123964

as long as you don’t go full Howard Hughes ...

2025-01-18T03:19:50Z

In reply to nevent1q…j76j
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as long as you don’t go full Howard Hughes

If you're in the U.S. and ever used TikTok, consider backing ...

2025-01-18T01:03:02Z

If you're in the U.S. and ever used TikTok, consider backing up all your liked/faved videos locally before it shuts down on Sunday. myFaveTT is a free Chrome extension that easily generates a local static HTML/MP4 archive with video metadata. https://myfavett.com/

feels like we’ve lost the battle over blog posts

2024-12-15T20:10:53Z

In reply to nevent1q…97ul
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feels like we’ve lost the battle over blog posts

Nilay Patel frames The Verge’s endorsement of Kamala Harris ...

2024-10-29T15:56:59Z

Nilay Patel frames The Verge’s endorsement of Kamala Harris around collective action problems: issues that require curbing the selfish behavior of individuals/companies for a greater good. Climate change, vaccines, school shootings, income inequality, tech/AI harms. https://www.theverge.com/24282022/kamala-harris-endorsement-presidential-election-2024

I’m taking some time offline, belatedly celebrating our 25th ...

2024-10-16T03:20:06Z

I’m taking some time offline, belatedly celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary and still basking in the afterglow of the final XOXO, but I wrote a bit about releasing the XOXO talks last week, my approach to booking speakers, and the themes that emerged in our final year. https://waxy.org/2024/10/the-xoxo-2024-talks/

We started releasing the XOXO 2024 talks yesterday, two per day, ...

2024-10-08T20:10:55Z

We started releasing the XOXO 2024 talks yesterday, two per day, and they're all bangers. We'll keep adding to this thread throughout the week. https://xoxo.zone/@xoxo/113267658517959587

from the devil's homepage, i've learned that he's ...

2024-09-04T16:31:13Z

In reply to nevent1q…4gw6
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from the devil's homepage, i've learned that he's setting up a new world order cryptocurrency, posts on TikTok from a UK prison hospital, and wants you to use his favorite website, booking.com, to book your holiday so he gets a commission

the devil emailed me, but gmail marked it as spam ...

2024-09-04T16:26:51Z

the devil emailed me, but gmail marked it as spam

The last XOXO starts two weeks from today! After five years, time ...

2024-08-08T15:50:53Z

The last XOXO starts two weeks from today! After five years, time to break out the ol’ #xoxofest hashtag.

"Is Harris a perfect candidate? Of course not. The perfect ...

2024-08-07T17:07:07Z

"Is Harris a perfect candidate? Of course not. The perfect candidate can not and, in a democracy, should not exist. But it is also not cringe to feel optimistic. It is not cringe to imagine something better than the deranged culture wars we have had to endure for the last decade. And even if Harris does shit the bed in the next three months and Trump somehow wins, it won’t have been cringe to say you went down swinging, letting yourself believe this might work." https://www.garbageday.email/p/ok-enjoy