My shirt was so wrinkled I ironed it before going to Walmart. Do you know how wrinkled a shirt needs to be before one feels it's too wrinkled for Walmart?

https://nate.mecca1.net/posts/2024-05-20_archiving/

Made a #blog post this morning. Kinda a collection of three interconnected topics

* My backup strategy

* Starting to use optical media again (how & why)

* Some archiving/data hoarding projects (internet is beginning to change fast and things might disappear).

Might as well start put with mine

https://nate.mecca1.net/

I post whatever I'm interested about, usually tech, one a month or so. Snuck in a sourkrout recipie recently tho.

There's Kevin Kox, he usually posts thoughtful tech related posts

https://kevincox.ca/posts/

There's also Rob Knight, who's blog I follows and who started the defaults trend a bit back full of cool sites

https://rknight.me/

https://defaults.rknight.me/

There's https://ploum.net, he posts mostly about tech and open source in English and French

There's Chris Mclead's blog who also posts about tech. It's also the first place I found a link to my own blog in the wild so that makes him extra cool.

https://chrismcleod.dev/

There's Denshi, an Italian writer and Musician. https://denshi.org/

There's Jason Fry, who's been getting into non-smart phones lately, and usually posts tech and tech adjacent stuff.

https://jasonfry.co.uk/

There's also Yaroslav de la Peña Smirnov, a Russian software developer who posts in Russian, English, and Spanish.

https://www.yaroslavps.com/

A lotta tech blogs I guess, but the above are all worth checking out.

I'm GenZ and I'm a moron pre & post 25

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Hey I'm back with another question. Was toying around on Activity Pub and got a username at my domain to redirect to my Mostr account (so searching for username@domain leads to key@mostr). Would it be possible to do something like that where a username could actually be proxied to a different domain.

Dunno if it could be with some sort of reverse proxy, a couple of static files on a site, or even potentially integrated a copy of the bridge? Or none of the above? If it was doable figures it could be a cool way around all the servers that blocked the Mostr domain, ones that freak out at long usernames, and the longer key based usernames. But no idea if it was so figured I'd ask.

Credit to the guy who figured out aliases

https://blog.maartenballiauw.be/post/2022/11/05/mastodon-own-donain-without-hosting-server.html

Thanks!

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Well, apparently I can't type, but it works! Can see me Nostr post on BlueSky

*post

Testing a most bridged to BlueSky

Thinnest Apple product ever, or thinnest WORKING product ever? I'm sure I could get one real thin if it's only the former.

Managed to use an entire Pilot G2 ink refill in 10 days and a few hours

Thanks, looking forward to both's development

Read through the docs, is it still planned to support ActivityPub cross compatibility on Ditto?

Thanks, yeah I do use the Mostr bridge but a lot of servers block the bridge so I had s separate account for the occasional reply or something similar. Looking forward to Ditto soon.

Probably not compromised, but mostly just extra caution since I wasn't signed in and page minus login keeps giving me an error.

Microsoft and IBM open source MS-DOS 4.0

https://www.zdnet.com/article/its-baaack-microsoft-and-ibm-open-source-ms-dos-4-0/

#microsoft #news

nerdica.net seems to be running into some issues, can't seem to pull up my own profile or anybody else's. Not sure how long it's been going on since I'm not on social media a ton, and I'm also hesitant to sign back on the off chance it's some sort of mitm attack or something else.

A little disappointing, it was my gateway to the fediverse and seemed like a cool place (and'll hopefully continue to be). Still a great chance to shoutout Nostr's flexibility, as well as Zot's Nomadic identities (that might be be implemented into Activity Pub).

One thing I remember hearing somebody point out is that the second you accept anything other than plain text you take on a whole new set of responsibilities & risks.

Not that I'm in any way knowledgeable enough to advise development, but I personally like the idea of relays being text only by default. Keeps things lightweight, and sure there can be bad things with text but the real bad stuff always needs to stay off Nostr infrastructure.

Quick snap of the #eclipse, I'm no master photographer but I think it still captured some of the cool factor

If you look closely you can even see two planets or stars to the right of the sun. Any #astronomers know what they'd be?

Experimented with it in the past before, but more permanently stuck around about five months ago. I like the protocol, the people seem nice, and it's pretty interoperable with the Fediverse.

Local LLMs and AI Ethics (mine makes nukes)

https://nate.mecca1.net/posts/2024-03-26_ai/

A #blog post by me about #AI. It's split into two parts, the first part is about my experimentation running entirely #foss models locally. The second part is more of an essay/opinion piece walking through the conclusions I've reached on AI and it's ethics as well as predictions for the future.