Somebody threw away my plastic bag earlier today I've been using to bring food to work. Might not be there right now, but I'm still a New Yorker at heart and plastic bags are to hot of a commodity to just throw somebody else's out without asking. 😆

It appears #bluesky is now open for public registration. I guess that means my big blog post I finally finished a week ago is already out of date. 😟 It's good news to see though. I'm sure somebody is going to bridge it here on Nostr or to ActivityPub and thatnks to Mostr (Nostr <> ActivityPub) we'll have three interconnected protocols playing nicely together. If you want to read about my thoughts on BlueSky and the #AT protocol my slightly out of date blog post us probably still worth reading.

ActivityPub/Nostr/AT-BlueSky Compared

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It has an interesting implementation, such as splitting servers into PDSs and Crawlers, or Nostr style cryptographic accounts on ActivityPub style single servers.

Snyk Labs

Leaky Vessels: Docker and runc Container Breakout Vulnerabilities - January 2024 | Snyk Labs

Snyk Security Labs Team has identified four container breakout vulnerabilities in core container infrastructure components including Docker and run...

This is well above my pay grade, but for the smart people: there's a possible set of four exploits that can get out of a docker container. #security #docker

A Startup Allegedly ‘Hacked the World.’ Then Came the Censorship—and Now the Backlash By Wired Security

WIRED

A Startup Allegedly ‘Hacked the World.’ Then Came the Censorship—and Now the Backlash

A loose coalition of anti-censorship voices is working to highlight reports of one Indian company’s hacker-for-hire past—and the legal threats ...

#news #tech

Also, I almost forgot to share the #meme with my blogpost. Probably only mildly funny (if even that), but I probably put in more work than I should have so wanted to share it. Feel free to re-use for your own purposes if you find it funny. note1r7p0dcltenmw9tc83mgxyqs2ma2n0r4cr92zal2g2r4ae8n06kjq3ru33q

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It's a bit long, but I just finished a #blog post comparing three different decentralized social media protocols (#activitypub #nostr & AT / #BlueSky) if it sounds interesting. No concrete conclusions on anything, just a post that kept growing as I compared more stuff. One thing that did surprise me when I was making it was how AT seems like a cool implementation of decentralized blogging, too bad it's all just locked behind BlueSky at the moment. Anyway, thought it was worth sharing. If you have any thoughts or especially if I got something wrong be sure to let me know - I can't be considered an expert on any of these protocols.

It took a while but finally trying out a web client (iris.to) with a Nostr browser extension instead of using Amethyst in Waydroid on PC. Wish me luck

Art by Lucas

2023 in Art - Art by Lucas

Everything I painted, etc. in 2023

#art

Quick PSA for any #Nostr users, I'm seeing some pretty cold temperatures here (though not the worst of it, a little more northeast of me is really getting the brunt of it). You can usually find cheap little mylar blankets (basically tin foil coated in plastic) for under a buck a piece if you buy several, and they're really portable and retain a lot of heat. Real easy to throw in your car or a backpack, and handy if you're unexpectedly stuck in the cold (broken down car, temperature dropping considerably while you're out/at work and not dressed for the cold, hiking and caught in unexpected rain, etc).

Smart people on #nostr I wanted to #asknostr a question: Would it be possible to put a bunch of signed messages behind a simple static web server (thinking like apache or github pages) and then add the site as a read only relay? Thought being to build something like that into something like a Hugo/Jekyll site and making following individual sites on Nostr like following RSS. I know RSS can be bridged in, just wondering if the former is technically possible outside of a new NIP or something.

Did the good ol' to pay the government for a stamp in order to mail a check to pay the government.

I did a bunch of troubleshooting and I think I figured out how to share a playlist from my computer to phone and vice versa with VLC. Say you have a music folder on your computer, then have songs in sub folders and you create a playlist. Use the m3u8 format, open it in a text editor, and you should find lines like "file:///home/user/music/artist/song.mp3" and if you find and replace "file://home/user/music" with a period (".") and place the plalist file in the music directory the playlist goes from using absolute locations to relative locations and you can copy your music directory to other devices without the playlists breaking. I'm not sure if this would help anybody or not, but it it sure helped me a lot and I'm not aware of any way to do local files in VLC directly so I figured I'd share this. #music #vlc

Posting Here From Nostr I wanted to see if I can post to Lemmy from Nostr after reading a post about it: https://princecanute.medium.com/nostr-for-a-mastodon-user-and-interoperability-492bcf7f0377. If you're seeing this on the Lemmy side it appears to have worked, and if so it's super cool to see open protocols play so nicely. Using Mostr I had no issues subscribing the the community from here so fingers crossed :) @nostr@lemmy.world

Happy new year everybody!