Nate

New #blog post. Different topic from the normal stuff (tech stuff that interests me) and instead did pocket stuff that interests me. https://nate.mecca1.net/posts/2024-08-05_edc/

Watched the #video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTmXg5s7FKM about the #blog post on #email (by a guy with a very cool first name) https://pointieststick.com/2024/07/09/how-i-manage-my-kde-email/ And thought I might share my own email strategy. Maybe someone here on Nostr might find it handy, otherwise rambling on about something I've put thought into is always fun. Filters are super handy. I do like separating things into folders and have four: Financial for statements/credit card statements etc, promotional for any promotional emails/newsletters, updates for things like shipping notifications or generic updates like somebody starred something on Github, and newsletters for newsletters. I can go to 'All Mail' to see everything, but only the rarer important tings (or things that I need to add to my filters) wind up in my inbox. I've also got my own domain which is super handy for switching providers or something and really saved me when my at the time provider went down for a few days. It's ~$10 a year and you can usually use it with any provider (often for free/no extra cost), or just set your domain registrar to forward anything sent to your domain to your existing email. Many registrars will offer free email forwarding. Things like simple login are also pretty handy for forcibly stopping incoming mail, and things like Kill The Newsletter are super handy to convert newsletters to an RSS feed to better keep my inbox clean. My work email is completely separate (not even accessed from my personal devices), but when I was in college I did forward all my emails in my college email to my personal email. I was able to keep my college life mentally separated by just making sure any mail from college went to the 'College' folder or it's subfolders. All my other older emails also get forwarded to my main email address. Most of my emails do get deleted, though I do have a very long standing archive. I mean email is just a bunch of text, so by deleting ~95% of my emails are archiving the last 5% forever it's really not all that large compared to say archiving my photos. Last, unsubscribe from anything you don't need. It can be a lifesaver to do so, and anything that (illegally might I add) doesn't seem to let you unsubscribe can be sent strait to spam.

Remember when software was optimized and Google Play only accepted software under 50mb? I remember.

https://nate.mecca1.net/posts/2024-07-03_browsers2/ Made a new #blog post, mostly on some of the recent #firefox news and #manifestv3 along with rambling on about different browsers and my thoughts on them.

260 McNuggets? McDonald’s Ends A.I. Drive-Through Tests Amid Errors https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/21/business/mcdonalds-ai-drive-thru-white-castle.html Paywall free http://archive.ph/5RzFR

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).

nostr:npub1d03clrrrma7mlpxm0mz2dehmhkx3nh9rhxqwltgctpwyduztymustepzfs 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!

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

Testing a most bridged to BlueSky

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

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).

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?

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.

There is a non-zero chance that somebody burnt a zero day to mess with a esports tournament just for fun https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/20/apex-legends-hacker-said-he-hacked-tournament-games-for-fun/

#asknostr #plebchain What relays should be considered the "default" ones that a client should default to? I was thinking about working on my makeshift client one of these days, and changing up the default relays is on my to do list. I figure I'll stay around 5-10 for the defaults. It's post only rn so would best stick to only the big ones that accept posts from any account.

fixed link: https://nate.mecca1.net/posts/2024-02-28_fermentation/ https://nerdica.net/photo/preview/1024/27941694 nostr:note15s74hxwz7q23mkyn0gshltqskcwhdn9g3khnaz6rv57qvs9a9xxswndl03