Welp, it's looking increasingly like I'm gonna spend the night or so in my car stick in snow related traffic. Could be worse though, got my wind up radio and a bunch of goodies. Wish me luck internet.

Really grammerly? We're talking about a fictional piece of technology being disabled using a backdoor.

Made a blog post about some photo effects/filters and also created a page on my site dedicated to some of my favorites photos. Blog post:

Toying around with photo filters

Like a lot of my posts, this kind of kept growing. Going over my photos I kept finding a bunch of favorites I wanted to share outside just using on...

Favorite photos page: https://nate.mecca1.net/pages/photos/ Some photos from both (photos in avif, if they don't work in your client they'll work in your browser - sorry, but space savings were too great to not convert): https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/filters/gimp/01.avif https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/wny-landscapes/17.avif https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/wny-landscapes/29.avif https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/portraits/01.avif https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/more/03.avif https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/filters/im/04.avif https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/filters/gimp/17.avif #photography #blog #blogstr

Tried my hand at astrophotography the other night, pretty happy with how things turned out. Google Camera with the astrophotography setting, output as raw and edited in darktable Short timelaps from G Cam G Cam (strait to JPG, no edits) Open Camera (manual mode) (p.s. Gcam services provider will get Google Camera working on a degoogled phone) #photography #astrophotography

According to ATmosphere stats my Bluesky/Nostr (it's bridged[ish]) account's official Animal is a sloth 🦥

Nate | Sky Zoo - Stats

Nate | Assigns you a Bluesky animal based on your recent activity

Mini rant time: So I wanted to have a photo carausel on my blog I manage with Hugo. Well, it's not supported by Hugo so I'll just get a shortcode, simple right? One didn't work and one didn't work with remote images, so I'll just make my own. Can't be that hard. I made a bunch of "code" that failed, tried to take my failing code to Dolphin 2.2.1 Mixtral and Chat GPT who couldn't fix my broken code. At this point hours have gone by. Then I get this bright idea 💡. Hey chat GPT "make me a Hugo shortcode for a photo carousel". Bam, done. All I had to do was give it a second prompt to add a carousel ID (so I can have multiple on the same page) and tweak the image size to be relatively to the screen size (2 characters manually changed). Seems to work flawlessly.

Google’s Shadow Campaigns

Microsoft On the Issues

Open Cloud Coalition - Google's Shadow Campaign - Microsoft On the Issues

An astroturf group organized by Google, the Open Cloud Coalition, is launching and is designed to discredit Microsoft with competition authorities,...

#google #microsoft

Anyone know what's up with the Firefox fork Fennec? I got a warning the other day that there were security vulnerabilities in the app, and upon checking when the last version was compiled it was in August. The source code link just takes me to Mozilla's repos. Disabled the app and switched browsers for the moment, but wanted to know if anybody knows what's going on with it. If not, anybody know of any other Android Firefox forks that cut Mozilla things out? #asknostr #fennec

Non-Generative uses of Local LLMs

Update Oct. 21st: The transcription portion of the post has been updated, what I originally mistook as issues with how the data was formatted was a...

Finished a new blog post, basically just a verbose version of my notes that accumulated while experimenting with local LLMs and similar AI tools for translation, proofreading, summarizing, and transcribing content locally. #ai #blog #blogstr

Kind of random announcement, but I've been working on (an amateur attempt at) a novel. It's free to read/download, and I've finished the first 36 chapters if anybody is interested in checking it out. It's sorta Scifi-ish wtih some action action and fantasy elements.

Finished Chapters

Act 1 0: Prologue 1: Failed Initialization 2: Blank Slate 3: Chilean Pit Stop 4: The Fourth Variable 5: Domum 6: Most Normal Floridian 7: Introduct...

I also uploaded it to Postman's I2P tracker, so it's available there in .txt form as well. The website does use cloudflare pages, although the DDOS protection has been set to be much less trigger happy so it should work in Tor. No ads, and no tracking minus Cloudflare itself. If you want to read more as it comes out you can sub via RSS

An Untitled Novel

or via Nostr at @Untitled Novel #nostrwriter #book #bookstr #fiction

Homemade bread is a lot cheaper than store bough so I made some tonight, you could say I kneeded the dough 😁

Simon Willison’s Weblog

NotebookLM’s automatically generated podcasts are surprisingly effective

Audio Overview is a fun new feature of Google’s NotebookLM which is getting a lot of attention right now. It generates a one-off custom podcast a...

A #blog post by Simon Wilson on #notebooklm . An interesting thing to toy around with, even if it's not all that practical.

Nate (npub1jy…vllx9) on Nostr

Short Text Note by Nate

seen on xmr.usenostr.org, relay.nostr.band, nostr.mom, ditto.pub/relay, nos.lol

New try, let's see if this works. Hello BlueSky & Mastodon via Nostr on Amethyst 😀

I'm toying around with making a python script that pretends to be a #nostr relay and let's your client post on #bluesky or a #fediverse instance.

GitHub

GitHub - 0n4t3/nipy-bridge: A Nostr to AT (Bluesky) & Activity Pub local bridge

A Nostr to AT (Bluesky) & Activity Pub local bridge - 0n4t3/nipy-bridge

btw But it dawned on me, lol, #mastodon doesn't even have quote posts yet and I just bridged a Nostr quote post in. It's not really a quote post - the quoted post is just converted to an njump.me link to provide context to what the user was quoting - but it's still a little funny.

HaLow protocol establishes new Wi-Fi range record of 9.9 miles https://www.techspot.com/news/104732-halow-protocol-establishes-new-wi-fi-range-record.html It was in near perfect perfect conditions, but wow, that's a pretty long range connection. #tech #technology

Gave Google's #notebookLM a try with one of my blog posts.

Microblogging Protocols Compared v2

Update: September 20th, 2024: I was incorrect regarding AT’s (BlueSky) inability to fully delete things, the protocol DOES support fully dele...

It sounds really engaging, unfortunately, lol, it was very inaccurate.

Making a Fur Hat

In my post about EDC I rambled on about hats for a bit, and a couple weeks ago I decided to try making one myself. I didn’t initially plan on...

#blog post going over how I made a fur hat a little while back. A bit different from the usual tech stuff, but a fun #diy project.

Was curious how many BlueSky/AT PDSs are being self hosted, wound up finding my blog on the second page of Bing. That was majorly cool. Of course I wrote it so if my blog actually contained the information I wouldn't be making the search, and the fact I'm on the darkest of places known as the second page of Bing means I couldn't find the information elsewhere. But still a cool find.

I'm late to the party, but if you haven't seen looks like #bluesky / #at has been getting some rapid growth, to the tune of at least 1 mil over a few days.

The Verge

Bluesky has gained a million new users in the last three days.

[Media: https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3l3277gkjjc2y] The platform posted about the milestone this afternoon, which it crossed after Brazil...

Also, quick PSA: don't forget the Mostr bridge will let you follow Bluesky accounts.

@Soapbox @Alex Gleason I very likely am just missing something, but was toying around with Ditto and is there a way to setup a ToS and more importantly add a DMCA email that'd be visible? The concept of losing safe harbor protection is not a comforting thought, lol, if nobody's noticed yet there's a lotta' weirdos on the internet.