Made it to the top 10 on the Ditto Dino game

Well looks like Debian might have cooked my tablet. Upgraded from Bookworm to Trixie (yes, I know I'm late to the party on that) and something just broke itself. And, instead of going to bed early like I should be (my alarm is going off at 4:45 AM) I'm seeing if I can get it working. Well, I guess if nothing else I had a good run. I think this is the first time a Debian installation imploded post installation for a reason that was not (at least probably not?) my fault. #Debian #linux

Well, I might have just had a 'productive' all night gaming session followed by sleeping into 4PM. Got called to do a set of 9PM-9AM shifts, because of some rather high winds, at the local power company I recently started working at. Wish me luck.

Made a revised version of my older social media protocol comparison post

A Technical Comparison of Distributed Social Media Protocols v3

Update 3/14/2026: I’ve updated the post to reflect that porting Nomadic Identities to Activity Pub is still ongoing. Shoutout to silverpill@m...

And a meme to go along with it: I'll also share as a NIP-23 Nostr post in a few moments. #blog #blogstr #nostr #activitypub #bluesky #meme

System76 Blog

System76 on Age Verification Laws

Liberty has costs, but it

#Linux #ageverification

Two photos of the lunar eclipse this morning. Both are unedited, one from my personal phone (Pixel 8a) one from my work phone (iPhone 17). Taken through a family member's telescope, but used digital zoom on the pixel. #photography #eclipse

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@Soapbox @Alex Gleason @MK Fain @Derek Ross Hey, random thought, if it was a useful idea figured you all would be the people to make use of it. Has there been any consideration of using Nostr for age verification? A user verifies their age in a semi private way (say, a small credit card transaction) -> provider creates an event or badge of some kind and applies it to their profile -> the user of the profile can be assumed to be of age without needing to provide proof to relays or other services. It wouldn't exactly be anonymous, but it'd probably be about as pseudonymous as you could get for an age verification (the npub with an age attested isn't publicly tied to any details that were used to verify it). I know age verification isn't really in line with cypherpunk ideals, but a lot of jurisdictions are moving to require it. At some point soon everything from a Nostr relay to a GitLab server could require age verification, and as much as ignoring it now might an option, it might be good to get ahead of things and get the infrastructure for that sort of stuff in place. A verified npub or gpg key might be the least evil of all the options, and could probably be useful to verify an account for just about any small project or service (Nostr & beyond) without requiring the people verifying to pay for some external age verification service, and without requiring the people being verified to hand over their personal details to ever service.

Saw someone driving on lake Erie today. The lake still might be frozen, but with the warm spell we had the grass on the shore is partially visible. It certainly takes bravery that I don't be have to be zipping around the lake on a snowmobile in this weather.

New post on my 'mini blog', about toying around with a phone dock (actually, what I'm typing this post on rn).

Toying around with a phone dock - Nate

A quick post about testing my phone on a docking station

Giving leaflet (built on AT proto a try) this go 'round on my miniblog experimentation. #blog #blogstr

Looks like a new bridge is being developed, supporting newsreader groups and Lemmy (plus presumably any Activity Pub Groups supported software):

GitHub

GitHub - rjolina/leNNyTP: NNTP server that bridges to Lemmy – read and post to Lemmy communities from any Usenet newsreader

NNTP server that bridges to Lemmy – read and post to Lemmy communities from any Usenet newsreader - rjolina/leNNyTP

#activitypub #lemmy #bridging

Trusting Trust in the Fediverse https://evilmaid.net/blog/trusting-trust-fediverse/index.html (Archive link since it seems to be down)

Trusting Trust in the Fediverse

Implied trust and how easy it is to break it

A cool #blog post I came across discussing some ActivityPub issues & solutions.

Why is it the companies with the problems are the ones without bug bounties? Would have loved a payout this morning, but all I get is my tax docs accessible without authentication.

#photography

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