Nate

https://nate.mecca1.net/img/protocol-meme-3.mp4 https://nate.mecca1.net/posts/2025-12-07_microblog-protocols-update/ New #blog post, plus a #meme that goes over some updates in the decentralized social media space (#activitypub #nostr and #at / #bluesky ). Was planning on doing an updated comparison post at some point, but figured I'd separate things into this post with a more informal list of happenings that I found noteworthy, then later I can do a comparison post focused on the protocols themselves that doesn't become an entire novella. #blogstr

I got a letter today from the DMV, on the back it had a suicide hotline on it. Lol, I can imagine them being like "I know you have to deal with us, but please don't kill yourself because of it, we still need your tax dollars."

Minecraft swamp house, RTX on. #photography

Added a bunch of photos to my photos page on my site, been a bit so I had quite a few to add. https://nate.mecca1.net/photos/ Going to make a 🧵 here below with most of the photos I added. Fingers crossed relays don't block me for having a whole bunch of links to images. (1/6) #photos #photography #film

Big pay at KeyOpp real estate.

The games industry's self-induced traumatic brain injury https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/17/stop-killing-games-again/ "No matter the reason, there is nothing good about the games industry's decades-long project of erasing its own past. It's bad for gamers, it's bad for game developers, and it's bad for games. No art form can exist in a permanent, atemporal now, with its history erased as quickly as it's created."

I couldn't find the oil & filter type in my car's manual, and the table of contents wasn't helping me, so I just asked AI (specifically Brave's ask feature) and it gave me a page number. The page was 396 - a general maintenance overview page. While it didn't have the information I was looking for, that page mentioned page 243 which had the specs that I needed. Maybe it's not a good sign my dumb self couldn't find it, but I'd say it was pretty impressive of the tool that it could point me to the right page on a random car manual (at least in a round about way).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTdOBjph-4s https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/11/android-developer-verification-early.html I don't know exactly what the "advanced flow" to install 'unverified' software is going to look like, but Google backtracking on requiring their approval to install apps on your phone is certainly a good thing to hear. I'm sure they're going to make some sort of really inconvenient hoop to jump through, but I guess just about anything is better than outright preventing it. As always, though, it's a good time to de-Google you're phone if that's something you'd be up to. It puts a nice little buffer in between you and Google's shenanigans. It's rather nice to be able to treat my phone as ... *checks notes* ... my phone.

While technically true, I feel like "human settlement" is a rather odd way to describe a town.

https://nate.mecca1.net/posts/2025-11-10_avif-file-format/ Quick blog post about AVIF, a new (relatively speaking) and pretty efficient image format. #blog #blogstr #avif #photography

How exactly do Nostr communities work? From the looks of it, if I create a community, I (or people I set as mods) would need to manually approve every single post. Is there an alternative - be it automatically allowing posts, using WoT, pre-approving people, or some third party bot that auto approves some/all posts? Or am I just misunderstanding how the modlog works in communities? #asknostr

Piece of life advice: a credit card solves most problems - including shoving one in between brake pads that are stuck together.

I'm gonna make a blind guess and say Motorola. They're probably getting desperate to stay relevant, but they've got size and decent quality phones. No matter who, it'd be cool to have more supported devices (as long as Pixels don't get dropped in favor of a device with poorer specs). nostr:nevent1qqsd530424tlznva20dwhx4ypvjhenavulscljl86njedc2qen85kuspr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmp0qgstamq7hv6fjwexll9g6wrs2q678ctm0ns7r7qy3vgxdl74lhv06gqrqsqqqqqpmcth0u