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Note: This post is out of date, here’s a more up to date version Update August 5th 2024 I have some good and bad news regarding this post. Fi...

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

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!

It's probably a good thing today that it's usually just me at work, it just dawned on me the little sandwich bag with a couple teaspoons of loose leaf green tea could draw some suspicion in a workplace that's not so fond of weed