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Random person on the internet. I sometimes blog or work on projects I might talk about here. Made a hacked together Python client for Nostr, ActivityPub, & AT: https://github.com/0n4t3/nipy
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Nate 6 months ago
Photos
 Added a dozen or so new photos that have been sitting in my sort folder. Most were either in film or wny water https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/wny-water/67.avif https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/film/50.avif https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/wny-water/54.avif https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/film/48.avif https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/desat/10.avif #photography
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Nate 6 months ago
Just setup an nsite: https://npub1jy90jpcdl447ae3lp4924s65khdpvnttkg7fepmvmafycusyueksrvllx9.nsite.lol/
nsyte - Publish to the Decentralized Web
A command-line tool for publishing websites to nostr and Blossom servers. Decentralized, censorship-resistant website hosting.
 Just placeholder content for now, will update soonish. A very cool NIP and the process isn't too hard, just be careful to reject the relay list event or it'll delete all your relays and replace them with the nsite ones you selected.
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Nate 6 months ago
With the spam, and managing which relays I use to mitigate the spam, I wound up signing up for nostr.wine last night. A $20 one time payment sure ain't nothing, but then again I'm paying $5 a month to support the ActivityPub server I'm on which I use less than Nost, and I'm lucky enough to be able to make a $20 on a whim, so it seems worth it. Especially with something that uses the outbox model, or something that uses Gossip's style of fetching content, definitely seems like a good way of reducing spam. Removing a couple of the high spam relays (nos.lol, damas, primal) completely cleared up the spam. Though on ditto, which only uses my default inbox/outbox relays (which I only set to a couple more "exclusive" relays) I noticed some of the people I follow didn't show up (as opposed to Amethyst, which I have more relays in my general relays list so I can see everyone I follow). Seems like you really need to walk a fine line in terms or relay management, and focusing too much on WOT & paid relays will prevent you from interacting with a significant number of people. Looking forward to Amethyst's next update which'll support outboxes, fetching content from the relays the person who posted sets even if you haven't added them to your relays, hoping that will help solve the issue of trade offs. No real conclusions or advice here, just se random observations and hope that the smart people keep rolling with the punches and keep making the ecosystem better. #nostr #spam
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Nate 6 months ago
Update on n_cord (posting from within it, lol, watch it break in real time). Added the bare essentials (blocks, notifications, multiple lines, etc), fixed a few bugs, and updated the UI:
n_cord
 https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/n_cord/refs/heads/main/screenshot1.avif
GitHub
GitHub - 0n4t3/n_cord: A Nostr powered Discord & IRC inspired client.
A Nostr powered Discord & IRC inspired client. Contribute to 0n4t3/n_cord development by creating an account on GitHub.
 So far it's turned out pretty neat #vibecoding #nostr #n_cord
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Nate 6 months ago
Very random, but was planning on doing a blog post soon and wound up writing a silly iambic pantameter sonnet about alternatives to your standard http + ICANN domain setup: A based design that makes a web that's true ICANNs and NATs embrace shall be no more Behind a Pi or in the cloud for you We use that tool be I2P or Tor Come join a world of speech that can flow free The words by truths of math they shall be bound A power built right in that's DHT Identity by key pairs holds its ground IPFS a poggers web design ID by content not by where it is Defi domain to own your name online A world that's free of gov and free of biz Come build a web like this, it must be done For you and me a web like this is won. Skibidi. #poetstr #poetry #decentralized #tech
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Nate 7 months ago
I like my car. Just last month it had the check engine light on and I bought a diagnostic tool to check it. In order to make sure I get my money's woth out of the diagnostic tool, it's check engine light is back on again. How very thoughtful of it. In all seriousness, luckily it's a non-damaging emissions leak. Especially because I have some extra work coming up soon and rushing to get it fixed was not something I wanted to be doing.
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Nate 7 months ago
The Professors Are Using ChatGPT, and Some Students Aren’t Happy About It
Students call it hypocritical. A senior at Northeastern University demanded her tuition back. But instructors say generative A.I. tools make them b...
 https://archive.ph/W26Pf > When ChatGPT was released at the end of 2022, it caused a panic at all levels of education because it made cheating incredibly easy. Students who were asked to write a history paper or literary analysis could have the tool do it in mere seconds. Some schools banned it while others deployed A.I. detection services, despite concerns about their accuracy. > But, oh, how the tables have turned. Now students are complaining on sites like Rate My Professors about their instructors’ overreliance on A.I. and scrutinizing course materials for words ChatGPT tends to overuse, like “crucial” and “delve.” In addition to calling out hypocrisy, they make a financial argument: They are paying, often quite a lot, to be taught by humans, not an algorithm that they, too, could consult for free."
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Nate 7 months ago
#microsoft #edge is now supporting some desktop extensions on their Android browser in their main branch. /begin browser rambling So, on mobile, I've got two browsers. My default browser - Fennec - always clears cookies upon being closed and has most of the features I'm looking for. It's 'usually' compatible with most sites, and yoinks all the Mozilla junk out of Firefox while still supporting extensions and not being part of the chromium monopoly. Things like SponsorBlock, webpage archiving (SingleFile, Brave's mht feature, etc), and Nostr signing extensions are nice, but I'm looking for three specific things: * Good adblock * Decent privacy * A read aloud feature/extension I've also got a second browser, Brave, which I remain signed into stuff and sync bookmarks & cookies via the E2E sync feature. I also use incognito on it sometimes - especially when sites break in fennec - but on mobile if you want a no cookies browser you almost need two since you can't ctrl + N upon start or open clicked tabs in incognito. Anyway, #Fennec has broken on a couple of websites as of late. So far it seems to have dodged the memory leaks and incompatibility that had me move away from Firefox forks on desktop - but there's been a few breakages lately. Could be a one off, or could be the staggered development finally hitting #Firefox for mobile. Am planning on continuing to use fennec for now, but beginning to wonder if I should scope out alternatives. Edge actually has built in adblock + support for further adblocking extensions. Though unlike Brave/Fennec which have manifest v2 style adblock support (built in & extensions respectively) it'd still presumably be fairly close in actual effectiveness. Archiving pages and TTS can be done through extensions which'll presumably be supported soon if they're not already supported via extensions and/or internal features. As crazy as it is to think, Edge - or better a de-Microsofted fork of Edge - might actually be something I seriously consider using. That, or maybe Brave can finally introduce a TTS feature and/or yoink the extension compatibility from Edge or the ChromeOS extension support (could do regular+beta for effectively two profiles). /end browser ramblings tldr: To my surprise, Edge for Android seems to be shaping up to be a decent option of a browser (minus some telemetry)
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