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Random person on the internet. I sometimes blog or work on projects I might talk about here.
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Nate 3 months ago
@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.
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Nate 3 months ago
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.
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Nate 4 months ago
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.
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Nate 4 months ago
"Ads plus AI is sort of uniquely unsettling to me," Altman said during an event at Harvard University in May 2024. "I kind of think of ads as a last resort for us for a business model." View quoted note →
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Nate 4 months ago
Work had me in Niagara, NY today. Got off early and stopped by the falls. Was a a combination of snowy and misty, but got a few cool snapshots. image #photography
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Nate 4 months ago
Got a company phone today. Unfortunately, it's an Apple phone. #Android
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Nate 4 months ago
Neat! I use TTS fairly often, and there's not a lot of options out there for free (as in beer, much less as in speech) local models that sound decent. View quoted note →
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Nate 4 months ago
I've been working at a place that that provides critical infrastructure as if late. * I never showed ID to anyone * I work out of a building that requires an RFID card to be scanned in. I have not been issued an RFID card, and have had no problems entering it without it. * I have admin access to technical systems I'm not supposed to touch, and physical access to just about everything (again, no empoyee ID/access card). * I have not been added to payroll yet, but if I keep hounding them about it they might update it eventually. Anyone got any doomsday prepper resources? 😆
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Nate 4 months ago
Looks like, for probably the first time ever, Debian stable broke. Wifi stopped working, but downgrading the kernal seems to have provided a temp fix.
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Nate 5 months ago
Just finished reading Exit Strategy by Jen J. Danna. It's been on my (metaphorical) shelf for a while, I think I found it a few years ago Dollar Tree. Started reading it during a power outage the other day, and got hooked pretty fast. A lot of books are a bit bulkier, scifi/fantasy books that have a lot of world building and really detailed plotlines. Exit Strategy has a lot "smaller" of a story for a lack of a better term (smaller stakes, humanity isn't at stake or anything, + a smaller cast of characters), and it takes probably a dozen or so pages to introduce the setting and then gets right into the main plot. It moves quickly, in the ~300 or so pages it has a self contained story that's moves rapidly. There's not a lot of subplots and it doesn't meander too much, so it's a fairly linear story throughout the entire book that doesn't get boring. Characters seem human, not just cardboard cutouts or with crazy inhuman smarts/skills/etc. Definitely worth a read. #bookstr
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Nate 5 months ago
Merry Holidays, Happy Christmas, and pour one out for 'ol Saint Nick who threw hands with an Arianism heretic. Wishing you all a great Christmas my fellow internet strangers.
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