I’m starting to think that only neural networks can actually pass this shit anymore.

It's funny that we have photo avatars in 4K quality, but I still have trouble figuring out if the person I know online is the same person I'm meeting AFK for the very first time.

I’ve been extremely behind on publishing things for @We Distribute. I am trying my best to continue getting articles and podcast episodes out, but it may be at a slower pace for a while. I’m sorry to anyone that’s been disappointed at our current pace. Right now, I can only muster a few articles per week. I’m doing my best to mitigate this, and turn our publishing into more of a team effort. There may be a point in the near future where I just need to take a break.

Recovering from burnout is hard. I keep telling myself "Oh, I'll just sleep for a week, everything will be fine!", but there isn't a one-and-done solution. Instead, you have to actively look out for yourself, and work on changing a world of bad habits that all piled up. I'm exhausted and require excessive amounts of sleep right now. Working in tech, and then later the military, drained me a lot. Recovery requires me to abandon old survival tools, like excessive amounts of caffeine and nicotine.

Dungeon Meshi is so ridiculously good, it’s not even fair. Fantastic writing, great characters, loads of good jokes, beautiful style, and a lot of heart. A retro-style Final Fantasy-like in this setting would be incredible.

Once again, I am flying by the seat of my pants, ahead on some things, but behind on many others.

I’ve been seeing a few tech blogs talk about this concept of using AI clones in meetings, and it just sounds like a horrible idea. If your work culture has you so double-booked that you have to use an AI agent, your meetings are the problem.

The Verge

Zoom CEO Eric Yuan wants AI clones in meetings

Why have fewer meetings when you could just send your AI clone instead?

Working on a #design study for @We Distribute's branding and visual language. It’s just a rough draft for now, but it’s fun to think about and sketch out ideas. I’m a total hobbyist / amateur when it comes to this stuff, but it feels really cool to finally put some kind of foundation down.

I'm just starting to research this more, but I've got a #Nostr question pertaining to private keys and security. As a best practice, it seems like we don't want people to use their NSec to log into a bunch of different clients. Instead, it seems a more favored practice these days is to delegate something to do your signing for you, like the Alby browser extension. The user experience is pretty good, and it seems like the current wisdom is to use the browser or a mobile client for this, instead of storing it on a server. My general inquiry is, how secure is this? Is this the best way to do things? On the #Fediverse side of things, it's more common to see OAuth for client auth. Of course, that all relies on servers, and goes a bit against a peer-to-peer model. I'm curious as to whether a hybrid approach is possible, or even makes sense: allowing users to tether themselves to some kind of identity provider that more or less does delegated key rotation and some kind of Auth dance for them?

Sitting here, twiddling my thumbs as I wait for people from the apartment management company to walk through and try to find a reason to evict us. Because I guess a carpet had a little bit of dog pee on it. They don’t even give you a specific time for when it’s going to happen; they just provide an 8-hour range for when it might happen. So now I’m sitting in my living room, trying to catch every time a dog pees on the floor before these people spontaneously show up. Landlords and rent-seekers are awful, awful people, and my hate grows every day.

I'm a little behind on writing or publishing any pieces for @We Distribute at the moment. I plan on getting back on that treadmill soon, but I just started my transition out of Active Duty military. My body is currently beyond exhausted.

I feel like the way #Nostr does apps is superior to how we do it in the #Fediverse. This isn’t to say that Nostr apps are inherently better. Some Mastodon apps have an incredible amount of polish, and extremely creative features. Nostr’s standardization on identity and credentials and appended data is really, really good, though. Everything I sign into just works. Whereas, as a Non-Mastodon user with partial MastoAPI support, that isn’t always the case. I often have to cross my fingers and hope it works.

General #Nostr question: is there a Buffer-like team posting app in the ecosystem yet? There's an open source PHP-based platform called #Mixpost that's pretty good, and supports most of what I want. I'm not a brilliant PHP dev by any means, but I've been musing over forking some code and submitting a basic, basic pull request that implements NIP-01 (and probably more). Would there be any interest in using Mixpost within the community, if it were to support Nostr? I wrote a really basic feature request here:

Nostr Support

It would be really cool to see support for the Nostr protocol in addition to the Mastodon and Bluesky APIs. We have a pretty active presence across...

Slightly dumb question: is did-plc in #Bluesky similar in purpose to npub in #Nostr? 🤔 They both seem like forms of decentralized identities based on keys. I haven't read too deeply into it yet, but I'm extremely curious.

As a fun little experiment, @npub1d9rt...62as and I worked together to get a #Mastodon instance up and running that stores media on #IPFS! It was an interesting learning experience. I don't think we're ready to announce anything yet, as this was in service of another project in development. But, there's an increasing number of ways to host content on an IPFS node service, and tie it back to platforms like Mastodon using an S3-compatible API for Object Storage and some proxying. This is all pretty rudimentary, but the big-brain realization is that a more robust version could be done by pairing Minio to s3x if we wanted to self-host an IPFS node with those specific features.

Is there a good web tool for reading the JSON data of a #Nostr event? Currently working on an explainer article on @We Distribute for newbies, but haven't found a good method to do this yet... 🤔

> Get home from work > Flop onto bed > Beagle runs towards me > Snuggles in my arms Perfection. 🥰

Taking a big step with @We Distribute: we're beginning to write about #Bluesky and #Nostr, and have given them dedicated sections on the site. I have a piece coming up that's a crash course guide to Nostr for newcomers. It's pretty good so far, but needs work. What are things you think people totally new to Nostr ought to know? What would current-you tell past-you about it?

I'm trying to explore #Nostr more, for two reasons: 1. I want to increase our coverage of efforts like Nostr and Bluesky for @We Distribute 2. I want to actually make an effort against some long-held biases I have about Nostr, and explore it fully. The thing is, my feed feels really boring right now. It's mostly a bunch of crypto bros taking about Bitcoin, Nostr, and AI stuff. Are there parts of the culture here that go deep on any other subjects? As with all decentralized systems, the question is: where do I find the good stuff?

So many narratives in media are high-stakes these days. One man must fight the alien horde, unlock the secrets of The Engineers, and save The Multiverse! It would be fun to write low-stakes drama: a guy tries to buy a cake for his co-worker's office party, to gain access to her Costco membership.