Update August 5th 2024 I have been made aware that Firefox for Android no longer includes Google Analytics as part of their app telemetry. It appears it was …| nate.mecca1.net
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 …| nate.mecca1.net
POV: You’re a professional dev watching me talk about vibe coding: Your browser does not support the video tag. I’m not exactly a stranger to using AI code, parts of nipy-bridge like the part that handles posts based on size was written by Chat GPT via Duck.AI, and I regularly use a Mixtral-Dolphin written bash script to convert files with avifenc. Recently, however, I came across Bookstr by MK Fain, which is being vibe coded.| Posts on An Untitled Blog
Another wild and wacky year is wrapping up, and with it the customary year end wrap up/retrospective. This year I posted a total of 11 posts1, two being update/revised posts and nine standalone posts. My longest post (by far) was my revised microblogging comparison post at 15,411 words2 3, and my shortest was my pickles/sauerkraut recipe post at 722 words (the only post under 1k words). My average post length was 4991 words, my median post length being a similar 5169 words.| Posts on An Untitled Blog
In my post about EDC I rambled on about hats for a bit, and a couple weeks ago I decided to try making one myself. I didn’t initially plan on writing a blog post explaining how I did it; however, after having trouble finding a printable pattern, I wound up just winging it, and I figured I’d put my process out there.1 Fur hats are way warmer than just about anything else, and even though this was a trial run with a fake polyester fur pelt it’s still a warm hat on its own.| Posts on An Untitled Blog
Update: September 20th, 2024: I was incorrect regarding AT’s (BlueSky) inability to fully delete things, the protocol DOES support fully deleting posts from the user’s repo and I’ve updated the post to reflect that. Read more. Big thanks to Ryan for providing the info. Also, on a less important update (in regards to this post’s accuracy) - in keeping tradition with the original post - Bluesky has managed to change rapidly shortly after I finished this.| Posts on An Untitled Blog
Dropdown: Random notes from drafting Alright, it is April 2nd and I’m typing out the first couple of characters in this document which I can already guess is going to be another long post. I already have tons of posts that I expected to be medium length which ballooned out, so given I know ahead of time it’ll be long who knows how long it will be. Err, well, editing me and you the reader will know how long it is when I actually publish it.| Posts on An Untitled Blog
This is sort of a successor to Firefox: A Brink of Their Own Making that I published ~6 months ago, followed by me rambling on about different browsers that I’ve used or decided to check out for this post. This follow-up was largely spurred on by two different things: Manifest v2’s phasing out in standard Chromium and Firefox getting worse. Further, after writing a whole lot and then reflecting on it, I’ve gotten a few more thoughts on the topics on hand - but unfortunately like the two...| Posts on An Untitled Blog
Okay, so I’m not actually sure I would consider myself a data hoarder, but I thought the title was pretty eye catching, and archival is close enough to data hoarding to only be moderately clickbaity. (I actually think I’ve got a pretty well organized and reasonably trimmed home directory). Anyway, I thought I would go over a couple of related topics, specifically my backup strategy, some data archiving, and me getting back into useing optical storage.| Posts on An Untitled Blog
What you are reading now is the fourth iteration of this post, which has gone through multiple revisions and re-considerations. It might feel a bit fragmented, but my aim is to provide a comprehensive post covering two related topics. The first part will discuss my experimentation with local LLMs (large language models), and the second will explore my personal philosophy and conclusions on AI. Feel free to only read one or the other.| Posts on An Untitled Blog
I’ve made three long posts about decentralized social media, followed by making a client that works on decentralized social media, so I’ll call all that good for now and talk about making some pickles and sourkraut. And not just canned cucumbers and cabbage, but the actual fermented stuff, which is surprisingly easy to make. So, the lazy way to make Sourkraut: Boil some water on the stove or in a kettle (makes sure it’s sterile and cuts out some of the chlorine if you’re on city water...| Posts on An Untitled Blog
So after two very long posts, one complaining about web browsers and one comparing the three big non-centralized social media protocols, I thought about writing two shorter posts about random things (hats and making sour krout specifically). However, between then and now stuffs happened and I thought I would make an anthology post with three different mini topics I wanted to share. I made a client So yeah, I made a client that can post to Nostr, Activity Pub, and BlueSky (hopefully all of AT ...| Posts on An Untitled Blog
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. First, I made two mistakes. AT crawlers are not in fact crawlers, they are called relays. Also, shared inboxes are actually part of the Activity Pub W3C standard as apposed to hacky additions to the protocol by third party servers. I was wrong about Activity Pub servers sending multiple messages to the same server remote to update it about a single post.| Posts on An Untitled Blog
It is (or was at least) a new year and I thought I would reflect on my 2023 posts and talk about what kind of content I follow. I originally thought about doing this on Dec 31st, but I tend to work pretty slowly on posts so here I am whenever this actually gets finished and goes live. Since June I posted a total of thirteen posts, two of which were more generic updates (a quick first post and a notice about a URL change), which leaves me a little under two posts per month.| Posts on An Untitled Blog
Chances are if you’re here it’s through an RSS feed (or an RSS feed bridged to something else), so I probably don’t need to do too much of an introduction. Here’s a quick rundown if you’re unfamiliar. However, today I wanted to talk about RSS (as well as three other means of following content), how I’ve benefited from it, and a small project I started. Just about every piece of content I follow is through RSS - organized into different categories (news, blogs, videos, audio, etc),...| Posts on An Untitled Blog
I have recently been re-dipping my toes into Nostr (tried it a while back just to experiment with it but never really stuck around), and so far it’s become my preferred microblogging platform. There’s a handful of reasons surrounding that, both in the protocol itself and what’s being built up around it, and I think it has a lot of promise that merits its very quick growth. Today I thought I would go over why I am a fan of it, and why I think it might be worth checking out if you’re in...| Posts on An Untitled Blog
Update 11/25: I was made aware that Signal has some proprietary anti-spam code and added the TLDR. A More Technical TLDR I never know how much jargon I should include or how much I should explain, and as long as I’m writing I’m enjoying myself meaning I’ve been all over the place. But here’s a shortened version for those familiar with encryption. A vanilla implementation of the Signal protocol relies on public key infrastructure to perform a handshake between devices.| Posts on An Untitled Blog
I ran across a neat trend of sharing your default apps, and a collection of posts doing so. It’s made some interesting reads and I thought I would join in and post my own favorites. My Devices I have three different devices: a PC running Debian, a tablet I just got setup running Debian and a Waydroid container, and a phone running the Graphene fork of Android. PC Tablet Phone 📨 Mail Client Proton Web Proton App Proton App 📮 Mail Server ^ ^ ^ 📝 Notes Joplin Joplin Joplin ✅ To-Do n...| Posts on An Untitled Blog
11/03/2023 Update: I fixed some grammar, and Google just announced they’re going to stop the implementation of WEI (hopefully permanently, but they may just be trying to outwait bad publicity and anti-trust actions - only time will tell). If you read my first post here you probably got the idea I have strong feelings about recent versions of Windows, and you wouldn’t be wrong. There’s a lot of junk on Windows, but there are many ways you can go around and clean up some of the worst of i...| Posts on An Untitled Blog
I count myself lucky to live in a pretty stable and safe part of the world. The last three years or so might have been slightly less so, but still in the scheme of things I certainly haven’t seen the worst of it. But hey, this year is as good of any to think about useful ways to utilize your electronics, specifically your phone, if the power goes out or something similar happens.| Posts on An Untitled Blog
TLDR Even though it’s only been three months since I created my blog here, I’m going to change the domain from www.mecca1.net to nate.mecca1.net instead. Nothing’s should break, www.mecca1.net will forward to nate.mecca1.net for now. Still, if you’re following me through RSS or you have my site bookmarked it might be worth swapping out the URL. Longer Update My domain predates my blog by about six years, so when I created my blog a few months ago I opted to just use the www subdomain.| Posts on An Untitled Blog
IPFS, an acronym for “InterPlanetary File System”, is a way to deliver files that takes a different approach to HTTP. As I mentioned in my very first post, I originally considered hosting my entire site/blog on it, and while I decided against it for reasons I mentioned there and reasons I’ll get into later here; I am working on something that may involve me sharing files here, which I’ll probably use IPFS for.| Posts on An Untitled Blog
I never have had a good track record with massive changes to Windows, starting with Windows 8 which was entirely unusable in my case. It wasn’t just the mobile-style graphics and the bloat, but also the fact I couldn’t get more than a couple of days before the installation would break. This went on for a while as I tried to figure out why it was breaking, and I probably went through dozens of installs that themselves took nearly as long as the time I could actually use the device before i...| Posts on An Untitled Blog
I think I’m going to start a blog here. I got this domain with some DNS records just collecting dust, and have an interest in writing stuff casually. I …| nate.mecca1.net
TLDR, for those looking for less of a novel I did a lot of looking and found a few different options if you’re looking for a tablet and have similar …| nate.mecca1.net
This is another one of my posts that’s effectively a few posts crammed together on related topics. Long story short, I started looking into handheld …| nate.mecca1.net
Update: Everything worked in hugo’s test environment, but I guess local images in sliders breaks everything for who knows why once I actually published …| nate.mecca1.net
Like a lot of my posts, this kind of kept growing. Going over my photos I kept finding a bunch of favorites I wanted to share outside just using ones for …| nate.mecca1.net
Update Oct. 21st: The transcription portion of the post has been updated, what I originally mistook as issues with how the data was formatted was an issue with …| nate.mecca1.net
This is my second post about searching for a tablet, and a follow-up review of the device I mentioned purchasing in the last post (an MS Surface Go tablet). …| nate.mecca1.net