Love the thumbnail 😆, Debian & derivatives ftw

My go to is usually along the lines of "this one doesn't actually have cell service, it's just a pocket computer. The other ones are my work phone and a flip phone I use like a portable land line."

Had a few dollars in Liquid via Aqua wallet from forever ago. Ironically swaps have been broken for a while AFAIK, but I was able to swap to lightning right now.

Because I don't push people to Nostr in the same way I don't push people towards RSS, Linux, or self hosting. Even though some family members are rather advanced tech users, I'm the only one who's actually made a hobby out of tech. Most people I know, and all of my family members, just use tech as a tool. None of us are big on social media either. (I've actually only met the first IRL user of Linux less than two years ago when a co-worker tried Manjaro. I'm yet to meet someone IRL who I know uses Nostr/ActivityPub/AT, crypto, or any other decentralized protocol). Right now, if somebody has no interest in tech as a hobby, a vanilla Nostr (and other protocols) experience probably won't bring much value to the average user. Since the userbase 'seems' less saturated with Crypto content, and with the advent of the more whimsy side of things like Ditto or alternative stuff (nsites, magazines, chats, ect) that might change in the future.

https://nate.mecca1.net/posts/2026-09-15_handwriting/ Poorly written #blog post about handwritten content.

My weather saga continues. After dealing with the storm itself I spent a long day in Buffalo. Right as I left I thought the weather was crazy, with super hard rain and a bunch of standing water on the roads. Turned out it got WAY worse right after I left. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1080029841382387&vanity=anadoluagencyenglish #video #weather

Well I made it back home. Took a three hour nap in a conference room, then hit the road and got real lucky that I timed thunderstorm and tornado warning free windows at both my starting point and destination. Also, glad I took a nap because my alarm goes off in 3hr48min. Either this is late GN or an early GM, not sure. Rural interstate moto driving after midnight, with the sky lit up by quite a few distant lightning strikes, is quite the vibe.

I know Ditto added support recently.

If they're trying to get away from American infrastructure, the best argument would likely be that the Mastodon Inc (nonprofit) and Bluesky PBC are both registered in the United States. On the technical side, Nostr: * Has permanently referencable events and redundancy, meaning content can be archived and accessible beyond what AT/AP can do. * Is a lot more flexible as a protocol. AFAIK you can't do ebooks and geocaching on anything other than Nostr * Scaling a Nostr service is a lot easier and less resource intensive than scaling a large Activity Pub or AT based service * Doesn't rely on DNS (heavily American influenced) or a centralized servers for identity management Technical Drawbacks: * Key based identities would need to be abstracted for the average user. Good luck having them manage their own keys. Culture wise: * Nostr also lacks some of the extremists that have congregated on ActivityPub (both left and right) and AT (left). Sure the BTC people can get a bit loud sometimes, but it's nothing compared to the dark corners of the other two protocols. Finally, while it'd likely be considered a drawback to the German government, it'd be a benifit to the people that Nostr is decentralized enough that they can't rule it with an iron fist like they're likely eyeing with big centralized AT/AP services.

#asknostr has anybody developed a Nostr based guestbook for static sites? It's something that I thought I might try to implement on my site, and while I could probably just vibe code it, it'd prob make more sense to use a human written implementation if one already exists.