See, I told you I’d get tuckered out writing about vehicles and be back to protocols soon enough. “The internet is forever” is a great warning against the inability to unshare content, but completely irrelevant in regard to linkrot and long term preservation. Links I save or share here often are offline or …

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I’ve written a lot of longer blog posts lately, time to get back into the classic “Nate talks about the thing he just read about and finds neat.” So, without further ado, I just read about NMail (github) - and I think it’s neat. In fact, I think it’s actually one of the most interesting decentralized communication …

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Update 3/14/2026: I’ve updated the post to reflect that porting Nomadic Identities to Activity Pub is still ongoing. Shoutout to [email protected]. Also, less than 24 hours posting this, BlueSky CEO Jay Grabber has stepped down from her roll. A change in leadership may change the state of the platform, which may …

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Originally, I was drafting this in September, planning on dedicating it to Windows 10 Home becoming EOL. I also figured I’d share a meme that contained something along the following: Instead, however, it’s early 2026, and I feel like a dedication to RAM prices would be a more fitting start: Memes aside, the lightweight …

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As is customary on my microblogging posts, let’s get us started with an original meme. Also, if you’d like to read my previous Microblogging Protocols compared posts, you can read v1 here and v2 here. It’s been a little over a year since I made my updated microblogging protocols comparison. Since then a few things have …

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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 consoles a couple of months back, but in doing so picked up a handheld style controller for mobile instead. I’ve really enjoyed that style of gameing, so I wound up …

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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 the post. I’m just going to replace some sliders with lists of images you can click on. Before upgrading my phone I heard the Pixel 8a referred to as the “most boring …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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