Nate

https://nate.mecca1.net/

Random person on the internet. I sometimes blog or work on projects I might talk about here.

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npub1jy90jpcdl447ae3lp4924s65khdpvnttkg7fepmvmafycusyueksrvllx9

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nate@nate.mecca1.net

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2026-10-22 01:14:57 UTC

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Interesting, didn't realize that. I'll have to do some more reading on it.

2026-10-14 13:25:02 UTC

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2026-10-07 14:14:45 UTC

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Lol to me the drawing almost looked like a face. Can see it now 😆

2026-10-06 21:21:32 UTC

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What does it mean if I can name a percentage of both lol? Gonna try my guesses, lemme know how right or wrong I am.
* Arch
* Mint
* unknown
* Debian
* OpenSuse
* Gentoo
* Unknown
* Fedora
* Maple
* Unknown
* Some kind of spruce
* White oak
* Unknown
* Beach

2026-10-05 21:03:49 UTC

Finally finished the saga of the forgotten warrior series. I kinda wish there was more lore building in the end, but absolutely a series worth reading.
Also, I finally got to see the fabled dedication "See George, it's not that hard."
#bookstr
#nevent1q…2ur7

2026-10-05 16:31:19 UTC

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/europe/russia-plague-suspected-lab-worker-dies-200-medical-observation-rcna601559
#nevent1q…4eww

2026-10-03 18:07:48 UTC

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Depends on what we're talking about. If it's AWS & cloud services then prob carry on like normal. The laptop acting as a server on my desk and anything more decentralized like Syncthing/Nostr is pretty undisturbed by that sort of stuff. Though some cash on hand, and having a few different banking options (different credit cards, some cash in services like PayPal, ect), could be handy to make sure I could buy things.
If you mean something really serious, like taking out the Grid and the internet, then that's a different story. A few days at least of food, fuel, batteries, and the like; warm clothes, a wind up radio/flashlight, a weapon, and probably some sort of solar power. I've got a mini folding panel for phones, but if/when I buy a house I'd love to setup some cheap used panels on some posts or something, maybe get myself a makeshift mini off grid power source that's got enough juice to at least charge an electric motorcycle if not Lvl 2 EV charging. Otherwise, probably a generator.
Also probably wouldn't hurt to have offline data. Kiwix, Survival Manual, Trail Sense, and Equate all are pretty useful offline data apps - not to mention ebooks & physical books, offline LLMs, & physical maps or offline navigation apps like Organic Maps/OSMand.
My 2c

2026-09-21 11:42:40 UTC

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@nprofile…ttc0, @nprofile…3z58 & to an extent myself all come to mind

2026-09-16 11:41:15 UTC

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Love the thumbnail 😆, Debian & derivatives ftw

2026-09-15 11:42:23 UTC

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Wayland on my main PC and Surface tab, Xlibre on my ewaste grade Chromebook.

2026-09-11 21:58:52 UTC

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Adventure awaits stranger, good luck

2026-09-09 20:34:42 UTC

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Folding phones are interesting, I know a lot of more Luddite aligned people want smaller phones, but honestly the bigger the better IMO. 2k is an absurd price to pay for a phone though. 2k would get me nearly 2 months rent at my last apartment, and more than 4x the most I've ever spent on an electric.

2026-09-08 16:48:03 UTC

Also, some #astrophotography
https://blossom.ditto.pub/4b4c150a8f67ec1deeac6439fde94dafc29864d02555afbf6d2d68ee6a08554c.jpeg
https://blossom.ditto.pub/b2664709ac39f3a795aaa26856fcd351f017f7113472d21b5a8cd96549966b56.jpeg
https://blossom.ditto.pub/5eba63d42d6bc3889b98b3e5b0808e349f208f6d6e59b8d4a1a7ad6837ad466a.jpeg
#nevent1q…ld8t

2026-09-08 16:46:25 UTC

https://blossom.ditto.pub/79f013ccddb3c8d7f47818ae8b89aaeb6843dee8fc88a74ec548074d3d9e8bfd.jpeg
https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/c55d409613cb902195766545a3bb5252beba4ca87d9d33d34e0a77fb9bf8cdbd.jpeg
https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/9c156cda980f81db0a952009bedb3be841a4b52916a00ffd4f020d6c231d623a.jpeg
https://blossom.ditto.pub/d65b0723156d134a27d96df366d15bb84e75b878282433c80bde6a0b79e356e3.jpeg
#photography

2026-09-03 00:10:25 UTC

My afternoon/evening in a nutshell:
) I'm working a bit late, but I'd really like to get this thing fixed before I leave. I took my motorcycle, and it'll rain in the evening, but I'll be back hours before it starts.
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) Well, I'm cutting it close, but I've still got time to drive ~110 miles before the storm hits
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) I'm definitely going to get rained on, but a little summer rain won't hurt me.
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) Severe thunderstorm warning
) eff
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) Tornado warning while driving down the highway on a 250cc moto
) eff, eff, eff
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Long story short I hightailed it off the highway, hesitated and decided to shelter at a gas station. The tornado watch extended from 7:30 to 11 so I decided to book it through some really bad rain to a work location 3 miles away. Still 60 miles from home though, and leaving puddles on a conference room floor.
Honestly of all the places to hunker down for the night this is actually a pretty nice place, so don't worry too much internet strangers.
Moral of the story? Don't give it your all, just do the bare minimum and get home to watch TV or something lol. The thing I needed to fix? Didn't even get it fixed. Wound up doing a half bandaid fix that could have been done in 10 minutes instead of the hours I spent on it.

2026-08-14 23:52:28 UTC

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I'm growing a bit. Something ate my best tomato plant, but I've gotten a few harvests of beans and lettuce so far.

2026-08-07 22:31:08 UTC

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LocalStorage and offloading processing to clients is based. I'm a moron and a s*** dev (or, more so nowadays, vibe coder) so disregard everything I say. But most users' devices have plenty of resources to spare and their own data/processes are tiny anyway. A truly decentralized system is often clunky, but relying on a centralized server for the basics than utilizing local resources has got to be the most efficient thing ever.

2026-08-02 20:41:51 UTC

@nprofile…9xfg did you intentionally delete your post on the Fiat Topolino? I wanted to reference it and saw it was missing, there's an archived version but I don't want to share it if it was intentionally redacted.

2026-07-18 17:40:11 UTC

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1) The protocol is neat.
2) People seem pretty chill. Things can get heated occasionally, but it's usually the Bitcoin stuff I don't have as much of a stake in, so it's pretty easy to get along with people.
3) People seem to share a lot of my interests. The other week @nprofile…4463 and I were chatting in Shavian. I've never met somebody outside of Nostr - on the Internet or IRL - that even knew what it was (an alternative phonetic alphabet). It seems to attract people of similar wavelengths.

2026-07-01 20:11:03 UTC

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Nuh Uh, there's at least 15 of us. Stop putting down Nostr with your low all estimates.
😉

2026-04-23 17:25:38 UTC

nate.mecca1.net/posts/2026-04-23_nmail-is-neat/
A quick blog post about NMail/NostrMail, backwards compatible email on Nostr.
#nmail #nostrmail #blog #blogstr

2026-03-24 21:57:01 UTC

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Is cereal a soup?
If not, why?

2025-01-26 02:24:21 UTC

Just finished the book "Son of the Black sword." Heard about it randomly the other day, apparently the last book of the series is being dedicated to George RR Matin with the text "See, it's not so hard"
Definitely worth checking out. The world building is really spectacular, it starts out fantasy like but - without spoilers - there's a lot more about the world that slowly gets elaborated on. There's also a lot of political intrigue, although it's a bit slow to start, and the characters feel really fleshed out and unique.
Definitely with a read/listen.
#bookstr