Nostr notes by Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com)

Please hire me. I need health insurance and a job to survive and ...

2025-09-09T22:27:34Z

Please hire me. I need health insurance and a job to survive and I'm running out of time. https://hireme.fyi

#GetFediHired

I have just a few weeks left on unemployment to find a job and ...

2025-08-29T17:40:36Z

I have just a few weeks left on unemployment to find a job and get some health insurance.

Looking at Linux sysadmin/IT director roles. I've stopped looking for accessibility roles as I've found nobody is taking those seriously.

But I'll take anything at this point.

Maybe try plugging in some USB-A connectors first time too.

2025-08-21T00:08:15Z

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Maybe try plugging in some USB-A connectors first time too.

Go buy some lottery tickets

2025-08-21T00:07:24Z

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Go buy some lottery tickets

the nature of RSS being used as a delivery mechanism helped I’m ...

2025-08-15T12:46:18Z

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the nature of RSS being used as a delivery mechanism helped I’m sure.

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2025-08-12T02:31:38Z

People who are moving away from #GitHub…

Nice. When I first started at the FSF we used a bastardized ...

2025-08-08T05:30:29Z

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Nice. When I first started at the FSF we used a bastardized version of Fedora Core 2 or 3 I think for quite a while before finally getting something else Debian based but I ran Fedora on my ThinkPad for around 2 years from 2009-2011 before switching to Ubuntu until 2021. I really liked how Red Hat 9 looked with the Bluecurve thing but I understand people working on it didn’t like that.

Have you all seen pixieditor? An open source image editor without ...

2025-08-07T01:55:07Z

Have you all seen pixieditor? An open source image editor without a stubborn developer or a terrible name!

I just became a supporting founder and it would be great to see this succeed.

#opensource #libregraphics https://pixieditor.net/

I'm glad to hear Google found some hard disk space to keep ...

2025-08-04T01:02:26Z

I'm glad to hear Google found some hard disk space to keep all those URLs.

Sad I had to delete all my Google Drive files to free up space for them, but I'm sure I can remember some of my old documents and spreadsheets if I try hard enough.

https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-links-will-no-longer-be-available/

#indieweb

if you wait a few minutes someone will write a new sound system ...

2025-07-27T02:37:19Z

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if you wait a few minutes someone will write a new sound system for Linux that will either fix it or make it worse.

People need “I'm going through a tunnel” to get out of ...

2025-07-20T01:55:12Z

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People need “I'm going through a tunnel” to get out of conversations with their bosses.

Do you use them on different computers or are you actively ...

2025-07-18T17:17:35Z

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Do you use them on different computers or are you actively switching during your work?

I agree it makes very little difference.

Are there any well known, used by lots of people open source ...

2025-07-16T01:00:32Z

Are there any well known, used by lots of people open source projects that are using AI slop for contributions?

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2025-07-14T02:39:08Z

The best operating system nobody really uses in 2025

Just thinking aloud here. Would you put a small "made by ...

2025-07-10T21:26:57Z

Just thinking aloud here.

Would you put a small "made by human" button on your website in an effort to stop AI crawlers?

Traffic from the button would be used to get more IP addresses and bad browser user agents.

If you vote, please boost so I can get some better data.

OS-level notifications? That would be an instant uninstall for ...

2025-07-08T16:30:21Z

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OS-level notifications? That would be an instant uninstall for me.

How does this look for you? Please have a look on your phones and ...

2025-07-07T17:42:35Z

How does this look for you? Please have a look on your phones and other gadgets if you can.

https://1800www.com/placeholder/

#indieweb

Have you ever owned/had the exclusive use of a black and white TV ...

2025-06-28T05:29:39Z

Have you ever owned/had the exclusive use of a black and white TV set?

Let's say you wanted to block a bunch of rogue web crawlers ...

2025-06-20T23:48:47Z

Let's say you wanted to block a bunch of rogue web crawlers run by slop companies from your website.

What are some tricks you'd apply?

I already have a list of AS numbers that send garbage traffic around and I'm also looking at non-standard user agents.

and the PDF is just a JPEG in a PDF.

2025-06-13T13:19:24Z

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and the PDF is just a JPEG in a PDF.

Should I have multiple accounts for various things on here or ...

2025-06-04T07:58:51Z

Should I have multiple accounts for various things on here or just the one stream of nonsense?

I’m trying to post here more often but I don’t always post my wargaming stuff or music/TV stuff here and instead focus on technical stuff.

Does anyone have any of those. online "learn ...

2025-06-02T22:21:41Z

Does anyone have *any* of those. online "learn programming" type things they like and would actually recommend?

I've not been a professional software developer for well over a decade, and the last code I wrote other than my own personal stuff was mostly just fixing up other people's HTML/CSS/JS, not starting from scratch.

Hoping for something that doesn't shove AI slop at me, and ideally something for either Ruby or PHP.

I've tried boot.dev -- it's fun, but Python and AI slop in places now.

I just posted an updated statement.

2025-05-28T22:15:36Z

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I just posted an updated statement.

https://github.com/foocorp/hacienda/discussions/117 Libre.fm will ...

2025-05-28T17:02:51Z

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https://github.com/foocorp/hacienda/discussions/117

Libre.fm will be closing down too.

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2025-05-28T16:15:41Z

Taking a break from social media for a bit.

Reply to this with a domain name or band name you've thought ...

2025-05-13T05:35:33Z

Reply to this with a domain name or band name you've thought up, written down and never done anything with.

I'll go first. I bought zebrafoot.com after seeing it on a Law and Order episode.

I will commit to putting up a picture of a Zebra Foot there and a link to the posts for the best names I see.

Please repost good ones! #zebrafoot

Please help #osuosl keep doing the excellent work they do for our ...

2025-05-12T02:01:41Z

Please help #osuosl keep doing the excellent work they do for our communities.

https://osuosl.org/blog/osl-future/

Please share this post so they can get the visibility they need.

Donating is sadly a little fiddly but here: https://osuosl.org/donate/

Just lost my day job after 6 and a half years out of the blue ...

2025-03-20T15:03:00Z

Just lost my day job after 6 and a half years out of the blue with no warning.

8 weeks severance.

My wife and I have now both lost our jobs in the last few weeks. I will lose my health insurance in 8 weeks.

Fuck.

will you post the URL to the book?

2025-03-20T00:27:46Z

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will you post the URL to the book?

extra level of confusion would be buying this: ...

2025-03-16T20:14:30Z

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extra level of confusion would be buying this:

https://www.discogs.com/master/4330-New-Order-Confusion

Imagine the confusion that comes when Discogs has “New order” ...

2025-03-16T18:28:13Z

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Imagine the confusion that comes when Discogs has “New order” in the subject line of their sales emails when you buy a lot of New Order records.

No proprietary plugins. No DRM. Firefox shouldn’t even have a ...

2025-02-27T23:30:53Z

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No proprietary plugins. No DRM.

Firefox shouldn’t even have a EULA. Mozilla should be collecting ZERO information from the browser that they cannot collect from httpd logs.

To quote Mozilla co-founder jwz (npub1l77…cjyv)

“In my humble but correct opinion, Mozilla should be doing two things and two things only:

1. Building THE reference implementation web browser, and
2. Being a jugular-snapping attack dog on standards committees.
There is no 3.”

Mozilla doesn’t need to build any AI things. All Mozilla needs ...

2025-02-27T23:28:24Z

Mozilla doesn’t need to build any AI things.
All Mozilla needs to do is: make a web browser that is standards compliant and does not adopt any of the nonsense that for-profit companies are doing to try and destroy the web.
Mozilla doesn’t need to run a VPN service, data broker service or anything else.

I just want my money to donate to the development of the browser.

No AI stuff. No cryptocurrency donations. https://hachyderm.io/@joeyh/114078238284059938

If you have a device that CAN run Apple Intelligence you need to ...

2025-02-23T04:46:07Z

If you have a device that CAN run Apple Intelligence you need to turn this off as well as the general Apple Intelligence setting.

Settings > Screen Time > scroll down to Content and Privacy > turn on Restrictions > Intelligence and Siri > turn off the first three options.

- Even if you’ve already turned it off elsewhere.

- Even if you don’t use screen time. https://social.coop/@mattl/114050543215068352

Happy St. Skeletor’s Day ...

2025-02-15T22:44:30Z

Happy St. Skeletor’s Day

If you haven’t heard of Libre.fm it’s a lot like Last FM but ...

2024-12-07T03:17:49Z

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If you haven’t heard of Libre.fm it’s a lot like Last FM but open source and run by pretty much just me at this point.

375,870 users have listened to 305,667,304 songs so far.

Other than Bandcamp and Discogs what is a good generic resource ...

2024-12-07T03:03:01Z

Other than Bandcamp and Discogs what is a good generic resource to link to for a band assuming you know the band name and maybe the album name?

(I run Libre.fm, we’d love to offer a way that at least tries to link to you getting paid)

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2024-12-03T03:49:36Z

Do you actively hate BlueSky?

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2024-11-26T14:01:54Z

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https://events.indieweb.org/2025/05/indiewebcamp-düsseldorf-lbBv9MGOChq2 tentative right now. It would be great if it could happen.

Finally made it to Waffle House ...

2024-11-25T21:05:03Z

Finally made it to Waffle House

Got a sticker. ...

2024-11-05T16:56:11Z

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Got a sticker.

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2024-11-05T16:46:45Z

Voted.

How to migrate from wordpress.com to eleventy via Ghost ...

2024-10-30T05:15:29Z

How to migrate from wordpress.com to eleventy via Ghost

https://mat.tl/blog/2024/10/29/migrating-from-wordpress-com-to-self-hosted-eleventy-via-ghost/

#indieweb #librefm #ghost #eleventy

Libre.fm registration is now open to the public again. Read more ...

2024-09-30T19:58:10Z

Libre.fm registration is now open to the public again.

Read more on the future of the project: https://roadmap.libre.fm/ and get an account at https://libre.fm/

#indieweb #activitypub #socialweb #librefm

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2024-09-17T02:21:42Z

Just saw an ad for Jira. How’s everyone else?

My latest piece for Tedium is up. All about my mammoth journey ...

2024-09-15T20:59:11Z

My latest piece for Tedium is up. All about my mammoth journey across the US and back by train.

https://tedium.co/2024/09/15/amtrak-cross-country-travel-faq/

Thank you to everyone who sent in questions! https://tedium.co/2024/09/15/amtrak-cross-country-travel-faq/

What email providers are people using that aren’t Microsoft or ...

2024-09-08T18:01:56Z

What email providers are people using that aren’t Microsoft or Gmail or Fastmail?

(I’m currently using Fastmail for something)

Please boost this so I can get a sense of what the wider community is using.

Got a self hosted WordPress site? Want a fancy modern static ...

2024-09-07T01:41:52Z

Got a self hosted WordPress site? Want a fancy modern static site?

https://github.com/mattl/wordpress-to-eleventy

I’d be curious to know how you get along with this. Let me know what breaks. https://github.com/mattl/wordpress-to-eleventy

Putting out a final call for questions about my trip for my ...

2024-09-06T02:12:41Z

Putting out a final call for questions about my trip for my upcoming Tedium (npub1tq6…hvnc) article about my epic 6 day train journey across the US and back.

- 😎 If you have a question please ask.

- 🎉 No question? Please boost this post so we get a lot of questions.

- 👀 There will be lots of unseen photos from my trip too.

It is wild to me how much better I can see with my glasses on. I ...

2024-09-05T16:59:23Z

It is wild to me how much better I can see with my glasses on. I should probably wear them more often, huh? At the same time, stuff at the periphery of my vision is blurry and I think that makes me feel uneasy so I wind up taking them off a lot, and then forget to put them back on.

Just bought no-ai.club. I’ll let you all know how to join the ...

2024-08-31T21:01:02Z

Just bought no-ai.club. I’ll let you all know how to join the club soon. There will be stickers.

If you’re going to #xoxofest let me know. I’ll be there every ...

2024-08-18T20:02:47Z

If you’re going to #xoxofest let me know.

I’ll be there every day and my shirt has my avatar on it.

start calling her Alexa

2024-08-08T23:23:59Z

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start calling her Alexa

yeah I don’t use it anymore but I can’t fault people who are ...

2024-07-17T19:26:45Z

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yeah I don’t use it anymore but I can’t fault people who are just trying to share their work. Between Mastodon and Bluesky there’s just not enough people for some people to share their stuff exclusively.

I think if you’re in the UK posting about UK stuff for a UK ...

2024-07-17T02:12:48Z

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I think if you’re in the UK posting about UK stuff for a UK audience you probably don’t do much for US elections either way.

I barely gave US politics a second thought before living here.

if you’re in the US or your audience is predominantly in the ...

2024-07-17T02:04:03Z

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if you’re in the US or your audience is predominantly in the US, yup.

So many UK folks I know have had a hard time finding an audience off-Twitter.

good to know. I don’t know too much about web developers these ...

2024-06-25T03:41:57Z

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good to know.

I don’t know too much about web developers these days but if they’re using Linux they use Ubuntu by default?

can I buy a computer with Fedora preinstalled anywhere? Dell ...

2024-06-25T03:02:50Z

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can I buy a computer with Fedora preinstalled anywhere? Dell sells Ubuntu laptops at least.

I got a bit of time to finally get my Ubuntu laptop going this ...

2024-06-25T02:09:25Z

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I got a bit of time to finally get my Ubuntu laptop going this weekend. I’ve been away from desktop Linux for two years for the first time in 20.

Snaps and a lot of other small things feel incredibly annoying and unpolished but I’m also on a 2 year old version of Ubuntu because it shipped with my computer.

I’m very happy to chat about my experiences with anyone if that’s helpful.

I have this machine primarily to test things, I won’t be using it regularly.