Nostr notes by Doug Webb

Does it exist? * a powerbank * that uses replaceable 18650 cells ...

2026-08-18T16:56:15Z

Does it exist?
* a powerbank
* that uses replaceable 18650 cells
* with USB-C in
* with USB-C and USB-A out

I just speed read "zero to one" by Peter Thiel to ...

2026-08-17T15:03:58Z

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I just speed read "zero to one" by Peter Thiel to understand the enemy. Not a great book, but interesting based on who it is.

The one chapter hit painfully true: "if you build it, they will come" mostly doesn't work.

I often having this feeling I should do marketing/sales for a ...

2026-08-17T15:01:51Z

I often having this feeling I should do marketing/sales for a Good Project.

I did this already for @npub10pl…tmpk It was hard, and I ...

2026-08-08T08:20:39Z

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I did this already for Fork Awesome (npub10pl…tmpk) It was hard, and I don't think I did a good enough job of opening the emotional space to celebrate and grieve, but it was the right choice and I'd do better next time.

FOSS-land is filled with half-dead projects, some of which should remain in limbo, but many of which should be allowed to rest.

I would like to offer my service as a project undertaker 🥀 Did ...

2026-08-08T08:16:06Z

I would like to offer my service as a project undertaker 🥀

Did you start something years ago, and you know in your heart of hearts you'll never work on it again? 🍂

Has your project been completely outpaced by another, and you can no longer in good faith recommend other people to use yours? 🏺

Let them go. Help others to spend their efforts wisely, and take a weight off your mind.

I can help you remember your motivation, celebrate the good, archive and redirect.

I think this is the point. That's why I'm asking if there ...

2026-07-18T23:31:08Z

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I think this is the point. That's why I'm asking if there is *any* hard power that could be leverage. Getting the EU to not only take a stance, but push it though could be something.... would fit in their digital sovereignty schtick I guess.

dare I ask why everyone doesn't use Transitous? 🙈

2026-07-18T21:34:04Z

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dare I ask why everyone doesn't use Transitous? 🙈

Or hard power. I'm guess that a disproportional number of ...

2026-07-18T17:02:23Z

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Or hard power. I'm guess that a disproportional number of people interested in the campaign are sysadmins... no, I'm not suggesting DDOS, but is there... something... they could do, or threaten?

Or do we throw the towel in, rally behind grapheneOS and try to get eveyone to install... https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/26337-android-developer-verification-are-we-screwed-no-doesnt-apply-to-gos/31

Instead of "trying to convince everyone" with our small ...

2026-07-18T16:57:58Z

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Instead of "trying to convince everyone" with our small numbers and lack of celebrity status, what hard power can we access?

The signatories of the open letter are the usual suspects https://keepandroidopen.org/open-letter/ if we had media associations on their, it would presumably mean more articles... can we get The Guardian to sign? Ars technica? Tech crunch? (Does media even sign such stuff?)

We are a diffuse movement of people in a significant minority. A ...

2026-07-18T16:53:02Z

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We are a diffuse movement of people in a significant minority. A petition is ultimately symbolic, without any of the spectacle attached to blockade.

Mancur Olson theorized that smaller groups have a better chance of achieving their goals, since they gain a proportionally higher benefit if their aims are achieved https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Logic_of_Collective_Action

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2026-07-18T16:37:45Z

Does #keepandroidopen stand a chance?

thanks! Can you ELI5 why transitous is unaffected?

2026-07-18T16:18:59Z

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thanks! Can you ELI5 why transitous is unaffected?

ich have jetzt @npub1rd5…h64s installiert, ganz andere UI aber ...

2026-07-18T10:52:11Z

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ich have jetzt Bimba (npub1rd5…h64s) installiert, ganz andere UI aber funktioniert

hast du eine Lösung gefunden? Ich vermisse Öffi sehr :(

2026-07-18T10:01:30Z

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hast du eine Lösung gefunden? Ich vermisse Öffi sehr :(

#offi #transportr are giving me "network problems" and no ...

2026-07-18T10:00:23Z

#offi #transportr are giving me "network problems" and no results... halp

Finally getting round to overhauling my SSG website. It's ...

2026-07-15T00:59:28Z

Finally getting round to overhauling my SSG website.

It's using metalsmith, which is pretty low level, which Waozi (npub15vf…vddy) recommended me forever ago. Super minimal, 150 lines of JS + plugins.

It was off putting, and when I saw the lead dev had migrated to 11ty, I really considered it... or Hugo... or Hexo... or....

Nothing like trawling through alternatives (and trying a few out) in order to stick to the devil you know...

idk if anything can be _produced_ ethically at scale these days. ...

2026-04-22T21:56:22Z

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idk if anything can be _produced_ ethically at scale these days. So looking at _inputs_ is all that seems sensible. PV itself uses only trace amounts of rare minerals, which is what I thought you were talking about.

Sure aluminium for the frames, but it seems to all pale in comparison to the minerals required for batteries and cabling.

farewell reddit anon 😢 Interesting world we're coming too, ...

2026-03-01T13:07:10Z

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farewell reddit anon 😢

Interesting world we're coming too, where anything published online will likely be preserved for ever and quite possibly identifiable to author.

Most people will still remain anonymous by sheer volume of content, but politicians, etc will likely need to be trained from adolescence to keep squeaky clean record...

did anyone write a postmortem?

2026-02-25T10:42:31Z

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did anyone write a postmortem?

I would like to get a better grasp of digital information ...

2026-02-24T20:22:37Z

I would like to get a better grasp of digital information fundamentals...

Tables, wikis, tags, folders. Databases, triples, links.

Must be some overarching theory on this.

this story feels a lot like the solid project ...

2026-02-17T17:16:00Z

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this story feels a lot like the solid project https://solidproject.org/

Big splash at the beginning, some nerds get involved... but it's been years now, and when I tried to actually use one of the apps using it, UX was atrocious and I had to join a matrix room to get it working. Now I know I'm not the l33test hacker, but come on!

... This isn't satire? Damn. Just has that vibe of the ...

2026-02-13T20:23:58Z

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... This isn't satire? Damn. Just has that vibe of the Australian "honest government advert" thing.

caught myself about to do a calculation on my phone that I could ...

2026-02-12T19:06:41Z

caught myself about to do a calculation on my phone that I could clearly do myself. stopped, did it myself.

Sooo... there is https://tryquiet.org/ that looks like slack, ...

2026-02-09T21:11:53Z

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Sooo... there is https://tryquiet.org/ that looks like slack, "Encrypted p2p team chat with no servers, just Tor." GPL 3.0.

and there is https://stoat.chat/ that looks like discord, "Stoat is an open-source, user-first chat platform."

Still not sold on Zulip, above all for onboarding less techy ...

2026-02-09T20:37:58Z

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Still not sold on Zulip, above all for onboarding less techy folks.

Is there any free groupchat with UI mostly like Slack / Discord / Mattermost / Teams?

Absolutely wild how similar these two homepages are.

2026-02-09T20:35:46Z

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Absolutely wild how similar these two homepages are.

Your favorite open-core group chat, now in khaki or khaki ...

2026-02-09T20:34:53Z

Your favorite open-core group chat, now in khaki or khaki

#rocketchat #mattermost

yeesh, just had a look at Primal 🤢 Any nostr cultural ...

2026-02-07T21:26:30Z

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yeesh, just had a look at Primal 🤢

Any nostr cultural experiences without the antisemitism, conspiracy, Bitcoin stuff?

just read! Great pieces, thanks!

2026-02-07T21:00:35Z

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just read! Great pieces, thanks!

RE: https://social.wake.st/@liaizon/115989067770322256 If you are ...

2026-02-03T12:27:52Z

RE: https://social.wake.st/@liaizon/115989067770322256

If you are interested in what's coming next in our Fediverse adventure, read this thread from wakest likes your bugs ⁂ (npub1xse…lgk3) which they heroically live-tooted from the Social Web Dev room at FOSDEM!

quoting
note10gn…t6gh

First talk today at the Social Web Devroom we have Matthias Pfefferle (npub1jwr…7v3w) talking about the state of WordPress's fediverse integration
#FOSDEM #ActivityPub #fedidev

To add to the list of graphic design casualties this last 12 ...

2026-02-02T19:49:19Z

To add to the list of graphic design casualties this last 12 months, I just found out Technische Universität Dresden changed their logo from iconic and unique to generic nothingness 🤷

https://tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/profil/marke-tud/cd/neues-logo

#TUD

yeah, I know. Mages right? Heaven help them with marketing, those ...

2026-01-13T11:35:00Z

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yeah, I know. Mages right? Heaven help them with marketing, those screenshots are awful!

done 😌

2026-01-12T23:11:32Z

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done 😌

huh! Well, let them sort that out... oh, thanks for reminding me ...

2026-01-12T23:10:39Z

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huh! Well, let them sort that out... oh, thanks for reminding me to uninstall element RIGHT NOW

oh fair. How comes? It's web only right?

2026-01-10T09:34:39Z

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oh fair. How comes? It's web only right?

you told me this ages ago I think. Element also keeps crashing ...

2026-01-10T09:16:07Z

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you told me this ages ago I think. Element also keeps crashing recently... Are there any features missing from FluffyChat that makes it worth keeping element installed?

The solution to #Element spamming "X changed their display ...

2026-01-10T09:14:54Z

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The solution to #Element spamming "X changed their display name to Y" seems to be: use #fluffychat

https://fluffy.chat

FluffyChat collapses all those system messages into one expandable 🙏

u were slacking in December mate

2026-01-08T14:20:49Z

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u were slacking in December mate

For want of an "s", the sentence was lost...

2026-01-06T14:09:36Z

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For want of an "s", the sentence was lost...

that's exciting, I'll be there

2025-12-25T13:56:10Z

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that's exciting, I'll be there

"x changed their display name to X" please, tell me how ...

2025-11-15T13:21:41Z

"x changed their display name to X"

please, tell me how to not see this any more?

#element #matrix

I don't know folks. We need more, better words. There is a ...

2025-11-14T11:24:27Z

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I don't know folks. We need more, better words.

There is a huge difference between "you are not welcome because you are <X>" and "you are welcome, but it might not be interesting or comfortable"

Collective drama: was talking to someone from a leftist ...

2025-11-14T11:18:27Z

Collective drama: was talking to someone from a leftist Hausprojekt (collective house) in Leipzig.

Some people wanted to organize an ironic "speed dating" for Valentines day. Some other people said that would discriminate against aromantic people, and they would veto until it was called "speed friending". It didn't happen at all in the end 🙃

Person said it was more to do with underlying tensions between queer-er and cis-er people.

"Gentlemen! We cannot fall behind on a mineshaft gap!" ...

2025-11-12T20:05:03Z

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"Gentlemen! We cannot fall behind on a mineshaft gap!"

(Paraphrasing Dr Strangelove)

OK. I've just not been on Twitter for ages, 4chan never. I ...

2025-10-16T17:13:13Z

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OK. I've just not been on Twitter for ages, 4chan never.

I still stand by my opinion that the fash acc thing is niche, and that there is a common sense understanding to what it means. But maybe it is poisoned for now, for you at least and therefore other people who's opinion I care about.

"Growth", "scaling" and "adoption" all kind of got claimed by the business ontology of capitalist realism anyway.

Do you have a proposal for how I should rephrase conversation title?

OK, but I had to look up e/acc just now... So I would say ...

2025-10-16T16:59:46Z

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OK, but I had to look up e/acc just now... So I would say "acceleration" is still in a state of plasticity. Or is it already too far gone in your opinion?

oh nice, it let's me change the title on the fly! Now ...

2025-10-16T16:48:17Z

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oh nice, it let's me change the title on the fly! Now it's "Fediverse acceleration(?)". Could be something else... But I do think acceleration in an instrumental sense is worth talking about.

I started a pol.is conversation on the topic "Fediverse ...

2025-10-16T16:32:53Z

I started a pol.is conversation on the topic "Fediverse acceleration" ⬇️ (You don't need an account)

https://pol.is/6skfwtthmn

pol.is is a FOSS web-app to help find consensus global & subgroup opinions within a set of participants 🤝

I've heard a lot about it over the years, but have had no experience with it. It looks like you rate statements positively 👍 or negatively 👎 and can write your own ✍️ After 7 participants, report data should become available.

#polis #governance #foss #fediverse

yo, what is this shit eh

2025-10-09T13:08:47Z

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yo, what is this shit eh

read this, went into a shop and was confronted with this wall of ...

2025-09-23T10:24:23Z

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read this, went into a shop and was confronted with this wall of digital payment options

thanks for reminding me, def good if it's for multiple ...

2025-09-17T15:16:59Z

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thanks for reminding me, def good if it's for multiple points, i.e. creating a new map.

ahhhhh what is the map to use when you want to easily link to a ...

2025-09-17T12:46:55Z

ahhhhh what is the map to use when you want to easily link to a specific location with a specific view? bc it ain't #OSM (love OSM btw)

@npub1fus…tvjp your website seems to be timing out

2025-08-26T09:45:18Z

GNU Taler (npub1fus…tvjp) your website seems to be timing out

What resources would you recommend for getting into #activitypub ...

2025-07-02T15:55:57Z

What resources would you recommend for getting into #activitypub

Basic theory, hello world ... implementation

Don't hold back, flood me 🌊

Seen in #Berlin - Nice one punx.social ...

2025-06-21T09:59:54Z

Seen in #Berlin - Nice one punx.social

interesting article, I was thinking of a similar campaign for ...

2025-04-29T12:03:24Z

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interesting article, I was thinking of a similar campaign for glass jars with labels that don't come off with water.

Forcing sellers to deal with end-of-life, perhaps with an additional charge for "new" clothes, would help increase cost for new and incentivize secondhand.

Ferry from #Marseille to #Tunisia, ~25 hours. About 100€ per ...

2025-02-15T11:49:33Z

Ferry from #Marseille to #Tunisia, ~25 hours.

About 100€ per person with sleeping in chairs/on floor, so economically only makes sense if you have a car or loads of baggage. But you'd miss the pace and romance of the sea 🌊 Price seems to vary little with time.

Had to think multiple times of the people trying to make the opposite journey and the lives lost trying #noborders

how about "picshare" ? (Like weirdly pronounced ...

2025-02-10T11:50:44Z

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how about "picshare" ? (Like weirdly pronounced "picture")

cool. I think I should read it, question is when. I feel I need ...

2025-02-10T11:33:48Z

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cool. I think I should read it, question is when. I feel I need to get into action now, and "big analysis" is a bit tricky to act on... Think now is not the time for this one for me.

I heard about "solutions journalism" a while back, and ...

2025-02-10T11:12:00Z

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I heard about "solutions journalism" a while back, and see there is even some organization on that https://www.solutionsjournalism.org/

I haven't, but it's gathering tallies on my reading list. ...

2025-02-10T10:57:19Z

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I haven't, but it's gathering tallies on my reading list.

I gather it's more about theory?

Thinking more about reading "Blueprint for revolution", which is about the learnings of Otpor

RIP pencil lead ⚰️

2025-02-07T18:33:57Z

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RIP pencil lead ⚰️

how do we tell the story that the fediverse is complex web of ...

2025-01-23T20:29:38Z

how do we tell the story that the fediverse is complex web of instances, and that that is desirable?

(e.g.there is a direct link between the search not returning every result -- independent moderation -- isolating instances of abuse)

this is critical for helping people exit the hegemonies, because there are desires learned from being there that we can't & don't want to recreate

do you have a recommendation for facebook too?

2025-01-21T16:50:46Z

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do you have a recommendation for facebook too?

It is time for me to completely delete my twitter and facebook ...

2025-01-21T15:22:50Z

It is time for me to completely delete my twitter and facebook accounts ⚰️ 🥀

For years I was just squatting, but now just having those accounts feels like party membership...

Tips on how to exit with maximal earth scorching?

I b der

2025-01-18T13:38:47Z

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I b der

thanks for your thoughts. Curious what the discussion was - on ...

2024-11-27T20:56:33Z

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thanks for your thoughts. Curious what the discussion was - on fedi?

I am very skeptical that The Bad People will be put off anyone's code based on license: they typically have the money to reimplement or legally battle their way. This understanding informs my pragmatic support for Foss/public domain.

(Feels like a good place to mention the Telekommunit Manifesto though, which makes a strong case for "non-free" licensing https://networkcultures.org/blog/2010/10/21/the-telekommunist-from-dmytri-kleiner-is-out-now/ )

A while ago I bought a vintage Dymo-Mite M22 embossing labeler ...

2024-11-25T17:49:45Z

A while ago I bought a vintage Dymo-Mite M22 embossing labeler after seeing a lot of other people on r/buyitforlife complaining about the new plastic ones. It is a pleasure to use and the result is great!

Was looking for instructions since I'm sharing it, and use is not 100% intuitive. Mind blown when I found the original instructions + exploded diagram + *price list for every single piece!*

#righttorepair #buyitforlife #dymo #backtothefuture

I will gladly user test!

2024-09-10T17:49:40Z

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I will gladly user test!

there's this thing called tax 😈 on top of that, many ...

2024-08-24T07:14:37Z

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there's this thing called tax 😈 on top of that, many companies simply make enough profits to be able to offer toilets for free use - if they wanted. Pay toilets seem to typically be an anti-homeless measure rather than anything economic.

I was travelling from Wales to Germany recently. Used a bunch of paid and public toilets. Almost no correlation between cleanliness and pay-for-ness.

Radical Graffiti (npub1wjs…ggtv)

the war comparison is weird and sinister. You're completely ...

2024-08-16T16:47:34Z

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the war comparison is weird and sinister. You're completely overlooking the reasons for the destruction, and you make it sound like the loss of life is inconsequential.

I only found this out a month ago when a bunch of Microsoft stuff ...

2024-07-01T09:07:34Z

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I only found this out a month ago when a bunch of Microsoft stuff crashed for some hours, incl bing -> ddg

Using start page now, which is based on google. I mean, if I'm gonna piggy back off bigtech, might as well choose the leader 🤷

#searx and #yacy seem to be be cooler, but didn't find time to investigate.

side-note: ddg is bing under the hood.

2024-06-30T21:25:22Z

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side-note: ddg is bing under the hood.

#simplex seems like a pretty cool messenger, with multiple ...

2024-06-01T11:25:58Z

#simplex seems like a pretty cool messenger, with multiple privacy advantages over #signal - and it seems to 'just work'!

any opinions fediverse? or ppl who want to connect?

I actually don't know how to send PGP encrypted emails. ...

2024-05-31T13:44:39Z

I actually don't know how to send PGP encrypted emails. Looked at a guide for thunderbird, I do not have enough mental capital for that rn.

A interesting organization asked for emails to be encrypted, and I am not even going to write them 😢

superjail? (Misery displacement theory)

2024-05-05T20:28:01Z

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superjail? (Misery displacement theory)