Technologist, solarpunk, gamer, backpacker, passionate about using the internet to push more power to more people.
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Last Notes npub16zsllwrkrwt5emz2805vhjewj6nsjrw0ge0latyrn2jv5gxf5k0q5l92l7 mplorentz I'm going to be hanging out in in the "Voice Chat" room in Flotilla today in case anyone wants to jump in and try it out! Here's an invite to the space: https://app.flotilla.social/spaces/meta.spaces.coracle.social/trarghstroyno6 npub16zsllwrkrwt5emz2805vhjewj6nsjrw0ge0latyrn2jv5gxf5k0q5l92l7 mplorentz TIL the fairphone people make airpods with replaceable batteries: https://www.fairphone.com/fairbuds npub16zsllwrkrwt5emz2805vhjewj6nsjrw0ge0latyrn2jv5gxf5k0q5l92l7 mplorentz This looks great! npub16zsllwrkrwt5emz2805vhjewj6nsjrw0ge0latyrn2jv5gxf5k0q5l92l7 mplorentz This blog post about the end of the American Empire has been living rent-free in my head since Saturday. It's quite long but it touches a lot of ideas that have been rolling around in my head like: how quickly will the American Empire fall apart, is it worth trying to reform the current system, how can we molt into better forms of governance through it? npub16zsllwrkrwt5emz2805vhjewj6nsjrw0ge0latyrn2jv5gxf5k0q5l92l7 mplorentz If you're curious what I've been working on for the past month, I published my quarterly report for Opensats on my blog: https://mattlorentz.com/2026/03/30/opensats-q1-grant-update.html npub16zsllwrkrwt5emz2805vhjewj6nsjrw0ge0latyrn2jv5gxf5k0q5l92l7 mplorentz Welcome Bart! Nice to see another DWebber here. npub16zsllwrkrwt5emz2805vhjewj6nsjrw0ge0latyrn2jv5gxf5k0q5l92l7 mplorentz The navigation stuff hasn't been too bad. In fact introducing friction into every part of using my phone has made me really mindful of how I use it, which has been welcome. The worst part has been text messages. Some messages I don't receive, some still go to iMessage on my Mac, some won't use RCS, and some will. Thankfully most of my friends are on Signal so that minimizes the damage. npub16zsllwrkrwt5emz2805vhjewj6nsjrw0ge0latyrn2jv5gxf5k0q5l92l7 mplorentz Lifetime iOS user 3 days into using GrapheneOS as my daily driver. AMA. npub16zsllwrkrwt5emz2805vhjewj6nsjrw0ge0latyrn2jv5gxf5k0q5l92l7 mplorentz That sounds good to me! We can always move later if we really want to. npub16zsllwrkrwt5emz2805vhjewj6nsjrw0ge0latyrn2jv5gxf5k0q5l92l7 mplorentz I think direct democracy here would be disastrous. To move into a better situation than the current developer oligarchy I think looks something like elected councils that represent the different kind of network participants (client developers, relay operators, regular users) and follow some constitution/rules of order. The cool part about the internet is that there can be multiple competing councils/institutions. npub16zsllwrkrwt5emz2805vhjewj6nsjrw0ge0latyrn2jv5gxf5k0q5l92l7 mplorentz This guide was so useful. Especially the app recommendations as a user coming from iOS. npub16zsllwrkrwt5emz2805vhjewj6nsjrw0ge0latyrn2jv5gxf5k0q5l92l7 mplorentz It's so obvious in the photo, but I don't notice it while using the phone. Maybe there is some magic going on with the hardware or software because yeah even here in Amethyst the horizontal lines look perfectly straight. Maybe its a trick of the brain. npub16zsllwrkrwt5emz2805vhjewj6nsjrw0ge0latyrn2jv5gxf5k0q5l92l7 mplorentz Thanks! I will check that out! npub16zsllwrkrwt5emz2805vhjewj6nsjrw0ge0latyrn2jv5gxf5k0q5l92l7 mplorentz I'm up for this too! npub16zsllwrkrwt5emz2805vhjewj6nsjrw0ge0latyrn2jv5gxf5k0q5l92l7 mplorentz Hello funny square phone. npub16zsllwrkrwt5emz2805vhjewj6nsjrw0ge0latyrn2jv5gxf5k0q5l92l7 mplorentz Welcome back! npub16zsllwrkrwt5emz2805vhjewj6nsjrw0ge0latyrn2jv5gxf5k0q5l92l7 mplorentz I'm planning out my trip to DWeb camp in Berlin this year. I've never been to Germany. Does anyone have recommendations of things to see while I'm there or places to stay? Any advice on traveling in Germany? npub16zsllwrkrwt5emz2805vhjewj6nsjrw0ge0latyrn2jv5gxf5k0q5l92l7 mplorentz One part of Star Wars that always seemed unfuturistic was how disconnected all the tech was. Like they talk to each other on radios and carry data around on chips and pay with cash a lot of the time. But watching Andor today it doesn’t seem so silly. Like I could totally see a world where AI accelerates offensive capabilities so quickly that as a defense we just turn off the internet and computers become simpler tools again. npub16zsllwrkrwt5emz2805vhjewj6nsjrw0ge0latyrn2jv5gxf5k0q5l92l7 mplorentz Yeah I have a dev instance deployed at https://shipwreck.scuttle.works. The two relays that I know support livekit atm are wss://pyramid.fiatjaf.com and wss://relay.scuttle.works. I'll DM you an invite to the latter. npub16zsllwrkrwt5emz2805vhjewj6nsjrw0ge0latyrn2jv5gxf5k0q5l92l7 mplorentz ah sorry just saw this npub16zsllwrkrwt5emz2805vhjewj6nsjrw0ge0latyrn2jv5gxf5k0q5l92l7 mplorentz Yeah he's been building it for like a year and a half. I have been helping out for about 3 weeks 😂 npub16zsllwrkrwt5emz2805vhjewj6nsjrw0ge0latyrn2jv5gxf5k0q5l92l7 mplorentz ❤️ makes sense! I will keep you posted then. npub16zsllwrkrwt5emz2805vhjewj6nsjrw0ge0latyrn2jv5gxf5k0q5l92l7 mplorentz Yes! DM me your contact info? npub16zsllwrkrwt5emz2805vhjewj6nsjrw0ge0latyrn2jv5gxf5k0q5l92l7 mplorentz Hm, yeah I'm not thinking of gamers specifically. But reading about Discord's tech makes it clear that it's very difficult to do well. npub16zsllwrkrwt5emz2805vhjewj6nsjrw0ge0latyrn2jv5gxf5k0q5l92l7 mplorentz I think it's worth experimenting with. Throw fifty bucks at it, see how much the needle moves. npub16zsllwrkrwt5emz2805vhjewj6nsjrw0ge0latyrn2jv5gxf5k0q5l92l7 mplorentz I just posted a project update video for Keydex that shows the current features and future plans. Plus an announcement that I'm renaming the project from Keydex to Horcrux! Check it out: https://tube.tchncs.de/w/oyxzSzhocB3k6BNbVTdU7d npub16zsllwrkrwt5emz2805vhjewj6nsjrw0ge0latyrn2jv5gxf5k0q5l92l7 mplorentz I'm looking for a few people to help me test my social key backup tool for Nostr! Hoping to get at least 4 folks. I'm not going to actually back up my real key to you, I just want to run through the process with others and make sure it works for other people. You'll need python installed and some familiarity with the command line.
