Nathan Dyer

nathandyer@hachyderm.io

Public interest technologist. Hopeless enjoyer of the little things. 📰 Newsroom Support Engineer for Freedom of the Press Foundation 💡 FOSS enthusiast ⌨️ Occasional blogger 🧑‍💻 Not a great developer but I dabble 🫘 2x Kidney Transplant recipient 🌿 Minimalist, humanist, and (aspiring) environmentalist 🏡 Tri-cities TN / Asheville NC 🤵 HusbandAll my toots are CC BY-NC-SA 4.0Friend to almost all, but racists, nationalists, and transphobes need not apply.

Posts

Post #4239542
Disability pride month is coming to a close, so I took some time to blog about my own disabilities and some of the accessibility features I appreciate: https://nathandyer.me/2026/07/30/disability-pride.html
Post #4158082
RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/116993753186047373 But surely this can't be true, they had a disc! 🙄️
Post #3973104
Wow, the most mealy-mouthed statement from Mullvad I can imagine. "It should be clear by now how the party donation relates to this. Mullvad does not condone it, nor condemn it. It most likely was a bad idea;" https://mullvad.net/en/blog/donation-controversy
Post #3969433
RE: https://floss.social/@gnome/116951721140063749 Pretty soon the only use I'll have for my GitHub account is work. Nice to see so many projects moving to self-hosted Forgejo instances!
Post #3909555
Does anyone out there use Forge Sparks (https://flathub.org/en/apps/com.mardojai.ForgeSparks)? I'm curious if others reliably get notifications. I've had it running in the background for a few weeks, and today is the first time I've seen any notifications come through (and these were all from Codeberg). Nothing from GitLab or GitHub. Curious if it's a me thing, or if something is broken. I'm fairly confident I set up the tokens correctly, and running from CLI I see HTTP 200...
Post #3869869
Linux (the kernel) is completely uninteresting to me as a technology. The only interesting thing about it is that it serves as a foundation for other projects to build on top of it, for the purposes of empowerment and liberation. My computing devices do my bidding, not the bidding of others whose interests are counter to mine. Plus, I love the feeling of building software as a community. That the tools we're making benefit not just the people building them, but everyone, and that anyone ca...
Post #2379637
Aaron Swartz joined the RSS working group when he was 13. At 15 he became a foundational member of Creative Commons. He was working on precursors to markdown at 16. We should not be locking young people out of our communities and keeping them away from digital tools that can open doors for them, expand their knowledge, sharpen their skills, and help them grow into well-rounded adults.
Post #1880013
Being able to use the GTK emoji chooser in Firefox rules 😍️🚀️👑️
Post #1880012
I found this to be gripping and terrifying (and also, not remotely surprising) https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/05/billionaire-consequence-free-reality/686588/?gift=7cjjyPZIuS21UKXXq4Z-JNg5WJmVwq9FbLl-9yvqo1Y
Post #1880011
Finally sat down and blogged about my recent switch back to Android, and the FOSS apps I&#39;ve landed on. https://nathandyer.me/2026/04/23/foss-mobile-2026.html
Post #1880006
First &quot;proper&quot; test of CoMaps and its lane guidance on Android. Can it get me all the way from Tennessee to Duke in Durham, NC without sending me on a wild adventure? The road awaits!
Post #1880005
As is tradition, I updated to the latest Fedora release in a hotel room hundreds of miles away from home. Flawless and uneventful, as always.
Post #1880003
Because I signed up for a printables.com account a million years ago, I just got an email letting me know I can reserve a custom oak cabinet to store a 3D printer for... *checks notes*... €6,200. Who could possibly be the target audience for something like this?
Post #1395622
@hbons &#39;fraid they can&#39;t spare the CPU cycles on maintaining important free software projects like these, they have to find more efficient ways to help murder brown people overseas
Post #1395616
TIL the place I clone all my git repos is actually an XDG standard https://blog.tenstral.net/2026/04/hello-projects-directory.html
Post #1386484
Thank goodness Apple blocks installing apps outside of the app store (outside the EU), so that everyone stays safe. https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=fake-ledger-app
Post #1028800
GNOME Calendar has gotten *so good*, it just handles ICS files, multi-day events, multiple calendars, and mismatched timezones so well now. Hands down my favorite calendar app on any platform. If there&#39;s a &quot;most improved app award&quot;, surely it must be a contender.
Post #442887
Most of the world has standardized on FLAC, a highly capable and patent-free audio codec, for its hi-res music delivery format of choice. I wish we could now do the same for video, using AV1. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/hp-and-dell-disable-hevc-support-built-into-their-laptops-cpus/