Mike Dilger

Author of Gossip client: https://github.com/mikedilger/gossip
Dual National (USA / New Zealand)
My principles are Individualism, Equality, Liberty, Justice and Life

Public Key

npub1acg6thl5psv62405rljzkj8spesceyfz2c32udakc2ak0dmvfeyse9p35c

NIP-05 Address

mike@mikedilger.com

NIP-57 Address

decentbun13@walletofsatoshi.com

Profile Code

nprofile1qqswuyd9ml6qcxd92h6pleptfrcqucvvjy39vg4wx7mv9wm8kakyujgpz4mhxue69uhkg6t5w3hjuur4vghhyetvv9uszynhwden5te0danxvcmgv95kutnsw43q6dkmd3

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ditto.pub/relay

offchain.pub

relay.nos.social

Author Public Key

npub1acg6thl5psv62405rljzkj8spesceyfz2c32udakc2ak0dmvfeyse9p35c

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2025-04-03 20:58:58

When you want to find a subset of events in a large database of events, but you know that subset is very large and may cause a memory problem, there are a number of strategies to deal with this situation:
1) Iterator: Redesign your fetch function as an iterator, to remember where it left off and keep giving the next Event. Then you only have one event in memory at a time. This is very trad.
2) Screen: Add a screening function to your fetch function. You usually don't actually need all those events, and the screen function can reduce the result set by a lot.
3) Reference: If those events are mmapped, you can just pass a reference to each one where it sits, with no copys, and the OS will page in the data as accessed.
Gossip uses method (2) and I'm toying around with method (1). Pocket (and therefore Chorus) use method (3).

2025-04-03 07:40:53

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I'm kinda unsure if I should move on my ideas. After all, if we break everything is it nostr anymore? I don't think so. And if it isn't nostr anymore, will OpenSats want to fund me anymore? I'm kinda jailed into sticking with nostr if I want to keep that sweet sweet funding. At least I need to stick to what I proposed I would do.
But yes I do have a lot of breaking ideas. As it stands, those ideas keep piling up. If I had "started over" 6 months ago I would have been doing it wrong. I think it might be better to just keep piling them up and doing small experiments with them, and thinking about them for some time, before actually forging ahead with it.
For example, the other day I was explaining CRDTs to a friend/colleague in town and in preparing what I was going to say on the drive over, I realized that follow lists with CRDTs aren't enough, we still need to avoid simple race condition clobbers per-server: https://github.com/mikedilger/nostr-next/issues/55
For example again, I was thinking about still using websockets, but now I think building directly on QUIC is better and the HTTP and WebSocket layers don't buy us anything we want (what they give us, like proxying, is actually against good security practice). Because QUIC has to work for HTTP/3 to work, there wont be middle-box routing problems.
I also recently did https://github.com/mikedilger/alt-tls where I got TLS running with ed25519/x25519/blake3 in ways browsers suspiciously do not support (even though the RFCs do), with modern crypto that didn't come from the US government. Interestingly I can't get secp256k1 working because of this stupid thing: https://docs.rs/rustls-pki-types/latest/rustls_pki_types/alg_id/index.html I don't know what the pkix algo identifier is or if there is a reserved area I can use.
A quick summary of other breaking things I'm interested in:
* Framed binary protocol over QUIC, not WebSockets, not JSON
* ed25519 signatures, not secp256k1
* Device keys that can be rolled over, the master key used only for managing device keys (and the DHT).
* Learn a person's relays from Mainline DHT
* Relays/servers have a pubkey and use it in their TLS certificate, so we don't need to trust DNS.
* In-protocol feature negotiation
* Mechanisms to avoid all possible clobbers
* All event kinds are default replaceable, but see the application layer to determine how the application specifies it
* Separation of application layer from the main protocol, avoiding proliferation of NIPs.
* Nodes (clients/servers) remember timestamps when records arrived, which bounds when the record was created, giving better idea of what to do regarding revocation and such
* Spans within content marked in 'tags' e.g. (start=13, end=18, bold) or (insert=56, url=SOMEURL)

2025-04-01 07:16:37

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I'm a rather logical person, perhaps even spiritually retarded. The only thing that reaches me spiritually is music. Like track 9.

2025-03-30 01:37:58

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looks good from over here.

2025-03-29 02:47:06

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After I experiment and refine it, sure

2025-03-29 00:59:28

Oatly oat milk (or Boring oat milk in NZ) is sweet... but it has no added sugars. I believe they are malting and mashing the oats to create sugars from the starches in the oats. Then they can say "no added sugars" and have no sugar listed in the ingredients.
So there are recipes on line that have you blend 1 part rolled oats with 4 parts of water and filter thorugh a "nut mllk bag"' and people add sweeteners. But they still suffer "sliminess" and try to combat it by using ice water and other tricks, but it doesn't work well.
Fuck that. I'm going to try mashing. This is totally untested but this is my rough plan:
Malt (I could just buy diastatic malt, but I'm making my own):
Soak wheat (not oats, I don't have them .. 6 row barley is best but I don't have that either) berries in water until they fully swell, 8 hours.
(I'm using a french press, easy to drain through)
Keep in the dark, but rinse and drain twice a day for about 3 days unil the sprouts are as long as the grains.
Dry them at about 40 C in the fan-bake oven (no higher than 55 C)
Grind them into a fine powder.
Oat milk:
Blend 1 part rolled oats (not whole grain, not quick) with 4 parts water.
Cook at 53-59C to gelatinize, 20 minutes
Bring to boil and boil for 20 minutes.
Cool to 67 C.
Add malt (unknown how much I should add), and maintain at 67 C
Within 30 minutes it should very much sweeten and lose it's sliminess. Stop when it's nice by raising past 77C to denature the enzymes.
Cool, strain and refrigerate.

2025-03-28 06:41:59

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That is the most boring option. Also the most likely.

2025-03-18 22:31:03

If you are in the Americas, you might want to buy some bitcoin.

2025-03-13 18:57:57

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I dunno

2025-03-12 02:06:39

Balaji seems pretty clued up. A bitcoiner I see. Is he here on nostr?
https://x.com/balajis/status/1899373219297321017

2025-03-11 23:17:53

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For derived keys, can the encryption include the derivation path in plaintext? I don't think that's an anonymity breaker if those paths are common well known things.

2025-03-11 21:13:53

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enum MetadataState {
None,
Metadata(Metadata),
Fetching(Condvar),
}

2025-03-11 21:04:01

I'm trying to solve a problem and I thought I'd ask for help.
I've got a website using a WASM framework (dioxus) that gives me the ability to do async functions to fill in part of the web page. The web page renders immediately with either a placeholder or the result. I'm also using `nostr` and `nostr-sdk` from @npub1drv…seet
On one page I have a long list of events each by potentially a different npub. But initially I don't have any of their metadata. I want that page to fetch and fill in the metadata for all these people. This is a very typical (I'd say necessary) part of any web-based nostr client. I haven't done it yet though, I've done a desktop client.
The component on the page that renders the metadata is calling into this async function. Remember there are many of them, so many components are all nearly simultaneously calling into this async function, generally with different pubkeys but sometimes with the same pubkey.
The async function needs to either return metadata, or eventually return a failure.
A simple first idea that mostly works is to independently spin up a client and use it to two-step fetch the NIP-65 list from the discovery relay and then fetch the metadata from the user's relay. But this creates tons of clients and connections, saves nothing (no caching) and is generally regarded as a "bad idea."
The next iteration on the idea is to store a map from URL to Client and keep the client's alive. Then I can fetch the client (creating if missing) and fire off a new REQ. But this is still bad because I'm doing one request per pubkey and relays hate me saying I'm making too many requests.
So really I need to batch these somehow (multiple pubkeys per request). And to cache the results. And to be aware when some other thread is already doing this pubkey (and yet wait on it's result). And solving all of that simultaneously has been.... difficult.
I can have a map with pubkey as the key. And I can have the value be an enum either Fetching or Metadata (and missing from the map means it is not fetching). But no easy way to async wait on a map entry to show up. Also no easy way to wait a bit and then batch the multiple requests and avoid all race conditions with other threads doing the exact same thing (although that I can solve). Anyhow, the whole thing seems rather difficult and yet it must be solved by ... every web based nostr client out there... right?

2025-03-11 00:49:01

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What???? You mean people aren't all selling at the same time pushing the price down? My head is exploding!

2025-03-11 00:38:44

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Lefties concerned about climate change are currently shitting on Telsa, the think Elon Musk did to help combat climate change.
Conclusion: people are not smart, they are tribal animals

2025-03-10 22:05:25

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The US isn't reliable for at least 2 decades, pulling out of all kinds of treaties unilaterally, and it is known every 4 years a vastly different administration may come in. No state can make deals with such a fickle entity. And that will reliably isolate the US for a long time to come.
But let me back-peddle slightly (as nobody is arguing my point yet, and I want to refine it).
If the US gave Ukraine secret warning that they will pull out on a certain date, and to settle with Russia before that date, and Ukraine decided to keep fighting anyways, then I put no blame on the US. It has to be possible for the US to choose to not be involved, and giving plenty of heads up is the right thing to do. That heads up has to be covert so that Russia can't anticipate anything. So that means we would not have heard about it. As an average citizen without access to top secrets, I can't say if that happened or not, so I can't absolutely claim Trump is bad here. Just that it looks bad.

2025-03-08 22:04:13

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Don't blame the road for the destination you chose.

2025-03-08 21:18:25

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We need some powerful word crafting or memes to make sure everybody understands this, else normies will default think of nostr as a service. Or maybe we don't... it can't be shut down so maybe the politics of nostr don't matter.

2025-03-08 07:49:58

Daniel Hagari was one of the better IDF people. He covertly exposed to us multiple times how Israel was full of shit. Thank you Daniel.

2025-03-07 04:22:06

People on nostr shouldn't be getting fooled by fake accounts. But I keep hearing about it. Multiple clients now will show you if a person is well-followed by your network or is a stranger with 0 followers. We need to get that feature into all the clients because apparently some people are falling for scams.

2025-03-05 00:53:33

On Trade Deficits and Tarriffs
PART I: Trade Balances are Worse than Useless
Let's imagine there are only three countries: the US, Canada and Mexico.
Let's further imagine that these three countries produce and consume all the goods and
services that they need locally except for three situations:
1) The US buys lumber from Canada
2) Canada buys steel from Mexico
3) Mexico buys automobiles from the US
Now, the trade balances will go like this:
US: In a trade deficit with Canada that just gets bigger and bigger.
US: In a trade surplus with Mexico that just gets bigger and bigger.
These trade balances don't mean anything. Nothing is out of whack. There is no limit
to how high they can go, and nothing ever needs to be paid back to anybody (it is not
debt).
Therefore I recommend ignoring trade balances entirely. They are a silly useless
metric that causes far too much confusion (including in Trump's mind).
PART II: Trade is win-win
In free markets, people trade with other people only of their own free will. They are
never compelled to make a specific trade. Therefore we can assume that both parties to
a trade doing so willingly actually value the received goods and services moreso than
they value the disposed of goods and services.
Therefore trade is win-win.
Therefore,.the more free trade that occurs, the richer everybody gets.
PART III: Tariffs and their purpose
Tarriffs are local import taxes you charge your own citizens in order to protect
local industries who produce the same products at a higher price. This may be
necessary for a number of different reasons:
1) Local industry is fledgling and not efficient yet, and you are giving them time to improve
2) Currency exchange rates are out of whack from purchasing-power-parity, and so you are
preventing efficient local industry from suffering the devastation of this artificial
imbalance.
Any other reason for imposing tarriffs causes a net loss since as already argued, trade
is win-win.
Trump may impose tarriffs in order to drive a hard bargain, but they are still a net loss
while they last. It is just that in Trump's case, they generally don't last long, they
were more of a threat than a long-term policy.
Since currency exchange rates change rapidly, I am of the opinion that tariffs should
change rapidly too. But they don't. Generally they are written into legislation and hard
to change quickly. IMHO government could do far better in this regard.

2025-03-03 21:16:33

For the last decade or so, light roast coffees with high acid and tea-like clarity have become popular.
IMHO they taste like feces that has gone sour.
I prefer medium roast classico Italian espresso... the stuff that tastes like coffee.

2025-03-03 09:11:36

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I think Zelensky indeed did state his position and make his case. And from an idealistic view, Zelensky is right. Russia invaded, Russia can't be trusted to hold to an agreement (violating the Budapest memorandum among others), etc.
What is very hard but necessary for the leader of a sovereign state is that they must judge the balance of power and not cling so tightly to right and wrong. When you are right and your enemy is wrong, but your enemy is far more powerful than you are, you need to befriend them anyways. And when America gets zero benefit from being involved, and has already spent lots of money helping out, and you want them to help you more, and you have no cards, nothing to trade for their help, then you had better offer up some cards (minerals) and you had better get down on your knees and kiss their boots. Zelensky is an idealistic child (as are many people on nostr, as was I most of my life).
Someone must have misled Zelenskyy into thinking that Trump was going to stand up to Russia for him. But if Zelensky had paid any attention to who Trump is at all, he would already have known that was an impossible hope.

2025-03-02 06:35:37

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Ok. What I was thinking is that human behavior hasn't changed since Aristotle (since long before really). And the fact that banks affect politics, or governments deceive their citizens, or suicide bombing keeps being reinvented, or whole societies go on pretending things when they all know it is not true (Putin will soon be at 120% support) all these novel-in-our-lifetime human interaction things are not really novel amongst humanity. And this BBC show is making the case that we are all being fooled on all kinds of things... and I think that we are... but just that this is the norm, not itself something novel.

2025-03-02 04:47:54

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let me refine that. The principles by whichi things behave and happen are as old as time itself. But the details about what happens always appear novel and strange in the moment. When looking back on them we can categorize and label them and they fall into the principles.

2025-03-02 04:45:46

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Did I say cyclical? I don't think any cycles that exist are very prominant. I think instead we have novelty, all the time, infinite novelty.

2025-03-01 04:06:30

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It probably doesn't even exist anymore.
Tony Kaye was a rising star, created awesome artful commercials, and this film was his first film. But hollywood couldn't deal with him, and he couldn't deal with hollywood. I understand there were financial concerns, but he did have a 96 minute cut without reshoots that they rejected, and Ed Norton who loves noithing more than to see himself act, did a cut that had all his scenes despite it making the movie a lot worse according to Tony Kaye. In fact, Kaye sued New Line Cinema to remove his name from the picture and replace it with Humpty Dumpty (but lost). So his name is on there against his will.
But beyond that, it seems like he was blackballed from Hollywood and his career was screwed after that. He's in his 70s now and might release something finally, but who knows.

2025-03-01 02:54:42

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I like ZFS best. But it requires Solaris portability layer for linux, which isn't great, and since it's not just built into linux it's easy to get into a state where ZFS isn't working.
So I moved to btrfs. Btrfs gives me LONG delay problems, sometimes more than a minute (!) before my editor will let me type again unless I'm on an SSD. So I moved my active files to an SSD. Still, I can't believe btrfs is still such shit after this many years, compared to ZFS which was really good early on even.
I've even considered leaving linux for Open Indiana. The file system is almost that important to me.

2025-02-28 20:32:41

NIP-04 = deprecated
NIP-17 = current
MLS = future
#nevent1q…au3u

2025-02-28 03:41:37

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I purchased a small horse breeding property that came with 6 sheep, which turned me into a sheep farmer. When I eventually killed the big ram, he had so much fat on him I went to the Internet to figure out what to do with it. After trying tallow candles (they suck!) I made soap. Ever since that day in 2012 I've only used this soap made from my own organic sheep's tallow and rainwater from the roof. I have 41 sheep today. I actually have far more unused tallow in a bucket in the deep freezer. I purify it by melting it, mixing with water, letting cool, and remove the fat part (scraping off the middle layer of fat+water+gunk. I usually do that twice. I also mix with cheap oil so it's got more lather.

2025-02-27 19:22:58

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Gossip has a setting for when metadata and relay lists are considered stale and need reloading, by defualt set to 20 minutes. Amethyst may act similarly.

2025-02-26 18:44:57

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I can't tell. I have a clothes pin on my nose.

2025-02-25 22:57:01

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There are cryptographic schemes where each voter can verify their vote was both registered and counted properly, and also none of the administrators can know who voted for what.

2025-02-25 03:39:59

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Nothing great coming out of Germany these days

2025-02-25 01:02:08

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Some people I guess don't follow the NIP and don't add '=' or '==' padding at the end. The NIP says "RFC 4648, with padding.
NOTE: the padding inside the encryption is a different padding.
My advice: don't use amethyst

2025-02-25 00:57:44

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You are such a pleasant fellow

2025-02-25 00:56:56

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Fuck it looks like I wasn't. I am now (fixed on master and unstable).

2025-02-25 00:46:36

CONDUCTOR:
Conductor is a fawn, struggling to stand up on four legs. It is standing, but wobbly!
https://conductor.mikedilger.com
Most of the time I just approve events. I can do this now with conductor.
There are a lot more things to do, like loading pubkey metadata, paging (so we don't load too much data at once), adjusting marked data, user management, and handing 1984 reports... and of course syncing with NIP-86 and other relays.
This is paired with Chorus master branch. It probably doesn't work with other NIP-86 relays. If you try chorus master branch beware of signfiicant changes coming in the unreleased 2.0 (read docs/MIGRATION.md). It will not work with chorus 'latest' branch.

2025-02-25 00:08:58

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Chorus is a relay implementation.

2025-02-24 04:47:59

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All the US allies also print their own monies. But they often use USD in international settlements. That international trade props up the USD, creates demand for it. But US allies do not really benefit from this arrangement (besides having security guarantees). Europe is economically sinking. So is NZ.

2025-02-24 04:33:51

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I agree bitcoin is a far better system. I want that system to replace the money printing, and the copy-your-credit-card-number bullshit. But if it stands in opposition to government funding it is doomed. So I just wonder how to strike a balance that works.
From the top down, the world is anarchic. But most of us live in bohemeth nation states. I'd prefer to have a small and highly engaged community that self defends, but I think the larger structures of power do not like such things (Texas may be the exception).

2025-02-24 04:30:32

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Yes. And I think the states are watching bitcoin because they recognize it is novel technology that they can learn from... of course they will try CBDCs.

2025-02-24 04:28:37

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Yes I can imagine that, and yet also in that world the state will find a way to fund itself, possibly by forcing you to transfer to them some bitcoin. The only thing I'm sure of is that the state isn't going away, and the state will fight dirty when it feels threatened.
Institutions change all the time, so it's not impossible for this outcome. But the state will not just lie down and shrivel up.

2025-02-24 04:26:58

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Many countries still use cash, but less and less so. NZ has cash, but half the supermarket checkouts don't take it (you have to get in the right line).
Bitcoin is tracked on the blockchain, but not the associations between who owns which addresses. That is why I think KYC rules are going to become more onerous.
I totally agree it is great for long distance transactions.
I also agree it is a great long-term store of value (among many others). I think real estate and commodities have their place.

2025-02-24 04:19:50

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You should look at international relations. The international system is anarchic. it is precisely as you describe.... a large collection of smaller independent organisations (nations) with decentralized allegiances and leadership. I'm a realist. John Mearsheimer is pretty represenative of the realists. But I also have a soft spot for Jeffrey Sachs who knows that sincere talk and negotation can rise above the cold logic.

2025-02-23 19:35:06

Nostr is the Church of Bitcoin. And as a bitcoin unbeliever, I'd like to probe the understandings and beliefs of those who are really into bitcoin.
These false dichotomy questions are meant to spur discussion, of course I don't think anyone can simply choose one over the other, but I wonder what people are thinking.
Which of the following is true:
1. If government went away, the people would be free of the oppression of taxes, all interactions would be voluntary, and anarcho-capitalism can finally bring in a utopia.
2. if government went away, the infrastructure would erode (roads, the internet, power distribution, sewage, etc) and people would be living in fear of violent gangs that would have bloody and terrible battles for power.
Which of the following is true:
1. Bitcoin will grow to the point of being the world currency, at which point government won't have any reliable way to collect taxes and government will shrink away.
2. Bitcoin won't get much larger than it already is today because if it gets much bigger governments will shut it down, seeing it as an existential threat.
I could ask more but I think you get the point.
My belief is that small governments are good and necessary things, and governments will not allow themselves to lose revenue in any significant amount, so bitcoin can't grow much larger unless it embraces KYC (which the Church of Bitcoin clearly doesn't). And therefore IMHO there is no bitcoin endgame other than where we currently are. I believe we are living in an abnormal period of laxity.
I"m about to run off and I won't see the replies to this for hours, so don't expect me to participate in the discussion right away.
BTW: I am libertarian, I believe in free markets, I like power in the hands of the people, I hate the fact that governments are necessary, and I love free speech. But also I think I'm pragmatic and realistic.

2025-02-22 19:49:38

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I'm not quite sure it was the right vote.

2025-02-22 09:08:54

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Page needs a scroll.

2025-02-21 23:15:10

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As an aside, I have two other interesting medical hypotheses.
First, I do not believe that metabolic syndrome (defined as a cluster of 5 symptoms) is caused by blood sugar issues. The reason is that back when I was 30, doctors were certain I was about to become diabetic. 25 years later that still has not happened and my blood sugar levels are still great (hba1c around 5%). I have ALL of the OTHER metabolic syndrome features though: low HDLs, high triglycerides, large waist circumference, and hypertension. That is why they were so sure I was going diabetic. Anyhow, my theory is that obesity eventually causes pancreatic dysfunction, and that eventually causes blood sugar issues and diabetes. But the weight where this trips is highly individually variable. And that the other metabolic syndrome features are independently caused by obesity and also other things... for example, low HDL can be genetic, as can large waist circumference, as can high cholesterol. I had hypertention since I was 9 years old and thin just like every other kid, so that can be caused by something else too. So the causation path is not that the cluster of symptoms causes diabetes, but just that it is associated. Most people with that cluster of symptoms got there by overeating which leads to diabetes, but you can have those symptoms for other reasons.
My second hypothesis is that methionine restriction extends life. This happens because methionine is the start codon. All transcription is gated by it. And so if it is in short supply, all transcription slow down in equal proportion, which essentially means slower aging. The evidence for this is that vegans live longer, and vegans don't eat high methionine foods (for example: cheese, fish). It is a simple and elegant hypothesis, but I have no way to test it, and this isn't my field of expertise. Contrary evidence would be that pescetarians apparently live longer than vegans.

2025-02-21 22:34:11

What is causing all the Metabolic Dysfunction?
@npub14am…udp2 thinks it is linoleic acid in the mitochondria. If linoleic acid is a problem, then the following foods are bad for you: wheat, corn, walnuts, soy, sesame seeds, pumkin seeds, rice, pistachios, almonds, canoia oil, commercial chickens, peanuts, ... all of which the fat portion has >20% LA. Even egg yolks are 16%. It is hard for me to believe that the natural foods in that list are causing the metabolic problem.
My hypothesis is that humanity's romance with chemistry has produced thousands of variations of endocrine disruptors which are now all throughout or food, water and soil, and especially in plastics. People know about BPA, but all those "BPA-free" plastics just have different endocrine disruptors, possibly much worse ones. You can improve by sticking to natural and organic foods and using glass containers. But you can't eliminate your exposure.
Of cousre these are both just hypotheses with no good evidence behind them.

2025-02-21 04:51:21

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Harry Nyquist is rolling in his grave

2025-02-21 01:23:51

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Too many matches. Overload! beep boop boop (sparks start flying)

2025-02-21 00:16:37

Warning: Do not search for "bitcoin" in any nostr client. Your client may not give you back control of your computer.

2025-02-20 21:51:03

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I definitely grind my own.
As for roasting my own, I can (I have a Behmor 1600) but I'm not a skilled roaster, and buying roast beans isn't such a big expense that I need to cut back on it and roast my own. If we hit nuclear winter, maybe I'll roast my own since everybody else will be dead. But for now I buy roast beans.

2025-02-20 21:37:39

Conductor (related to Chorus)
Every few days somebody posts an "Introducing ___" note to nostr, where they tell everybody about their new project that they have been working on for ages and finally have released. These are exciting and very cool.
I'm a little different. I'm gonna tell you want I'm working on before it is ready.
For a couple weeks I've been working on a web application called "conductor" (like that guy who swings a baton at an Orchestra). It is a relay management tool using NIP-86. I know there are a few others in development by other people, but it was time for me to get better at writing web applications and it seemed like I could get one working in just a few days (after the first day I felt like I was halfway there). Also, being the chorus developer I can adjust both sides until it does all the right things, which makes it easier to make progress.
In the process of developing conductor, I ran into issues with chorus and AUTH and have worked to get them resolved.
https://github.com/nostrability/nostrability/issues/163
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1778
https://github.com/nostrability/nostrability/issues/167
Also, a number of breaking changes had to happen to chorus (such as moving user configuration into the database so it could be dynamic) prompting me to prepare towards releasing a Chorus 2.0 which requires a small amount of migration. This is not ready yet, I'm just telling you what I am in the middle of doing.
Conductor will start out very basic, and while it will work with chorus relays it might not work with other relays as NIP-86 might not have the commands I was interested in. It won't work with 1984 reports yet either (but that is coming). It will just allow approving (or rejecting) events and pubkeys that haven't been approved yet using the same scheme chorus already uses with the `chorus_moderate` command. I will release it when this is all it does. I will release it again once you can manage users with it. And I will release it again once it handles 1984 reports too. One step at a time.

2025-02-17 19:56:23

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Holy hell gossip sucks!

2025-02-13 20:25:43

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I see on purplepag.es kinds 10050 and 0 for this user. I don't see kind 10002. Without 10002 as a starting point, gossip doesn't know where to go looking for kinds 10050 or kind 0.

2025-02-13 03:44:59

I am in Magic Recipe Hell.
Is anyone familiar with Magic Recipe Hell? This is the place developers suffer when the start learning a new framework where every slightly different variation of functionality you want to implement requires a new magic incantation and cannot be built with any combination of the previous magic incantations you previously learned.

2025-02-12 01:33:06

Today we celebrate 23 days of peace in Ukraine. Because Trump ended the war "on day one". I know people say that he didn't, but those are just Trump haters. I trust Trump fully, I love this man as much as a man can love another man. So let's celebrate these 23 days of peace! 🥂
I love how Trump is bringing peace to the middle east... how ansar allah are prepared to celebrate with fireworks, and Iran with new fireworks nobody has seen before, how even Egypt is amassing firework displays near the border of Gaza/Israel. Celebrations incoming! 🎆
/sarcasm

2025-02-11 03:20:43

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Gulf of South Canada

2025-02-11 02:04:03

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Renaming to the Gulf of Italy

2025-02-11 00:22:28

Birth order affects personality. As a middle child, I try to make everybody happy, I seek compromises.
I worry about places like China that had a one child policy. Is that culture severely lacking in the personality traits that tend to develop in second and third place children?

2025-02-10 05:58:30

The US government via USAID/Internews put 25 media outlets in New Zealand into a dependent position including Stuff, NZME, Business Desk, Newshub and 1News. New Zealand is the only Five Eyes country that doesn't permit US nuclear ships in its ports.
https://x.com/wikileaks/status/1888740117247885509
https://stoppress.co.nz/news/groupm-nz-launches-back-to-news-programme-to-support-responsible-journalism/
I can attest to the fact that NZ News was captured by interests that lie outside of NZ (probably US) long before 2023 (when USAID allegedly did this). And the last Labour government put incentives in place to keep them captured.

2025-02-08 08:02:11

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Hasn't happened yet. Fingers crossed it never will.

2025-02-08 08:01:30

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I think I found nostr in Nov 2022, and my first nostr code was 4 commits on 12 Nov 2022 added to rana, and I started nostr-types on 15 Nov 2022. IIRC Jack showed up about 2 weeks later. Most (not quite all) of the people in the OP were around before me. I didn't know about you or nostr-rs-sdk until months later.

2025-02-08 07:34:02

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No gossip is not doing any more work, nothing of any significance anyhow. But we ought to be able to clean things up. I have 12 lists (5 private) and I'd like to delete about half of those myself.

2025-02-08 07:29:04

Some mornings I check myself over to see if all the moles and scars are the way I remember. And if not, then I know I'm the clone.

2025-02-08 04:31:25

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They should have been kicked out long ago.

2025-02-08 03:51:46

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It is worse than that. I find arguments about layout to be impossible to resolve (nobody is right) and completely uninteresting.
I separated gossip-lib from the gui so people could to their own layout (although to be honest, half of gossip code is on the gui side so it is not a small job).

2025-02-08 01:29:00

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I think it is because of self-censorship. By that, I mean that the people who cannot tolerate bitcoin discussion have censored themselves by not being on nostr. That leaves only people who can tolerate bitcoin discussion, which by its very nature requires a high degree of tolerance.

2025-02-08 00:15:07

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I don't like boiled beef. But I love boiled chicken. So I do this with chicken. I have lots of chicken broth in the freezer, stacking up faster than I use it.

2025-02-08 00:13:29

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Instead of buying beef broth, did you know that you can "Just put the fucking beef in water and boil it"? 🤣

2025-02-07 22:14:53

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At first I thought this meant you hadn't slept in 44 days.

2025-02-07 19:14:05

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I'm glad you found it.

2025-02-06 19:08:42

I keep hearing about people's lightning nodes having to force close things and it sounds like they are losing a lot of sats somehow. Is that right? Is lightning somehow a fucked protocol? Please forgive and correct my ignorance on this topic. I'm interested not in the gory details, nor summary opinions, but in correct succinct explanations.

2025-02-05 23:22:18

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I had a bad hard to explain user experience, but read my whole thread to see what I think probably happened.
#nevent1q…3lra

2025-02-05 19:00:45

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Freaky, or at least very annoying

2025-02-05 18:50:56

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So while it is fun to tell the story like this, and I didn't intend to deceive, I don't acdtually think Apple's AI was trying to survive. I think this is more likely what actdually happened:
1. I clicked the switch to turn it off. But there was a lag and it didn't turn off so I clicked it again.
2. When I clicked it the first time, it created a popup, but that popup was quickly covered by the settings window when I clicked it again. Clicking it again turned it back on.
3. Everything was greyed out because it was waiting for me to respond to the covered-up popup.
4. Yet the second click did turn the switch back on, and that popup was holding everything up including shutdown, which is bad UX.
5. And the red lettering was a design choice by some human at apple because they don't want you turning it off.

2025-02-05 08:47:53

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seL4 is pretty much used in military applications. Of course.
The other thing is that when you make it usable in any way, the proof of correctness no longer applies. It only applies to a completely useless thing that nobody actually uses.

2025-02-05 08:39:15

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I know I've gone overboard on this one. It is how I feel, I need to express it. Hearing Trump and Netanyahu dividing up other people's land, and then Apple taking control of my computer, not feeling the love right now.

2025-02-05 08:19:23

I know you all love bitcoin. But what are you going to do when all your computers are owned by state-level intelligence actors during the more active part of WW3 which is on our doorstep, and whichi I believe will be massively cyber? Your computer will be serving them moreso than you and personally I'm considering turning off and unplugging all my computers for the duration.
We had 30 years to fix the situation, but we didn't. It just got worse. I worked with companies like RST (Reliable Software Technologies), with research projects proving correctness of software with HAL at UC Davis and culminating in proving an OS correct (seL4), and I cottoned onto rust as soon as I heard about it and yes I was one of the annoying people who said we need to rebuild everything in rust because I believe it clearly yields far fewer exploitable bugs. But we didn't. And we have more security holes now than ever, in damn near everything including more and more in the hardware.
I'm paranoid right now. Damn Apple computer taking control away from me, greying out switches, refusing to shut down. Not cool.

2025-02-05 05:11:53

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I recently switched to generic debian. But I'm on testing so it gets frequent updates and bugs, kinda like Arch.
Switching my hardware, my OS, my windowing manager, and upgrading egui all in close temporal proximity was in retrospect a bad idea. It is hard to know at which layer a problem is coming from.

2025-02-05 04:43:01

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This repository has 25k stars. It isn't my cup of tea and I haven't tried it, but if you did actually consider going "all in on rust" you could get a fullstack app framework for web/desktop/mobile that programs a lot like those JS frameworks do.
https://github.com/DioxusLabs/dioxus/

2025-02-05 03:45:31

I switched to KDE recently (very nice but tries to do too much) and also updated gossip to a newer egui. I thought the newer egui had a window positioning bug. After about 2 hours of testing and research I have discovered that KDE/Wayland doesn't allow windows to position themselves yet. 🤦
https://discuss.kde.org/t/saving-window-placements-on-wayland/10468/3

2025-02-04 01:49:05

Yesterday I learned that USB SSDs suffer data fade (bit rot) after about 1-2 years. But you can avoid this just by plugging them in for a few hours at least once a year. This lets the controller refresh all the weak leaky data.

2025-02-02 21:59:32

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Did you run it on the live relay or that software? You should run it against an empty relay not a live relay. It will have false failures on a live relay (especially if run twice against it) and also possibly break any fragile live relays.

2025-02-02 21:47:31

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Now go test those relays!

2025-02-02 21:42:39

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I pushed a "fix". Let me know if it works for you.

2025-02-02 21:32:46

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So it has happened again: https://github.com/mikedilger/relay-tester/issues/8
Maybe I need to follow this advice: https://github.com/rustls/rustls/issues/1938#issuecomment-2099920256

2025-02-02 18:23:55

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I did sway for a week with a paper cheatsheet just like you say, about 4 years ago. When things got hectic I couldn't manage and had to switch back. I never made it over the hump.

2025-02-01 23:26:17

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Did the error message give a file and line number? Was the error from gossip or from chorus? Can you open an issue on github?

2025-01-30 23:38:28

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NINO quiz applied to the Gossip client
- [ ] There's no NIP for your data format
- [ ] There's a NIP, but no one knows about it
- [ ] Your NIP imposes an incompatible/centralized/legacy web paradigm onto nostr
- [ ] Your NIP relies on trusted third parties
- [ ] There's only one implementation of your NIP
- [ ] Your core value proposition doesn't depend on relays, events, or nostr identities
- [x] One or more relay urls are hard-coded into the source code
- [ ] Your app depends on a specific relay implementation to work
- [ ] You don't validate event signatures
- [ ] You don't publish events to relays you don't control
- [ ] You don't read events from relays you don't control
- [ ] You use legacy web services to solve problems, rather than nostr-native solutions
- [ ] You use nostr-native solutions, but you've hardcoded their pubkeys or URLs into your app
- [ ] You don't use NIP 89 to discover clients and services
- [x] You haven't published a NIP 89 listing for your app
- [ ] You don't leverage your users' web of trust for filtering out spam
- [ ] You don't respect your users' mute lists
- [ ] You try to "own" your users' data
Explanations:
* Gossip includes 20 relays to get people started. I tried to be as fair as possible
in choosing these relays with an algorithm. Every major release I run the algorithm
again and the top 20 go in.
* For a few relays that require the Origin header, we send it. Those are hard coded.
* Gossip doesn't publish a 31990 (NIP-89) because although gossip handles lots of event
kinds, there is no way to specify how to launch a local application in such a way
that other applications could do it automatically.

2025-01-30 05:22:15

There was a bird flying South for the winter who got lost from the flock, and a big storm rolled in and he got chilled and fell down to the ground and landed in a pasture, half-frozen and stiff, unable to fly.
He was having a bad day.
Not too much long after, a cow wonders past and shits on him.
But the shit is warm, and the bird starts thawing out and feeling better.
So he pokes his head up out of the cow pattie and starts to sing.
The farm cat hears the bird singing, goes to it, and eats it.
There are three morals to this story:
1. Not everybody who shits on you is your enemy
2. Not everybody who digs you out of a pile of shit is your friend
3. If you are warm and comfortable, keep your mouth shut

2025-01-30 05:16:27

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There is no technical limit specified, but some relays stop events at 65536 bytes which is TOO LOW. NIP-44 encryption also. I think 1MB is a better limit. I can't remember how many tags makes it go over 64K but it was around 1000.

2025-01-30 04:08:34

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Yeah of course my speculation was a wild one, but a fun one nonetheless.

2025-01-30 04:06:37

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The "covert attack" thing is entirely made up. Nobody suggested it to me. I just noticed these two stories in temporal proximity and while it is too early to extrapolate from two data points, it is fun!
The helicoptor that crashed with AA5342 came onto flight radar from Langley McLean, VA area (where the CIA headquarters is based). It was a Sikorsky H-60W Blackhawk variant (some say Whitehawk) "gold top" with call sign PAT25. PAT stands for Priority Air Transport and is operated by the Army. That data isn't conspiracy, but it isn't strongly verified it comes from multiple sources on X. One day we will have all those sources on nostr. In the meantime I am relaying the story.

2025-01-30 03:47:48

The US is losing aircraft at wartime rates. We just had a crash on approach to DCA airport between AA Flight 5342 (at least 60 dead) when it hit a VH-60 Whitehawk helicopter reportedly used to carry "top brass" that had likely departed from CIA HQ (the last bit is unconfirmed). Yesterday a fighter jet crashed off the coast of Alaska.
Might the US be under covert attack?

2025-01-30 03:17:33

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I blame endocrine disruptors. Also they cause trans people.

2025-01-30 00:45:28

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And now I find this. I must be blind.
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/data-vending-machines/tree/master/kinds

2025-01-30 00:39:18

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Ok I have found this data on https://www.data-vending-machines.org/ I think it is strange to have this separate and not linked to, rather than listed in the NIP repo.
5000 - Text Extraction
5001 - Text Summarization
5002 - Text Translation
5050 - Text Generation
5100 - Image Generation
5200 - Video Conversion
5201 - Video Translation
5202 - Image-to-Video Conversion
5250 - Text-to-Speech
5300 - Nostr Content Discovery
5301 - Nostr People Discovery
5302 - Nostr Content Search
5303 - Nostr People Search
5400 - Nostr Event Count
5500 - Malware Scanning
5900 - Nostr Event Time Stamping
5901 - Bitcoin OP_RETURN Creation
5905 - Nostr Event Publish Schedule
5970 - Event PoW Delegation
So I can look for a 31990 that has a "k" tag "5300" and that would be a DVM (since the k is in the 5000-5999 range) that produces content for a pubkey according to https://www.data-vending-machines.org/kinds/5300/