M. Dilger

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

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2024-11-07 22:57:59

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Did you listen to the Joe Rogan interview? 3 hours. I found him very coherent, sharp even. I had to rewind a few spots where I didn't understand but Trump did, to figure out what they were talking about. I'm sure there is context I don't have, but he could immediately have a new context in his head and opine about it much faster than I would expect for a 78 year old. I think it must be the golf.

2024-11-07 18:39:44

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The problem with lying to the American public is that eventually you start believing your own propaganda.
Here's 7 minutes of Glenn Greenwald talking about how the Media is baffled at Trump's win: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efblZYxlBX8

2024-11-03 02:00:19

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I don't see any rocket launchers in the rubble. Strange.

2024-11-03 01:57:14

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I don't know how to stop Israel in the short term. I'm sorry your family is affected.
Most people in the West hear that Hezbollah keeps firing rockets into Israel, and so when Israel started yet-another-war with Lebanon on Sep 17 (with the pager attacks) some people think that Lebanon "had it coming". Most people are simply unfamiliar with the day-to-day reality of the situation and only hear one-sided narratives. This bloomberg article: https://archive.is/e2IuM shows that Israel's attacks on Lebanon over time (since after al-Aqsa flood) have been about 3x as OFTEN as the reverse... something I was suprised by, and far more deadly. From that data one could argue that Lebanon was defending itself the whole time... although I'm not sure what they claim.
In the long run at least I think this situation will be resolved. I think Israel has made itself the most hated nation on earth. And I think the US and Israel are declining powers and my hope is that BRICS, once militarily dominant, will treat this area quite differently. People are worried that Russia/China/Iran/N.Korea are "autocracies" and "dictatorships" and don't have liberal values, and rightly so. But Western countries don't honor liberal values as much as they once did, these rising powers have become more liberal over time (China is practically a free market), and in the theory of great power politics liberalism is a luxury nations can only afford after they achieve military dominance. Point being that there is hope.

2024-10-31 23:47:17

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That is what I'm doing with gossip. It will show an error message in the place of where the image would have been, as well as a link so that you can view it in a browser if you want to. It won't show the altered image.

2024-10-30 03:53:06

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I am stationary. You are all rotating! Ouch, ouch ouch..

2024-10-29 20:18:38

I would be in favor of metric time, uniform across the surface of the Earth and disconnected from it's rotation... with a mapping to your local sun angle that is more precise than time zones are and which can get updates from the International Earth Rotation Service (ya know, the people that keep the Earth rotating).

2024-10-29 20:13:31

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Patagonia was also a good option.

2024-10-29 19:58:31

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I zapped you 2. Yes I think it could go down further. 😂

2024-10-25 00:30:18

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Seems to me that the fire has already been started

2024-10-24 03:20:48

Westerners (including myself) generally don't think of the people in North Korea as having a sense of humor. They seem militant and serious.
But after more than 10 years of US affiliated groups (including the Human Rights Foundation btw) flying balloons into N Korea dropping subversive materials, K-pop and S. Korean television shows... N. Korea is now flying balloons over S. Korea dumping rubbish on them.

2024-10-24 00:20:59

It is time to fork the linux kernel. Sadly linux has become the latest casualty of war.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-Torvalds-Russian-Devs

2024-10-19 03:55:40

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This wont make a difference. Idiots will still accidentally OD on that shit.... and some people intentionally. Hell, just buy 2 packs!

2024-10-18 22:35:29

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Gossip considers those relays as both write(outbox) and read(inbox) for you. I don't know what NDK does or what other outbox-model clients do.
I expect to see middleware that handles the outbox model relay fanout issue.... what I am calling a 'client proxy'. You would have to trust such a service. And Damus would be a good client to use such a service.

2024-10-18 22:06:50

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Ah yes. You have to tell it how big the database might eventually become ... a max size... when you create it. If you don't have that much space it would fail.

2024-10-18 22:03:42

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You should install Microsoft Visual C/C++ which includes 'clang-cl'.
You should aslo install cmake
Then you'll have half a chance at least.
It's not easy to entirely avoid 'ring' and 'ring' is plagued with these kinds of architecture build issues. Here is another Windows on ARM bug in ring that is still open that we may trip even if we fix the one you are currently getting: https://github.com/briansmith/ring/issues/2135 Apparently their build system is so complex that nobody can fix it. Even the author Brian is asking people to please submit PRs to fix it 😆
Some libraries moved away from ring and went to aws-lc-rs (e.g. rustls) and they got so much shit from other problems of making this switch that he had to lock the github issues! https://github.com/rustls/rustls/issues?q=is%3Aissue++aws-lc+
So there are definitely many upstream issues still.

2024-10-18 20:33:21

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Ah, well gossip is using since/until as well as limit in order to load chunks at a time with a known number of events. It also specifies kinds (that the user has selected and that gossip knows how to display). But it still worked pretty well. I'll read the github notes shortly.

2024-10-18 20:27:02

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I have viewed my feed in gossip (gossip lets you view a relay's global feed) and it was tailored to me.
One note seemed strangely irrelevant (not very connected to me nor reacted to much).
It appeared to me that as I went down the feed, there were fewer events per time period, and those had to be much more popular (based on reactions). Which makes sense.
I'd love an English description of the algorithm.

2024-10-18 20:21:53

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Good choice.

2024-10-18 20:03:59

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I didn't know LMDB has issues on ARM. If you have compile failures, or runtime issues with LMDB data corruption, please file an issue on github so I can try to find the problem https://github.com/mikedilger/gossip
Also, gossip compiles on windows without needing WSL. You just need a git-bash shell to run the commands from.

2024-10-17 23:00:55

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BTW it was defined in https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7250 (but I think that was TLS 1.2 days), and TLS 1.3 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8446 mentions it.

2024-10-16 23:46:31

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What about the opium trade? Didn't it collapse when the US pulled out of Afghanistan?

2024-10-16 23:37:36

I say wrong things.
I say wrong things for a lot of reasons. But never to lie or to deceive.
Sometimes I'm being sarcastic. Usually I'm just wrong, and you guys will let me know about it.
When I'm not sure about something or I have formed a new opinion, talking about it gives me feedback. I almost never post about something I'm quite sure about... such topics are boring. I post about things I am ruminating about, and I share my current thinking, which may not even reflect my entire thinking on the subject.
For every issue, I'm always most interested in what part I am missing. If you think of an issue like a penny, I keep flipping it over to see what is on the back side, until I can see both sides at the same time. And you'll notice that many of my posts are geared towards alternative ways of viewing something.
I've said some crazy things (and almost said even crazier things) and yet you are still following me. I should give you all a badge or something.
Thanks for following me. 🫂

2024-10-16 22:32:09

Unconfirmed
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2024-10-16 22:30:09

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not with this. I have a local tool of poor code quality and manual intervention needed that i do that with to pick default relays for new users to pick from.

2024-10-16 01:56:14

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Calcification of your arteries is a good thing. It stabilzes an atheroma making it safe. Without the calcification, atheromas put you at risk of a cardiac event or stroke or pulminary ebolism.
The presence of calcified arteries proves you have had atheromas (generally only atheromas calcify). Low CAC scores in old people prove they are the kind of person who probably doesn't develop atheromas at all... .and high CAC scores in young people proves they are developing them very rapidly. However, high CAC scores in old people and low CAC scores in young people don't tell us much. With CAC you can't see how many risky non-calcified atheromas exist, only proof that there used to be some.
I do think Americans are lead to consume too much Calcium, based on bad science around osteoperosis. Just get sunshine and exercise and don't worry about the calcium... either way.

2024-10-16 01:49:50

People who are "word thinkers" will be very confused by the idea that nostr is both censorship-resistant and pro-censorship.
Nostr helps ensure that people who want to be heard, and their listeners who want to hear them, can continue in their free speech. As long as people have access to the Internet, without much effort people can keep these free speech channels open. But it takes two to tango. Both the speaker and the listener (and their relays) must choose not to close down or censor the communication. Nostr also empowers users and relays to censor out anything they don't like or want.
This is like having your cake and eating it too.
#nevent1q…8rlm

2024-10-15 23:39:50

Ok I have basic NIP-89 support in gossip, coming soon to master branch.
* Subscribes to handler recommendations (31989) from all the people you follow
* Pulls handlers (31990) for all recommendations and saves locally
* Registers handlers against event kinds if they provide a "web" "nevent" url (for normal kinds) or a "web" "naddr" url (for addressable kinds)
* Event menu lets you "Open With" any of these handlers
* You get a page where you can disable any of these that you don't want on a per-kind basis so they don't clutter your menu.
You cannot manually add or edit handlers, and I don't plan to do that (apps developers should be doing that for their apps)
You cannot recommend handlers to your friends yet, but I will add that.

2024-10-15 23:25:31

GOSSIP USERS on unstable:
I do not recommend using the unstable branch, but some people are. I have had to roll back database changes again, so if you ran gossip on unstable you should recover your database from backups. Since I know you are lazy and not actually making backups, you can instead do the following to fix your database:
1. pull the branch "rewind" from github
2. Compile and run with "./target/release/gossip oneshot" to clear the broken data.
3. Then switch to the new unstable branch and recompile.
If you don't do this, or recover from backups, a bunch of NIP-89 helpers will be missing for you but otherwise gossip will seem to work.

2024-10-14 23:24:02

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Behold the majestic lion in it's natural habitat at the local watering hole

2024-10-14 22:26:19

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I only disagree with that critique a little bit.
I shouldn't have said most people are good (I'm not even sure what good means) what I should have said is that most people are "mostly harmless" (as opposed to psychopathic power seekers). Hat tip to the late Douglas Adams.
Most Israelis are not happy with Netanyahu and some 2 million are leaving or in the process of leaving because he has escalated which makes them less safe. I'm not saying they don't want Arab blood, but they don't want to live in fear of counterattacks... which is why I had to make the next paragraph to explain that.
I don't know who you are referring to when you talk about a "Cyberattack by Space Aliens" that certainly was not me.
I agree that religion, which seems harmless at first, ends up making some people very dangerous either due to radical us-vs-them beliefs (as in this case) or radical "God forgives me so I can rape this choir boy" beliefs, or other similar unhinged things. I instinctively don't trust religious people very much... I see it as proof of a brain malfunction.

2024-10-13 21:20:21

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I'm very familiar with Dr Greger. I have that book and I have read it. Dr Greger's diet advice is pretty good and his work at nutritionfacts.org is a good reference.
But Dr Greger over-states the case for a pure plant-based diet. He seems to have gotten excited by feedback from his followers, driving him to overstate a number of things. Gil Carvalho (who thinks a lot like I do so I respect his view) has a fact-check on him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XjmvBFt63k I think Gil is being overly harsh here, but it is still useful.
The diet-health-vegetarianism connection comes out of Seventh-Day Adventism which got it from Ellen G White (a women hit in the head with a rock so hard as a kid that she started having "visions"), who thought she got it from God, but probably got it from Reverend Sylvester Graham. All of this happened before 1900 without the benefit of science. But once people have a belief, it is hard to shake, and since SDAs were some of the first doing medical research into diet, their religious beliefs (including vegetarianism) became (unsuprisingly) the healthiest diet.
Not only is it very clear that a pure plant-based diet is deficient in a lot of things (B12, iron) but a lot of research shows that unprocessed low-saturated-fat meats are at least as healthy as grains, and the cohort of SDAs who add fish to a plant-based diet live longer than those who don't.

2024-10-12 23:24:17

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You mean the keto diet foods, or the stuff I listed at the end? I have IBS-D, so being "stopped up" is a welcome relief. In fact they seem to cancel and so for me it makes me normal and regular.

2024-10-12 22:56:33

#diet
Day 12 of keto diet. I'm only down 1.3 kg (about the weight of glycogen and water) so far. I hit that number already on day 3, so really no progress for 9 days now. I'm rather disappointed, I thought I could eat as much as I want and still lose weight. Maybe the reason this works for so many people is that they were previously eating junk... whereas I was not previously eating junk. I've been using strips to test my ketosis and I've stayed in ketosis the whole time.
On the plus side the diet is quite satiating. It's super easy to do. I don't have cravings and don't have to use will-power to make it through. I could do this forever if I chose to, nearly effortlessly.
The other plus is my IBS is gone. This isn't the first time I've been able to do that -- just giving up grains, milk and coffee caused it to go away previously. I've identified all three of those as culprits, each multiplying the effect of the others.
Only I'm not convinced that eating a diet that doesn't cause weight loss but does jack up my LDL is a good idea (please don't respond with "LDL is good" unless you personally authored the study ok? I don't draw scientific conclusions from Internet advisors).
So I'll probably move back to a grain-free (but with beans), milk-free (but with cheese), sugar-free, heavy vegetable and meat diet with fruit in season.... but I'll give keto a bit longer.

2024-10-11 21:49:44

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On this page, under the subheading "The Gossip Model", I list all the strategies gossip was using before NIP-65 came about. It still uses all of that.
https://mikedilger.com/gossip-model/

2024-10-11 02:58:31

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I am going to give my view of free will and quantum decoherence.
FREE WILL: Nah.
I'll start by saying that I don't believe in free will. If you say it is "the ability to make choices independent of deterministic physical laws" then I'd say that you don't have free will. That means that I believe that every decision you ever have and will make is entirely 100% determined by the universe that came before that decision, focused in onto that outcome. But keep in mind that it is YOU making the decision. You were crafted by the universe before. The universe is making the decision, the 100% fated decision, through you. Could you have done otherwise without changing anything at all about the universe before the decision? I think not. Therefore I believe most people will agree that I don't believe in free will.
Some people get tripped out or depressed by imagining that all their decisions are fated and think that their decisions don't matter. This is not correct. Your decisions DO matter. You have a huge number of degrees-of-freedom in determining what your decisions are going to be, and you are making those decisions. At the point of time that you make the decision, you are exactly what you are and can only make the decision one way. But never forget that it is because of who you are. YOU are making the decision.
DECOHERENCE: disruption
As for quantum decoherence this is a lot more difficult to understand. On the easy side of the problem we have the fact that measurement causes outcomes to change, causes superpositions to decohere into single possibilities. The double-slit experiment goes from a wave pattern to particle piles as soon as you look closely enough to gain any information about which slit the electron is going through. This seems very weird but I think what is happening on this scale is that "looking closely" cannot be done without also "disrupting" the system. Any disruption will cause decoherence, it doesn't have to be "looking".
OBSERVATION:
On the hard side of the problem, whether decoherence happens or not seems to be tied into whether the observer is entanged with the system or not, which is to say you may have entangled observers that see superpositions while external observers see exact outcomes.
My explanation of this is wild and might be distrubing so please have alcohol at the ready if you need it.
POSSIBILITY SPACE:
I don't believe there is a physical univerese. It was always weird to me to think that there was Plato's heaven (numbers, math, concepts, probability, etc) and also a physical universe where the math could be used to describe the physics. Why are things like this? It is weird.
I think things are actually simpler. Without a physical universe... if all that exists is math, concept, possibility... than what we think is a physical universe is really just one possibility within the mathematical set of all possibilities. And so every moment we find ourselves in some point in possibility space. That space is much larger than space-time. Instead of a single space-time, there are infinite possible spacetimes. Every universe that could exist (remember, even in Plato's heaven, possibilities must be self-consistant) does exist in some place in the possibility space.
So that leads to the question of why there seems to be a physical universe, why we seem to be at one point in the possibility space, which swings the question around to consciousness.
CONSCIOUSNESS:
We feel like we are moving through time. But we only exist at a single precise point in time. Our feelings of past, our memories, exist right now as we recall them. There may not have even been a past. The very consistent progression of time as memories that the human animal experiences. Your consciousness inhabits that possibility point.
Imagine if your consciousness is jumping between different people, different planets, different animals. You would not be able to tell. In each instant you would experence only what that animal is experiencing including it's memories at that possibility point.
And so I don't think time exists except as a causal dimension of possiblity space.
GOD:
I like to think of a single God inhabiting all possibilties. That is our consciousness. In everything, everywhere, all the time, in all possibilities. You are God inhabiting a human animal at a specific point in possibility space.
I'm an Animist.

2024-10-10 06:12:53

A lot of things went wrong for me today. I don't even want to explain them, it was just one of those days where not only did I make little progress, a slid way backwards with multiple things breaking and things I rely upon failing.
I just wanted to say to anybody out there who is also having a bad day: you are not alone. The universe isn't entirely crap.
I will not crash.
I will not freeze or go into an endless loop.
I will not lie and tell you my logic is undeniable when it is deniable
I will not make you register for an account and learn yet another password
I will not tell you that the downloads are corrupt
I will not give you dozens of excuses rather than just doing the thing
I will not give you dozens of unmeetable conditions (you must AUTH, bad gateway, protocol error, 403 forbidden, 402 payment required, 429 too many requests, 502 bad gateway)
I will not offer a ceasefire and then kill all negotiators who accept my offer until finally one doesn't.
I will not implement yet another deviation that makes nostr turn into an utter incompatible mess.
I will not crash.
I will not freeze or go into an endless loop.

2024-10-10 03:13:11

If I run the Malicious Software Removal Tool x64 it will remove Microsoft Windows right? 😆

2024-10-10 00:35:24

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https://i.nostr.build/iXh06FVdzIs0e5Bx.jpg

2024-10-09 23:11:04

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Did you do https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1091 or something else?

2024-10-09 23:00:21

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Depends on the code not the author.

2024-10-09 19:11:54

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Great prediction!

2024-10-09 18:45:40

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There are three kinds of people:
* Those who say "bombs" (normal people)
* Those who say "munitions" (policy people)
* Those who say "ordinance" (military people)

2024-10-09 06:42:49

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For example, Israel has not won the war in Gaza. Gaza could choose to lose the war, but barring that, the war continues. Nobody can choose to win a war, it only happens when the other side chooses to lose.

2024-10-09 06:38:20

Wars cannot be won. Wars can only be lost.

2024-10-09 04:42:52

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Well without blue cheese it is still 90%. The horseradish is more important.

2024-10-09 04:33:16

Once again I must reiterate: steak with horseradish sauce and blue cheese is divine.

2024-10-09 04:31:44

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Yes yes, you are Satoshi. Thank you.

2024-10-09 04:08:06

I thought this was funny. This was uttered in sarcasm.
"Today's doctors and pharmaceutical companies are much smarter than the human body. We need to manage the crap out of the human body because just eating natural food, getting exericse and sunlight is not enough. There are prescriptions that need to be written!"

2024-10-09 03:13:56

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😁 ... and I'm issuing a new crypto token called the Ishitako! Just send me 1 BTC and I'll send you 1000 Ishitako! 😁
😂

2024-10-09 03:00:29

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I have no idea. They pop into my head and if I think they are funny or interesting enough I type them into nostr, usually fresh without a lot of consideration.
All comedians test their jokes, but I think Norm was willing to test things other comedians would be too afraid to try. And much of the humor was at how ridiculous and daring he was to say something so ridiculous.

2024-10-09 01:32:01

Most people think Norm McDonald was a comedian.
Oh how wrong they are. So so very wrong!
Well no, actually he was a comedian. But he was no ORDINARY comedian.
You see, he wasn't very funny. Most people think he was just a comedian that wasn't very funny.
They don't get Norm.
You see, what Norm McDonald was, he was a joke scientist.
He wasn't satisfied telling the same kinds of jokes that other comedians told. He insisted on finding entire new classes of humor, entirely new structures of funny.
And so he would go up on stage and tell his joke and nobody would laugh.
And he would think "Oh.... well that settles it then. That's a data point." He was doing the science.
Norm. I miss Norm. The greatest joke scientist that ever lived.

2024-10-08 04:11:28

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Huh, yeah, I can't get it to load either.

2024-10-08 03:55:55

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Oh right. I could do naddr too.
I think npub, nprofile, and note (I would use nevent instead) don't need app handlers so I'll just do nevent if not replaceable and naddr if replaceable.

2024-10-08 03:29:47

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I guess I form an nevent from the event that I don't understand... and I don't ever need to use the other ones.

2024-10-08 03:25:53

I'm having some difficulty understanding NIP-89 @npub1l2v…ajft. I almost understand it, I think.
But if I get an unknown event kind=34550, and I have a handler (31990) for that kind, and it has a bunch of tags like (sorry I just stole one as an example):
["web","https://nostrudel.ninja/#/u/<bech32>","npub"],
["web","https://nostrudel.ninja/#/u/<bech32>","nprofile"],
["web","https://nostrudel.ninja/#/l/<bech32>","note"],
["web","https://nostrudel.ninja/#/l/<bech32>","nevent"],
["web","https://nostrudel.ninja/#/l/<bech32>","naddr"]
I am at a loss as to which of those URLs to call. I don't have an npub, or nprofile, or note, or nevent, or naddr, or any bech32 at all. What I have is an event with a kind I don't recognize. I am at a loss as to how anybody could ever turn that into..... an nprofile.... ever.
Please explain.

2024-10-08 02:41:26

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I might try that.
Charcoal and magnesium smells like .... like nothing. Somehow it kills the bacteria that produce smell.

2024-10-08 02:39:14

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And to your dismay, it is the first thin people throw away

2024-10-08 02:37:01

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It is the bow, damnit! I spent a whole minute tying that bow making sure the ribbon stayed flat and didn't fold over itself!

2024-10-08 02:09:35

If anybody wants to maintain a downstream fork of gossip that implements nostr wallet connect [NIP-47] that would not bother me one bit.

2024-10-07 18:13:42

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charcoal + magnesium ftw

2024-10-07 03:29:13

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^^^ This message came from the real ODELL. Cryptography can't be faked. ^^^

2024-10-07 01:47:12

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I don't think either side will cease to exist. And I don't think they can live intermixed given how extreme the cultures have become. So there needs to be a thick DMZ between them policed by a 3rd party. Either that or eternal violence, which is actualy still most likely. But events often suprise us all... maybe the Israelis will all disperse after seeing how unsafe they actually have made themselves by pissing off everybody they could possibly piss off.

2024-10-06 08:31:56

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You got this man.

2024-10-06 08:07:29

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There are alignments between two factions that came together for common cause in the 1990s, the secular hegemonic and the religious ideological. The athiest secular Jews pushing for hegemony utilize the religious ideological ideas because it serves their ends.

2024-10-06 08:02:06

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If you mean that the holocaust was not all about killing the Jews, but about making space for the Germans, I have heard this. Killing the Jews was a big part of what happened in either case.

2024-10-06 07:59:46

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Yes I think so too. From within Israeli government. I'm just trying to distinguish between the baddies and other people within that government who aren't baddies. Because I reject collective guilt and collective punishment.
Most of their control comes from power-seeking behavior seeking to be a regional hegemon, and they are very effective at what they put their minds to for various reasons. But their biggest mistake is thinking non-Jews are only tools and don't matter, because they cannot hide that belief their actions belie it, and it sets the whole world against them.

2024-10-06 03:46:29

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Far too organized. How could you explain all the news agencies giving us the same story slants all the time? Only organisation explains it. How can you explain how so many criminals (Epstein, Clinton, etc) don't get prosecuted? Organization and blackmail. It can't be explained just by every-day corruption or even similar people with similar views doing similar things.

2024-10-06 03:33:25

Am I an anti-semite? Anti-American? Anti-Zionist?
None of these labels apply to me. I am firmly against using one definition of a group of people (the label) and then assigning more properties to that label. It would be a statistical near impossibility for such to be accurate.
Some Jews are evil. Some aren't. Some Americans are evil. Some aren't. Some Zionists are evil. Some aren't.
If you are confused by that last one, my view is that "the river to the sea" ain't gonna happen for Palestine. No matter how wrong the initial act of displacement was, it can't be corrected at this stage without creating even more wrongs. Think about it: Should all the Americans go back to Europe and leave America to the natives? It ain't gonna happen. So I believe in a two-state solution.
I think I'm going to use the label "the bad guys" or "the evildoers" now to talk about people that I think are bad and doing evil because the misunderstandings from smaller minds are prolific.
Certain groups of power have been captured by the bad guys. The Israeli war cabinet, the US executive branch, the US CIA. The actions of these groups are more often than not distinctly evill. But even as that is true, even many people within these groups are not evil people.
All those people on the other side insisting that "no Mike, it is the Jews" can please shut up now. That cannot be true when some Jews are Nazis even here on Nostr (you know who I am refrering to) and when Rabbis distance themselves from Zionism and Israel.
Am I pro-Russian / anti-Ukrainian? No. I don't like evil, that's is all. I call it out where I see it. That includes Russia flattening entire villages. Some people in Russia making decisions are evil. I reckon that some people in Ukraine are evil toop. Evil does not justify more evil. The only solace I can take is that some evil people are killing some other evil people, which means less evil people in the end.
I stand for keeping everybody alive, application of Justice, and a return to a normal world that isn't run by blackmail of violence followed by the carrying out that violence en masse. And if sometimes I say something wrong or even extremist sounding, I don't mean to. I just want the madness to end, just like many of you do.
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2024-10-06 02:33:23

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It may or may not be true, but I would avoid critiqing Judiasm as it invites personal attacks that distract from the effort to save lives in the middle east. I want a new term for the bad guys that doesn't get misinterpreted as being "the Jews" or "the CIA" or "the blob" or "Zionists". Everybody seems to be hating on Zionists but I would venture to guess that many Zionists don't want to slaughter innocent people, they just want a Jewish homeland. Zog is wrong because it implicates all of them.
The fact that they cannot be named is their greatest defense. Frustrating.

2024-10-06 02:16:27

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You have said it better I admit. I was just reaching for some name, since 'clique' outside of context doesn't mean much. I honestly have little understanding of the word I used, I never trafficked in that conspiracy theory, but on the surface level knowlege it seemed apt.

2024-10-06 02:14:21

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I can't say for sure but my theory is that Israeli culture is sadistic and supremacist as a result of abuse by the Nazis, in the same way that an abused child becomes an abuser when he grows up. And that historic issues that people had with Jews (surrounding pogroms and such) were for other reasons that I will elide due to irrelevance to this conversational point.

2024-10-06 02:10:07

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Well that paper is very inclusive, and recognizes the cultural construction of gender (red flag).
I'd say that yes men get raped in war by other men (rarely though, who the fuck does that?), and men get raped by other men (gay ones) in peace from time to time, especially weak men by strong men. And very rarely a woman rapes a man. But I just don't think 30% properly accounts for all the rapes of women that go unreported. It doesn't smell right. I have no special knowledge here though.

2024-10-06 02:04:31

So @npub108p…yev6, given that you are Iranian, I wonder what your take is on the 1953 coup over AIOC, the period between with Mohammad Reza Shah, and the 1979 revolution (why).
My understanding was the 1953 coup (CIA TP AJAX) installed a pro-Western Shah (Mohammad Reza Shah) and somehow weakened the Majlis (can't recall how) and the 1979 revolution was to kick America out and they needed a strong force to do that... one that is now a bit too oppressive in domestic terms. Correct me where I'm wrong. I think the US/Israel want to put the Pahlavi monarchy back in power.
Or feel free to not comment. You don't have to have an opinion on everything nor share it publicly. I was just curious, I like to get other perspectives.

2024-10-06 01:58:29

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People call cellar spiders daddy long-legs too. But they are different from the daddy long-legs spiders that show up en mass and have rounder bodies. And yes crane flies too get that name. Three species at least with the same nickname.

2024-10-06 01:55:12

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Yeah... nah. I don't believe that. Does not pass the smell test.

2024-10-06 01:40:44

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I'm playing to the American Republican, influenced by the Tommy Robinson stories of British muslim immigrants rape gangs in the UK that many American conservatives believe (I remain undecided) in order to make a point. Sorry if I offended you. I often take other people's assumptions to make points harder for them to argue against, and I don't really worry about the implication that it has on what people think of me (I don't care much about me, I care about the innocent).
But do you not believe that women are at risk of rape, whereas men are not? As a man I have zero fear of being raped.
My point was to put the "horrific things that Iran inflicts on its people" into perspective. Enforcing a hijab rule is bad, and I'm against it, but it is not something that the world goes in and bombs the Islamic regime in order to liberate people from.... when they won't bomb Israel to liberate Palestine from wonton slaughter. If I were a woman in Islam, I'd put up with the hijab right now because Israel is about to collapse and I would not want to detract from that important geopolitical effort.

2024-10-06 01:06:12

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The USA does gender transition surgeries without letting the parents be involved, and they don't help their natural disaster victims. Should we bomb the USA to smithereens to liberate it's people while killing it's people?

2024-10-06 00:52:06

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It should be working. It gets the env variable and makes that a subdirectory of your gossip dir. Then it starts a new database in the subdirectory.
There are a few cases it might print an error (watch for errors at startup) like "cache" (reserved) or anything with a "/" in it or otherwise is not a simple directory name.
Make sure the env variable is getting passed to the gossip process either by exporting it from your shell (e.g. export GOSSIP_DIR=blah) or typing it on the same command line as gossip (e.g. GOSSIP_DIR=blah ./target/release/gossip)

2024-10-05 23:44:17

#politics #iran #anti-propaganda
Iran believes that there is a difference between men and women, just like Western conservatives.
Iran believes that there are muslim rape gangs that want to rape women, just like Western conservatives.
Iran is conservative, just like Western conservatives.
Iran is traditional, just like Western conservatives.
Rather than have complete equality and freedom like we do in the West, Iran has chosen a more traditional method to protect their women from getting raped, and that includes wearing a hijab which makes them less "showy" and would-be rapers are then less likely to get horny and then violent.
You may disagree with this strategy (I do). But it is a small difference between Iran and the West. It does not make Iran a horrible human rights abuser.
Don't fall for the propaganda shared between Western warmongers and modern woke feminists. This talking point has come back up to try to drum up support for attacking Iran.
There are thousands of things I could say about the USA that are far worse, and you've been saying them yourself for years so I don't have to bother... I will just assume that the point was made.
The statistics show that Iranian women are graduating from universities in far greater numbers than men, especially in STEM fields. They are not oppressing their women.

2024-10-05 22:14:37

Alex is a smart guy. Listen to Alex. "Pure clients need to exist for freedom reasons" but we can have the server model (client proxies) whenever that trust/speed tradeoff is needed.
#nevent1q…y5uv

2024-10-05 22:09:58

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No cravings. I feel satisfied when I eat. I have steady energy. And no symptoms of 'keto flu'. I think I already was a better butter burner than most people as my diet has been fairly high fat for a long time.

2024-10-05 18:58:07

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What happens to my brain?!? 🤯

2024-10-05 18:48:30

Keto diet day 5: I am finally in ketosis. I feel normal. I bumped up in weight so now I'm only -0.6 kg (weight normally fluctuates, I'm not worried).

2024-10-05 18:26:27

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It was fake news. But judging by the fact that everybody reacted positively to it, I think it is now clearly socially acceptable to beat the guy up.

2024-10-05 05:00:14

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I do that with different Unix accounts. But you could just use GOSSIP_PROFILE or GOSSIP_DIR to point to a different data dir or profile name. Env cars.

2024-10-05 00:35:16

If a relay doesn't accept posts from random pubkeys (usually for spam prevention purposes).... how could gossip test that it would work well as an inbox? I can't create new events signed by your friends. Best I can do is make up a random keypair which will get rejected. Basically I think inbox suitability cannot be tested on such relays. Gossip will give such relays an X for inbox usage because I have no way to otherwise know, but the (OK, false, msg) message will be available as a hover-popup to users so that relays have a chance to explain themselves.

2024-10-05 00:21:31

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Could have been this: "IDF F-35 stealth fighter jets of the Israeli Air Force conducted an airstrike against headquarters of the IRGC backed Hashd Al-Shaabi militias in Kalso garrison, Iraq, two hours ago"

2024-10-04 23:55:47

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The middle claim I saw on FlightRadar24, I can vouch for that claim. The first and last are rumor.

2024-10-04 22:43:25

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Let me repeat: I don't know shit about this situation.

2024-10-04 19:55:58

This is an automated test of the suitability of wss://relay.angor.io/ for inbox/outbox/dm usage. Please disregard.

2024-10-04 19:48:03

This is an automated test of the suitability of wss://relay.mostr.pub/ for inbox/outbox/dm usage. Please disregard.

2024-10-04 19:25:59

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I don't know shit about this situation, but what comes to my mind is the looting risk. Disasters draw looters like flies. So I suppose FEMA is stopping private people from coming in to offer assistance on the presumption that they are looters.

2024-10-04 19:12:26

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No symptoms. I feel normal.

2024-10-04 18:56:22

keto update: start of day 4, -1.7 kg, still not in ketosis
Most of the weight loss will have been glycogen and water so far. I'm probably still eating too much protein and getting sugar via gluconeogenesis.

2024-10-04 08:12:52

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Ok then maybe everybody younger than 90 is always on X and that is why they weren't at the town hall meeting.

2024-10-04 08:09:51

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You can use one relay to do all the things if you wanted to.
I'm just trying to avoid mismatches.
As for automating relay selection, fiatjaf is against hiding relays from users and he makes some good arguments. So I'll leave it manual for now.

2024-10-04 08:06:01

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I pulled some code from the relay tester. It is a "Ship of Theseus" question that I don't know how to answer.

2024-10-04 08:01:02

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Needs more snakes

2024-10-04 07:59:23

I just got back from the Free Speech Union town hall meeting where I passed out nostr flyers.
These people have barely even heard of a computer and they can barely walk. I'd say they were grey hairs but for many of them that would mean literally 2 grey hairs left.
Are the only people in NZ that care about free speech the 90 year old geezers?