Olive Grove Eggs

Chickens free ranging in olive groves lay great eggs, fertilise the soil, restore biodiversity and keep the cash flow going when olives are on alternate fruiting. I am in the process of developing a platform to promote a community of like-minded growers and artisans, embracing the V4V model, Nostr and BTC.

Public Key

npub10dpmrjay77xcu6z2sxsv7h7dfl6puzcxgyd6ssxkwh9th8sdgk3sj39zws

NIP-05 Address

olivegroveeggs@zaps.lol

NIP-57 Address

olivegroveeggs@blink.sv

Profile Code

nprofile1qqs8ksa3ewj00rvwdp9grgx0tlx5laq7pvryzxaggrt8tj4mncx5tgcprpmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuen0w4h8gctfdchxvmf0qythwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnswf5k6ctv9ehx2ap0ey0fph

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relay.fountain.fm

relay.primal.net

Author Public Key

npub10dpmrjay77xcu6z2sxsv7h7dfl6puzcxgyd6ssxkwh9th8sdgk3sj39zws

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2024-11-16 13:07:06

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Luckily nothing lasts forever

2024-11-15 14:34:33

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As does death by a thousand cuts :)

2024-11-14 20:23:55

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2005? Bitcoin related hardware? Is there a digit wrong?

2024-11-13 15:56:59

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Fortune favours the brave. Well done. And your were prescient. Not much is said of 2019, all the focus about obvious writing on the wall for Why Bitcoin, took off 2020 covid. But 2019 was the year the wheels were well and truly working loose with the economy.

2024-11-08 14:35:34

Just been for a follow up appointment at hospital. Doctor checking my notes said
a) my blood analysis was great except b12 count was a little low
I'm
b) my blood analysis was taken in February.
I replied, good job I'm healthy and good job I made a few changes to my diet since Feb, ie I haven't been strict vegan for many months.
B12 deficiencies would explain a couple of misfires, which is why I had the blood tests in the first place.
Sorry vegans but after 5 years doing my best to follow the plan, any diet that requires a supplement is not for me.

2024-11-07 17:53:47

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Nearly there with Embedded Formstr, Decen chat, bitcoin payment widgets Final step is to mirror on npubpro, upload image and video to nostr.build and link to plebian market. Stuff like that?

2024-11-07 17:11:17

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I have no beef with Primal functionality, except their horrendous approach to wallet top ups, billing in bed with Google. That raised alarm bells for so say anonymity. I have never linked an old Gmail to anything on Nostr yet there it is winking at me at top up time.

2024-11-06 11:03:44

Want to know one reason why #flooding is getting worse? #nature was designed to be green. No green, no absorption of water. With no green, there is more dissipation of heat, drier soil, vicious cycle.
https://image.nostr.build/55cfd10b3f1fdced856ee14b1037f9099cbccc5f09789c41da8cdc6c65da3a02.jpg
If your position is that the climate is changing, whatever the reason, then stop helping accelerate the effects by supporting lifestyle choices that mess with Nature.
If you think man-made climate change is a hoax, there is a lot of truth in that, but do us all a favour and please don't carry on as normal, messing with Nature.
Either way the recent flooding has the mark of man all over it and everyone, regardless of politics or fleeting grasp of climste science, needs to take responsibity for the impact of nature on society. (Note I didn't say it the other way round. That was to make it real.)
I am of course beyond reproach myself living a simple life eating local food, most of the time and not too fussed about being uncomfortable from time to time. :)
Just the computer, a phone, internet, the long tail infrastructure needed to support that, as well as clothes from who knows where, dependence on occasional transportation.
Yep, it is complicated.
But fundamentally I don't mess with the land that I am the current guardian of, so I sleep OK under fire from whatabouterists who don't have the resolve to make changes to what they know in their bones is a terrible direction of travel.

2024-11-05 09:49:43

Time to refocus on #Naturestr . Tech, finance, bitcoin... tools not the master. https://image.nostr.build/803253aa9abd500a042eecd0a6f7a46a67c0c7187ca74a26fd413c11fb8bdc53.jpg

2024-11-04 15:55:21

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Don't you think the main problem is that most people in well off nations want change without doing anything different?
Even if you had 100 live wires on the inside, a libertarian govt would still be looking at a nation where the vast majority would not react well to being told to go make a job.
Not saying it isn't a fine aim, but don't you remember how frustrated Maradona got when managing a team that literally couldn't do what he showed them over and over!

2024-11-04 14:56:58

When you think the daily grind is hard, take time out to watch this movie https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0386651/
Every time they leave the house they hug as if they will never see each other again, for good reason. That's how tough their life is.
I spent time with a group of volunteers on the Tibet border, who committed to growing and protecting a mushroom trade for the benefit of the local community. Even there, smugglers were working on screwing them over.
I'm sure Bitcoin would solve a few basic problems. Direct fair payments from anywhere in the world direct to villagers for a start.

2024-11-04 14:39:10

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Ask China how their big ideas to control Bitcoin went.

2024-11-03 10:11:26

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Every new application of Nostr should build upward pressure.
10 years of online marketing confirmed to me that social media usefulness (as in blood sweat and tears real economic activity generation, which is the apex guage of energy usage right?!)) is well overhyped and the bad side ( division, addiction and control) is swept under the carpet. So I am here for the Nostr apps that will generate and enable real activity, while appreciating the nuggets of goodness and usefulness in social media.
Don't get me wrong, Nostr is a good social platform because there isn't much idle/ influencer chit chat that doesn't progress "society".
So in my case Nostr activity is going to explode - from my lone exploration and contribution in Amethyst say, to bringing normies who are going to use a stack of Nostr apps that are going to help them build their businesses. And by definition, because their business isn't online content creation, they will appear to be lightweight amethyst users, but in reality they will be empowered by Nostr (apps). Which is pretty cool, I think and why Nostr can succeed..

2024-11-01 17:58:30

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Or Happy Day of the Dead, which I find a more practical and credible description :)

2024-10-29 11:00:36

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You sir are an artist in more ways than the brush!
Remember the artist who refused to display at the national Gallery? He was illiterate but as a young man studied calligraphy and signwriting. He could calculate the number of characters per page of any font quicker than his colleagues could open their abacus, and he drew and painted letters as shapes without understanding what they were. That's art too, hey!

2024-10-28 12:31:42

Se traduce automaticamente Al inglés

2024-10-15 19:34:17

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Just giving it is a mistake. At least make them jump through some hoops.

2024-10-12 09:25:30

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the last track, rock on! Took them a while to get warmed up for that one, but well worth the build up.

2024-10-11 22:34:23

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did you get the zap for the right answer?
I cant see it on any clients but it shows on my wallet

2024-10-10 09:58:00

Something happened yesterday that made me wonder. What if the western elites decided long ago that the way to gain total control over the population was to first let China push the envelope on surveillance and control. Paint them as the bad guys, make us think that the average Chinese person lives like a timid victim of Big Brother, when it's nothing of the sort. But paint that picture.
Meanwhile the west are playing the classic moral high ground game of accusing your adversary of exactly what you do behind the scenes!
IE the unthinkable is rolling out before our eyes and instead of the opportunity to make America great by focusing on liberty and freedom, they and the rest of the g7 are actually going to out big brother the Chinese and their Brix buddies as they position themselves in a fast evolving multi polar world.
That's the thesis for my next novel.

2024-10-10 09:47:21

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Here you go. https://www.richardperkins.co/2021/07/packing-eggs-fast-and-other-things/ this guy has nailed mobile egg production. And he shares how it's done which is very cool.

2024-10-09 23:18:47

Have you noticed that everybody's phone is set up different? They might all work the same, but there is some quirk or other that cases mayhem when "trying to help". The volume button is where your off button is, things like that.

2024-10-09 17:32:47

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That's a nice touch. What's your approach to washing eggs? Here it's prohibited.

2024-10-09 08:42:12

What am I missing? Primal require you to top up their wallet with details they say won't be shared. Next thing it's a payment via Google and PayPal fields practically already filled in, no other options.
Rapidly redrafting instructions for purple pilling newbies. #asknostr

2024-10-07 13:16:38

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spooky. I am putting together a quick plan based on what I remember of Mailchimp and Tinyletter. I just looked up a few details and blow me, who founded TinyLetter? None other than Pud! Small world.

2024-10-06 14:47:48

whatever happened to characters like Pud and Fucked Companies? Nostr is shaping up a bit like a rerun of the can-do days.

2024-10-01 00:46:29

no DMs on Iris?

2024-09-30 16:34:05

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A bot account with a lightning wallet.

2024-09-28 21:57:58

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What do you think to the notion that art is the only thing we create

2024-09-28 21:18:59

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I'm liking that idea. Straight in at high level security.

2024-09-28 16:24:22

#asknostr
What is the most barebones Nostr app you can think of, so that when I send a newbie to sign up, they don't think "Nostr is ..."
By that I mean, the focus is so much on social media. Newbies finding Nostr via Twitter or on youtube etc are almost pre-programmed to think "Nostr is social media", which is not the reality, it's a whole fricking internet in the making.
So I want my (go to iris.to) instructions to be:
- Go to "nostr-no-name" (little clue what Nostr is)
Add a nym
Press Go!
Settings > Keys - Copy the key pair into a password manager
- Open browser settings
Search for getalby
Install
Add key pair.
- To find out what Nostr is all about
Download #Zap Store
Check out https://nostr.net/
Check out #Amethyst #Primal social media and start following cool Nostr peeps where you will find many suggestions for great Nostr websites, apps and more.
Thanks

2024-09-28 15:52:43

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That's the trouble with thinking aloud on the internet :) Sorry for barging in :)

2024-09-25 04:19:23

2024-09-25 04:19:00

2024-09-24 08:59:12

#asknostr anyone know anything about https://github.com/decentralisedchat
Instead of Zen Desk or Whatsapp, or similar, I have embedded this Nostr chat as an iframe in a trial Ghost website.
It asks to sign in with extension, messages go through to my DM box on Nostr, so it works on that level.
It did have an impact on my own Nostr bio as explained earlier.
Where are we at with the integrity of DMs? Are the privacy buffs rolling their eyes and I should be embedding Simplex or are my DMs OK with help requests from anons?

2024-09-24 07:58:49

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Colonialism alive and well.
A couple of other words I've come across for "foreigner" . Excuse the spelling, khawaja. The white skinned people said it means white man, but the uncomfortable truth is it actually means rich man, So some locals were known too as khawaja, and then you realise it isnt perhaps a positive word!, even though, delivered with no malice.
Here white ex pat immigrants, covering my bases there! are referred to as guiris. I've still not worked out what it really means because although it's never said with malice, they say it is tourist, but after 20 years Im still a guiri!?
In SW UK the tourists are called grokles and that was not a positive word.
Who knows in this desemanticised touchy age, does anyone know what they are even saying any more :)

2024-09-23 21:50:23

Good old Nostr, just lost all my profile info, avatar and all the rest.
Anyway, no worries, fundamentally the content is just where it should be. It should all catch up with itself I guess

2024-09-22 07:15:19

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Really good effect. It's been a long time since Polaroids shivering in the mists of Snowdon

2024-09-21 23:33:23

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That's the link at work. Not me.

2024-09-21 16:25:39

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What's your view on Goat and sheep's cheese? My understanding is they digest and produce milk/cheese that is far healthier than cow-based dairy, especially when they are wandering the hills not the feedlots.
Its obviously a loaded question!!! I cant eat meat, literally makes me puke, and I am big into goat cheese and eggs in my veggie diet.
As a good friend said, we don't want to get into a mindset where all food is deemed poison By the same token, maybe we miss the memo sometimes.

2024-09-20 13:56:41

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That's a bit downbeat. Need some more sugar? :)

2024-09-20 07:25:11

If these bitcoin people don't need banks, what else don't they need? asked the incumbents in "power".

2024-09-18 14:45:24

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In god's country!

2024-09-18 14:14:10

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It is surprising how poorly so many bitcoin podcasts age. I know things move fast, but really.
As you say, follow ups would be a step in the right direction. Maybe there's room for just one more podcast. Bitcoin Follow Ups!! All the old news revisited. Whatever happened to...

2024-09-18 10:50:30

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I hadn't heard of it, but reading through the instructions a sense of calm descended upon me! What mix of land/crops/animals do you have to juggle?

2024-09-17 07:15:30

AOVE
EVOO
Our industrial food society has a knack for over-egging at one extreme, or squeezing the joy and poetry out of tradition at the other
First pressing of freshly harvested olives, or Extra Virgin Olive Oil ad ee now call it, is one example.
EVOO which started life known sinply as Olive Oil was once pressed at room temperature using stones and maybe water or donkey power. Now we call that "Extra Virgin olive Oil", because with progress, what producers now call "olive oil" is the lesser grade second pressing.
But it's worse than that. Cold pressed Extra Virgin olive oil can be pressed at up to 60C " room temperature".
So how to differentiate the purest form of oil from the one reinventing the boundaries of purity? I guess we are down to marketing and pretty pictures.
Except plain and simple olive oil the old way, liquid gold, super nutritious oil with as many taste subtleties as a fine wine, s now called EVOO in certain circles. In Spanish that is AOVE, celebrated by top chefs, lauding oil done the proper way as something special.
So now the purest oil is hidden behind the equivalent of WC , desemanticised.
The EVOO in supermarkets is for sure not cold pressed from this year and likely is pressed at the legally stipulated 60c max for "cold" and is 2- 3 years in a stainless tank waiting for the right price
And that known as "olive oil" in supermarkets, who knows what it is. For sure it is second pressing and has been cut with sunflower oil or whatever is going cheap. Is it a better bet than than straight rocket fuel seed oil? I'd hope so, but olive oil as our not so distant ancestors knew? Not a chance.
So that's what little producer people like me are up against. Extra Virgin Olive Oil should not be hidden behind acronyms, not sidelined by mass produced lesser grade versions, and must prevail for international health reasons, for cultural and societal reasons, and for environmental reasons.
Small scale producers can't make ends meet without perverse incentive subsidies. That's why developing a mobile chicken farm amongst the olives is so important to me. To prove that there is a way to generate regular cash flow from an "unprofitable" olive grove, while negating the need for subsidies which require farmers to plough up the land and make it look tidy.
Some things shouldn't be condensed, rushed, commoditized out of existence.
Something like that :)
#foodstr #olives #oil #aceitedeoliva

2024-09-16 11:46:35

https://youtu.be/EBrcUGEeZys?si=zlP84aBV9RqYgS7K Interesting

2024-09-16 09:14:56

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Accept what you can't change, kind of thing!

2024-09-16 08:03:51

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Amethyst caught up to speed. Any complaints of mine come from a good place. Nostr is the future, cool to be part of that process. Wish I were more technical to contribute and rectify rather than whine about glitches.

2024-09-15 07:08:21

finally, threads with followers as expected. In Primal. Amethyst just isn't getting it right still.

2024-09-14 12:33:26

Scrolled through the global feed expecting to experience a seething cauldron in the human underworld. I guess I struck lucky because all I saw was neutral to positive.
I like the world according to Nostr. Maybe everything else is the matrix.

2024-09-14 12:29:35

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Are you the K9 guy on Toolman Tim's podcast? 3's an army.

2024-09-14 06:45:11

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Misfires are fine, as you say, it gets like Stockholm Syndrome, primed ready for whats possibly going to go wrong this time! But this follower/thread glitch I have has become a chronic issue. First world problems haha.

2024-09-14 06:38:35

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I seem to remember an American tourist got arrested when they left an airport bathroom and warned the people in the queue that he had left a bomb.

2024-09-14 06:32:40

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Sure. Not looking for perfection yet, just ideas about why my follow group is appearing and disappearing, and if I can reset anything or .... Are you experiencing any issues where you simply aren't seeing any general conversations with your peeps?

2024-09-13 19:42:34

#zaps Where did the term originate?
Watching La Femme Nikita the classic dark French original, 1990. Zaps mentioned several times before the opening carnage.
I'm sure a smart Nostr #memestr could do something with that.

2024-09-13 17:13:37

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Libreboot
https://minifree.org/
In my experience a reliable UK supplier of libre laptops with Trisquel preinstalled. That was a few years ago, things may have changed. The website theme hasn't but the content has updated!

2024-09-13 11:45:32

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Not sure popularity is a good metric for copycatting. Search Olive Grove Eggs, there's more than one. There's probably a bot setting up alternates of every new account

2024-09-11 11:22:25

I have seen a few users asking about Alby invites. This is the option they gave me when I was 5000 on the list https://cal.com/getalby

2024-09-11 00:05:16

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Bitcoin fixes this.

2024-09-10 15:25:42

#Olives bush in nature. That's all.

2024-09-09 16:37:50

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You haven't talked to me :) Everyone I follow has been unfollowed.
Is there a process or source that has a way of retrieving that list? If nothing is ever deleted, kind of idea
Where's the Nostr CEO when you need one!

2024-09-09 07:03:43

Not sure what's going on with #amethyst but I have about 3 people's posts in my timeline and that's it. Not that I'm into accumulation but I had an interesting bunch of conversations and people to reference.
Will return later to see if relays are able to pull anything together.
Rest of my account seems to be showing OK #asknostr

2024-09-07 07:22:01

I am committed to providing value and assistance wherever possible. Putting oneself out there, sharing information, that is the foundation for building a strong community.
This age-old truism has recently been coined as Value for Value. We don't have many financial resources to share out, but we have information, ideas, experience, time and energy. Is it any wonder the first adopters of V4V tech were artists, writers, musicians, podcasters!
When a few people start to listen to an idea, and find value, and respond in a practical way, the exchange of valuable information increases. Before you know it, the community's knowledge base is building. Wealth-generating ideas abound. People are prompted to act. The pool of financial wealth starts growing. All from sharing ideas and information.
Fighting for freedom of speech is nothing to do with anarchy or being anti law for the sake of it. Infringing on a society's freedom of speech puts a brake on society's ability to develop. The dumbest thing a greedy leader could ever do is stop the people talking freely. That kind of policy is literally eating their own, and everyone else's lunch.
#grownostr #free-speech #nostr

2024-09-05 19:16:03

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Isnt there a defining study of 2 musicians: one on Spotify with 10m downloads and zero income and another who earnt $1500 in a few months of a V4V podcast 2.0 platform. Something like that.

2024-09-05 17:55:57

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Correct. The voice of reason on the personal data points, thanks.
And the logic of the censorship resistance? Is Nostr never going down because of safety in numbers of relays on the network?
On an individual level, what protects activists from being doxxed if a relay can see the IP address of users? New nsec for every post. A VPN and an onion relay as standard for using Nostr truly anon?
Hope that's not too many questions!

2024-09-05 12:13:51

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have you tried habla.news? Thats for posting long form stuff. The thing is though, what you post there is published to Nostr, so it appears in your social media feed. My takeaway is that unless Habla News can attract readers, or they have a smart collation tool so visitors can easily find all your posts, ie unless I am missing some obvious advantage, (and I stand to be corrected) you might as well post long form articles to your social media client which is the space where they seem to be developing every conceivable improvement to search, collation and discoverability.

2024-09-05 12:00:48

Sods Law. I normally don't have much joy with growing onions because I'm stingy with water. They stay scallion size! This year I watered a bit more and lo and behold I have about 200 onions like this in various stages of growth around the place. No surprises there, they say.
https://image.nostr.build/6045d8bc9819b4c976bb05dd569c8e5ef82ef681ec746f13a39b2849b1a8cf01.jpg
But would you believe it, I seem to have developed some sort of intolerance for what has been a staple of my diet for decades. Giving them away now.
Meanwhile back in the Spring I wanted to focus on peppers instead of tomatoes, they are much more nutritious. But despite going overboard planting dozens of different sorts of seeds, this year, what normally grows like a weed has faded away or finally started to kick off towards the end of the hot season.
#Gardening is art not science haha
#growstr #homesteading

2024-09-05 07:37:22

Morning all. Out of curiosity I have scrolled down a YouTube feed of economic forecasting and commentary. I can see every reason to feel quite doomy, especially as the content sliwly meanders from econonics to pomutics to war and ...
If you want to hurt somebody, words can be more violent than physical force.
But if you see words as a bunch of letters arranged in a certain order, words can't hurt you.
And if you know about Bitcoin and about the Nostr community, a YouTube doom scroll can't hurt you.
Taking it further, if you try look past the words of someone trying to hurt you, or look behind the motives of a YouTube, you might see a weak, or scared messenger.
And if you are drinking from a positive peaceful well, it is easy to simply shrug and smile and acknowledge you have heard their words, or taken time to look through the doom scroll, but it's not something you are going to worry about. You march to a different beat, have a good day.

2024-09-04 21:14:45

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That's a powerful thread. Cheers

2024-09-04 21:09:40

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Horses for courses. There are parts of Spain you'd slot right in, with your wellies? North coast can be a real ducks paradise.

2024-09-04 20:26:51

Lashings of rain which is good, for second consecutive day. On the other side of the equation, not getting out much. We live outside except for the 60 days a year when there isn't sun here, so Im feeling a bit deskbound recently!
My barebones solar installation is very fast at charging, but is struggling under the stress of coping with me being indoors. But at least there is still juice to type this and listen to a podcast. :)
And just heard I'm an uncle again, yay.

2024-09-04 14:47:27

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Nostr needs to work on the tens of millions of devices already built but destined for landfill. The world's poorer off will thank Nostr forever for liberating them. Sorry, you got caught up in my little hobby horse topic for the day!

2024-09-04 14:44:42

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I cant stop thinking what lots of different server runners might be doing with my notes instead of one person at company HQ! I'm really struggling with the relay concept. By the time I or a lot of other users find out a relay has been taking the piss and selling data and who knows what, the user concensus view is irrelevant? Still looking for a 101 on what I am missing.

2024-09-04 14:35:02

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Using Sierra after 10 yeas on Yosemite, I am like a beaten dog being shown love for the first time in ages. It is bliss. And I appreciate every keystroke.

2024-09-04 14:32:08

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That's the first time I have ever been part of a 1%! Thanks :)
To answer your question about the percentage of people who are poor in terms of access to internet and devices. Lots!
This is the percentage of population by country who use the internet. I read that as the % of people who can afford a device and the fee to get online. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IT.NET.USER.ZS?locations=A9
Globally about half of homes have a PC. Phones are the main access point online now, though, but the developing world doesn't have 82% smartphone use like in the US or Europe. https://www.statista.com/statistics/539395/smartphone-penetration-worldwide-by-country/
Obviously Nostr devs aren't responsible for whether people can afford to have an internet connection, but some apps are clearly caught up in the built-in obsolesence trend. What are considered "throwaway PCs and devices" that could be affordable to millions of people, won't run browsers that are required to access a cross section of Nostr apps.
If a guy can write software to pay for groceries in Africa with bitcoin on a dumb phone, it can't be beyond the wit of a community that wants to be global, to make sure its apps and clients are visible on old browsers.

2024-09-04 13:41:05

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Laying poison is a bad move. You can end up poisoning all sorts, especially the cat that's supposed to be catching the mouse, which as @wedge social points out, a cat is far from the dead cert killer we are all led to believe as kids! I have spotted mice before my cat.
We are the apex predator but we can be kind about infestations. Don't give pests a reason to move in. The place I live now was wasp infested, rat infested and ant heaven when I moved in. I haven't killed one and they have pretty much all gone.
For mice, block up gaps from outside. That tip about steel wool is a good one, or rolled up hardware cloth around entry points for pipes. They hate the smell of mint. I have a big bunch hanging up.
Don't leave food lying around.
I view cats as a deterrent, not a last line of defence. Have them for patrolling, putting rodents off settling down. And a dog patrolling too. We have a big hound it is a killer and the rats know it, another reason for them to keep out the way! A 35kg dog is no good for attic duty though :)
Last resort is humane traps to get them out and dropped off in a new locale. The thing is, we are the pest when we set up shop in a house in a field or equivalent. We can do better than just kill everything.

2024-09-04 13:22:07

Upgraded to 2017!
https://nostrcheck.me/media/7b43b1cba4f78d8e684a81a0cf5fcd4ff41e0b06411ba840d675cabb9e0d45a3/4c7b036d50577c2ce6e7d6598ef94cef06d1c9a219de5fb8921060f4f408dd40.webp
Now I can see all the Nostr clients in their entirety. Shout out to #anonostr and #satellite and #Nostrchat the clients I found that worked just fine on an old desktop browser. I am sure there are a lot more.
But a friendly word for #Iris and this very #Nostter client from which I typeth. I was excluded from your Nostr experience until I was able to upgrade.
You might say, get with the program, old fella, catch up. Fair enough, but maybe listen to the perspective of a younger man who knows his shit - Obi at Fedimint. His epiphany on developing a truly global entity: you have to think of the poor people first, not the ones with the disposable income to throw their cash at solutions.
There are many more billions of poor than comfortably off. It is likely the former who will most need the opportunities that the Nostr protocol offers. Just saying. It's marketing 101, know your market.
Now, I have a couple of years to work out how to get Linux Puppy working. I go it installed and booting up through the BIOS, but now its stuck and Linux forums are enough to make Einstein scratch his skull.

2024-09-04 11:48:58

A good read newsletter if you are interested in privacy issues and freedom software https://www.fsf.org/free-software-supporter/2024/september
"this month, we are highlighting LibrePlanet Artists, which is a network of #graphicdesigners, #photographers, #illustrators, #videographers, #animators, and #audioengineers committed to creating free artwork only using free software. They help to create educational materials and other media for #LibrePlanet teams, as well as to advocate for free software generally."
https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:LibrePlanet_Artists.

2024-09-03 22:47:44

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Lucky neighbours

2024-09-03 09:28:14

The rain is absolutely torrential. Thunder cracking directly overhead, hold on to your hats. It is most welcome.
Most of the picture-perfect olive groves that Spain is known for, receive EU grants (€350/ hectare to plough) After this storm passes, they will be inaccessible, flooded, and the top soil a bit more eroded.
Man, not the sun, is the principal driver of localised changes to ecosystems. When the rain hits my land it is stored. When thevsun hits my land, the ground cover absorbs and slowly releases heat. The bare soil next door hits 60c in summer. The hydrological cycle is disrupted.
It is very difficult to do the maths to prove to the genersl population what that means for the climate. But it is easy to see what it means for our ecosystems.
Millions of bad decisions since we discovered agriculture, accelerating over the last hundred years, exponential the last 40-50 years, result in the current big ag complex. Join up the millions of plots of land being farmed in an unnaturall way, multiply out the local broken hydrological cycles, you dont need a person on social media to join the dots for you.
And you really should question why there are still significant voices playing down our direct role in ecosystem collapse. You just don't hear the naked truth that we have been shitting on our own doorstep for too long and the consequences are playing out before our eyes.
"They" can't tell you what to think, but they sure can tell you what to think about.
They talk about climate change, global warming and similar terms - such a trigger, and such a vast concept to get our head round. We either get super freaked out/ depressed, or mostly switch off, overwhelmed. That strategy is playing right into our chimp brain. It's clever.
The day a govt and corp talk and act in terms of dealing with global ecosystem collapse, global because they join the dots of local ecosystem collapse, then they have my vote, but it won't happen because they work on an exploitationall economic model. Is there any other sort? No, but there are ways that's more sustainable than others. (The only thing Man literally creates is art. Every other moment, we just exploit what we inherited from creation )
Anyway, until society wakes up and runs itself along eco-friendly lines, and refuses to support big ag production as is, I'm afraid we are on a one way track to famine at one end, and slow degeneration through malnutrition ( obesity being that signal,) at the other.
Why? Because I am not the only one who can no longer rely on the seasons. I might be able to adapt, to "control" my veg garden, snd I can have groundcover and shade trees and chickens to mitigste agsinst weird rain, wind and sun, but I sure have no way to controlv the vast majority of the land around me.
Consumers could force hands quicker than me ranting or govt policy. Like @bitcoin bull said about changing the financial system peacefully, bankrupt the fuckers. Equally speedy change could be off the back of the masses refusing to buy shit food.
They say you cannot afford good food
I say, if it's nutrient rich, you don't need a lot of food. Really, its a lie that big ag and huge scale farming is the only way to secure a huge food supply for better fed, healthier populations. Production from small market gardens is insane. And now I am rambling. Cheers
#km0 #growstr #local #ecological #Spain #olives #circular-economy

2024-09-02 17:07:58

Been a very unproductive day between relays, and bootable Linux drives not playing fair.
No doubt it is me and not having the latest greatest kit and 2 left thumbs.
On the positive side of this learning opportunity, the takeaway is:
I'm only interested in tools that make me productive. I'm willing to learn, but that's not the same as being a crash test dummy. There's more of me than techies who love to tinker, or if there aren't, Nostr is going nowhere. Or the same place as Linux which is still not in the average Joe's lexicon.
I used to run a big how to website so I'm not just having a pop after a bad day on Nostr. Very often we fell short of providing the clearest info, because of too many assumptions.
Instructions need to be idiot proof.
The word "just" needs to be struck from technical step by steps.
For newbies, explanations need to come AFTER we have followed every step and achieved something technically challenging.
Under promise and over deliver.
.I think the client owners need to step up and have a pinned welcome message with resources to get newbies started. It isn't right to be attracted by censorship resistance, sovereignty over content etc, when it is still a dark art to achieve that. Back to the crash test dummy, learning curve, tinker balance. But Even Twitter had a button to press exports.
Nostr users are very helpful but I am fast running out of #asknostr tokens :)

2024-09-02 16:19:33

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It's always different this time 😂 not. These are good months to load up, assuming there is any spare cash after inflation has eaten your lunch.

2024-09-02 12:59:50

Finally have citrine relay app working on my phone without errors showing on 10/10 relays listed on Amethyst.
In citrine settings though, if I input my npub in "Accept events signed by..." a relay goes down. Remove and the relay goes back up. (Not that I can tell which relay is going down!)
The version choice on the #citrine github page. As that is all there is to go on, a lot of assumptions are being made about what a noobie would choose.
Early, right!

2024-09-02 08:57:22

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Not as complicated as the process I went through to need to ask the question 😂

2024-09-02 08:54:31

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https://image.nostr.build/a5064bf04ef63e095b9a9854e1e73bb1ba74f0fc9f9d98f11ca0d617303e2b97.jpg
Ah, the screenshot sat on my phone still would help!

2024-09-02 08:51:09

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The nofollow link is a signal for sure. It's like not putting bricks in the foundation.
I can remember finding out a colleague was going through old blogs nofollowing links to the website generating work for him - the excuse being, so Google didn't think he was showing too much love to one site. It was nonsense. He was setting up a competing site and wanted the "Google love" to stop with him" .
He was a right Canute.

2024-09-02 08:34:05

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Can you give me a clue about why I get this message and how to rectify it. I have Citrine installed.

2024-09-02 08:29:40

I love cabbage, and I really like how they keep on coming back. They are heavy feeders so it is helpful that they aren't a flashbang veg.
#Permaculture will never feed the world, but it sure keeps us close to the land and excited by #nature. https://image.nostr.build/085dcc07b84a2ba4a1e7dc6f5d3baacd863742ac248a5f170c3cf1eae5f7da6a.jpg

2024-09-01 20:33:26

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my daughter would climb anything as a little 'un, literally sides of houses, stone walls, and real boulders. It is a fantastic discipline, and gives much mental strength - as well as grippy fingers, as witnessed by her grip on her purse when it comes time to paying for climbing.

2024-09-01 20:28:17

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yep, they both spend a lot of time on the ground. Boom Boom. Welcome to #dadjokestr

2024-09-01 20:22:31

#asknostr what I am supposed to see on the working localhost:4869 page for the #citrine relay I installed on my Android phone?
After much node.js-ing, I have now got as far as Terminal confirming everything is talking and reading correctly, but progress is stalled at a message on Chrome saying it sees a Nostr relay or websocket. But that's it.
What am I missing? Or is that the feedback? #relay
Also any idea how to see and rectify the errors indicated on my private relay entry in Amethyst? cheers

2024-09-01 18:45:24

This year was the biggest olive harvest in living memory, and the almonds are bowing under the weight too.
Not a drop of irrigation, the almonds are not an ecological disaster when left to their own devices. However the price to pay is less yield per tree. The olive's alternate fruiting cycle means this year is near zero harvest for us.
And it is the drive for consistent yield and price that motivates the questionable practices of the mega farms who have driven their input costs up and the prices down en route to becoming mega farms. It is a ludicrous system of misaligned incentives that the consumer, the farmer and nature pays a heavy price for. Or we could just eat a little less and leave much of the almond industry to nature and find more purpose in the orchards beyond monoculture almonds.
#chickens #growstr #Spain #homesteading
https://image.nostr.build/dfe77a6fedea024cf2177eea51b48ace075b4824109f2d19bff81fa555206b62.jpg

2024-09-01 13:02:45

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"Each shipment may contain traces of cat hair." Brilliant! I'm into kilometer zero, so don't send me a pin, but I have a germ of an idea building, and will bookmark you under "pimp a pin". Keep working on them locals.

2024-09-01 12:46:47

The first page ever to appear on the internet.
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
The Cern contact telephone number is so whimsical!
Good morning. One moment, please, I will just connect you.
Now look at us. Good morning, I was up all night trawling through GBs of data online from hundreds of websites, and still I can't see what's on the Nostr relay on my phone :)

2024-09-01 07:45:05

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Up all night learning node.js or more accurately, hamming my way through the basics so I can see whats going on with the nostr relay running on my phone. Thanks for that initial nudge. Or rather thanks to you I haven't had much sleep haha.
Anyway, perhaps can you point me in the right direction or to a smarter cookie than me, to get me over the line?
Terminal says I'm set up, I think that's what the following means?
... yo$ npm run start > nostr-server@1.0.0 start /Users/yo/nostr-server > node . WebSocket server is running on ws://localhost:4869
Client connected
Connected to the server
Received: Hello Waster
Message from server: Echo: Hello Waster
But the Kiwi browser on the phone times out. The Firefox for Mac browser says Upgrade Required. Safari not playing either. I turned the relay on and off in case that is part of the process.
What are the URL options? Is it ws://localhost:4869 in the address bar, or am I missing something obvious?
I don't have WiFi, but the phone's connected by Bluetooth to the computer and that has an IP address showing in preferences. And they must be paired judging by Terminal message.
Someone online said it was the browsers not recognising websockets. But Kiwi is Chrome based, no?
AI hasn't helped, #asknostr is my last hope :)
#chickens are fed, I'm off to bed now. Cheers

2024-08-31 23:40:58

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hey, added anonostr to my list of desktop nostr clients. https://image.nostr.build/b3981a8f8648d0442bd3114919b5e0d26278193d3c68d22972f0906a41090abb.jpg
Great idea for anonymity. I've seen others comment that new key pairs for every note is an end game to aim for. Fame and anonymity can't go hand in hand etc . 👍

2024-08-31 07:44:28

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Good morning. Thanks for summarising the Nostr Times socio-financial section. Gives me space to see what's going on in #growstr world.

2024-08-30 19:33:03

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It takes two to tango. I read a thread today that was disappointing shall we say, but you know, nostr zen just leads you to the unfollow button and they have one less in their audience.

2024-08-30 13:05:20

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Apologies if this is a dim question but what are the data implications of this option IE my computer relies on phone data to be online. Does this relay only run when I am using Nostr, or is it going to be consuming while I'm online, but not using Nostr? Cheers