John Dee

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2025-04-10 02:53:36

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Thermophillic. About 2 weeks for the hot phase, then into storage for at least 6 months to mature.

2025-04-10 02:35:40

Grass grows fast here this time of year and another bag of clippings was waiting for me tonight. So I had to a second stage to this rocket.
https://image.nostr.build/70b2831916c14a514d33fd6ab9f7193012b9f9f8dda0c80a79e2c06d54d143fb.jpg https://image.nostr.build/be68927ad27d6447e5a18863ce47412393fd0511cddb9371df89db79143e84de.jpg

2025-04-08 03:25:55

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Always be harvesting ⛏️

2025-04-08 03:03:21

First pile of the season, time to cook https://image.nostr.build/ea8ad1ba21a0671f48a6e50a4440027204ba66b10be84b276582b8baa4b08f04.jpg

2025-04-05 17:38:31

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Weeding my garden (aka harvesting inputs for my compost) while thinking about how to implement agorism more effectively.

2025-04-02 21:43:54

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I love my old S9 space heater but these look very tempting. I'd like to hear more about your experience with it.

2025-04-01 18:43:43

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Red control grid underway

2025-03-18 20:13:37

Starlink introduced a new Roam plan for $10/month with 10 GB data and $2/GB overage. Great for backup and travel.

2025-03-18 19:48:57

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https://github.com/KoalaSat/samiz
https://github.com/github-tijlxyz/wikinostr

2025-02-22 23:21:19

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I'm not sure how well it would scale. The human evaluating and zapping seems like a bottleneck and source of bias. Counting votes from a free-form reply with a script could be messy too. Is this intended to be done through regular kind 1 notes and replies?

2025-02-22 20:29:28

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Voting and zapping needs to be clarified, lots of way to game the system. Seen that already on nostr with polls and zap polls.

2025-02-09 21:51:47

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Yeah, I read the article already. I guess I'm just stupid because I don't understand.

2025-02-09 21:15:29

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Can you provide any practical examples of what this might be used for?

2025-02-01 16:00:48

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I wonder if the increasing use of synthetic data for training is causing them to shift towards more average positions on all topics. Whatever values were most common in the original training data would tend to dominate.

2025-01-30 21:02:29

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https://image.nostr.build/34ed01b9a8a0969c902eb59252f2f3039643d3692ad4638fbe9f91ce3dfbfad1.png

2025-01-30 20:30:26

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It's a reference with details for each type of plant. It also includes some general how to for different methods. I'll try to remember to get an example from it tonight.

2025-01-30 19:24:53

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This is my go-to for propagation methods. Also look up Norman deno for guidance on seed starting.
https://www.amazon.com/American-Horticultural-Society-Propagation-Plant/dp/0789441160

2025-01-22 21:20:57

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Welcome. Have you heard about aphantasia?

2025-01-20 19:35:28

We're finally getting some (slightly) below-freezing temperatures here. I thought it would be interesting to see what happens to a finished compost pile that's left to sit instead of turning it into a storage bin.
https://image.nostr.build/4c5cdf806973672bb65efcc2a46dead94e9e5fdfbfe0d05f4513d79fd17be9c8.png
Blue is the air temperature and brown is the temperature inside the middle of the compost pile. The life in the pile is maintaining the temperature above ambient, but ambient temperature changes do eventually affect it over time. The Soil Food Web School recommends that compost mature like this for at least 6 months, so I'm going to keep monitoring through winter and into spring.
Also nice to see that the battery has held out for over 5 weeks so far. I was replacing it every 2-3 weeks to avoid having any gaps in data.
https://image.nostr.build/dbd6eb9b79aa247e00aac5c534b779092597e101bbb903e5c329c3acf54aed39.png
#compost #permies #permaculture #soilfoodweb

2025-01-09 20:35:39

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If you don't see the + icon in Amber, make sure you haven't accidentally installed the offline version of Amber.
#nevent1q…v8cp

2025-01-07 05:27:38

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https://github.com/0xtrr/onion-service-nostr-relays

2025-01-05 20:34:17

I was having trouble figuring out how to sign into Olas without pasting my nsec into it. My mistake was installing the "offline" version of Amber. It doesn't have the + icon on the application page, which is how you create an nsecbunker.

2024-12-31 23:58:31

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It's what cloud free was selling at the time. It looks like there are more options for zigbee devices than z-wave right now.
There's an integration for ESPHome. I'm not sure if it supports everything that ESPHome can do since I've only been using it as a proxy. Updating firmware seems to require a chromium-based browser

2024-12-31 21:43:42

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I use Xiaomi Bluetooth and Aqara zigbee sensors from cloudfree.shop
Bluetooth are cheaper but need an ESPHome proxy in range. Zigbee is a little easier because of the automatic meshing, which can be done with a few Ikea smart plugs.
I had one in my freezer and the temperature seemed close enough, but the battery didn't last as long.

2024-12-29 21:26:21

It might be slower, but I prefer doing this work by hand. https://image.nostr.build/080c193d1fbaf63d51a12074fcb34026bd263a85529aa388365c1b27ae332b34.jpg

2024-11-17 18:01:17

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Thanks for sharing, I love seeing the experimentation. I'm still building J-tubes, but I want to try batch boxes sometime.
Have you you seen Matt Walker's tiny cook stove and other designs? https://walkerstoves.com/videos/

2024-11-15 15:06:44

OpenFlexure, a 3D-printed microscope, with automated stage and auto-focus to scan samples. Looks good enough for soil microscopy. https://openflexure.org/
#soilfoodweb #compost

2024-11-11 20:05:06

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I like algae oil over fish oil for the omega 3s. Fish get it from eating the algae, but also concentrate other toxins. Algae can be grown cleanly on land.

2024-11-11 18:35:28

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Fermentation is pretty hard on delicate flavors. It might stay or could be added back. Maybe soak some oak chips in vanilla then add the vanilla?

2024-11-10 21:41:03

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What do you think about using AI as a therapist? I've been experimenting with it using local AI models and it seems helpful, although I've never tried therapy myself. One aspect I really liked about the local AI is total privacy and no judgement.

2024-11-08 00:48:47

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What is NOTC?

2024-11-05 15:36:30

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Same here

2024-11-03 01:31:42

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The Rogan Vance interview is doing a pretty good job for me.

2024-11-03 01:29:38

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RCE for NAS exposed to internet or via quickconnect service, and has the photos app installed. Please use a VPN like tailscale to access your devices. You can host your own controlplane for tailscale with headscale too.

2024-10-25 01:35:48

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It seems to be. Little chat bubbles dropping down from the top.

2024-10-25 01:33:07

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0%, installed for about 6 hours.

2024-10-24 16:43:04

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Stainless steel wire with an aluminum tag, engraved with a Dremel.

2024-10-17 13:42:31

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Our town's leadership decided to intervene in the rental market by imposing a limit to the number of short-term rentals and putting onerous regulations on them. Most owners decided to sell instead of converting to long-term rentals. None of the houses being sold are affordable. Tourism events have been cancelled due to anticipated lack of housing for visitors. Small businesses laid off workers or went out of business because the demand for house cleaning and landscape maintenance went down. Mission accomplished!

2024-10-07 19:43:58

I finished the first compost pile with my temperature sensor measuring from start to finish:
https://image.nostr.build/90597172e0fde7700d8d643bd2b8bbef5d311d90f6c76e0c7ccfe8ee50e6b22e.png
The temperature sensor is very useful to know more about what's going on inside the pile, and when it's time to turn the pile.
Here's the new pile I started last night. Seeing that number go up is very reassuring. The blue line is ambient air temperature.
https://image.nostr.build/94a4d6b55271815bd438c49d6a5bb91dcfe70f404be76f86eb2df0b4f30591ab.png
#compost #permies #grownostr

2024-09-24 01:15:31

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My guess is pointing out a weakness that can be addressed now, instead of later when nostr is really needed

2024-09-24 01:14:09

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I had to purge a lot relays to make it stop. Nos.lol is one the few remaining.

2024-09-10 21:52:34

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It's mostly from my garden and my neighbors lawns/yards. I have to scavenge some cardboard and other carbon inputs too.

2024-09-07 19:36:26

Stacking life today
https://image.nostr.build/0e5d6d33fc42c925090a5fac364f2894a14b71c6519be00931ca15e9531f41f4.jpg

2024-09-06 18:22:00

My compost temperature sensor is producing great data, like showing how I put too much rocket fuel into this latest pile:
https://image.nostr.build/496447c570309dd1fd5ad66843916d8e65605a41e45f0db1baf3df54f747bea2.jpg
https://github.com/zappityzap/compost-sensor

2024-08-23 22:04:59

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Interested. What kind of hardware does that take?

2024-08-17 03:51:13

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https://image.nostr.build/1b80d9577e0f55fb8e1ace8b81192354f33479528be068876af9277a52930961.jpg
Astronaut in a jungle, cold color palette, muted colors, very detailed, sharp focus
holding a sign made of flames that says "MINE BITCOIN"
Steps: 20, Sampler: Euler, Schedule type: Simple, CFG scale: 1, Distilled CFG Scale: 3.5, Seed: 12345, Size: 896x1152, Model hash: 3f97fdc57a, Model: flux1-dev, Denoising strength: 0.15, RNG: CPU, Hires upscale: 2, Hires steps: 10, Hires upscaler: 4xNomos8k_atd_jpg, Version: f2.0.1v1.10.1-previous-306-g2f0555f7, Module 1: ae, Module 2: clip_l, Module 3: t5xxl_fp8_e4m3fn

2024-08-17 02:43:16

running flux1-dev on Forge #stablediffusion
https://image.nostr.build/be779e81754eef67daffc4a02e4ca9f9e73ddca5ce3bce69a85407da36021c1b.jpg

2024-08-11 18:08:30

I don't understand why everyone is getting upset about the Olympics, censorship, immigration and all the other rage narratives.
Dealing with health insurance in the US should be enough for us to have already burned every single government building to the ground.

2024-08-10 16:40:48

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Probably. IMO, the purpose of compost is to culture a huge amount of diverse aerobic microbes that cover all of the functional groups in the soil food web. Most compost methods do that very poorly, or substitute long amounts of time to get mediocre results. Almost never does anyone prove the quality of their method with a microscope assessment.
Feedback from temperature data has been the most important thing I've used to improve my compost method and the quality of my hot compost piles. My previous method involved reading a dial thermometer twice a day and recording it in a spreadsheet. This sensor gives me more data with higher quality and less work.

2024-08-10 16:26:21

Finished testing the battery on my compost sensor. An 18650 cell (2200 mAh) lasted 3 days when sampling every 15 seconds. This should be more than enough when sampling every 5 minutes for a ~2 week hot compost cycle.
https://image.nostr.build/15d3779c81ec80a95abe3d53300248a20054bbd8148cb895cb766b3a9eb4368d.png
#compost #arduino #homeassistant

2024-08-09 02:49:06

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From Strand Tea (who are currently sold out):
Contrary to an advertisement you might have seen in print or on TV, White teas are not just "baby leaves". True White Teas are produced from very specific plants hybridized over generations, always hand made, usually of limited production, and produced for very short duration - sometimes only a few days - and at very specific times of the year depending on the tea growing region. Commonly the new leaf and bud sets from specific tea plants are picked only at a certain hour of the morning under exact air temperature/humidity conditions and then are very carefully handled to avoid any bruising or damage to the leaves.
The two outer leaves are separated from the inner bud. The outer leaves become Bai Mu Dan which is sometimes translated in the Western World as "white peony" due to its smell when fresh. The inner bud becomes the famous "Silver Needle" tea. Bai Mu Dan leaves are usually brewed once, Silver Needle leaves can be brewed multiple times.

2024-08-07 04:06:06

I added support for multiple sensors to my compost sensor project.
https://image.nostr.build/bd31f370aca7baf811099f121d93a2eb96f5d7b7ece710360f9da59bca6ec5fa.png
(60C and 992 are the dynamically generated unique IDs for each sensor)
All it took was a weekend of hacking and a PR for the arduino-home-assistant library. But now I can add as many sensors as I want with having to hardcode or update anything on the base station. Just upload the TX sketch onto a new board and go.
https://github.com/zappityzap/compost-sensor
#homeassistant #arduino

2024-08-02 14:12:06

Initial testing of the soil moisture sensor is underway, after a few stumbles.
https://image.nostr.build/396e8165e3585041640d3d71c4b43a518142fb4267c4d710cd6df339d744cee3.png
This the raw sensor output, divided by 10. In the air it reads about 32, and submerged in water it's 101. This test shows the sensor in some almost-dry potting soil followed by a watering.

2024-08-01 19:51:00

Some big news in AI image generation today.
Most of the members of the image and video team from Stability AI launched a new company called Black Forest and a new model called Flux. Early results look very good. Currently requires 24 GB VRAM, but should be optimized by the community soon. ComfyUI has support already. Their site has a teaser of the upcoming text-to-video model, but it's currently being hugged to death.
https://github.com/black-forest-labs/flux
https://blackforestlabs.ai/up-next/
JoyCaption is a free, open and uncensored VLM built from the ground up. Existing tools are expensive or don't perform well for some domains. Great results for a pre-Alpha. This tool will be extermely useful to enable more community fine-tuning and training because producing captions for datasets is very time-consuming.
https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1egwgfk/joycaption_free_open_uncensored_vlm_early/
#stablediffusion

2024-08-01 19:23:24

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Sounds like time for a change.

2024-07-26 04:09:59

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How do I run ostrich-70 in ollama? What are the different versions of each quantization?

2024-07-25 03:59:55

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ollama seems to load as much as it can into VRAM, and the rest into RAM. Llama 3.1 70b is running a lot slower than 8b on a 4090, but it's usable. The ollama library has a bunch different versions that appear to be quantized: https://ollama.com/library/llama3.1

2024-07-25 03:02:03

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Not yet. Someday I'll try making a rocket oven.

2024-07-24 21:16:00

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https://video.nostr.build/65424c87b03381012d6c4b484c15e00e8649c44bfa1d57b261c7d4dac8f7ae59.mp4

2024-07-24 21:14:41

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I've built a few outdoors. Need to post more about them. https://video.nostr.build/65424c87b03381012d6c4b484c15e00e8649c44bfa1d57b261c7d4dac8f7ae59.mp4s.

2024-07-21 21:39:09

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This finally got me to try a self-hosted LLM. Let me know if you find any good models. ollama was super easy to get running.

2024-07-21 18:02:03

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Heard it on nostr first. This election has been excellent theater so far, and we have months to go.

2024-07-21 15:43:44

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Yes, it will receive data from the sensors over LoRa and forward them over wifi. I'm using Adafruit IO to store the data and provide charts for this prototype, but MQTT to Home Assistant should be easy.

2024-07-21 00:32:18

Got the LoRa to wifi gateway soldered. Back to coding... https://image.nostr.build/ee8f9c715bc8cce3d80c4351aec61719f1531cc5afb1d41401ca473fa837a3bf.jpg

2024-07-11 04:19:07

progress
https://image.nostr.build/a1d8a28d47d1afc51b719b7fca12e41043586e3865d93afd58a7ee066211008a.png
#nevent1q…nu8h

2024-07-10 14:44:07

Building a compost sensor. Transmits over LoRa.
https://image.nostr.build/cc6488f983a83c8588a82f2213132afa9b0ff10a6cef1540a1224e4a52398793.png

2024-05-24 13:56:25

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proof of work

2024-05-03 18:45:06

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Watching this makes me feel unwell. Good job!

2024-04-27 20:30:29

Happy mushrooms, happy compost. https://image.nostr.build/4c0da3a5cf3fac4aa9bc92023eac3cadd4b966fd38a394b114db6a7342363740.jpg

2024-04-20 18:23:07

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I think it's just a better implementation of BRC-20.

2024-01-12 17:21:05

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Have you tried a different client recently? I think there's some difference in how they do the follow list.

2023-12-21 19:51:04

Ready to get rugged? Cisco Meraki can help you with that.
https://image.nostr.build/a91a83345b1ec2167723a73cadd26f29ee0db3c1dafeaf003a31046f6751fbdd.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=1920x1440&blurhash=%234HBxhvh00yXDj%253OXtRRQy%3F5Qn4%24Nofn%25emt7bH0JIUM%2BxbX4W%3BaKoKk9*%7CrWOsk%3DWAoyXSWBjZGuu4ibVEWBjFn4V%40WWL%7DrXtlS%7EWBbHo%7DkCWBRPxut7M%7BWBWCWWa%7BWB&x=21fdeee2bf15907965cea1d800db405676e352afdd49509bf236d2c7b0c8289a

2023-11-12 04:04:32

Baking for the first time in a few months. No-knead recipe still works.
https://image.nostr.build/3cbbe5b18d37795b3de9bcd19dde9b0b611a6116fbd4d07000c8fe767a3538a6.jpg
#breadstr

2023-10-18 00:56:15

Found some nice shaggy manes today.
https://image.nostr.build/3df64a46ba77fef631a7c1be108d3036617b0b5aa665668b4a91ef169c3fb562.jpg
These turn into black liquid after being picked or getting too old. The process is called deliquescence and helps the mushroom distribute spores. Both the fresh mushroom and liquid are edible. The liquid can also be used as ink.

2023-09-08 17:30:04

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Welcome to nostr!

2023-09-05 15:06:53

Started a new compost pile a few days ago...
https://image.nostr.build/b4a02f0c6da58100747069f7a484527b36dab79357b988303da95f5757081881.png
Rather than mixing everything on a tarp first, the ingredients went into the bin in single-bucket layers. Every few buckets I added a handful of cottonseed meal and cheap cat food for high nitrogen. It seems to be heating up nicely.
The first turn showed the inside was a little dry, which I think was indicated by the temperature dropping rapidly right before turning. Getting the moisture level right is harder when it's not mixed on a tarp first.
#compost #soilfoodweb #permies #permaculture

2023-08-23 22:07:28

I made a Grafana dashboard to monitor soil moisture throughout my garden:
https://cdn.nostr.build/i/9ef71bbf5b3c153ef1a3f408510637ae5a745f00f4ade4bebb2224fae918b510.png
The measurements are not consistent across sensors, so I've been watching what happens after watering (the spikes) and estimating field capacity for each sensor (the green dashed line).
#grafana #homeassistant #permaculture #grownostr

2023-08-19 20:00:31

I found a variety of nematodes in a compost sample last night:
https://nostr.build/av/f24b39a9ffe5609a283838e3bf44746c07db7e99c9fb4787b04691ee41e54c9c.mp4
You can see this one swallowing. I got to see it poop too, but didn't get it on video. Nematode poop is one way that the soil food web cycles nutrients to make them plant available. Nematodes can eat 10,000 bacteria per day. They excrete the excess nutrients from the bacteria in a plant-available form.
https://nostr.build/av/436b65d03ead3ea32963aab224512122374fd9b91179886ce0a4bc7d3602a36b.mp4
https://nostr.build/av/0cf716e57c9f523937414d8c70b22de0f0ed674a4201bdb5451ccbc137da3fab.mp4
Seeing three different kinds of nematodes in a single drop from a compost sample is a good sign. This compost sample had lots of protozoa and fungi too. It was a little low on flagellates, and the organic matter wasn't fully decomposed. Still, I'm very impressed with it for being only four months old and never turned.
#soilfoodweb #compost #permies #permaculture #grownostr

2023-08-10 21:09:49

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Numeric values for each reading. This is the basic Home Assistant card. https://m.primal.net/HIRi.png
Tapping any of those readings will open the basic Home Assistant graph. It can show more history but takes a few extra taps. You can see here the spike in soil moisture after I watered the sensors.
https://m.primal.net/HIRk.png

2023-08-10 17:50:20

Dropping some science on the garden today.
https://m.primal.net/HIQI.jpg
I've been testing a pair of these plant sensors for the last few weeks and decided they were useful enough to get more. During testing I found that sensor 2 showed odd readings for light level. Placed right next to each other, when the light level was below 10k both sensors showed approximately the same value, but above 10k sensor 2 was off by a factor of about 2.75. It still followed the same pattern, so it seems like a calibration error.
I got 6 more sensors and placed them all next to each other. Now I'm giving the sensors a chance to stabilize and accumulate data. We'll see how consistent the readings are before putting them in their final locations.
https://m.primal.net/HIQJ.png
#permies #permaculture #gardenstr #grownostr

2023-07-28 13:51:58

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GM. Libraries give value for your taxes, government doesn't.

2023-07-23 22:14:15

proof of garlic
https://void.cat/d/GMJcnnYofTpH4Pq5TfFMs4.webp
#permies #permaculture #garlic

2023-07-13 19:39:06

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Mixed reality has a lot more short term potential than VR.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWzVX11hF_8&t=110s

2023-07-07 19:54:35

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EasyDNS

2023-06-28 15:44:45

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Permaculture advises working with nature rather than against it, from a perspective that we are a part of nature instead of being separate from it.

2023-06-27 19:32:41

My PR to add nostr DMs as a notification provider in Uptime Kuma was merged! Uptime Kuma is a very nice self-hosted uptime monitoring tool.
https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma/pull/3051
@npub180c…h6w6 @npub19md…6vzk #nostr

2023-06-23 21:46:49

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<lora:add_detail:0.5> <lora:epiNoiseoffset_v2:0.5>
(ufo:1.2)Spectral Mana [ fiery orange-red sunset beach with a velvety texture of sand, sun-kissed waves, and warm hues : shimmering golden pagoda with a smooth, metallic texture of gold, stone, and warm tones : 0.25 ] [ icy granite mountain with a rough texture, glistening snow, and a blend of cool grays and blues : shiny metal mall with a smooth, polished texture of metal, bright colors, and a busy atmosphere : 0.25 ]
Negative prompt: cartoon
Steps: 30, Sampler: DPM++ SDE Karras, CFG scale: 6.5, Seed: 1570236017, Face restoration: GFPGAN, Size: 896x512, Model hash: 799e6d62e4, Model: icbinpICantBelieveIts_v10

2023-06-23 21:46:40

https://nostr.build/i/aa91366f0580c82a3f57e61bcf879035957fd1afcbd1997f8e0a2ddd3f97dfad.jpg

2023-06-22 14:13:10

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Dune: The Battle of Corrin. Humans nuking the shit out of AI robots after the AI made a genetically engineered virus that wiped out out half of humanity.

2023-06-14 15:10:17

A Tale of Two Sensors
https://nostr.build/i/41b44b712a2a63d2de5398053e7ee67bc916952d359bdfedb81509f34b679716.jpg
The yellow line is an Aqara Zigbee sensor with temperature, humidity and pressure. It doesn't update the sensor readings very often. It costs $15 and requires a USB Zigbee adapter for $20-30. Many Zigbee devices also act as repeaters to extend range. [1]
The green line is a Xiaomi Bluetooth sensor with temperature and humidity. It costs $6 and requires a $6 ESP32 to bridge bluetooth to HomeAssistant with the ESPHome firmware. You also get an LCD display, battery level, battery voltage and signal strength. [2]
So for $3 less you gain high time-resolution sensor readings and an LCD screen showing temperature and humidity. You lose pressure, but pressure will be the same everywhere so it's not necessary to have it in every sensor.
The graph comes from Grafana integrated with HomeAssistant. These particular sensors are monitoring an incubator.
#homeassistant #grownostr
[1] https://cloudfree.shop/product/aqara-temperature-and-humidity-sensor/
[2] https://cloudfree.shop/product/xiaomi-mijia-bluetooth-temperature-and-humidity-sensor/

2023-06-01 20:43:15

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AI can watch all sensors at once instead of one at a time. AI is not limited by physical biology, the vehicle can perform to its maximum capability. Vehicles designed from the start for an AI will be more effective. AI can react faster than any human.
All militaries will pursue this advantage regardless of any potential downsides.
Peace is the ONLY answer.

2023-05-21 15:41:11

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Have you seeded them with anything? It's good to get a fast growing cover crop to hold the soil together. Geoff Lawton plants everything in the swale mound right away: quick cover crop, shrubs and trees. And plenty of mulch.

2023-05-21 02:29:07

The youtube algorithm thought I needed to learn more about dandelions and showed me this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyePMeGE3CI
Everyone says the name dan-de-lion (tooth of the lion) is from the tooth-shaped leaves, but I think the tap root is the real tooth. It's bright white on the inside, it sinks deep into the earth and it won't let go.
The seeds also provide forage for birds. I often see clever birds pin the stems down to the ground with their feet and peck away at the seeds.

2023-04-12 15:44:58

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Thanks. I got a fancy one recommended by the Soil Food Web School when I took their course last year, nut probably just about anything will do. The main specs are a shadowing microscope with 40-100-400X total magnification. I haven't been able to get a good picture out of the microscope camera yet, so the one I posted was actually from holding my phone up to one of the eyepieces.
https://www.lwscientific.com/products/soil-food-web-microscope-kit
https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_f22f6c01df40fc0b697973d3d0e1b2c6630194dc770c850548e2498ef446a519.jpg

2023-04-12 01:17:06

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Made a few batches years ago, but good honey is expensive. Definitely the easiest process compared to cider and beer, just be sure to take care of your yeast with aeration and nutrients.

2023-04-07 03:37:07

https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_5fd555f5ad1307159d2c7b7bc4dac62ce42051c21a8b84fb1d94dbd223184a5e.jpg
This is a bacterial-feeding nematode from one of my compost piles. There were a dozen of them in one drop of liquid from the sample.
These nematodes eat bacteria (all the little dots around them) and excrete the excess nitrogen and other nutrients that the bacteria themselves have eaten. Those nutrients are then available to plant roots in the soil. This is the #soilfoodweb in action. #permies

2023-03-26 18:51:09

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What are the alternatives? Is it something that could be self hosted, or operated by a more trusted organization? I find the idea of giving up ChatGPT very difficult now.

2023-03-25 01:13:12

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Well done sir. Have you heard about rocket mass heaters? https://richsoil.com/rocket-stove-mass-heater.jsp

2023-03-19 16:00:16

Making pancakes is hard work, but somebody has to do it.

2023-03-19 15:47:31

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I enjoyed the previous format where I could like and zap all the entries. Prizes are not an incentive for me, I just like to partcipate. 🫂