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2023-09-19 21:08:35

I used to have a lot more patience and wonder in the technology of computers, and now it just drives me crazy how little it has advanced in 38 years.
I just have higher priorities than dumb shit the way too many options for simply sending audio to bluetooth speakers that are a little too far from my desk to function properly.
MPD. VNC. RDP. SSH. Pipewire. Pulseaudio. Icecast.
How to say you are old without saying you are old.
All my energies are now directed towards not having to deal with such low priority things in favour of higher priorities.
This might be a consequence of the fact that figuring out badly designed shit is my work now, I just don't want to have this when I'm relaxing. I just want to reprogram my programmable keyboard, and needed some music.
I'm solving this problem tomorrow. I just want it to be a simple audio stream, and I want it to be in the loungeroom, where it will drown out the workaday screeching children who seem to communicate entirely with screams and who seem to spend more time in the playground than in the classroom, and it seems like wrestling with each other is the main activity being taught.

2023-09-19 19:51:22

So, I was looking at some various options for potato chips this evening, and specifically to determine if there was anything that didn't have maltodextrin in it.
I don't remember seeing this one sugar in everything before 2020. I also don't remember when Palm Oil stopped being the main oil.
Turns out that Maltodextrtin is like instant week long pain for my exposed dental nerves. I used to like potato chips. And corn chips.
I can't eat any of them anymore. It's really a big disruption in my comfort level.
I'm sure it's secretly intended to hurt people but those who ask questions and do their own differential diagnosis figure it out and just get even more determined.
If they keep this up, pretty soon the only things I can eat from a supermarket are some of the fruit and the non-processed meats, and maybe some of the seeds and nuts.
They are contaminating everything else with things that I can't help feeling is deliberate to fuck with a specific set of genetics that I am one of the inheritors of, and that the whole purpose of the PCR test hoax was to gather DNA to refine this strategic irritation.
Normies don't even realise what's happening, which tells you that "normy" means a specific pool of genetics, because it's about proteins and immune responses.

2023-09-19 19:34:51

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Coracle is the best. I hope you at least get funding to stay afloat anyhow. I know you will understand when I say that in this world it's usually thfe most despicable who get front row in the line.
I mean, honestly, it's a miracle that this protocol has got this far by the history of things. The protocol is not even remotely a new concept, as old as ZKP and blinded signatures and elliptic curves.
"someone" has been making sure none of this gets to production. That "someone" and all his comrades and peers are the top dogs in the IT industry right now, and I think you know who I mean. They are just the chosen ones who get all the resources and favours to make sure nobody else displaces them with actual innovation.
So, yeah, I know what it's like down there in the trenches, and bless you for your service.

2023-09-19 19:23:49

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Ah, hungarian, it is one of the most different on the continent. Well, it's similar to turkish which is a lot close to arabic. To my ears, turkish, hungarian and chinese have a lot of similar vowels.
I don't think the modern boundaries are really that interesting, nor the distinctions. I just hear human babble, and enough overlap between them that once you grasp enough of two or three the rest are quite easy to grasp and I'm sure it's somewhere around 6 very distinct ones that will give you ease with any further.
Latin, Nordic, Greek, Slavic, Turkic and Germanic. That's european languages in one big mess together.
The modern borders are very new. Most people don't even realise that Germany is barely 120 years old. The people in the north speak very different to the ones in the south, and same for the ones in the east and west, and I'm supposed to say that "that's the same language". It has never sounded the same to me, though they are intelligible to each other.
Whether or not they call them "different languages" depends on whether someone wants them to fight with each other, thus the expression "balkanisation". It's just propaganda.
Before WW2, europeans percolated across the continent freely. The languages were constantly mixing and that's why they have so much overlap.

2023-09-19 17:28:16

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Indeed, even if it's scary, it means you are not so easily surprised. Confusion is their most base and fallback method of manipulation, and when you have a map of their bullshit the surprise is weakened.
I follow my heart, and my intuition in all things, and check them with my reason.
I have very good reason to be excited that some very intense but long awaited events are coming in the near future, and that those of us who hold to our faith and reason will be rewarded.
And that reward is not (only) some nice accommodation on a distant planet, it will also be a meaningful and important part of the task of clearing out the scum from this place.
Mark my words.
You will have reason to remember me.

2023-09-19 16:37:55

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Solzhenitsyn. (I had to check that, it's terrible phoneticisation). I know several slavic languages to a usable degree and I know all the mess between them. It's been quite funny landing in portuguese territory because they use so many phonetics in common with the serbs, most especially.
The latinisation of foreign languages into english is a total shitstorm of bullshit. The amount of times B/V, P/B, C/Ts, and so many other things get muddled is incredible. Like, how in the FUCK did "Beijing" get mangled into "Peking" exactly? Wade-Giles don't voice their Ps? And unvoice their DJs (to kh)???
It's my opinion that if you were to point at one european language and settle on using its phonetics to express the phonemes of other languages, Russian is the most universal. Some of the characters have to be swapped around from what you expect but basically, there is more european phonemes in russian script than any single other european language.
It made me very sad that the western yugoslavians, in particular, have been abandoning cyrillic.
If I was designing a single alphabet for europe, to cover all of the nuances, it would be russian with the double consonant letters of serbian, the ones for Dj and the short "ty" sound that westerners usually misread as "ch".
Out of all of europe, the Bulgarians are the closest to accurately phoneticising foreign languages, except for their funny habits of germanising a few things like W. Visky, Vinni puh... this is also a russian habit.
I have this overwhelming feeling like somewhere along the way, a whole culture learned to speak by misreading the phonetics of another culture. B/V are a great example. Now I am exposed constantly to portuguese, I see so many times words that make more sense with B where they write the V. Moebel, the german word for furniture, is Moveis. Everywhere the portuguese put 'eis' it's "el" or "al" eg Animais. Even their word for "more" is "mais" which if you follow that substitution gives you "mal" which is the german word for "more" as in multiply.
It's no wonder once you learn enough basic level in about 5 different european languages you can understand all of them. I don't struggle very hard to understand anything anymore, whether it's italian, spanish, portuguese, russian, bulgarian, yugoslavian, german.. I have had little exposure to the nordics but I know their stuff overlaps a lot with english, german and russian a lot too.

2023-09-19 16:07:41

@nprofile…nw2j feature request: option to fold all threads automatically.
Might need to have a thing that merges together all ancestors of the same parent thread under it too. But I can cope with that better than just having the same thread recur at different points.
Just wanna say tho, your work is stellar, and I hope you continue to be blessed. 💜

2023-09-19 16:02:09

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That would be why Xi shows up for BRICS confab and Putin is on live feed... of course!
I'll just add that, in this game, the "wild card" is a valid game piece, and he's got levers too.
The only people in the world not being influenced are those doing the influence and the tiny sliver of the population who automatically look for the strings at every turn.
They are everywhere, and they are nowhere. But they can't control everyone. Some people have enough humanity left in them that they don't trigger the agent program, when you reveal things to them, even if they think you might be crazy.

2023-09-19 15:57:58

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This isn't the Harari of the WEF by any chance?
omg, it is.
The "hackable animals" guy.
No wonder he promotes the idea of shared fictions. That's the lever his organisation is using against the vulnerable part of the population.
I'm not hackable. I'll stubbornly resist the nudging until the whole population falls off a cliff and as I sit in my cave, finally being forced into pure subsistence, I'm gonna laugh.

2023-09-19 14:59:33

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This seems pretty likely to me. Possibly simply the types of sugars feeding the bacteria, causing the excess production of a metabolite that is toxic to the nerve.
You probably knew that most food grade citric acid is produced by feeding E.Coli certain types of sugars. I wouldn't be surprised if this is involved somewhere in it because I also suspect citric acid contributes, the combination of malts and citrates at the same time is probably optimal for the problem to be caused, which again also points towards an acid loving bacteria.
I've had this weird issue with certain foods, especially sweet ones, that yes, malt seems to be a common factor at least to some degree, that causes nerve pain in my jaw area in general, not just on the right side but on the left as well.
It is probably relevant also that when the malt has been caramelised (ie stout beer) there is no problem with this.

2023-09-19 14:53:48

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I don't think so. I think it's the core vulnerability.
If the knowledge of the truth is shared, it is a strength that makes the group stronger. A group delusion makes an unstable society that can be exploited by people who understand this.
I think that the genetic/epigenetic basis of this capacity to ignore reality eventually must lead to a crisis that involves a massive amount of deaths from the inevitable consequences of such errors being ignored and the problems of them accumulating over time.
I know I'm not in that group, I am repulsed by this behavior and as much as I am not a fan of people dying I am also tired as fuck of living in a world full of people who are capable of being deluded into believing a cold virus is lethal to anyone with adequate to moderately poor health.
This is a society that will run on command over the edge of a cliff, and I'm not gonna stand in their path, tyvm.

2023-09-19 13:22:21

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The mass hallucination continues.

2023-09-19 13:20:50

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*much higher temperature.

2023-09-19 13:20:02

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Another trick that might work is using baked epsom salts to dry out the dissolved extract in butter. With totaly dried out epsom salt, all the trace water that would otherwise contaminate the butter is eliminated and takes the chlorophyll with it.
I might just add that you don't get any of this kind of problem if you do your extraction with naptha (petroleum ether) in the first place, so long as you completely dry the bud before you do the extraction. It comes out a golden honey colour instead of nasty greenish black.
In fact, even better is to just go straight to oil, start with something like beef dripping, do your extraction into that directly, and then separate with water.
Dripping is better because it solidifies much harder at a much lower temperature, meaning you can get the job done sooner.
Cocoa butter also is a reasonable alternative, and contains a lot of stuff in common with beef dripping, mainly the stuff that makes it hard, stearic acid.

2023-09-19 13:10:17

I am for only the second time having problems with my internet connection. Specifically, I have a VPS in Kazakhstan, and I mirrored a moderately large repo to the Gitea server on it, and then tried to clone the one from my server.
It gets to part way into downloading the larger *.pack files in the git and connection is severed.
Tried with the zip, again, gets a few megs in and bam, MAC error on the packets.
I literally have to use a VPN to download stuff from my own VPS right now.
They don't seem to tamper with my traffic if I use a UDP based VPN that starts in the netherlrands so fingers crossed it stays that way.
The new Iron Curtain is coming, people.

2023-09-19 13:03:33

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Ok, well I only wrote this: https://elfspice.tripod.com/acacia/acacia_extraction.html
I know nothing about psychedelic drugs ok?
I'm pretty sure that the techniques I described in there, that I learned from researching extraction chemistry on thehive were key to DMT being accessible to almost everyone now.
Also, don't tell me to shut up, that's never going to work.

2023-09-19 10:11:14

Hallucinations are not only seeing things that are not there.
They can also be not seeing things that are there.
The brain's capacity to edit things out, this type of omissive hallucination, is something that the majority of humans are capable of and experience on a regular basis, and can be induced to experience it, unwittingly, by hypnotic suggestion.
Some people, like me, still have the hallucinatory capacity, but not the vulnerability to hypnotic suggestion.
It's kinda frustrating because I have hypnotic/trauma imprinted programs in me, but normal hypnosis doesn't seem to touch me, no matter how much I want it to.
This is probably why I got so interested in psychedelics, and probably need to resort to them to finish the job of clearing out the crap.

2023-09-19 09:59:58

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My very first reaction to it as I watched the live broadcasts was "oh that's rather convenient for georgie poo".
Oh it was completely manufactured, and a lot of people benefited. The owners of the towers saved a lot of money not having to deal with the asbestos problem, for one. And it was then easy to ram through the Patriot Act as well.

2023-09-19 09:23:31

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If Stalin and Mao used Marx to excuse their authoritarianism then he's still implicated. Not only that, Marx's character and his family connections are highly suspicious.
I am sad for you if you grew up in eastern europe and your elders didn't warn you about what the dangers of Marx's hogwash were.

2023-09-19 09:16:31

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911 was an inside job. None of it could have happened without a lot of trusted public figures conspiring against the public.

2023-09-19 09:03:15

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Well, I totally understand your thinking there but I just don't have to think about it any more. I can plug this thing into a phone even if I want to, and as I say I have two of them and they aren't that big.

2023-09-19 08:53:00

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I made a special layout that follows dvorak and puts J = ж, x = ю, w = ш, c = ц and these characters go in logical places along the number keys: ы№эчёщъь I did all this to type bulgarian cyrillic, and discovered that the bulgarian layout is missing only one key that is present in the russian, but all bulgarian symbols are on the russian, so I just use the russian layout, and that lets me also type the "yo" Ё
I want to change to programming it using the compose key combos because then I don't have to change the layout as well.
Did you know that web browsers always leak your keyboard layout? I was typing since 2004 on Dvorak, leaving a more than distinctive fingerprint on web browsers. Even with all the antifingerprinting turned on, nope, they still confess your damn keyboard layout. So it's nice to now not be leaving that mark everywhere.
And yeah, I'm gonna have to reprogram my keyboard again so I can make all that easier.
I could never go back to qwerty, and with a pair of idobao 75s laying around I never have to go back to staggered either.

2023-09-19 08:01:49

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Or you could do like me and type at least 5000-10000 words a day, compensating for the lower cost per keypress :D

2023-09-19 08:00:59

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Always good to meet a fellow touch typist and mech keyboard fan...
The only thing I would like more than this keyboard I have now is if it had another 15 keys so it can comfortably have a dedicated numeric key section. As it is I already placed the arrows in the centre of the layout.
When I've got some time to spare I'm going to learn how to hand code these things because currently I have cyrillic, dvorak and qwerty, and the cyrillic I'm probably not going to use much anymore за съжаление but it's annoying because keyboards are programmed by the key location, so to do other languages you have to fuck around with layout switching or, what I haven't done yet - using the compose keys to make them press whatever I want. I want to be able to type portuguese symbols on this so at some point I have to spend a day or two learning how to do that. Compose keys are a pain as well because the systems are different on every platform, so I'd literally have to make one program for linux and another for windows.
I doubt you have this issue, most people just stick with the trad jagged layout and are not forced to make choices like this because nobody seems to understand that ortholinears with pissy little layouts like 40 and 60 are seriously messed up for real work.

2023-09-19 05:51:21

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I have an Idobao ID75 ortholinear keyboard with cherry silver. They trigger at half the normal pressure. Most "experts" say that this leads to a lot of typos but actually, no, though probably the average person is so dull and insensitive it would. For me it means I'm using a lot less energy and straining myself a lot less per volume of text.
In case you wonder how I type so much without injury.

2023-09-19 05:48:48

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Nostr DMs practically are email. They should expire on the server though.
Expiry dates on events would be a great thing for assisting in managing the volume of data to eliminate stuff that users don't need to have relayed any more.

2023-09-19 05:47:05

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indeed, and even there, a bad explanation for a thing that works is prone to change. The fact of it working, and the way to produce the device, do not.

2023-09-19 05:45:57

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hallucinations are not the same thing as visual effects.
you don't see things that aren't there on dmt, psilocybin, lsd, you see them distort and have pretty patterns on them but not fundamentally not there. If you want to hallucinate, you need to eat datura or brugmansia or amanita.
hallucinating is a very bad thing. Most people hallucinate that the government isn't out to rob them of every last penny they can get away with. Most people hallucinate that their phones are not spying on them. Most people hallucinate that it's ok to be 20kg or more overweight.

2023-09-19 05:30:18

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The AI's got plenty of proprietary parts in its programming. The algorithm is prone to hallucinating.

2023-09-19 05:24:59

"The Science" changes because of marketing bullcrap.
Real science doesn't tend to flip flop. It grows organically and mostly only the newer things change as we move further outwards from them.

2023-09-19 05:15:04

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humans can eat sugars so they can build up a fat layer. It's a fallback mechanism for when real food is hard to find.

2023-09-18 17:58:42

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why the government? The money is owned by a cartel of private individuals. So is the government but put that aside for a moment.
They are trying to suspend gravity. They can't control the mass movement of money, only attempt to nudge it this way and that. Sooner or later gravity returns as the manipulations run out of power versus the facts of the market.

2023-09-18 17:16:04

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I severely doubt that even after a year honey's still got enzymes in it to any great degree. And it's hella fructose.

2023-09-18 17:15:23

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Is there some reason why people aren't running their own?
I almost was but then I know I am sharing its address with the world and I couldn't see how to put auth on it. VPS has more important duties, I'm not letting it get polluted by spam.

2023-09-18 16:57:57

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It's the most epic demonstration of what E=MC2 means. Christopher Nolan is a serial epic film maker, I think almost everything I have seen from him blew my mind.

2023-09-18 13:55:33

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fuck amethyst. plebstr is much nicer.

2023-09-18 12:55:55

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Interesting because it's one of the few phone number tied signal protocol (formerly red phone) protocol chats that doesn't make you check you still have that phone number. You can set up a telegram account with one, and then never use it again.
Sounds to me like once again they are being targeted because of this.

2023-09-18 07:32:27

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They pray to saints in buddhism though.
Probably more historically accurate to the origins of this "god" thing anyway.

2023-09-18 06:43:17

I have a nip-05 now 🕺

2023-09-18 04:03:01

testing, testing, 1 2 3
checking if my relay is working

2023-09-17 21:15:37

Easiest way to not see garbage on the internet is to not download images and media.
You're welcome.

2023-09-17 21:14:26

I'm on a strict bandwidth budget right now and to achieve minimal usage, I'm learning about how to do some old school shit.
https://whatvwant.com/how-to-disable-images-in-chrome/
I may get addicted to this because the pages come up way faster.
This isn't the olden days of dreamweaver and tables full of fixed sized images. CSS is still coming down and can practically replace images for most stuff. Theoretically they could still be loading SVGs but I think they are not loading either.
Feeling some nostalgia rn, really liking it.

2023-09-17 20:12:47

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No, it wouldn't because the identity would be based on the signature on the nonce, not the signature on the note.

2023-09-17 18:39:10

There needs to be a note type for "switch to new npub to continue following this npub, kthxbye".
I'm considering making a new key, just for a laff.
It is also bad cryptographic practise to use EC keys for more than one message anyhow. Read BIP 340.

2023-09-17 18:37:14

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GFY

2023-09-17 17:53:35

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I disagree. The problem is giving your time and energy to psychopaths. Everything else flows from that.

2023-09-17 17:48:44

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I don't think the smartphones have any impact on the aliens.
We are just in a phase like the olden days of mainframes and dumb terminals. This led to the personal computer and the floppy disk.

2023-09-17 17:42:50

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What becomes full must empty out. What is empty can become full.

2023-09-17 14:56:28

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"The Science" is a religion.

2023-09-17 10:23:14

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There's a lot of things that are wrong, but the main one is that the only winning strategy in business is to have mates in the banks and parliament, and that ultimately leads to bad things for everyone because it's them against us.
I've given up on hoping we can fix it. Just focusing on surviving and praying for the aliens to come and whoop some psychopathic asses to smithereens.

2023-09-17 07:33:49

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The amount of potassium or sodium cyanide needed to kill an adult is around 200mg. This is like 10 grains of salt. You would die of dehydration if you only had 200mg of water every day too.
The hooey about homeopathic doses and vaccination are two examples of medical fraud. That still go on, unprosecuted. Very few things that are toxic in relatively small amounts are in any way helpful in any amount.
Fluoride is a good example. In small doses it is not toxic, but it slowly displaces iodine in the thyroid until the gland cannot produce adequate amounts of Thyroxin and other hormones. The rate of elimination of fluoride is a lot slower than several days because it sockets into every place where chloride and iodide would normally go, this is because it's smaller and electrostatically similar.

2023-09-16 18:55:38

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you can only mute it (aka ignore).

2023-09-15 20:22:41

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I know. My great great great grandpa Douglas was one of them. Scottish bastard. Proud to be newest in a long line of stubborn independent minded coats.

2023-09-15 20:18:51

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Nope, it's 5 years time. Any time now you can say the 2000 years of Pisces are over. The Vishnu Purana (got it on my reading list after corpus hermética) explains there is a conjunction/opposition at Sirius in Taurus. I haven't got around to checking the ephemeris but I am almost certain it will be 2027-2028

2023-09-15 20:16:06

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Hey!
America is where the British and German christians fled. Australia is where they sent the misfits whose survival instincts were still intact after the enclosure acts.

2023-09-15 18:54:51

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Kali yuga

2023-09-15 18:53:21

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Also, I'm Australian, fled that shit hole to eastern Europe and am gladly neither place any more.
The Kali is ending very soon. There won't even be graves for the instigators and the comfortably obeisant.

2023-09-15 18:50:49

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Nazis are piss compared co communists if body count matters.

2023-09-14 18:42:16

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Communists don't need keys, they just let the Party tell them what they can have.
Even though in practise every communism had money. smh.

2023-09-14 14:40:40

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Sunflower seeds and pumpkin seeds, b-complex pills... though those never seem to have enough in them, when I can I'm gonna get a big jar of hard to find pure B1. I'm not sure if yeast extract is a good source? That would be a bit easier to get hold of.
Part of the problem is that B1's most readily available only as an additive in mainly wheat flour based products, which I have never eaten much of, and explains how I ended up in this pickle, piling a litre of beer a day on top of it, which is well known to burn B vitamins in general.
I don't know what else is involved but Wernicke-Korsakoff's main cause is B1 deficiency, and the fact I am getting fairly chronic double vision says that I've probably already got a thinning of hippocampus tissue already starting too. I certainly am noticing more and more how my memory is fucked. It is fortunate that I am getting a severe symptom that directly interferes with my ability to work otherwise I might keep on going until I forget how to write code otherwise.

2023-09-11 04:11:43

This morning for a change I wake up and I am already able to focus on normal sized text, with a tiny bit of effort, no double vision, just a bit blurry. I wonder how much longer until the B1 deficiency damage is recovered. Not too long I hope, maybe I get fully functional vision back for christmas xD

2023-09-10 08:35:03

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It's all a part of the global domination agenda. Here's Orwell's description of it:
> By 2050—earlier, probably—all real knowledge of Oldspeak will have disappeared. The whole literature of the past will have been destroyed. Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron—they'll exist only in Newspeak versions, not merely changed into something different, but actually contradictory of what they used to be. Even the literature of The Party will change. Even the slogans will change. How could you have a slogan like Freedom is Slavery when the concept of freedom has been abolished? The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact, there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.[1]
The presumptive owners of the enslaved human race think they can use AI to degrade language. It certainly can be used to degrade language, rather than simply function as a useful search tool.
Anyone who says that reducing the amount of text used to express ideas is a good thing, is a puppet for the Newspeak agenda, and the interesting thing is that, if you look at the Wikipedia page about Newspeak, Orwell was of the opinion that ENGLISH is itself a language that is prone towards this ever shrinking mental space.
I'm very inclined to agree.
All the english before the 20th century was like a more fluid form of German. They eliminated cases, they eliminated many words, and the americans made many acronyms and combined words, not so unlike the newspeak Ingsoc, this trend is very prevalent in internet words.
As a computer programmer, I can tell you that the more inflexible the human language, the harder it is to find accurate names for the concepts encapsulated in an algorithm. I personally find myself wanting to make use of words from Bulgarian, Serbian, German and Dutch because of the paucity of meaning in English. And actually, Bulgarian has been dumbed down a lot too, but its grammar is probably the closest to english in terms of the lack of cases and the number of common prepositions.

2023-09-09 20:48:47

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Losing security is what it gets if it gets drivechains.
Federated BFT protocols are a dime a dozen and don't require any changes to bitcoin for anchoring. None of them have been in any way practical for anything other than pumping bags. Have you not done any research into this subject? The history goes back to at least 2013 with the fork party that broke out on bitcointalk.
Which of those PoW forks still have any importance now, that aren't changing over to Piece of Sh*t scam "decentralization"??
Monero, and only because of the dark web.
People respect you for making Nostr but your expressed opinions about DCs are being abused by scammers to pump their racket. It's no more going to get into mainline than GreenPeace's Change The Code campaign, and for the same reasons. They are scams.
The cat is already out of the bag as far as damaging your credibility though.

2023-09-09 10:57:11

https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_7480448978066498191694257007.webp
Don't forget your freedom gag.

2023-09-04 22:34:45

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If more people voted with their feet the laws would be more sane. I mean, even if you aren't thinking of the bigger picture, do it for yourself, and your immediate family, if you have one.
I don't mean move to a country where you get paid more, I mean move to a country where meat is cheaper. Or having the space to raise your own is cheaper.
There is something to the idea that humans get trained to think of the world as being inside the boundary of their nearby urban environment. Stop it! The world is your land.

2023-09-04 16:56:01

Really, idgaf but is the burning man rainfall "climate change"?

2023-09-04 11:26:39

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Ah, there you are!
Bom dia!
I'd love to visit the co-working space some time. Yes, my memory was not so good, it was some time ago you featured in Bitcoin Magazine.
Would be good to get a little intro to the local Bitcoin community and maybe you will find the project I'm working on interesting.
Oh yeah, and the politics, how to not get involved xD

2023-08-31 15:08:52

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It goes waaaay way back before Sumer even. Babylon was at least centuries after the time of Adam and it's really worth reading The Book of Enoch (I'm part way through it), the things in there are amazing.
Put it this way, if the individual Adam existed, then he was at least predating the founding of Jericho, just to put a timeline on it. And the archaeology points to about 11000 years ago, which is also after the Dryas, which was caused by meteor strikes that slammed into western europe, the atlantic, north america and the eastern edge of the Pacific. So, since that puts a date for the Flood story to be coincident with the onset of the cold period of the Dryas, Adam must have been at least more than 13000 years ago.
This book, The Book of Enoch, was deliberately hidden and burned and forbidden and the ethiopian orthodox church retained it and from there it returned to us. And then it was found amongst the Dead Sea Scrolls as well, and more than a few parts of it are restated in books all through the bible, and many of Jesus' sayings come from it. One I already saw was "the meek shall inherit the earth" and another was the promise after the flood that it would not happen again. (shades of 5th element narrative haha, when they return, so shall we!)...
Anyway, it's more fun to dig it up yourself, but the book The Apocalypse of Yajnavalkya stitches together a very interesting story from Enoch, Thoth, Hermes, and of course lots of stuff relating to the Vedas, pointing out how all the myths have more than a few common points that suggests they are derived from original stories far older than is yet recognised.

2023-08-30 08:39:18

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Doesn't it make your spidey sense twig when you notice how much support and promotion the MSM gives him?

2023-08-30 06:59:15

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It's a problem for markets also because the small population of strong young folk with low skills is very small, and the middle age group 35-50 is small and the 50+ is growing.
This means that those old people can't retire, and that also makes it harder for the young to get into work, and the burden on families taking care of their sick old relatives is set to increase, and decrease their capacity to divert resources to entrepreneurship.
it's going to be a slow motion trainwreck.

2023-08-27 17:57:02

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Not the only Latin territory like this also, others are insane too, I thought Bulgaria was bad, but its way better these days. Best to try and bypass it by whatever means, even if it's flying to do a big shop on physically small items.

2023-08-22 07:41:32

Anyone who is following/reading this note, I am imminently going to be in Madeira, and I am as a scout to find a place to move to, I figured as a part of that I should try to find the local Bitcoiners in the area to connect with.
I recall there was a guy who was interviewed about this, and they had some kind of Bitcoin education place set up, I'd quite like to check that out but I forget his exact name, all that I have in my memory is Alex Lojas or something like this, apologies for forgetting.
Anyone who is on the island already, of course, be it known that more of us plebs are coming. We being the two guys working on the Indranet project.

2023-08-22 07:35:05

@nprofile…024u wen block feature?
I'm sick to death of seeing airdrop spam and this is piss compared to what is coming.
Turning the other cheek doesn't mean walking into the crowd of pharisees to be ridiculed.

2023-08-19 18:04:09

And it's done.
Motorola G51 5G cattle tag is now neutralised and inside a Faraday cage, ready for its liquidation on Monday.
Bloated battery Motorola Defy is now just a backup for my brave Sync and Xapo Bank wallet, nunchuk wallet, though I can't use my tapsigner due to retarded firmware, oh well, I'll use Bitcoin Core 🤣 .
Steam guard is removed and a strong password in place. Phone number is even removed, though I still have a sim in it, in case I forgot something, but already anything that needed my old bulgarian or bosnian numbers, too bad, so sad.
Worst case scenario I can turn it on and use it, but its hydrogen-inflated battery makes it a little unsafe to charge, and it's a heavy thing, the modern version of the brickie phone. My kindle account is on there so when I get a second hand one sometime soon, I don't even need this phone to spend gift cards, literally will primarily be to check my bank balance once in a while.
I mean, not that I really care that much about kindle, but I'm never gonna forget they made Nineteen Eighty Four disappear from people's kindles. That is WAY too fascist for words. I'll try to get a kindle with no radio in it, if such a thing exists and still can be found.
When these pigs are clearly catching our conversations on these devices, and probably listening in on my keyboard tapping too, and feeding the ad topics on the Samsung UHD TV downstairs that could only have come from bugging our conversations, I'm sorry, that's just a bridge too far.
Getting rid of it altogether is not really an option at this point, but it's taped up, and when not in use, in a Faraday cage, and its only use case is accessing banks and the odd online account, and as an automatic backup for my browser data.
It's really obvious that banks and their owners are doing their best to maintain as much population still carrying around phones they are all starting to hate, but this is the slimmest tether they have on me now and I'm ditching it altogether if I can do my grocery shopping with bitcoin->gift cards where I'm going next, which is most likely possible, either that or there will be some other way. There's bitcoiners where we are going so it should be aight.
Phones are now on my shitlist, and I'm gonna like living without them.

2023-08-16 00:35:23

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What is the deal with this mudra and nostr? It used to mean "call me". It's also the pose that makes the longest distance between pinkie and thumb. It's not the owl of metalheads and Bohemian Grover's.
🤟 is the one I like, American sign for I Love You. And 🖕 and the old English taunt of the bow fingers, the origin of the "forks" not the "peace" forks or the V for Victory of Churchill.

2023-08-12 01:38:45

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Haha. The people who gave him the money for his stable of rolls royces lol.
Quite an interesting story. But he was a cult leader. 99% truth, 100% deception.

2023-08-02 07:21:26

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I've seen several times freelist management packages in projects I've worked on or looked at or used. You can turn off GC with Go, but at that point nothing will get deallocated, so everything has to be reused.
As such, it's not as well suited to embedded or kernel development.
There is an embedded version, "tinygo", that uses other memory management strategies in its much smaller runtime.
I really don't see there being that many cases that can't be faster built and easier to maintain with the help of GC though. Kernels, and minimalistic, embedded apps (think arduino).
The guys who invented Go were 30 year+ veterans of C and C++ programming, one of them even was the co-inventor of C, Ken Thompson. IMO, if they said use GC, then a lot of other people don't know what they are talking about.
Go, like Rust, it is practically impossible to have a stack smashing or other memory allocation error vulnerability. One you can pick up and run with, build something useful in your first weekend with it, the other, you will still be scratching your head 3 months down the track trying to remember everything you have to memorise to use Rust's memory allocation system.

2023-08-01 12:58:04

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The borrow checker is way too complicated. Give me a well tuned mark and sweep GC any day. Latency of concurrent processing matters a lot more on a system with heavy load and Rust has zero to add to the field regarding this matter.
Rust is just a fad language, just like C++ was a fad language back in 1992. It has precisely one feature distinct from C++, and cargo is basically a carbon copy of Go's build system with macros added, so, sorry, it doesn't count.
Sure, it saves compilation time, most of the time, but it's still at least 100x faster to compile the same app in Go, versus Rust, from scratch.
I doubt the trade-off of security and safety of the borrow checker really stacks up against the speed of C execution and hand-optimisation.
Variants, objects and templates are very expensive features to compile. Programmers abuse these tools all the time, leading to the endless, predictable bloat of lower throughput and higher resource consumption.
Rust does nothing towards teaching programmers to write simple, clean code. It just gives you a very hard to learn way of making an extra few fractions of a percentage of safety for maybe 10% throughput but gives you no reduction in latency and takes about 3 months for average programmers to master this most fundamental feature.
And like all macro-using, preprocessor using languages, it gives so much expressivity that learning how to do anything with the language starts with a long review of the myriad of options, instead of a solution that is precisely the fit and most concise and performant.

2023-07-23 08:26:32

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So, if I use markdown I can do this kind of long form piece?
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