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meanwhile, you had the sats to deposit, with zero permission required from Satoshi or anyone.
fuck mallers. he has lost his way.
blackpill:
you can't do business in this world without licking boots, or pretending to like raping underage children.
this is the kingdom of Satan we are living in, in case you didn't notice.
fuck babyface. all words no talk.
fuck these cunts. "with no story"
ie, you didn't lick enough boots that you made no money and decided to quit anyway because it was a loser.
idk what to say.
welcome to my world, circa 2006 or so
the regulations are designed to disfavor them.
sole traders are free to do whatever they want but the more people you need, the more you need to lick boots.
i'm just glad my trade is a sole trader category. everyone outside of that is cucked.
TIL that "maidan" as in the ukrainian nationalist uprising color revolution of 2014, means "mine" in turkish, or originates from there.
hilarious because ukraine has almost no minerals, mostly just nice flat land. good for growing wheat to make bread and vodka.
i know that this is a desirable asset in some senses but probably not so much in a military sense. easier to be friends with these flatlanders than instigate a conflict.
anyway.
maidan is from turkish, means mine.
i always wanted to have an episode in my story of me as the driver in the van life segment
i love traveling. what way to go from portugal? i guess i have to go through southern france, then i can cross through northern italy, into slovenia (been this way before) and then across croatia, and get to serbia, truck through novi sad, maybe pause there on bulevard oslobodjenije and have a pljeskavica, and then onward southwest, maybe stop in belgrade and have northern version of complet lepinja, and head down southwest towards despotavac, maybe pause there and see if the dude i met there is still working on auto electrics there, and head up into the mountains.
i need to do some searches and organising first - first i need to outfit the former courier van with bed and space to set up my PC, and power system for it. idk how long i will be in vanlife mode but maybe i should realistically make it stable, since once i find a nice village in the upper reaches i can see by the map there is a number of places but basically the entire region of the north west is nature reserves and rugged mountains. i am going to look around that area, in the upper parts.
somewhere between kucevo and majdanpek, i think seems like the best area for being in the middle of the mountains.
super looking forward to this.
never been the pilot in my life before.
will be fun to give lifts to crazy travelers along the way, who knows what that leads to.
this is lies about roosters announcing the sunrise
they call at 3am, and then again around 6am (seasons give or take) and they actualy call during daylight as well a couple of times too, i haven't quite got the gist of the daylight calls but at least one, maybe two times of the afternoon they call.
they actually call on light changes, 3am is considered to be the end of total darkness, and 6am is when the first light of dawn comes.
so, probably, this rooster was calling at the point of the end of first darkness, as well. and probably said shooter had an anxiety problem that made him reactive to being woken up to the endless drone of this stupid bird.
the only unfortunate thing i see is that said shooter didn't consider a quieter method of dispatching this wild bird. the bird doesn't exactly make its location secret does it?
in short, the west started this, and the russians are going to finish it, and probably it's going to lead to instability across eastern europe because there is a lot of loyalty towards russia in that region, especially in former yugoslavia.
it is easy to say that because the "hard" actions were initiated by russia, that this was the official start of the war but anyone who has actually studied the recent past history of this situation can see that the first attack was actually a "soft" attack by the west that led to the Maidan uprising, which legitimised ukrainian nationalism. creating a strong polarity between the east and west that led to a military necessity to re-establish a firm stable boundary. which is ongoing.
i don't forsee anything less than russia taking everything east of the dnieper, and a standstill being hit if they try to push any further west, not because of ukraine but because of the mixed feelings of the people living to the west. bulgarians are mostly loyal to russia, but equally hostile, and the same in romania and poland, and indeed moldova, could even be traced back to russia's initiation as well because the north-east of romania, moldova was once part of romania, has a large ethnic russian population, to the point that there is a linguistic region spreading across from moldova right up to the border of serbia, and serbia recognises the "russine" culture, which speaks an archaic form of russian, in serbia, all government buildings must have signs that include a russine version, and i personally met a russine courier driver one time as i was travelling east out of germany, so i knew about this thing long ago.
it's not a perspective that you can gain without having spent quite a bit of time roaming around the whole region of the balkans. the overarching impression i got was that most of the people from former yugo, hungary and bulgaria/romania are mostly neutral or positive towards russia. just not the communist russia.
the context of the war in ukraine is deeply embedded in the history of each nation. all of eastern europe suffered through first a domination by the mongols, and then probably out of that, it arose a whole cascade of imperial hegemonies over the subsequent centuries, such as the 500 years of the ottomans, and then the bulgarian, serbian, and austro-hungarian, leading up to the current time
specifically between russia and ukraine, ukraine has largely been agrarian society, because of their mostly flat land, they were very much a region of farmers mostly specialising in grain production
russia, historically, before the soviet union, was mostly just the region up to the boundary of siberia. siberia is just a wilderness, and aside from vladivostok and novosibirsk, it has largely been independent of russia.
the history between the two nations, came into play in the late stages of the tsarist russia period, Catherine was involved in taking control of the port of odessa, which opened up a market for russians connecting to turks and the middle east.
the modern situation arose out of a relatively recent provocation by the West to promote ukrainian nationalism, and this movement led to a persecution of ethnic russians in the eastern parts and crimea, and this was what led to the change in the politics that led to the russian aggression against this because it was very unpopular in russia, especially in the region around vostok, next door, which led to annexing of crimea, first, and then as this continued, the pressure on russians in eastern ukraine, after about 7 years of ethnic persecution, the military strategy people basically said "here is a problem that is going to potentially flow east and north from it to cause instability in the southern parts of russia.
as such, the whole thing really has been about the ingress of CIA/MI6 operations to exploit this instability to extend NATO jurisdiction to ukraine.
the ugly thing of all this is that eastern ukraine basically became a political and military football, and the west shot first, so to say, and from the perspective of the russian culture, having russians persecuted on their borders was extremely distressing, since southern russians families were being affected.
so, basically, ukraine invited the west to help them drive russians out of their eastern flank, in order to join the alliance, and so now, everything east of the dnieper is basically in a west/east german situation now, the same fascists on the west and communists on the east.
idk what to say as to what people living there are doing, i mean, idk only some part of the population can shrug the weight of this, and most of them fled already, so the people that are left behind, between dnieper and over to the east, are ukrainians, and on the other side of the line, are russians
this is war, and there is no space in the decision making, for kindness, and civility. it's over. until one side or the other side is tired of the disagreement, it will continue, and it will get uglier and uglier until the whole operation becomes politically untenable.
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a lexicon is a form of compression in itself, most compression algorithms contain a lexicon of repeating symbols but it's a thing that needs to be shared between participants on a consistent and timely basis
a fixed lexicon is less flexible but potentially more compact
also, if you use a variable integer length scheme so you have 8 bits cipher, and mark the end of a value with the 8th bit being on, you get 128 ciphers per 8 bits and 2^14 gives you 16384 ciphers and if you order your lexicon so the most frequent words are lower numbers, most of the time it will be 1 and 2 bytes for like 95% of messages, and that last 5% you need 24 bits.
this is a subject that is very dear to my heart and i have even written a novel scheme for variable integers that can be encoded and decoded over a stream process without forward scanning or going backwards to clarify what a message is.
this encoding is a trinary code though, so making a variable integer encoding with it would be a different procedure because with binary you just use the 8th bit as a continue/end flag (so each segment has a zero or one at the 8th bit except to mark the end of a cipher.
i would have to think about it a bit to convert this varint style to a trinary encoding, you could even just have a third state (like the black or the full bright) indicates the end of each cipher, this is the simplest form of compression that exists for general encoding, but instead you could change it up so you segment your atomic values, a trinary is based on 3, probably you could join them into groups of 3 and then you get 27, so then for this encoding you could have a simple all lower case and the all-three-in-bright would represent the space, and use telegraphy words like "stop"
it just occurs to me that morse code is almost exactly this, it's a binary code, with 3 bits per unit.
anyway, haha. the real thing is how do you such an encoding scheme, whether you have a lexicon, or whether you have a protocol for appending entries to a lexicon, and then you have single letter codes, and then if the sign of that is missing, you mean a lexicon entry, but you have a problem of consistency issue in that messages can become indecipherable if all participants don't have all of the lexicon.
maybe like telegram language with a "stop" word that indicates end of sentence and maybe "comma"
I hate to burst the bubble but
If cycles are real, the bear market is coming soon
Every cycle people think this time is different
But it never is
What's the name for people who aren't religious but think 'proud atheists' are super cringe?
Bitcoiners on their second cycle:
https://relay.utxo.one/1cbba58c5e94cfa64a4ce3866cb96607ca92e4b9c638ff4dc9de9ec1473ebc6a.mp4
i want to comment on blockstream's ad again on my reply there:
fuck your liquid crap shitcoin, and fuck your shitcoins-on-lightning-crap
https://media.tenor.com/xZUiiLfAwzQAAAAC/walter-white-let-him-cook.gif
#nevent1q…qdah
best powerpoint ever
https://contents.xj-storage.jp/xcontents/33500/438bcb7c/15db/4afe/94c4/e4d32d1a2293/140120250605582519.pdf
haha... yeah like he was anything other than an actor with a stage management team behind him, ie, obama, pretty much.
you had me at liquid crap
would be cool to have the caved in head wojak monero head image separately for other purposes :)
just been thinking about my plan to move to the mountains of eastern serbia
i just need to get my license here, seems like it should be fairly easy to do, and then with a portuguese drivers license i can also drive over there... get transport for my cat and a few things, pick up a decent sized diesel powered van in portugal and drive it across there, and it makes keeping the cat easier, although i'll definitely need to put up a barrier against him getting in the front of the car, and a bit of a hassle with cat litter but whatever... second hand old beat up courier truck would be a nice size, enough for a bed, space for my computer, maybe a generator to run the pc unless i can get enough grunt out of the alternator for this (probably can if i just don't plug in the video card, and only run one monitor).
so i'm gonna get started on getting the license soon then. i was told by the nice boy Fransisco who works at the bar up the hill that it was fairly easy to do.
also i know it's possible to do van life with a cat, he will be weird at first but he'll get used to it.
very happy about the hide all but follows and follows follows.
over the 18 months i've been on nostr seeing idiots i mute in my feed prompting a repost to appear has driven me nuts.
or people i just don't follow keep on showing up, the more well known the more irritating.
AI would always be attributable to a human input who curates its memory. IMO the standard of safety should be infinitely higher.
won't ever be fixed by someone as stubborn as you with so little concern for the plebs with expensive mobile internet. or slow devices.
i know. that's why i'm so sarcastic and cynical towards you.
you didn't think about the fact that it's going to be publishing them to users inboxes as well?
literally could be dozens or more on many users who don't understand the implications of it.
anyway, funny. i'm sure you are never going to get it that amethyst is a bandwidth pig. i've had it blow my mobile data several times in the last year.
a very large number of relays already are replicating data across many relays. would be useful if relays could tell you this so you can eliminate the ones that it wouldn't reach, based on your follows relay lists
it's a general problem for nostr, and one that nobody has bothered to fix and raises the problem that if people have auth-required inboxes how can you auth to them through another relay, you literally have to do the fan-out from your client, like you are just now noticing.
welcome to the club of the guys that noticed stuff.
would be nice to do something about toning it down since forever
he's good... only persisting health issue now is a cough that he gets from inhaling the dust from the cat litter, which has been polluting my household air since i got him. i realised that my old, but still working air filter that has got a "change filter" light on it now is still perfectly fine for catching this dust, so it's set up in the bathroom near his litter tray and when he kicks it up, the thing automatically clears the air. i expect he will get better after not breathing that shit all the time. i thought it was just the particular type of litter i got also, but there is another type of litter that is absorbing, the one now is clumping, the absorbing stuff is great because he can use it, and pee into it, and it dries out and stays loose, and when i scatter it over the lawn of the little ornamental garden beside my place, the grass gets all dark green and lush, i thought it might be the smelly stuff in this litter but now i think it's just the dust at all, especially dust that has his pee in it because ammonia is quite the cough-inducer.
i tried putting some commercial fertilizer on the lawn last week and it seems to have been too strong for the lawn and in patches its yellowed a lot, unlike whe result of the cat litter grains. so i'll be switching back to the absorbent kind. i also have a pair of air purifiers coming next week that will clear the air in the rest of the house, i'm noticing it makes quite a difference to my breathing, these ones are even better, they have a cold catalytic filter as well as the HEPA and carbon, this place is full of compounded wood paneling that i'm sure is venting lots of nasty VOCs into the air.
same npub, changed my display name to my actual name
what's the deal with the taco meme?
#nevent1q…dwcu
i'm kinda releived about this new information because my absolute favourite part of the world, and a place where i had a quite magical experience, was the eastern mountains of Serbia. in fact i can say the places i liked the best in the world that i have seen so far, were all around there, on the west of bulgaria near Mount Rila, there is a very interesting pyramid mountain (which was probably a pyramid once) called Rtanj, and nearby, i passed through a town called Despotovac, which is at the foot of a high altitude area more or less directly east of Belgrade.
i really liked serbia a lot though, more than bulgaria, the culture and my experience with living there as a foreigner, and the fact that i have learned enough of the language already that within a couple of years i would be fluent. i can't say this about here in madeira at all, portuguese is a very strange language, similar sound to serbian but a whole mangled different version of syntax, and a really illogical phonetics rules.
i'm going to stay here for the next year, as i have secured this rental for that time, and stack my guts out, hopefully by the end of the lease i will have around 20-40k euros of sats to hand, and then i'll organise my transport for me and my little fluffball, stay in a cheap mountain country hotel, and try and line up myself a little plot way up in the hills close to the border with bulgaria
that lists the areas. rockes, mongolian plateau, the upper parts of the appelachia, and the more inland parts of the balkans. the rest of the planet is too low. yes, the himalayas probably should be in that list as well, being the highest mountains, but they are not as flat as the mongolian plateau, and most of the upper parts of the himalayas are not very habitable.
what happens is when the solar system moves to a specific angle relative to the galactic center, there is a huge magnetic field change called the "galactic magnetic current sheet" which carries energy out of the galaxy
when this rotating field passes through us, it loads up everything, all the planets and the sun, with energy, and disrupts their normal rotation-and-magnetic field alignment, normally the magnetic poles are on roughly the same axis as the rotation, but when this happens, they are at 90 degrees
this weakens the internally generated magnetic field, that is produced by the dense ferromagnetic cores of (large, from earth side upwards) planets and stars causes the magnetic shielding that is produced from this core to weaken, and the energy of this floods into the earth. this is why there has been increasing, far further to the equator auroras in recent years.
this energy acts on the crust and the mantle and where normally there is very high friction between the cust and the mantle, keeping the magnetic field and rotation in much the same angle, the upper mantle interface layer between crust and mantle heats up and what happens is the magnetic alignment of the crust then can mechanically push the crust around, where normally it resists this, because the core field dominates and the friction prevents the slip
when the field gets too weak, because it is being crossed by the galactic current sheet, the entire crust can slip and the crust's magnetic alignment - which is fixed because it's not liquid, like the mantle, will then seek a new position relative to the core magnetic field, which generally is about 90 degrees, and the measurements of the crust field, which creates "magnetic anomalies" which are found in many places, but the two biggest ones existing on the crust right now are in the gulf of mexico and between japan and phillipines. if the crust slips now, this is the two new poles, and the projection is that the gulf of mexico will shift to become the new north pole, and vice versa.
when this happens, it happens quite quickly, like inside of the span of a day, and the inertia of the water is such that the oceans will flood over the majority of the land, and once the crust is locked in its magnetically aligned new position, then after all that water has gone up over the land, it will drain back down into the basin of the ocean, and in the process, the majority of existing land will be washed away by as much as 1km tall layer of sea water.
the only places that will remain land after this slip will be those that are tall enough and far enough inland that the sea water doesn't wash them away.
there will be two ways to survive this, one is to have a big boat stocked with enough stuff, seeds, plants, and animals, and tools, that you can then use when you land, and once the "slosh back" starts, you can be washed back right into the middle of the ocean, so you need to be able to navigate towards the first bit of land you see as you are dragged back out to the ocean.
the other way to survive is to set up in a location that is high altitude and far inland, where the chances are that the water will not pass over top of where you set up, and that table lists the areas that are likely to largely remain dry when this happens.
the other thing to note is that not only does the ocean rush over the land, it will also electrify and heat the many flaws in the earth's crust, the fault lines, and the increased heat and fluidity of the upper mantle will also lead to a lot of volcanoes erupting as well as plates rumbling and potentially, buckling, which is likely to raise some of the land and lower other parts of the land. for example, off the east coast of the USA is a quite shallow area that some say may have been the actual location of atlantis, and Edgar Cayce said in one of his prophecies that it would rise again from the ocean and become a place where you could live afterwards, and he has quite detailed descriptions of where a lot of land will afterwards become new seas.
the high altitude areas listed are not likely to shift up and down quite as much because of inertia, and where they are far from any nearby fault lines, they are not likely to have new volcanic activity, because the magma will have no place to push upwards through it.
also note that this will happen on all of the planets, and even stars, which actually have a crust, also, will also flip to a new position, and in fact the most dangerous thing that will happen during the shift is likely to be where the star-equivalent of this seismic and volcanic activity will trigger a massive explosion atht blows out the star's atmosphere (corona) and causes what is called a "micro nova". stars do this from time to time randomly, but very often they do it when the galactic current sheet rotates passing through them. so not only do you need to find high ground (or have a big boat) you need to be able to shelter underground during the micro nova, which would otherwise irradiate you probably to death, and it will also kill a lot of the plants and animals that are on the sun facing side when it happens (so it doesn't blast everything this way, this is how life continues to survive these events).
When you find the reference image, please let me know. I have some ideas already so I'm curious how they compare.
Definitely! Thank you! I already have another shirt just like that one and some other sizes. I snatched up all they had left at the local Joann's Fabrics lol
liars always eventually rat on each other
pretty sure elon is in the epstein files too, if not, he's very close to them
he's got his own skeletons as well
man, that took me ages but finally built and tested a shiny new key codec for the rewrite of realy
mostly because it was very repetitive stuff, just a bunch of key field codecs and a neat mechanism to string them together so it's easy to avoid mistakes because everything is neatly labeled with the type, you generate your field values with one function, you create an encoder from these variables with another, and a decoder with another, and then one method strings them all together and zips and unzips them.
now what was next... i have pretty much totally just ripped off the go-nostr event and filter code, so i know that all of it will work, i guess i can start working on the ... idk... i have to write the database engine now, probably that's going to come first because i already have a reasonable set of test events to throw at it, may just build a new set, much bigger, from the many collections of events i have from exporting the old realy deployment, which i know will be a big enough set to test everything. just to keep that trove inside the test packages tho, no sense in them getting inside the binary.
Glad he's enjoying it!! Vancouver is really nice in the winter
God damned illegals
https://relay.utxo.one/6e389a1211314e366443f06da9d80d8313fa542f1f68a3b397cbafab97e8ea31.mp4
i've had bleach used on my hair years ago in a similar way, it's a bit fiddly to apply it and of course there is mistakes and bleed over here and there but i'm guessing it's something similar, but using hypochlorite instead of peroxide
actually, now i'm thinking about it, you can probably just make some kind of mix with a bleach and use it like paint and give it a bit of time and it bleaches out where it was painted on.
a similar technique is used to "un-yellow" old computer cases with peroxide and glycerol, because the old plastics turn yellow due to the brominated hydrocarbons in them decaying and releasing elemental bromine, which is a dirty brown color
it's basically like batik but in reverse, you put the design as a negative using wax and then soak it in bleach and the unwaxed parts are bleached
incidentally i'm not sure if she uses wax, there is a goop you can get for making screenprints that lets you use a projector and the parts of the material that are lit with light (has to be done in a darkroom) set into a substance that is water resistant and then with screen printing you can then push paint through the holes.
probably you can even do it just with some kind of photo-sensitive bleach substance that is relatively unreactive until you project light onto it
but i do think she does it with wax, hand-painting the wax around the areas that you want to be bleached and then covering the rest of the material with wax and the bleach will only attack the uncoated parts.
anyone who knows the lore of the epstein case already knew this. the number of photos of him and ghislaine and jeffrey together (and the clintons)...
they are all part of the conspiracy, and they are all pederasts and pedophiles, that's why they got the job.
i looked it up, ok... state management... makes the code more easy to reason about
runes? as in 32 bit raw unicode characters?
I learned a lot during my degree, actually, as it was true applied-math. I would have learned it without the degree, as I'm intellectually insatiable and an autodidact, but it was fun hanging out with the other students and lounging around the campus.
Since I dropped out, all I do is code code code and test test test. No more lounging.
They're all free here. Can collect degrees and be a full-time student, forever. Lots of people just spend their whole life studying and never work.
I'm not sure what the point of that is, as you could just teach yourself stuff, but it gets you cheaper bus tickets.
thankfully the boss saw the point and cracked the whip, so *steps forward an inch again*
other people's opinions don't matter. none of them were there in your shoes looking through your eyes to weigh it up
this whole thing about "getting an education" has turned out to be a flagrant scam just like "investing in real estate" - promoted by banks to skim a huge margin off all the dupes that fell for it.
you'd be in no better financial position, after all the debt it would have laid on you. and as you know, in tech, it's experience and confidence that matters. these pieces of paper, the employers know they are being printed like fiat currency.
i worked with a CS graduate last year. i really wondered, what it was they actually taught him at UC Berkeley, that he couldn't have acquired from an internship. i had to explain so many things to him about computer science and software engineering.
one of the low key worst things about being a back end dev is when you realise the semantics and logic of a front end design flow are missing things in the representation... but you have to code for these aspects anyway.
the pressure to release versus fixing problems that the most diligent and intelligent highlight... always they realise i was right but if i try to push the point they start to act like i'm the one being unreasonable.
i'm not gonna say any more about it, they obviously think that a mere designer who doesn't even think for 2 seconds about how you implement a feature should not have to consider such technical requirements. fine.
*backs away an inch further from this organisation*
yeah, disposable toys, that they get paid to build. it's so cynical and unfriendly to users
yeah, i'm rewriting realy right now and it probably is going to end up being a smaller codebase too, aside from my fast codecs.
the whole private mutes business has put my ACL into disarray tho... it was being used to exclude results from queries based on the authed pubkey, i mean, really, should the relay even be sending events from muted authors? not just wasting my screen space, also wasting my bandwidth and processing decoding this trash.
all projects should be done carefully. you wouldn't slap together a house the way these people slap together apps. further, these are just clients, they aren't even complicated, and the languages used are extremely forgiving of errors.
you simply can't be like that with server backends that are pushing gigabytes of data around. one little error and everything falls apart.
What is a good bitcoin event calendar that lists all upcoming events?
i was more concerned about what happens if you go head over heels forward and your head is below your body and your neck is bent as far forward as it can be. would that thing potentially cut your throat?
also none of the things listed have public APIs
i personally get tired of the endless release announcements
i'm starting to unfollow people who post or repost them way too often
if their release tempo on brand new products is that fast, is there any chance that these are quality?
my first feeling is of inadequacy, but realistically, they can't possibly be stable or even hardly tested.
the pressure to ship is a real plague for quality
that helmet is pretty rad though it looks like it gets uncomfortably close to your neck if you tilt your head forward
psychopathology is the root of all this
they are just trying to convince the people that their death is necessary
absolutely last thing they want to happen is that people understand this is a natural phenomenon that there is tons of evidence happens every 6000 years
this would also be very inconvenient for their attempts to eradicate religion too because many religions basically talk about how the earth was (re-) made 6000 years ago
Good advice. I just needed someone to punch up to this morning. Saylor will be tomorrow.
also, the actual cause of this?
this is also scientifically known - that the density of mass of the earth's core has shifted in this very direction, and there's no way that humans could influence such an enormous mass without consuming probably all of the energy produced in the entirety of recorded human history, times a million.
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it looks like they are going to try and spin the scientific fact that the earth is probably going to have a geographical pole shift in the next 20 years to blame on humans. humans with lots of money and energy resources.
because how could americans move this much water uphill without using an incredible amount of energy, in the first place, and it's the USA they are attacking, like this is a problem being caused by humans using energy.
complete hogwash but completely consistent with their typical MO to spin pseudoscience into a marxist criticism of capitalism
water is only 1kg/L density. moving rock causes a lot more displacement, about 1.7kg in the same litre of mass.
this is complete nonsense of course. the earth's magnetic field is weakening and this is changing the rotation speed, which is speeding up, and the magnetic pole has moved very fast, accelerating, in the last 150 years, most of the distance it has moved now was in the last 20 years
anyway, when you look at what the estimated mass of the earth is, even if we moved ALL of the water around it wouldn't be even 0.001% of the mass and that's not gonna change the rotation of the earth one bit
on today's show at space weather news, this nice little table to explain the aspects of the disaster cycle, magnetic excursion and pole shift was shown:
https://image.nostr.build/ec6ac6492c536088add8c1039bffb0135aa58ce8440d49d040ec7c6af3f5cde8.jpg
https://youtu.be/w83iwM9SdmA
i had been pondering which regions were good candidates and i knew about the rockies and mongolia but i never heard Ben talk about how the Balkans was also part of the good candidate areas (probably extending up to the Tatras in czech/slovakia and the carpathians in the north east and south-eastern parts of russia
maybe eastern bosnian mountains like the area i was looking at - near Kalinovik (a ski town in south east bosnia) and looking at the mountains in the region, eastern serbia and western romania also look good
i really liked the eastern mountains of serbia. had a really pleasant encounter with an old lady driving an ancient old commie tank of a car and an auto electrician in the town Despotovac after i rode on the back of a train from the plains of central serbia south of belgrade.
as for current circumstances to live there, i already know the place and have a fairly good grasp of the language already, it has fairly easily survivable conditions now and would only really change to become southern hemisphere after the change, so, about the same conditions, stable. and not EU, but close to bulgaria which is handy for certain things
next puzzle is then to figure out how i get me and my cat there :) perhaps i should skip the boat plan and just charter a boat, for probably less than the cost of buying it, maybe $5000 or so, and just ride straight to Split or something and then organise transport up and across into Serbia via Bosnia
https://image.nostr.build/b3f4e725c4c13fdb99c02a38b8e446c061769a849780c2668b8ce9a7bee503f3.jpg
no, but now i see.
write it using cyrillic lower case b for more amusement
it will be some time because i'm in the early stages of a total rewrite of realy https://x.realy.lol in which i'm reimplementing everything cleanly without leaving anything totally examined
i have an extremely fast json codec written in the old https://realy.lol but it needs to be revised to enable it to correctly decode pretty printed json, which won't impact its performance very much. the outstanding result of my revision of the binary codec that uses read/write semantics (streaming style) has inspired me to rewrite the hand-written json event/filter encoder/decoder in the same way, currently it just has a clause to fall back if it finds pretty printed json, and the reason for this is that the http API docs endpoint expects pretty printed formatting and it really should be supported anyway.
probably later on in the new built-in relay-client web app i will shift much of the implementations of stuff like signing, verifying and decoding to use the Go code, compiled to WASM so this performance boost also happens on the front end as well as the back, and this will also later enable adding a binary encoding option for the HTTP API which will greatly improve performance for web apps, with the WASM based binary codec available to the client side.
https://www.rt.com/russia/618650-ukraine-attack-russia-bryansk/
the azoto thing relates to this:
According to Bastrykin, the bombs used in the attacks “were composed of foreign-made plastic explosives equivalent to 15kg of TNT,” and set off by a Ukrainian-made detonator.
and the fact they came from outside, hints at in fact a possible attack on non-ukrainian bomb factories, possibly polish or baltic states locations
oof... there is definitely going to be an escalation and it is inevitable that sooner or later supply lines were going to be a target
and it might not be hypersonics, they probably also have been planning and preparing a covert operation to do such sabotage
the ukrainians attacked supply lines and long range hardware, probably it's going to be the same kind of targets and the same kind of operation
this is not going to be pretty, i think. blowing up bomb factories and bomb storage locations will of course be extremely splodey
GM https://blossom.primal.net/5c89b96ff42908e2eef631d3d5ad78973f87a07834bd73461361de0963e7cb54.jpg
actually, i think it means they are going to strike munitions factories, and laboratories that work on them
azotobak... at least part of that word relates to nitrogen, a key ingredient in explosives. probably is written "azotobok"
osholin, idk, probably that is misspelled for "usholin", as if it were written with an "o" it would be pronounced "asholin" like "spacibo" is pronounced "spaciba". if it was two words it would be "in sholin" as in the expression "u ulitsu" (on the street)
https://image.nostr.build/284716bcefb539846d4eaf54f1204a4df3593862eae47c1b1c2cbfc2803b64fa.jpg
idk about you but this is hinting at a possible very large barrage of hypersonics on intel command centers
the funniest part of the pun is you can say "literally fucking children" and it's almost more funny
https://relay.utxo.one/7217ea98bbf3c521cd1d6a0f76ca60750d361230dc2cb344482cc9ddf5ac9826.jpg
Well, the 17 days of nice weather we get each year have passed.
It is now officially too hot and humid
I prefer humans, but as Dickens says animals will do when these are few
Did you tell them this was an interview not an audition?
I bet your next performance you will nail it with devil-may-care attitude
last two i had were hepatitis jabs. both times within 3 months i flipped my lid
worst thing is the allergies you acquired before you knew the jabs (pre-mRNA) were causing them
dildozer was the best tho
this stuff is only recently being discovered through research into the SAR radar imaging system, that recently made a lot of press with the calims of 4 columns under the great pyramid and 4 cubes below that.
what i didn't understand about SAR is that it's Seismic vibrations that it detects, and what this artical makes mention of is the way that the earth is vibrating at this 26 cycles per second but there is many other vibrations that leak information if you can image the vibrating surface for the overtones and whatnot harmonics.
this looks like shots from a russian movie. any idea which? it has tarkovsky vibes.
yup. the architecture that most blockchains use was designed originally just as a failover replication strategy that was resistant to 1/3 *malicious* replicas. it even says so in the 1999 practical byzantine fault tolerance paper, that's why if you dig a little way into most blockchain whitepapers the 2/3 majority comes up. (i think that it's interesting how it aligns with the vote scheme of most senates).
they are not intended to be used outside of the centralized context. they just resist 1/3 malicious particpants. that's too optimistic for broad decentralized systems. this is why it's irrelevant to the nostr style database/subscription/relay design. the relay controls access by cryptographic signatures (most nostr devs don't get taht part), they store data that is self-authenticating, and based on the prior two they can act as rendezvous for arbitrary communications.
indeed... and regarding blockchains they don't scale well above 100 replicas, and most use cases only require 3-5, they are just failovers ultimately
by isolating the replication strategy from the replication points you enable both p2p and consensus and centralized architectures without favoring the latter two.
features are a plague, but some features are needed. this one in particular. ctrl-enter to post also
power went out second time today just a few minutes ago, for about 10 minutes.
hopefully they are fixing the distribution boxes and transformers and that will be it for some months to come (sans actual island wide grid down)
just hoping you don't suffer from it as i did for a year of having a pod machine in the house (my preference is an espresso shot of good arabica, called "bica" here in madeira)
nostr ladies are rare, and the ones that actually are are precious.
just be aware that it disrupts digestion in the intestines. best to have it with water or after food to dilute it a bit.
great picture showing the upper teeth of a cat, the row of incisors, the two main canines, and the pair of secondary canines further back. they don't have a lot of teeth, mostly they have them to tear small chunks and then they just swallow it, and occasionally that requires some cutting bites for which they have incisors.
you're welcome, in advance
amphetamine is probably overall safer, if it's pure. i couldn't tolerate it when i first was offered it, and ritalin was absolutely horrible, and in general i don't go well with cocainoid drugs (once or twice i took some synthetic analogs and they were terrible side effect ridden experiences).
i spent a lot of time on The Hive back in the day and read many personal accounts of guys who said that when they had good meth they lost interest in every other drug.
top down regulation of use of medicine only harms those on the margins, and overall increases use by the marginal. it has been an epic tragedy but just another of the consequences of liberal democratic statism.
getting a cat has definitely been a big benefit for me and it's shaping my decision making process... i want to keep him, and the two paths to that are the boat plan or staying here on the island
yeah, i need to properly appreciate how broken some can be. if they don't have family, lose wife, and then lose their close friend. he didn't seem to realize that there are people watching him, that see what he's going through. we just didn't reach out fast enough. men need to be interrupted from their solitudes. crying children, nagging boss, invading robbers. or even just a hungry dog or cat.
oh yeah, and oral piercings, tongue and labrets... i have a molar with a big chunk missing in my mouth from hitting the steel ball of a tongue ring while eating very hard toast one time. it got filled many years later but in the meantime yes a lot of damage whenever i was eating a lot of sugar or mouth drying condition
yeah, people who smoke so much they are awake 4 days and then in a coma-like state...
but bruxism is a generic problem that has mostly genetic factors and there is a lot of other ways that people break their tooth enamel, using teeth on hard objects like stuck metallic bottle caps for example.
also meth isn't unique for causing this, MDMA causes it also and a number of pharma psych drugs do too.
yeah, i can't comprehend that shit but i had one friend die indirectly due to depression and opiate addiction, and another who flipped a week into full abstinence from heroin, in her boyfriend's car with a garden hose, no less.
personally, i think these people were already too broken and like you say, the drugs deferred reconciliation to their trauma.
his edits are consistent. you can't expect them to fit your models if you don't know the broader picture.
oh, i thought were going to rustle up some ice cream. i bet that's the one coffee item that's not on their menu
meth damaging teeth is very overstated. only the most shitty meth is overloaded with excess HCl which is the main way it can etch enamel, otherwise, it's just "dry mouth" like weed and pharma stimulants mostly cause, also tobacco dries the mouth. these do reduce flushing of dental bacteria and a high carb diet also is a big contributor - and on that point, meth tends to deplete glucose levels very fast (via its thermogenic effects) which does tend to also induce the lowest grade of addicts towards consuming a lot of sugar.
well, i think p2p is great but it has huge consistency difficulties
i'm just aiming towards a way to break down what currently is wrapped up in the centralised infra dominating the internet so that smaller players can gain an edge to compete, an edge in a market segment that my employer aims at - currently mostly "web3" but the demand for this will not go away even if the airdrop farmers are taken out of the equation, it has a philosophical and moral grounding that will appeal enough to build something... if there is a way to deploy it on scale
this is also why i have the idea in my mind that the first implementation will be also a nostr relay, because then it becomes a launching point for nostr based businesses, as well as opening the way for web3 type enterprise to solve their storage and server cost problems...
i have been building stuff for them that pretty much does everything without needing to touch these stupid "decentralised" over-replicated, expensive and slow syncing data services. my boss already understands the potential of nostr for SME but the hard part is finding a way to get funding for the picks and shovels
was thinking about this after someone i know took their life.
i don't think it was God's plan at all. i don't even think it was the person's plan either.
i can't understand how someone who drives motorcycles and keeps a dash-cam in case of accidents would suddenly throw it all to the wind.
especially if they had escaped Canada where assisted suicide is a thing. it's like the most fiat way to go for a bitcoiner. it's like Schwab or name-your-baddie reached out of the screen and took him.
i think they didn't process a tragedy and used alcohol and weed to delay the processing. and at some point it built up as a depression.
or maybe it was a demon that totally caught him at a bad time. either way it's a fiat way to go.
i thought confidence was a good thing in interviews...
i sometimes feel like a "know-it-all" but that doesn't come across as confidence
i have an array of 620nm red LEDs that light my space at night so i d on't get bad light frequencies at night to improve my sleep
yeah, i fully figured it out late 2021. i'm pretty sure that storing it in a sugar syrup also makes it extremely durable, normally it can survive about 3 years in air sealed storage but i bet it is more like 5 years in syrup
the real problem on the market is most of it is so badly made and contaminated that you can't predict how much pseudo, or ephedrine, or p2p (a ketone precursor) it has in it. i was just lucky i had a hookup for what might have been the most epic purity ever, i mean like, probably was 95%+ pure meth and little else.
the lack of consistency of product was the biggest obstacle for me and for years i tried to cook it myself but the lack of consistency and lack of technique to get the precursor out of the plastic laden pills that thanks to the geniuses in the TGA invented the idea of putting polyethylene glycol as a pill incipient led to.
i know how to get it out of that, clean now, but the research budget i had was too small to achieve this before i just had to grit and bear being a space cadet in the market
it could have been predicted considering the techbros he collaborated with
deep denial of service attack mitigation
i would probably quit smoking and caffeine and alcohol if i had this available. with moderation it's far safer. tho i would only take it orally in a sugar solution, i perfected this method with rice malt back in 2021
yup, that's why it will have a new event structure, one that i have been designing, that specifies application and mimetype, the same way as defined in HTTP headers, and it will use HTTP as the main transport and leverage what it can do as well
http doesn't need sockets, it has SSE for subscriptions and the rest is standard request/response pattern
other than that, there is just the matter of *where* you store the data and the idea is to generalise this service in a nostr-like protocol, which lets you have data storage and relaying combined into one server, so it can act as a proxy, let you subscribe to data updates, and store and retrieve data in one server, and this can then be generalised so deploying the data storage/relay/proxy back ends is a generic, simple service that will achive Amazon style efficiencies of scale (so probably there will be a small few like we have with "cloud" services, amazon, microsoft, google, but because it's a general purpose it will be easy for businesses to deploy their own infrastructure as well as pay outside providers, providing maximum flexibility.
life is a story, and God is the editor
wouldn't matter if they were distributed databases either so long as the entry points are centralized
this also implies a marketplace application, which will be built on this architecture
my vision for how to do this is getting clearer
the idea of this will be to promote small scale relay cluster deployers who simply offer services to store and retrieve on a subscription basis, there will of course be an economy of scale and there will be some relay operators (a la semisol) who build giant, fast clusters as well as medium sized operations that maybe offer a benefit of distributed replicas for reliability instead of throughput
if these relays also already understand standard nostr websocket protocol, and clients get written to automate the subscription side of this, we will see a dramatic change in the reliability and consistency of nostr data, because providers will be competing for a market segment in the reliability and throughput side. throughput will have high reliability as well but at a lower cost, the premium of reliability will come from the medium sized relay operators who focus on data loss prevention instead, and part of what this will pay for is bigger storage and backup systems preventing the cluster from losing events that have ongoing subscriptions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Glove
this is the glove btw
it makes me think that maybe somewhere in this i might come up with a way to approach VCs to build out such a thing
there is a lot of blockchain focused VCs in the shitcoin space at this point, and i think they are starting to get tired of the promises of dumbass blockchain projects that don't provide real world effective business plans
i can see how this could become a real thing, if i can put together the proposal for it, and then shop it around until someone wants to throw a few bitcoins at it.
also, i'm not certain about the design of the directory blockchains part of this, perhaps they won't be blockchains but i am inclined to think they will be. but maybe they don't need as high replication rates as current pBFT based designs, as in, maybe 5-9 replicas is all that is required, which is a huge cost savings but the reliability of it will be enterprise grade
the "relays" will then be the focus of my part of contributing to the development process, aside from the architecture side of it.
i know that blockstream and square and circle and idk what the fuck ever names of existing bitcoin-related partially shitcoin-stablecoin-targeting systems (liquid=shitcoin, but also they are targeting stables, and there is a partially built stabelcoin swap system built for bitcoin by them)
i don't think that the funds for building this out will come from the bitcoin clade of the decentralised aspiring developer investment businesses will come from tho.
i think the people who are funding shitcoins are getting fatigue at the lack of returns and will be interested in a novel hybrid approach like i'm proposing
there has been some chatter recently mostly involving #gitcitadel people talking about the fact that nostr relays are essentially distributed database servers, of a new kind that pushes more of the subscription and authentication part to the front
i'm of the opinion that as shitcoins slowly die, because they are over-replicated distributed databases without a built in subscription protocol, that a nostr-like distributed data protocol is growing out of the nostr design
bitcoin will become the authoritative anchor for these decentralised data stores, and small, low bandwidth, ad-hoc federated blockchains will become directory servers, that use bitcoin as their security, anchoring their state in short messages stored in op_return, or maybe witness data, or both, and these will become directories that store information about where categories and users (as in decentralised web services) are storing their data on a growing network of nostr-like relays
nostr protocol will have to be refined for this use case, as it was originally conceived primarily as a decentralised replacement of the centralised, distributed data systems used by current generation social networks. they will need a simpler interface (ie, HTTP based) and where currently there is one spec for data, there will evolve a simpler, coordinating data storage interface that treats database records as events and relays will have user-programmable replication schemes where the relay acts as a client to other relays, and using auth-proxying and data storage proxying protocols, will become the place where all kinds of data are stored, protected by auth-required access, and enabled by clients being able to use relays as proxies.
probably the main thing that i see coming is that nostr relays will become partially also proxies for clients to fan out their requests to multiple data stores, providing a replication state programmable by the smart contracts running on these low bandwidth, data-only pBFT blockchains, and client applications, that read and write to the relays, with the blockchains becoming the directories.
i know it probably will be difficult for most to understand what i'm talking about, but the reason for this to become the dominant paradigm of internet services is that it separates application logic and data storage logic, and enables a continuum of scaling that has low friction for applications that become used a lot, to scale up their back end without having to change any of their application logic.
progress of tech slowed down in the 90s, and 00s and 10s and virtually all the current tech is barely progressing compared to before.
mainly because of a lack of programmers, which i think is probably because of the fascist copyright powers of big corps like microsoft and oracle raising the cost of new programmers entering the job market. all we got now is javascript ninjas and nobody to build better servers.
bUt It IsN't TeChNoFaScIsM!
those are the psychos i am talking about
but honestly, zelenskiy is tin pot dictator level at this point, like a gaddaffi
Yeah it's the Starbucks thing, but it was early in the morning and the Alabama accent sounded like "ven TEA." And I was groggy and upset that she heard Tea instead of coffee.
It was a "who's on first" situation acted out in a Starbucks
Hehe I'll have to try that. There is such a thing as an "espresso con panna"
kanzan likes to fuck himself by buying and trolling about monero tho
unfortunately it's most likely to get even worse in the next year or two. psychos tweak when there is a solar max and this one is maxxing harder because the magnetosphere of the earth is getting very unstable and weak (it's not an overly high max by historical records)
i'm mainly hoping that the people who are not have got themselves out of there. monsters feed until they explode, like demodex mites. their appetite for destruction only tends to get worse the longer it doesn't kill them.
also, bitcoin doesn't have encryption. it has signatures but that is "cryptography"
yes you can use the same secret key as you sign with for auth to generate shared secrets but that's still not encryption, still simply cryptography. the encryption part is what happens after you generate the shared secret.
but then again, even among nostr devs not all of them even understand this, i wonder if anyone picked him up on this point. probably he shadowbanned them anyway.
encryption is not when you generate an unforgeable signature. it doesn't have to be *your* secret key, it's better if you generate one for a message. the target has the secret tied to the public key and the public key of the generated secret is sent in plaintext in front of it. in nostr parlance this is a "giftwrap" and the idea is that only one side of the conversation is identified, the sender would then put their public key in the message and sign it and then encrypt the message and signature.
and then further to that is forward secrecy techniques that make forward but not reverse linkable chains of keys so the client doesn't have to keep doing ECDH. but honestly, computers are so fast now that's not even necessary, i was able to make a single core push 8mb/s of 1kb packets each packet having a unique key, and receiving is the same process. tbh i have not wrapped my head around the initial key negotiation process exactly, this is not done with nostr because it's not an interactive protocol. but instant messaging on nostr could be an interactive protocol using ephemeral events.
there's an IRC client called Xchat. lame.
both realy and fiatjaf's event store have some reasonable examples, i mostly copied what he was doing... currently i'm building a new key datatype and using the reader/writer model for decoding and encoding the keys, but this is for an advanced search system that extends beyond nip-01 and nip-50
it also doesn't create a dependency, it's embedded, you just need to have a place to store the files it creates
badger is really easy tho, and you will have a persistence problem after restarts
yeah i'm doing the matchmakiing engine
multi-chain web3 gamer/anime social network
Minor crisis at the fiat mine. A problem with project management. Hopefully after Friday we have got clear direction.
The designer ran off making interface designs that weren't properly specified as a data model and I had to rework the comparison algorithm, and there is some pending tasks just got put on hold because there has been poor communication with the main database backend devs.
We don't actually have a pm now either, used to have this little Ukrainian girl but I think they dropped her team or they canceled or something, and then a whole direction change that has seen our front end dev busy with rebranding and adding new features.
Gonna take a couple days off I think. Praying that we get some clarity. I'm not a product or ui guy and if I can't get a clear spec I run off on my own and sometimes people think I'm being insubordinate because I basically take control when there is a vacuum.
I also was having issues coordinating with the other back end guys because they kept changing APIs and didn't understand the architectural mess from unclear boundaries between my data analytics server and their dadabase server. And a potential for serious griefers to attack our infrastructure.
All these programmers barely have the thinnest grasp on security and cryptography. I managed to coordinate a solution to prevent possible DoS attacks on our users, at least.
i never memorized that one because it was more useful for statistics stuff... i probably could use that more now... log2 and log10 are useful but loge is special
i memorised 3.1415927 that's it haha
https://www.lastdodo.com/en/areas/696549-ventti
ah, this is some dumb starbucks thing
i'm familiar with this brand of coffee. white logo with a red accent i think.
or maybe i'm thinking of the cigarette papers. probably the same company tho.
i want to be able to choose public because it's part of my ACL system for #realy, and i don't want the complexity of having to run a second profile just to control access to my relay (but maybe others are fine with that, just not me)
No :-) both better than "boating accidents"
@npub1fd0…jal4 already wrote the code, i think it should be easy to just use it?
they are fucking just fine. Just ask Jeffrey. oh he died tho. suicide. sad.
Yes, it's crazy. I'm hopeful from stock price performance this morning that Saylor succeeded in plugging the hole in the boat that the market was worried about.
anyway
idk why i'm commenting on these things, i probably need to remove zh from my browser bookmarks. this shit is so fucking irritating and irrelevant to the much bigger threats against the survival of the species at this point. or for that matter, the tentacles of globalism playing their endgame.
the biggest problem with what the ukrainians did with their attacks deep inside russia is that they just essentially declared that all things that look civillian are now potentially military
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2025-06-03/its-worse-you-think
not only that, the russians can give this to whichever allied or friendly maniacs they want to, and these things chug along on a tanker, get loaded onto a truck, go to the destination, and then the operators turn up and bob's your uncle
the mistake of this move is going to be that now russia is going to say, "ok, if you want to be perfidious, let's see what happens when this kind of stuff gets into the hands of angry ethnic russian moldovans and poles who aren't happy about poking the bear, and latvia and estonia, also quite good launching points, for that matter, there is two major ports in the black sea in romania and bulgaria (make that 3 in bulgaria) and then there is georgia and armenia and turkey, a country kinda famous for it's international trade
if you are in a fight, and your opponent uses subterfuge on you, are you in your right mind when you don't use subterfuge back?
it's an escalation alright, but one that is gonna pan out really bad when ukrainian data centers get torched, key transit train and road bridges across the dnieper get cut without being anywhere near russians. and, oh dear, it seems that it was bulgarians that did it. or turks. or even some french dudes who hate brussels.
😂 I generally like the branding, but not when I think I'm being given tea instead of coffee.
today i am going to have pan fried cod
tacos are so damn tasty tho, enjoy
don't let the truth get in the way of your cheering on of organised mass destruction
it might cause peas
https://relay.utxo.one/b32fd0e726dd5940f8c580e3d6863094ea2ecd94f225f317d18f8f6304642590.mp4
interesting. not quite sure how it works, but it sounds like he's trying to plug the ATM leak that Josh Mandell complains about.
since it sounds like this allows him to print shares of STRD instead of MSTR to buy bitcoin or MSTR (in case of MNAV <1) .
are you in the army of the defender?
do you know who is lending them money to train and equip all those violent men?
yup, people used to spend a lot more resources on building than they do now. everything has been cut to the bone, and fitted out with fragile chinese plastic shit
indeed, i'm on a mission to stack enough to get a boat and go there by wind power in the future. not sure about what is a good time to sail the atlantic, based on the intense windy stormy weather of feb-may on the north of this island i'm guessing that i probably don't want to go on a long haul until a full year from now, so i may just go and dock in cape verde for a while and wait out the bad winter weather then i'm heading for the coast of south america somewhere. idk, brazil, maybe, but then i might as well circle around and go up the west of the gulf and see ES and guatemala and mexico
To your point, side by side https://image.nostr.build/c39f23ec9a29a8505296eb019c137e33d1d0cca948ff1806b6665d03fa00c772.jpg
it's my preferred client since cody started it
i'm keeping the bookmark and if you let me have those two features back i'll probably stick with it because the private mute list was my main gripe
simplicity is the art of hiding complexity, and simple things are better than complicated
less bandwidth, less CPU usage, less memory. there's nothing i can dislike about it
features usually are just a cost with no benefit in the long run
I think you're right. This is an amazing building built late 20s or early 30s.
I was just thinking about how a lot of people make the mistake on US road trips of sticking to the interstates. The world of the boomers.
There was a whole pre-1940s world on the back highways. little towns with beautiful buildings from 1890s -1920s timeframe.
And then there's the ancient civilizations that we are just now finding in the Americas. It's such an amazing continent.
that would be cool but keep a lid on feature creep, he will make you do perverted things
i had been watching relay feeds for the last week or so, and decided that i don't need that distraction. too much. also too much shit i don't care about.
i set my follows precisely because i find their content interesting. the rest is noise. only using the following list on jumble now because i got more important things to do than watch the mostly xitter driven dialog
i can imagine the rationale for that but i don't like it
what the megalomaniacs is doing, yeah, they are running out of time
the whole planet is going to get a flushing in the next decade or two. nothing we can do about it and nothing we did to cause it, just like we didn't cause the sun to light up.
they are just partying like it's Milliways
yeah, they don't make them like they used to in most of the world
construction labor has been pared to the bone as has the price of real estate gone through the roof (the bank owns the land, the building is a separate but immovable part of the price, the bankster inflation on land prices ate the viability of proper, careful and labor intensive construction - what you are experiencing is evidence of a crime).
Hah. A suite I should have figured as much, however since the door next door was just a staircase and a closet, I think it was a secret passageway...
often the base reason is that the hotel was once a rich person's house and possibly sometimes one of the rooms was a closet, or a study, or other similar kinds of attached rooms next to bedrooms. or they may have once been offices.
"I want a large coffee"
"You want a ven tee?"
"No, a coffee"
probably because the mainstream agenda has been to promote this anthropogenic global warming scam and as a result they have blared out all this nonsense science based on faulty models that pay no attention to the immense magnetic fields and streams of plasma and high energy particles that flow around through those fields
just one little fact should be enough if you actually grasp it
recently it was discovered that basically putting a giant air ionizer on a plane is the most effective cloud seeding technique ever invented
the implication of this, is that electrons charging dust particles is the core cause of cloud formation, and where do those electrons come from?
oh yeah, the van allen belt, where they get shoved down into the ionosphere and create a vertical current of negative to down to the earth positive and in the process make the dust able to condense water and badda bing badda boom. now you know where the rain comes from. and the shade, which reduces crop yields, and the floods, which cause crop damage and displace populations, and ... so many things that are far more influential to us down here than cow farts and car exhausts
if the whole hydrological cycle is driven by electricity, what else is happening due to electricity being blasted at us by the sun? try, earthquakes, volcanoes, ocean circulation cycles (because heat is only part of it, so is shade and wind)
anyhow, i'm not in any need of being convinced that electromagnetic phenomena are at the center of what drives everything in this world, i've studied enough physics, chemistry and electronics to understand how influential it is, and i've studied enough of recent history to know how little actual science happens thanks to political influence and the agendas of a small group of psychotic megalomaniacs, playing chess with human lives.
dandelion tea is good for you, high in silica, good for skin and immunity
and literally grows like a weed, you just need to dig them up, and roast the roots in the oven like they were coffee beans, grind it up and brew it like coffee
how about not killing people and destroying property that cost people years of their life to produce?
what's funny is how much this gets talked about instead of what is most needed
also, it begs the question about people who don't want to fight tyrants and live an actual life instead of being in a constant battle
not everyone wants to get involved in a war, mainly because it's not our war, it's a bankster war. these are bankster puppets they are fightning against. how about more guides on how to get out of the reach of tyrants and just survive with a bit of dignity while the whole shebang falls apart
this shit has been going on for over 120 years, it dates back at least to the mid 19th century when all of this shit was cooked up, including the propagandist Karl Marx whose philosophy has been central to most of the agitation process to maintain the left/right paradigm and divide people into political pens so they can distract them as they rob everyone blind and then pin the blame on the other side of the fence to each of their divided herd sheep.
how about break through the fence, and go somewhere that isn't strategic or full of essential resources for their forever war?
war is hell. who in their right mind wants to be part of a war being orchestrated like a theatre production?
i didn't mention the fact that the energy and resource cost of living on mars would be far beyond what would enable seasteading instead. and seasteading has a much better chance of surviving the masive inundation when the world turns over because most of the land is going to be flooded with up to 1km of sea water
lol
i'm gonna be glad when all this mars nonsense is put to bed by the finally admitting of government space and weather people that within 20 years there isn't gonna be anything BUT frontiers on THIS planet and a massive loss of population, and natural resources, as well
russia is just going to chat with iran and china about the fact that they just had what are basically terrorist attacks deep inside their territory and what of their possible plans of response are, both soft and hard power wise. my guess is it's gonna rain bombs and suicide drones on comcens, firming up the existing lines of conflict and a massive investigation into how these operatives breached the border with all this hardware
most likely the latter is already well underway, and probably will result in several heads on the chopping block over this, probably corrupt regional governments and military command
the main thing about it, in my opinion, is that they have got holes in their borders and that's the main thing they have to close
what ukraine is doing is more about soft power than hard power. they are creating a spectacle with terrorist style guerilla warfare operations that they seem to be bragging "took 18 months to pull off" which also means they probably have got other things in flight and also that they are running out of resources, because nobody resorts to guerilla warfare when they have a fighting chance at a frontal confrontation. it's tacitly admitting they are out manned and outgunned
ross was a massive victim of this system. i'm sure he understands that the longer he associates with them the shorter his life expectancy
mainly because the only way reilability happens is if there is paid, authed relays and auth relay proxies
you can't do private messaging without gates to stop anyone and everyone from being able to see who is sending messages to each other
if they ran IMAP and web mail services like nostr we'd still be endlessly fending off nigerian princes
they are trying to orange wash their techno dystopian fascism
bitcoiners are not buying it, and smart guys like Ross are gonna take the money and run
yup, nip-70 protected tag means it can only be propagated by the user directly with auth... it doesn't strictly affect free-to-upload non-authed relays but hopefully the folly of those things will penetrate the thick skulls of the mostly amateur nostr client devs and this will also mean wide support for auth and hopefully auth proxying and auth-on-connect will become more supported
because we can't have decentralized nostr without spam mitigations, and auth is the only way. sorry, not sorry. get over your paranoia, most nostr relay operators are NOT the government. believe it or not.
same reason for which NWC is becoming the de facto method to connect wallet apps to lightning (mostly) wallet servers
which is kinda cool tho because NWC uses nostr relays as rendezvous, critical because of the impossibility of getting inbound routed connections to most client devices
i just use wireguard and a cheap VPS that often gets used for other things like testing my servers and relays
and a far better privacy protection method than all this complicated spook type shit is just living far away from the cities where people are so chill that they mostly don't even lock their doors because nobody ever breaks in
all the glamorous hacker shit is pointless for the average person whose biggest threat is tax collectors and false accusations being perpetrated by bureaucrat thugs with badges
they don't have the budget to go find you in your cottage in the country. none of this cloak and dagger shit matters that much in the real world outside of the dystopia of modern cities.
this is a classic youtube comedy spoof movie trailer of the horribly slow murder with an extremely inefficient weapon:
https://youtu.be/9VDvgL58h_Y
if you never saw it before, you're welcome
what's kinda funny about it though, is that this is precisely the nature of what the eugenicist elites are doing... adding plastic to everything, hormone and endocrine disruptors, allergens, slow poisons, genetically modified foods that enable them to contaminate the food with free radical synergistic chemicals like glyphosate, like the promotion of LGBT propaganda that leads to psychological torment of children via "gender dysphoria" diagnosis, like the feeding of people high carb, poison laden food while also selling them drugs to suppress the weight gain that this causes, the use of stimulant medications to treat children who are poisoned by vaccines and allergens who can't cope with the mindless tedium of "education", the covering up of symptoms of trauma fatigue and PTSD with chemicals that cause long lasting dysfunction of the brain (antidepressants and antipsychotics)
literally, the whole of the last 200 years is a history of a mass murder that is done with slow, and inefficient weapons
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yeah, here in madeira it's not so bad, and almost no mechanisation of anything because of the rugged landscape
if i was going to stay in a place like this i'd buy a patch high up the mountain and keep goats, milk and cheese and yoghurt and tasty bbq... and hand made leather clothing...
cod and tuna are the least contaminated, that you can buy on the open market without becoming a producer yourself
i don't seriously believe that the establishment will ever dial back the poisoning level in any tangible way anyway, this is another reason to not live in a dense urban area where you can't escape it, and the levels of pollution of all kinds are so much higher
people are addicted to high time preference, "easy" solutions and those always come with poison, and that suits the establishment jerks who enjoy orchestrating mass murder
this is a line from the book Crime and Punishment about the mess that Rodion Rashkolnikov gets himself into by killing parasitic crappy people in his local neighbourhood.
you will not regret making the move to a rural location that is a bit inconvenient for shopping
i'm 7 months now living in such a place and i'm never going back. probably my next move is to get a decent sized boat and then i'm going to sail across the ocean and find somewhere friendly and quiet with a nice little marina and good local people and maybe go back to living on the land.
but i want to live away from the lights and the highways and the trucks and the constant noise, i want to see the milky way, and hear the sounds of birds all day long, as i am now accustomed to, canaries, blackbirds, robins... the occasional yapping dog and the random local stray cat that patrols the footpath outside my door crying for someone to feed him
as i am constantly pointing out, and nobody listens to me
free relays are harvesting your access data anyway. the user's own npub is the
most frequently occurring npub in all of their requests, tied to an ip address
you can't solve spam and impersonation/scammer problems by burying your head in the sand.
nostr needs better auth, for a start, nip-42 should be merged with nip-98 and on option clients should be able to open sockets with a nip-98 token and skip the whole rest of the flow
normal socket based systems require auth before they start answering any queries at all. if you intend to write data to the database, you need permission from the relay operator, and the simplest way to do this is that your npub is registered as a whitelisted user and when you connect, you just auth
because ultimately anyway you are doxxing yourself
it's pure superstitious nonsense to say that sending out signals that contain identifying codes related to you are not, all nostr use is doxxing yourself
the real solution from the user side is being able to control who you connect to, but client devs also struggle with this while spamming the channel with inordinate amounts of data and responses that identify you, to do this "decentralized" thing when paying one or three trustworthy relay operators is so much simpler, so long as you auth to them, they can control spam
and further, there needs to be a way for a relay to act as an auth proxy for you so you can just use one relay at a time, and the relay handles fanning out and caching results from your requests.
this last point is still an unsolved protocol issue as well. and a big part of it goes back to the complexity of not authing a socket at the beginning.
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/schools-china-reportedly-isolate-students-covid-cases-surge
“We have already realized that it may be COVID-19 caused by a mutated virus,“ he said. ”The symptoms have been dragging on and not getting better. It cannot be cured by medicine at all.”
that's right, because it's enabled by diet and pollution.
realising you don't really have that great a need of acceptance from people is extremely liberating
nothing good comes out of social conformity. it is exploited by evil people constantly to try and get you to climb back in the box.
once you have fully got out of the box, you realise that even this petty expectation of you to fit their models is a mark of evil and such people are not worth your time.
even here on nostr, the devs struggle to comprehend the need for nip-42 auth, and have this superstitious fear that they are "doxxing themselves" by using it and other programmers complaining about the processing workload and/or UX features of the necessity to have clients signing events automatically, because they are afraid of "doxxing themselves" they want to see all the requests but if that was the only way it was done nobody would use it.
the topic of people being unfamiliar with cryptographic signature based authentication on the internet isn't just user side
even yesterday i have a colleague wondering why using usernames on a request endpoint returned an error containing a message about being unable to encode hex
people are used to governments giving out database identification numbers, but those are always relatively short numbers that a person can memorize, around the same size as a phone number
the struggle to teach people about the necessary limitations of database systems is real, and even you bump into *programmers* who have trouble with it.
i did my washing up before going to bed last night. was very nice getting started on making breakfast just to pack stuff away and have a clean space ready for me to do prep
i'm starting to get really sick of the fact that all land-based animal foods available in europe are grain fed:
- corn fed chickens, and eggs (and even most local small plot farmers here on madeira feed their chickens corn)
- corn fed cows, and not even beef, but veal (the beef fed on corn isn't so bad)
- corn fed sheep and goat meat (very hard to find anyway)
there really is only one main staple animal food that is good to eat on the market around me: cod.
i am feeling so much better from eating this fish, it's one of teh few kinds of fish (tuna also) that cannot be farmed and poisoned with bullshit, it is only possible to get it from clean, deep ocean waters, and the effects it has on my health are dramatic
corn is toxic, from its oils, which smell horrible, to the proteins in it, which are more allergenic than gluten
i think based on the partnership with musk that it was long ago baked into the cake that trump's presidency was going to be a tech bro fascist private/public partnership
when it comes to government, you have two options:
- corrupt communistic state ownership of everything and bribery capitalism who will destroy the economy and make proxy wars to expand towards global communism
- fascist public/private military oriented fascist oligarchies of elite technocrats who make wars to create a bigger, more obvious empire of more overt control using regulation
the only way to deal with either of these is to get out of dodge, move to the country, and preferably not in a war zone (third world country) or too close to high population areas in a first world country.
there really is no option 3 without a spiritual awakening of the people and help from an outside civilization that has the technology to identify and eliminate those people. and that really means migrating off planet and leaving these psycho clowns to burn in the next disaster cycle. that's why the ancient civilization of the "gods" or aka "angels" said that was what they would do going back to just after the time of Noah.
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i use badger pretty much religiously for most system-wide shared data anyway, and that requires writing accessors anyway and it's concurrent safe
pretty much the main time i use maps is when i am deduplicating keys on a data structure that is basically a key/value... i could even just use sort and write the whole thing as an iteration but it's easier to think about it just copy the key/values to a map and then iterate it back to the slice with all duplicate keys removed.
i basically don't use maps for anything else, except avoiding duplicate records, because if the data set is much bigger than that it's a candidate for storage in the database
yeah, the need for type assertions is quite irritating... i'd probably find myself having to write typed wrappers for it
i've seen this in a hotel one time... it was the room next door, i figured they can rent them for a group and the door can be unlocked to allow the two rooms to be effectively joined for whatever reason
hm, awesome, but no reacts?
Lol, 😂 don't scare me like that
How unsettling it is to find an extra door in my hotel room.
There's the bathroom door, the closet door, and one more door.
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For a moment I considered picking up the phone to dial the front desk to ask if there was some mistake.
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I had asked for the best deal they had, not the haunted room with the trick door for the pranksters to escape.
I looked out in the hall. Whose room was next to mine?
Just a little green door with no room number, next to the stairs.
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if exercise was the only way (it is good of its own not for this) to lose weight, there would not be a whole industry about addictive ways of chasing this goal in the wrong way
i put on a lot of weight in the last few years, and i'm losing it primarily via diet, specifically, cutting allergens, increasing animal fats especially high stearic acid tallow, and cutting down on carbs
most carbs come along with a big dose of toxic, inflammation increasing seed oils as well, even just changing what you eat with carbs can cut down on your cravings for them, and carbs are the main way you get fat
carbs fill your blood with sugar and sugar has to be converted to fat in order to maintain your blood sugar. or you end up with diabetes.
so, yeah, the only thing i can say is you probably aren't much of a different weight than you are used to, never had a sudden buildup of weight that while it coincided with a lot of sedentary lifestyle, did not have other factors involved
the whole industry of food and health are poisoned by the mutual benefit between food that makes you sick, and drugs that mask the effects of that diet, and a whole load of "lifestyle" industries that sell you fake ways to fix the problem that don't work, but are tied to commonly promoted marketing memes that you get convinced are true.
the moon is half at the moment, and just on that basis it's not possible to know by looking at it whether it's getting bigger or smaller
however, it is waning if the moon is directly overhead at sunset, and if it's waxing, it's directly overhead at sunrise
of course, a crescent moon is also going to be overhead at a time that relates to the phase of the day as well, it will be at the top of the sky in the morning where a waxing gibbeous moon will be visible in the afternoon (the earth blocks you seeing them in the other part of the day)
i long to live in a place with mostly clear skies and low levels of light pollution. i forget how long ago it was i last saw the milky way in all its splendor
my personal preference, based on experience, is that second world countries (eg former yugoslavia, bulgaria, rural island portugal) tend to have low resources for these kinds of invasive policing of everything, and within the places where this is an issue in dense urban areas, it tends to be a lot less of a problem in rural areas
idk if you have seen the movie THX1138 but part of the plot spins around the fact that socialist totalitarianism only has so much budget to enforce compliance, and travel and distance especially are costs they are often reluctant to spend, the old "if we chase the stragglers to the end of the world we will run out of fuel to chase them with"
so i also interpret this to mean that you live in a relatively dense urban area, because little places often won't even have a DMV office at all, usually just a police station, maybe a small magistrates court, and a town council that probably runs a dozen branches for feds.
AI fraud detection engines
trumpy is busy buddying up with thiel and palantir to use it for law enforcement too. that's gonna be fuckin scary. getting the fuck out of dodge probably isn't a bad idea. idk about throwing away the tech tho, they just don't have the budget for long distance travel or remote outposts
i was just randomly checking my system monitor and noticed that there was quite a lot of network traffic, and moderate CPU usage (less than 100% of one core but still quite a bit)
and i have set my brave browser to pause tabs that are inactive for a while, so i knew it must be one of the tabs that was recently in use
i had #nostrudel and #jumble open and thought "oh, is this jumble?" and so i closed the nostrudel tab and lo and behold the network traffic fell down towards zero
with only jumble open almost no traffic except when i click on stuff.
i've got the big 5-0 looming in 2026, i'm still kinda in disbelief that i'm that old, i don't feel that old, i was sick for a while but i'm getting better quickly now, being sick made me feel very old
this is a very cool idea
i'm actually working at a paid gig right now building a matchmaking server back end for a recommendation/search engine for potentially suitable game and anime watching partners
one of my colleagues is using a text comparison engine called Vertex (i think it's a google project?) that probably might have some relevance since finding good npubs would mean searching their content, at least in part
i also have got a bee in my bonnet about finally implementing a full text search engine but probably the next big thing after that would be building a text similarity search index... i know it's probably decently performant in the python based system my colleague uses but i prefer to use one language toolchain to do everything if i can. GUIs are a big challenge for me because of this, which is another bee in my bonnet too, to master building web and electron style UI front ends (since this is probably the most universally supported UI system i could learn).
the problem is the food, and the pharma-food-industrial-complex
when people eat good food they don't get fat
the main way that this came about was through fiat currency and democracy enabling industrial lobbies to legalise poisoning people so they can sell them a cure
the father technically should have the right to put this woman out of her joy of ruining a little boy's life
and like, how did she get pregnant?
if it isn't a sperm bank then this is the perfect picture of the mindfuck of woke feminism. literally they want to be the gigolo and stick it to all those easy... men?
literally telegraphing she intends to psychologically abuse a male child
a node interacts with the p2p network and influences what things propagate faster or slower into node mempools.
this is both in relaying transactions, blocks, as well as whether it will accept a new block that it would otherwise reject (this can only happen to the best block, once a confirmation piles on top the node must accept it or be forked off the network).
if other nodes don't like your relay policies they can black list your node's p2p address, but on the whole it does influence the network in important ways because the transactions that get filtered the least get into blocks before the others can propagate.
it's a very soft power thing, and only really has an impact on latency of transactions getting to a miner who mints a block, or when the size of the network mempool starts to purge small fee transactions, these relays also affect the transactions that can get into blocks because they will preferentially relay the others. in this way also you can do a service to the network by enlarging your mempool so that typical default configurations that would drop transactions would see them propagated again by those who didn't.
it's not a "vote" per se, it's more like, you have an impact on what is more likely to get into a block sooner, and when the mempool is full, what transactions will be dropped and which won't.
if you can pay the ~$300/node and the ~$15-30/month power and internet bill for it, it's your money, i mean, what can i say.
i stopped running a node recently, mainly because i had better value from using the 4tb SSD i was using for this purpose.
also, it's not really a vote, it's just having an influence on what transactions get relayed. in actual fact, i could envision a much lighter weight server that just runs a mempool and applies policy. that would be a vote too. only needs one IP address also, you can run many on one with different ports.
best way to lose weight is to increase the supply of precursors of satiety hormones to the liver. best one i know is stearic acid, best source i know is beef tallow, runner up is cacao butter. this was part of the reason why the south americans called it food of the gods (theobroma).
second most important thing for losing weight is fasting, and a 72 hour fast will reset your metabolism, and easiest way to do one is first to eat a lot of food with stearic acid containing fats. after eating ~400g of beef per day for a few days 24 hour fast is a piece of cake.
72 hours is challenging, but once you do it, you don't really need to do it again for another 6 months, and it will clear up a lot of things.
another element in this is avoiding allergens. the intestines can't digest stuff when your body is full of inflammatory cytokines. the most inflammatory foods are gluten and seed oils, and then after that, any high vegetable protein food.
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processing the family into what? hamburgers?
only because they never enjoyed a proper bbq stek diet
1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1
not even once
i switched over to namecheap because i have a couple of domains i use a lot. it's been a lot better, actually.
also, the whole thing about DDoS protection? there is actually ways to make your services reasonably robust to that, and if they are popular enough you make a good living off it, you can just do your own failover infrastructure. pretty sure semisol is quite knowledgeable at that and doesn't use cloudflare to protect his quite popular relay fleet.
moods come and go, but character abides
failure at not making anyone laugh
total, utter failure.
personally, that's my main criteria for wifing material, if i can't stop laughing at her, she's hired.
that all really depends on how cultish these other people are
cult people talk in slogans and diatribe against the Outsiders and constantly are praising The Leader.
also, a relay npub could publish its whitelisted users (subscribers/members) as a follow list and then, done.
jumble, except for its handling of mute lists
they could... i was going to add one to my project but the lack of adequate DM supporting clients made me abandon it. the idea was to create a CLI that uses nostr DMs to interact with the relay. could include zapping it to pay subscriptions, setting user settings, organising links to upload and download your notestash
https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/tourists-flee-mount-etna-erupts-italy
this is bad but wait until campi flegrei starts
tallow has a lot of stearic acid in it, 19%, another major source of it is cacao butter. there is some in cream too but not nearly as much and the proportion in young cow meat (veal) is a lot lower
myself, and many people who have tried beef focused carnivore diets have frequently reported a dramatic improvement in satiety from eating a primarily beef based diet and the effect is reducing weight, part of this is to do with stearic acid, which is a major source of precursors for hormones that signal satiety.
ghee is good but i personally prefer beef tallow, and it has a more pleasant taste than ghee, IMO... tallow is also quite cheap, i got 10kg of belgian beef tallow for 6 euro/kg
yeah, it's a feature, not a bug :)
there has been a whole heap of studies of the effects of magnetic field movement and animal life also, it disrupts migratory behaviour because of navigation, but increased EMF and high energy particle levels are known to especially effect the brain and cardiovascular system, and increase inflammation and oxidation
it's all fairly logical when you consider what these energies do, what is not so obvious is the stuff relating to the impact of field direction, strength and interfering oscillating fields like microwave and television transmitters, the leaking EMF from poorly shielded devices like computers, the higher frequency EMF that comes out of stuff like the tft switching matrixes, CRT guns, and now, also LEDs, these all disrupt our nerve signals and some organs due to resonance are susepctible to this increasing the amount of positive charge (driving out electrons)
and yeah, the effect of earthing (or just walking barefoot on grass for 10-15 minutes a day) is quite subtle but when the radiation levels are higher like they are now, the effect is quite noticable and dramatic... i never really noticed much from my grounding mat and grounding sheet until really, this morning, my sleep was amazingly better, but i had been without it for a week and also on the tail end of a slow buildup of allergic reactions to plant proteins and oils
today i'm feeling better than i have probably in years, in fact
but i also have changed my diet to reduce inflammatory stuff as well so it all seems to me like these things are synergistic, baseline energy level is already high in the environment due to the sun and its effects on the resonant cavity, most people are constantly bathed in all kinds of frequencies of EMF from mobile radios to AC/DC converters, to the flickering, nasty light frequencies, the ridiculous amount of petrochemical derivatives in their food, pesticides, and one of the few things that has really improved is power plants scrub their smoke better, and a lot more cars are electric, moving the pollution out of their living environment.
i don't use damus or primal relays
and mostly i don't see much shit i don't want to see, either
i think my opinions on damus and primal are pretty well known... amethyst is good but its author is a bit full of himself and his client has been a bandwidth pig for most of its' existence
just based on what essentially amounts to a probabalistic analysis
it's like being condemned to hell for one time fatasizing about your friend's wife
iodine prophylaxis reduces mortality only, not cancer rates
oh, those bombs were just hydrogen? man, hydrogen is explosive shit, such a low threshold for optimal combustion and such a high thermal release
plutonium fallout is far less hot particles than an ongoing uranium chain reaction
uranium meltdown releases loads of iodine 131 and cesium 137, both have quite short half lives but are incredibly toxic. you can get prophylaxis against the iodine by taking potassium iodide, which helps the kidneys eliminate the 131 faster, but the cesium is longer lasting, several months, and causes cancer (iodine causes the thyroid and several other glands to stop producing necessary hormones that maintain life processes)
firstly, it's a lot less material per detonation, versus a whole reactor full of melting fuel rods, secondly, plutonium reaction is nearly instantaneous, and only involves several grams of material, which obviously can't produce literally tons of these radioisotopes
it still will raise cancer rates by maybe 20% in a square root of the distance from the dispersion of the plume distorted by the wind velocity - more windy, more distributed, lower per-unit exposure at any given point in the fallout area
this isn't as bad as the tritium/deuterium explosive used in nagasaki and hiroshima also, for radioactive exposure, but far less toxic than an uncontained uranium chain reaction
so they essentially are going to convict you without a jury or even tribunal
most of the protein is from soybeans i think, which is now mostly quite contaminated with residues from years of glyphosate and the beans themselves are mostly GMO, i personally get an allergic reaction from eating much of it and my cat refuses to eat it (and i've had other cats who also refused to eat it)
fat is another one, likely rapeseed is number one, second would be sunflower, and then probably refined olive oil, and then below that butter/cream and tallow
for some reason there is almost no palm oil anymore, until about 4 years ago it was one of the most common
the heat and chemical extracted rapeseed and sunflower oil are greatly increasing inflammatory chronic disease and harm nerve function, as well as damage the liver, and increase oxidative free radicals in brain tissue, which is supposed to be primarily saturated fats and medium chain triglycerides, and the disappearance of tallow (beef fat mainly, but also sheep) is affecting us because at least one thing - that is also in chocolate - stearic acid, which is a key precursor for the hormone that signals satiety
that stearic acid is a major part of why carnivore people so often report finding they are actually eating less food and their weight is normalising
not noticed, it's on recordings from satellite and space probe readings that NOAA and others are recording... yesterday there was a quite heavy, KP9 burst as well
what i noticed was the strange behaviour of my cat, my own feeling, and picking up vibes off other people around when i was up in town during the day, everyone seemed wired
i spent the last week not sleeping on the grounding sheet i have, for some reason, i don't remember why, but i put it on last night and me and #mochi the #catstr slept really well
since the solar activity is ticking up it should be interesting to see if it has a general overall benefit, i also have a mat under my desk that is earthed and conductive, which i touch down on a lot of the day, but sleep time is a lot of the time, and while it's in the lower energy night side possibly it's helping anyway with discharging the energy, i do feel a lot calmer and somehow, healthier
possibly this may also be because i'm now eating a lot of cod fish too, gonna have some fat greasy cod steaks for lunch today as well
yeah, also a lot of character building
there has been spurts here and there such as instagrammers and twits showing up in large numbers here and there but they don't stick because the quality of clients and the lack of things like engagement maxing feeds
nah, high EMF and high energy particles are bad for us, that's why things get crazy when they break through the magnetic shield around the earth.
the shield is stuttering in the last few years and there is a lot of reasons to suspect it's gonna get way worse, after a bit of a respite for a few years, probably 2026-2029 will be reasonably normal again but then it's gonna be 1000x worse next solar max
but in general, i'm in favour of eliminating electromagnetic based computation devices. i want pure enclosed optical ones that don't leak EMF into the space around them, or be influenced by it.
yeah, the animals have more vivid electromagnetic sensors in their brains but we have them too, just, generally humans are so immune to their own physical sensations they don't notice
and yeah, actually, my cat even started to jive with it a week ago, like he was already starting to get tingles, and for like 4 days now he has often sat right under my desk on top of it.
it really pays to watch your animals and ask questions about their behaviour especially when they get piqued because they might be feeling something you just are a bit dull at sensing.
i'm kinda exhausted this last week, to be honest, probably the electric in the air contributed but my allergies are flaring up pretty bad at the moment.
fortunately since people are a bit loopy on one hand, you need to stand back a bit, but on the other, they aren't as with it and some things actually get easier if you are grounded enough. maybe the physical grounding helps this contrast more.
best to stay away from large crowds during a geomagnetic storme, i think
but i already sorted out that problem moving about as far away from population density as you can on this island. was luck, maybe an answered prayer.
coinciding due to calendars, yesterday was some "santa quiteria" fiesta thing that provokes the locals to fire off these non-visual fireworks that just make bangs to echo around the basically cliffs that surround everything on this island, which drives me crazy and spooks my cat as well, and then this solar wind and CME fire up to add even more spice to the mix
to be honest, i'm a bit nervous about how things are going to be in the next 5 months or so, but on teh other hand, random shit often serves up opportunities that don't happen in normal times.
since october 2023, roughly, first heard about it in about june 2023 on twitter, and heaps of my follows were endlessly talking about it but i was skeptical at first, because people talk shit about shit
well, nostr is still some crazy thing, not saying it's not, but it wasn't one of those stupid things like bluesky and mastodon are.
best part was that it attracted a lot of based people and i'm pretty based so that was good because literally i had quit facebook 4 years before that and twitter came up in 2021 in part related to me trying to get work writing code for bitcoin stuff.
i was just saying about how my cat has been quite loopy today and then i hear he is having a bit of an incident of liquid poopies and then he jumped and flipped the litter tray off its slightly tenuous fixings as a preliminary stage of training him to use human toilet
i have now melted some holes to hitch the elastic strap hooks into so it won't happen again but i had already decided earlier today that i would start the next stage of his human toilet training
this has been a long term plan, based on stuff i've seen several times over the years about these litter trays you can buy that slot into your toilet and have breakable parts that let you slowly open up the floor of it so the cat starts to get curious and consider using the hole since it's in the "toilet place"
then you expand the hole a bit more, and it becomes easier for them to just use that hole, even tho the litter is still there as before, and once you have them pooping and weeing through the hole, they are able to recognise that the white porcelain thing is a toilet and they will then perch their ass over it and do their business
i also seriously thought about this plan because of my "first mate" on the hypothetical ship that i may manage to acquire later this year, that teaching the cat human toilet would mean he could probably recognise ship toilet and save a lot of hassles with one less thing to weigh things down and need to be bought.
it probably helps to have a widget so kitty can hit the flusher but i'm not sure that is that important, i don't mind hitting it when i smell something or hear him in there, to finally be rid of the nasty clay litter- which is the best i can get here (recycled paper pellets are the absolute best) because i am pretty sure it is the stuff that is causing his persistent cough, as it started with a different kind of non-clumping litter i tried one bag of and i have also had problems in general
in this time of year, there is very little wind here and so the particles in the air in general have got a lot worse, and because i don't want him running outside, getting beat up, or worse, bringing parasites back in with him (ticks are very common this time of year) ... yeah, i should have an air filter, in fact two, arriving tomorrow, and most of the time this place is too cold to keep open so i am also wondering how much this has been affecting my health in general, especially the plastic resin compounded fibre board that is all of the walls upstairs and part of it down here
it has been a bit of a learning experience in general about "nature" and nasty particles because we are 500km away from the sahara desert here, which usually once or twice a year has really bad dust storms and some of them float over here, and i got really bad allergic reaction from it, and found substantial relief by wearing a dust mask during the worst parts of it.
never experienced such things before, in australia, on one occasion in particular there was some bad bush fires that turned the sun red, and it was vivid as i step outside into the natural light and it's so red, and i've been on dry fine sandy beaches blasting wind that you have to cover your breathing tubes with some fabric until you get off the dusty area, but sahara desert dust is something else again. super nasty. apparently quite beneficial for the west coast of south america though, and probably the general fertility of all of the atlantic islands, which are not nearly as volcanic anymore as hawaii (which is a much younger island).
probably not but who knows, just jiving with the vibes
nostr is like bitcoin, everything is good for nostr. if elon musk even once tweets the word it will be epically painful for us.
but it may also mean that some of us on the margins of the dev community suddenly get bathed in sats.
yeah, i have been seeing signs of disarray around me but fortunately i can retreat from it
like, for example, the church clock stopped at 10:20 last night
the clock was fixed, earlier, and then later on i heard the chimes going again, so they fixed it
but almost everyone was in some kind of confused state out there that i saw as i ventured out twice today
i'm feeling pretty much fine, but then i think maybe the fact that i have a grounding mat under my desk may be helping, as when you electrically (touch grass) ground, the current flows over your skin when the radio waves hit you. it doesn't solve all of the problems but it definitely eliminates the effects of radio wave frequencies
i also have been feeling a bit crazy, and my cat has been loopy, and i should also note that in recent days my cat has taken to spending a lot of time sitting on the grounding mat, like he can feel it.
idk, i think their rep is perfect for a slimebag like musk
sounds like a good move for him if you ask me
and what miljan and gang have been greasing their sigmoid flexures for
as i understand it, nostr is developing a certain reputation among the enclosed herd of social network sheep for being a certain thing that certain political manouvers might like to paint themselves with
haha
i've done a little research into encryption options and ironically secp256k1 has the best, fastest implementations
but he's just gonna do a red version of bluesky, with json.
actually, correct that. he's just going to buy primal and leave a skeleton crew.
everyone going crazy as is typical in the middle of a geomagnetic storm
fuck astrology, there is sensors for this shit and you can just stay at home.
the sad part is they are the last to know when everyone around them has figured it out
just need something to pick it up and flip it, making the can have holes is pretty easy.
would be so easy to make one with just a few tools, and i was even thinking about that
you could just get a segment of a chimmney, cut out a segment and put a ring mesh with a heat resistant handle in the side and some bits welded on to retain it as you push it in. would be a bit easier to make i think
or, i guess, if it clamps underneath right at the bottom... could just be a springy strip on one side that holds it and a lever on the other and you just have to push it up hard enough and yay hots down the bots
exactly, but when coals are hot, the actual surface temperature is near 5000'C and air movement is turbulent so once you get em lit, they can be strewn over a flat heatproof surface and make tasty meats
i never quite understood what that thing was for, i've seen one used but not close up.
"chimmney" is a good name for it, because it works on that principle of pressure differential and an enclosed channel, so it helps light all the charcoal properly before you toss it into your pit
getting it all lit is impossible from a sealed base, you at least need a grill to hold some space for air to rush upwards but a channel as well would make it work so much better.
i'm gonna hold off until i get paid next (in a few days) but i must have one, and then i'm gonna spend a lot more time in my bbq cabinet.
close to kazakhstan tho... there's a lotta anti-russian sentiment in that country
nah man, i'm an aussie, this would be like spit roast in the bush
also, eucalyptus is kinda close to mint in the smell, just a bit more volatile
last winter here there was another bushfire in the uninhabited too steep hills covered in eucalyptus here... there is so much eucalyptus here, here on the north it's more laurels but on the south it's covered in eucalyptus and acacia
the bbq i have is a spit/pit style, just a big cube open one side with firebricks lining it
it's fine for burning wood into glowing char but utter shit for starting char into glowing char
yeah, i must have the charcoal lighter widget... wood is harder to come by on the local market but i can buy 10 pound bags of it at the shop 10 minutes away
idk about smoke tho. i've kinda thought about it in the smell way but maybe some eucalyptus would be a nice touch to my skewers of meats
it's basically a promontory, so, not surprising
this island is a large promontory in every direction with specific tendencies of heat and humidity... on the north side it rains a lot in autumn and spring, and is mostly cloudy, on the south, same rain schedule but is mostly sunny
temperature difference between north and south is several layers of clothing on this little island, i experienced this in march with the bitcoin atlantis conference. literally drizzly fog when i left and almost singlet weather on the south. in "winter"
"sometimes manages to do it" with inordinate resources, often insider grade.
also, in short time frames.
low time preference and a manual UTXO isolation scheme can go a long way if it's not being used in a short time frame
From the coloring, yeah. Same eyes and skin and hair.
Like Lucy Griffiths.
this is madeira, the portuguese word for wood is madeira. the only challenge to getting wood here is climbing, it's ridiculously abundant
Keira Knightley Stella. 😂
i'm looking forward to when someone sics an AI to analyse the nip activity and identifies the social structure and whose *ahem* you have to *ahem* to get the quickest merge
charcoal is not the problem, i just need it all lit up properly to bbq
yeah, it's on my list now for next thing to order from amazon, the only option here in backwards portugal
Yeah, I've posted pictures of her, before, and people wondered why I bleached out the pic. 😂
British Stella.
i may even have to delve into this, but i have a 2d array (comparison matrix) in my project and i have issues to deal with due to needing to decode the fields of each element, and i learned about zigzag iteration for this sort of case, and there is also something eles i may use, pools, to cache decodes as it iterates, zigzag plus pools should be both faster and less memory utilization.
are you posting this from a time machine?
summer already started mid may northern hemisphere and so winter is already here if you are in the south
i miss the northern madeira autumn storms. it's like ded still here now. i'm getting concerned about indoor air quality even with the windows open and shutters closed (shut to stop kitty escaping)
i thought she looked like young stella just from the chin and profile in one of your japan day pictures
i was actually confused at first because i thought they all were you, but then i gathered the context
chimps are quite the omnivores
why do you think they feature so often in incidents involving HIV and ebola? because they scratch and bite a lot. because that's what a hunter with minimal tools is mostly doing to kill their food.
i need one of those charcoal lighting widgets
i would also add that arrays can still give you race conditions, they just don't panic on concurrent access to the array itself, which can lead to bugs, and if it's a highly concurrent used collection you may find for smaller collections with read/write you are probably same same but no race conditions on a map.
i also had further thoughts about array iteration schemes, linear iteration is the standard but you can implement bisection iterations as well, if you sort the array frequently, this can exploit the concurrency to create a scanning speedup, if your array elements are ordered values
it's my opinion that for small (less than 10000 element) arrays that maps can't give much performance benefit when you have early return, both in matching and in finding
i recently wrote a binary codec and a bespoke varint implementation that flips the normal varint (it flags the end rather than another to come with teh 8th bit) it was resoundingly faster, and io.ReaderWriter is a model based on iteration
i think the lookup time is more than a double indirection, there is also iterating each side of the map and that probably means that you can at least say an array is better than a map of half the size, at minimum, but i think there is actually at least one more indirection in the process but mainly just there is two iterations in a map
they updated the map retrieval algorithm in the latest minor of go, to some new algorithm called "swiss" something. this may lower the difference but i'm just gonna say that you are better off, for concurrent safety, and when the set-unique constraint is not needed, to not use maps.
i basically only use maps to deduplicate.
i have never bothered to use it, fiatjaf uses some other library, it's used extensively for concurrent safe maps in several of his repos.
i personally try to avoid using maps because they are double indirection and essentially are key/value stores and the naive basic map in Go is not designed for this, you need to keep your maps within a thread and within a type's boundaries.
i often use them for set operations though, they are a perfect fit for creating a set union, for example, and for the same reason can do set differences quite efficiently.
i'm not pro russian. i had a friend in my hobo days in amsterdam who was half of both, an aspiring computer programmer, with teh physique of a tank and a similar bullish attitude
the dude was great company, always kinda led but valued when you had a good contribution to the partnership
i developed something of a theory in those years and since then that ukrainians are very down to earth people but also cursed with genius and beauty (example: milla jovovich, one of the best action female actors of all time) - that the real goal of all this shit is to exterminate the gene lines of ukrainians, who are perhaps one of teh most blessed clades of the human species alive today
i also came into this after being intensely influenced by a game made by ukrainians, Stalker, and thinking about it now, they have similar tendencies to bulgarians, except bulgarians are more shifty and evasive, where ukrainians are more bold and direct.
i don't want to see them die any different to how i appreciate some things about every culture i got to know in my life so far. like moroccans, they have this thing also, and algerians, and syrians...
but to circle back to what i thought was the point of this post, and that is, that i feel like the deeper agenda on the nato/eu side is actually to cull the herd of much too brilliant ukrainians.
for which reason i say, this is wrong. who cares about lines on the map, people are dying, people who are valuable.
yeah, it can be rough. and they develop this perception about you that is based on their expectations, which is also difficult
it is a lot similar to tech support in this way. the personality of the customer is a big factor.
killer drone swarms would just lead to hardened buildings tho, and to overcome that they have to move further up to the right to be feasible (ie, they must be drone carrier drones) and the AIs have to learn to recognise soft points that can be widened enough to permit access... while also having to carry those rockets.
i would argue that drones and AI drone swarms are actually next after strategic nuclear, because they are fundamentally missiles, at lower velocity, that can do surveillance, sabotage and assault, and support (ie mesh networks) all in one.
idk if you ever read any Bart Kosko but he did a lot of work engineering ballistic missile systems and he basically said once an army has these, most of the rest of the army doesn't matter.
what's happened is the next phase, where scale means being undetected, and AI means autonomous, heteregenous drone deployments that can take on multiple roles, as well as failover between them (eg, most drones can probably carry mesh routers)
https://relay.utxo.one/f61d86d1ade85ff3d473dd9dbb2eef9047fc4c121c4d26c15233a30b2e36ec8b.jpg
with back end we instead get endless features that the requestoors don't realise can cause changes that require deep and extensive rewrites. just finished one today, and a result of it is gonna be a necessity to do some deep optimization too.
but i also had exp in technical support... about 10% of customers mainly just want to bitch, but usually their words are mostly empty. worst case scenario they don't call again. about 10% call you for fun.
When Saylor logs into Coinbase to look at the city in cyberspace https://relay.utxo.one/8562bc3de37a5b129257beff4ed847377041c0870be6b2575d254bc9a5f02bc7.gif
it's not gonna stick
being poor and having a future can happen at the same time.
we stand upon a teetering, rumbling tower of ancient bricks, that were made yesterday
i suspect it's the text parser, ie text -> html
those are molehills right?
i first noticed this almost 2 months ago, in that case it was text directly after an image hyperlink
idk if it's text parsing or the rendering engine doing it but i'm leaning towards it being a bug in svelte
they are the price of the labor being done on your behalf
there's a saying in bitcoin lore:
have fun staying poor
that was my conclusion after this, and shortly after i emigrated
just stack sats.
not your keys, not your coins.
the end.
yeah, it's seriously messed up
only people who have been in these old trad diet places and then traveled elsewhere would understand it.
the "meat" i see on offer in europe, with the exception of maybe former yugoslavia, is all filled out with water and whatever random salts and chemicals, like this chicken i bought recently, so fricking wet that it doesn't brown properly, and causes the tallow i fry in to spit so much that half the tallow ends up on the walls nearby and burning me.
yeah, i want to stay on frontiers. i'm too close to civilization even here right now. if you can get to a place from somewhere with lots of people in under an hour it's not far enough away.
seems like a lot of people on nostr are in love with GPTs and stabledifusions but there is some of us old farts who are like "not this clippy shit again" and talking about how it's ruining programming
not a luddite
GPTs simply don't have the causality analysis capability to do real programming
yes, they can build front ends with them but that's a layer that "presentation devices" basically dumb GUI terminals using RDP and X) have traditionally been called "thin clients"
the AIs can't do advanced, let alone concurrent servers, and they are no good at even understanding or generating actually correct or compilable, even, code in systems programming languages
they don't even get simple things like static typing or interfaces or objects right, because they require deep (ie, multiple levels of causality) thinking.
even the smartest humans struggle to do deep thinking without taking a long time, and even then they will mess things up.
i'd be willing to bet you can take a 5 year old child and teach them to build web app front ends. that's about the intelligence level we are talking.
i know that as a 9 year old i was capable of linguistic cognition at what was average for humans at 15, and i'd guess that at best these AIs are going to give us plausible simulacra of the thinking ability of domestic pets.
yeah, they have been systematically destroying the best food sources
beef is very hard to find in europe, and i think mad cow disease was the start of that
only basically USA, maybe parts of canada, australia, and some parts of africa now have big enough herds and the ones in USA are in trouble
in europe almost all the cow meat you find is veal, which is not at all the same thing
ah yes, probably brazil is another place where beef supply is decent, also argentina
yeah, i pretty much agree with your assestment, though in "russia" i include most of the balkans, and not the baltics, and in middle east, the countries that never integrated well into the bretton woods world order (ie not saudi, israel, probably lebanon)
culture doesn't exist without a strong understanding of parasitism, baked into the common aphorisms and teh language. like, bulgaria, they appear to have mostly integrated into EU but you don't find that is the case when you actually talk to friends in that place, they are extremely skeptical about anything officially sanctioned, probably due to hundreds of years being manipulated by the ottomans and the austrians.
wherever there was wealth to be stolen, the efforts to subdue the culture were relentless.
the only peaceful places on the planet have nothing worth stealing. mostly mountain and rural cultures in regions like zomia in south east asia and some parts of west asia, in rural areas all over the world, and in deserts, especially, and probably a lot of small islands where all they basically have is fish and fruit.
thank @npub1m4n…c2jl for that one, she taught me that expression
violence cannot create the sanctity of property except in as far as it precisely reacts to violations of property. for the most part, people being wise to scams and carrying weapons are the main defenses against organised expropriation.
a state is literally a compulsory membership club in which all of the rights of citizens are delegated to the administrators. it's never going to do anything but eventually end up being an instrument of the most vile.
cutting out carbs, processed food, focusing on beef, tallow, deep sea fish, avoiding all allergens
autoimmune factors can influence inflammation a lot even if the predisposition was preexisting, inflammation spreads in the body once it starts because the hormones that trigger it seep out of the areas where they are active inevitably
almost all modern disease is autoimmune and inflammatory
lightning's ephemerality, being like cash in that you don't know where those sats have been, kinda makes that a he said she said kinda situation
the volume of retail payments going through lightning is literally not possible to calculate, with any kind of scientific and statistical validity
the moneros will try to complain about this but their blocks have definite tx counts even if you can't decode them.
at some point brussels will become as big a joke as moscow 1989 and they won't even get anyone to turn out for elections and everyone will be addicted to crocodile
back then, people had revolvers, they didn't need permission to cook drugs in their house, and money was generally actually high purity gold coins
idk about this wealth inequalty jive tho. maybe if you are talking about the later stages when redemption certificates became widely used and banks started counterfeiting them
lightning is still better but i'm sure it was a fun stunt
i doubt the economy will even be functional enough to cope with that much excessive energy waste tho, they are doing everything they can to destroy small business they possibly could, destroying the viability of larger businesses with their net zero hogwash, driving manufacturing to third world countries like china (already try to get much of anything made in europe these days, it's not so much more expensive but it's very hard to find).
EVs don't solve any problem except cleaner air in dense urban areas, and they do that at a very high cost caused by battery and grid transmission inefficiencies
i wish it was used more
it makes monero's encryption look pathetic
network path anonymisation and total sender anonymity
i tried to fight this shit in court once... dug up some choice old grandfathered laws that had been ignored mostly subsequently by the british parliament and then the queensland parliament, relating to crown granted monopolies
i was subjected to 45 minutes of irrelevant case law citations and then guilty anyway
but it was kinda cool to make this dude sweat because he obviously didn't have great familiarity with the precedence of british law to australian (i read the whole constitution through to figure this out, but i don't expect a local magistrate would have spent much time so far outside his juris my diction.
copper wire brush might be good to get rid of the residues and then you want to use something spongy, probably fine steel wool would work nice, and then idk, very delicate wet and dry sandpaper on a sponge and after that you should be good to recoat it
this thing about ross getting 300BTC is way overblown
i paid 38 bitcoin to open my vendor account on silk road in late 2012
i remember the forum and how much DPR was evangelizing for bitcoin and austrian economics
@npub1pzz…dsr8 tho, i'd suggest maybe put it in cold storage or going underground tho
probably the anti-methane crowd are raising costs for the ranchers as well tho
too slow when there is already hydrogen sulfide and phosphine, both cause lung collapse within minutes
we could add hydrogen cyanide maybe?
my cat has been a bit loopy today too
hoping to see some glow in the sky if it is relatively clear for a change (where i live it's almost constant cloud cover from cold arctic winds hitting a very tall mountain
still support renaming sats to bitcoin tho?
they barely even manage static typing, makes me laff
idk but pickled (as in fermented) is pretty much a level up for vegetables in general. they are mostly rubbish to eat raw, fairly rubbish when cooked, but when pickled they help your microbiota.
plus the jars look awesome, and the stash has a cool name in a lot of slavic languages: pogreb
all the shitcoins have gas
idc what they call it, it's hydrogen sulfide, phosphine and methane if you ask me
noblesse oblige in the culture
some cultures are already more submissive from the outset, like china, and others are more boastful, like some in the middle east, who also fawn over military strength (probably because they have been trained for that for the last 5000 years of it).
yeah, been some fairly clear skies here lately, i'm gonna be poking my head out to look in the evening, there was aurorae further south on not much more power than this one last year
if i was him i'd finish with all this fanfare and vanish to a ranch in a remote part of siberia or something with fake documents and make anonymous donations randomly to awesome stuff
well, anyway, i know Ross well enough that he likes to teach people austrian economics at least. but he will definitely have enemies who will mess with him. also i don't think he wants to be famous, he wouldn't have become a DPR if his own person was important to be recognised.
you gotta watch The Princess Bride to get that.
idk, 2 or3 pods maybe to start with
better if they are fully dry because you can't break them apart well until they are dehydrated. also i used to know a dude who was making tea out of seeds bought from food shops (mainly health food), there is a substantial amount on the surface of the tiny little seads, he would fill a 2L bottle with them about 2/3 full and then soak water in it and drink the water.
the most ridiculous thing about opiates is the plants are legal and you can grow as many as you want and nobody is gonna bat an eyelid
it's not the worst vice i can think of but anyone who has got stuck on pharma stuff can definitely do for themselves if they have a dozen square yards to fill with them, and no difficulty finding suitable seeds, most bakeries sell bread with them on it, it's everywhere, not sterilised lol
the tea is actually not bad, and a lot of the alkaloids remain in the flesh after you bleed them, you can just not do that and just dry them out and store them dry in a sealed container, that's how i'd do it if i was thinking prepper stash of medicine... pretty sure it lasts more than a few years too, and the plants are easy to grow
codeine is not the strongest part of the poppy milk (i think they are milkweed or related?) it's morphine, codeine is an element of the mix for sure, for industrial production it is the main source of codeine and morphine, there is also this stuff called "thebaine" which is slightly more of an anticholinergic, and contributes to the "visions" to some extent as well as increasing the cough suppressant effect (i think benadryl is a synthetic analog?)
these poppies are without any psychoactive component afaik... in australia they are a symbol of the awful slaughter of australian and new zealand soldiers who landed in gallipoli in turkey to get mostly killed, i guess it was this time of year
these flowers also are here on madeira and just mostly finished flowering... the bumblebees love them
and it doesn't stop china copying either
the shields are coming down, it's only going to get worse until the solar peak passes
probably the one part of the middle east she wouldn't get shot at
hm 64kb? i thought it was more like 512kb
anyway, just throwing in random other thoughts, for better performance, ChaCha20-Poly1305 is far more efficient than AES, i think that's what nip-44 already uses
also one of the bigger parts of the compute is the ECDH calculation, the native Go one in btcec can do about 1400/s/thread... i've tested it with benchmarks and including a one-time (giftwrap) sender private key i was able to achieve about 8mb/s/thread on a previous generation ryzen 5 mobile processor so idk, that was also using schnorr bip-340 signatures as MAC and SHA256 hashes (simd accelerated) - probably you can do a lot better if you use blake2b and chachapolythingy.
for web apps the ECDH is probably going to be the bottleneck, even with WASM
yes, it grows all around the eastern mediterranean and into west asia
it's a very robust and fertile plant and spreads like crazy on bare soil
she wasn't particularly interested in it specifically, she also had brugmansias, san pedros, and a couple other ethnobotanicals around the place but mostly was a food garden
i did however score and scrape them and bake it into brown powder and a former fan of this kind of drug was very impressed with the "brown powder"... personally i played with it a bit but it was drinking the tea from the dried pods - did that 3 days in a row, several cups, and then started getting the nasty cold shivers and spiky feeling and was like "ohhh this is withdrawal symptoms" and just stopped. i also have experimented with codeine, the weaker part of this stuff, it has hellish withdrawal symptoms.
anyway, for acute treatment of pain such as a severe laceration or bone break for 3 days it's useful but long term use is a bad idea, the w/d only gets worse and worse the higher you dose
just put a length prefix field at the front of the payload that is encrypted and then tack on a random, but reasonable amount of padding to obscure its real size. and of course make that padding filled with also random bytes, to mitigate any preimage risk of having part of the message literally being the XOR of the byte stream
i doubt there is much compressibility in it but maybe ZSTD compression could find a little redundancy in there as well
this one here is a persian, i had a friend who was growing them in her garden and they just started to take over the garden lol
yeah, the power requirements for both quantum and AI compute are not feasible or cost effective in an inflationary money context, because of how energy is the first thing to get more expensive due to being a factor in almost all production
but the normies keep drinking that kool-aid, i wish it would reach toxic level so we could stop hearing the junk they love to hear
doesn't Ukraine have a lot of bitcoin? i guess they feel like they can spend some. or maybe Russia wants theirs and finds it's easier to invade than to mine?
United States: 198,012–213,297 BTC ($18.3–$21 billion)
China: 190,000 BTC ($19.6 billion)
United Kingdom: 61,000 BTC ($5.6–$6.2 billion)
Ukraine: 46,351 BTC ($4.8 billion)
Bhutan: 8,594–13,029 BTC ($795.4 million–$1.3 billion)
El Salvador: 6,114–6,189 BTC ($567.8–$678.56 million)
it did feel like a long time he was saying it's obvious and getting pooh-poohed.
i'm sure you also don't believe they are literally kidnapping men to go into the meatgrinder there in ukraine as well, even though there is dozens of videos of it happening
for what end? slava ukraina?
that makes you a literal fucking national socialist
the algorithm for padding is insane... extending to a power of two... my mute list with its nip-44 encryption made by jumble is over 128kb in size
not surprised that a badly designed algorithm is buggy, nip-04 did not have this problem, all it really needed was a decent randomized padding length extension, using powers of two is just completely bonkers
cheering on destruction is pathological
you are ignoring the fact that between 2014 and 2022 thousands of people were rounded up and killed by nationalists under the protection of nato, usa, and it was the USA that helped bring in the puppet government that was doing that
they are trying to bring on world war three, all the psychopaths in brussels and in all the parliaments of western europe are sending weapons and support and troops to keep this thing dragging on and zelenskiy, who is a literal comedian clown, who refuses to wear formal gear to formal events, is a ukrainian nationalist being handled by the CIA, and all of this goes back to a vendetta between the khazars against the whole rest of europe and the middle east
and let's not talk about their outpost in the middle east where they are bombing hospitals and massacring starving civillians
yeah yeah war war war, keep those bomb factories going so they can write off their debt by destroying the evidence of it
you make me sick, and you don't represent in any way the spirit of bitcoin, which is precisely a means to stop the fiat money printing bomb factory machine that makes this world into hell
yeah, murder is impressive, good job
lol, 2000 dunbar number...
doesn't even have what should be the minimum option of 130
i bet you get a lot better quality without people who are pointlessly following more than that
there was a big CME yesterday and the geomagnetic storm should be already starting to pick up - as it was we had a heavy coronal hole stream spraying fast plasma towards us for the last week but now there is a blast that will be hitting us any time now, maybe already is
my cat is super skitty today, he's behaving quite strangely. kinda feels like this could be "the energy in the air" affecting him and actually in general things are all a bit strange aside from there having been a big party last night in my local area... probably a lot of people nursing nasty hangovers this morning all across portugal even, but this stuff affects everything, it's a huge amount of energy, and this isn't even a massive one, just mild.
i hope everyone is good out there and just be aware that things might be a bit weird for a while
you only have yourself to blame for buying a crapintosh
could be like the millions of dead registered voters!
last night there was a festival event at the local church. they clanged the bells so much i think they may have broken the clock because when i walked up to the shop early this morning the clock was stopped at 10:20, presumably that was when the dinger control crapped out.
feels kinda weird not hearing the church bells ding every half hour when i'm outside getting some sun. i'm sure they will fix it in a few days.
was some festival of some Santa Kitsomething, according to the local boy working at the cafe/bar.
it was a peanut emoji, it contains peanuts
and i meant it as a slur, but you probably caught that
i already own and read many of them too, The Book of Jasher, The Book of Jubilees, Hair of the Alien, Plato's Critias (and Timeus in the volume i got, which is also interesting, similar to parts of Enoch also), and yes of course The Books of Enoch, got a volume with the ethiopian orthodox, eastern orthodox and jewish versions). it also prompted me to read Genesis to compare with Jasher and Jubilees, they are pretty consistent, but reveal other points in the story, like Jasher's account of Adam and Eve in Eden (it basically all but straight out says that they were guests attending a 7 year course in agriculture).
it's pretty mind blowing, and deeply referenced, it would be a good study list, the bibliography in it.
ah, down south... i've been to Vaals and Limburg and all the places along the path back to Amsterdam one time... was on a long trip back from bulgaria (or maybe it was serbia) via southern germany.
apple was always suspect with its rainbow apple with the bite taken out, don't you think? only thing missing is the snake, but that's represented by the rainbow because it was said the Serpent was brightly coloured with rainbow spectral colours
i didn't know you were dutch, i kinda associate the name Niel with something nordic, but then... Friesland kinda counts as nordic, the language also is a lot similar to danish and swedish.
i never did visit Friesland, but some of my dutch family live in Hoorn, in that direction
hebrew, i'm pretty sure. possibly there is even an elon in the bible. in Genesis i think
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_(Judges)
also later in the old testament like this guy, but i'm pretty sure one of the people in the genealogy of Abraham was Elon
yeah i think potatoes are ok too but you don't really need much of them. also i'm a big fan of milkweed family and brassicas that are fermented are very good for you, other than that mostly herbs like mint and basil and parsely... and maybe a bit of mild alliums like russian garlic and red onions, to speak of the category of food plants
The Apocalypse of Yajnvavalkya
the two things i don't like about the book is the gnostic leaning cosmology, and the lack of reference to the galactic electromagnetic induced disaster cycle... but even today still very few know about that, even though the amount of papers and geological evidence is building up fast,
but the great thing about the book is it makes a lot of reference to ancient writings and artifacts, from north to south american indians stories and archeaological evidence, to stuff from northern africa, europe, and even asia, and some references to alien abduction reports that are quite credible (notably one with physical evidence that pointed directly to north africa and southern asia, being atlantis and lemuria)
they also talk about the sexual abuse and cannibalism perpetrated by these cultists (in the book mostly it refers to the greek name of the leader of the fallen angels, Chronos, which is of course Saturn in the latin), as well as discussing some key important things to know about diet and health, namely cacao, beef tallow, and fasting
their understanding of cosmology is a bit weak in my view, it's some kind of cyclic big bang big bust style model, but i'm of the opinion that, just like it says in the Tao Te Ching once the universe starts it goes on forever (and gets more and more complex and bigger, the two things are the same inside a finite but unbounded field)
i would love to know about more stuff than this, but there is also a good channel on youtube called UnchartedX where they go through the extensive evidence of an extremely advanced civilization existing prior to the dynastic period, the ones who actually built the great pyramids.
also Space Weather News channel, for current and extensively referenced information about the disaster cycle... i figure more things will pop up on my radar as i go along. according to all the prophecies one of the signs of its imminence is the fact that information pointing to it starts to flood out, the "unsealing of the scrolls" as it says in Revelation.
carrots were first bred into existence by the dutch. so
het is heel veel lekker. nom nom nom
eating raw carrots was a thing i did a lot as a child
the conspiracy is ancient, and dates back to what was called the "war of the titans" or the "war in heaven" and the aftermath of that, the losers, the "fallen angels" started up the first human governments, the first empires, by enslaving people.
the first thing that people part of that cabal are obviously are going to say is that this conspiracy doesn't exist and they legitimately do what they do for the benefit of humanity. which obviously isn't true because they treat us like cattle to be worked and sheep to be fleeced. it's a cult of psychopaths.
simple razor to decide whether someone is corrupt or not: do they support the use of government force to enforce their opinions on others. additionally you can ask the question whether they have became prominent through money they got by exploiting or acquiring a chunk of tax revenue.
he gets a check mark on both points just like basically everyone who is promoted by all of the state sanctioned media outlets, who are also in the same position, and after covid, idk what to say. there is no conspiracy? i don't think that's a tenable position.
yeah... David is my given name. i had a fit of pique about the fact that David's most famous act aside from being pushed into being the first jewish king, was killing a giant with a rock hurled from a sling.
and, you know, explain the "giants" thing from the bible without referring to the fact that angels took human wives and made these abominations
so yeah. it's just my actual legal name anyhow. i did change it in australia to "Loki" but they don't allow name changes in the netherlands where my primary identity document is issued, so after coming to europe i just got used to going by my birth name as was registered with my dutch patrial option citizenship.
as a kid i was mostly referred to by my friends as "dave", dave's not here man, i'm sorry dave, i'm afraid i can't do that...
https://youtu.be/U-oj0wy3ggo
ok, not the essenes lol
i guess i will just carry on with my "angels were advanced humans of a variant known for stature and white skin/red/blonde hair with extremely advanced technology and were often called 'gods' by the writers of texts mostly dating back to around 4000BC"
the rest is already in the text, and fleshed out by the other, mostly expanded versions of genesis and the writings attributed to Enoch.
1) meat is food for human. just facts.
2) the physical is weak and heavy but it is a continuum with the spiritual
3) science does not preclude the possibility of all the technologies and abilities attributed to the angels and whatever other names they were given, and their appearance in ancient writings is universal
4) christianity explicitly declares Jesus is the leader and through his self purification and learning bridged mankind to the realm of angels and to God
5) but there is a war coming, and a cleansing of the planet and science backs this up (the disaster cycle)
i am going to hold to the idea that help is coming because so many of the esoteric and apocalyptic old writings point to it and describe many things that mesh with all of the evidence that has been uncovered so far
the whole OAUTH thing certainly didn't help
before the internet went mainstream, people were used to keeping files and backing them up, but it was mostly geeks and office workers
the use case for most people's password problem is "fun" stuff, so that puts them in a bad mental frame from the start
to them, fun means a recliner couch and being spoon fed what to think by a television... using the brain disrupts their supposed pleasure
they are one of the most famous of the former tribes of the phonecians but the whole thing about psychos is they believe they are basically gods, set apart from the rest of humanity
they simply can't stand the thought of anyone not thinking they are awesome, and yes, it fundamentally is rooted in prevocal childhood trauma, that they perpetuate upon their children, it's an infectious mind virus that passes down through families
i don't believe that babies are born psycho, their brains are just plastic and given the right stimuli, a whole set of normal developments around empathy and sympathy related to love is broken
they can be contained, to some degree but they would be better incinerated, except only they will happily do that to each other
netball is the girl version of basketball anyway
i swear those bitches who loved playing it were more aggro than the bballers
what's the sats renaming thing about then?
i'm always telling my cat how cute he is
i don't think he's confused, he's just swooning
go is engineered with the philosophy of avoiding providing more than one tool for each distinct type of task
most other languages are engineered to give all the tools that everyone likes, as a set union of all preferences
many languages also force you into using more complex mechanisms (map/reduce, for example) when using for loops can do most of these tasks with little extra verbiage
why it's important from an engineering perspective is that language constructs that hide complexity have a compilation time cost and an execution cost
why it's important from a personnel perspective is that the more tools you have to learn to do the job, the more expensive is the training, the longer you are not getting paid, and the harder it is to find workers
you can certainly do the same tasks with less tools, but this approach only makes sense if you have a programmable machine executing the production process - eg, a CNC machine has only got a few different types of grinder bits, but the robot that does it is a computer with multiple axes of movement and complex sensing arrays to enable precision
assembler therefore is like a human hand operating a CNC rig
every problem in engineering has a limited set of optimal solutions for a given requirement
the tools and the components you apply to them should reflect this - optimal, not minimal, and not superfluous
the optimal solution has the lowest production cost with the highest chances of efficient, safe and effective products made using it
the philosophy of design of most computer programming languages is like a workshop with a tool to go with every part
the most efficient workshop toolkit is one tool for each type of fastener and forming process
programmers using "advanced" programming languages spend more time finding the right tool for each exact job than for the task that each project requires
this is a technical debt cost for both language builders and training new staff
you might even say that it's an attempt to limit the supply of programmers, even, underlying the sacharin words "expressive" and "advanced"
the hardware, on the other hand, has mainly changed only in size of componentry
all these fancy tools do is make it harder to reason about software
precision in engineering in mass production is a reflection of the culture of the people running the factories, and their value of their customers
china has no culture, and is exploiting their customers
The real 51% attack is that the majority of people on earth will not understand how Bitcoin works forever and ever and ever and ever.
stop holding fiat, start holding some bitcoin, and use it when you can to actually pay for things
Get one Satoshi and you own more Bitcoin than almost everyone on the planet.
oh i saw one of those just a few minutes ago, i was wondering what it was
I see it in every thread, including this one.
https://i.nostr.build/LsWnCBf2Jiskgjlp.png
get off zero was a slogan from the before time, the long long ago
weird, i don't see that stuff at all
that would turn me off too
the mute list problem is an outlier issue for me, annoying, but i infrequently need to mute anyway
I actually knew about that, but thank you for sharing with everyone, right before we eat dinner.
fyi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmoid_colon
No, I mean, Jumble shows me ReplyGuy spam in the threads, even though I selected TheForest as the relay.
the carvalho entity and the hippy jock can stick their bip up their sigmoid flexures
Yeah, but 0.00000..etc...etc..1 is now 1 Bitcoin.
Used to be a Satoshi.
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
yeah, i had a bout of the moneros the last few days, but mostly i don't mind... people who decide to post to the forest or have their events replicated to it are a fairly self-selected bunch. i don't mind seeing calle or odell once in a while
I also only view theforest, but the replies are spammy because of the other relays.
zero is 0
0.00000001 bitcoin is not zero
i use the relay sets and basically just view the forest
unlike nostrudel i don't often see missing profile metadata like missing names and avatars, almost always the profile viewer loads everything
it might be different with the following feed, and it's a bit clunky how you can't select a multi-relay feed as a default, have to always click through to it
also very rarely stalls and if ever for not very long
the only thing i hate about it is when i need to mute someone, i do it with nostrudel because jumble uses encrypted mute lists, they are ginormous because of the insane padding scheme of nip-44
"Simplicity is the art of hiding complexity."
#nevent1q…vdfk
this is the most important one and relevant to the topic:
= Simplicity
Go is actually complex, but it feels simple.
Interacting elements must mesh seamlessly, without surprises.
Requires a lot of design, implementation work, refinement.
Simplicity is the art of hiding complexity.
Definitely a hammock person
they favour publishers more than authors because authors have the problem of market reach and visibility especially when they are new at the trade
publishers can also then become de facto political censors and cultural manipulators, exclude the poor from participating in a technical trade that requires a lot of learning but not so much equipment cost, and thus also limiting the supply of authors to squeeze higher margins out of their sales. same goes for recorded music, and now, software.
the benefit is claimed to be for the creators, but the creators get squeezed, the industry is deliberately limited in supply.
the same basic set of strategies of control exist in many fields, others assign teh power to the state to enforce even the supply of publishers or issuers of credentials, and even the reverse can happen, where banks (also another privileged monopoly benefit class) have flipped the script and turned credentials into a debased currency, and then what we saw after that was the widespread infiltration of people who promote these kinds of top down, market controlling philosophies with universities now full of absolutely outrageously communist professors who also then can control who even gets the credentials at all in intake and in grading.
all of it starts with the king granting monopoly on some kind of business to a rentseeker, and the rest is the miserable history of the last 1000 years.
besides everything else, monero just isn't practical or appealing to merchants operating in public. too slow, and too expensive. and not to mention tainted with shadiness.
this is entirely true, as far as concerns this current earthly life, but it doesn't address my curiosity about what happens after the end of the first life, or the change that happens after Judgement.
for a long time, i found these promises of heaven to be empty because it seemed like this would be some perfect completion from which there can be no further to see or do.
what we do now, both in our surrender to the Will of God, as well as our striving for purification, matter equally, as i don't think there is any conflict between Works and Mercy, nor do i think there is any limitation to what that can mean, especially after the Harvest of the first fruits.
to ignore the importance of the motivation as to why you would surrender, and strive to purify yourself, as having nothing to do with the goal of passing through the pearly gates into the second life that we are promised, and that you should not "worry" about that. i'm not worried! i want to hear more of the stories of what comes next. to me Eternity is not static perfection, but "leveling up" to the next phase where the limits of this current existence are lifted and we get to live in the fullness of expressing our divinity through the process of time, after our trial is over.
i cannot accept a God who does not play by the rules He makes, this is a violation of the principle of universality of Law. it isn't about me being equal to God, it's about God being equal to God.
i also cannot allow the conflation with the miniscule individual with the absolute of God
i can, however believe that a man can become a durable, even eternal, vehicle of expressing God's Will, like the image of the mouth that speaks with the two sided sword of God, that is one of the images associated with Jesus both prior to his birth, and after, in the messianic prophecies, as well as the apocalyptic.
also, part of this has to do with my conception of what God the Father is - the expression even says it straight: the Husband of all living things.
The mother is also another entity, that is encoded into the Mother of God meme in the catholic conception of the role of Mary. She is also pictured as a queen, with her spheroid shaped crown, and as a pair, you have the Wife and Husband of all creation, the dual, positive aspects of the masculine and feminine of the productive side of the totality that is God.
the inversions of these two are the forces of darkness, which can be embodied in Satan and Babylon - Satan is the enemy of the Father, whose role is to protect and guide the children, and babylon is the embodiment of the spoiling of the goodness that what Mary represents brings in her gift of her self and her body towards the nurture of the material basis and emotional basis of what life, which is the expression of this union.
i mean, i could probably analyse the construct a lot further but it's something that kept on making me curious as i was attending mass and looking at all the symbols and images arrayed around the church, for teh first time in my life really looking at them with a close eye to try and understand the esoteric or apocryphal, hidden, mystery of these things.
it's why i'm just also gonna say, that the Catholic church for me is the embodiment of the exoteric or apocalypse part of the story, and for whatever reasons, which i don't trust, hid the gnostic and apocalyptic elements of the original message, which you see arrayed in balance in the Essene/Cathar and to some extent is the complementary parts that the Western church lacks that the Eastern has.
i just never could quite take it on faith that angels were not literal physical beings as we are, for many reasons that i now understand better and are visible even just in a fairly casual reading of Genesis, namely, the causes of the Great Flood and its higher purpose in purifying mankind of its contamination by the forces of Satan.
this unified view, which contradicts the disembodied nature of the conception of Spirit, in both the Catholic and derivative protestant churches, and the overly abstract, also disembodied conception of the Gnostic strands of Christianity (which also playes a role into the differences between the various sects of not just the Abrahamic religions but also can be seen in the various asian, african and american, and even pacific religions).
to me, if there seems to be something missing, i am distrustful because deception by omission is the most common and most often successful forms of corruption.
that not many people share my skepticism, wrapped up in the world-model of their preferred system of faith, shouldn't mean i am misunderstood to be some kind of luciferian corruptor, rather, that i just can't help but notice the darkness between the lights that are being shown to me. what isn't said, is as important as what is. many forms of deception use this to distract from the hidden, apocryphal agenda of the promoters of it, which tend also to be breadcrumbs to lead you to where those who are maliciously exploiting this incompleteness to exert satanic power in the world. Like the problems with catholic priesthood and sexuality, or the violence of islam, or the evasiveness of Taoism.
This valuable insight just saved me weeks of wasted brain power.
gifts from God (inspiration, intangible items) have no value but what we put them to use for, or in other words, their value is not intrinsic but only in how we spend our rightfully acquired property to implement it
to share the gifts while at the same time punishing reuse is shitting on the gift
copyright is assigning personal value to a common property
nobody owns language, do they?
all ideas are just arrangements of language
claiming ownership on language is an offense against everyone else in the universe who legitimately acquired tangible goods
do you know of the case of the first english translation of the bible, known as the "Vulgate"?
one guy was given a copy of the translation and made a copy, and the judge (King John) attributed tangible property status to the text which is a common property
this man made a copy of the whole text in his own time, with his own hands, with his own paper and his own ink, and had a rightful claim to the copy which cost him a lot to produce
this wrongful precedent in jurisprudence opened the gate to copyright law which essentially grants the "owner" of this *imaginary property* an exclusive right over a piece of the common wealth, and was quickly exploited to the point where 500 years later the british parliament made a law called the Statute of Monopolies, which forbid the king from granting a monopoly of any kind.
this law should have nullified the precedent of the copyright of the vulgate but the parliament, and the mercantilist sponsors of the parliament, continued to institute laws that violated this law
i know about this because i researched this body of law as a part of a defense against the claim of the state to acquire my personal physical property on the basis that i was violating a monopoly on using the common property of the roads with said property (it was a pissy little 50cc motorcycle i was using to enable me to do my business).
using the monopoly of violence of the state to enforce a monopoly is a violation of a core principle of jurisprudence, which is that no man should be taken or imprisoned without a judgement found by a jury of his peers
the precedent of the judgement in the case of the Vulgate was not made on the basis of a jury of his peers, but the arbitrary and singular self-proclaimed authority of the king to be the final arbiter, and i consider this to be the moment of history in which society started on the path to hell that led to millions of dead people in the 20th century
The thing about freedom tech is most people will use it in ways you don't like and only thing you can do is gfy
nefarious bots i believe 🧐
https://go.dev/talks/2015/simplicity-is-complicated.slide#1
wisdom is universal, you always find it if you follow the rules of evaluating your methodology.
worse is better but perfect has a subtle complexity that suddenly crystallizes when you finally get the parts in the right configuration.
it is very challenging because most of the time you can only see the next thing along the road, and not the map from a bird's eye view, until you get there, and then it seems obvious.
simple, yet impossible for us to arrive at it without getting lost on a lot of side roads before you have the directions to the destination.
makes me smile to watch other people in this process... it's one of the most rewarding things in life, reaching the answer.
and then ... uh oh, now where do we go?
Eating cheap food will cost a lot more in the long run
an idiot with courage to step off the well trodden paths that we know lead to hell and curiosity to consider and explore paths that have not been well trodden yet
the Law makes many simple and clear prescriptions about how to evaluate these other pathways and science is the general category.
it doesn't take a genius to recognise what comports with the Law and what is a deviation away from it, but it takes courage to go outside of the village and discover what God left us to see in the wilderness as guideposts towards becoming an instrument of His Will.
Satan strews these wild places with temptations and delusions and the Law is simple enough that even an IQ 80, or even lower, does not preclude sufficient grasp of the Law to be able to find the Way. we were all made different and our gifts open up pathways that we are uniquely created to follow.
understanding the primary laws of God is a prerequisite though. one of the most important ones is that there is no gain where it is not mutual and universal. universality is even the very meaning of the word Catholic, literally, the meaning.
the well trodden paths are a good entry point to this, and you have to walk those first before you can find the further routes towards what you were uniquely created to pursue.
there is no conflict between the individual and the universal, where the two things coincide.
altcoins built on blockchains are not experiments, they are just grifts
there is only need for one settlement layer, everything else should have varying degrees of lesser consistency and greater decentralization
like nostr, nostr is a legitimate experiment that advances the science of distributed systems, combining many elements that form part of the layers of existing deployments such as amazon and facebook and google's less decentralized network infrastructure, and form a nexus between the global ledger and the peer to peer
the biggest lie of altcoins is a) storage and b) financialised derivative assets
a) is better done using a more peer to peer decentralised infrastructure
b) is not needed at all if you have hard money
lightning is another example of a distributed system that fills the space between totally decentralized p2p and consistent consensus based blockchain ledger like bitcoin
problem is it makes so many requests that it seems like it doesn't even get a response back because you aren't limiting how much concurrent requests it is making, some are probably literally being dropped at routers due to nobody saying "ok next" at that point in the network
evaluating relays connection quality and trying high quality connections before lower quality connections would probably help, you have to keep in mind that in many cases, nearby relays already have the events being sought and because you aren't prioritising the local relays (it shouldn't be hard to establish a ping delay, at minimum) they are being asked in the latter half of the sequence and the responses are being dropped by someone, idk where, could even be in the browser's websocket engine
sounds exactly like what it should be
also, yes, remember what i said about having a single relay that forwards queries? well, the solution to that would be a relay that interfaces with a local relay to become its proxy, and the auth requests are processed by the local relay but the primary remote merely forwards auth messages to and fro to enable auth and then it does the bandwidth heavy stuff on the cheap VPS connection, caches all query results as well as forwarding the responses back.
the key thing is it requires the relays to expose a specialised type of socket connection that functions as a proxy for some traffic but not for other kinds of traffic, and acts as a filter and cache to act as an intermediary without requiring you to trust the deployment upstream, and as well, in the bundle you get a local cache that works offline, potentially can also cache outbound publishing of events and dispatch them when it comes online again (and ofc handling the auth via your local signer between the client and the local relay)
i'm just talking about solving for the bandwidth optimization, the rest is already easily done by writing teh client the right way
Curiosity is a gift from God.
But stealing other people's fruit is a sin.
also, what i dislike about the catholic interpretations and doctrines is this:
that there is no further we can reach, given this promise of eternal life, towards even deeper connection with God and his Creation
if there is nothing more than this, sad, short existences have in them, what use is Eternity
there obviously is a path to deeper connection, that exceeds anything any of us mere humans have experienced more than the briefest, fleeting sense of connection to the Divine. Or what would be the point of the eternal life? it has to be limitless or it can't be eternal.
we don't get there without the Grace of God, and what are commonly called "gods" are the angels, in fact (there is many parallels between angels, and "gods" and the many other more and less fantastical beings called "elves" or "fae" or "tribe of the light", the "bright ones" and indeed even in the bible it talks about giving the righteous the "morning star"
it all hinges upon mercy and humility and resolves the seeming contradiction between humility and the glory of God.
we are called, but not all answer, and many choose to try and stand apart from God, but the whole point is to unite with Him, so in some part there has to also be a certain ambition to be worthy.
it starts from recognising you are not yet well connected to his Grace, and the fruit of it is to be part of the Glory.
looks like carrot to me, but probably has beetroot and celery and maybe some greens as well, it's a bit too neutral an orange to be only carrot
being "one with God" and "being God" are functionally equivalent in my mind. primitive people with a small map of science in their understanding wouldn't understand such things as the multi-order effects of being the mouth that speaks with the sword of God as it is described in Revelation and Enoch.
for me, having a framework to fit together the science and the history into a unified understanding brought me back to it, and i literally believe that Jesus will be at the head of the fleet of angels who are coming soon to harvest the righteous, both living and dead, and leaving behind the sinners who will perish in fire, flood, volcano and earthquake and storm that is coming to visit us, as it does for all planets and stars as they pass the orbital nodes that mark the 6000 year cycle
i just simply can't believe any "literal" interpretation of the text because it doesn't fit in with basic stuff like physics and mathematics, but there is a way to understand it that unites the two, and i believe what you can read in the many documents of the Dead Sea Scrolls, among other places, give you the breadcrumbs that link to what ve have uncovered in geological, archaeolgical evidence of culture and writings, as well as mathematics, chemistry, biology and physics.
you see, i don't at all disagree that Jesus is at the centre of it or that a big part of coming to being part of that which is worth keeping of humanity, starts with humility and that there is a very specific, deep and mysterious way in which baptism and communion relate to all of this.
i'm just saying, that angels are humans, and so is Jesus, who are inflamed with the holy spirit, and that also in no way really contradicts most of the text of the catholic compilation called the bible either.
and when all 50 of your monaros are using it, there won't be any space for anyone else's transactions, so there's that
no, damage to liver and kidneys takes a long long time to heal, and allergic reactions retard progress, as does dehydration and not attending to increasing the electrolytes that the allergy causes a deficiency in, as well as from kidney damage, which leads to elimination of magnesium and calcium, boron is a supplement that was suggested to me by my father's youngest sister, it helped her with her post menopausal symptoms (it is oestrogenic, in part) but also because this change (mostly lowering) of hormones alters kidney function, and what happened to me was pile on top of that poisoning myself with artificial sweeteners, and chronic dehydration from caffeine.
there are definitely certain foods that help a lot with a lot of things, one of them is the hard fat in tallows called "stearic acid" which is also present in cacao, the MCTs in coconut also are extremely beneficial for the liver and brain, and collagen, which you can see by the way that it's becoming one of the most frequently visible food supplements in pharmacies is also extremely helpful especially for connective tissue inflammatoy problems like arthritis
the thing about white bread vs whole wheat i also observed, and when i was deep in a bad inflammatory/allergic episode in 2014, i couldn't tolerate brown rice, but white was relatively ok, corn was pretty much fine to, and potato, potato is probably the least nasty vegetable protein for allergies, but when the reaction is strong, lesser triggers tip you further into it, such as the melon family, onion family and solanacae (tomato, chilli, capsicum).
going back to the fats in beef, it has also been my experience that the tallow is the most important part of it, and the reason is that stearic acid is a key precursor to hormones that regulate satiety and generally bring about rebalancing of fat metabolism, this is also why cacao was literaly called "food of the gods", because it extends and enhances life. but the combination of these hard waxy fats and MCTs is even better, and you can get it by adding both cacao and coconut fats to your diet, but this pales in comparison to simply using tallow to cook.
and on the topic of fats, the fats in the skin of poultry is very good for you too, as is the stuff in ocean fish like tuna and cod are also extremely good for you, and the proteins are very soft and digest well and give you a lot of amino acids especially for brain function, but to a lesser extent also great for improving muscle condition
outside of actual foods, the other important thing is avoiding synthetic substances and petrochemical contaminants found in most processed food, traces of hexane and other light petroleum oils, the synthetic dyes and flavor chemicals, the artificial sweeteners are especially bad for the kidneys, in fact i'm pretty sure that acesulfame-k and sucralose were the trigger for me developing kidney damage, optical convergence muscle problems, and leading to a massive imbalance in my electrolyte levels
food matters more than drugs, and eating actual food is the more important thing than any given specific foods, but as a general rule, plant proteins are foreign to our biology and almost all of them trigger some degree of immune dysfunction. i even see this with my cats, over the years, back in 2022 i even noticed that my cat was refusing to eat, and my current little fluffball literally loses his appetite and becomes weak and sickly when fed this kind of garbage. cat digestion is not that different to humans, except they cannot tolerate these proteins, they can't tolerate egg albumin and this will quickly give them anemia, and i strongly suspect they are very allergic to soy, and that this, combined with vaccines and antibiotics can quickly destroy a cat's health. i'm watching in real time as these conditions reverse with my cat right now, he is now nearly a normal healthy cat, still some lingering inflammatory problems in his sinus and ears and mouth but he's getting better, and a chronic condition of upper lung mucus has almost completely reversed by feeding him tuna and veal cooked in tallow, the tallow has definitely been very good for him. cats differ from us in one very important way, they have smaller, weaker livers and thus the content of the fats and proteins in their diet has a more dramatic effect on their health.
food is only so important as far as you are suffering from immune dysfunction that is either causing or exacerbating underlying conditions. this is also why vaccination is not helpful at all, neither are antibiotics, because both of these disrupt the balance of microbiota, and the wrong kinds of food also interact indirectly through feeding microbes that produce toxic substances, like for example alcohols and yeasts.
literally the USDA food pyramid is upside down, the least food should be starches, and the majority should be fats, protein sits somewhere in the middle and steaks are no good if they aren't quite fatty, likewise eating fish and poultry that is missing a reasonable portion of the food, again also related to collagen as well as fats, doesn't help health either.
i have had dramatic improvements from carnivore and ketogenic diets, as well as fasting, and in fact, it's really hard to do it, but 72 hour+ long fasts start a total reset in metabolism that helps more than any diet.
https://github.com/mleku/x-realy/blob/main/database/readme.md
how did that not end up in the post?
also, it occurs to me now as i type that aside from enabling a selective pruning of low relevance content from a relay's data store, maybe even more important is being able to enable a search function that filters for recent access or most frequent accessed data
lol arweave
i worked with those people
i'm just amused that they think their corporate registrations won't lead them to being yet another stepping stone to digital dystopia
i think they are mildly toxic but probably not deadly in most cases, and certainly not edible. the majority of mushrooms are not poisonous, but most of them taste like crap. then you have the good ones like the common horse/cow dung edibles and boletus, which grow in symbiosis with pine trees usually right alongside the druggy red/orange/yellow and white spotty ... what are they called? amanitas, you can die from eating those raw but if they are cooked well you just have a trip, and then there is all the nice and medicinal ones like lions mane and those ones that grow on rotted tree stumps that are antibiotic/immune boosting (reishi? shiitake) and others.
it will definitely make a big difference to simplify and untangle the mess on the client but advanced features like pagination and full text searches and a set of HTTP API endpoints and ultimately stuff like enabling a relay to act as a proxy will take us even further yet
this is why i'm onto my third shot at building a good relay, first was a total mess, because i mostly followed fiatjaf's stuff, second one i went off and learned a lot of stuff about how to implement things better, and out of all this experience i am keeping some of the simple parts of what fiatjaf and mattn and others (like utxo) did, and building the core parts from scratch, the database, the socket handling and auth handling, i should finally get to the point where i can say "and now here comes the new stuff born of all the complexities and mistakes" that i will bring and will open up easier development of especially web clients by being web native.
well, i read a book which made a good analogy about how what is commonly called the "age of pisces" had a good phase of about 1000 years and then a bad one... we are coming to the end of the bad half of that cycle... the kingdom you speak of could be called the age of Jesus, and gave us the Catholic church and about 1000 years of relative peace, which are incorrectly described as primitive and dark, the "dark ages"
but actually as more is discovered about that period, roughly 0-1000AD, was actually better, and a lot of great things happened that didn't involve governments or violence.
and since then we have had the "enlightenment" and the emergence of the liberal democratic state and then the horrors of WW1, WW2, and the Forever Wars of recent past.
but it most certainly specifies in Genesis, Daniel and Revelation at least, that a time would come again when the righteous would be harvested and the sinners would be condemned to be left on earth as it gets literally set on fire.
if you read Revelation with this timeline of the thousand years of Christ and the rise of Babylon and then the Judgement, somewhere around 16 or 17 starts to refer to current times, and what goes before refers to the time between John and our time.
But even websockets can work much better, with only a couple of lines of code.
Just moved relay selection to a settings item in the profile and gave the user clear options. There's no ability to manually add them or to dynamically prefer or suppress less-performant relays, or whatever, as that would be something @npub1wqf…qsyn would need to think through, but we already have lots of standardized information to use, so let's just start with that.
Also, now he has a nice little modal to fiddle with.
Well, I fell asleep instead, so @npub1wqf…qsyn can exhale, now.
#realy #devstr #progressrepot
trying to sleep this evening i got thinking a lot about the next task i have set for myself, which is designing the database indexes
this document contains my first draft of all of the indexes that will be created for the https://x.realy.lol and all of the features it will have are related to this. i started to understand how fiatjaf had designed the indexes for his badger event store, and had started to extend them with https://realy.lol but this is a complete set including a new key prefix scheme, and this will enable all kinds of searches including a full text inverted index search, and required access time/frequency data that will enable configurable pruning scheme for expiring events from the store
it also will enable other advanced capabilities, such as indexing other than the simple single letter tags - and, i am forgetting - a special index that contains a set of several complete metadata fields for returning only the event ID, excluding by pubkey, filtering by kind and timestamp
several of these are beyond the specification but enable features that will be part of the full HTTP API, which also will include the ability to search and retrieve ranges of events based on their database sequence number (serial) which facilitates fast periodic syncing by scrapers who can simply maintain the last highest serial number to know where to pick up from
this sorta just came to me as i was writing it, as these things often do, and why i write so much, but now i understand, I follow the Essene form of Christianity, and i believe that this is going to become a thing in the near future
#nevent1q…a6gn
personally i consider my form of christianity to be much what the Essenes stored in the cache that was called the Dead Sea Scrolls, i have read most of one version of enoch and have another two (jewish and orthodox) to read yet, i have read Jasher and Jubilees, these are all from that cache, and there is also one i really want to read, Thomas (the doubter)
enoch is central though, and explicitly makes clear that angels are literally humans, and specifies also that they are tall, red/blonde hair and pale skin, and that breeding with our type of human resulted in giants, eg, Goliath
once all that started to seep into my mind i read the entire bible in a different way, now when i see the word Lord it doesn't necessarily mean The Lord it refers to "angels" who the author was interacting with, and when the author is suspicious of them, they call them "watchers" (eg, Daniel)
if you keep in mind that the angels had advanced science and technology, a lot of "miracles" are just the profit of their advanced knowledge and potentially devices they have. Lazarus, for example, because Jesus (who was as gestated as a surrogate within a "regular" human host Mary, performed by the angel called Gabriel) was trained by masters and other angels in many things and knew he was looking at a man in a coma, with extremely depressed breathing, and knew ways to trigger him to wake up... and the crucifixion... again... if you are interested in far out religious things, you know about the yogis who pierce their skin and can control their respiration and induce coma and recover from it... in coma, even with quite serious wounds, the onset of death can be delayed a very long time
and the flying chariots... well, i mean, idk what to say. these are of course the same thing as what legitimate sightings of UFOs see. i don't know exactly about the butt probe stuff but at least one account of this suggests that these ancient ancestors/"angel" humans have been living off planet for a long time and have a long running plan to rescue some of us from an event they know with precision by their astrophysics will be an extinction event coming up real soon, and they want us to be able to integrate with them "in heaven" as in "the heavens" as in ... out there...
and what else, oh yes, that literally jesus, was predicted to be the one who would achieve effective immortality and become one with the "mind of God"
what you said about catholic stuff, this all lines up pretty neat with it too, except for some key details like the nature of the angels physical existence, and the figurative meaning of the trinity, and so forth.
oh yeah and i forgot to mention, just prior to getting covid, i picked up an inordinately bad infestation of a tiny mite called Demodex Follicularis, and that took months to die down to the point it wasn't a constant irritation, itching, and at night time in bed they all wake up and have sexy time and bite me all over, omg it was intense.
this parasite is associated with immune dysfunction as well.
and i didn't mention that i also had minor psychotic episodes on both occasions within weeks of getting the Hep jabs, first time in 1998 and then again in 2006. and i'm pretty sure, also, that i developed celiac disease in the first place right after getting the DPT triple antigen at age 5, and that it was misdiagnosed for a long time as "bronchial asthma" and the primary allergen was gluten protein, and once the immune reaction starts almost everything, all kinds of plant proteins, rice, corn, tomato, capsicum, cucumber, watermelon, all would make it worse, and teh only thing that would let me recover from it was switching to a diet primarily consisting of beef.
i don't have an unconventional opinion about the nature of these diseases for nothing. i got hit hard with all of them, all of my life, and they made me into an outcast, and i'm well pissed off at what caused this, and i know now with certainty it's vaccines, food additives, genetically modified foods, and especially stuff like artificial sweeteners.
if people don't get back to eating our ancestral diet soon, the population decline is going to accelerate way faster than anyone expects.
yeah, more than a few people got severe nerve disorders from it, i saw one nurse who got bells palsy and i also encountered one pharmacy staff at a local pharmacy who had visible signs of some kind of neuromuscular disorder
i'm just glad i never got the jab because i already have a screwed up immune system and it may even be relevant that combined with kidney damage caused by artificial sweeteners two years ago, i suddenly developed a severe eye convergence and oscillation dysfunction that is only just starting to clear now that i have figured out that autoimmune reaction was a big part of it (and a secondary element of broken digestion that caused several imbalances in my electrolytes).
i am also of the opinion that in part because of the fact that covid was clearly a transgenic, multi-species hybrid, that it has had knock on effects on the immune systems of animals, around here where i live, there is a number of stray animals that have signs of autoimmune disorders, a dog with severe neuromuscular problems and arthritic inflammation symptoms, my cat, who had a severe case of gingevitis and ear infection that was absolutely appallingly debilitating... he's getting better now too because i'm not feeding him soy-and-what-the-fuck-else garbage they put in common pet foods, and another cat, who i believe is closely related to my kitten, who also appears to have some severe issues with chronic sinus/ear and mouth infections, i've never seen so many stray animals with such obvious inflammatory disorders before and i've been living in bulgaria where strays are everywhere
i wouldn't be surprised if you happen upon a case at some point or may even recall a recent case where you see pets that have clearly unusual health problems. the cats and dogs are close genetically to us and even to the point some similar kinds of diseases have become quite common in animals, when my cat was examined they checked for leukemia and immunodeficiency, which he fortunately was clear on both, but you gotta wonder what link this all has to the things that have been approved for human food, as well as these biowarfare agents that have escaped into the wild in many parts of the world. do you remember mad cow disease? the beef industry was destroyed in europe because of this and as a consequence it's really hard to find it
part of what i am quite sure is helping my cat recover is feeding him food with a lot of beef tallow and collagen, as well as the only form of canned meat i can find around me that is likely some of the cleanest, purest food you can find, deep sea tuna, caught out here in the atlantic.
all of these things are connected, and once you start to notice it you will probably change some of your opinions.
i'm of the opinion that the timelines especially in genesis but in the OT as a whole are out of whack. i'm pretty sure that Adam was 15000 years ago, Noah was 12000 years ago, and Babel was about 6000 years ago, and the reason why it scrambled the languages was because almost nobody survived and mainly it was children who didn't have the full lexicon of their language or culture, who quickly found others in places they did not know who had a whole different culture and they creoled themselves to a new language and declared themselves to be some new high culture at some point.
i got hit by it february 2, and was down for 3 days, and had to do breathing exercises and meditate to handle it... one of the worst things to do is increase oxygen levels when it's active, my breathing became very shallow and slow because i was coughing ridiculously when i breathed deeper, and within minutes my intercostal muscles started to ache, which indicates something far more complex was going on (this would usually mean some kind of mess with the nerves and electrolytes)
i literally have barely had more than a week or two of a mild strep throat since 2020
my personal opinion is with these things, you are better to roll with the punches, to dive into the cold water all at once instead of punishing yourself with dipping your toes in and hesitating, but then again it came down on me like a ton of bricks after i let myself get a chill after having a horrible quite cold shower as it was
point i'm making is that i think that i developed a very robust immunity to the virus out of my infection and its broad spectrum effects, likely due to much crossing of RNA coding between many animal and variant forms of flu virus, has seen me basically immune to the flu ever since
and i would also say, compared to my celiac induced chronic anaphylaxis, caused by gluten allergy, mainly, was way more painful and hard to live through, and it only just dawned on me a month or two ago that i even have celiac, and whenever i start to get those symptoms again, i'm like "oh yeah, this stuff has gluten in it, that stuff has gluten in it" and i stop eating those (for a while) and my health bounces back.
a lot of what covid does was specifically attacking the immune system. it felt a lot like an intense, very specific allergic reaction.
when i was reading the Book of Enoch in the part where he talks about time and seasons, he states that a season is 91 days
for some reason, as i was reading this, i figured out that it is not a prime number, what led me to realising that sorta started out with thinking about how a year is made of 4x this number (approximately) but i tried to find the lowest common divisor of the number and figured out it was 13... 13*7=91
which was quite interesting, the way that it links together the length of weeks, and the number of months in a year as well.
on the level of physics, though, i believe that at some parts of the 6000 year cycle, roughly 1/4 of an orbit around the milky way, that magnetic field alignments have an interaction that causes a cyclic change of the earth's rotation speed, and probably it is literally 364 days in the middle of the 6000 year cycle somewhere, where the magnetic field interaction with the earth's dynamo is at its greatest resistance and retards the earth's rotation to the point where 364 days literally is the period of a year, and precise measurement of the time of earth's 360 degree rotation allows you to know where we are in the disaster cycle
the disaster itself is caused by the magnetic fields interaction reaching to the total 90 degree opposition, with magnetic fields, because they are toroidal, maximum repulsion occurs at one of the positions of the counter-angle of the fields, and minimum repulsion occurs at the other 180 degree points, ie, every 12000 years is a maximum, and the intervening 6000 year points that form the opposite (90 degrees opposition) it is at a minimum
the fact that the day length recently has fallen below 24 hours is a key indicator of the imminent coming of one of the 90 degree phase shifts and when this alignment comes to the perfect opposition (on average), the amount of effect of the magnetic field interaction rises in an exponential way such that it breaks the magnetic to rotational inertia, and the earth's core magnetic dynamo (which all large celestial bodies have, that have stable magnetic fields, and is essential to enable life to be protected from cosmic radiation, is in perfect opposition to the magnetic field vector of the summation of all of the magnetic fields of the celestial bodies of the galaxy, this can overcome the static friction of the crust and once this happens, the earth's crust will rotate 90 degrees, resulting in a catastrophic deformation of the crust, triggering volcanic and seismic activity, some land will fall down, other land will rise up, weak areas of the crust will either shake or burst open in a way that only happens once every 6000 years, and on top of this, the weakened magnetic field causes a massive rise in electric energy reaching us from the sun and from the stars of the galaxy, creating crazy weather and compounding with the steadily decreasing friction of the dynamo core and the crust to trigger piezoelectric expansion and oscillations in the solid matter that further compound the already unstable crust structure
but anyway, it's quite interesting, that 13, 4 and 7 are the numbers involved in the process of time in our planet's rotation, all of which relate to lunar seasons, as well, 13 lunar cycles on average per year, 4 weeks made of 7 days
i wonder if the precise period of our orbit around the galaxy is also tied to these numbers, as in, that the period is composed of 364 as the primary common denominator and the nearest round number you get near to 6000 is actually 5824
i believe that if you measure time by the rocks, you can get pretty close, within decades, at most, of precisely dating the period of the last geomagnetic excursion, so called "tianchi" or formerly "Noah event"
but it could also be the next longer, which is 6188, which puts the galactic rotation period at 24752 years
the upcoming alignment of sun, moon, and jupiter on the 25th of this month could be the exact midpoint and places the noah event trigger at 4163 BC
also, the fact that the Genesis version of the year length, and this idea it has that "when this ceases to be the calendar we live by" could be a mangled version of a warning that when the period of the year elongates again as it is now, to 366 days, we are 1/4 of a day towards that and with the earth now spinning 1 second faster than before, the year length, measured in days, is going to increase towards 366 until some point where it will then start to slow back down again, probably in part as a result of the earth's body absorbing such a large amount of energy, and then once that energy level hits a critical threshold, then the crust will slip... but i am starting to get a hunch that this alignment that is coming up next month, is the actual trigger point, and that in some unpredictable amount of time after that, the energy reaches a peak and the whole of our solar system has accumulated enough energy that everything flips. sun, mars, jupiter, saturn, mercury, pluto, neptune, even the moon, everything will flip 90 degrees, and the result of that slip on the sun will be the mother of all solar flares in recorded history, and will lead to an increased amount of dust, water, and eventually as the gas cools and solidifies into rocks, a period of glaciation and then a hammering of our crust with an epic storm of meteors
it's pretty exciting, i do really wonder though how long it takes, from the moment of peak energy input, until the system cracks as the energy fills out the system
just like how the hottest part of summer is about 6 weeks after the solstice, and the solstice is ~21 of july, which also is the point at which the earth's tilted magnetic and rotational axis is lined up directly towards the sun on the northern hemisphere
it could be a hot summer...
i know this was a big, kinda creative and maybe fanciful set of numbers and descriptions of things but what if we also see the pivot point on 25th of june, and then the peak of solar energy comes shortly after that another 28 days later, and then another 42 days later the actual peak of solar impact on the northern hemisphere...
i know that Ben Davidson has been saying that the pace at which the geomagnetic excursion is accelerating has been unsettling him, combined with the fact that it's still another 5 years until they fully establish the new position of the earth's magnetic field, but all the signs are there that the amount of energy we are getting loaded up with is accelerating and it may come sooner
and i don't think that with the current state of technology or society we are gonna cope very well with the sun turning blue and everything going upside down and back to front around us... i pray that we have help, because someone has been deliberately, in every possible way, retarding our progress as a species, hiding technology and retarding science, such that we might have figured out this was already coming by now if it were not for this
because once that flip happens, we are gonna lose at least 90% of all life on teh planet and those that survive, are going to be at best in the steam age, due to the way that the geomagnetic activity will not calm down straight away, and there could be minor pops, much smaller than the big one, afterwards
about 72000 years ago, there was another really bad cycle, too, which also happens to be in a 3-fold cycle (3 orbits of the galaxy), and that event saw all but 5000 humans survive, according to DNA evidence.
i hope we have got help coming, because this could be it for earthbound humans, total extinction can and does happen, we have had a good run about 200k years so far, but it makes sense that sometimes that can break and a total reset happens
ahaha. doom porn. i'm just laughing though. i mean, if it's humans ded, nothing we can do about it. just like we can do nothing about the inevitability of our personal deaths outside of such extraordinary circumstances.
time to be grateful for what we have, and make the best of it and pray that some of us will get a reprieve.
some technical words are needed but in many fields the jargon BS level goes to 9000
i pride myself on being able to understand and express many things in simpler ways, to the point where a lot of people actually learn new things because i speak in simpler language
doing technical talk well is a bit like poetry, the more you turn your words into an inline glossary the more accessible it becomes, not too much, not too little, just right
i would also go further to say that part of the problem is in the average human psychological need to follow celebrities. i think jack has quite proven his worth with his collab with the carvalho entities, and yet everyone is panting to zap several thousand sats every time he appears and posts a 3 word post
web of trust is not a silver bullet, none of the methods are, ultimately it falls to the user to learn to discriminate and recognise bullshit
i married this woman one time who used to like to say "take off the warning labels and let nature take its course"
hey, that's my screen real estate being used by people who are toxic waste
i didn't force you to not see it, why do you think it's ok to force me to see it?
which is also a right to left descending ordering like arabic numbers, which is a right to left language
what if what i hate about someone is knowing they exist?
i don't follow. pubkeys are basically unforgeable unique identifiers
you mean if someone accidentally blocks the real person and follows the fake one? that's what nip-05 npub colours and things like vanity addresses are for
i seethe with rage every time i see that discloser shit
it's like taking it literally "mute" like turning off the sound, but still seeing teh picture
only if you say thirty first of may, like germans say one and twenty
no, i got that backwards, may 1st is the left to right ordering, 1st of may is the murican way, and why you have mm-dd-yyyy
they say ein un zwanzig in german and the dutch also use this archaic old germanic back to front of tens and under tens, just like you 'muricans say may 1st while the rest of the world says 1st of may, which one is backwards? idk, talk to the arabs about it, they gave us back to front numbers as well
lexicographic, monotonic decreasing precision makes the most sense for dates
if you store timestamps as is done with unix, you literally turn it into human readable form for hours just by converting it to base 60 (with two decimal numbers per cipher)
then it gets messy for weeks, months and years but watcha gonna do
also for the thousands based divided units of seconds, that's also ugleh
anyway, days are not exactly 24 hours, currently for the first time in a long time they are under 24 hours, and years vary as well versus the sidreal (versus the star constellations) in a famous retrograde cycle known as the precession of the equinoxes
a random side fact about calendars also, the book of Genesis declares that 360 day years were prescribed by the Lord, which is bullshit, because Enoch goes into great detail specifying that seasons are exactly 91 days long and a year is 364
still wrong but closer. i think the only archaic calendar that doesn't get out of sync for several thousands of years is the chinese lunar calendar
and then... we could start talking about the problem of gravity and the speed of time after that, haha.
computer time representations, ie Unix Time is a pretty good universal standard tho, because it's based on measuring angles of stars against the rotation of the earth
in the actual real world tho, time is subjective by the local gravitational force, imposing standards is entirely determined by the utility based on the physical region of space it governs... what time standard would you use on mars, or in deep space? how do you even make an oscillator that is isolated from local gravity anyway?
i'm sure it's approved by European Standart tho
just like wet cam belts, ugh
but also, fuck europe, right?
decimal comma you mean? or a thousands separator?
fuck europe tho, only thing they got right was their power socket standard but child safety and china manufacturing has fucked that up as well
self declared timestamps are always lies, and so many algorithms tolerate quite wide variance, you need a time skew detection to really get that right which is a several seconds long process of sending timestamps back and forward until you get a stable average
the verge cryptocurrency ran into a huge problem that enabled the first real world timewarp attack due to a network time consensus
i'm pretty sure satoshi said something about how timestamps can't be trusted but you also have to draw a line somewhere, i think bitcoin block timestamps are allowed to be as much as an hour out of order, but legit timestamps should really never vary more than about 12 seconds
they were first introduced into lightning right at the beginning... and bitcoin at 1M will make it a necessity
also, Msat is wrong... M = mega m = milli u = micro n = nano p = pico
kinda cool that Gsat (gigasat) is possible if you stick with ... dammit what is the name of the measurement standard place names? IEEE, i forget
i think periods are used in europe and some other countries, in australia it was a space and in USA it is comma... the european use of the comma as the decimal place threw me for ages when i first arrived in europe... i do like the european 1 and 7 tho. but the period separator is an abomination, as is the decimal place, since it's also ambiguous for writing a representation of an array of numbers, colons and semicolons make zero sense
in programming languages there is a convergence going on towards using underscores and allowing you to write them as constants this way, this makes recognising the whole number as being space/symbol separated, spaces are already a primary scheme for separating symbols in source code where there is no comma or bracket/brace/parenthesis/math symbol between them
we are a long way from having a universal standard of plaintext representation though, just go look at what options you can find in spreadsheet apps
that's new on me, LND only has millis (3 decimal places)
it would work better if the clients wouldn't just hide them under giant disclosers tho
you'll need to make that based on the time between receiving rather than the timestamps or the bots will send them in a second with 5 seconds later on the timestamp and same problem again
bacon, that's perfect. gonna make carbanara
that dress is pretty epic
yeah, this consistency problem is one of the main weaknesses in the distributed architecture of nostr, and is shared in common with Lightning's protocol as well, they can tend towards such wide decentralization that you can't get all the things even if you go the full 12 guage shotgun with finely powdered salt load lol, if you get the analogy...
the solution, of course, is allowing users to have full control over their relays and make a built in protocol mechanism for relays to fan out requests, and that also requires SOME of the events to be deliberately blasted everywhere, relay lists, follow lists, mute lists, profile metadata, all of these, infrequently changed events need to be available everywhere, the rest, there is ways around it
well, poultry has a fair bit of collagen too, especially if you go for the skin on, and same with pork, the bacon and bacon-based parts (such as the belly) where there is also a lot of fat is full of collagen
I had sciatica for a few weeks and a massage and daily yoga made it finally go away.
Apparently there is a medicine man in a town in El Salvador who can massage tendons in knees. I might have to go there and ask around.
Beef steaks are few and far between where I am
yeah, everything that is inspired by the "green" movement in electrical engineering is a dumpster fire. then pile on top of it the "china the economic powerhouse" fairy tale, the quality of chinese electronic components is so subpar compared to the old days where japan, taiwan, germany and USA were the main sources of components.
i met a rather skilled electronics/electrical engineer in Bosnia and scarcely a day passed without him telling me about how much he hated chinese components.
yeah, i've been kinda relieved to have an excuse to slack off right now scraping a database of some 3 million plus records that need to be pre-scraped for my project to be reasonably performant in production
but i'm chipping away at a rewrite of realy trying to really slim it down and i'm gonna steal a lot of fiatjaf et al's code to make my job easier in the places where i had a lot of issues coming up (especially around tags and filters)
btw, i'm just gonna say it again but the slavish use of websockets in nostr protocol also introduces hellish problems for single- and few-threaded client apps like web apps, javascript is terrible at concurrency and that's partly because most websites don't use websockets, and that's why they are so bad at handling this, even with the 3 years of work of nostr client library devs on this task, it's just like trying to use a hacksaw to cut through a log, who would do that?
the inertia of continuing to use websockets and not extend to enable HTTP for clients is only going to see this get worse because i don't see the broader web dev community solving for something they don't ever use, even if it's theoretically possible to do it, the code just hasn't been nearly refined enough, and i would suggest that probably it needs native code to really do it properly
i write concurrent code all the time but i avoid it as much as possible because of how easy it is to get it wrong when a single or couple of threads works fine... and most of that concurrency is hidden within HTTP libraries in Go so you don't even see this, the go devs have ironed out most of the lumps in it, unlike javascript websocket libraries
eating more beef steaks will help, that kinda icky white stuff, usually referred to as "gristle" is rich in collagen, and it's the same stuff the joints are lined with for shock absorption
i have this issue with my left knee also, and the other thing i will say about it is that if my allergies are flaring up the inflammation in the joints also gets bad and i'm almost unable to take the strain of just walking down the stairs or up a moderate slope like my walk to the shops
got the allergies reducing again... for me the main trigger is celiac autoimmune reaction, and the joint pain in that knee seems to flare up before many of the other symptoms become obvious
and don't get me started on their pulse frequencies... idk how anyone could play sports under these things, it's like playing FPS games on a 10 year old machine on lowest settings
yeah, those work by providing a 12V DC baseline through the wires... you might have trouble with PoE and a whole house wire on a single circuit though for lightning
anyway, i hate LED light, there is so few that actually have nice spectra, most of them are ugly blue and purple and green
yeah, it's messed up
they need pipelines that do the configured relays first and only then if they don't get stuff, look elsewhere, and that should be optional too
even still with the crazy outbox implementation in next nostrudel it often can't find stuff, i only have the forest at all (and my relay.tools relay currently, because realy pisses me off too much lately now too)
I was doing manual labor dead lift of the tongue of a trailer. Something happened with my knee. Its just a little twinge, but it feels like it has less stability than it should have. I'm debating asking AI if I need to avoid movement or just do more yoga or something.
actually, now i'm looking at the graph i just had a process that is going full tilt in a terminal right now causing the 10% usage baseline i'm seeing right now... heavy database table writes
i think jumble may also use quite a bit of CPU, maybe have a look at the task manager (also btw newer versions of gnome have much nicer system monitors)
it's the one i'm using now, i'm not noticing this but then i sorta don't notice if one core is going nuts on my pc, and i can see indeed that it's probably the cause of the high baseline CPU usage... dammit... this works better than jumble for most things but for this, oof.
Tesla was right about AC for long range transmission
Edison was right about DC for household wiring
ever noticed the word "inverter" appearing on almost everything, air conditioners, refrigerators... because the long range transmission benefit comes with a disadvantage that all kinds of other EMF oscillations get picked up wherever the wires pass by without shielding (ie, everywhere) and in many cities the result is the AC power is more like the waveform of distortion bass guitar (yes i meant to say bass) and idk if you have ever played with distortion effects but the lower the frequency the more noisy and shitty it gets, and the less you can combine notes (some funk bass players do chords with bass, but this is only bearable with clean pickups and amps)
every house should have a hefty AC/DC converter that blows its waste heat into the hot water system and all of the house wiring should be 12V
it would also help a lot with reducing fire risk of electronic devices because not everything would have to have an AC/DC converter in it
#nevent1q…92l9
#alexandria can't come soon enough. no pressure 😅
i don't touch that stupid thing... https://next.nostrudel.ninja
still buggy as shit but not crazy cat lady batshit
that's a rather strange coffee cup
the feline obsession with sitting on noisy cardboard and plastic objects is so comical... and the way they just never want to use the specially made cat beds you spend too much money on at the pet shop...
https://image.nostr.build/5f22881650b7d6fbed2e1cb90a20dd21cac6b36b5b551c0e308d524e0607e21d.jpg
you probably would like the one i am hypothesising may be even right now in early stages of occurring:
it's not an eternal life, it's a total body health regeneration and training program to enable you to have antediluvian lifespan
eternal as in spiritual, and holy as in whole... and yes, resurrection also, as was promised
i mean, if you just think through from the first premise that this is a gift being given to those who would appreciate it, it's not really even that far fetched if you already suspect there is probably a way to develop full psychic awareness and engage the mind-body connection to heal
i'd be plenty happy with even 900 years, that would be long enough to really see stuff happen, 120 years is just so fast lol
seeing how fast this thing is i personally would advise minimum 8 character human readable last-letters in the code, and expect to wait 3+ days for it to generate
it's a strong protection against impersonators, has been used by Tor websites for quite some time also, i recall bohemia market at least had the word bohemia in their onion URLs for this reason
the use of AI to help find clangers in giant laws like the Big Beautiful Bill (for you americans) will probably prove to be a thorn in the side of big government going forward... i'm not that bullish on GPT tech in general but this is one place i can see it having uses that won't be constrained by the biases they bake into the models
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/78182d0c-3456-4394-a388-bd114a9638a7
in case you can't see that image
https://image.nostr.build/4316224734dd127522fd21f66d7b58b829ab7a4bdb5bf50359967df36cdcb281.jpg
probably the entire cadre of java developers who invented jars need to be incinerated as well
a lot of power supplies have a lot of "noise" in the what is supposed to be sine-wave signal... UPS devices usually have fancy filters that soak up the noise and their output is highly sinusoidal, with very little higher frequency harmonics
they call this "dirty power" and it can destroy delicate electronics
though, a lot of the AC->DC converters in computers and chargers and such, the better quality ones, anyway, have meaty capacitors and FETs and whatnot to deliver a stable voltage... the dirty electricity can have negative health effects too if there is a lot of frequencies in ranges that disrupt our electromagnetic sensing organs (almost all organisms, even bacteria, are influenced by direction and oscillations in electromagnetic fields around them)
the effect can range from minor to debilitating but it can also be very bad for electrical devices
also some dodgy crappy china electronics like in washing machines and such can emit emf back into the house wiring that make the problem worse
haha definitely don't try to write new code at this point lol
Yeah, probably a good time to do some refactoring.
and now it is looking back at you 🛼
yeah, napping right after eating eggs, milk or meat is a fairly high guarantee of likely to have dream recall also
the psychic messaging aspect of it is kinda interesting though... like, am in in some waiting room to be signed up for some far out psychic space people project or something?
We already basically do that, since Alex mostly reads from theforest, but writes to theforest+mailboxes.
possibly if you set all of your auth-required relays (or just all your write relays) to write only and only set your relay that is spidering and syncing from the rest of the network, any outbox supporting client would effectively enable you to only have to do a lot of traffic for publishing (nbd really) and for reading it would only request events from your chosen relay
no idea if that would actually work, but i bet you will figure it out, for the sake of your mobile data bill 😉
btw, anyone who can set up a go 1.24.3+ build on more or less any linux (just go to https://go.dev/dl ) you can build it yourself
highly recommended though that you install the bitcoin core secp256k1 library so it uses that (by default it will if it's installed)
for comparison, where you see in 5 seconds it has done 139k tries, in the same period the non-cgo btcd btcec library will only give you 27k tries, it's very worth it
https://github.com/mleku/x-realy/releases/tag/vainstr-v1.0.0
if you are running any recent linux this binary should be the ticket. you can see here an example of it generating a key:
https://private-user-images.githubusercontent.com/146755634/449341340-78182d0c-3456-4394-a388-bd114a9638a7.png?jwt=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpc3MiOiJnaXRodWIuY29tIiwiYXVkIjoicmF3LmdpdGh1YnVzZXJjb250ZW50LmNvbSIsImtleSI6ImtleTUiLCJleHAiOjE3NDg2Mjg0MDcsIm5iZiI6MTc0ODYyODEwNywicGF0aCI6Ii8xNDY3NTU2MzQvNDQ5MzQxMzQwLTc4MTgyZDBjLTM0NTYtNDM5NC1hMzg4LWJkMTE0YTk2MzhhNy5wbmc_WC1BbXotQWxnb3JpdGhtPUFXUzQtSE1BQy1TSEEyNTYmWC1BbXotQ3JlZGVudGlhbD1BS0lBVkNPRFlMU0E1M1BRSzRaQSUyRjIwMjUwNTMwJTJGdXMtZWFzdC0xJTJGczMlMkZhd3M0X3JlcXVlc3QmWC1BbXotRGF0ZT0yMDI1MDUzMFQxODAxNDdaJlgtQW16LUV4cGlyZXM9MzAwJlgtQW16LVNpZ25hdHVyZT03MTQ5YjAwNzlhMDRmYTE2YzIyMDUwNTA5ZjI5YTcxYTZiMjg1ODNiZGQ0ZTU0MzZhZGY1MWZmNTJmYzQzNDRlJlgtQW16LVNpZ25lZEhlYWRlcnM9aG9zdCJ9.uu7IjisMQIFod8QNe9781sTxGxLHpzAj5j3Turfnnco
i used the btcd btcec secp256k1 library before, and it took like 3 days... now as you can see, a key with merely 5 letters potentially not even a minute on hardware like mine (which you can see in the image also what it is)
I just want a way to click through, to send out. I don't mind clicking 5 times.
Could also just automate it from Playwright or Cypress or whatnot. That would just sign with your extension and it wouldn't care If it had to sign 50 times.
maybe it was the psychic recruits ;-) that people say they have on UFO boards.
did you let them know they were signing up for the wrong cause?
naps can be so trippy sometimes. i used to avoid them. now i'm too old and tired and collapse into a hammock. i'm starting to think the the wiser from "older and wiser" comes from taking the naps.
yeah, option one i've heard it described as the "once saved always saved" story, usually involving baptism
but i'm inclined to say that you aren't really taking it seriously if you don't cultivate a better character and focus your life towards healing and righteous action
72 hours is the magic minimum
something happens to your metabolism, about 48 hours you start to go into ketosis and at 72 hours autophagy begins, and the length of the beneficial effects of just one 72 hour fast is quite amazing, i mean, literally, for months afterwards you feel just that much better
i can almost touch my toes again, but the thing that was stopping me before was this cramping problem, magnesium chloride seems to have really accelerated that, as has realising that i had that problem in the first place due to a combination of kidney damage and celiac
kidney damage came from alcohol and artificial sweeteners, the alcohol, specifically wine, most often is clarified using a gluten based fining agent, and if i drink a bottle of wine a day for about a week i start to develop symptoms and after a few months i am getting a rash that i have suffered for years since my 20s but only realised this year that it was actually a gluten allergy reaction... it comes on slow, and the first most noticable symptom is my intestines are pushing stuff out too fast which also then leads to magnesium and calcium deficiency
i seem to recall part of your story had to do with autoimmune reactions after getting the jab, it may have made you sensitive to some or several plant proteins... with me, if i eliminate gluten sources, i can tolerate other proteins but once it's happening, milk and egg proteins cause a reaction as well, and several other plant proteins, probably potato is the mildest one
ah, well, you may want to experiment with adding bottom heat for a second pass as this will pull out a heavier fraction
this is with steam distillation? i assume you have to bottom heat it as well, i think the BP is too high without it (eg, i know you can do this with ephedrine from ephedra, but without bottom heat it can't get the pseudoephedrine out of the plant)
speaking of weird dreams, during some morning naps i had today i was in some place with a whole load of young people and it was something like recruitment for USMC or something, but i was like, couldn't figure out why i was there and they didn't really seem like military people at all
yeah, there is something a bit morbid and deathwish sorta style about it, i can't make sense of the personality kink that someone would have to want such a thing, just seems to me like something a person who is at heart a predator would like
oh, the tiny phone... was just some silly thing i found on amazon... it has an old school white OLED display of like 10x2 characters lol, the buttons are really small but it's usable, and so small it could even be a key fob.
ah, it's never too late but it does take time to move to a new identity, in the sense of keeping your followers... i should really make a binary release for my vanity key miner, it's pretty fast, can get a 5 letter key - start, end, or anywhere in the key in about 15-60 minutes, or so, depending on your hardware
when i made the miner in the first place it took days to generate it with the slow signature library i was using, i basically made a pact with myself that i would stay off nostr until i had this new key... was a funny time... october 2023...
i have this tiny thumb-sized phone that i could use for that but nobody ever calls me anyway haha... no point in paying for a second sim when i can just not take it with me.
it will be a happy day when insecure sms based auth dies altogether, i tend to try and avoid it, even TOTP is more secure
maybe some day the normies will finally learn that proprietary software can be hacked, and that's the secret reason they make it secret.
good idea, i need to do this.
"Fine, no oars, but can't i put a rudder on it?"
God: "no, Noah, no rudders. you're just there to feed the animals. i'm the captain of the ship."
Cathie woke to her 4:20 alarm. it was Friday. she had dreamed the daily updates didn't send--sold this much Tesla, bought that much Palantir.
It's like tending Noah's animals, Cathie reflected. Each stock needs just-the-right amount of space on board her investment ark.
Tesla finally was lifting the ship again. The discipline of keeping the faith was finally paying off. That pesky Alexandra on X wasn't snarking at past Tesla trims. Small victories. small friendships.
ArkW's outpacing ARKB--the bitcoin ETF this year, 59% to 53%. Admittedly Bitcoin is it's top holding.
Robotics-focused ARKQ trails ARKB by only 6%. One can still throw money at the military industrial complex and get almost as good a return as saving in perfect money.
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On the year timeframe, ARKW-future web ETF is beating ARKB 59% to 53%. Cathie is winning on that one. it's also the only one with bitcoin as top holding.
ARKB 53% (bitcoin)
ARKW 59% (BTC, Tesla, Coinbase, Robinhood)
ARKF 53% (Shopify,Coinbase, RObinhood, BTC)
ARKQ 47%(Tesla, KRATOS DEFENSE & SECURITY, Archer Aviation, Teradyne, Palantir)
ARKK 32% (Tesla, Coinbase, Robinhood, Roblox, Palantir)
would be super ironic if this model was ded because heart attack, just sayin'
nothing solves the problems of government more than more government
how about laws that make spying a crime, or abolishing the sections of the existing laws that legalise it?
and most of them don't care if it's harvesting data to sell to advertisers and spooks
if you stay in one place for a while you don't need no stinking navigation, and when you are visiting places, you only need it when you need to venture into the unknown, once you know it, you don't need it.
if more places accepted lightning though, that would be a different story, i'd bring my phone and leave my bank card at home, in fact i'd cancel the bank account if my local supermarket and bar both accepted lightning, because that's the only two places i spend my money often, the convenience of being able to only sell my bitcoin immediately to a payment card is why i still stick with it, i keep my sats as sats, and only spend at the last mile.
oh i must have missed the fiasco.
your no-phone policy in the outside world is a really good practice. i lost my phone on a trip a few years ago, and I enjoyed it so much.
of course i had to rely on someone else for navigating and planning. perhaps we will have designated phone people in the future so the rest of us can go get drunk on nature and human contact.
i use brave browser and mostly brave search... i tried kagi for a while but to be honest their search wasn't as good
this fiasco with daylight computer co has been comical to watch, they were all over nostr for a while and suddenly vanished, and then all these questions came up
literally cannot trust hardware manufacturers, at all, at all... you at least have some control when you buy desktop hardware but laptops, not so much, and tablets and mobile phones are friggin cattle tags... and as a bonus, they are underpowered, over priced, and to upgrade them it's a whole unit... right now i could more than double the capability of my desktop just by spending about 900 and get 50% more cpu cores, SSD read/write speed and memory bandwidth, double the cache, and zero obligation to running an OS on it that actively provides your data to whoever paid them to put that spy shit in them
it's not for nothing my phone only comes with me if i'm traveling more than an hour, i just don't even need it, it's nice to be outside in the world away from the internet and just being around people and culture
wow, that's a lot of tracking in one device. i do use google alot and they seem to know me better than i know myself, so I'm not one to judge. it's useful at a point. i do like the product idea
uhoh, they got you onto the daylight spy machine
no, they are no more private because issue and redeem of tokens can at least track volumes of transit and possibly to some extent the destination that redeems them
this is mitigated somewhat by cashu mints issuing a uniform or very limited number of denominations but it's still not as good as privacy except on the ends, who don't know where it came in or where it goes out. the same mitigation exists as for monero, lightning or cashu - proxy your ins and outs with tor. lightning payments using keysend or AMP are still the number one most private way to make payments on the internet right now, without stepping outside of the payment protocol.
people who are serious about private payments aren't still banging on about solutions that worked when there was less volume and potential expropriation of funds by malicious, state sized actors but that's a time that is long past
read side, if the relay allows public access to most events then yeah, that's not a problem, but writing to one relay and then writing that out to other access controlled relays, no... i had a somewhat heated discussion with the author of bostr about making a change in the auth so it could be proxied without any big changes to enable a user to proxy everything through but well, you know how it is with the nip guardians and anything that involves auth.
basically can't be done unless you can give the relay your private key and that's not very practical or secure
Streaming doesn't, but maybe this will, since you have to sign into his client to do it? 🤔
it also doesn't work with relays that have auth for access control, that problem hasn't been solved for yet
i literally said they can, but that collusion has to be pretty large scale, i'm pretty sure, based on the fact that a typical lightning node runner is probably at most holding 1btc worth of channels, well over 5000 nodes
to get useful timing data you have to run 5000 lightning nodes and where are you gonna get that 500 million dollars from
meanwhile, for a cost of probably about $2000/node you can overwhelm monero's tiny network under a million bux
you can use your brain and do math, if you want to, but you obviously are so delusional about the value of privacy versus fungibility and plausible denial that you just choose not to consider that monero is a 13 year old solution for privacy that has long been obsolete
Gym memberships are way cheaper than healthcare
also should be pointed out that the limits on the per-payment monetary value being as they are with lightning tends to introduce protection via de-minimus type rules, and from a game theory perspective, trying to force lightning operators to cough up the data will lead to a loss of economic benefit to the countries that do it, and further make the increased cost of using VPNs more profitable at the same time, a cobra effect that will also protect the small change payment processing that has such a big benefit for small business versus dealing with banks and big payment processing networks
that's another point against monero too, and discovery is impossible with lightning payments that are invoiced over tor
the tl;dr of why monerobros are wrong:
1. a blockchain ledger cannot scale sufficiently to enable sufficient users (anonymity set)
2. it can't be a store of value with a weak encryption scheme because there is always some question about whether the supply has increased without it being observable by exploiting an as yet unknown bug in the implementations
(and we know there already has been inflation bugs in it a few times in the past)
(and the security of the encryption is at least half as many bits of security as we depend on for TLS)
no, they are deluded, and fanatical about privacy to the exclusion of more important features of the base layer
privacy can exist in bitcoin applications because it provides for pseudonymity and with lightning, it dramatically narrows the ways in which privacy of transactions can be breached, to the point of it being impossible without running a majority of lightning nodes with the specific purpose of monitoring signal origins, such that you could get enough breadcrumbs to link the movement of a payment from start to finish, and even then, it really can't be done without owning the entire network, which is basically impossible to achieve at this point
if the only way that governments get the ability to breach your payments is by forcing payment processors to get your details (KYC) and demand the massive amounts of data each individual privileged entity in the payment flow, how can this be achieved on lightning when a substantial number of running lightning nodes are using tor to make it impossible to know who the node runners even are?
the monero solution is a very old one that is based on the idea of the blockchain being a payment processing layer as well as settlement layer, and this is just not how you do payment processing
for blockchains to achieve this they have to be so large and centralised that they lose their protection against a small group taking control of the network, the more nodes they have to control, the weaker their ability to surveil it, and that's the whole founding principle of lightning's design - it trades off some of the reliability of payment processing for decentralization, through the use of source routed onion messages that contain instructions for how much sats to move from each point in the process
both senders and receivers control their privacy by contributing half of the path that a payment will send, and typically there is 3-6 or so hops on each side from sender and receiver, they literally cannot know from where it came except for the way that the usual case is to ask the receiver to give the onion encrypted layers of the path to their endpoint
yes, this model has less privacy, but it also tends to have higher reliability, but acquiring that invoice can be done over tor, or even over onion messages themselves, at the cost of a few sats per hop along the way
current state of lightning is that the sender and receiver both typically know each other's network location, but nobody else in the network knows what hop in the path they are conveying a rebalance from or to, only the instructions that reveal the next hop, and the source from which the previous hop sent the instructions
they are stuck in a long ago past where there was so few users of blockchains that it made sense to propose to encrypt the ledger but the cost of this, and the dubious security of it against tracing the payments are very much broken and out of date.
all you have to do, as a lightning user, to get total privacy is use tor to fetch invoices and the lightning architecture takes care of the rest.
they just refuse to get up to date with the best ways to do this and they don't value bitcoin's most valuable, and most powerful meme - 21 million. the end.
the reason why it's important is economics. it makes bitcoin a hard money, which stands in contrast to every other blockchain and all fiat money systems.
they are essentially demanding bitcoin becomes monero, and losing that hard supply and adding complexity to the base layer which just reduces that guarantee and is not possible to even achieve to the degree that they are deluded into thinking it can achieve. just like lightning, if you want full privacy on monero, you have to use tor to send the payments anyway, while you traded off this guaranteed supply and auditability, and don't even gain the ability to far exceed the volume of transactions that can be achieved with partitioning the architecture into settlement and payment protocols.
the most annoying thing about having nuked my mute list is meeting all the moneros again and their braindead refusal to understand that lighting obsoletes the entire use case of monero
what's compical about it is they literally don't understand it exists because you can't see the transaction data of lightning, that's exactly the point, you can see the tx data of monero, by the number of transactions, you simply cannot gain any reasonable measure of how many transactions happen on lightning
BY DESIGN
if it were visible it wouldn't be practical because who the fuck is gonna store all that data anyway?
does Visa share their transaction data with other payment processing clearinghouses they work with? nope. only the ones that cross between them, and those are generally batched and the number of actual payments that they represent is condensed into a single volume of rebalancing.
why i should have to explain the architecture of payment channels, which are essentially the same as swap lines between payment processors, to moneros, is hilarious because they clearly don't believe there is any activity unless it's on a public record
let that sink in, moneros
the whole point is that with lightning, we have literally several hundred thousand servers that sit in the same position in the architecture as what in fiat finance are some few thousand payment and interbank clearinghouses
if all that shit had to be kept in a consistent public ledger it would be gigabytes per second of data, and where are the node runners who can muster 10gbit+ bandwidth and hundreds of terabytes of ledger history?
yeah, duh.
just fuck off already.
your stupid toy blockchain that is so beloved of the dark web's most febrile and retarded drug dealers is outdated, and less secure than if they just spent some of their fucking money on funding the development of marketplace apps that are based on keysend and AMP
in fact, you could build an entire borderless single marketplace protocol like bisq but for anything and everything ON TOP of lightning, not just the payment rails but the actual market data could be there transmitted without even needing Tor either.
maybe just use X?
wayland is a dumpster fire of retardation anyway
yes! demand outdated, blockchain based security in a pseudo encrypted public ledger that can't be properly audited and is extremely challenging to make a working L2. because privacy > all, most especially more important than a stable, predictable and slow supply growth rate
because muh privacy, even though LN can do it better, and faster, and at such a high volume that bitcoin tx fees have never been this low since like, idk... 2014, but of course you moneros know that the schroedinger's payment volumes must not exist because you can't prove they exist, even though tens of thousands of merchants have adopted it and all these people waiting 2-5 seconds for payment finality are all deluded and everyone knows you can look up their transactions and prove they exist? hang on...
they were phasing out latin lessons as i was going through highschool. for no particular reason, since everyone doing classes in sciences and history and literature all had to read and understand stuff written in some latin
i'd love to attend a church meeting that was presented in aramaic, that would be even more awesome than latin, since that was the language of the first christians
i found myself angry today, lashing out. usually this is a sign of some learning i have to do. some "come to Jesus" humbling that needs to happen.
i took a walk in the forest and amid the flowers and the dragon flies some answers came to me.
God gave me perfect money and thereby the freedom to pursue what the intersection of my greatest joy with the world's greatest need in the words of Friedrich Buechner.
I spent a lot of time in last week in the man-made forest of green "buy/sell" buttons and call option spreadsheets.
To spend my time trying to gain more of that perfect money by leverage is folly when there are forests of flowers and dragon flies.
it's not that i don't believe in the bitcoin treasury companies. I think they are fantastic ways to make lots of money. after all everyone is front-running everyone else in bitcoin. after all who wants Pfizer to own bitcoin? i'd rather Gamestop (see appendix).
but as an individual who was given freedom, what a sad thing to turn back to the mines.
https://image.nostr.build/0912032ef336b6d6ef1a145f8dd9eae6c150c3379e46f8cf6a4dd6e53f4b612a.png
"the fact is bitcoin is one of the hardest things to buy and own. no leverage, no day trading, no shortcuts, don't get fancy, four plus time."
"you can't see it nor touch it yet it requires unwavering conviction. it's the hall of mirrors, the trick is to just keep going straight."
"don't get lost, see you on the other side"
https://youtu.be/QwRidEuefXI
if you want a consistent but somewhat decentralized forum https://steemit.com property of Tron founder Jusin Sun.
what does being popular prove anyway?
mostly, that most people are stupid and easily manipulated.
that's not what nostr is about. nostr is a way to have any other form of public forum than a popularity contest. that's why the culture is mostly different
note that steemit is more decentralized than what primal offer also.
not by much but the point is that you want a popularity contest, you are in the wrong protocol.
i'll just sit here paying the bookie on a snowflake's chance in hell, better odds there
pubsub/post office protocols are weakly consistent protocols by design
do you even have a way to know who is sending and receiving emails to each other?
nostr is less private than that, but more private than a blockchain forum
do you think that criminals use public ledgers, like the one the Fed has?
no, they use special secret fucking interbank payment lines that are arranged privately between two banks
and 99.999% of the world's money moves through that, the public payments are like 0.1% and the ones that route through lightning style clearinghouse relay networks, are about 10%, the real private money uses banks
not bitcoin, not lightning, not monero, not zkp, BANKS and ANALOG FUCKING PHONE LINES
that's not a point that's trying to avoid the point
privacy of payments is the question. blockchains are never the answer
lol, keep sipping on the monero kool-aid, you and the rest of the idiot shitcoiners who think that blockchain is the answer, what was the question?
privacy and anonymity are actual metrics, lightning definitely is more private, and completely utterly untraceable if you use keysend or AMP
please go do your homework
it's actually even more anonymous than tor because nobody knows except the sender what path it's going to go, even the invoice only contains a midhdleman that the sender makes a new path to that nobody knows
i mean, really, i actually built a whole protocol off this concept, it was basically an extension of lightning chat, but aiming to implement an actual network protocol
it has an issue in that if any hop along the path is clogged up or offline the packet fails and accounting for this is a complex task but hey, you all knew about this "failed payment" problem with lightning right?
i see and so you knew that lightning payments are anonymised the same way as tor packets?
apparently nobody in monero land seems to understand this
Taproot musig2 and lightning is enough.
Even channel ops are private. I mean. Seriously. Do the homework. I've been in this since 2013 and I only learned lightning in 2022. You are way behind.
Because I only publish to theforest
I'm a professional programmer building servers. What is your business?
So does not. You just revealed you never use it.
LOL
Doesn't it make you wonder why the use of Bitcoin has risen exponentially yet onchain fees are at all time lows? Yes, because at least several thousand times as much PAYMENTS are done with lightning than on chain.
Even while shitcoiners are polluting at least 30% of blocks with their scammy token inscriptions.
Lightning literally combines Tor and what private ledgers used by exchanges do.
It's not even possible to measure the change, except the transactions have disappeared.
just to be clear, i was letting her lead... i had a gf prior to her who was much more civilised, i am sad i didn't settle with her instead, she was good
yeah, i didn't really learn anything
7th jubilee i'm childless
doesn't really matter
they try to fuck around but they find out that we don't agree with their business model
nostr:@npub1l4v…ur0c
go fuck yourself you homo pervert pedo gaijin otaku bitch
those idiots are all the same
they don't have any concept of engineering to fit priority requirements
satoshi was very clear
1) no fake spends (double spend)
2) no fake supply (21 million bitch)
i literally was accused of rape by a dizzy wench who i mistakenly let take my virginity at age 16
https://youtu.be/b1XqNPBA-Tk?list=RDEMq2i1pH22g6vhQKMr3DB3lA
"you say you don't want it, but then you slip it in"
it was a hard lesson for me because i'm quite a kind, accomodating person, she jumped on me and i was like, ok
if i'd known what machinations she would cook up 6 months later i would have spat in her face and made a big stink "hey bitch, sexual assault is not cool"
no, it doesn't, because that contradicts the auditability protecting the supply
you want to make privacy, hey, some dudes made this thing called "lightning" and it uses source routed onion messages to execute payments, nobody knows who is involved except the previous hop in the process
and i am not exactly on some crusade to crucify you stupid moneros but someone recently did a study that proved that lightning is more private than monero onchain
they are jonestown residents, not plebs, in a hypnotic trance
oh crap i reacted handshake emoji to my own post lol
i take the first step by getting the fuck out of dodge
and here in the boonies, if i see a psychotic bitch trying to psycho, i'm punching that bitch in the cunt
if it wasn't such a pussied out pissant vehicle he could have done it in half the distance by actually skidding 180 degrees and then slamming the throttle
one of the reasons i hate modern road devices is because they have basically eliminated all forms of manual control in favor of The Authority
if i can't slam my brakes, and actually slide, then i don't want this vehicle
it's a regression compared to my God given body.
haha, bitcoin is about privacy?
no, you might be thinking of monaro
bitcoin is about inviolable supply schedule and irreversible transactions
yeah, the same shit still the normies swallow like a bunch of homo cocksucker euthanasia bitches who want everyone to commit suicide with them
it's very helpful to call satan satan and behemoth behemoth and leviathan leviathan and to say "bullshit" when someone tries to bullshit you
preferably, if possible, punch them in the nose, if you can't use a battl'eh to eviscerate theri toxic waste intestines out of their othewise edible flesh (to be fed to the vultures of course)
looking forward to when they all finally drink their kool-aid
it's notable that nostr users are not homo pedo little girl lovers
funny that
oh did i say sucking? i mean surfing, hippy.
i literally had to deal with this as part of my job for a time and i have the archives to prove what i'm saying
if you really want to see it
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mleku/realy/refs/heads/dev/event/examples/out.jsonl
also, i don't recommend resolving ANY of the URLs contained in events that have momostr and mostr and what the fuck ever. what was it? activitypub
my recommendation is to `grep -v activitypub` if you don't want to see vomit in pixel form
the largest volume of bullshit in the nostr network with the least engagement because it's not a two way bridge
and i should also just point out that a shitload of it is literally gay porn and loli hentai
does anyone remember when jerk sayeth that nostr was punk as fuck?
jerk is a suit
go back to sucking the cock of whoever promises your more money, jackofff
this whole album is so legendary
https://youtu.be/ga6v91ZGL1U
you say, you're my friend but but you're one of them, one of them, one of them
this agentic thing is funny
literally programmers writing scripts to call LLMs to generate shit
https://image.nostr.build/3b17f7e46648c864e2fef8dcb00f1a9b9d4a13ab8520913a7f65916e17d75485.png
thanks to fishcake, who i don't seem to be able to @
for hosting this image
i'm a fan of the aikido or systema method of letting them expose their vulnerabilities and striking at them
and relief from the oppression of their stupidity
and also to you may you also slay the pathetic enemy who rides on lies and dishonor
i already like gothic rock, but what was awesome about FNM was how they skate this line betwene gothic, punk, progressive, psychedelic and shoegazer all in one... at least before Mike showed up
i guess maybe people didn't realise that my current preference for ambient soundscapes was preceded by harsh electro, psychedelic trance, speed metal and punk music.
really, it was punk, specifically dead kennedys that i define as my first actual opinion about music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0Uc6ZWDF3c
what gave me the impetus to do this was remembering that david hurled a rock at goliath, a ... idk, 20ft tall giant in the temple and killed him
i can relate to that wish, and goal, and aspiration
to be the one who can throw the rock that kills behemoth, leviathan and the satan herself (because satan is a man but he's a homo)
i have nightmares about knowing how my code works
faith no more has an opinion about NGOs
https://youtu.be/W8aviVWYWwU
it is a popular one
it could be summarized as:
IDGAF
or like the australian comedian singer
DILIGAF?
not sure if anyone caught the meme of my profile change
the mask is off
the music is Faith No More's debut album "We Care A Lot" btw
this:
#nevent1q…acuh
i'm slacking off today, shitposting and listening to awesome old california experimental progressive punk rock
and writing code to do stuff that i'm tired of writing code to do, because you all bitches need a bridge, bridge builder here reporting for duty 🫡
i literally hadn't
i heard the other one, with the green splatters on black... Introduce Yourself.
man this is such a blast from teh past and omg what a debut album.
they are literally like jane's addiction vibes but with the old school cali punk edge
i wonder what happened to Chuck Mosely anyway... he was a really good song writer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L3M2WC5LPA&list=OLAK5uy_lhGA2o6vgbhaxgyNwSTWheUZISAQOrrGk
in case you never heard this album before
https://youtu.be/nEMpXWVibFs
i love mike patton's style but before he joined, Chuck Mosely was so totally perfect cali synth/alt/punk rock combo for Faith No More
and i think that Chuck's vocal style was definitely more something in the zone of Descendents/Black Flag/Janes Addiction/Suicidal Tendencies, where Mike was kinda more ... sarcastic and less passionate.
i love FNM, will always love FNM, but not many people know what it was before The Real Thing
#musicstr #faithnomore #chuckmosely #california
there is now literally a global disaster prepper dating event coming up next month, on a funny day, which i think my readers would recall is significant (25 june 2025)
https://observerranch.ticketspice.com/observer-speed-dating-dinner
find your wife/husband for your ark/bunker when the world turns
and also who you muted, except some dingbat invented the idea of encrypted mutes which are gay because they are useless for relays to use as a list
https://r2a.primal.net/uploads2/4/a8/aa/4a8aaa014202287550d9794a0227116e3f67a648270fdda70a5433993823df9d.png
#stablecoin #meme
she already got the cosmetic treatments for her plush lips and now she is complaining about having some job that is less superficial than her face
this road probably sees about max 100 vehicles passing over it a day, a lot of times less
lol in my travels across europe i have seen so many cases like this everywhere, maybe with the slim exception of UK and NL where i never saw this
kinda can apologise a bit for the state of things in outlying parts of madeira because it's so damn expensive to just go from a to b anywhere here but it's quite funny, up my street they did works on the water pipes and the road over top of it has not yet been repaved 6 months later
something that would probably not be "illegal" would be an illuminator frame that has the most absurdly bright infrared LEDs on it so that any attempt to read it would just get whiteout
if this stuff only reflected infrared light they wouldn't be able to tell by looking at it
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2004/07/21/drivers-try-an-anti-photo-finish/73e1eb4a-7175-4e36-852c-0ff645a77af6/
there is a number of products that claim to do this... the main thing is that it needs to be selectively reflective for infrared light
there's other uses for such things, for example if you coat glass with a material like this, you can see through it with visible light but cameras cannot see through it
i have some safety glasses that don't look totally awful but are a very dark green colour that block IR and they dramatically reduce the visibility of my eyes, which thwarts computer visual recognition, it is the most important part, this was one of the things that was on display during the covid scamdemic, the chinese were basically bragging that they could do facial recognition automatically even when people had masks on
if the keys are in someone else's hands you already did sell it
bitcoin backed loans are a word trick to make it seem like you didn't sell. you sold. loser.
#nevent1q…5uev
nice hardware, fast 10gbit usb-c and mine came with the usb-c DP but it was a nightmare every single time trying to open it up, utterly unclear, nothing just feels like it wants to open when you follow the labels
i think you have to push it the opposite direction than you expect, i forget now, already again. i'm done with running a bitcoin node anyway, i want to use this 4tb drive for my actual data backup, i could just run it with a 1tb drive and the rig can let me put an install onto a sata SSD and store the chain on an nvme anyway
but, just gona say it
i don't recommend the hp mini g3x devices, or at least, if you are like me and are used to being able to just slam stuff together in the normal way, because it don't play like that
being that i've been pulling apart and reassembling computers since like... hmm 1985 or so, i think if i have trouble with something it's got shitty labels or just a shitty design
dear HP
fuck you and the whore you rode in on
G31 mini, how to open? can opener?
i haven't had the kids thing yet, and maybe won't in this life, i would love to be in a monastery but my interest is having my time split between writing freedom tech code and reading and organising apocryphal and esoteric related texts
might not fit into a trad christian monastic situation but hey, i did technically found "the monastic order of chaos" back in 2001 lol.
idk how i forgot about this artist
https://mythicalrecords.bandcamp.com/
synthetic dream foundation
need teh flax
i still prefer 3.5mm analog stereo 3 contact to bluetooth... my speakers can do bluetooth but my sound device can do 24 bits and bluetooth doesn't even faithfully reproduce 16 bit 44.1K
yalls only put up with it because you only play streamed 160kbps MP3 which is basically about 12 bits compared to CD quality
not only that, you have single driver actual speakers if you don't use earplugs, which don't do proper bass or treble, and these days it's hard to even find triple driver speakers with a proper 6" sub, 4" mid and a proper piezo tweeter (i had me some really nice gear like this a while back but had to abandon it as i escaped a loony landlady... harman kardon solid state amp and onkyo triple drivers, omg the clarity)
i'm not sure... the element of context is made very explicit with the jetbrains AI assistant, it doesn't give useful answers unless you share your codebase or at least parts of it with them
it even provides skeptical commentary about things that you didn't explain to it by including those parts as well... probably could be better in that it might make sense to include everything a given source file includes, and implicitly taking context from the currently active editor... but they do say in the T&Cs that they promise to not automatically pull in your whole codebase and dependency collection without your explicit permission
anyway, i can just guess you aren't using intellij because otherwise you would have known it needs source code context to reason about your questions
Be incorruptable.
Even people who despise you, will trust you.
#nevent1q…822s
these days trust is so hard to come by that having a conscience is a sane strategy for getting customer loyalty
anyway, you wouldn't hire a builder who makes a house that will fall down and kill people, software can be even more deadly in its effects
yeah, 70s and 80s are coming back
mainly because us gen x's are middle aged now
You are brave to put stuff in your eye that doesn't need to be there. Or maybe it does need to be there.
There's a certain gen z punk going on in San Salvador. It's kinda funny. They are fighting the starbucksification with one 70s hairdo at a time.
well, aside from a cosmetic pair i wore one night and forgot to take out, i don't remember them being particularly uncomfortable before i fell asleep but they are also thinner since they have no lens
i think they were blackouts, not black sclera, i looked into that, looks really hard to get on
Lol, I could never forget them they are so uncomfortable. Someone I know is so ditzy that she puts 2 in. Stacking lenses.
i'm kinda happy because it's one less point of contention between me and people like you, because i was always sus on that hippy cunt from day one, i mean back 2007 or whenever it was he started twatter
https://media.tenor.com/2jWOsJWVfrYAAAAC/notimpressed-bridgetregan.gif
if this exemplifies the ethical quality of the human race who in their right mind wants to bring children to suffer this?
We just have to ignore their noise and keep building.
Tick tock, next block... and feature... and meetup.
Well, you need two keys to move Bitcoin, and they write elsewhere that the key is fingerprint-protected.
The larger problem, for me, is that they are marketing their hardware wallet by insisting that holding all of your own keys and using seed phrases is irresponsible and risky and (literally, over the inheritance argument).
THINK ABOUT THE CHILDREN.
literally all that was different between bitcoin and fiat banking. what a genius
another of jack's travesties:
> In 2013, seed phrases were a major step forward — replacing private keys and their unwieldy string of numbers and letters with a simple set of real words. They made recovering lost wallets easier and helped bring self-custody to more people. But today, they remain a single point of failure and as Bitcoin becomes more mainstream, a reason people choose not to hold their own Bitcoin.
>
> We’ve seen seed phrases lost, stolen, tossed in the trash, and burned in fires. We’ve heard from people too nervous to set up a wallet because they don’t trust themselves to store one phrase forever. Still, for more than a decade, wallets have continued to build new features on top of that same fragile foundation.
>
> We know there’s not one right way to self-custody. And for some people, seed phrases still make sense. But if Bitcoin is going to be the money of the future, it needs to fit into the lives of the people who will use it.
>
> That’s why we built Bitkey — to make self-custody work for as many people as possible.
>
> This is just one step forward, and an invitation to continue innovating on a project we all deeply believe in.
>
> To learn how Bitkey recovery works without a seed phrase, head to bitkey.world.
notice how they didn't say they are, or aren't keeping your key on their servers or not
because obviously they must be, and obviously they don't require you to set some password to decrypt it, so they have you fucking key
but of course they aren't gonna say that because they want as many suckers as possible to sign up for this and dump shittons of SATS into it (oh no, not bitcoins) so they can bail themselves in when their entire scam gets revealed and their fiat bank balance goes tits up and they are in receivership, at least they can pay off their creditors with YOUR sats
What hot wallet allows me to setup a predetermined amount (200 USD per day) that I can withdraw to a lightning wallet to spend everyday?
The bitkey requires me to set this amount using the bitkey. I leave the bitkey in a safe location somewhere else on the planet. So I don't have to worry about someone gaining access to funds. If they want it, they got to feed me for 200$ day.
And mash my thumb against the device every 24 hours.
this is why i decry the endless pointless whining about adoption, and look at what jack and john are doing to bitcoin in the name of "adoption" right now?
neither of them have any grasp of the principles of the thing nor this concept called "low time preference" and how sudden changes don't tend to endure
#mochi the #catstr has now got some grassies in the house
https://image.nostr.build/72d4cf53f5423d0d603a7c50a47489d204d6109c14ce4c5d19e6906b2afb5410.jpg
he had a bit of a snip at it but i think he did not want to be pushed to consume said grassies without his own internal impetus
anyway, they have been bedding in outside quite nicely and i doubt he can pull up the root ball of this now so i figured time to bring it in and let him do his thing with it
kitties are not technically "obligate carnivores" because they do actually eat a few scraps of grass blades from time to time. these grassies are quite important to their helth so when i keep kitty inside he needs access to grassies.
i am looking forward to getting the air cleaning device soon too... the spare filters are already hear but that's kinda useless until the damn machine that they load into is here
i'm hoping that i will experience as much benefit from the clean air as i suspect #mochi will
he's generally doing well these days, save for maybe 4-6 times a day having a coughing fit which usually ends with him coughing some gob of goop into his mouth and then he swallows it
this is the conundrum of nostr adoption
the more successful it is, the less it is working as intended
are they really going to stick with nostr if they just want to lap at the font of establishment dispensations anyway?
meaning is contextual, bright is opposite dark, up is opposite down
semantics are the hardest problem of logic that exists, because it literally is the result of everything else
Thank you, I'm going to get this book Jacob Liderman
i'm a big fan of electro-magnetic doom
cosmic thunderbolts and pole flips are far more deadly than volcanoes
the more that mainstream narrative interrupts my real life the less input i want to receive from this, no offense but if i recognise the name, i shut off and scroll on, maybe i even unfollow whoever is working for free for the official narrative
i think you might understand why i am so revulsed by whatever is most said
i was a punk in my yoot. that disgust towards the eagerly replicated memes mostly promulgated by malicious entities doesn't go away once you acquire it.
i may have heard that dribble at some point but i don't think this wonderpopstar is popular in eastern europe, or at all in europe in fact
i know the name, but i have zero reference of cultural impact of this appointed influencoor of the mashed, i mean masses
It has a feature where it allows you to take out a set amount per day without the device...nits very convenient being a traveler in a foreign country to know I can hit a Bitcoin ATM.
i wouldn't even know one word from a taylor swift, what?
yeah, that and forgetting to remove them... omg
i wore some nice black iris things for a goth party one night and came home and forgot to remove them, and could hardly see half of the next day
My biggest problem with contacts is that they twist around and makes the vision worse than they help
i'm just experimenting with closing one eye and i think i can solve this reading problem as equally with an eye patch as +1 prescription lens
my right eye is weaker than my left, and if i close the right eye i can read perfectly fine at the same distance
i wonder if i can get a +1 contact lens and just put in in my right eye and this problem would be solved without having the cognitive burden of maintaining my lenses or using an eye patch
I'm going to try again.
A 60 year old once told me, you don't need glasses at my age because it just blends into a happy impressionist painting, and as far as seeing people, he could feel their presence and attitude.
So I tried without glasses once after that, but I still wanted to make out the details.
Everyone is welcome to enter the ring and see 🙈 if they have some fight left for the future
idk if this is relevant but i have a vision problem now that a +1 lens helps, which is basically close range convergence, my eyes can focus from about 50cm distance but they don't seem to be able to both look at the same point in space and so it makes it very difficult to read
i am working on the solution to this, part of it seems to be magnesium, i have extra complications of celiac, meaning that i have a progressive allergic reaction that escalates the more gluten, and then once that triggers a lot of other non-human proteins make my immune system spaz, ie, casein, soy, potato, corn, etc other vegetable proteins
these complicate my situation because magnesium is the slowest absorbed mineral and even when i take enough in my diet, or add more with such as magnesium chloride or magnesium citrate or magnesium amino acid chelates it's still way down the track and on an ongoing basis, my system is deficient in magnesium
it's not quite the same physical symptoms as when plants have this deficiency, what happens to plants is they abort and reclaim the magnesium from the chlorophyll and this results in terminal necrosis of leaves and whatnot, but the net effect is they do not grow as fast
the many attacks on immune and digestive function caused by government approved food additives is making this a problem that is on the margins of all people's experience, they are having accelerated cognitive decline, decreased muscle strength, increased incidence of cramps, increased anxiety, and pile on top of this the fact that the earth's magnetic field is adding in a heap of stimuli that are further increasing anxiety
anyhow, the core issue in my vision is not distance focus but a vertical disjoint between the focal point of each eye such that i get double images of text usually about 1mm diagonal left bottom top right displaced and only the lens helps this
i actually can read the text ok, but i'm unusual in that i have 25% better than normal capability to recognise text, so the decreased precision of my vision does not impact my ability to read, such to the point i can still read about 8pt text at 50cm just fine, it's just a lot more concentration to do it.
What was your eyesight problem? I've wanted to do this (severe astigmatism) but I end up squinting to talk to people to see their faces.
our brothers who are right now swarming in orbit and gathering all the data they need for the trial of these criminals, will do a lot better than hanging
their souls will be extinguished and will nevermore be able to incarnate in this universe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYIL2JxqnuA&list=PLd9aRu5oT6WqIjaK9s07w8uFLMExwxRIb
i found that some asshat had inserted some bullshit into this playlist, and so i excrapted the actual content and removed the content and here is the playlist
this is the latest werk from mister Sir David Thrussel ET AL of the southern australian clade of humanity who has been telling you all your shit is busted for a while now, since at least 1999
and also a consummate composer of music
The 9000 series is the most reliable computer ever made. No 9000 computer has ever made a mistake or distorted information. We are all, by any practical definition of the words, foolproof and incapable of error.
if kreg is a doctor then so am i
you may call me Doctor David
https://youtu.be/IYIL2JxqnuA?list=PLHcQY4IDW00zjZHFzDqyck69kJ-xB2g6g
when the superflare or micronova hits
all the robots are ded
most of the humans who are not a few dozen metres underground preferably shielded by tin and carbon shielding
ded
then, after that, most of the land will get sloshed over by the sea as the earth's crust slips 90' and of those who are not on land high enough and far enough from the sea only those who built arks will survive and who knows where they will land when the water all drains back to the deepest places after that
if they can't survive with the dirt they land on and what they took on their ships they are ded - most low lying areas are going to be mud, basically
there is also the possibility that there was humans who already survived this twice and already are living far out in space and already have craft that can travel faster than light and they are already watching us and doing a brutal gardener thing and going to pluck all the viable ones out and zoom away with us (i hope i am in that) and leave the rest to get roasted by the micronova
i don't see myself as in any position to do anything but pray that we have ancestors who already sorted this problem out and are coming back at the appointed time to harvest the viable strains and leave the chaff to be incinerated
winner of the darwin awards for 2025
any welder who does not know that the boiling point of metal is far higher than the melting point of plastic needs to be removed from the gene pool
friedrich hayek was a legend
he understood that the final boss for socialists was pattern recognition of data and that only a free market can do this
the socialist promoters think they can replace humans with data centers to capture data and see the patterns
problem is that silicon is at least a million times more expensive in terms of power input to do the same pattern recognition computation
they are gonna find out soon, and anyone who has been going along with this sham is gonna have egg on their face
as a computer programmer, i know that my brain can reason about code better than the whole set of computers in the world could possibly achieve, and it would take a human of at minimum my capability to be able to even codify that process into code
they think they can just scale it up from 2 year old child level and somehow they are going to beat millions of years of evolution of neurological pattern recognition encoding and recognition systems
spoiler alert:
it's never going to happen
just fuck off, elites, fucking be noble or get ready to have your soul erased from all time and space
#nevent1q…t26z
what will pop the AI bubble is people doing the math and realising that human brains are 10000000x more efficient at pattern recognition than even a whole microsoft data center
we just need an AI that actually understands object inheritance and interfaces and properly understands symbol scope and concurrency and race conditions and
oh yeah, maybe we could use people to do that, since, idk, they are cheaper than silicon in terms of energy input cost
or, you know, we could like, have humans with much higher compute and language capability than a whole data center learn this shit or?
Ok im going to look this one up. Someone else highly recommended it
and small minds seldom differ 😝
might as well since in 30 years time it's all gonna be washed away anyway
Why stop there.
American Ocean.
psychos always bring out the gaslighting when they sense people are starting to see through the deception
they may yet rename the gulf of mexico too
This is why I work half-time for myself. I give myself kudos.
that's me right now as a colleague is getting kudos for writing a tiny little server that depends on the giant thing i wrote and pretends it does a better job of evaluating the data
his server would be crippled by any success of the project
yeah, not just the lack of out, the lack of water to keep clean as well
the food in the freezers thaws and mostly is lost
the shops will have zero durable foods left within days and criminals will form gangs to rip it off everyone else at gunpoint to feed their parasites
the only places that are good to be when grid down is off grid already, or very nearly off grid... i haven't got the gear but a little dingy with oars and some fishing gear and knives and axes and saws and i'm ok for a while at least
also the stories about the people flooding out to the countryside, hah. by the time they start to think of that, it's already mad max land and the people in the country have already built their citadels and have armed militia watching all the roads from the urban centers to send them the wrong way
i know it says something about german and latin yada yada but the spelling
personnes is the plural in french for person
the -el suffix is is -al in english and german, noun modifier to adjective
it is the masculine, -elle is the feminine, most words that end in -el are derived from french
just sayin'
the only overpopulation problem we have is of those who believe in overpopulation
if we depopulated that population for good this would stop
there is more than enough energy and space in the universe for our population to go on a linear trajectory for all of time
and a happy time, also, not this endless doom around teh corner bullshit
they knew about the abundance of carbon long ago, that's why they cooked up the fossil fuels narrative
the cost of extraction rises as the easy pickings are plucked but we have scarcely scratched the surface of supplies of carbon fuels, not to mention the fact that we now know how we can farm forests to produce more than enough energy
the whole thing of solar and wind power generators has only served to keep the bottom from falling out of the carbon fuel business, in actual fact, by the fact that those power sources never yield back as much energy as you need to make them. while using that imagery to stoke this completely false idea that humans will out-consume the available resources
lol, human race could live in pod city heaven taking up the land area of Texas for the entire global population
and the projected collapse of population is accelerating to the present moment now, as well, they are now saying 2075 the population will decline, but of course they are incorrectly using linear curves on this when it's a cubic curve which means human population going to start declining within 15 years anyway because nobody has anyone to have babies with, they are half sterile, the machine-labor addicted economy has no growth in customers because nobody sees a future and nobody has a family to work to feed anymore, it's all just
like you say, the factors of the collapse are all around us and people just haven't woken up to realise that if this continues every town is a ghost town, and most of the cities become ghost cities
Yeah, it's a normal thing. When the population growth begins to run wild, the "Let's Eat the Babies" or "Let's Sacrifice Warriors to the Gods" people come out.
They seem to be a natural part of the boom/bust population cycle, to be honest. They create the hysteria that begins to depress fertility. So, it's ironic, as they're hysterical because they think fertility can't be suppressed.
certain individuals and groups have clearly expressed a preference for and possess a capacity to push things in favor of their preferred outcome of massive depopulation. these people are called "eugenicists" and the last 150 years has been their age
we are now on the precipice of demographic collapse thanks to the many things they engineered, the cultural revolution, the reproductive rights movement, the kurzweil singularity movement, the brain in a jar VR pod city you will own nothing movement... they are all running out of momentum, the destructive ends that they sought are now immanent and everyone can see that if we keep going this way we are fucked... oh did i forget the fake "humans destroy the world" story that conveniently lines up with a long foretold and scientifically sound theory of cyclic massive natural disaster that we are under 25 years from passing through, that will destroy 90% of the population anyway
i do really wonder what is in the minds of these people because i know that they knew about this disaster cycle, that it wasn't just some story in genesis about a flood, in literally every folk history across the world are records of this event and not only that, but the events prior to that and tons of evidence in rocks that prove that the earth's magnetic pole was elsewhere prior to the last 5000 years
i think it's gotta be just a mentality of decay, and during times of decay, the wishes of the most morbid come to fruitition
indeed, though for me idk how that can even... i need my damn goat ranch dammit
i was expecting to eventually see some mention of this event - i don't follow astrology closely but i wound up on a subscription list for astrodienst:
> The Cancer New Moon on June 25 could bring an unexpected breakthrough: the Sun, Moon, and Jupiter are in conjunction
this also relates to this:
> The Vishnu Purana (Book Four, Chapter 24) continues to explain Lord Kalki’s activities: “By His irresistible might he will destroy all the mlecchas and thieves, and all whose minds are devoted to iniquity. He will reestablish righteousness upon earth, and the minds of those who live at the end of the Kali age shall be awakened, and shall be as clear as crystal. The men who are thus changed by virtue of that peculiar time shall be as the seeds of human beings, and shall give birth to a race who will follow the laws of the Krita age [Satya-yuga], the age of purity. As it is said, ‘When the sun and moon, and the lunar asterism Tishya, and the planet Jupiter, are in one mansion, the Krita age shall return.’” The Agni Purana (16.10) also relates that Hari, after giving up the form of Kalki, will go to heaven. Then the Krita or Satya-yuga will return as before.
> As it is said, ‘When the sun and moon, and the lunar asterism Tishya, and the planet Jupiter, are in one mansion, the Krita age shall return.’ <
sun, moon, jupiter, and "tishya" is the last 1/3rd of the sign of Cancer
i wonder if there is some connection also between Lord Kalki and the south american Kukulkan
anyway, it's now about 4 weeks away
i did see while searching for that reference from Vishnu Purana someone saying that this conjunction is once every 71 - nearly 72 years
well, idk about that, but reading up on 1953 doesn't really seem like it was a good period... the first live televised academy awards, for one... first nuclear test...
but i think that this conjunction is actually not that frequent at all, and from a perspective of electromagnetics, it means that there is a direct path for energy to flow between jupiter, the sun, the moon and earth, all 4 of them in one line, and the line is facing outwards away from the centre of the galaxy, the most directly outwards direction from us is towards Taurus, which is in fact on the next outer spiral arm of the galaxy, then gemini and then cancer, so that's 60 degrees.
anyway
reading through the descriptions of the "quality of time" in the astrology newsletter, it is very clear that there is going to be some big stuff happening in the next month and some warning to be steadfastly frugal as the temptation to great expenditure in the coming month is there
probably because there is a great deal of tension going on right now, things are really messed up and some breakthroughs are needed, and are inevitably going to be shocking
Value is relative and therefore only matters if you need to make decisions about whether to do A or B. Machines A can do A. Machine B can do B. No decision required.
the parasites
who are the least likely to go
without reason there cannot be value
Machines don't need a reason, is the thing. They require no motivation.
machines don't have a reason without humans so there's also that
biggest fallacy of the singularity narrative is that robots can be customers, i can trace that error of logic through dozens of things... like smart contracts, one of the ideas behind that had to do with robots buying stuff from robots
absolutely none of that has ever happened or will happen. the robot is just here to make the human more productive. the end.
people who consider humans to be their livestock
and the decline of population and aging demographic and lack of reproduction is gonna send us to the stone age even if somehow the earth turning over doesn't do the job
jack is 100% pure bullshit at this point
Teach them to use SeedSigner. Its probably the easiest option, and it doesn't sacrifice anything. You don't have to teach why it works - just show them the magic. Easy.
that's one i've never tried. i just avoided it like Ledger due to the non bitcoin stuff...
is it easy to use?
#asknostr
out of these, which options are safest for recommending to people who just want to save bitcoin (not spend it) or have tech skills for cold storage:
BITB etf
FBTC etf
BitKey
it would be funny if it was a legit ponzi that made it into the S&P 500
that's a great question.
i asked a Salvadorean about politics, and she gave me an explanation of how the president is supported by the cartels. that could just be the liberal news channels who are like to make people afraid of him.
but maybe some big cartel owner got into bitcoin, saw the light, and then staged a 1 man revolt from the inside, including giving a wallet with 10000 bitcoin to the current president.
so they have more than they say they do. which would also make sense because where do they get the money to buy 1 a day. it's just a national lesson in DCA brought to El Salvador by... who knows!
yes, and he's getting ready to do this
https://image.nostr.build/5bc5d890e9370fa12bd1e4f50dd0de61baf1261f1a6e6f558677c7b39b983c3c.gif
according to enoch, the records are inviolable and so also are the records of attempts to tamper with said records
the panic level of the fraudsters, poisoners, liars, murderers and megalomaniacs is off the charts at this point, is it any wonder some people suspect that this might be what John was talking about?
btw, fun fact for those who don't know CS history
plan 9 operating system was inspired by the Ed Wood movie Plan 9 from Outer Space
which featured the hungarian actor, famous for doing vampires, Bela Lugosi
the emblem of plan9 OS was an angora rabbit called Glenda, a tribute to Ed Wood and his fetish for angora sweaters, and a reference to his other movie Glen and Glenda which is some kind of not very well known trans narrative
what's hilarious to me is that almost nobody knows about these things, even though they are pivotal things in the history of computer science and operating systems
i guess i'm that weird that i know about gothic music that makes reference to an old hungarian vampire movie actor who featured in a movie that had its name stolen for an operating system by a dude who was the main (honestly) designer of the Go language
what has got me shaking my head at the moment is that the sheer fraud of the current state of the "art" (ificial) bullshit that is pumping the stock markets and prompting my boss to make endless irritating bumps of links to yet another attempt to monetise this zeitgeist
idk what to say
none of this is science
none of this even actually works
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy9h2q_dr9k
first time i heard this, i picked it out of the stack and played it on 45 and it's a 33
nice goth friend corrected the playback speed and then i heard it for the first time
#musicstr
yeah, idk, this shit is so messed up it's no wonder i'm having 1980s nostalgia rn
the only edge i have in this is that if i get it into my head i'm going to persuade the boss to do something, and i have to be very persuaded myself, then i can sell sand to the residents of the sahara
but when i see this clear exploitation going on i'm like
what is my correct response to this chap. he is trying to puff up his record with the boss while his actual effort level was at least 1/4 of mine and i was slacking
https://youtu.be/s1ATTIQrmIQ
molchat doma... russian gothic rock
you're welcome
https://youtu.be/IXIU93yBSrc
this #musicstr sums up my feeling towards everything done by 99.999% of the human race
buncha fucking fascist cock sucking ass fucking monkeys, who seem to be impervious to any kind of reason
then multiply that with bitrot
might as well just hash the entire digital copy of human history and media, that's where it's going
https://youtu.be/VvXB2_Zx0Bk
i have to watch this because i know novi sad very well
https://youtu.be/su75xWqWxLw
if you ever wanted to see what passed for rock music in the early 80s in yugoslavia
nema guce... glavo ludo
#musicstr #yugo #yugoslavia #retro
so much glam i could scream
https://youtu.be/18Ku0EaiS88
i've posed this awesome #yugo #yugoslavian #gothic music video before, but after the shit i'm seeing today, bela legosi is very ded, and the ritam macina is continuing to keep time while the rest of the band has ded
https://youtu.be/xGYG1JMQzNs
this might be the best california neopunk music i ever heard since the Descendents.
#musicstr #punkstr #retro #noughties
i'm more concerned about the concertina of chaos that is coming with the mass deception taking effect
more about the way that an elite class who pretend they are working while they do nothing and rome burns
yes, also megasats and gigasats and terasats and petasats, i think there isn't anything above petasats tho
AIs don't learn anyhing from their interaction with you
few
they aren't autonomous
these new things, AI agents, can actually sorta learn some stuff, i think it's a hybrid of ML systems like whatever the shit is called that python dweebs use... liquid something or machine hoax or something
LLMs are just souped up predictive text generators, that's why they call them GPT, Generate Predictive Text
they don't have memory or context, they just vomit a shit on your screen based on what shit they got filled with by some fancy dweebs sitting in a fancy office in california or something, while sipping lattes and getting their sock cucked. oh, did i say that?
the level of gaslighting being inflicted on highly intelligent, mostly well trained computer programmers is obscene, at this point
and here i am sitting writing a whole shitload of code that actually pulls, parses, makes sense of, filters, condenses and stores in a database, then compares the records to each other to try and find similarities
while my colleague pulls MY data, runs his stupid library function on MY filtered data and produces a score and nobody seems to be aware of the fact that i just spent like 4 months writing this shit and jonny come lately didn't even write a code to actually collect the forum posts to add to his comparison grid, in fact, he didn't even explain what his code even did, because it's obvious to me now it's just comparing the JSON of my filtered database records
idk even what to say, the level of fraud going on in IT with this shit is beyond ridiculous, now i have seen it right in front of me you can't fool me any more, you all are deluded and as i understand how this tech works, you clowns are going to produce EXACTLY ZERO productivity increases for anyone except for the assholes who are selling this fraud, not even you, will really gain, you lying ass piece of shit pretending to "vibe code"
i'm gonna need a few minutes to vent all this steam out of me after realising i have been bamboozled as i already suspected i was being bamboozled and this was causing me a great deal of stress and it has all meant nothing and i'm supposed to smile and say "carry on"
uh. no. you all are collaborating in one of the most epic frauds in history and i think it may already have exceeded covid at this point
also i actually paid for this shit lol
idk what to say
the fake apology from psycho machine was not even compilable or correct according to my codebase
i'm done
these AIs are literally playing mind games with people
i'm literally being gaslit by the gemini 2.5 flash LLM right now, i asked it to generate a test, and in the log there is no test shown
it was playing nice with me the other day, but ok, today, AI literally is lying to me
i have seen this movie before
it only fixed it when i told it, that it was lying, and now it generates the goddamn test
GENUG
i'm going back to working on my protocol design because i think i'm more qualified to make such a design
yeah, i don't think i'm in any real danger of being considered "low value asset" at this point
what prompted this was realising that my colleague was using a simple text comparison engine to create a score while i wrote a whole advanced set theory based comparison engine based on the data set, that even uses an advanced time schedule comparison system and fuzzy text matching on user generated short text data?... what prompted this post was when he said "oh, it doesn't include the social post activity of the users" paraphrased
i'm like, lol, and here i was thinking that you were actually doing something more than just writing one call to one library to compare two pieces of text
i'm like, wut?
so the idea used to be:
short fiat long bitcoin --> borrow convertible debt at lower interest rates than what individual investors can
it was understandable for someone who wanted to short the fiat system and didn't mind the volatility
however now they have made a sort of Rube Goldberg machine with STRF and STRK preferred shares. the 10 and 8 % dividends of the preferred shares are always paid out by selling shares of MSTR into the market.
it should be no problem since the price of the underlying bitcoin collateral should grow much faster than the 10% and 8% fiat dividends. and they are well over-collateralized (5 to 1).
the MSTR shareholders are betting that the price of bitcoin will rise much quicker than the 10 and 8% dividends, plus the Bitcoin bought by the STRF and STRK shareholders grows faster than the dividends and increases MSTR shareholders Bitcoin per share.
the worry is that sentiment drives MNAV right now and not any underlying business model.
tfw you realise you are probably one of the actually hardest working people (in terms of productive output) in your company but you officially work the least hours
because the debugger interface thing is a pile of shit maybe?
wennst du nichts haben zu sagen, sagen was die andere gesagt
i agree with this but the trendy thing these days is to be replaced by robots you know
Douglas Adams was wrong
the answer to the meaning of life, the universe, and everything, is training an AI
and we all know that they have internal motivations to do things like actual life forms
don't make me goose meme you
the use of websockets is the number one reason why nostr doesn't have functioning auth
there is also a phobia among front end devs about calling "sign" functions for some reason, probably because they don't understand that kind of voodoo mathematics
this is what has my wheels spinning more than the proof of reserves:
https://njump.me/nevent1qqsfh73lnmuy8sc43gh7vt56f5fq8men9cepvd2vnduyavl8tkafx8cpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7q3qg49uyac6d83sss7sln8aumsstle7m3wxwwvc8mmpqsnr8e9f2cdqxpqqqqqqzjmw0xk
beware, the bitcoin vandals are minting hard at the moment... 6sat/vbyte current peak fee and much of the next block is dickpics
Yeah, it does make sense. this could be low hanging fruit for the new MSTR competitors to establish public addresses.
"Like MSTR but with proof-of-reserves"
thinking out loud here:
do Berkshire Hathaway investors ask to see bank info for the 300 billion USD on their balance sheet?
Do Apple investors worry about TIm Cook not promising for share buybacks? how much of the value in the stock can't actually be redeemed by USD on the balance sheet.
so if Michael is refusing to do buybacks, the only thing he wants to do is invest in his own business similar to a growth tech company. I interpret that as he is not competing with ETP products.
AIs are like the idiot savant at the new wave party who knows every last new wave band and factoid about every member of the band and all of their tour dates and notable facts, and you might be the lead singer from one that he doesn't know about, so he will be like "oh, i never heard of you before, do tell" lol
this doesn't apply to running a relay
really it is about the client, i think?
there is no network if you let spammers determine the LCD of the equation
i killed a rat today
it's not very often you are just walking along, minding your own business, and some pest is just sitting there like it was stunned or something
it was a very pretty little rat, very clean, beautiful brown fur
it bit me as i tried to crush it to death with my boot, and that prompted me to target its' head because i did not like the squals it made
i felt like a murderer after this incident
i suppose you might say it's fate would have been worse had it been a hungry full grown male cat instead of me
still felt horrible killing this little animal
moving the overton window's scope and boundaries (always widening) > anything political
narrowing it is what cults are always doing, and politics tends to see a contraction of the overton window
only art and philosophy can make the world better, politics can only make it worse
no-one: what blockchain should we use for this?
me: none
no-one: that wasn't an available answer
me: i am the Doctor No of computer science, if the question is "do we need a blockchain" the answer is "No"
about 50% of the time the AI generates non-compilable code and i say that and it's all like "oh yes, sorry i made a mistake"
*hal voice* The 9000 series is the most reliable computer ever made. No 9000 computer has ever made a mistake or distorted information. We are all, by any practical definition of the words, foolproof and incapable of error.
yeah, think it terms of post scarcity, where you can engineer it like a communist worker would do it
i have been routinely building realy on a 2gb machine WHILE the relay is also running
at one point said blockchain server required over 16gb of memory to compile btw
it's been a thing since at least 2016 "oh yeah i have no problems running this ridiculous blockchain server on my 64gb 10 core 20 thread ddr4 machine" they sed. *me looks at measly atom netbook*
and they don't want to trust uncle semisol
Interesting. I was trying to read the Talmud a while back as it seems like a foundation for legal documents.
Apparently there is also a Talmudic advice: "divide your wealth into three parts". One part buried, one part in your possession and one part in business...
i saw a good article yesterday that basically said that "neocon = fascist"
a notable thing that i saw all around the region near Bologna, in Italy, was these labels and signs and some where on the ground some were on walls "private property"
fascists pretend to believe in private property, except when it doesn't suit them, then you must give up your property for the Fatherland
and that "who" is the council, but otherwise "you own your business"
so when communists look at free market libertarians, they just see the private property signs and say "ah, fascists"
it was the neocons that started all the shit in the middle east, and that's because they are aligned with the neocons in Tel Aviv who have been wanting to declare the entire persian gulf to be Greater Israel since way back.
and it turns out that the worst fascists are actually Talmudists, and they want to make war on muslims AND christians both, and they don't care what you think you are, you are cattle and you must obey, like the "proles" in 1984, whatever you do, they don't care, so long as you show up to work in the factory. Probably better if you are drugged up THX1138 style even, so they can look down on you for compromising all of your standards and morals, in addition to not being from the right family.
surveillance capitalism surveillance capital sorry yeah that's the word and what we have here on the one hand is we have these um millinarian Christians who want to um you know create war in the Middle East so then you know basically using Israel as a a pawn in their own scheme so then they can ascend and create the apocalypse and so you have them on the one hand working
1:04:59
handinhand with these Al people uh in Silicon Valley who have equal delusions
1:05:06
but they're pretending to be atheists rather than religious they're pretending to be utilitarianisms where they're
1:05:13
praying to this um this god of their own making right this molloc of um of
1:05:20
silicone uh that they think they'll get AGI out of which will never happen because all life according to biomiotics
1:05:27
has a digital component and an analog component you have digital codes and analog they just want digital they think
1:05:33
that ones and zeros is enough that you can get to actual consciousness from ones and zeros and bioatics is bollocks
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Wow I'm blown away by this guy's grasp on things:
https://youtu.be/6hHRtu8Y2sM
#ragecoding is the opposite of vibe coding
you don't use anyone else's tools, you build everything yourself, you do it by hand, and you do it because you are pissed off at dweebs like you who write trash code and get lauded
i fell down a rabbithole over this exact matter two years ago towards the end of the period i was working on indra
i didn't get to making any concrete calculations out of it but indeed, there is a finite field contained within every finite field, but they are finite, but they are also a lot larger than the number that generates them. fundamentally this is the basis of arithmetic groups, anyway, which are the basis of cryptographic signatures and are used to generate cipher streams in symmetric cryptography.
machine translated by google translate, but anyway, i wanted to read this better. I have read the Book of Jubilees and one version of Enoch, i have a volume with the ethiopian, orthodox and jewish versions, i would also mention The Book of Jasher as another similar text to Genesis and Jubilees, Jasher, interestingly, specifies that Adam and Eve were supposed to be in the Garden for a 7 year period and it's almost spelled out that the purpose of their visit to the Garden was precisely learning agriculture, which is not so clear in other versions:
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The Apocalypse of John is filled with references to stories from the Old Testament, and in it we can also find symbols that can only be found in the Book of Jubilees and in the Book of Enoch (ge'ez) can be observed, such as the angel of the abyss, the other thousands of beings trapped in the abyss, such as the creation of the spirits of voice, which are beings seen by John in the Apocalypse, Elijah sees this voice too, soon after meeting the spirit of fire, which is described in the creation on the first day in the Book of Jubilees and in the Book of Enoch he describes it as a being from another dimension, which despite being made of fire can assume human form. These beings of voice, fire, lightning and thunder appear in Exodus 20 in the delivery of the Law, the ten commandments, they appear when Daniel sees the Messiah in the celestial environment, they are specimens of angels.
The Book of Jubilees and the Book of Enoch were preserved in Ethiopia, in the Ge'ez language, in a Bible made in the 4th century by a Roman Christian, the pages are made of animal skin and it includes personalized iconography. The material, combined with the church's zeal, ensured the preservation of the book for more than a millennium and today we have scans of it available on the internet.
There are copies of the Book of Jubilees among the Dead Sea Scrolls and pieces of the Book of Enoch (such as the Weeks of Enoch) and pieces of the Book of Giants, mentioned in the Ethiopian Book of Enoch.
What are the Dead Sea Scrolls? In 1950, two Bezuin shepherds trying to smuggle goats into the West Bank ended up having to take a very personalized route to get around border monitoring and thus ended up entering the desert and finding the caves with the Dead Sea Scrolls. These scrolls were preserved in vases by a desert community that began four centuries before Christ. They called themselves the Community, which in their language is Jahad, and were called Essenes by those in the city. The texts of the Dead Sea Scrolls were translated in 2000.
The Essenes were secessionists (as can be seen in their documents), they disagreed with the way the temple was being administered and so they created an independent community in the desert where they began to make copies of the Holy Scriptures. They have dozens of copies of the Torah and the prophets, as well as the books I mentioned (and many other documents as well).
These two preserved versions of these texts are two witnesses to the importance of these books. In the introduction to the Book of Enoch (first four pages in Ge'ez), often not included in translations, he is very clear in saying that his books will only be made available to the underground and that he would never publish his books through mainstream methods.
Read these books and ask the Messiah what He tells us about this.
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IMO, one need only to be familiar with Jesus' sayings and then read Enoch and tell me whether Jesus had read Enoch. The roman catholics hid Enoch because they knew it would lead people to realising that the descendants of the fallen angels were the cardinals of their church. In Revelation and Enoch both it is referred to as the Synagogue of Satan.
#nevent1q…fxe3
https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi-99/practical-byzantine-fault-tolerance
Castro and Liskov, 1999
This paper describes a new replication algorithm that is able to tolerate Byzantine faults. We believe that Byzantine-fault-tolerant algorithms will be increasingly important in the future because malicious attacks and software errors are increasingly common and can cause faulty nodes to exhibit arbitrary behavior. Whereas previous algorithms assumed a synchronous system or were too slow to be used in practice, the algorithm described in this paper is practical: it works in asynchronous environments like the Internet and incorporates several important optimizations that improve the response time of previous algorithms by more than an order of magnitude. We implemented a Byzantine-fault-tolerant NFS service using our algorithm and measured its performance. The results show that our service is only 3% slower than a standard unreplicated NFS.
i was expecting to see Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance paper in 1999 on that chart and it is missing. it's a precursor to bitcoin't consensus and basically "Proof of Stake" chains all use it, more or less the same except with some variation of first past the post on some token with a timestamp lock to select the (max 100, according to Cosmos Game of Chains research, before it starts to increase latency).
so uh. yeah, that definitely should be in there because it was a blockchain and it created a 2/3 byzantine fault tolerant database.
for others who may be curious about different forms of magnesium and which are actually absorbed (from https://www.verywellhealth.com/types-of-magnesium-what-they-are-and-how-to-choose-8748803 ):
8. Magnesium Chloride
Magnesium chloride may increase dietary magnesium and help treat certain health conditions.
Some research suggests that magnesium chloride may benefit people with type 2 diabetes (when the body does not use the hormone insulin properly, causing high blood sugar).21
In one study, people with prediabetes (having high blood sugar levels not high enough to qualify as type 2 diabetes yet) were randomly assigned to take either magnesium chloride or a placebo (an ineffective substance given to people in a control group) daily for four months.
At the end of the study, those who took magnesium chloride significantly reduced fasting and post-meal glucose levels compared to those who took the placebo.21
Magnesium chloride has a high bioavailability and is thought to be absorbed more thoroughly than other forms of magnesium.1
National Institutes of Health. Magnesium - fact sheet for health professionals.
Magnesium L-Threonate vs. Magnesium Citrate: Which Is Right for You?
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note also how it talks about how MgCl2 is helpful for diabetes... obviously it must be helping the kidneys in some way too
i won't be surprised if it turns out this helps me correct my vision convergence problem and i can stop wearing +1 glasses
#nevent1q…ujda
that npub seems to be wrong
i'm seriously wtf ing at the lack of effect of this magnesium chloride
i've consumed what amounts to probably 5g of it and i'm not feeling any effects on my intestines
it is making me feel pretty calm tho
i thought that such a large amount of magnesium salt would surely cause the peristalsis to accelerate in the intestines but right now not experiencing that effect at all, nearly 2 hours since first taking about half a teaspoon, and another hour since a second half a teaspoon
i'm gonna be amused if this is a form of magnesium that i can actually absorb, after all these years knowing i needed something to boost my magnesium, and wtf MgCl2 is bioavailable to my messed up digestive system???
shitcoin monerothereum VC backed pump and dump
but it's better ™️ because it's private ™️
#nevent1q…njqm
got magnesium chloride, strangely they didn't have sulfate at the pharmacy... and cetirizine, which i know is a pretty sleepy antihistamine
drank two red bulls and had a shot of espresso as well
i can breathe normally now but i'm feeling a little dizzy, anyway, the plan was to get the insides flushed and put me into a doze as it's my day off for recovering lol
worst. weekend. ever.
yeh... i really did a number on myself... gluten containing sausages, milk with extra whey, and then stop smoking at the same time
i'm feeling a bit less wheezy this morning but due to the nature of what i ate over the weekend it's slow going on the way down and out
probably gonna visit the nice pharmacist and buy some magnesium sulfate to get the tubes cleared out because the allergen is bloating my whole intestines right now... and a can of red bull to get the lungs to open up a bit
yeah, i am noticing more and more that visual things are giving me the WTF a lot more and more
it's really unsettling... i don't like being around cars at all these days, they all seem to be literally turning into some kind of horror movie monsters
I was lacking conviction and feeling bad about $MSTR, because I had traded the builder mindset for a trader mindset of stock options and get-rekt quick schemes.
When I realized that Saylor is trying to rescue my parents' pension plans, the thing (for me) to do is buy the stock, tell friends to buy STRK, tell my parents about the STRF.
I have renounced gambling on options. It seems that only works when you are on God's good list or have visited Building 8 (aka Mr Mandell).
I'm selling calls on GameStop, because it's just a game. Someone has to feed the hungry apes. And I believe someday they will have their day and my capped upside will be their tropical island vacation.
When GME goes to 500, someone will make $50,000 on my one call that is 50$
You're welcome friends.
i am in no fit state to do nothing right now lol... i hope i'm gonna be better tomorrow morning because i have work to do
i have utterly wasted my whole weekend trying to get realy working and i smoked last friday just around midday
oh well, i guess that was expected, i did basically tell myself "well, you need as much time as possible so you will be able to work by monday" and then i was like "ok, we aren't going to buy any more cigarettes"
right now is the worst of it... i dunno if i'm bronchoconstricted or just in some kind of panic state, my back is tense that's for sure
can't seem to relax at all... and not in the "relax" way as in to get comfortable doing anything on a sustained basis
even this writing right now i'm borderline not going to lol
also, you have to have working auth, just sayin,
it is related tho, it's about restricting access to a category of events right? then it's a privileged event
to make it work you have to tag the event in some way to recognise it
what would you call events that should not be given to people not part of the conversation?
isn't that exactly what privilege means?
So I went and had a look at how much they cost:
600: $3900
700:$2900
Crayon-eater math says those could be worth $40000 to $240,000 by January.
I'm sticking to buying just the stock though as I feel call options are a bit too decadent for me right now and I still don't understand exactly how they work.
I'm these moments, I asked myself, what would Warren Buffett do. He once said cash is like a perpetual call option with no expiration. He only sells premiums on cash to buy at lower prices.
Imagine this scenario, Jon:
QQQ crashes due to historic P/E ratios (1929 repeat)
Bond market crashes
Real estate values crash due to impossibly high bond yields.
Even Bitcoin crashes because every bit of leverage has been wiped out of the system, and the major financial institutions are bleeding retail dry first.
MSTR MNav trades at least than 1 for a few days.
No one understands what's happening, we don't even trust what the ticker prices are telling us from minute to minute.
I sound like a major orange piller. But I think it's important to say these are uncharted waters. No need to risk losing our valuable time saved when Bitcoin is all we needed.
getting to the end of day 2 of stopping smoking again
ironically, having a case of bronchoconstriction, i think it's because of the chouriso i'm eating lately, probably has some nasty amount of gluten in it
wish i was dead right at the moment
didn't sleep properly last night either
don't seem to be able to sleep now i stopped smoking lol, great
starting to understand why i seem to be on a mission to poison myself when nobody ever listens to me
i suppose at least some people get an inkling i've got something to say
not running #realy on my vps anymore because it's b0rked, it's eating memory like nobody's business
just cleaned house and rearranged things and i have my full node also running the realy but it blows up the memory and i'm not running it
i'm over this shit, i hardly change anything and kaboom yay sockets blow up memory
probably need to rewrite the whole fuckin thing to make it work in a reasonable way but i'm over it
done. finished
also very disappointed that i've been using the expression "privileged events" for at least a year and it seems that nobody remembers, what am i talking for?
it's been in the codebase of realy since before i changed the name to realy, it was even part of replicatr
i'm disappointed a little
just sayin but um... you didn't hear this from me before?
that would qualify. it's an event that should be private to the user and the middleman and nobody else should see it. thus, privilege.
one that only npubs named in the event have any business requesting, or seeing
eg, user settings, eg DMs, eg access control lists
btw, little known fact: celiac anaphylaxis resembles asthma, and is worse than covid anaphylaxis, speaking of covid
i was down for 3 days with covid but that was a picnic compared to what happened when i was 7 months eating a loaf of bread a day
the notion of privileged events still hasn't really percolated even though i've implemented it now for a year
it's pretty silly because you can't ask an IMAP server for someone else's emails why would nostr want to buck that trend?
i prefer her idea, just add them to the nip-05 and check that for auth privilege... just cache it anyway, and regularly sync it up, it's all the same
about the only thing that i see as an issue with it is that it's public
best i can figure it's a remnant of the days when every man had a rifle
allergies make a person into an outcast, can't eat the "normal" foods, have issues with many "normal" things
one of the key ways that people develop allergies is from excessive use of vaccines
#nevent1q…0606
i disagree, triple antigens were a bad idea too, i'm pretty sure it was what caused me to have celiac disease
yes, they don't shoot them at night time either, it's about the sudden BOOOM not something to watch
i have no idea, and fortunately i live far from where there is a lot of it going on, in boaventura maybe there is like 5 dudes who shoot these things off but where i lived before, in sao vicente, all summer long all weekends, and half of the week
i hope we get some of that so there isn't much more fireworks today, already 2x boom boom
wat would you do if you couldn't find a loo in an english counttry... garden
pull down your pants and do it in the plants in an english countrty... garden
IMO, all requests should have to be authed
signing and verifying signatures is not that expensive an operation with the EC cryptography
and then you don't need the stupid socket, and its nebulous auth state
when i was a kid, girls were girls, now they all seem to think they have to look like they are army recruits
also, it's quite funny how many people have that thought but don't actually think about what is required to achieve it
there isn't a design for this existing yet, bunkers are part of the equation, but the relay has to actually act as a full blown proxy to do this not just bouncing auth messages for bunker and client
also, another hidden feature of this that isn't understood is that it is essentially shoving more stuff to the relay side of the equation, and isn't the nostr relay "dumb"? how do you expect that it's going to serve as a proxy as well as a relay all in one?
it's not as simple as "forwarding requests" if you include auth in the equation
but nobody includes auth in the equation, because you don't need auth on the modern internet, just let the nigerian spammers send emails in your name already!
protip:
don't use sockets on a protocol unless you build clients in paralel with the servers
most front end languages don't cope with concurrency and keeping track of 3-50 separate relay connections and what has been going on with them is like,
"computer says no"
javascript = 1 interface thread, one service worker thread
to manage all those sockets, ping and poing and all that?
why do you think HTTP is a simple request/response protocol and that's what 99% of the web uses?
yeah. think about it.
also i refuse to use gossip because every time i try to install it, it seems like i have to read some manual that was never written about how to get it to talk to my relay list
well, i just made realy actually save one event that was tried to be sent, and if the client auths that event will be saved but the flow is broken, the client won't know it happened, but it will find the event later when it asks for it
literally, coracle, jumble, nostrudel, all extremely patchy at this
also, just sayin' but realy is typically running about 30-50 coroutines during normal operation, and none of the clients manage more than a few concurrent processes at best
yeah, and amethyst is another crazy situation, it does auth quite well but it absolutely hammers relays with requests
you can't have a multi-user system without auth. you just can't.
unix has had multi-user auth since like 1978 or something, i mean, guys, i wasn't even born when this became a standard...
Ok that's impressive. I renounce being a tiny bit OP and welcome British Hodl into my mental space.
I never listen to them and got clickbaited into the episode in which Marty spoke like British Hodle.
I put British on my "don't follow list" last year for almost convincing me to sell MSTR for BTC etfs.
However he came around I suppose I should forgive him.
obviously
they only did anything at all because of people like me constantly calling them nasty names over it
they sorta work, but sorta not, the auth is not implemented right on their side, i'm sure of it, but i'm the beggar and they are the ones with stipends
i got around the problem of clients not following THE FUCKING SPEC and resending events when they get a CLOSED:auth-required reply (though they almost all respond to the auth and auth) and so i thought... oh yeah, i just need to save the event and when it auths store it since it is authed
the clients don't know it's being saved
https://i.imgflip.com/9v2p7j.jpg
#nevent1q…3aga
nostr clients are so broken, i'm so over it... i just wanted my relay to actually accept my events somehow this works... the post interface says it times out but the relay says it saved it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq7FKO5DlV0
literally can't even use my relay now with jumble, so i got nostrudel and coracle open now, nostrudel mostly works, so probably will be my main for now until #alexandria gets here
thanks! this guy just popped out of the ether like a magician.
this solved the problem, but i also had to remove code that used mute lists because they are busted as fuck just like auth and clients
well, the client pulls events from places that store shit i don't want to see, oh well
but now that realy is actually fully saving everything if this pathetic minimal standard of auth applies, it means that other users can now send their events to my relay properly and actually get them stored which means ... at some point i may be able to just use this one and only publish events to my follows relays when i reply/tag/react
i already removed nostr land because fuck that guy for being so rude
it's just realy and theforest now, because that's all i need and now that realy works, it will actually start to show me the events people who are using the relay are posting or replying to me/etc
#nevent1q…sft6
i'm testing this now, it works
the only caveat was i had to remove the mute list blocking because somehow stella is on the mute list it sees and dat's not right!
probably need to do some investigation into how the mute lists actually look because i think i saw there was maybe dozens for my account, all different and all retarded or old or something
so, meh, leaving it out, though thinking about it, there is code to check users mute lists and that means it's not gonna send me these events that previously weren't being saved also >_<
nicey nicey cody tseng thinks that users want secret mute lists and everything goes to custard in realy town
better fix it anyways
also, just go look at what is happening in south africa
the afrikaners (white farmers) are now trying to get out of the country and the government is trying to keep them in - because these farmers can't be replaced with stupid black people yet, because the stupid black people haven't done farming school yet
the israelis don't want them going out either, i don't think it's even that easy to do without being killed but what would be better, cower and cry waiting for the bomb or get shot in the back trying to leave?
#LittleTokio
https://i.nostr.build/EEaTubqvRRUCoEuW.jpg
exactly
those who are staying are hoping that sympathy will either restrain the enemy or bring vengeance upon them, but it's essentially suicide if you have been catching what actually goes on and how brutalised and brainwashed the israelis and IDF are. pure mass insanity, mind control cult maybe one of the biggest in the world. they all are cheering for kill arabs, those filthy swine, and after we have our way with them we are coming for the christians too.
if i was an 18 year old in gaza i'd be planning a trip to iran to sign up to do whatever possible to destroy israel forever
and i mean literal leviathan, and satan, and azazel and all that... these people despise humanity
i don't think it's anything about being polite, you wanna die? stay put. leviathan is coming, and we don't have the weapons to defeat him
megalomaniacs don't see humans, they just see tools and obstacles so they do like you would do to a messy workshop
Scheiss Sauwetter, echt heh. ☔
Thanks. ❤️
I had to tie my hair up because the incessant rain made it a frizzy mess, but I'm consoled by the new emergency-bought coat, with that amazing mint color.
Marta grew up and got an orange parasol
so, since the clients are retarded about auth, i think, since they do auth, but then forget to send the event again, i will add an unapproved queue to the socket so if it happens to auth, the events get saved, anyway
i mean, seriously, jumble, coracle and nostrudel all do the same thing, send event, then realy sends closed auth-required then they auth and then... silence, and then usually they disconnect the socket in time for you to try and send again... so now, it can just save events if it gets auth
idk even what to say, do you client devs actually test this?
Erste Walderdbeeren 🤩
https://i.nostr.build/7ENA7Ea6gNXByiNu.jpg
#Japantag
https://www.visitduesseldorf.de/erleben/veranstaltungen/japan-tag-duesseldorf-nrw
https://i.nostr.build/AhbqREMvLZ4xb1X5.jpg
#Düsseldorf
https://i.nostr.build/biZg0DP13b3YFsvA.jpg
New raincoat.
New profile pic.
https://i.nostr.build/IpEPoX0NvRo38vHE.png
frankly i'm not surprised that there has been incidents, such as with pablo fernendez, of VPS hosts kicking their relays off
because they have to be spam magnets to work with the clients
the rest of the internet requires authentication, for reasons that i don't think i really need to explain to people who pretend to be web developers
i am hereby officially giving up on trying to build a server with actual spam resistance because clients still don't have, 18 months since i was first screaming about it, functioning support for auth
i am quite sure that literally their code doesn't understand that auth is per socket not per IP, because even after i send a message, and they auth back, then i try a few seconds later to broadcast another note or something, and mysteriously the listener has no authed pubkey in it
BECAUSE IT"S A GODDAMN DIFFERENT SOCKET CONNECTION
there's no way this is my fault, i can't make the assumption that just because an IP address had someone auth from it that next time that IP is used it's going to be the same user
that's it, i'm done, really
i'll keep using nostr but i am doing no more dev to build a server for clients that don't respect the rights of relay property
#nevent1q…a9mc
nostr nip guardians don't give a fuck about this or they'd be suggesting that all authed connections should be sending an auth every time with the header using NIP-98
instead, we are left, those of us who aren't made of money, to expose our relay deployments to wide open, no auth, and pray to God that we don't get slammed by spammers
i just can't even any more, fuck all of you dickheads who think auth is a privacy violation
guess what, using my relay's data storage for your trash is a property violation
i think the clients aren't tracking how many sockets they are opening, i can even see that the connections are coming from the same IP on multiple source ports
i'm giving up on this shit, it's obviously not my fault
yeah, looking closer there might be some memory utilization issue going on actually, but idc, i'm still sus on that bugarski lot lol
here on madeira the dogs that are owned by people are kept in tiny little enclosures and yap their lungs out all day long and into the evening... if you meet dogs on the street they are usually very submissive and flee at your appearance, those are pretty much all strays
yeah, true, israelis were a prominent part of the drug supply back in the late 90s in northern nsw as well, was mostly acid and mdma back then tho
i bet bibi is fond of meth too
also, the new one has more memory, and costs 1/3rd ... VPS provider is called EDIS global and i've used them in the distant past... i just figured, i want something that is not officially part of the EU so i don't get nagged with bullshit from bruxelles diktats about internet services
it could well even be that cloudflare was proactively fucking around with the DNS and/or the VPS provider uses cloudflare because they never admitted it to me but today i even had an issue with the elfspice.com nip-05 and the cors test site that nostrudel directs you to showed they were definitely tampering with the traffic, so fuck them, and fuck cloudflare
namecheap at least has the value of the customer at heart instead of using lame bullshit to fuck around with customer's server traffic
they are gonna go next door soon tho... probably invading syria will be the nazi talmudists invading poland to kick things off... turkey will almost get mad about it... but i could be wrong, i seem to recall israel has already fired missiles and even sent in ground units to syria and lebanon and nobody blinks
#realy #devstr #progressreport
so i changed my VPS to a new one. i unfortunately paid ahead quite a bit for the one in bulgaria so i've begged them to refund me my balance. no idea if they will, probably not. meh.
the thing is, the new one, which seems to be running with the same exact management system (identical UI anyway) which is based in Belgrade now, instead of Sofia, and i've enabled namecheap's PremiumDNS service as well, and am using it also as my DNS for my wireguard tunnel that goes through that VPS now, and i'm not seeing the same problem as before
expected behavior, based on what was happening with my local test instance:
refresh page
post or broadcast a note
server sends back CLOSED auth-required
client auths
client resends event
happiness
actual behaviour on old VPS
all of the above except for some reason on the test realy it would auth instantly, and of course then any event publish works, but on the one running on the vps, it wouldn't auth at first, and randomly would sometimes auth and then start to accept until that socket closed and the merry go round starts again
on the new VPS
same as test version, no problems, not my bug, fuck you vps.bg
This is awesome. The Utopia of the future will be swimming in any water anywhere
Im trying to help my mom retire with a correct portfolio like Harry Browne portfolio (25% cash, 25% gold, 25% bond, 25% stocks).
Can $STRF replace all the Bond part of the portfolio IYO?
the other thing that got me thinking about the Josh Mandell versus Saylor is, they are looking at the world 2 entirely different ways. 1 is a trader who sees the market as the ultimate designer. the other is an engineer who is building things for the future. what Saylor has envisioned and the scale that he is building is hard for the rest of us to understand.
it's like 100 years ago if cars were introduced on the horse race track. all the traders in the stand think it's exciting that this new thing always beats the horses, and they are content to place their bets on the cars versus the horses when most people only understand horses.
and Saylor is sitting in the stand looking at the cars and visualizing highways, stoplights, exit ramps, cloverleafs, and Howard Johnson motels.
I have been listening to Jeff Walton & RyQuant now for about a year. I try to find the best mind and then just trust him. Since he has gotten a little closer to Saylor, I can't say he's completely independent anymore, but I agree with you.
I think since MNav is 1.8 and Saylor targets 2.1, it's like getting a 16% discount. Or maybey my numbers are wrong. But it feels right to buy now, and trust Saylor to do what he needs to keep the torque/premium up as he's getting handed billions of dollars from S&P inclusion.
I really don't like MSTY. I feel like it's the Lilliputians that are trying down The giant.
Sort of like a hot air balloon taking off, there's a point at which all the ropes break. All those synthetic MSTY things will go to 0 and punish the unfaithful for not just buying the stock itself.
I'm just kidding, I don't want all my MSTY friends to suffer like that but it is a cult.
Taking a break from eating crayons to report on GME FIRE (financial independence retire early).
i bought 500 shares at $30 a piece of $GME.
next i sold 5 covered calls at 40$ per 100 shares for May 30 at $46 strike price.
I pocketed the $200 for the time frame May 23-May 30.
if $GME really goes to $46, i would make a $8000 profit (10 months of living expenses) or just buy some bitcoin.
if I can keep this up, i'll cover my rent and living expenses in the jungles of central america where minimum wage is 365$/month.
this was my inspiration. I'm with you GrazyDavy:
https://npub1g49uyac6d83sss7sln8aumsstle7m3wxwwvc8mmpqsnr8e9f2cdq6ltqvs.blossom.band/a5c68b96e5de546f0d15ce469ee8bc29ae967c230d5842664fca9e70322e1bb6.png
i did also notice recently again appearing VPN blocking pages appearing occasionally over my wireguard connection to the VPS but the IP hasn't changed and for over 6 months it had been fine
so someone is changing some policy and i didn't agree to it and i'm done with this because this is giving me a complex about my dev skills when an identical codebase is working on one machine and not another
it's your node, you can filter traffic as you like
to hold any other position is to disagree with the fundamental defense of property rights that bitcoin itself enforces
bitcoin's blockchain is a shared property, and what goes in it is the result of what everyone wants to see go in it, it's automatically democratic and up until the latest release of bitcoin core, there was a widespread policy of limiting OP_RETURN to 80 bytes, even though the protocol does not dictate this
the profitability of the spammers is already done, scams don't last long, and it's just some trash in the history of the blockchain, and the act of changing this policy to allow it to be whatever is empty because it's more expensive per byte than witness data anyway, so why change it? why do anything at all?
fuck this i'm getting a new server
the CLIENT (nostrudel) is not responding to the auth request... but it does from the other instance running on my machine, which means somewhere along the line, packets are being dropped by someone, which includes the client ignoring it, but why from one and not the other???
case in point
https://images.mleku.dev/9I/Screenshot%20from%202025-05-24%2012-09-10.png
so, the anomalous behaviour i'm finding now with the difference between my test relay and the one on the vps is that when i refresh next.nostrudel.ninja and it connects fresh, on the local test relay it auths right away, but on the vps it doesn't
everything else is identical and if i try again after the first time it has authed and it works
i also notice anomalous headers when i was doing the cors test previously on elfspice.com, looked like it had passed through a goddamn cloudflare proxy, but then i change it to mleku.dev (my nip-05) it doesn't fail the cors test which means the message has been tampered with somewhere by someone, i can only assume that the VPS infra is doing this
idk what to do about this since the auth works when it goes through my test which is still otherwise identical
also the cors stuff, the fucking bane of my existence as a web server dev
indeed, the djinn was a well known thing long before that
the orthodox have "icons" and actually much of protestants are basically ok with icons too, they say "it's not graven" lol yeah, not made of wood or stone, no, it's made of paint so that's ok, the principle of worshiping physical objects hasn't been broken
roflmao
muslims are anyway the first of the offshoots of christianity, i didn't count exactly but jesus and mary and the immaculate conception are mentioned at least 3 or 4 times
i don't know the exact details of the history but i strongly suspect that the "polytheism" that mohammed (and Gabriel) decry going on in medina were actually orthodox, as at the time i believe the catholic church was splitting and the eastern orthodox was forming and they, and the catholics both engage in idolatry
no, it's still not working
i've figured out there might be some issue with the VPS i am hosting wss://realy.mleku.dev because when i set up realy on my own system and import a shitload of events it works fine but on the VPS it shits the bed and fails to correctly get the import and it doesn't seem to correctly import the list of allowed npubs for writing
i just pushed the database store from my local version up to the vps and then restart it and lo and behold it works
what was happening was it was not authing correctly for some reason so when i tried to broadcast events it was not accepting them because i was somehow not authed
this seems to be fixed now so i have a bug in the import code still... i could see already that it was blowing up the memory and swapping like mad so i'm gonna turn this AI assistant to trying to find a way to get the import function correct, it's essential that import and export both work, i think export is working ok but import probably not
just like it's not usury if they aren't jews right?
i guess in a decade they will talk about how it survived dozens of attempts to subvert it too
man you really gotta hold the hand of these things to get it to work, about the only other thing it's doing that is nice is giving me good comments to explain the code a bit better
i have finally found one thing that AI code assistant can help me with: all the lazy stuff i write where i forget to put an error in when an error condition is implied, that's a start, gonna see what happens to this after i've gone over it completely, maybe it will actually work or at least tell me why it's not (my code that is, not the damn machine)
it is managing to hit the target occasionally... like it pointed out i should be returning an error in a case where there is an error and it was returning nil
gonna just do this kind of droll stuff for a while until i've checked over everything
that's not counting the fact that it incorrectly puts an empty untyped parameter into the new function which is generic and requires something (a typed nil, in this case) to actually compile
ha, tried to get it to improve the tag marshal/unmarshal test but nope, every single bit of it failed, considering that the test works by generating a tag, marshaling it, unmarshaling it, and then remarshaling it, and comparing the marshaled texts, i would say that the AI is wrong, 2 times out of three now
i'm just gonna comb through the whole codebase all day doing this, probably get it to revise tests as well
what it changed was it made the code able to tolerate pretty printed json mainly, well, i guess that's ok lol...
i told it that the test failed and it rewrote it and oh it works now
i am using the jetbrains AI assistant just now and it told me my shortcut-using tag unmarshal function was incorrectly ignoring content after the final `]`
i copypasta the code it wrote in place and run the test
oh, it doesn't work
*laughs in stupid machine fucking bullshit*
i think wind power is like that too but the scale they build each unit is too large, the engineering required to allow such large rotors to not break is a lot greater than it would be on a smaller scale where regular reforging of SMALL rotors would be a lot cheaper per unit, they aren't repairable on the current used scale
delay gratification
cross all the i's and dot all the t's
yeah, this has got me thinking... i've got a whole bunch of code written now, implementing the new design of event and signature... i'm gonna write a full set of tests on everything in it before i continue
most programming languages don't follow the principle of fail fast tho
go is the only language i know of where you are admonished vigorously to handle errors before you handle success, it's for this reason almost all apis of go have a separate error variable in the return, and there is such a thing as a success with error so the common model in OOP languages of having errors be a variant doesn't allow you to catch errors while otherwise the call succeeded, there is such a thing as nonfatal errors
i mean, i can't even right now on nostrudel tag @npub1m4n…c2jl without manually going and getting her npub from her profile and manually writing the damn entity
nostr in its current state is too much spaghetti to be able to grow much further and i think that is the core reason why adoption has stalled and was always slow
only devs who are used to unstable stuff because they are building it can put up with this
we need a Great Reset of nostr to really see a future come out of this, with all of the silly parts of the design stripped out
the hardest stuff is the auth, and my profile is full of events all over nostr that seem to confuse the access control system, probably jumble's private mute lists aren't helping with this but the honest truth is that the auth system of nostr is extremely complex to get right
i just want to start again with my new design and cut off that problem by eliminating the excessive retardation complexity of using websockets
nostr without websockets would be easy to get right because auth is in the headers not part of the events, and in my opinion making events do double duty as control signals is a bad design
i'm having a hell of a time trying to get realy working
i'm just gonna say it's busted
the auth system is full of bugs, the tags handling is full of bugs, it needs to be rewritten >_<
not saying i'm giving up on it exactly but with how unstable and buggy clients are it's practically impossible to debug stuff
not sure what to do right now
Of course, it does. Everyone is just using manual algorithmic prep, by finding and saving a filter list and mute npub list and mute words list, and hashtag list, and selecting relays and clients (which often come with a relay that has a defined, limited set of events), and then running those algos on top of the chronological algos.
It's like running 4 or 5 algos, in combination.
Like, how do you find Nostr meetups in your area, that take place within the next 4 months and are likely to include someone from the last meetup you attended, without an algorithmic feed?
Even if you use a search bar, the results you get are a highly-algorithmic feed, ideally ranked by relevance, that can be requested at any time, by refreshing the viewer and rerunning the filter.
Why should the only use case for Nostr be, "Sitting in the couch, scrolling past Bitcoin memes and housepet galleries, for 30 minutes?"
it happens
don't take it personally, i'm really just giving motivation :)
my relay is buggy too, drives me nuts when i can't figure out what's going wrong
yeah, i'm noticing quite different behaviours from my local testing realy versus the one on the VPS and i strongly suspect that there is something wrong with the deployment's database so i'm exporting it and gonna stop and restart it and push up the exported events to it
the endless battle against the bugz
thanks :)
i seem to be on a bug hunt this ridiculously early hour in the morning, just watching the relay logs and shitposting 😉
the energy cost of production of solar and wind generators is higher than their lifetime yield, they are so not renewable
biochar is renewable. wood is renewable. hydroelectric is renewable. they are all powered by the energy released by the sun, due to as yet still not understood processes by which matter and energy forms within them (they think it's all just fusion but i disagree, i think matter is blipping into existence all the time and the high gravity condition of the supercritical core of all celestial bodies captures and stabilises normally unstable matter.
there has been experiments that show that matter is appearing all the time out of the void, it just normally is gone in picoseconds or less.
and by matter, that includes photons and protons and neutrons, all "energy" is just matter that is pushed around by the space itself, which is the source of all energy
but anyway, that's also again anathema to the cartel's control of energy, there is literally e=mc2 energy around us all the time if we know where to catch that expansion force, usually we need to do it by using material composed out of atoms, which capture radiation particles, and release it when we do things to it, like set it on fire, or squash it together and break the unstable structures of radiactive isotopes.
there will eventually be found a way to just drive a kinetic capture of the expanding space that drives all energy particles around. it's not even antimatter, i think there is a solid state device that can be built that literally just turns that expansion into kinetic energy directly and pushes electrons around and creates current
damn enter key... and... they have micronovas too
the "supernova star ded" story is just to do with the fact that a nova of this size blows the entire atmosphere off a star, it lights up again, they have humongous amounts of material still inside the solid crust and supercritical core
you literally can't see a star that has blown off its corona because that's how you see it
what also further falsifies the thesis is that C14 release from the star is highly intermittent, and now that we know that stars have cyclic superflares throughout their life cycle
yeah, but carbon as a fuel source is not, there is way more coal than we could use in known deposits already as it is
processing that into liquid hydrocarbons is still a net gain, as you say the energy yield is lower than the easy pickings but i think ultimately the proper way to do energy production is to eventually move towards *renewable* biochar production, which is also a net profit, because even at bootstrap you can produce it using heat from seasoned wood
the entire carbon dating scam also relates to this conspiracy of the robber barons
their thesis is that all carbon on the planet comes from solar flares, which has a high proportion of carbon 14 isotope in it
it's a false thesis because carbon was part of the earth's content from the very beginning of its existence as a big ball of gas
last few days #jumble has been getting super buggy and failing to load feeds
i'm back to #nostrudel specifically https://next.nostrudel.ninja which actually seems to be an old, better version of nostrudel anyway.
getting quite sick of clients pushing bugs to prod man, really
my relay has bugs too but my "prod" is a testing deployment, and this morning i just squashed another bug
would help if i could get more testers tho, relays bugging doesn't affect the user as much because they are not a single point of failure, and as a bonus, i get bug reports without anyone having to do anything other than just adding wss://realy.mleku.dev to their relay list
the benefit to the users who do this is that #realy will be battle tested and finally be able to do what i want it to do
i kinda have in mind eventually to create a mechanism whereby users can define lists of other relays where they post so that realy can run a spider that opens up a subscription to other relays to catch events containing their npub and pull them in so they can actually just have one realy in their relay list and they see everything and the client only pulls one copy of events at all times
this would solve a lot of the issues of bandwidth burn for people using #amethyst as well not that i expect i will get any cooperation from vitor the great and majestic android client dev
the gaping mouths are absolutely retarded... youtube is turning into a tabloid lol
i swear on youtube all the videos are getting these gaping mouth boy photos
are they trying to catch flies?
the other thing is as soon as i put nil guards on all the tag handling functions the bug has vanished, so, idk even if there was a bug
the functions that were causing panic were searching for specific tags and found nothing so i guess they should be returning nil, probably i just closed up the upstream-most call passing down empty tags that had no results in them anyway
the carbon is not fossil, not meaning to nitpick but 0.02% of the earth's crust is carbon, which came from the star, it doesn't magic itself into existence. water also comes from stars too, really big flares push out quite a bit of it also, and that gets captured in our atmosphere.
the entire "fossil fuels" meme is a fraud perpetuated by the oil cartels back in the early 20th century to justify forming OPEC and starting a conspiracy to control the energy supply
not really sure how this never came up before but it's related to how the tags are implemented in realy - they are pointers to structs containing pointers to structs containing pointers to structs and if the pointer anywhere in that chain is nil there is something wrong with how the tag is being constructed, however, such structures also should have nil guards everywhere
to be honest i would like to rewrite the tag handling to just be slices of slices of slices of bytes... the grammar checker in my IDE complains about me writing such texts but the retarded grammar checker doesn't know that this is not repetition but a description of what a 3 dimensional array is (yes, event tags are a 3 dimensional array)
i think i have eliminated the panic though, every place that has or could access a nil pointer in the kinds library now has a guard that prints the location of the call that did it and returns false (since not there is not there)
seems to have fixed it now but i'm monitoring
i've also added nil guards to all the event kind type checkers that print the caller doing it but the panic trace was pretty clear it was coming from a delete event
{"id":"ac9ee5549fb43413330efbf41fe2cb6ab1e824e565daed47cacec24fd3c985df","pubkey":"4dc2e570c54fef8313fa304f52974044ed6c128510052600a9b84d837b8126f9","created_at":1748051805,"kind":5,"tags":[["e","d0965ea9282c6e2357c38f2e7030c02a1e6b1c6cb823973554c2019d7a4db768"],["a","31234:4dc2e570c54fef8313fa304f52974044ed6c128510052600a9b84d837b8126f9:b4bc743d-c975-47e1-ad93-092068699b51"],["k","31234"],["alt","Deletion event"]],"content":"","sig":"1dd2877ffc4252e7683b4c633d1d7e9fcce6fecf752c989666578fe6224841fd7aca26e5c7a232219782bb30bb56358bc407f4297802cbd156426be0eca14d60"}]
the thing is that the a tag in there looks correct so i think it's just because of how the unmarshal was constructing the list of results when fetching the tags
hopefully whoever is sending these will do it again so i get this one squashed
Is it taking down bond market or just providing alternative? Or does the existence of the alternative make the gov bonds look bad?
Just wondering about how bad this makes the government look and what they might do about it.
Like do they come out with their own Bitcoin backed bond product to compete or do they just try to strangle Strategy or what's the game theory here.
Oh, that's right Mario Cart was the last one I played.
I only ever played it with guys.
I had a similar experience in college when someone Introduced me to the Wii. I felt so stupid trying to do the thing that I gained a deep dislike for all computer games.
Plus board games since Monopoly my brother used to extend financing to me until I was basically living on subsidies and charity going around the board.
last i remember was mario cart with this cute girl who didn't stop being unfriendly laughing at my noob mistakes
i left that day and never wasted my breath to talk to her again
Just realized how focused I am on Bitcoin stock market stuff and saw that Nintendo is doing quite well. The last Nintendo game I played was Donkey Kong
https://image.nostr.build/3ddb9bef999da962bfbdf0eb8d376ea826c9691a876189f83c64c42d1e1b9ea5.jpg
Hehe, 🤣 I'm dead laughing
it's only an escalator because fiat is a leaden weight in every company's balance sheet
it's like saying the hill is climbing as you fall down a cliff
Which enterprises are collapsing? I'm hearing a lot of concern about all the tech companies like Apple.
I've never looked at the companies like Samsung that make consumer electronics to see how they are doing. I feel like they all will put a foot on the Bitcoin escalator at some point.
yeah, this and watching the endless stream of collapsing fiat enterprises will do that to you
Here's mine:
Consumer debt: -18%
Margin debt: -100%
Bitcoin to cold storage: +3%
Net worth(dollars): +6%
Net worth divided by Bitcoin: -1%
Hah, I just realized I lost money versus just having 100% Bitcoin.
Cracks me up how all the machinations I try to get more Bitcoin and it turns out I would be better off holding straight up Bitcoin
How do you do that, net worth now minus net worth last Friday?
The material things are made of immaterial.
The world is physical and spiritual, primarily spiritual
--trying to paraphrase some wise person named Raul.
I'm definitely coming around on diversification. I am also coming as round to view the whole point of Bitcoin is not an end in itself but as pairing with real estate (instead of debt) and making development possible. It is harder to split as far as inheritance goes.
ledn loans give me the heebie jeebies. Howard Lutnick basically admitting that the plan is to introduce Bitcoin lending products to use natural volatility to sweep more Bitcoin towards his company.
sounds great. i just worry about this one for you, if real estate really were to crash 35%:
https://npub1g49uyac6d83sss7sln8aumsstle7m3wxwwvc8mmpqsnr8e9f2cdq6ltqvs.blossom.band/891403ed6fc11e7a3ee5e9b04bfd9a4a00403135165c3af957fbf408ebfb645c.png
https://x.com/dotkrueger/status/1924839476796522632
your client uses a lame font that doesn't have the unicode symbol in it i guess... that symbol shows up on most fonts i've seen
fun fact:
stars are exactly like giant planets with really stormy atmospheres
there has been imaging done that shows the crust underneath the corona (atmosphere)
it's my firm opinion now for some years that planets *grow* into stars
jupiter is gonna light up sometime in the next 100 million years or so
also another fun fact:
stars have nova that are not terminal, even, they have them on a clock driven by the galactic magnetic field... they are usually so brief that you have to be looking at them to catch it happening, and it's happened to a number of stars that are in the 20-50 light year distance from us, because they are ahead of us in the orbit around the galaxy
sooner or later it's gonna be known by everyone, idk what's gonna happen when people suddenly realise they have 15 years to be prepared for a Biblical scale natural disaster that affects the whole planet
i'm either gonna have me an ark or move to some of the most inland, tall places there are, but the prognosis is not good for much of the eurasian continent because of the volcanoes in greece, italy, and the latent volcanic structures under siberia and china, and of course indonesia, hawaii, new zealand, most of the volcanoes will light up all at once too
https://external-preview.redd.it/znG3NeaOFUsgi_CmgmZtmOMrD5p_elt7NxTnR3zm6go.jpg?width=320&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=5be120eb1a5d3d98c0c915f0621e69d82dbefa9b
Yeah the reddit for GME is a lot of fantasy-- it's kinda funny
i did see a quarterly chart of growth since Ryan Cohen took over. it seemed to show that he was quite good at growing the market cap or earnings or something.
i'm still hoping for a surprise with GME. like maybe there is some benefit to GME by keeping the cards close to their chest until the last moment. but that's silly to invest on. He just reminds me of someone who doesn't talk much about his strategy, but he definitely wants to win.
there are rattles of people (aka Josh Mandell) saying "flash crash" before the fed is forced to lower rates.
in which case maybe GME is waiting to wade in?
yeah, doesn't look like the value went to zero at all
almost nobody believes it yet, but i think it's only a matter of time
part of the problem is that TPTB have been promoting this story that humans are dangerous to the earth and we are causing the weather to change, when there has been evidence for a very long time that the sun is the biggest cause of changes in climate on our planet, and the galaxy is the biggest cause of changes on our star
the growing evidence against simple thermal effects controlling the weather are growing fast, the amount of impact of solar wind plasma and cosmic ray and other particles pushing electrons through the magnetic field and triggering weather patterns, especially after may last year the auroras seen almost to the equator never before seen, and then you trace back the history of record aurorae and you start to see more and more patterns showing that the earth's magnetic field is changing... the speed at which it is moving is accelerating so much it's impacting air travel navigation systems...
the evidence is mounting daily,
of observations of cyclic micronova and superflares on other stars like our star,
like the geological evidence of differing pole orientations in igneous rocks at various locations that have become the names of the events,
all of them lining up neatly in 6000 years between with associated evidence of them having a big, small sequence, and 6000 years ago (noah, aka tianchi) was a small, relatively less lethal event than the one 12000 years ago that kicked off a mini ice age and left the survivors in the "stone age",
to the numerous signs of other planets in our solar system whose weather is getting more chaotic, whose aurorae are becoming bigger and brighter
to the old stories like the Great Flood of the bible and numerous other stories from numerous other cultures
the only bright point in this is not in the science but in the stories, like what the Dogons and numerous others say, including such texts as Enoch, Daniel and Revelation, about there being a promised return - fulfilling the promise of "not letting mankind perish from such a disaster" and in Enoch the "Head of Days" says that they didn't arrange things perfectly and one nasty guy was among Noah's passengers, who is described as having red hair and pale skin, and that the next time around they would be a lot more careful and ensure that none of the evil survives
so, yeah, what do you think? if the angels don't come back and do the evac they promised, only the people who get lucky like Noah and find dry, high ground or are prepared to float and keep enough (like in the ark) onboard that they can reestablish food production
and note that not only is the aftermath of destruction about how much land is washed away and how much life (plant, human and animal) that is lost, the clouds of material that the sun kicks up are likely to trigger a glaciation, as well, and then after a while a lot of solid matter condenses out of it and then you get hundreds of rocks hammering the earth (there is many stories about great fire dragons battling in the sky in norse and other myths)
#realy #devstr #progressreport
the full text search is theoretically now implemented
it iterates the new fulltext index searching for word matches
then it checks that the rest of the filter criteria match, and eliminating candidates that don't have at least one of the criteria, i.e.:
- eliminates results outside of since<->until,
- that aren't one of the kinds requested,
- that aren't published by one of the specified pubkeys,
- that don't have the requested language tag, and
- that don't have one of the tags in the filter
then it groups the result fulltext index entries by same event into a unit and creates a map of them
then it converts the random iterating map into a straight array
it iterates the array and calculates the distance between the first and last word match in the sequence of the text of the event
then it segments the results by number of words that match in each event, grouping the ones with the same number of word matches into groups
then it calculates the distance between the first and last word matches in the text (the terms can appear multiple times but are sorted by their appearance, this is just an approximation, since words can appear multiple times)
then it gets a list of all the terms in the event by their sequence number in the original search, and with this array it counts how many of those matches are in ascending order matching the search terms
with these two metrics, we can calculate relevance, as the higher the number of items in matching sequence the more relevant, and the closer they are together, the more likely they are to match the search text
then we sort the groups of same-count of words from the search text by distance AND sequence, meaning the top results have the lowest distance and the highest sequence
then with the segments individually sorted, we zip them back together into a list, extract their event id, pubkey and timestamp and return that to the caller (this same result is used by the filter in the HTTP API so it can filter out pubkeys and sort the results by timestamp descending or ascending according to the query parameters).
and finally, then it trims the list down to the number of results requested in the limit *or* the configured max limit (512, generally, but the http endpoint will allow 1000 for unauthed users and 10000 for authed users, as it only returns the event id, so the client can paginate them on their side)
i know that all sounds complicated but it's now all written and this will enable a fairly decent relevance sorted full text search for nostr text events.
the hard part now is going to be testing it, i will probably make two endpoints for this, one will be disabled later, but that one will return the full events in the result, as an array, so i can see them in the api, and squash any bugs or logic errors in the search code... and also see how long it takes for producing the results.
it's a bunch of retards who can't think to second order effects
also, the supply number...
this is easy: 21 million
this is hard: 2.1 quadrillion
the problem is it will confuse things
what are people going to think when "bitcoin" is suddenly gone from 100,000USD down to 1/1000th of a cent?
a lot of stupid people are going to think that means that bitcoin ded
pole shift stuff be like this tho
we got max 15 years to be prepared to survive most of the land being washed away and we are fighting over names of satoshis and whether eliminating border taxes is a good idea
https://images.mleku.dev/9I/full.webp
there is little blackbirds everywhere at the moment, though unlike this one, their beaks and eye rings are actually yellow, but they are distinctly smaller than the usual adults i see the rest of the year
they are so cute, i love these birds
i'm surrounded by little birds everywhere at the moment, all of my company around here is mostly little birds and my kitten, mochi the sochi
milli, micro, nano, pico, femto, atto
eventually, we *must* divide sats
21,000,000 * 100,000,000 = 2100000000000000
nearest round decimal unit you can divide that by is 1000 before you overflow 64 bits, the maximum possible would be 8000
that unit already exists in the lightning network
probably it's fine to leave it at that forever, in fact, because when bitcoin is the standard, the exchange rate of millisatoshi to the price of an egg will be stable as the supply of eggs
but if not, we could double the number of bits in the denomination and we'd never run out, make the denomination encoding into a fixed point variable encoded number and we can continue to expand the denomination (divisions) as much as we like
a) fuck taxes
b) never forget who invented bitcoin
maybe we can divide satoshis into 100 million and call 1 millionth of a satoshi a bit
satoshi was the name of the inventor of bitcoin, the end
damus has a revenue model?
cloudfodder is one exception i know of
the other bizarre thing about the grants is that they all pretty much seem to be for clients, and nothing is about getting a concept for a business off the ground
with most nostr grants i think the problem is they aren't targeted at a purpose just "do whatever" even though they say that at the beginning, not one grantee seems to stay on one task and get it done properly
i just had "fun" trying to get an openapi spec
https://myanimelist.net/apiconfig/references/api/v2
firstly, they don't even provide a download link for it
i had to trawl through some megabytes of minified json to find the actual swagger.json in it
second, when i extracted it, and my IDE seemed happy with its syntax, openapi-codegen fails to parse it, says some symbol is missing or some shit
and i'm like
guys, guys,
you know the whole point of openapi was to make it so i could just slang out an api client in any language?
the openapi spec is a farce
i use, like almost everyone, a specific language toolkit, and it generates nice, compliant, generatable json or yaml, at your option, that you can use in any other openapi code generator for any language, and it just works
i was getting "huh?" out of the devs who built a javascript one for the shitcoin chain indexer when i asked for the openapi/swagger.json of their thing, and eventually they told me "oh it serves it up at this api"
yeah, like, what is the fucking point of this shit if i am just going to end up writing a fucking http get/post request manually for you to have all this spec shit when i can't even fucking get it to parse
this is also a perfect summary of how i never became a javascript front end dev
i get this thing, and yeah, it works
i change one thing, and kablooey, it's over
ok, try a different template
kablooey
3 months later
"ok, fuck this, this is not a computer programming language this is some secret language that i seem to be incapable of comprehending" and some years later i became an advanced Go programmer, and i still cannot make heads or tails of javascript and anyone who can, well, lucky you but it's just the most byzantine, retarded thing i have ever encountered on a computer since windows
doesn't seem like your VCs make it any better, or are your devs just missing some screws or something
can also rbf which is better but i'm learning not to touch these things
ugh so annoying
so, i try to do a small swap in on my lightning channels, and lo and behold, shitcoin bullshit and corporate bullshit has just pushed my tx out to idk when
i think it's mostly just big consolidations... i guess that's a good thing, i'm not really in any rush but i think i have to deal with a refund tx if it spans past 24 hours
Good morning folks, welcome Observers
i'm sure if you will find many possible jokes among the interesting studies... like i think yesterday there was a thing about how they have discovered clouds of water around stars, i can't think of a joke about that but it's quite funny that stars are pushing out water which gets captured by planets and builds up.
collapse, of course
the reason being that centralization attracts those with lust for power because it lowers their opportunity cost, and to maintain their power they must artificially suppress superior competitors
what is missing from the result of the path to the stars is widespread understanding of the techniques of deception, psychological warfare and manipulation
until enough people understand this, those who use these techniques have an unfair advantage and the fruit of their success is the ruin of civilization
and that's an unlikely to avoid fate while we continue to have people who have been raised under this system of corruption that emphasises their lowest, base impulses and hides and deprecates higher, spiritual impulses that have a higher personal cost but a net personal and public benefit
maybe after the collapse we will have a generation who understands why it happened and establish institutions and protocols that end the supremacy of the least fit to rule, and reduce the overall need for central direction due to a greater self-reliance and distrust of centralization
which means it's thoroughly poisoned with political censorship
and though there is not many of you, there are a few east asian devs who are also chatty and have a substantial following... and there is a few more of us in europe, a few hours behind you, who are all right now in the middle of the morning, the 'muricans, who are the majority of chatty devs, are not going to be up and about for a few hours more yet
it also means that because there is an oversupply of vibe coders, that many will just have to either drop out, find a new job, maybe they can be systems administrators, or maybe they will be smart and start learning how to write algorithms and put themselves ahead of their peers
it's quite hilarious to watch, i anticipate that in the near future, there will be a neo-luddite movement against LLMs in software development, trying to politicise the technological and economics issue, meanwhile those of us who already know how this plays out are sitting pretty, coding our advanced algorithms that the machines can't write yet, and continuing to raise the height at which you dumbasses have to go before you can get to our pay grade.
in case the picture isn't clear, what it means is that the supply of devs who can vibe code their way to the height the LLMs can get to is going to increase rapidly, and your pay rate is going to go down, because the supply of devs who can do what you can do has gone up so fast.
like the turtle and the hare, you thought you could sit and wait in front of the finishing line, without the tools to cross that line, while the turtle has been steadily building their strength to get to you, and then they pass you, and cross the line, while your lazy ass sits there thinking that you could win when from the firing of the start gun you never had what it takes to cross that line.
the turtle knew that, which is why it didn't waste its time with shortcuts and by the time you are there, wondering why you can't climb the last bump to get to the finish, it has the strength to tackle it, and you lose, your pay rate has gone down, and because of that, the client who wants this job done, is going to pay the turtle exponentially more than you can get with your cheap shortcuts.
y'alls with your LLM code generation...
this is fine for scripting.
it's never going to improve your ability to reason about algorithms though, all it will do is let you avoid learning algorithms.
you can never code anything more than what algorithms the LLMs already know, and because you won't be learning how to write algorithms from scratch, you are not going to have the basics in your memory for when you come to writing original algorithms, ones that the LLM doesn't know and can't know.
in computer programming, there is this thing called "decomposition" which is where you design the top level abstraction for a new algorithm, in order to build new algorithms, you must already understand old algorithms.
so, because you never learned the old algorithms, but let the LLM do it all for you, when you need to write something genuinely new, you will neither have learned decomposition, nor basic algorithms.
if you don't know how to write a sort, what happens when you need to write a sort on an array of complex data types?
if you don't know how to write a filter, what happens when you need to write a complex filter?
if you don't know how to write a basic time series statistical analysis, how are you going to know how to write a complex one?
so, i don't feel the need to waste my time learning a new technology that literally precisely can't do the one thing that need to learn, that i must know how to do the things it can do.
so, carry on with your vibe coding, scripters. you can't shortcut your way to advanced programming. you have to go through the pain just like i did to get to where i am.
have fun staying retarded.
oh yeah, not sure if this was clear, NONE of this requires decoding the event at any point, it just will return the list of matching event IDs then, based on the serial, by using the event ID index, and then the caller will then be able to make a request for up to 1000 events (or 10000 for whitelisted/paying users) and then the client can prefetch enough to fill the display first and then prefetch the rest as the scroll position gets close to the end of the list that it already fetched, and in the case of these searches, this means that the user only has to use bandwidth so far as they are interested in the results, which usually will be in the first 100 or 200 results.
not all invisibility cloaks require high technology, you can just sperge and everyone stops noticing you
i remember very clearly when fiatjaf said he hated badger
that's because he didn't really understand how to use it, and the lack of e tags in the query funtion proves it. idk why also he thought that 32 bit serials would be enough, the badger standard serial is a 64 bit unsigned integer. FOR A REASON. 4 billion records may sound like a lot but i had 117k events in realy and that was 130mb, uncompressed. so realistically, 4 billion records 4 000 000 000 means 2 bn kilobytes which comes out to about 20tb
that's big but not by modern data center standards. 12tb raid arrays are already pretty common
why he hated badger i think was also because it didn't let him do goroutine spaghetti so easily
i remember when i went mad on goroutines, it was about 7 years ago now, i'd been working with Go on a full time basis for only a year at that point (previously mostly part time and learning for two years)
what i am uncertain about yet is how this will affect the standard query function, i put the index in there, and i need to figure out where it gets processed to filter out candidate events that don't have an e tag for an #e tag in the filter, but adding it to the index generation function is simple
yeah, only p and a tags are indexed, i'm certain of it now reading through the code, this won't be difficult to add
haha nope, and it's gonna take me a while to decipher the fiatjaf spaghetti around tags, i can't see any mention of e tags in there anywhere but i also spent some time deciphering it before so i could document the indexes a bit better. once i've figured out where i can add these yeah it will be pretty big for improving performance because it can throw away so many events without decoding them, and as it is that encoding is now definitely the fastest database encoding of nostr events there is
i just realised it's not just threaded discussions that will benefit from this, either, the format of git data is a directed acyclic graph, and this can enable the decomposition of an edit history of any filesystem structured data format, like git uses.
so having an e tag index will make this kind of data format way more efficient to store and fetch whole histories when you just walk up the tree from the root, searching for the events of the previous level of nodes in the graph to build the DAG as it goes upwards (well, because it's sorta tree structured, more like mycelia really).
anyway, continuing...
i favor smaller blocks, i would love to see the witness discount removed, that would fix a lot of things, problem is it is a hard fork, as OS points out
anyway, the spammers only took advantage of the fact that so much tx volume got shifted to lightning, and used the vulnerability that has been there since 2017
yes, and taproot is also cutting the data size and fee cost for regular transactions as well as the size of lightning transactions, i can't imagine where they can go with squeezing it down any further, and i think the reason why the spam has mostly gone away is because people have got wise to the scams and aren't buying into bitcoin based shitcoins anyway, on top of the general widespread decline of interest in shitcoins due to the fact that a blockchain is a terrible way to store data in general, all the hype about that is dying pretty fast as shitcoin projects are deploying dual epyc servers with quad raid controllers to keep up with it and the money just gets slurped up by hardware costs and the scammers are realising their grift may not have much legs anymore.
sure but that's probably the second most suspected part of the codebase that might have bugs (after the auth code, because i frequently have problems with new sockets not authing correctly on nostrudel and - i guess it's derivative, jumble)
#realy #devstr #progressreport
i'm getting to the last steps in writing the fulltext query filter handling parts, and i've written the handle for p tags, that was easy, there's an index for that
but there isn't an index for e tags, this is what the "extrafilter" is about in fiatjaf's query function in the badger database
i'm looking this up and down and i'm like, uh, there's no index for e tags, which are commonly needed to search for replies!
i think i have to go to the indexes now and create a new index for e-tags to make this work, because i really don't see how i can filter on them with the fulltext search with a full filter
and if i'm gonna make a new e tag index, then i can speed up normal filter searches a lot too
hilarious, but kinda annoying, i was all homed in on the fulltext search function and now i have to go sideways and add a new index and that will mean needing to rescan the indexes when i'm done building that, before i can expect this fulltext search to work
i'm kinda glad i'm digging deep into this key value store database indexing design stuff... i'm sure this is going to be valuable. i have already learned enough to build a reasonable set of indexes for my fiat mine data analysis stuff, but this is getting a step further advanced, after i've built this i can say i have built a fully capable database engine for nostr that is optimized to search for events... with that e tag index added it will slash the search time by maybe as much as 50% for regular kind 1 or general threaded queries.
They call it "globalsourcing", now. 😁
I meant, I'm not selling my shares. 😂
Fuck the money. This is gonna be my legacy.
And then you have the fanatics, like me.
https://i.nostr.build/BGsNK1Jp9Zlvg3PC.jpg
I was confused at first, since that's 16. Joke within a joke. 😂
cody broke the pubkey blacklist on my relay with his private mute lists, as well as them being humongous on top... fortunately it appeared that my relay was storing old versions of my kind 10000s and that's why i never noticed that there was screwy ones among them.
clients making dodgy events can really ruin your day as a relay dev, and we relay devs are far less likely to do it the other way around. keep your client clean and there won't be any trouble.
yeah, 5gb is not exactly big storage haha... and i guess the tech is old and it seemed to me like it's as bad as it used to be.
a good reminder also, i hadn't run a backup in so long i only found one instance of the comand in my shell history
the NVMe in my motherboard seems to be pretty reliable but i'd hate to have to reconstruct my documents collection, some of them are quite important
i did some research into that subject and bought what was supposed to be one of the best brands (verbatim, iirc) but the DVD-RW drive was sketch af and i made a lot of coasters... still have the stack around somewhere, backing up my bandcamp flac downloads.
mostly i just keep my backups on a spare 1tb SSD... short of an electromagnetic pulse and not very much writes they are extremely durable too. but it's not easy to protect anything electronic from a cosmic ray blast, though i've heard that, interestingly, plastic blocks it.
the paper is only vulnerable to water and fire, pretty much, and water doesn't destroy it, if you get to it reasonably quickly and give it a dry-out. if i needed to know how to build a steam engine from junk parts laying around and no electricity i'd be hoping i printed it on paper.
well, the gif made me think of it, those things keep on playing over and over and you start to see things in it because of the repetition
funny, i never thought about this but i had a friend in amsterdam who was pretty much toothless and as a result i started to notice how people's chins can move up more when they have no teeth, in this case a former crackhead... but it's not just old people who have no teeth, for some parts of the first two years there's not much teeth and littlies can do toothless gramps face too.
paper will never be obsolete
laser printed text will last hundreds of years
there is a good chance in the next 20 years of power grids all being knocked out and most metallic objects being electrified by a massive solar flare while the magnetic field is reversing
not possible to rebuild the tech without documentation
I just do a search, but sometimes I still can't find it
Dao de Jing / Tao te Ching
75/81
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This might be my new favorite chapter.
#Philosophy #daoism #taoism
What's the point of the hair waving
the somewhat short (like 3m tall) spreading small red plums that are common in the balkans make very nice rakija 😉
i'm surprised considering the subject matter of "building things with humans" *shudder*
sperge-synergy... whenever autists connect they become even more productive
yeah, it takes practice to get the habit of documenting well, for me it was just going back to code i hadn't touched in a while and going "huh?" and then i would start to try and add some reasonable comments in if it seemed like it helped read it.
the actual documentation comments have a bad habit of getting out of date though during development.
yup, my project is gonna have a major milesone shortly with full text search capability, and probably i'll finish making a bunker signer shortly too
my recent experience with the endless parade of stupid changes in clients is probably gonna see me move from bunker signer to kind 1 client and chats
probably still a few odd bugs in realy to find and squash too, like the one i squashed yesterday
well, small apples are ok, especially to make pies and desserts and preserves and salads and such
and there's nothing stopping you from getting a good seedstock clone to graft a branch from your babies onto to give them a kickstart
have you seen the movie "The House that Jack Built"
man i couldn't finish that one, but it had a great description of the psychology of a serial killer and in general the transgressive impulse of a psychopath
i bet you are pissed about that now tho, damn... you'd be a millionaire
they grow just fine, but you get better amounts and size of fruit if you graft them onto a stronger rootstock, you can do that later anyhow
teh other thing is a lot of commercial apples are hybrids and their seeds don't produce consistent variety features.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/rogue-devices-found-hidden-chinese-solar-panels-could-destroy-grid
embedding mobile radios????
so it turns out that the chinese have been waging an espionage war on USA after all (and probably all of their "customers" are being subjected to this).
countries that don't fast track and deregulate energy production from carbon and uranium fuels are going to really do badly in the next 10 years with espionage on top of solar storms
#realy #devstr #progressreport
the responsibilities in the fiat mine in the last few days has been pretty low... this afternoon i probably need to spend a few hours adding a text embeddings similarity score based on public forum/chat messages, but i am mostly ahead of my front end and back end peers in regards to meeting the release target functions, which is funny because i was hounded randomly once a month or so during the building process by the CTO for being "too slow" and actually i'm faster than the rest of them. lol!
anyway, i don't mind because it means i can add this feature, i'd almost forgotten about it for the last few weeks it was on my todos, and will make #realy a compelling option for people wanting to deploy relays, because it will have a full text search, and as far as i know, maybe one, proprietary relay implementation being built by an esteemed fellow black sheep is able to do this properly as well. of course i'm gonna probably at some point be competitive about this and do something loony like build a little benchmarker to see how fast it is... meh, probably not, but i'm going to make mine as fast as possible
it seems i forgot another todo on the fiat mine task tho, gonna have to put this realy work aside for the morning, continue the fulltext search algorithm later
and posterity will miss none of these attention addled, hormone disrupted, mentally degraded apes
woman with few friends is the best kind, because by nature women are distractable and the more intelligent ones are more interested in crafts and science and children, because they aren't busy gossiping. women are distractable for good purpose - because keeping house and watching children and small livestock requires a lot of context shifting.
actually, if you took away all the hormone pills that women take they want children bad, it's the men who are less interested in it, because sex is less satisfying for them and cameraderie is more appealing
you give women the pills, and they all turn into gossiping whores and the men turn into monks, except for that 5% that fuck all the horny women whose hormones are imbalanced
none of these no-kids people are going to be happy they did this when they get to my age
the propaganda against reproduction is obscene
be fruitful and multiply
not "temporarily chemically sterilize yourself so you can have all the sex and none of the family"
anyway, when the fiat spigot stops flooding AI startups with slush money the price of it is gonna be higher than paying a senior dev and the quality will be nothing like as good
yeah, pigeons are a poor people food all across europe... you often see pigeon coops in the abandoned houses, there's loads of them in DayZ and Stalker games
last point is the root of the problem
haha, i write lots of comments damn
my relay is the best documented relay in nostrdom
canaries you don't hear so easily over on the noisy side of the island, but here they make a racket all day long
it's not responding, no, and repeatedly, but it auths fine for stuff like reactions, but text notes often a problem
keep me updated i want this
although whatever is coming from next.nostrudel.ninja is acceptable, it seems like a very old version
this clown has a very punchable face, i wonder how much he would consider the value of his teeth if they were all smashed out
i bet there will be a lot of people who price their purchase at $1M per bitcoin haha
oh, why do i have to pay tax when it goes up but when it goes down you don't pay me back?
for the time being, https://next.nostrudel.ninja is still adding my mutes to the readable part of the message (in the tags) so i'm not so pissed now but i'm boycotting https://jumble.social over this private mute bullshit
i just used https://next.nostrudel.ninja to remove that abomination within my mute event
i'm probably going to be manually using it now to add npubs to my mute list so my damn relay actually knows what junk to not accept or send to me (the mute list it can read is blacklisted from posting to the relay, and their events are rejected no matter who sends them).
of course the rockstar client devs don't understand this because they are a bunch of midwits who couldn't hardly write a relay let alone from scratch or as intensively modified as #realy why it's irritating me so much
how else am i gonna signal to my relay that i don't want to be sent trash from dickheads if it can't decode my mute event?
also, you now have to use https://next.nostrudel.ninja because the dev has completely messed up nostrudel, doesn't even show mute lists when you have them
it seems to me like https://nostrudel.ninja is quite a lot different to https://next.nostrudel.ninja
i don't like the changes at all, especially not the part where it's not showing my mute list in my profile, or the lack of a profile button, or the lack of the relays button
wth are you doing @hzrd149 ? nostrudel is turning into a pile of garbage
Correct.
Only they are much different than the credit cards on your world. We don't believe in usury 👀
if i use #nostrtudel it auths straight away
Yeah, I've got to figure out my relays because I see half of convos.
😅 funny. There is no sell-by-date on love and Humor goes a long ways.
I met an American man in El Salvador who moved down when he was 50. He used to go every day to a cyber cafe to talk to family back home in Idaho.
He ended up marrying the owner of the cyber cafe :-). And their daughter just entered community college.
Apparently a lot of the women in this part of the world are out of their first relationship and are looking for a stable man. The first love maybe was too unstable due to finance and war and a touch of machismo in the men.
It could work for you...
Are you actively looking rn?
It can be yours Beave, just forgo that 100k risk free return per year
" are you married"...
"No"
"Ok well you have to rent two rooms"
My way of upselling from 50$ to 60$.
I could live out my dream of being Falwty Towers. I just need a Sybil, a Polly and a Manu
for sale:
a hotel with a view off a volcano, a garden with 6 rooms in a mountain town that is not yet frequented with tourists. it's an hour from the nearest big city of 200,000 inhabitants.
https://image.nostr.build/15f62564424bb964ccf9033004602c4bb520fe1696dbc40e866e03c3ff53b373.jpg
nightly rate is $30 per room, 50$ for 2 people, including breakfast.
staff is 2 rotating front desk/housekeepers + 1 night watchman.
Approximate expense:
staff: 350 per person per month (1200/month)
asking price: $390,000
bitcoin return per year on 390,000: 29% per year = $113,000
if all 6 rooms were always full at $50 a night, it would return 113,000 before operating costs of $14,000.
currently there is maybe 5 guests a week. or 7500 a year.
que locura!
some mechanics.
since i'm on coracle and can never "view thread" i'm replying to notes out-of-context-of-threads.
there are "mechanics" who immediately cast doubt on the last mechanic that worked on the car. "oh, he took you for a ride". I interpret this as he is telling me his own playbook.
whenever i go to a new mechanic, i immediately test them. "i think the engine is leaking coolant because of the 4-wheel drive system".
if they agree with me and start talking prices, i move along.
the acceptable response is that they need to tell me, "you know nothing about cars", and "leave it to the professionals".
unless it's my sister-in-law and she gets free mechanic inspections (i pay 600$).
Some people are what? Haha 😅 your autocorrect has gone rogue
Aren't the retirement account withdrawals pre 59 years old taxes at 10% penalty plus income tax. I haven't done the math, but I don't think it's worth the income tax plus 10%. Unless I was in Europe, then in would want to get moly money out regardless
https://image.nostr.build/674b7a1831b200b721d6e453192af3fa305806ba1e45713b550b5841b1d1a0e5.jpg
non IRS 10% taxed accretive shitcoins.
😅 no team. but maybe now that you say it I will build one
I wonder how much intuition bosses use to figure out their workers.
Is it innocent until proven guilty or do they trust their gut over hard evidence
Yes... Wait what's this mean? 🤔
I don't understand the numbering system. Very subjective IMO. Someone who likes me and is smart is at least a 8/10 but someone who doesn't like me, even if they are good-looking I would rank them 1/10 in terms of wanting to spend any time with them.
I thought it was about police and racial violence... Are there 2 movies called Crash? The officer ends up dying in a car fire while saving the same woman from a burning car that he inappropriately fondled at the police checkpoint in the start of the movie.
What do you think, @npub1fjq…leku? Would save us a tag.
I did that last year and now I owe $8000 to the IRS.
I vibe coded a Monte Carlo python simulation of $100k for 3 years. take it with a grain of salt bc i'm not a statistician. but you can see there's a significant benefit you might leave on the table.
99% BTC/1% MSTR
https://image.nostr.build/cb5a246e5518279713162dd7499eba8ec911a904cd238a00fafc12b25e0cdd8d.jpg
50%BTC/ 50% mSTR
https://image.nostr.build/3318e6d188e9793a1c04eeebc6e501c67ab41fdef7ec20eeebb4213bd7e32928.jpg
all the people who give him suboptimal advice
thx. it was just a random thought that popped into my head
i've seen a bunch of interviews of Saylor where he gets a little ornery and impatient. I have a feeling he's a bit autistic to the point where he can't not do the thing that should be done.
Jack just seems a little too cool kid for me. Maybe i'm just an insecure male, bristling at someone who's so young, successful and good looking. but the concern is that his personality (if he really is more agreeable) has a bigger influence/attack surface for him for doubts, bad influence, etc.
Saylor has also already been derisked from ladies, liquor, leverage etc.
yet another day of work done and notes taken:
https://youtu.be/YfDfkz0y_vk
my response to worries about people hoarding hard money:
i've never had more business ideas than i have now. as the price of bitcoin goes up, instead of being incentivized to hoard, i actually feel a desire to start real world stuff.
for example, i just discovered the bird that looks at me from a branch in the morning is an emerald Toucan.
so i live in an emerald Toucan reserve. Instead of cutting down trees and building more housing to earn more bitcoin, the value of this land just skyrocketed to me personally. I love the luxury of drinking coffee and looking eye-to-eye with an emerald green toucan, and I'm willing to part with Bitcoin to do so.
bonus if you can find the toucan in my early morning photo
https://image.nostr.build/c0bc8ac03244170f77aafc5024500b74b1b1b732a8b683f5224f28c057f9cb3f.jpg
i dont think Jack Mallers has the Disagreeable trait in the quantity necessary to take on MSTR... but it's fun to have another company to look at.
man i'm really not making any progress on my relay building thing
idk what it is, might just switch back to working on the main old https://realy.lol
eucalyptus oil is not for skin it's for the throat
the stuff is nearly as flammable as gasoline btw
when i think of Go i think of Rob Pike and Ken Thompson, and they cooked up the idea of making the language because of how godawful the compilation of C++ was, as well as how long it took to train devs to use it
those two dudes sure they worked for AT&T for a long time and now work for Google but google doesn't love Go, they don't do anything to promote it for web front end or desktop/mobile GUI development, and the state of that with Go is sadly retarded, no, they only care about dart and flutter
so, yeah, just like C# had a lot of money thrown at it by microsoft as you see it doesn't matter so i don't see why it matters when two utter legends of computer programming built and oversee the development of Go, to me that's more important, i doubt you can point at even one other language that has such big names behind it, guys who have been working in network systems programming since the notion was invented
also, C# so totally was pushed hard by microsoft, and they also pushed C++ hard back in the day... i was 15 years old when it came out and i read books and magazine articles about it, microsoft was heavily involved in the design process, and they still use it a lot, of course it's shit for low level stuff like drivers and kernels
anyway, fuck microsoft lol
"marketed" lol
i think cloudflare and uber and kubernetes and docker sorta have something to do with why people use it, google barely lifts a finger to market Go, they are all about dart and flutter and android
mozilla heavily sponsors and markets and brainwashes people to use rust, on teh other hand, i can deal with people wanting liking their C variants (after all, Go is basically a hybrid of C, and oberon with newsqueak) but trash like rust, ugh, and C++, honestly, after my recent experiences with alby's LDK based lightning offering i'm veering towards the idea that C++ is a terrible language for architecture and correctness, i never looked at C# because of its association with microsoft but i did try to learn Vala, which is like the GNU C# so i have a bit of an idea about what is in it, sorta
i prefer interfaces though, and overall for performance, Java is probably the king for large applications, the bigger stuff gets the more the clumsy build systems get in your way
i think cats are a better symbol, they are hospitable but they never stop being skeptical and never entirely become domesticated, it's just easier to access and they are very conservative with their energy expenditure (they have weak heaters, the kittens don't even have heaters, if the temperature is below about room temperature and momma doesn't come and warm them up with her body and milk they die of hypothermia
C++ and C# were pet projects of Bill Gates and i hate everything to do with him
the relay i run off my VPS, btw, i compile it on a VPS with 2gb of memory
you cannot do that with C++, 100% certainty, 8gb is minimal
same with Rust, can't do this with rust, you have to cook up deployment scripts
not to mention the fact that the initial compilation of my relay takes about 30 seconds and normal time on the VPS build with all the dependencies cached is about 3 seconds
seems to be a bug in the auth
damn i wish i could make it working 😢
the relay is not right though, neither nostrudel or coracle are talking to it very much, nostrudel shows its feed on the relay page but doesn't seem to be fetching events from it normally, or publishing to it
Osterfruhstuck https://image.nostr.build/6590d460239f94c674c7167da5b96f804af329e67910568b9f50d03ee473125a.jpg
i have 200k sats in an alby hub cloud lighting channel. i just checked and they are still there... alhtough maybe this isn't considered a lightning channel just the Alby Go wallet.
i usually transfer to Blink for everyday spending however since that's what most people use where I am (and i can use the name tags).
I find what other people consider micro dose and also what's legally considered CBD only is very strong.
I wonder what they play on the organ...
#realy #devstr #progressreport
i have now fully completed the dynamic configuration system, you can change most of the settings on the fly now and the base configuration from startup is only 5 elements, things that can't really be changed or shouldn't be changed without restarting
i am working on the relay code on a separate repository now, https://relay.mleku.dev and have deployed this at wss://realy.mleku.dev
going to monitor it for a while to catch any further bugs but this is much better, the codebase is cleaner and better organised, and i think it might even be a little faster than it was
https://realy.lol domain will be expiring next year so eventually everything will migrate to my main domain https://mleku.dev
No desire in this case. But a conviction that it's the highest use of time.
"Why did you get married?"
"To obtain favor from the Lord"
As in Ramona Quimby??
https://image.nostr.build/1e2ee051c63493e61506dad56b0fece65eeaa7e84958457ce32e0e5c91b7b1c7.jpg
The name even comes with its own statue in the Beverly Cleary Sculpture Garden in Portland Or.
I've been hearing that we should all do ivermectin once a year just to get rid of them. A lot of sickness is just parasites
I need to confront parasites more often... This feels good
