Last Notes
📢 Book Launch in Berlin!
🗓️ 2025.05.31
📍 Freifunk Wireless Community Weekend (c-base).
ℹ️ https://www.networkcommons.org/posts/20250530-berlin-booklaunch/
"The Rise of the Network Commons" traces the spread of wireless community networks from Europe to the Americas and Africa. It highlights how involving non-experts in building networks empowers communities and democratizes technology, shaping it to serve local needs over commercial interests.
Armin Medosch began documenting self-managed local networking initiatives with his book Freie Netze, published in 2004 (German only). After his untimely death in 2017, Volker Grassmuck and Adam Burns later initiated the completion of Armin’s publication.
https://image.nostr.build/9103a40470a9af3b1a4a692b726573fc3927c14395b0554f476939c889d5a6ff.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/ca2ffa1d02bfe1b30c9e610af3de8dd055558c1ed7ec8f6e40365c8be47aff49.jpg
I know! I'm stoked your even typing to me!!
I reckon your bowels are going to try discard them!
This is funny because it's true in all kinds of ways!
"slowly"... the velocity is debatable.
The browser's cache is slowly becoming an OS's filesystem.
I dropped my phone on a saidwalk today and the screen got cracked and it was a bummer, but later I realised that it was in fact the protective screen that cracked 🥲
Got a new phone and it stroke me how ridiculous the set-up process was, considering it was a series of prompts offering webshits I neither want nor need.
Got a new phone and it stroke me how ridiculous the set-up process was, considering it was a series of prompts offering webshits I neither want nor need.
Smol reminder that "@" is lowecase for "Ⓐ"
https://image.nostr.build/b62d1695a6eef433c198cb7fe74a7209d8f728b4adffd058ebfbbd82c2f7d4aa.jpg
This is dope, @nprofile…4a3x Thanks a lot!
https://github.com/de-mu/demu-feed-template
I'm working on a little script that uses Publikator
https://git.basspistol.org/hq/publikator
and Hugo
https://gohugo.io/
to leverage your template.
Will share as soon as ready 💜
This is dope, @nprofile…4a3x Thanks a lot!
https://github.com/de-mu/demu-feed-template
I'm working on a little script that uses Publikator
https://git.basspistol.org/hq/publikator
and Hugo
https://gohugo.io/
to leverage your template.
Will share as soon as ready 💜
😆 Missile Air Defense As a Service
MAD AS you like.
In some ways a government paying by a subscription for a missile defense service has been inevitable since Reagan started the mission to Privatize Literally Everything.
The government will own nothing, and be happy.
States must do only one thing: Pay money to rich people to get them to do the things.
The idea of Reagan's Star Wars returning is pretty crazy in itself. That launching all those satellites would massively enrich the government's biggest donor is mostly just pretty typical corruption.
But having the government pay to rent it out is just amazing. 🧑🍳 💋
Hey, if Russia and China outbid America during the hour they were launching the missiles, that's just the free market!
Never really even know if it works without being attacked, but the rich owners get to extract the wealth from it all the same.
Rentierism? In this economy?
🤣
https://defence-industry.eu/spacex-proposes-subscription-model-for-trumps-golden-dome-missile-defence-system-reports-reuters/
As far as I understand, it's both open on the protocol level, and a walled garden. Wavlake outputs podcast2, but it doesn't read any. Thus wavlake users (listeners) only ever see Wavlake music in the wavelake clients, while users of some other clients can see any podcast2 feed.
As far as I understand, it's both open on the protocol level, and a walled garden. Wavlake outputs podcast2, but it doesn't read any. Thus wavlake users (listeners) only ever see Wavlake music in the wavelake clients, while users of some other clients can see any podcast2 feed.
That’s the one, a friend says it’s like a tape reverb, which is a great way to describe it, super mailable reverb.
That’s the one, a friend says it’s like a tape reverb, which is a great way to describe it, super mailable reverb.
Ok that new Soundtoys plugin is VERY cool. #MusicProduction
Be-Bop instead of Airbnb, that's progress!
#nevent1q…z00q
Be-Bop instead of Airbnb, that's progress!
#nevent1q…z00q
What's with all the misskey servers suddenly showing up in the random relays of jumble.social? Albeit empty and lacking server info, but intriguing...
Ok, "agreed" I don't know... "Accepted", more or less willingly
#nevent1q…r0ac
Ok, "agreed" I don't know... "Accepted", more or less willingly
#nevent1q…r0ac
Is there a name for this stage? The one where people's general understanding of Bitcoin is somewhere between nil, null and NaN, but everyone has agreed that it is sound money.
Is there a name for this stage? The one where people's general understanding of Bitcoin is somewhere between nil, null and NaN, but everyone has agreed that it is sound money.
Is there a name for this stage? The one where people's general understanding of Bitcoin is somewhere between nil, null and NaN, but everyone has agreed that it is sound money.
Thank you! Means a lot 💜
You can get it in flac here: https://shop.basspistol.com/bpist-ep003/
(The "pay wall" is a soft one, just check the box and you're good to go)
Thank you! Means a lot 💜
You can get it in flac here: https://shop.basspistol.com/bpist-ep003/
(The "pay wall" is a soft one, just check the box and you're good to go)
Atmospheric, dusky and mellow. @Settovich does it again. This one's on my playlist for good!
Atmospheric, dusky and mellow. @Settovich does it again. This one's on my playlist for good!
ASSISES FRANCOPHONES DE L'ART LIBRE : Appel à thèmes
@nprofile…rm6w organise les premières Assises francophones de l’#ArtLibre, qui auront lieu les 9 -10 juillet 2025 à rue Saint-Honoré 10 Neuchâtel, en partenariat avec le NIFFF (Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival).
Ils souhaiteraient mettre en lumière la richesse et la diversité des démarches artistiques en licence libre (#CreativeCommons BY / BY-SA, Licence Art Libre, domaine public ou équivalentes)
Plus d'infos: https://ch.pvh-editions.com/afal
ohay! Not sure if sad or happy news, but welcome! I did that too, and in doing so, I ended up on the benches of streetsoul university. A life long academy where each one teach two. Not to be confused with school of hard knocks.
ohay! Not sure if sad or happy news, but welcome! I did that too, and in doing so, I ended up on the benches of streetsoul university. A life long academy where each one teach two. Not to be confused with school of hard knocks.
The Swiss Alps eroding was not on my bingo card for this lifetime!
https://doctorl.bandcamp.com/track/mountains-will-never-surrender
The Swiss Alps eroding was not on my bingo card for this lifetime!
https://doctorl.bandcamp.com/track/mountains-will-never-surrender
This post is dated 2011 😅 has to be the oldest nostr note I've ever seen
This post is dated 2011 😅 has to be the oldest nostr note I've ever seen
I read "Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It" by Christof Koch.
Interesting book which spends like 8 or 9 chapters detailing all the experiments which prove beyond much doubt that consciousness, and self awareness, is a thing done by a brain.
It describes how perception is a construction of a description, has a chapter called "computational mind"
And then spends the last two chapters describing why he thinks the mind can't be computed, because drugs have made him think experience is some kind of magic associated with highly interconnected causal structures.
Apparently, he thinks, once things become interconnected enough they become able to cause things independently of the physics running those connections.
Which is crazy, obviously. There's nothing causal in direct connections between neurons that isn't equally causal in modeled connections between virtual neurons.
All his evidence in the book from neural MRI scans to the effects of psychedelic drugs and symptoms of strokes and disease point to the brain simulating a virtual reality which is the basis of perception.
That simulated world in which we live is full of colour and shape and sounds and emotions and millions of mental constructs that are built to be correlated by the senses with the outside world, but are not equal to the world itself. We live in a dream constructed to correlate with reality.
But then instead of taking the next step: That consciousness itself is a property of a simulated being inside that mental model of the universe, a property which the brain simulates and applies to the virtual self that's doing the experiencing inside that model, he jumps towards some magic implying pan-psychism or that sufficiently interconnected networks become causally self-complete for some reason nobody can fathom.
Sure, colour and shape and emotions are all made up by the brain but experience can't be! For some reason.
You see in truth dualism is false, in that there is no spirit realm in which ghosts animate the matter of the body somehow.
Yet also, dualism is true, in that there is a simulated mental reality which we live in, computed by the brain in which all perception and experience are created, which is related-to but separate-from the unfolding complicated dance of energy that is the universe our bodies interact with.
People take some DMT trip, and the model of the universe emulated by their brain collapses and breaks. Their virtual simulated self inside their mind has these experiences of being one with the universe or the experience of feeling dead yet conscious or whatever, and these hippies think that the broken down simulated experience is real and reflects how consciousness is more fundamental than the atoms that make up the neurons in their brain.
Instead of realizing it shows them that their experienced universe is a simulacrum, they think they get a more direct experience of reality somehow. A consciousness more pure than any mere base atom.
"Then I am myself the world" is a great title. Everything you ever experience is created and simulated in your brain like a dream, the whole universe is inside your head. Even the fact of experience itself.
But that isn't the conclusion Koch reaches somehow, he just jumps from describing the evidence that this is so straight into ascribing super-causal magic consciousness to particular arrangements of atoms that integrated information theory suggest have high correlation, and thinks therefore conciousness is itself the entire universe.
Ah well, fun book. I like arguing in my head with authors that are wrong.
#reading #books #consciousness #thenIAmMyselfTheWorld
Happened to me a couple of times. So i asked the recipients. Turns out they had gotten the zap, but we didn't find an explanation. Maybe something about the relays storing them? As far as I understand what we see on nostr is not derived from the lightning network... 🤷
TL;DR interested in what you find out
Happened to me a couple of times. So i asked the recipients. Turns out they had gotten the zap, but we didn't find an explanation. Maybe something about the relays storing them? As far as I understand what we see on nostr is not derived from the lightning network... 🤷
TL;DR interested in what you find out
Thank you! Glorious moment to you too! 🌞🫂
Thank you! Glorious moment to you too! 🌞🫂
GA lika a bawss, wassup Gung?!
GA lika a bawss, wassup Gung?!
GA lika a bawss, wassup Gung?!
Speed-goggles on! Your phonographic pocket calculator teleports you to Planet Dyne at the tap of a glossy surface. It's 2025, we're jamming with robots and conspiring for a better future, now!
Come closer to the bonfire, fellow dyne. It's good to see you!
https://news.dyne.org/planet-dyne-s2025-e04/
Either way it is clearly a camo-tree
Either way it is clearly a camo-tree
I'm sorry, but this whole #listenToEarn schtick...
For sure, meaningful connections are valuable. I might be naive, but I'm pretty sure such connections operates in a different currency. Like, not different from fiat. A different economy all together. And I can feel the poets getting angry at me for even calling it an economy.
If you can afford it, go ahead and short cut the gallery! Make the money rain. Those who grab it might actually need it.
I guess we'll see what happens when the sun comes back.
Best of luck!
I'm sorry, but this whole #listenToEarn schtick...
For sure, meaningful connections are valuable. I might be naive, but I'm pretty sure such connections operates in a different currency. Like, not different from fiat. A different economy all together. And I can feel the poets getting angry at me for even calling it an economy.
If you can afford it, go ahead and short cut the gallery! Make the money rain. Those who grab it might actually need it.
I guess we'll see what happens when the sun comes back.
Best of luck!
Would you rekcon it is at all possible for 2. to manifest without a human intermediary?
Would you rekcon it is at all possible for 2. to manifest without a human intermediary?
The only between a flower difference and a weed, I'm too high for this 🫠😂
The only between a flower difference and a weed, I'm too high for this 🫠😂
Switzerland still be living in the nineteen goodygood!
Switzerland still be living in the nineteen goodygood!
Insta is the network for the cyber-homeless and data-robbery victims.
Insta is the network for the cyber-homeless and data-robbery victims.
Very cool! Not been to a jam like that in many years.
Very cool! Not been to a jam like that in many years.
The Python library "YFinance" decided to force an upgrade. They did this by making the old version report a rate-limit error on every request.
Confusing.
Would have been better if they reported a "old version not supported" error or something instead. So that wasted some time.
That upgrade had dependencies which have dependencies upon a newer version of Python, so needed a whole OS upgrade really.
Which failed. Bricking the Rasp PI it was running on.
Oh well, complete rebuild of the whole machine and software it runs from scratch then.
That took all day yesterday. At the end I notice that the touch-screen doesn't touch. Needs drivers.
The drivers haven't been upgraded in six years. They brick the machine again when trying to install them on Debian Trixie.
Luckily, I kept good notes and could rebuild it all again much faster with no mistakes and knowing what to do and all the required custom software changes already made and saved.
So now I spent a whole day on annoying upgrade work because a single Python library decided to break the old version, and my Rasp Pi has no touch-screen. Which isn't ideal for a machine mostly operating as a fancy light switch for all the LED strips in the house.
This happens all the time in software. Millions of man hours wasted, so much hardware dumped because the drivers get abandoned.
In other news: Microsoft abandons Windows 10 any day now. Good luck to everyone faced with doing that lap on the upgrade treadmill.
I still have more work to do to bring up this RaspPi's software to where it was, but it'll have to wait, other things to do. At least it's back to sending me the nightly finance report and controlling the LED strips. If without a touch screen now.
arf... j'ai delete le post sans faire expres...
arf... j'ai delete le post sans faire expres...
c'etait *pas dans mon bingo ca tiens... J'ai du aller voire a la source tellement ca parait gros!
https://home.cern/news/news/physics/alice-detects-conversion-lead-gold-lhc
c'etait *pas dans mon bingo ca tiens... J'ai du aller voire a la source tellement ca parait gros!
https://home.cern/news/news/physics/alice-detects-conversion-lead-gold-lhc
As a nostr #defluencer, if/when my lightning wallet is offline, it's basically the cybergods granting me holidays.
As a nostr #defluencer, if/when my lightning wallet is offline, it's basically the cybergods granting me holidays.
c'etait *pas dans mon bingo ca tiens... J'ai du aller voire a la source tellement ca parait gros!
https://home.cern/news/news/physics/alice-detects-conversion-lead-gold-lhc
Rip Alkaline the Silver Fox 😞
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0mDmXT6Jtk
I asked myself, am I allowed to think your world sucks? Be a cynical asshole? Listen to guitar music? Whoreship satan?
Of course I’m not allowed to …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugmKKCpumBA
Ohay!! Thank you! Much appreciated 🖤
Ohay!! Thank you! Much appreciated 🖤
Now you have a good reason to spend quality outdoor time this summer!
Now you have a good reason to spend quality outdoor time this summer!
I seem to be on board the fork where it works as well...
I seem to be on board the fork where it works as well...
I keep falling back to the basics: file system and a good ID3 tagger (kid3 is neat). This way, any player that doesn't start moving files around is the goat, and VLC is the goatest
I keep falling back to the basics: file system and a good ID3 tagger (kid3 is neat). This way, any player that doesn't start moving files around is the goat, and VLC is the goatest
nostrudel.ninja and listr.lol
No mobile client that I know of. Will come eventually I hope. Been wondering why amethyst will show "muted" in the time line selector. Would be nice to have any created lists there.
nostrudel.ninja and listr.lol
No mobile client that I know of. Will come eventually I hope. Been wondering why amethyst will show "muted" in the time line selector. Would be nice to have any created lists there.
Well, technically, amethyst uses it for mutes (if my understanding is correct)
Well, technically, amethyst uses it for mutes (if my understanding is correct)
Lists are lists 😅
https://nostr-nips.com/nip-51#categorized-people-list
not in amethyst, no.
Lists are lists 😅
https://nostr-nips.com/nip-51#categorized-people-list
not in amethyst, no.
Lists are lists 😅
https://nostr-nips.com/nip-51#categorized-people-list
not in amethyst, no.
Lists are lists 😅
https://nostr-nips.com/nip-51#categorized-people-list
not in amethyst, no.
worldwide resistance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziG6f-vN2iA
An may the outlaws rise again
It’s a certain kinda livin, It’s a certain kinda style
Not everybody likes us
But we we drive some folks wild
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz5USGT0WRs
https://word.undead-network.de/2025/05/07/an-may-the-outlaws-rise-again-2/
#country #hank3 #music #noteverybodylikesus #outlaw
#maga cultists are so fond of stories and accusations of paedophilia. But for this one, we won't be hearing from them...
https://substack.com/home/post/p-162994753
Unfollow and add to a list?
Unfollow and add to a list?
Unfollow and add to a list?
Thanks for trying though!
Thanks for trying though!
That's sad, seems to be a really interesting article about the blossom file sharing system...
That's sad, seems to be a really interesting article about the blossom file sharing system...
Également en version avec crop marks pour impression: https://bafybeicancroufdeke4j6gcutlwbrlthhtpq3tx2kkj4seq2guktdbqpue.ipfs.dweb.link
L'excellent "Objective Thune", par @npub145m…leke et Philippe Ratte, édité par @npub19dh…lzy9 est maintenant disponible librement:
https://bafybeih4dd25xzj45srzv46xnyb756yd5atocpihi35ad4ucbrhg2yo7pi.ipfs.dweb.link/ https://image.nostr.build/0146420b599643ef1da972c51d3ca47e3f9a4bec777c7f1b81f42a3b799aa519.png
L'excellent "Objective Thune", par @npub145m…leke et Philippe Ratte, édité par @npub19dh…lzy9 est maintenant disponible librement:
https://bafybeih4dd25xzj45srzv46xnyb756yd5atocpihi35ad4ucbrhg2yo7pi.ipfs.dweb.link/ https://image.nostr.build/0146420b599643ef1da972c51d3ca47e3f9a4bec777c7f1b81f42a3b799aa519.png
L'excellent "Objective Thune", par @npub145m…leke et Philippe Ratte, édité par @npub19dh…lzy9 est maintenant disponible librement:
https://bafybeih4dd25xzj45srzv46xnyb756yd5atocpihi35ad4ucbrhg2yo7pi.ipfs.dweb.link/ https://image.nostr.build/0146420b599643ef1da972c51d3ca47e3f9a4bec777c7f1b81f42a3b799aa519.png
Is there a way to fetch a note that is not in my relay list using amethyst?
#asknostr
Is there a way to fetch a note that is not in my relay list using amethyst?
#asknostr
Is there a way to fetch a note that is not in my relay list using amethyst?
#asknostr
Is there a way to fetch a note that is not in my relay list using amethyst?
#asknostr
Is there a way to fetch a note that is not in my relay list using amethyst?
#asknostr
Stupid patriarchy. Never should have been imprisoned in the first place. Free the Heroines!
Dicker, du hast wieder eine ganz toll track gemacht!
https://kunstfabrik.bandcamp.com/track/mach-du-mal
Dicker, du hast wieder eine ganz toll track gemacht!
https://kunstfabrik.bandcamp.com/track/mach-du-mal
Killing for SATAN. #music #satan
https://media.undeadnetwork.de/w/qyMuvepkZjkaAm6S5bjBy8
CW: Doctor Who - Lucky Day
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Amazing. What a show. All the best episodes barely have The Doctor in them at all. 😆
Great to see Millie back. I love Ruby so much, she's brilliant, and to see her so happy and then traumatized and heartbroken is a wrench. What a bastard. Unbelievable levels of idiocy. Throw it away with Ruby just for clicks. 🥴
Great scary lizard dogs and also great fake lizard dogs.
After putting the internet fans into Lux, RTD is putting the internet trolls as villains into Lucky Day.
Don't really get why Conrad wouldn't eat the antidote though. If he knows he's lying, he ought to lie about that too. Only reason to not take the vaccine is if you believe the lies you're spouting.
Best show of the run.
So far.
Read Lyn Alden's book "Broken Money".
The problems and issues with using bank debt as a global monetary system were a surprise to me when I first discovered them in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.
"Money" is mostly not notes and coins. Banks don't hold your money, they fractionally reserve it and create 95% of all the money that exists out of nothing. All that stuff that isn't notes and coins is interest bearing debt, and there isn't enough money in the system to pay the interest.
It must mathematically, inevitably, lead to collapse.
Alden goes through some of that problem. Describing money as a ledger, either managed by book-keeping or by physical scarcity.
She goes through some history of how money evolves in society. How the limitations of physical money (mostly that it can't be transferred quickly at the speed of communication) lead to using credit and ledgers with balances at trusted traders, and eventually banks. The collapse of Breton Woods with the ending of the Gold Standard and the problems with the current Petro Dollar system.
Some of these problems are in the media spotlight at the moment: The US printing money to trade for foreign products negatively affects their balance of payments, and is bad for the American worker. Deskills their economy and makes America dependent.
Trump says he wants to fix that, but its hard to see how it could be fixed while Dollars remain the world money standard, and America therefore has to get dollars out into that system somehow. And gets to make money for nothing to swap for real world products.
Their free money also pays for the wars that America pursues and funds all over the globe.
Another problem: Constant money printing and resulting inflation causes monetization of real estate, pushing up the price of housing and making people not even *want* there to be cheap housing. They celebrate the cost of housing going up as though it enriches them.
Likewise stocks, and equities and real estate and art and jewelry. All inflated stupidly due to the constantly devaluing worth of money.
Also the problems already mentioned that I learned about in 2008. All the money in the world is owed at interest, and to pay that interest more money must be created, at more interest. The whole system doomed to collapse and enriching the worst of us till it does.
Is the solution to return to a gold standard? Presumably not, gold is too hard to transport, and already collapsed into bank credit once in the 70s.
More controversially she wonders could it be Bitcoin? Not "crypto", which is just scams and more tokens printed out of nothing to enrich those doing the printing. But Bitcoin specifically, separate from Crypto, as a token which only real-world work can create. Nobody gets to print Bitcoin for free. It has no company or country controlling it. It has deliberately limited supply. It is a bearer asset like Gold which can be transported around the world at the speed of communication.
The last 3rd of the book looks at how Bitcoin works, how it's different to Crypto, and examines some of the obvious objections.
I remain unsure that Bitcoin could really be a new global reserve currency, but I also remain convinced that *something* has to, because continuing to use the dollar is certainly doomed and causes innumerable terrible difficulties until it does.
And what else is there?
Can we finally make Keynes' Bancor?
Until we find something, money remains broken. Like in the title. And that breaks many other things too.
Kaboom!
https://farhot.bandcamp.com/album/nowroz-1401
#nowPlaying
Kaboom!
https://farhot.bandcamp.com/album/nowroz-1401
#nowPlaying
Giving it in
https://fayemeana.bandcamp.com/
Giving it in
https://fayemeana.bandcamp.com/
a generation of "original samples", taking a stance after 2 generations of televised notoriety.
wow
https://mobygratis.com/license-agreement
Couldn't agree more. I don't think I am ready to drop the network entirely yet, but knowing nostr I have lost all interest in building community over activitypub. Topically, AP offers more diversity and I have many human connections that I value over there. But my efforts are focused on migrating and learning as much as I can about nostr. I am happy to scout for my fellows less aware of any given technical implications and I'm no stranger to the lonesome web. It never stays lonesome for very long anyways.
