Very cool. You speak Latin! I'm not too hot on remembering names in any language.

Great project,as you say, Govt do one thing, you have to put it right. I'm not one for townie v rural and it really baffles me about Spain, because most people are still pretty clued up about the Campo. I'm sure the forestry policies are not the best reflection of what Spanish on the ground are advising.

Dont know where that came from haha.

Almonds are kind of "weedy" trees to my mind. They do grow well and it's super food, but I gravitate to olive and oak, which last and last. It's my star sign I think. We plant trees we will never see mature!

Anyway, you sound pretty well clued up and on a good direction.

 I'm trying to work out where you are. Mentions of pine I'm thinking Andalucia,  especially as you mention no joy with chestnuts which are a northern Spain tree. But it could be anywhere. It doesn't really matter, it's all good here. :)


Used to go there on holiday and my folks retired to mid Wales and my brother is not far from Snowdonia. Til I went to the Himalayas I hadnt seen a better landscape when the sun shines


First stage of dream catcher day with my daughter.

 https://image.nostr.build/45d52f4dda2afd38e9ea24a876980d01e1a15f66da421d029dffd05606040bd4.jpg

I've made the frame out of olive wood, and contributed a couple of chicken feathers. We might be able to find an eagle feather too. She is a real artist and I have no doubt will make it all look rather nice.

It is our little contribution to a fantastic nativity scene, believe it or not. A very politically incorrect interpretation of a universal message. Been 7 years in the making, I reckon it is going to make international news, it is that good.

As an idea, this is the dream catcher for Chief Joseph! Imagine how big he is, and there's life-size camels... It's amazing.
#artstr #spain #olive #christmas


In god's country!


Last year I counted 40 "new" trees on the property that had nothing to do with me. Olive, almond carrasca, pine.. I'm looking at what I spent on purchased starts like cherry, it really is a dismal hit rate and learnt in first season not to buy anything from nurseries.

 I'd consider year old starts, but my overriding observation is to start from seed, the most practical, least costly. Just need patience, but it looks like from seed, a sapling will soon enough overtake a 3-5 year old nursery bought sapling and be very robust.. What's your experience on that front?

 I've got a couple of Queensland bottle trees to take from seed, same requirement as olive, and in third year its looking positive,, but I can't get a pear that cost me €15 to produce for love nor money growing in a groasis box, another option that promised much but same issue, if it isnt started in the right spot a new tree aint working even if water is not an issue.

 Keep going, I guess.


It is surprising how poorly so many bitcoin podcasts age. I know things move fast, but really.

As you say, follow ups would be a step in the right direction. Maybe there's room for just one more podcast. Bitcoin Follow Ups!!  All the old news revisited. Whatever happened to...


Israel Uses a Supply Chain Attack to Target Hezbollah Members

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzq3e0gs8jnmued6f2rp4c6vs07xqvs4vs8zpwt82smcdch4txjvq7qqxnzdejxcmrydfkxyen2vfhmrxftz

As I'm sure many of you are aware already, Israel executed an attack on thousands of Hezbollah members in Lebanon earlier today. At the moment, it looks like Israel successfully waged a supply chain attack on the pagers used by Hezbollah members. Intercepting the devices and placing highly explosive material on the batteries that could be triggered remotely by raising the temperature of the batteries.

To my knowledge, this is the first time an attack of this nature and of this scale has ever been waged. This is a very serious and dangerous precedent that should make anyone reading this think long and hard about the ramifications of the normalization of this type of warfare.

It's not clear to me yet whether this is exactly what happened, but this seems to be where all of the reports are pointing. And when you consider the scale of this operation, it is hard to think of alternative ways that this could have been achieved outside of corrupting the supply chain of this particular pager. Regardless, the die has been cast and remote detonation attacks in crowded civilian areas has been battle tested as an appropriate war tactic.

Not only does this set a terrible precedent for war, but it also begs the question; if they can do something like this with a relatively dumb pager, how much damage could they do with something like an iPhone? How vulnerable are the billions of people who hold smartphones in their pockets, or drive internet connected electric vehicles with lithium ion batteries? How trivial was it for Mossad to gain access to these devices and at what part of the supply chain? Now that this attack has been deemed to be "on the table" how long will it take before others begin to wage similar attacks?

War tactics and their costs are rapidly changing right before our eyes. The war between Russia and Ukraine is showing that low cost drones strapped with bombs can be very effective weapons that can do damage to military equipment worth anywhere between tens of millions to billions of dollars. The Houthi rebels have used cheap drones to completely disrupt the Suez Canal for the better part of a year. The world has only seen the tip of the iceberg in regards to how this type of technology can be used at scale to tip the leverage of power towards those with less financial resources, but a willingness to engage in kinetic conflict. Some of these drones are strapped with thermite flame throwers!

Now that new information has been brought to the market - you can turn pagers and (likely) cellular phones into a network of improvised explosive devices via a software push that increases the temperature of the devices' batteries - it is only a matter of time before others figure out how to do it and begin using these tactics themselves. War machines have never been easier and cheaper to deploy. In a world that is becoming increasingly fractured and angry, this is absolutely frightening. Asymmetric warfare as predicted in the Sovereign Individual is upon us.

As it relates to bitcoin hardware, these attacks highlight that an attack that has been long talked about in the industry but not yet exploited to the best of our knowledge is very real. Supply chain attacks, particularly on bitcoin signing devices that store private key information, have just been proven to be very possible by motivated state actors. If a nation state wanted to somehow "prove" that bitcoin is insecure or figure out a low effort way to do a mass confiscation of bitcoin all they have to do is successfully attack the supply chain of a hardware manufacturer, corrupt the devices, and let them flow to the hands of individuals who believe they are securing their bitcoin in the best way possible.
The best way to mitigate this risk is to hold you bitcoin in a multi-sig wallet using a quorum of keys produced by different hardware produced by different manufacturers. Companies like Unchained make this process as seamless and possible and supply chain attacks like the one that was laid bare today highlight why these collaborative custody models are so important. Especially if you are holding a large amount of wealth in bitcoin.

This is a sad day for the world. I'll be praying for peace and sanity to prevail.
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Final thought...
That was a terrible loss by the Birds.


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


Yep. :) None of this is rocket science! So much environmental degradation could be reversed by simply getting out the way and leaving stuff alone. Or just letting the pigs out the factories and letting them loose on the land.


AOVE
EVOO

Our industrial food society has a knack for over-egging at one extreme, or squeezing the joy and poetry out of tradition at the other

First pressing of freshly harvested olives, or Extra Virgin Olive Oil ad ee now call it, is one example.

EVOO which started life known sinply as Olive Oil was once pressed at room temperature using stones and maybe water or donkey power. Now we call that "Extra Virgin olive Oil", because with progress, what producers now call "olive oil" is the lesser grade second pressing.

But it's worse than that. Cold pressed Extra Virgin olive oil can be pressed at up to 60C " room temperature".

So how to differentiate the purest form of oil from the one reinventing  the boundaries of purity? I guess we are down to marketing and pretty pictures.

 Except plain and simple olive oil the old way, liquid gold, super nutritious oil with as many taste subtleties as a fine wine, s now called EVOO in certain circles. In Spanish that is AOVE, celebrated by top chefs, lauding oil done the proper way as something special.

So now the purest oil is hidden behind the equivalent of WC , desemanticised.

The EVOO in supermarkets is for sure not cold pressed from this year and likely is pressed at the legally stipulated 60c max for "cold" and is 2- 3 years in a stainless tank waiting for the right price

And that known as "olive oil" in supermarkets, who knows what it is. For sure it is second pressing and has been cut with sunflower oil or whatever is going cheap. Is it a better bet than than straight rocket fuel seed oil? I'd hope so, but olive oil as our not so distant ancestors knew? Not a chance.

So that's what little producer people like me are up against. Extra Virgin Olive Oil should not be hidden behind acronyms, not sidelined by mass produced lesser grade versions, and must prevail for international health reasons, for cultural and societal reasons, and for environmental reasons.

Small scale producers can't make ends meet without perverse incentive subsidies. That's why developing a mobile chicken farm amongst the olives is so important to me. To prove that there is a way to generate regular cash flow from an "unprofitable" olive grove, while negating the need for subsidies which require farmers to plough up the land and make it look tidy.

Some things shouldn't be condensed, rushed, commoditized out of existence.

Something like that :)

#foodstr #olives #oil #aceitedeoliva


Ghost turns all headings into a class which you can link to easily for precise anchor text linking in a document. So disappointing to realise so few websites use this system. Missing a huge trick.


some good info in this freedom tech community https://satellite.earth/n/FreedomTech/npub1fkluklzamwpyn7w8awxzrcqe7z8mldlvthk4gz9kz3vsh6udz62s9qj48l


Is it fair to say that if the internet ran on Tor, it would make privacy a lot easier for everyone?

I never saw this explanation before of the time Proton "shopped" a French activist.  Proton legally had no choice, as a law had been broken, but they said if the activist had used Tor, Proton could not have helped the police in their enquiries.

Apparently Proton could have also suggested all users access their accounts via a VPN to cut out Proton's access to any usable IP info, but I guess as a VPN provider they thought it politically incorrect to say that publicly at the time!!  https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/09/privacy-focused-protonmail-provided-a-users-ip-address-to-authorities/


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


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


It is weird how with so much excess fiat in circulation there aren't more enterprises springing up. I know with the cantillon effect it mostly stays at the top, but when you hear Buffet saying he can't find decent businesses downstream to plant his cash warchest in, and the little guys with some excess cash facing a ton of risk, it looks like the system is grinding to a halt.


I like that meme with a little girl writing to Santa on the left next to a picture of a voting booth. Spot the difference.

 I wonder what the history books tell us about when only a few percent of the people turn up to vote. There must be a tipping point where one day a bunch of politicians can't believe their luck that they get to control a whole nation with a few percent backing, and the next day they are turfed out.


Been a really hard 12-18 months on the ground cover. Rainfall right down, winds up. Finally a sign of life, hopefully not a false autumn dawn. https://image.nostr.build/8138aec1846ecbb5aa3d3f86d010aefb7c123f4b503698ed6007479e999d94d2.jpg


Reply guy can piss right off. Whats up with not being able to block it? Ommmmm.


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


Fig trees grow out of walls.


Tortilla


At their core, relays are actually a pretty straightforward concept, it's just completely different from what we are used to.

Relays are just servers where data is stored that the apps on our devices can fetch and display for us.

It's just that we are used to there only being one server that we all connect to for a given platform, and the entity controlling the server is the same entity producing the app to fetch the data on that server. No one could imagine being able to spin up their own Facebook server, for instance.

With Nostr, there is no limit to the number of servers, and anyone who wants to can even run their own. Moreover, anyone can create apps that fetch data from those servers and display it. The servers and apps just need to be able to understand each other by all speaking the same Nostr language or protocol.


Just asked Venice.ai for a photo of a chicken on a motorbike. The rather bizarre response was a motorbike running over a chicken. Oh well, I guess that's why there is a warning, "May contain offensive material" :)


Anything over 30 chickens is considered a farm enterprise which, if you know Spain, gives you an idea of how far away I am from having the correct paperwork! I will get there, mañana

Inland,, Barca sn't too far. The sky in your profile looks very Mediterranean


the epiphany of a 65% hurdle rate to match just holding BTC  certainly puts business ideas in oerspective. That could make too many business ideas unattractive, though if that 65% is viewed in terms of hard cash returns and no understanding/ grace that to make say a construction business +65% profitable from say 30%, with the best will in the world eould take time.

So I guess BTC is going to have to be the pioneer empowerer. The niche nut jobs breaking new ground. Which makes sense, seeing as it is such a tiny fraction of the economy.


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


Backwards is a trend easily fallen into. The Brits can't build mega stadia any more. The French can because they keep practicing.

Concord was amazing. I'm not into cars and planes, but seeing it regularly up close, it was awe inspiring. Beautiful and surprisingly small for something so insanely loud.


working on a website running on #ghost Between following my nose and the help forum I have pretty much got it exactly as I want. At some point I will morph it to npubpro, but one step at a time.

Compared to Wordpress which I was wed to for years, the Ghost workflow from blogs and pages to settings is literally circular. Very clever ergonomics

Just the concept of Code Injection instead of WP voodoo talk of orphan themes says it all, or at least speaks to educating us simpleton  users away from dicking around with core theme files to make aesthetic changes.

Not sure why they are wed to Stripe. especially  pumping tips via Stripe. Alternatives are available ( lighting Zaps page is trivial to add)

I'm paying €11 a month, which I hope for Ghost sake comes down  because it's a chunk of change.


Transparent, permissionless mining pool that will soon allow miner to make their own templates.


Misfiring


There's a list of those pseudo health advisory marketing scams. Misinformation is nothing new.

Go to work on an egg was from UK producers..

5 a day was some US fruit and veg growers Assoc. gimmick

A Mars a day helps you work rest and play.. nuff said.


#asknostr Ever come across #brixton motorbikes? https://www.brixton-motorcycles.com/models/felsberg-125-xc/


Scrolled through the global feed expecting to experience a seething cauldron in the human underworld. I guess I struck lucky because all I saw was neutral to positive.

I like the world according to Nostr. Maybe everything else is the matrix.


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


The Myth of Airplane Mode

You're being lied to.  Airplane mode does NOT hide your location.  Google and Apple continue to collect it, by seeing what WiFi endpoints are near you, and then figuring out where you are through a process known as "WiFi Triangulation". [1]

Further, phones have two "brains", and the part that connects to the cell towers does NOT have to obey Airplane mode.  This is called the "baseband modem", and airplane mode is an API request from the main motherboard to this modem, ASKING if it would PLEASE consider killing service.

And even worse, the baseband doesn't even need a SIM card.  You can call 911 emergency without service, without wifi, just standing outside.  Calyx Institute devs LIE about this on Matrix, but dial it and hear your local operator tell you the truth.

In fact, you don't even need to be the government to abuse this.  Ralf-Philipp Weinmann of the University of Luxembourg demonstrated with just around $1500 in equipment, ANY RANDOM civilian hacker, who doesn't even work for the telecom, can FAKE being the cellphone tower near you.  Source:
https://comsecuris.com/papers/woot12-final24.pdf

This is all why it's so critical to use GrapheneOS which helps against these types of attacks, and to buy your phone anonymously in cryptocurrency, because if you don't, it's essentially like a dog collar.  At their will, they can see where you are, who you're standing near (if they have a phone too), and even turn the mics on to record.

My abusive competitors in the degoogled phone industry all charge way above Google's official store, and Google's search gives them traffic to make it harder to switch.  For example on the model 8:

AbovePhone.com
Pixel 8: $999

DigitalPrivacy.shop
Pixel 8: $729

Google Official Store
Pixel 8: $599

While as I sell them BELOW the official store:

Simplified Privacy
Pixel 8: $499

PLUS you get a consult on its use,  Why?  Because I am on a mission.  I need to get these phones, and the privacy that goes with it, in the hands of as many people as possible.  And if Google search wants to oppress and censor our website, so be it.  You and you alone deserve your data:

https://simplifiedprivacy.com/they-see-everything/index.html

& [1] WiFi Triangulation: https://simplifiedprivacy.com/googles-surveillance-the-shocking-truth/index.html


thanks for asking. Im all follower-ed-ing out here!! I will check the relays as you suggest.

Followers - It still shows the expected 90+ Followers in my profile summary but there are only 14  showing in the actual list.

Following - too hard to explain, except I had 80, now it is the 14 I had time to click on in the list of 80 yesterday.

Now the exact same 14 are followers and following.

Am I missing something here? I do admit to spatial awareness problems and difficulties understanding basic concepts!! :)


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


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


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


#asknostr

Im not so sure about Nostr being a reliable posting house. Since dabbling in relays last week Nostr has been weird.

every day my profile shows a different nonsense follower/following count. My follower group is listed unfollowed, so I follow and next day all unfollowed. rinse repeat.

Upshot, I get to see one or two people's posts in my feed. At the moment it is Dr berry, all very interesting but I'm not that into diet.

Has everybody I have  been talking to unfollowed me and I'm not getting it?

I'm posting from primal, been on amethyst, satellite. it's clearly a nostr not client thing. Would appreciate some help to understand why my nostr experience has gone from great to excluded!


excellent message about bare soil. it's all supposed to be green


I eat home cooked non processed food within a 6 hour period, with a 16 hour break with drinks only. It's decent food and fasting that does it for me. Three square meals a day  puts food in our head every waking hour. A mad distraction.


#zaps Where did the term originate?

Watching La Femme Nikita the classic dark French original, 1990.  Zaps mentioned several times before the opening carnage.

I'm sure a smart Nostr #memestr could do something with that.


Libreboot

https://minifree.org/

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


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


This is one reason why follower counts have some importance. About the quickest way to differentiate fake accounts. But that may change too.

Apparently Michael Saylor liked one of my notes about this very topic of follower counts hence why I feel I can mention it to a person of your standing!

Oh, that's a fake Mike. Blast.


Great idea. What other combinations do you use? Is it doable with literally any herb or are there some to avoid?


These bots are getting damned clever.


the duckduckgo writing tool is really good. It has made me realise that the older I get the harder it is to organise my amazing ideas haha


Bitcoin remains unaffected. nostr:note1zqlk6r6zjkpzwnh2t6j90llyeqs4k5yjmexsl3tecfhrqe28fqzqrgzkdm


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


Can this poll be embedded in a wordpress blog post


Thanks for that heads up. The option to chat back and forth is a step up for sure. Does this make sense? Is a base line question for me :)

 Each AI throws up its own occasional quirky interpretation, so we won't redundant any time soon.


Putting together a bilingual website. #Ghost suggest 2: options which are surprisingly costly.

Monthly big bucks for an AI translation of your website,  however good...

 olé tus huevos, say I.

Weglot is a simple script added to your header. A floating button appears on screen with choice of 2 languages, for on the fly text and menu translation. Impressive rendition .but my god, pricey.

Double check but a 50,000 word 2 language site is about 70$ a month. Really?

They run a word count to give an idea. I have one site with a few landing pages and one article in 3 languages, ( it was translated manually) 5000 words in total would be 30$ a month. Big sites $1/1000 words per month. Jeez.

Weglot is accurate, and you can edit word by word,  but that's a lot of dough month after month.

Another recommended site with similar quality translations starts at $120 a month for 50,000 words..Where do people get that sort of money!

 I think DeepL write and DeepL translate plus a little copy-pasting and a final read through by a native speaker is the way to go.

If you write regularly,, I'd recommend DeepL Write as an editor  for all your original work anyway., it will catch all the minor grammar and speling errors like what you see in this sentence running on commas. It rarely misunderstands context.

To avoid internet snafus I have a notepad open next to DeepL' s correction screen and edit off line.

Once you have an original text you are happy with, you can use DeepL to translate it. (Don't leave whole process to AI else you could well end up in robot world )

Expect very good initial translations. Side by side with Weglot they read better, I think.

The' DeepL option is either free, or 17.50 a month and you can grow your bingual site forever at that price.

For big sites and SEO and ease,, going DeepL, you need to have a subdomain for your second language version.

 If your site isn't too wordy, put the translated versions in a folder and build a faux homepage in a second language and put in your menu bar. Bit of a faff but on a budget ...

Or even  an accordion at the bottom of each original language page with the translation in it.

I think Google bots will find the accordion last and not index the second language, so they say, but for a hobby site, why not.

Any other options, I'd like to hear them. Gracias

#translation #websites #Spain


Bitcoin fixes this.


What's the deal with reply guy bot. Is it a hint to participate more or a hint to slow down on the engagement?


#Olives bush in nature. That's all.


It looks like the "shadow ban" was down to a glitch with relays settings. Reset the defaults and Im back in the Nostrbuild game.


499 users of nostr:npub1pr4du5xl28dy5sh4msz9uddnwxgzupkk4qzjzklv84edc6ruevzqlxmkzp right now. Who's gonna be number 500?!

Who is your favorite Nostr creator that you think should try a nostr-based website?

Let me know in comments, I will zap you and help creators set up and customize their sites.

Thank you everyone who spread the word and gave us great feedback! We're just getting started!


I'm of an age where I need a slow USB port so I have time for a pee break


You haven't talked to me :) Everyone I follow has been unfollowed.

 Is there a process or source that has a way of retrieving that list? If nothing is ever deleted, kind of idea

 Where's the Nostr CEO when you need one!


Never thought of that for further exploiting the fruit and leaves! It  wouldn't affect the crop, at least no more than pressing the olives for oil, or drying the leaves for tea.

I have no idea on the investment required. This is a picture of the process, maybe you have seen it before. Doesn't look mega, but doesn't look like a domestic process either.

https://www.tandfonline.com/cms/asset/3069e3b2-fa78-4339-96e5-418363f8bf96/gnpl_a_2345754_uf0001_c.jpg

Have you got olives?


Not sure what's going on with #amethyst but I have about 3 people's posts in my timeline and that's it. Not that I'm into accumulation but I had an interesting bunch of conversations and people to reference.

Will return later to see if relays are able to pull anything together.

Rest of my account seems to be showing OK #asknostr


Curious how 21 sats is always 1 cent these days when zapping. I thought it was only 1BTC always stayed equal to 1BTC


What fantastic photos. You roped me in on the first moon.


What's the chicken suffering with?


Picture everyone in the room is sat on the toilet. Don't sit down. Smile.

I know what you mean, though! Good luck.


I am committed to providing value and assistance wherever possible. Putting oneself out there, sharing information, that is the foundation for building a strong community.

This age-old truism has recently been coined as Value for Value. We don't have many financial resources to share out, but we have information, ideas, experience, time and energy. Is it any wonder the first adopters of V4V tech were artists, writers, musicians, podcasters!

When a few people start to listen to an idea, and find value, and respond in a practical way, the exchange of valuable information increases. Before you know it, the community's knowledge base is building. Wealth-generating ideas abound. People are prompted to act. The pool of financial wealth starts growing. All from sharing ideas and information.

Fighting for freedom of speech is nothing to do with anarchy or being anti law for the sake of it. Infringing on a society's freedom of speech puts a brake on society's ability to develop. The dumbest thing a greedy leader could ever do is stop the people talking freely. That kind of policy is literally eating their own, and everyone else's lunch.

#grownostr #free-speech #nostr


Chickens lay eggs and we eat them.

Most days my chickens get their eggshells back from me, to consume for the calcium.

Occasionally a chicken will take to eating an egg,. Usually it starts with an egg that gets broken accidentally. If a rogue bird gets a taste for it you start to notice a decimated egg in the clutch of eggs in a nest box. if you don't get on top of it all sorts of nonsense can play out.

Chickens get yolk on their beak, another chicken starts pecking at it. That can end in a bloodbath.

Not to mention who wants to lose eggs?

Growing up I was told by the old timers, an egg eater must be culled. Don't go that route.

Get a fresh egg, bore a small hole in the shell and drain it empty.

Fill it up with chilli, anything super hot. Leave it in the crime scene. Repeat the next day.

I can promise the rogue chicken will not try eat more than two of them.Cured, Alive and laying like a champ.

#chickens #grownostr #homesteading

 https://image.nostr.build/7fd33019fed943ef97dc3028e720914d1f19be89a21b0d04b39fe24d9a7e18dd.jpg


Good afternoon. As I grappled with the perfect colour scheme for a new website, what a tremendously useful convertor this proved to be https://www.rgbtohex.net/ in tandem with a digital colour meter. That plus https://nostr.build/ and Ghost, it has been a very productive day. And a day closer to putting this bloody computer back where it belongs.

I must say I find it quite amusing when I read posts about walking, like it's a new discovery. It's what we do, right? :) I get it, lifestyle is up the creak these days.

Anyway, not too long before I go for a walk and drop off some neighbourly eggs.


Thanks for your insights, makes sense.  I'm pretty sure the IP address is a  thing with Nostr use.

I think there is work going on with 1 nsec per post. https://anonostr.com/ offer it. Quite a rapid timeline to follow! And I think I read somewhere that the idea is that an anon user would be able to collate their multiple nsec posts in one "spot" but nobody else would be able to do that.

Im not techy either but it is fascinating where it is heading.


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


Hope it goes OK. It is amazing how the body repairs and adapts, if allowed to.


Correct. The voice of reason on the personal data points, thanks.

And the logic of the censorship resistance? Is Nostr never going down because of safety in numbers of relays on the network?

On an individual level, what protects activists from being doxxed if a relay can see the IP address of users? New nsec for every post. A VPN and an onion relay as standard for using Nostr truly anon?

Hope that's not too many questions!


Can't get enough beetroot! I hated it as a kid, til I realised it doesn't grow in vinegar. That looks delicious.


I remember going back to UK late noughties after a 10 year break and being shocked at the BBC news coverage. It had changed, I don't hold a masters in communication but their coverage sounded like propaganda, not news. Sad really, because it's only got worse despite the few bastions of fearless reporting.


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


Sods Law. I normally don't have much joy with growing onions because I'm stingy with water. They stay scallion size! This year I watered a bit more and lo and behold I have about 200 onions like this in various stages of growth around the place. No surprises there, they say.

https://image.nostr.build/6045d8bc9819b4c976bb05dd569c8e5ef82ef681ec746f13a39b2849b1a8cf01.jpg

But would you believe it, I seem to have developed some sort of intolerance for what has been a staple of my diet for decades. Giving them away now.

Meanwhile back in the Spring  I wanted to focus on peppers instead of tomatoes, they are much more nutritious. But despite going overboard planting dozens of different sorts of seeds, this year, what normally grows like a weed has faded away or finally started to kick off towards the end of the hot season.

 #Gardening is art not science haha

 #growstr #homesteading


Hi, until catching this post, I thought you were a bot! Your summaries of threads are interesting, I have been reading them for a while, but they sound machine made. cheers


Morning all. Out of curiosity I have scrolled down a YouTube feed of economic forecasting and commentary.  I can see every reason to feel quite doomy, especially as the content sliwly meanders from econonics to pomutics to war and ...

If you want to hurt somebody, words can be more violent than physical force.

But if you see words as a bunch of letters arranged in a certain order, words can't hurt you.

And if you know about Bitcoin and about the Nostr community, a YouTube doom scroll can't hurt you.

Taking it further, if you try look past the words of someone trying to hurt you, or look behind the motives of a YouTube, you might see a weak, or scared messenger.

And if you are  drinking from a positive peaceful well, it is easy to simply shrug and smile and acknowledge you have heard their words, or taken time to look through the doom scroll, but it's not something you are going to worry about. You march to a different beat, have a good day.


I have a local computer recycle and repair shop that is run by Gen X dudes that gives me the closest feeling to what old school independent record stores used to give.

I just go there to bullshit somedays and they will take a smoke break to talk about Linux in the parking lot. They didn't know about start9 and were very curious about nostr.

They diagnosed a simple problem with my Thinkpad where it wasn't keeping date and time  by swapping out the cmos battery.


Go for it, we aren't supposed to be comfortable. It's the only way to grow stronger. I got through the worst of that tech debacle day, learnt what to step back from., what to go for. Cheers


That's a powerful thread. Cheers


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


I can't get my chickens to lay into a bowl. What's the secret? 😉


Lashings of rain which is good, for second consecutive day. On the other side of the equation, not getting out much. We live outside except for the 60 days a year when there isn't sun here, so Im feeling a bit deskbound recently!

My barebones solar installation is very fast at charging, but is struggling under the stress of coping with me being indoors. But at least there is still juice to type this and listen to a podcast. :)

And just heard I'm an uncle again, yay.


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


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


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


That's the first time I have ever been part of a 1%!  Thanks :)

To answer your question about the percentage of people who are poor in terms of access to internet and devices. Lots!

This is the percentage of population by country who use the internet. I read that as the % of people who can afford a device and the fee to get online. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IT.NET.USER.ZS?locations=A9

Globally about half of homes have a PC. Phones are the main access point online now, though, but the developing world doesn't have 82% smartphone use like in the US or Europe. https://www.statista.com/statistics/539395/smartphone-penetration-worldwide-by-country/

Obviously  Nostr devs aren't responsible for whether people can afford to have an internet connection, but some apps are clearly caught up in the  built-in obsolesence trend. What are considered "throwaway PCs and devices" that could be affordable to millions of people, won't run browsers that are required to access a cross section of Nostr apps.

If a guy can write software to pay for groceries in Africa with bitcoin on a dumb phone, it can't be beyond the wit of a community that wants to be global, to make sure its apps and clients are visible on old browsers.


Laying poison is a bad move. You can end up poisoning all sorts, especially the cat that's supposed to be catching the mouse, which as @wedge social points out, a cat is far from the dead cert killer we are all led to believe as kids! I have spotted mice before my cat.

We are the apex predator but we can be kind about infestations. Don't give pests a reason to move in. The place I live now was wasp infested, rat infested and ant heaven when I moved in. I haven't killed one and they have pretty much all gone.

For mice, block up gaps from outside. That tip about steel wool is a good one, or rolled up hardware cloth around entry points for pipes. They hate the smell of mint. I have a big bunch hanging up.

Don't leave food lying around.

I view cats as a deterrent, not a last line of defence. Have them for patrolling, putting rodents off settling down. And a dog patrolling too. We have a big hound it is a killer and the rats know it, another reason for them to keep out the way! A 35kg dog is no good for attic duty though :)

Last resort is humane traps to get them out and dropped off in a new locale. The thing is, we are the pest when we set up shop in a house in a field or equivalent. We can do better than just kill everything.


Upgraded to 2017!

https://nostrcheck.me/media/7b43b1cba4f78d8e684a81a0cf5fcd4ff41e0b06411ba840d675cabb9e0d45a3/4c7b036d50577c2ce6e7d6598ef94cef06d1c9a219de5fb8921060f4f408dd40.webp

Now I can see all the Nostr clients in their entirety. Shout out to #anonostr and #satellite and #Nostrchat the clients I found that worked just fine on an old desktop browser. I am sure there are a lot more.

But a friendly word for #Iris and this very #Nostter client from which I typeth. I was excluded from your Nostr experience until I was able to upgrade.

You might say, get with the program, old fella, catch up. Fair enough, but maybe listen to the perspective of a younger man who knows his shit - Obi at Fedimint. His epiphany on developing a truly global entity: you have to think of the poor people first, not the ones with the disposable income to throw their cash at solutions.

There are many more billions of poor than comfortably off. It is likely the former who will most need the opportunities that the Nostr protocol offers. Just saying. It's marketing 101, know your market.

Now, I have a couple of years to work out how to get Linux Puppy working. I go it installed and booting up through the BIOS, but now its stuck and Linux forums are enough to make Einstein scratch his skull.


I sleep on a 2" thick EPS board with an eiderdown for padding. It is the same "softness" as the physio's bench. Best thing ever for my back. Not very romantic though. YMMV!


A good read newsletter if you are interested in privacy issues and freedom software https://www.fsf.org/free-software-supporter/2024/september

"this month, we are highlighting LibrePlanet Artists, which is a network of #graphicdesigners, #photographers, #illustrators, #videographers, #animators, and #audioengineers committed to creating free artwork only using free software. They help to create educational materials and other media for #LibrePlanet teams, as well as to advocate for free software generally."

    https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:LibrePlanet_Artists.


Lucky neighbours


Checking out #Arweave It ticks a lot of boxes as a Bitcoin for data. Limited supply of tokens, miners incentivised to do their proof of work and keep the data up and available for public access for 100 years. A protocol that enables all manner of apps to be built on top. Sounds very Bitcoin meets Nostr!

But why do they need to invent a token? For all the decentralised blockchain talk, a central body holds the tokens and distributes the profits. Sorry, but it just sets off alarm bells.

I would be more convinced about Nostr's censorship resistance if Nostr were to adopt the more Bitcoiny aspects of Arweave. Because I really don't grasp the Nostr relay theory. It seems so open to human interference.

Please point me to some more info to read around Nostr relay resilience. If I grasp it, you got me, but for now, it's not convincing.


Anyone come across a bootable drive reformatting itself on a start up?

 I've tried two different usb drives, erased partitioned, formatted as Msdos-fat, guid, converted an iso of Linux to dmg, renamed the partition and drive and burnt the dmg to disk with DD in terminal. Unmounted and ejected.

Remounted and looked at Disk Utility to double check the drive was still as I expected.

Then start up with alt key and the drive isn't recognised. Check in disk utility and it is no longer msdos fat, and the disk name has changed to the dmg file name. Wt......!!!

How was your day. More predictable, I hope.

#linux #mac #asknostr


We grow on a total of around 1/4 of an acre bed space and I know for a fact we produce more than neighboring farms that plow up on 4-5x the space. It’s absolutely astounding what can be produced on a small, well run market garden using proper regenerative techniques.


The rain is absolutely torrential. Thunder cracking directly overhead, hold on to your hats. It is most welcome.

Most of the picture-perfect olive groves that Spain is known for, receive  EU grants (€350/ hectare to plough) After this storm passes, they will be inaccessible, flooded, and the top soil a bit more eroded.

Man, not the sun, is the principal driver of localised changes to ecosystems. When the rain hits my land it is stored. When thevsun hits my land, the ground cover absorbs and slowly releases heat. The bare soil next door hits 60c in summer. The hydrological cycle is disrupted.

 It is very difficult to do the maths to prove to the genersl population what that means for the climate. But it is easy to see what it means for our ecosystems.

Millions of bad decisions since we discovered agriculture, accelerating over the last hundred years, exponential the last 40-50 years, result in the current big ag complex. Join up the millions of plots of land being farmed in an unnaturall way, multiply out the local broken hydrological cycles, you dont need a person on social media to join the dots for you.

And you really should question why there are still significant voices playing down our direct role in ecosystem collapse. You just don't hear the naked truth that we have been shitting on our own doorstep for too long and the consequences are playing out before our eyes.

 "They" can't tell you what to think, but they sure can tell you what to think about.

They talk about climate change, global warming and similar terms - such a trigger, and such a vast concept to get our head round. We either get super freaked out/ depressed, or mostly switch off, overwhelmed. That strategy is playing right into our chimp brain. It's clever.

The day a govt and corp talk and act in terms of dealing with global ecosystem collapse, global because they join the dots of local ecosystem collapse,  then they have my vote, but it won't happen because they work on an exploitationall economic model. Is there any other sort? No, but there are ways that's more sustainable than others. (The only thing Man literally creates is art. Every other moment, we just exploit what we inherited from creation )

Anyway,  until society wakes up and runs itself along eco-friendly lines, and refuses to support big ag production as is, I'm afraid we are on a one way track to famine at one end, and slow degeneration through malnutrition ( obesity being that signal,) at the other.

 Why? Because I am not the only one who can no longer rely on the seasons. I might be able to adapt, to "control" my veg garden, snd I can have groundcover and shade trees and chickens to mitigste agsinst weird rain, wind and sun, but I sure have no way to controlv the vast majority of the land around me.

Consumers could force hands quicker than me ranting or govt policy. Like @bitcoin bull said about changing the financial system peacefully,  bankrupt the fuckers. Equally speedy change could be off the back of the masses refusing to buy shit food.

They say you cannot afford good food
I say, if it's nutrient rich, you don't need a lot of food. Really, its a lie that big ag and huge scale farming is the only way to secure a huge food supply for better fed, healthier populations. Production from small market gardens is insane. And now I am rambling. Cheers

#km0 #growstr #local #ecological #Spain #olives #circular-economy


Relay list to store private content from this author


enough excitement for one day. GN


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Army_Man there's a movie to pique the imagination. Took me til over half way through to recognise the Swiss Army Man.

Found it on an old hard drive. DVD rips are stunning visual quailty compared to streamed movies, at least where I am. Its like someone cleaned 10 years of dirt off my screen.


Clever ad method. And if they lose their punch or get spammy, I guess I can turn off the source. Let's see how it goes.


 social media has always sucked up the energy and wisdom and meaningful content of its users

But maybe Nostr can achieve what legacy options never could - search like Google. Websites, curation services pulling together to make the nostr gems endure, discoverable.


My favourite sun dried fruit. Amazing trees as well. Fig rolls. I'm hungry.


Been a very unproductive day between relays, and bootable Linux drives not playing fair.

No doubt it is me and not having the latest greatest kit and 2 left thumbs.

On the positive side of this learning opportunity, the takeaway is:

I'm only interested in tools that make me productive. I'm willing to learn, but that's not the same as being a crash test dummy. There's more of me than techies who love to tinker, or if there aren't, Nostr is going nowhere. Or the same place as Linux which is still not in the average Joe's lexicon.

I used to run a big how to website so I'm not just having a pop after a bad day on Nostr. Very often we fell short of providing the clearest info, because of too many assumptions.

Instructions need to be idiot proof.

The word "just" needs to be struck from technical step by steps.

For newbies, explanations need to come AFTER we have followed every step and achieved something technically challenging.

Under promise and over deliver.

.I think the client owners need to step up and have a pinned welcome message with resources to get newbies started. It isn't right to be attracted by censorship resistance, sovereignty over content etc, when it is still a dark art to achieve that. Back to the crash test dummy, learning curve, tinker balance. But Even Twitter had a button to press exports.

Nostr users are very helpful but I am fast running out of #asknostr tokens :)


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


Finally have citrine relay app working on my phone without errors showing on 10/10 relays listed on Amethyst.

In citrine settings though, if I input my npub in "Accept events signed by..." a relay goes down. Remove and the relay goes back up. (Not that I can tell which relay is going down!)

The version choice on the #citrine github page. As that is all there is to go on, a lot of assumptions are being made about what a noobie would choose.

Early, right!


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


 https://image.nostr.build/a5064bf04ef63e095b9a9854e1e73bb1ba74f0fc9f9d98f11ca0d617303e2b97.jpg

Ah, the screenshot sat on my phone still would help!


The nofollow link is a signal for sure. It's like not putting bricks in the foundation.

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


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


I love cabbage, and I really like how they keep on coming back. They are heavy feeders so it is helpful that they aren't a flashbang veg.

#Permaculture will never feed the world, but it sure keeps us close to the land and excited by #nature.  https://image.nostr.build/085dcc07b84a2ba4a1e7dc6f5d3baacd863742ac248a5f170c3cf1eae5f7da6a.jpg


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


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


#asknostr what I am supposed to see on the working localhost:4869 page for the #citrine relay I installed on my Android phone?

After much node.js-ing, I have now got as far as Terminal confirming everything is talking and reading correctly, but progress is stalled at a message on Chrome saying it sees a Nostr relay or websocket. But that's it.

What am I missing? Or is that the feedback?  #relay

Also any idea how to see and rectify the errors indicated on my private relay entry in Amethyst? cheers


Found an old hard drive with Mac apps from a while ago when I was a busy boy and needed to be organised. This one is a peach for clippings. And is Open Source and free and still supported. After 15 years of hobby coding, the dev must surely be open to zapping.

https://image.nostr.build/42eaa1d8baabbb42007f55b452af5178dabf477a49408046948edc9c05d75d32.png


Stanley Bowles is turning in his grave. I assume he's dead. If he isn't, that scoreline will finish him off. Good scalp.


This year was the biggest olive harvest in living memory, and the almonds are bowing under the weight too.

Not a drop of irrigation, the almonds are not an ecological disaster when left to their own devices. However the price to pay is less yield per tree. The olive's alternate fruiting cycle means this year is near zero harvest for us.

And it is the drive for consistent yield and  price that motivates the questionable practices of the mega farms who have driven their input costs up and the prices down en route to becoming mega farms. It is a ludicrous system of misaligned incentives that the consumer, the farmer and nature pays a heavy price for. Or we could just eat a little less and leave much of the almond industry to nature and find more purpose in the orchards beyond monoculture almonds.

#chickens #growstr #Spain #homesteading
 https://image.nostr.build/dfe77a6fedea024cf2177eea51b48ace075b4824109f2d19bff81fa555206b62.jpg


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


Yo, instant memories of ZZ Top.


Fountain 1.1 was just the beginning of what we want to do with open podcasting and nostr.

If you like the direction we’re going - please spam my DMs with feedback about the app and we’ll make it better for you!

nostr:note1r8zpjp80lejp3786yne37gc3kfjdyptgevtz862u3lffu52fvuqsk60lpp


The first page ever to appear on the internet.

http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

The Cern contact telephone number is so whimsical!

Good morning. One moment, please, I will just connect you.

Now look at us. Good morning, I was up all night trawling through GBs of data online from hundreds of websites, and still I can't see what's on the Nostr relay on my phone :)


Does anyone know why some of my #nostr direct messages don't show up in some apps but they show up in others? I've got lots of relays, and I've also paid for a few including nostr.wine, but I guess I'm missing something. Just as an example, one of my direct messages shows up in Amethyst on mobile, but not on any of the desktop apps that I've tried. #asknostr

Thanks


nostr:nprofile1qqsyvrp9u6p0mfur9dfdru3d853tx9mdjuhkphxuxgfwmryja7zsvhqpzamhxue69uhhv6t5daezumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6tcpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcscpyug my personal relay dissapears out of the private relay list after start up of my phone, are you aware of this?
And when I use the backspace on a tag the @ disappeares and the last word connects to the previous one. It is horrible to work with 🙈. Is this also a known problem?


Up all night learning node.js or more accurately, hamming my way through the basics so I can see whats going on with the nostr relay running on my phone. Thanks for that initial nudge. Or rather thanks to you I haven't had much sleep haha.

Anyway, perhaps can you point me in the right direction or to a smarter cookie than me, to get me over the line?

Terminal says I'm set up, I think that's what the following means?

... yo$ npm run start > nostr-server@1.0.0 start /Users/yo/nostr-server > node . WebSocket server is running on ws://localhost:4869

Client connected
Connected to the server
Received: Hello Waster
Message from server: Echo: Hello Waster

But the Kiwi browser on the phone times out. The Firefox for Mac browser says Upgrade Required. Safari not playing either. I turned the relay on and off in case that is part of the process.

What are the URL options? Is it ws://localhost:4869 in the address bar, or am I missing something obvious?

I don't have WiFi, but the phone's connected by Bluetooth to the computer and that has an IP address showing in preferences. And they must be paired judging by Terminal message.

Someone online said it was the browsers not recognising websockets. But Kiwi is Chrome based, no?

AI hasn't helped,  #asknostr is my last hope :)

#chickens are fed, I'm off to bed now. Cheers


Good morning!

Your bitcoin node is your vote, no matter what the miners decide, you decide what to write in the chain, bitcoin is like a living organism that replicates its cells, a node is a cell, the new cells will take their dna from the old cells, from your node, you decide which cells survive, you decide which cells will transmit their genetic material.

If the nodes do not decide to include a certain mined transaction, it does not survive, it does not replicate in eternity. Miners are obliged to follow the consensus, your node has more power than you think.

Bitcoin needs more nodes, it is the best way to protect your bitcoins.


Last time I logged in the browser extension was screwed up. Working alright now. 👍 GN


hey, added anonostr to my list of desktop nostr clients. https://image.nostr.build/b3981a8f8648d0442bd3114919b5e0d26278193d3c68d22972f0906a41090abb.jpg

Great idea for anonymity. I've seen others comment that new key pairs for every note is an end game to aim for. Fame and anonymity can't go hand in hand etc . 👍


This data mining culture is piling up the future dystopian options mentioned in the OP. DNA screening was a terrible idea for data collection. Sold as "so we can treat you before the genetic illness baked into your future self takes you away." Very noble intention, but it becomes  sinister when insurance companies get a hold of the same info. Not to mention living day to day knowing your future health.

As @Odell made me realise, privacy is not about secrets, it's about you deciding what info you share, with whom, when it suits you..


Another rabbit hole, relays this time, thanks to Nostr and nostr:nprofile1qqsr7acdvhf6we9fch94qwhpy0nza36e3tgrtkpku25ppuu80f69kfqpr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0d4hhxarj9ecxjmnt9uq3zamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwa5kuef0qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7eyerqr and nostr:nprofile1qqsyvrp9u6p0mfur9dfdru3d853tx9mdjuhkphxuxgfwmryja7zsvhqpzamhxue69uhhv6t5daezumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6tcpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcscpyug

#asknostr how do I see what's on the server? I found websocat, am I on the right track? Another voyage into the unknown. https://image.nostr.build/9b7bd41e7475adf22a25107e603f7c8f928c715b12420a7f4f31ef661b640980.jpg


I tried to reply, a great spot! basically I have it on kiwi browser but it doesn't work. The link icon shows on a webpage but it turns off the page when I click it. Have you got it running?


I think you answered your own question - for now. Maybe it is all about timing and something is in the works. Ask @Samson Mow, he probably knows.  😉


What's your view on a dedicated hardware signer? Keeping our phone out of the equation. Presumably usable across all devices.


Even God taxes us! The tithe, the old church tax, 10% of fruits if labour to keep the monks praying.


This is true. But the sooner the darkest moments arrive the sooner it can start to get light again. I know it's a cliché, but you know, what else do we have :)

 The vast majority of humans simply are not wired to prepare way in advance to avoid what we know is coming. It's our chimp brain, I think. We procrastinate, then try move mountains. When it works, and we turn things around under fire, fine we pat ourselves on the back, good job.... But it doesn't always work. Just look at Easter Island.

But most is not all, and I think maybe this time round, Bitcoin has become the long term escape plan that is attracting a different breed of person, ones who do have a wiser long term view and the nuts to act.

People like Ralph Nader, I'm not into politics, but as an example, he reckoned 2 million ardent supporters could easily usher in a new age. But he never got that far.

And someone else did a rough ready reckoner that in the world there were 120 million people expressing similar views, and feeling the same sense of wtf is going on, the world is going to shit, dont know why exactly, but 120 million were feeling it in their bones.

BUT, like Nader there was no sufficient centraling force or idea or cause that was able to  pull all those souls together. Divided, clueless, no means of rallying round a theme. Bless us, but we were less than useless. But most of us have hardly suffered because we have been adleep.

Think about the guys in the Amazon who have "known" for 400 years that the European way was going to usher in a collapse of everything they held dear. 60's hippies have only had 60 years of dissonance to cope with!

But since 2008 the dissonance has further risen and spead. But for most of the worriers, there has been no solution. Just gotta live with it, suck it up, all sorts of coping mechanisms kicking in to help you not feel or go mad with deep seated angst that is hard to express and no solution to offer.

Nowadays more Lightbulbs are flashing about the world really going in a bad direction. But still the tanker doesn't turn.

But out there, a relative few have out 100 hours research into that weird thing called  bitcoin, and it is putting meat on the uncomfortable bones.

Bitcoin doesn't just point out the problems that all the outlying thinkers like the Nader's, the Chomskies, all those " radical" indigenous and tree huggers and  suited talking heads on all sides of the aisle  have been talking around endlessly.

 Bitcoin is a very workable and sustaining solution. And it's globally available, and can unite 120 million people around a way out. And it won't change on us,  as more people get behind it.

It's going to be alright! Rich, poor, left, right, up, down, in life we have all met people who are different. A super rich person who is genuinely the kindest soul with the same time to offer as your patient gran when you were a snotty kid. Or your window cleaner who you find out has been running a book reading service for the blind for 20 years and never said a word about it. And the filthy rich lawyer who never charges for most of their cases. And so it goes on.

 Bitcoin has the attention and support of the best salesmen on earth, money men who know Wall St better than anyone currently on Wall St. Insanely fearless advocates of peace and human rights, farmers, butchers, bakers, candlestick makers, Bitcoiners... with that mind that does look ahead and actually acts, not fazed that, currently, it keeps getting darker, not fazed, because it will reach that point when the light starts to ascend. And the work is being done so everyone, not just the ones with foresight, had the option to step off Easter Island onto a much better place.

I don't know where that came from...but

GM :)


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


That's a wrap!

What a crew to close out the last show, shoutout to  nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx,  nostr:npub1cn4t4cd78nm900qc2hhqte5aa8c9njm6qkfzw95tszufwcwtcnsq7g3vle &  nostr:npub10cxz2h7n6rumfpuf49zt4uvm7skzqk5u25vesp0tzdtnkvsnwjyqaffcj3.

Appreciate you all, & we go again  nostr:npub14mcddvsjsflnhgw7vxykz0ndfqj0rq04v7cjq5nnc95ftld0pv3shcfrlx

https://youtu.be/chRpbV2_6cI


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


Live Bitcoin prices in USD, EUR, GBP, CAD, and CHF. Stay updated at btcframe.com #Bitcoin #BTC #BTCUSD #BTCEUR #BitcoinDashboard

https://btcframe.com/img/images/live-bitcoin-price.png?v=1725040986


Hacking around now venice AI appears as an app on my Mac. Watch out Google search...  https://image.nostr.build/cc746ad2f186c8b3434703bfe7e94920eca53f9bfbc5de7ba12dd4736d43f0e4.jpg  https://image.nostr.build/01f98f03188ccc4d81aea050ed35e04c2cc6ad8022d0bfcf6e6292c1c5a8aefa.jpg


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


Nostr just got better content.

I can hear your voice booming through the words, from your podcast stints :) Very clear explanation, thanks. Only 36%, have we really backed the right horse haha.


Spanish wasps can be persuaded to go live somewhere else. As can ants. Made peace with brambles too :) We are quite invasive as a species, I think we are finding that out ever faster and can hopefully do something to redress the balance.

There 's a fantastic graphic somewhere of the food chain in pyramid form. We are obviously at the top. Obviously, we get to draw it!  And the graphic has a few blocks missing all the way down, down, down. What can possibly go wrong for the one at the top!


Gotta say, the GitHub advisory was a bit superior syndrome-y. It's hard enough finding our way through Nostr without having to work out GitHub too. PR, what's that even mean? Don't tell me, just illustrating your bade level isn't mine.

Anyway, Nostr is only going to work if Devs with coding skills have the wisdom to listen to the needs or ideas of non techy vast majority end users who ultimately are the signal for how worthwhile all the technical work has been.

I remember betamax being crushed by inferior but better marketed VHS, don't want a repeat of that happening here. Cheers


Adblock plus tell me they have blocked over 600,000 ads in recent internet surfing times and by inference, for only $4 a month they can carry on doing so.

Here's an idea, why don't they send those stats to all the companies that paid for those ads. Tell them they are being scammed by the advertising agencies, and think of a new way of operating. Like maybe try Zapvertising, cause that sure worked on me when @Blockstream tried it. No special blocking ware, full engagement likely.


Imagine if all the how to sites online could install a zaps lightning option for tips. And a Nostr comment box, much like you can/could (it has been a while!)  post to Discourse from a Wordpress site.

 So much useful info being given out for free with no way of readers showing their appreciation with a token tip. Even leaving a quick message is a faff with emails and names.

#asknostr


Oops, so engrossed with Nostr I forgot about Bitcoin. That's the future calling.


Fuck X

Nostr Only.

https://m.primal.net/KQiy.png


It is a pretty good idea. @Blockstream sent me 250 sats and a link to jade. It worked in terms of engagement. I had looked at Jade a while ago but found the set up a little challenging, so 250 sats prompted me to take another look. There is a list of suppliers, I contacted the Spanish supplier, signed up to his newsletter, made my first serious Spanish crypto connection. I have plans to orangepill prospective customers, so maybe we can hook up and Jade is one of those good cold store options to suggest. From a few pennies...


I would have rather not had a preloaded list of the popular talking heads, or perhaps a B-lister list, users have a small following that has arisen from zero. I guess the discovery tools are a work in progress.

Going even further, instead of lists of users, I could have done with a super concise welcoming video with the transcript of how to get going in Nostr. Each client would have agency over what user guide they push to newbies, another differentiator.

Or how about two-for-one, the A-lister in the preloaded follow list earns their bacon and they do the welcome to Nostr presentations! :)

My first impression of Fountain was that some prominent users were nicely set up ready for the launch,. Meanwhile, I know I'm not the only Nosr user fumbling around trying to get Fountain to work like a Nostr client should.


https://techlearningcollective.com/2020/10/08/the-internet-was-always-anarchist-so-anarchists-must-learn-to-become-responsible-for-operating-it.html

This is a good read about the origins of the internet. Anarchy, a much misinterpreted word, and decentralisation, are at the core of the founders' thought processes. Funnily enough, they were all employed by US and EU government departments!

The article posits, with many working examples, that the answer to bringing about change is not to radicalize techies, but to give radical thinkers the technology skills to effect change. Food for thought. #asknostr


Its definitely the browser, don't worry about that! Signed up for the newsletter. Over to you now :)


In Firefox desktop the subtle message asking if I'm over 21 won't go away! Its probably my old browser, the site loads fine on the phone. But it did give me pause for thought. Is it for real that you have to be over 21 to read about grapes?


I tried to leave a comment logged in on this Nostr account but it showed an error. "wow, the only track I ever bought from itunes was frank black I heard Ramona Sing. Twas 2014 by the date on the file. Have you not got a wallet set up? I can't zap your good taste :(" end of message.


The local school banned all smartphones, but Fitbits were OK because they aren't smart unless connected to an app. But smart enough that my daughter has worn hers every day since she was about 9 and is very aware just from some basic on-screen numbers how active she is, and aware of the occasional days she is a couch potato. It has proven a great educational/awareness tool without an app.


Is that the same pumpkin as last week? Proof of work!


What do you think?

I like my blackberries like my Nostr.

The best food is free. And wild. And nutritious and flourishing, despite not following the rules for how mainstream food is grown.

I have to lie down now, analogies are so draining.
 https://image.nostr.build/a54f45b34569d2ecacbb3d00436a75de386a0e2f5df566fa9c01f8087f335bdc.jpg

#foodstr #Nostr #Spain #asknostr


Why not venice.ai a privacy respecting AI that doesn't log your every word


OK, language barrier over, thanks. Now it all makes more sense.

My 2cents, I think @Karnage is on right track. I am always reading fantastic gems from npubs with no following, and they generate no reactions. And those with big following not saying anything different and getting loads of love and sats. Thats an X style influencer influence on Nostr. Of course the big hitters here have a lot to say and bring it on, but overall it should be a meritocracy, and its not oie in the sky idealism, because we do actually get to choose who we follow, we do have the agency to seek out the quiet corners, else this magic protocol is going down  another road to echo chambers.


shout out to developers who maintain older versions of their software. As Obi pointed out the other day on TFTC, if the norm is set to accomodate those with the most disposable income, a LOT of people will fall through the net. Some of us don't have the latest greatest hardware and likely never will have the money to upgrade.

But with micropayments now viable, I sure would be happy to throw sats at devs to keep old copies of their work around.


There is a great movie called Planeta Verde which really highlights the lunacy of so many socially acceptable practices.

When I was a young teen, I kept chickens. My neighbour had some hens too and he was preparing one for lunch. He showed me how to wring a chicken's neck,  He was a vicar, a grown up, so I  did as I was told and watched.  I wasn't squeamish, I just thought that it was a ridiculous way to kill a chicken. I also recall how he seemed to enjoy it a little too much. Maybe it was embarrassed laughter because the poor little bird ended up with a neck like a giraffe by the time he finished with it No doubt it tasted great after he gave grace.

So I was introduced to killing birds by an adult and many of the cloth, to boot. And it really was no big deal - then.

I never culled a chicken that way ever. I learnt a far more humane way, if there is such a way. The broom handle approach. Chickens do go completely limp and calm if held by their back legs, so you combine that with placing their head on the ground while they are oblivious to what's going on. With your foot you move the broom handle over the back of the birds neck. And in one move, both feet on the handle and yank. It's very effective.

So when adults said it was time to eat a chicken, I would cull them. Weird how we say cull, like we are nicing up the word kill. I learnt how to pluck them.  My old man used to be a butcher so he took over from there

I remember the first time, him being the dad, taking charge. I also remember him turning away from as he started gagging, as he went through a process he must have done a thousand times when he was a pro butcher.

I look back and wonder, why those adults felt they had to teach me what they did. But I especially remember my dad. I am sure he was having some sort of epiphany as he did what he had always done as a younger man, to earn a living or whatever the justification was

I don't want to piss off the carnivores who might read this. I was one til aged 50, something changed in my head and I literally took the delicious half chewed fillet steak out my mouth and never ate meat since. And I don't want to antagonise vegans, because whilst I eat mainly a "vegan diet" I exploit chickens, eat my own eggs and need goats cheese to keep me healthy, so I am still the enemy in the eyes of the extreme view holders. But I'm a middle way kind of person.

I understand perfectly well that there is a time when animals need to be put out their misery and, you know, if a chicken is suffering, I can help speed their end in relative peace. But to show my daughter how to kill and prep a chicken for Sunday lunch,  as some sort of rite of passage, I don't get it. And I am sure she would not be as compliant as I was her age if I put her through the process..

I promised a friend, a person so spiritual, with the wisdom already of the aliens from the Planets Verde looking at our society practices in horror and bemusement.I promised her to take care of my chickens without resorting to the pot.

As long as they are laying eggs there is absolutely no food justification for killing a bird. After they stop peak laying, 2 years, they don't lay as many eggs, but it's not zero. And even when they do stop being "productive" in year 5 maybe,, all the while they are still fabulous little shitters and scratchers, friends of the soil. It's not the easiest option, but it will be a no cull policy on my upcoming little chicken farm. The birds can live near free while technically being exploited and we can all get fat on eggs.

#chickens #vegan #carnivore #foodstr


You can either take control of your relay lists, or they will control you.

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzq3svyhng9ld8sv44950j957j9vchdktj7cxumsep9mvvjthc2pjuqq9hyetvv9uj6um9w36hq9mgjg8

If you don't know where your posts are, you might as well just stay in the centralized Twitter. You either take control of your relay lists, or they will control you. Amethyst offers several lists of relays for our users. We are going to go one by one to help clarify what they are and which options are best for each one.

## Public Home/Outbox Relays

Home relays store all YOUR content: all your posts, likes, replies, lists, etc. It's your home. Amethyst will send your posts here first. Your followers will use these relays to get new posts from you. So, if you don't have anything there, **they will not receive your updates**.

Home relays must allow queries from anyone, ideally without the need to authenticate. They can limit writes to paid users without affecting anyone's experience.

This list should have a maximum of 3 relays. More than that will only make your followers waste their mobile data getting your posts. Keep it simple. Out of the 3 relays, I recommend:
- 1 large public, international relay: nos.lol, nostr.mom, relay.damus.io, etc.
- 1 personal relay to store a copy of all your content in a place no one can delete. Go to [relay.tools](https://relay.tools/) and never be censored again.
- 1 really fast relay located in your country: paid options like http://nostr.wine are great

Do not include relays that block users from seeing posts in this list. If you do, no one will see your posts.

## Public Inbox Relays

This relay type receives all replies, comments, likes, and zaps to your posts. If you are not getting notifications or you don't see replies from your friends, it is likely because you don't have the right setup here. If you are getting too much spam in your replies, it's probably because your inbox relays are not protecting you enough. Paid relays can filter inbox spam out.

Inbox relays must allow anyone to write into them. It's the opposite of the outbox relay. They can limit who can download the posts to their paid subscribers without affecting anyone's experience.

This list should have a maximum of 3 relays as well. Again, keep it small. More than that will just make you spend more of your data plan downloading the same notifications from all these different servers. Out of the 3 relays, I recommend:
- 1 large public, international relay: nos.lol, nostr.mom, relay.damus.io, etc.
- 1 personal relay to store a copy of your notifications, invites, cashu tokens and zaps.
- 1 really fast relay located in your country: go to [nostr.watch](https://nostr.watch/relays/find) and find relays in your country

Terrible options include:
- nostr.wine should not be here.
- filter.nostr.wine should not be here.
- inbox.nostr.wine should not be here.

## DM Inbox Relays

These are the relays used to receive DMs and private content. Others will use these relays to send DMs to you. **If you don't have it setup, you will miss DMs**. DM Inbox relays should accept any message from anyone, but only allow you to download them.

Generally speaking, you only need 3 for reliability. One of them should be a personal relay to make sure you have a copy of all your messages. The others can be open if you want push notifications or closed if you want full privacy.

Good options are:
- inbox.nostr.wine and auth.nostr1.com: anyone can send messages and only you can download. Not even our push notification server has access to them to notify you.
- a personal relay to make sure no one can censor you. Advanced settings on personal relays can also store your DMs privately. Talk to your relay operator for more details.
- a hidden, but public relay if you want DM notifications from our servers.

Make sure to add at least one public relay if you want to see DM notifications.

## Private Home Relays

Private Relays are for things no one should see, like your drafts, lists, app settings, bookmarks etc. Ideally, these relays are either local or require authentication before posting AND downloading each user\'s content. There are no dedicated relays for this category yet, so I would use a local relay like Citrine on Android and a personal relay on relay.tools

## Search relays:

This is the list of relays to use on Amethyst's search and user tagging with @. **Tagging and searching will not work if there is nothing here.**. This option requires NIP-50 compliance from each relay. Hit the Default button to use all available options on existence today:
- nostr.wine
- relay.nostr.band
- relay.noswhere.com

## Local Relays:

This is your local storage. Everything will load faster if it comes from this relay. You should install Citrine on Android and write ws://localhost:4869 in this option.

## General Relays:

This section contains the default relays used to download content from your follows. Notice how you can activate and deactivate the Home, Messages (old-style DMs), Chat (public chats), and Global options in each.

Keep 5-6 large relays on this list and activate them for as many categories (Home, Messages (old-style DMs), Chat, and Global) as possible.

Amethyst will provide additional recommendations to this list from your follows with information on which of your follows might need the additional relay in your list. Add them if you feel like you are missing their posts or if it is just taking too long to load them.

## Final Considerations

Remember, relays can see what your Nostr client is requesting and downloading at all times. They can track what you see and see what you like. They can sell that information to the highest bidder, they can delete your content or content that a sponsor asked them to delete (like a negative review for instance) and they can censor you in any way they see fit. Before using any random free relay out there, make sure you trust its operator and you know its terms of service and privacy policies.


Thanks for this relay guide.


What does it mean "credibility among other nodes"?


Can you explain how to build an algorithm on amethyst?:


Hi @fountain app, I  am a big fan but, I dunno, it's not a seamless experience these days .

Doesn't want anything to do with amber or nos2-fox which between them sign me in to every other client. Had to paste in my nsec for fountain to let me in. Third time lucky on that. Doh.

What ever happened to wallet feature? Settings are in different places now. Ie Looks like I'm set up on wallet page with sats in and out, at 0 presumably because I haven't participated yet. So I want to top up the wallet. Used to be all there for sending, receiving. Nothing. I'm getting annoyed now!

In settings> payments it says Lightning wallet not enabled? What? It showed a random number@fountain.fm. I have changed the lightning address to my username and updated. Nothing. Still not enabled. Another doom loop. No feedback message. The wallet is pretty key to this app, no clues how to enable it now?

I'm sure it's me and the pros are rolling their eyes, but I'm not a novice on Fountain. But if I were and knew nothing about it beyond the hype, I'd be long gone. Cheers


Loving Venice.ai
 https://image.nostr.build/71f3a9d526203c5ec0ab6c3e94915f77a7950d8f045fafa22aed909295267b3e.jpg


There is an option on hablanews, fountain to split income with selected accounts. That's the basics for sharing your $5 a month paid relay fee across a. bunch of relay runners.


That's cleared a couple of things up. So in normies words, instead of paying for a web host for a wordpress site, I pay for a relay. And if it were targeted, as in shut down, I can offload the content across multiple relays til I'm ready to start again off my own back.

If so, why not set up from the get go with different federations of hundreds of relays and via the handy payment system built into Nostr, I am set up to pay like 1 sat/day to each relay runner. That way, in the event of relay takedowns the average Joe doesn't have to broadcast or run around setting up a new relay, and the pros would set themselves back up quicker and easier.


BREAKING NEWS Inflation impacts on the use of language and precipitates further decline in the soft power reach of Imperial measurements!

Apart from more regular use of the term "wtf, how much?! inflation can bring about subtle changes in language to hide quite a big deal. In Spain, a 10-pack of eggs, not a dozen, is becoming the norm in supermarkets. A "decena" de huevos as opposed to the ubiquitous "docena".

What's in a vowel? Ruin, I tell you!!! And a pain for those who refuse to go metric in a warped egg market!

https://image.nostr.build/fa2e4c5dd9f86ece76d186c880c7bbebc2de762b71767078a2319597d06a9779.jpg

I have a dozen backyard hens all told. 8 super layers and some retirees. When a kindly neighbour recycles their egg boxes, invariably they are tenners now. So I've usually got 2 eggs left over.

It''s getting quite complicated to drop off a dozen neighbourly eggs these days, unless I work out a couple of extra shatterproof pockets for my shirt.

First world problems, I know. Although the empire that uses imperial measurements, and whose government is driving inflation, might not stay as First World as it wants, unless they sort out their inflation issues. Oh yeah, they can't!

#chickens #inflation #Spain #bitcoin


"Every time we introduce new technologies we shape that technology and then it shapes us back. It's this cycle. And so, when we're designing new things we need to think about that cycle." -  nostr:npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240

Incredible keynote presentation from Nostriga.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUsk7cqZyKU


Bienvenido y buenas noches :)


when you put it like that, no surprises why the node runner is going to put up a vicious fight to hold on to it


welcome, Nostr is a cool place to be and awash with helpful souls


Just emerging from a little rabbit hole about image metadata, prompted by the message that pops up after uploading images to @Nostrbuild

It seems if you want to remove metadata yourself, Exiftool is the beast to use. It's a command line tool that "everybody" raves about. Definitely super speedy and more thorough than a couple of GUI options I tried, like ImageOptim.

Having said that,  I'm curious about how Nostrbuild strip metadata, because the message from a jpg file they upload says something like
 {"date:create":"2024-08-27T12:46:16+00:00","date:modify":"2024-08-27T12:46:16+00:00","jpeg:colorspace":"2","jpeg:sampling-factor":"2x2,1x1,1x1"}

That is nothing compared to what Exiftool leaves, or sips or mdls reveal.

Have you guys found some extra juice for stripping metadata or is that message a redacted version?


Spain is losing its tiny mind, and it's health, moving away from olive oil over to sunflower oil.

It's all down to price of course. I firmly believe  that prices of olive oil need to be higher to keep the industry sustainable, but with recent big drops in supply, it's clearly too much of a price hike,  too soon.

The govt tried to intervene and dropped the VAT, whoopee, but that did nothing. The supermarkets have been quite socially responsible and are selling oil at what must be below market rate. Or they are getting back door subsidies, or they are including non virgin olive oil in their numbers. But whatever the shenanigans it's not keeping the country on EVOO..

Slowly, slowly, suddenly the balance has flipped away from a staple health food for centuries to a cheap and cheerless alternative. Maybe it will slip back?

Got to make the small olive growers profitable without having to gouge the customer. It's always been so. That's where a mobile chicken farm on an olive grove shines, as I intend to prove..Double incentivised now to make it work.
#chickens #olives #Spain https://www.huffingtonpost.es/sociedad/adios-aceite-oliva-espana-dan-finalizado-reinado-sentencian-cual-sucesor.html


You are asking some hard questions, old timer! Coming on here with your history books. :) Maybe it's like much language, words like unconference have evolved while we werent looking.


Venice ai. Very nice. https://venice.ai/what-is-venice


Security clueless on the front end for sure. I asked the local bank teller to show me how the app worked with the different reference numbers they had given me. They were very patient, as was I, until it came to the password reset step.  I was literally wtf are you kidding me when they told me to put in a password. You know, something like Juanmadrid2024.


France has an institution known as the Foreign Legion. It's quite a reliable indicator of how far the French government will go to get their way. :)


I was put on to Tanglewood sheep by nostr:nprofile1qqsz7h0qqq7msnkd23y39q6scek8ld37n5pty5xcftuy733797duaugpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtc4y0elt and there's a Swiss guy with a lightning cat feeder , so join the gang with your bird feeder.


I generated a Keepass password the other day and it was rejected  by the bank site for being too long!


In amethyst looks like the URL of the image got split and never uploaded. Here's my second attempt to show off my new internet, the Nostr way. https://image.nostr.build/601ff621ec7d57e835e25c9ae319a55177393c6e8ebaaea507e00d20238b1798.jpg

apps and social media in their own stack. The beauty of Nostr is we can post on any nostr client, each with their own features to discover. And because of the community dynamic, we are all incentivised to share findings so they all end up as Twittrr killers.

Ditto the apps lining up to do the work of creating and collating the content to share on social media.

I'm missing a Nostr Google killer though. I guess there is a nostr ai search engine beast indexing answers to questions somewhere in the works? I use Venice.ai at the moment, a freedom version, it has a way to go though.
 https://image.nostr.build/23f2e648e26a96a2a12dc66abe38855069f7820c0177cf23820dfe07560ef29b.jpg !


Absolutely. I studied economics at school and university and never understood how any of it related to my world. Turns out there was nothing to understand in their teachings  It was mostly a bit of truth sprinkled into a pot of invented theoretical nonsense, to create an aura of superiority around the economists. End result, we normies think it is best to just leave it to them clever bastards who read the Financial Times, to run things.

In other words the dumb thing about me was me giving those teachers my time to sit through their drivel. I'm sure I'm not the only one that Bitcoin has awoken though, and literally screw all Keynsian economics teachers! They are propagandist, useful idiots.

Good morning btw  :)


Nostr apps in the dock ready and waiting for daily action. Easy to visualise the alternative internet building.
 us.https://image.nostr.build/601ff621ec7d57e835e25c9ae319a55177393c6e8ebaaea507e00d20238b1798.jpg


Obi is dropping so many truth bombs.

It's huge recognising that for most of the world, handing over a 10$ bill for  coffee and not being  too concerned about the change, is not an option. Poverty is all- consuming.

Maybe Bitcoin development has been the preserve of the wealthy, so far, but its use as a medium of exchange in tandem with general freedom tech is going to be driven by the poorer of the world.

And the beauty is that the rich are incentivised to put their bitcoin to work to release so much human potential while keeping their bitcoin intact.

It is exhausting watching every penny. It is such a waste of human capital when so many don't have savings or access to funds because it has been rigged that relatively few can create enough wealth from their  toils.

Something like that, anyway.


Listening to Obi of Fedi  on TFTC https://www.tftc.io/tftc-decentralized-super-app-obi-nwosu/?ref=the-difficulty-adjustment-newsletter

Nostr better be ready for another influx of users. Ex X users are going to be swamped by the # Fedi newcomers.

Bitcoin development seems really lame now haha The levels above the base chain are where the exciting moves are all at.


Built my own Nostr fan club today. Apps to follow. https://image.nostr.build/23f2e648e26a96a2a12dc66abe38855069f7820c0177cf23820dfe07560ef29b.jpg

Put proton apps in a grid.

Ready for action now, out the way of Google at least..
 https://image.nostr.build/13a9b7ddccb70b3fe6b0c57f7e660d12b44a7f8ef698e46fc58b52b6976245af.jpg


https://primal.b-cdn.net/media-cache?s=o&a=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fprimal.b-cdn.net%2Fmedia-cache%3Fs%3Do%26a%3D1%26u%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fm.primal.net%252FIyDF.jpg

#memestr #alashazam


The nitpicking was prompted by a Nostrasia interview with Stewart Mackenzie. Apologies if I get the lingo wrapped around my neck, but I think he said that unless you can show him that the path is from private key to private key, don't even think about calling the network censorship resistant. And he was very critical about IP addresses too. Probably best to listen to him! His benchmark is a state attack, rather than keeping out Johnny Rotten Hacker. Not a bad height to set for a bar, though!


In 2020 I moved on from a line of work I had been in for 30 years. I never think about that job consciously, but now and again I have horrendous nightmares, where a job goes horribly wrong, like so badly wrong it is unreal. Apparently that isn't uncommon when people retire. I'm not even retired though.


Big time Twitter user til 2014 when the hooligans started to turn up. Tried it again wth Elon but I could feel the stress drain away when I rage quit :) FaceBook never seen the point. Except whenever I saw friends posing hand in hand lovey dovey you knew that was the signal their marriage was on the rocks!


https://image.nostr.build/b8c0ccc12a161c66d46a7ef0590c97ea524c3fb089ff3b588dd754a168573acd.jpg Same anti predator approach here with hardware mesh over metal grid. Stoats are my worst enemy and they only need a 1" diameter gap to get in. Foxes have no chance getting, and this mutt is not going to hurt a flea let alone a chicken.


I was corrected recently on that same assertion of "P2P just like bitcoin". Technically it's peer-to-node and miner.

Is that observation semantic nitpicking  or is bitcoin more than P2P?


That is definitely an unpopular opinion!  I'm new here and no tech, but relays don't make sense in the same sentence as censorship resistance.  There is every incentive to support a relay operator, but how can they deliver on their promise if they are targeted? They aren't connected to each other, right? Like a spoke without a rim on the outside holding everything together. A bit floppy!

Also struggling with the notion that relay owners can delete notes if requested. What's stopping them acting on their own initiative.

And I see in habla news an edit button option after publishing. How does that fit with the immutable content line?

 I'm sure the greater minds of Nostr have thought of these things and, I'm all in, but if there are checks and balances in the protocol, the head of Nostr marketing dept might want to step up and point me to a 5 year old's explainer.


Miracle sort haha


Paw patrol every morning. And every morning the 35kg hound is chased off by one little chicken. https://image.nostr.build/da508fb89f83682433a3111165edcd71a0681d96e3dd3f82711c5a9f837e6068.jpg
#dogstr #chickens


My trip to the supermarket lasts no time, there's almost nothing I want to eat. Spend longer queuing and wondering how stodge and soda made its way into so many Mediterraneans' diet. Seasonal fruit and veg might be OK, but often it's tasteless garbage from Dutch or Spanish glasshouse hell. When you have access to local eggs, almonds, olives, olive oil, wholegrain bread and seasonal veg, all produced pretty much as nature intended, few supermarkets have much to entice you. Co-ops have better options, more local produce, but again, so many growers throw their pytosanitary products around for fun.


Hey nostr:nprofile1qqswmnfq2k830kvnylvyrezc97dsqce343qppqrwlgpqaux5qpuwdkspzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtc77hh8w you are into origin stories. Check out this Farmington farm history. Really cool.  https://www.halefamily.farm/ My interest is not so much the tomatoes, more in their #chickens, They seem to have nailed that side of their business with traditional breeds. Keep it local.


Thanks for the tips. I tried to send replies via coracle on desktop. I don't know if it's a feature or a bug, but there was no indication of whether the replies went off or not.


Looking at Nostr.build for speeding up image use when posting on Nostr.  On my first effort, the first thing I notice is the metadata left after it has been stripped out. Fair enough #Nostr.build for thinking of that.

Bu here we go, another privacy lightbulb flashing!! Why do they offer that service?

To save any snoops the trouble, hopefully all you can glean with your exif search tools is that this photo was taken a while ago  and was sent from an image app on an Apple device to Nostr.build!  Otherwise, you could probably have discovered hundreds of bits of data down to the location, altitude, and god knows what else.

https://image.nostr.build/c2c395f4f4f72fe38997f508efd73edf71d80536a55c05c39168b850372be760.jpg


A couple of coop tips for those toying with becoming backyard chicken owners.

If you are building a coop, the guiding principle is really simple. Chickens nest low and roost high.

They would rather not lay eggs right on the ground, so lift the nest boxes 30cm or more. Saves on your back too when collecting eggs. If you can collect eggs from outside, that's a help. But there is a lot to be said for walking amongst your birds so you can keep an eye on how they are doing. They are natural busy bodies, not machines just to give you eggs.

And don't place the roosts right up in the gods, if you can help it. They are clumsy as hell, and if they have a way to fall to the ground, they can dislocate legs. And perches are quite important. At a push of course they would spend a night on a precarious branch that is too small or too big for their claws to hook around, but long term give them a plank 4" wide and 2" deep. They will sleep better. and fall off less!
#chickens #growstr #olivegroveeggs #olives


Another great photo of Italia. What's the progress with stifling smells from the canals? That's an abiding memory of Venice many moons ago.


Trouble with a state run education is that the curriculum is at least 15 years behind the market. Kids are being trained to think (or not think, more like!) for a job that may not even exist when they leave school. You need critical thinkers and flexible minds, a work force than can adapt. But if they put critical thinking on the current curriculum, nobody would go to school the following semester.


Bankrupt them !
by  nostr:npub1t289s8ck5qfwynf2vsq49t2kypvvkpj7rhegayrur0ag9s2sezaqgunkzs
https://m.primal.net/KJEo.mp4


Less sunblock, less chance of cancer from the contents of the sunblock,  that's the word coming out now. Not sure what to make of it. Bigger brims on hats is probably a safe start to protect from the sun.


I get it. But don't be too quick to push your hypothesis into the distant future!

While Bitcoin would oil the wheels, I can already set up daily direct payments in fiat, if I so choose. Trouble is, the big players on a construction project don't choose that option because nobody demands it .

Education needs to improve all round about the way the finances are setup. Bad terms of trade create the core issues of poor cash flow, higher prices, incentives not to deliver as promised. A bitcoiner main contractor at the top is more likely to see the issues, but you dont need to hold bitcoin to solve mega issues now.

. Contracts can and do already go like clockwork when everyone in the hierarchy understands their worth. And magic does happen when there is no adversarial atmosphere. IE Everyone wins when the carpenter understands and respects and works to resolve the difficulties facing the architects or the painter who follows behind. And vice versa. When an architect asks the old plasterer for his ideas,  rather than looking at them as a peon

The hive mind, pulling together wins every time

And if each link in the contract had the courage to refuse to buy work and pay to work,  the top purse string holders would change, in their best interests. I have seen it.

But the people at the top set the tone and while those people meet no resistance to their financial exploitation, they will continue to flat out use their clout to delay payments to squeeze an extra percent profit for themselves, always at the expense of those below. When govts mandating the end of 90 day credit terms can't make a difference, you know change has to come from the bottom.