These are complicated topics. Now I want to comment on a lot of them.

I'm nowhere near as fat as Israel was, and I don't know what it is like to be like that. But I know what it is like to be 100kg. I lost major weight twice.  First because I was desperate to attract a mate that was as hot as I wanted her to be. I got down to 78kg (from 100kg). I kept it off for 3 years but lost focus. Without a constant life focus on keeping it off, it comes back fast. The second time I had sudden pulsitile tinnitus of unknown etiology. It scared me enough to lose 15kg.  But that came back after a year or so.  Now I'm suffering pretty bad sleep apnea, but I'm on a CPAP machine, so I don't have the "I'm so scared I'm gonna die I need to lose weight fast" impetus this time.  But even if I did, it's easy to predict that the loss would again be temporary.

You will get a somewhat different outcome if you keep trying even though you know you will fail, than if you give up because you know you will fail. I keep trying anyways in order to get the marginal or temporary better outcome.  But when smug and proud never-been-fat people tell me how it is (and are clearly far from correct) it kinda pisses me off.

Henry Kissinger was still pretty chubby when he died recently at 100 from congestive heart failure. George R.R. Martin is 75, and he's fatter than I am.  Very fat people like Israel, however, have no chance to live that long.

Population obesity rates have been increasing. That is not explained by evolutionary ancestry... something else is going on. And I do not know the answer to that riddle (maybe it is solved but I don't know the answer). But my father was at least as heavy as I am, and his mother was huge, and my mother was overweight too. So I have an ancestry explanation.

As for life expectancy, I think either the virus or the vaccine has caused this. People are dying for reasons that aren't easy to coorelate to the original cause.  If someone young dies of pericarditis, well that was the vaccine. But most of the deaths could go either way -- might be a long-term side effect of having had COVID, or it might be a long-term side effect of having had the vaccine.  In NZ, our life expectancy has not dropped like yours has.  We locked down the country and only got COVID later on (I think delta) and smashed it, then we got it again when Omicron came through.  Omicron was so mild it probably didn't cause the same long-term effects. But we still do have elevated excess deaths...  they just haven't affect life expectancy... and there is some evidence that the vaccine is responsible.


I had not heard of that book. Interesting. Thanks.


Try doing that. Try doing that for years and years and years. Then look back and see if it worked.


I cook it like collard greens - smoked pork hock liquid (if not with some of the pork), onions, a touch of vinegar, served with hot sauce.

Since I built my new house I haven't started a garden again, but once this summer is done (I'm in the Southern hemisphere) I'll at least make some space for these.


Part of me is telling me to get out the brush cutter and finish cleaning up the yard. But a significant other part of me is telling me to be lazy and stay on the computer.... and these thoughts went through my head:

Being fat is an evolutionary adaptation to food scarcity. So is being lazy. By being lazy you conserve energy. Don't feel like your fat lazy body reflects some kind of moral failing. You were born fat and lazy for a good reason which just doesn't happen to make sense anymore in the modern food-rich world. If your ancestors weren't fat and lazy, you likely wouldn't even exist!

Samoans and Hawai'ians can be quite fat. Being fat was a huge (pun intended) advantage for sea-faring people. If the ship runs out of food, the fat people are the likely survivors. If you get separated from your boat and float for days, fat people float better, are better insulated against hypothermia, and can last longer having more energy. Ocean travel doesn't require much running or load bearing activities. I can imagine a long history of accidents, storms, and ya know all the shit that life throws at you, and in many of these cases the fatter Samoans and Hawai'ians lived to tell the tale, and more to the point lived to have kids.

Fat shaming doesn't work. We fatter people are piss poor at fighting against these genetics. I have a lifetime of trying and first hand knowledge. It isn't just about food choice (I only buy healthy food) or mindless eating, although bad choices can certainly make it worse. It is a drive that irritates your brain until you satisfy it, and significant weight loss makes programming a computer (for example) impossible to focus on against those constant amygdala wake-ups.

https://yt.thesamecat.io/watch?v=V1bFr2SWP1I


You know, nature herself is on our side.

To effectively police speech, they have to police everything, everywhere, and the world is a big place. Nobody has policed speech in my kitchen yet.

They can be upset about this. It is right and good. And it is how things ought to be for such people to fail. And it could hardly be otherwise.


Very cool.

Outside of the 'hard freeze' period, I recommend growing mustard.  Eat the fresh greens.  Don't get mustard bred for human consumption, get the cover crop stuff you are supposed to till under... it's better.


When they say "graffiti" they mean "comment on, on a different server, not affecting the website in any way"


Palestine: I don't know of nostr accounts that talk about Palestine except, well, I do sometimes. Mostly I get info (tips about things to research) from Glenn Greenwald and Kim Iversen on Rumble, or/and doing my own research, as well as news events on Twitter or from papers over there (Al Jazeera, Haaretz, Times of Israel).

Nostr: that list would be huge. Look at my following list. You can pull my kind 30000 event with title "Nostr Devs" to get 53 nostr developers I follow.

Software:  Pull my kind 3000 event with title="Software Developers" to get 50 software developers I follow.

Life/General: Eh, hard to answer.


People make judgements based on their assessment of the situation. Those assessments might be perverted by stereotypes, but usually only if they don't have any other experience to draw from. Stereotypes come into existence because the actual data isn't flat, and stereotypes directionally represent that abnormality.

Stereotypes only hold sway when people have no real-world experience. Israelis think Palestinians are "human animals", terrrorists every last one, because they haven't met any Palestinians (the ones in Israel they simply don't put into the same bucket). But once people meet a few Palestinians they see that this is wrong, that Palestinians are actually remarkably similar to Jewish Israelis. The problem here is the lack of experience, and the society selecting certain kinds of speech as acceptable and others as not acceptable (anything pro Palestinian is not acceptable, so their viewpoint of them can only go down).

It is these societal stigmas about what is permissible to say that are the worse problem than the stereotypes.

My comment was inspired by the Babylon Bee making a joke that Trump was going to hire Vivik Ramaswamy to run the White House 7-11.  People took offense, but Vivek didn't take offense, he thought it was funny.  I laughted  too.  My best friend in High School was from India and his family owned the local gas station. And I'll bet he'd laugh too. A lot of Indians came to America and ran 7-11s or gas stations because it was an easy way to get citizenship and make more money than they can make at home.  That was just a widespread thing when I was growing up, and maybe still now (I don't know).  But the punchline of the stereotype is that ALL people from India are interested in running convenience stores in America. It's funny because it is obviously not true, especially of Vivek (if you know anything about who he is). And even funnier because it paints Trump as a racist, which also isn't true but it's what the left tried to sell us.

Deciding not to help a black person because you are afraid of blacks... well, that's unfortunate. Nothing funny about that. Maybe she should get to know more black people. Depending on which black people she gets to know... she may well become even more afraid!  Hell, if she got to know my cousins on my dad's side she may even become afraid of white people.


I think this is a complete list 😜 of the things he said he would do but didn't:

☐ Lock her up!


Apparently Trump says he will not allow a CBDC.

https://rumble.com/v47u055-trump-vows-to-protect-the-crypto-world-must-see.html


It was 26 C when I posted.  I've honestly never seen coconut oil in liquid form, I've always had to hack it out of the jar.


It is so hot my jar of coconut oil is liquid. And It is only 7am.


yes.


This is just a bug. The reaction will be included on the post it reacts to once I fix the bug. But when it rains it pours and everybody is reporting bugs to me at the same time, so it'll be a few days.

I'm not going to do what amethyst does with reactions bringing a post back up in your inbox.


I'll tell you an interesting personal story. My father was a stubborn man. He never admitted when he was wrong, he always defended his position even when it was hopeless.

One day he was disagreeing with my little brother and my little brother just said "I was wrong. I lost my head."  And my father laughed. He and my little brother laughed a long time.

Ever after that day, my father had no problem backing away from something he said that later he realized was wrong.  He would just say "I lost my head" and start laughing. It's funny how sometimes children teach parents.


I'd be happy to meet you one day.  Gossip searches could indeed be improved in a lot of ways. Those are good ideas.


I think you are right. I lost my head.


My current theory is that humans have lots of desire when they are young, and as they age they lose all their desire. In my 50s I don't really have a lot of desire. I have enough to program gossip, to get pissed off about innocent children being killed or about people lying to the public. But irrespective of the outcome I'm okay with it. I've become more stoic with age without trying to become stoic. But I couldn't work at a startup company at this point... I couldn't even do that in my 20s I was never cut out for that kind of thing. My mom in her 80s says she doesn't fear death, that she feared death a lot when she was young, but as she got older she just didn't care as much.


After I wrote it I backpedalled in my mind, but didn't bother to correct myself.  I think that you are correct - it would be exceedingly hard to kill ALL of the humans on Earth.  Hell, I don't even think they can kill all of the mosquitos with that gene drive trick they invented.

But I do think that gain-of-function research will never stop, and as time goes on, we will suffer more and more from this kind of thing.


I don't think I'm going to get early notice.

Also, I'm not interested in hedonism. If it were my last day I would not seek hedonistic pleasure. I don't really have any desires, except fleeting ones.


Heh, by that time that will be all of the sats! (the rest of the private keys will have been lost)

But also I will surely be dead by then. That's why I picked 60 years. Nobody can hold me to account. ;-)


ok. I opened an issue on github to do this.


Watching the Galen Winsor video. His argument is that nuclear waste isn't that dangerous, and it is highly valuable and wasteful for us to be "disposing" of it. Many things he already said (I'm 30 minutes in) confirm the existence of nuclear weapons.

I don't think this source shows what you think it shows. But I'll keep watching. It is interesting.


Run up debt and persue hedonic pleasure?  I said 60 years, not 60 days.


My own research uncovered this:  Marc Andressen whose comments appear to have started this conspiracy theory is heavily invested in nuclear power. He benefits from more commercial usage of Uranium, which means he benefits from less fear of nuclear weapons.


I hope you are right


I believe homo sapiens will become extinct sometime in the next 60 years.

Climate change doesn't matter. It's a longterm problem, and we don't have very good chance of long-term survival.

What is going to kill us? One of the hyper-dangerous things that we keep developing due to game-theory:  nuclear weapons, bioweapons, and AI weapons.  All of those things are hyper-dangerous, but if any country stops developing them they will lose to whatever country develops them anyways. So every country keeps on doing these things... gain of function research, weapons research, AI research. It can't be stopped, and eventually one of them will kill us all.

If we are lucky there will be survivors. Probably not on mars though.

So don't worry about climate change, live every day to the fullest, do something that feels meaningful, and enjoy the time you have.


I would be comfortable not owning the game if it was open source.


But it entirely depends on what you are considering betrayal.

If someone knows you love banana splits, and then goes with friends for banana splits and doesn't invite you - that's not betrayal or not worthy of such response.

If you tell someone a secret in confidence and they tell someone very close to them and it gets out - that's not enough for me to cut them off. I know human nature too well to hold someone to such a standard.


Genuinely I just terminate any relationship and consider them to not exist. I don't get revenge, but there is no path to forgiveness for some things.


Stereotypes don't bother me. If someone stereotypes me I find it funny. I even have a pith-hat to mock myself as a colonialist. I don't understand why they bother other people. Maybe I'm autistic or something.

Anybody who believes a stereotype accurately describes an individual without checking or with prejudice is simply a fool. Nothing more.


Ok. In that case there are missing pieces in my mind. Maybe you can help me figure out how that could work. Would you expect to configure a nostr-connect relay and have gossip client subscribe to 24133 events on that relay, sending back responses to that relay?  Or would you expect some local communication channel?


I was thinking about his mouth growing shut


of course I repudiate that it was ever there to begin with but I thought it would be funnier to rescind it.

maybe I should stop trying to be funny and get back to work.


I hereby rescind my signature on the social contract.


Let's hope the next scene doesn't eventuate.


I'm blessed with a wild population. They make great dog tucker.


Maybe all their efforts only cancelled out the CO2 they produced by flying to these events. 🤔


Are you interested in gossip being a client of a NIP-46 signer that is on a relay?

If you were hoping for some different way of using NIP-46, please elaborate.


Replaceable events are hard to deal with. But I don't know of an alternative that isn't worse.


Ok I just looked closer at your example.  It must be the 'k' tag doing this.  The 'k' tag logic I put in place ages ago (which was a huge PITA) may not have been what the nostr community eventually settled on.  I will fix this.  Thanks.


I'm working towards it. My best guess would be 6 weeks out given that I'll be working on a number of other things first. But I did one big chunk of the work (refactoring what it means to be a Signer, allowing different structs to implement the Signer trait) already.


That makes sense. Gossip added these to the feed but has it off by default. They are better served by blog reading clients.

Maybe we can mark them more clearly as blogs or even blog edits so that people don't infer that you are intending to shout-up-a-conversation right now.


That's not the sun, that's an out of control fusion reaction.... in nostrich purple!


As companies age, each subsequent leader tries at least to some degree to imitate the previous leader. And so they become imitations of imitations of imitations, far from what they originally were.

We don't need locked ecosystems that happen to have nice UI/UX specs, where they can charge hundreds of dollars for a custom non-interoperable cable! We need open UI/UX specs and interoperability specs that multiple companies compete to achieve.


When you are done with the classic french porn, check out the Italian stuff.  Search "Tinto Brass"


spooky


Reactions (kind 7) should not be shown as normal notes, but they are if somebody reposts the reaction or replies to the reaction... in which case I'm not sure what gossip should do.... how should I show a 'reposted reaction' or a thread where the parent is a reaction?  These are weird cases.

If you really are getting all kind7 events showing up as UNSUPPORTED EVENT KIND 7, please let me know which version of gossip so I can debug this behavior I have never seen before.


I did but I'm not sure I want to say so publicly.


I couldn't possibly comment on if there are many humans desiring that outcome. How could I know? But we can agree that large groups of humans cannot plan such a thing without leaks.


The WHO and WEF are aware of bioweapons research and are planning how to deal with the fallout if another one of them leaks. Some of them are very afraid, afraid enough to want total worldwide sovereignty, which makes me wonder if they know something I don't... or maybe they just lust after power.  But I'm not even a little bit convinced that they intend to develop/release something. That is a step too far for me.

Do people lust for power? Yes. Is incompetence widespread? Yes. Do people cover up things that make them look bad? Yes. Conspiracy theories that posit such things are easy to consider plausable. But conspiracy theories that posit the intent of a global organisation to kill massive numbers of people...  I don't think there are enough humans that desire that outcome for such a theory to be rated "plausable". Not in my assessment.


Ok, yeah it's probably more accurate to say it's the Internet that democratized information.


Far too many people think social media broke something. I think it fixed something. It fixed our understanding of what is really going on. It fixed democracy, which relies on people understanding what is really going on. The people losing power over this transition will bitch and moan and make up explanations about what went wrong when in fact nothing went wrong.


I think Alex Jones should have a lot more WRITE relays than your average person.  And during DDoS attacks he should remove those WRITE relays and readvertise his relay list.  My guess is he would have to manage and readvertise his relay list quite a lot, but my guess is also that the DDoS campaign would fail, even against nostr as currently deployed.  I think (at least in this regard) nostr is ready.

We aren't ready when it comes to making relay selection understandable and easy.  We aren't ready when it comes to key management. We have clobbering issues still.  But I think we are pretty damned censorship resistant already.


Another option, if clients remember per-subscription the date range previously returned, is to specify date ranges that don't include the events they already have.

The only problem with this is that relays might get old events after your first query for them.  Long ago I proposed fixing that with "seen since" https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/79 but nothing like that has ever happened.  I guess it's hard for relays to implement.


I already have 583,144 ids.  So I'm not sure this is the right direction to go in.


Righteous


off-topic: What client is having you add note1 links? And can we suggest to that client to use nevent1 links instead, so we can know which relays might have them?


There is no Disease X.

Nobody is planning to engineer and/or release Disease X.

Disease X is a placeholder name for any future disease; people are planning how they would respond to a future pandemic by using the term Disease X.

I'm a skeptic, but I'm not a nutter.


🫂  ,,, but don't actually hug me cause I don't want to catch anything. 🤙


Half of your meal should be vegetables. A quarter should be meat. And the other quarter you shouldn't eat.


I got a gout attack just by looking at this.


The largest tiles (before subdividing) are a (2,2) goldberg. Then they have this neat subdivision scheme. They managed to get all 12 pentagons over water (well, one of them is over Norway, but nobody cares about Norway, right?)

http://dmccooey.com/polyhedra/DualGeodesicIcosahedron5.html

You can use that subdivision scheme on any of these.  I'm fond of the (3,3) one: http://dmccooey.com/polyhedra/DualGeodesicIcosahedron11.html

I think easier than their subdivision scheme, I would flip to the dual mode by subdividing hexagons into 6 triangles and pentagons into 5 stubbier triangles.  Then I would flip back across the dual again by turning the centers of all those triangles into vertices, bringing it back to hexagons and pentagons but smaller now. Put that in a loop and go as fine as you want.  Of course at the end you need to project each vertex from the center to the elevation of th sphere (since these things are all too flat). Theirs looks different. Maybe if you do the loop twice you get theirs?


sweet find.


Oh, the Houthis welcomed the return fire. They said they were ashamed that they hadn't been attacked yet.


The Houthis (who pretty much control Yemen, at the ire of Saudi Arabia and the West) have been attacking ships in the Red Sea that are in any way associated with Israel as a way to support/retaliate for Palestine. The Houthis have been genocided recently and are very willing to do anything it takes to prevent genocide. So far Western ships have successfully repelled all attacks (I think) including many drones, missiles and ballistic missiles without actually attacking back. The UN Security Council vote to attack back got an 'abstain' from Russia, China and others due to the fact that they refused to explain why the Houthis were doing this, or which particular ships they were targetting, and the wording explained the Houthis actions as the Houthis trying to gain power.


Headlines from 11/12-January 2024:

· US and UK have attacked Yemen
· ICJ begins hearings on whether Israel has committed Genocide
· Bitcoin ETFs begin trading
· Trial Date for Hunter Biden set for June 2024
· Nostriches can't agree on a logo, or even the term "nostrich"


Yeah. nostr:npub1tv8gmfhalwnxxquxjzeh6gtdsdz6vg7vx0s3rt7s7uuw6aujh32qn77wn2 has the SeedSigner signing nostr events. I was interested in it for both reasons.

I really like the idea of very strong privacy against online threats, and sacrificing only physical privacy to get very strong reliability.


That comment was for nostr keys, not bitcoin seeds.


OMG That is a great idea. Then I can just have my seed on paper.  Where do I get one?


Sometimes it feels like we can have master secrets and child secrets, in which case child secrets don't need reliability just secrecy. But we have not built such a thing, and every time we try there are big issues.


Was just thinking about hardware wallets today.  The following two things are both very important and somewhat in conflict with each other:  secrecy and reliability (backups in case of failure).  How does SeedSigner achieve and balance these two goals?


I prefer to use DerFührer


I was like this for like 2 months after Nostrasia. It made it hard to concentrate well enough to program, so my output has suffered. I just got tested for sleep apnea (results haven't come back yet), I've put myself on a diet, and I'm cutting back on coffee. Things are improving.

I hope you find a way to feel more awake and energized.


I don't call it a crisis. I have about the same view as Michael Shellenberger who wrote "Apocalypse Never," which isn't actually too far different from the view of Bill Gates, but stated differently.  They both believe we need to keep using oil right now in order to eventually solve the climate crisis, that far too many people completely discount how well we adapt (e.g. sea walls), and that it isn't an emergency or "crisis" but it is a looming eventuality that we need to continue to work on.


I have also used swim goggles for tear-free onion dicing.


I'm amazed at how much you get done on a laptop at a bar (not sure if you are doing that atm, but whatever).  I can hardly use a laptop and can't get anything done at a bar.


All you say is true. Life will be fine. Earth has been much hotter with much more CO2. More CO2 will improve plant growth. And we eat plants so that part is a good thing.

But humans evolved while CO2 was below 400ppm - the last time it was that high, 20 million years ago, there were no humans.  We kind of got used to 280ppm.

I'm not saying we can't tolerate it (our speciality is standing upright, sweating, and persistance hunting which means we excel when it is hot... if we go back to the old ways). I'm not saying we cannot adapt (we will build sea walls, people will migrate, a bunch of cold tundra will become livable for the first time).

All I'm saying is this:  IF it turns out that the consequences end up sucking for some reason that we did or did not expect (e.g. massively violent storms that no human has ever witnessed, huge unpredictable climate fluctuations that make crop planning nearly impossible, etc), THEN we cannot go backwards, we will just have to live with it for a thousand years.

Because the basic physics of drawing down CO2 are so fundamental that no technological innovation is going to do better than plants already do. And that's no where near as fast as we are emitting it.

Any hopes of a technological innovation in this regard IMHO is a fairy tale.  It's not quite as impossible as faster-than-light travel, going backwards in time, or perpetual motion machines, but it is nearly as impractical as humans flying around in jet ships like the Jetsons, costing far more energy to draw down than to emit.

NOTE: I didn't do any research for this post, this is off the top of my head. I may have said something wrong. This was a best effort reply.


Better stock up on toilet paper then


I find it reckless that we continue to emit CO2 at a rate FAR in excess of what we have any hope of drawing back down for the next few thousand years.  This is a one-way irreversable experiment.  I really hope the climate skeptics are right, because if they are wrong there is no way to fix this.


Good Morning Nostriches

Good Morning, Dave

https://image.nostr.build/ee147e775f0e59f4818f1cb8a498e2397dc5c023d133cb59b71b7c55619f6ec5.jpg


First off, you can't have "each face" be 76m across because some faces are hexagons and some faces are pentagons.

If you want each hexagon to have a given edge length, call that E, then the formula for the order of a goldberg polyhedron with radius 6371 is:

    I = dont(fucking) * know / pi^2


I'm too drunk to hold my keys right.  I keep missing the damn keyhole.


Chilli sauce is a general term for a lot of different kinds of sauces. What did you want to use it in?  Even if you narrow it down to a particular usage (e.g. enchilada sauce) there are two variants of that (Tex-Mex vs California)

California enchalada sauce is all I can help with.  No tomatoes.  Mostly red chilli powder and vinegar and salt  Lots of different red chili powders (ancho, chilpolte, de arbol, guijillo, pasilla).  Cumin, garlic, mexicna oregano, mexican chocolate, cinnamon, vinegar and salt.  Just try combinations and make it taste good.  Some people use tomato (that's Tex Mex) or a roux to make it "go further"


spam


My following list (kind 3), my list of followed software developers (a kind=30000 list), and my list of followed people willing to engage about politics (another kind=30000 list).

Yes I meant it half-snarky, as if you were added to a blacklist. But keep this fact in mind: during at least 50% of what I say, my tongue is in my cheek.


Wow. Awesome answer I did not expect.


If I read today's Russia Today tomorrow, will it be Russia Yesterday?


Your name has been added to multiple lists.


The news that gets out of NZ tends to be the bad stuff. No country is the magical mystical libertarian or anarcho-capitalist utopia. I wouldn't consider New Zealand to be close to such a thing. But it is a sane, safe, mostly free, democratic, liberal and productive place to live with fewer crises going on.

When the left is in power they have crazy bad ideas (take from the whites to give to the browns, control the media so that nothing bad is said of the government, restrict guns of lawful people, lockdown to save grandma, try to compete in the real estate development market, try to run a railroad, try to run a bank, try to build public transport on massive scales, shut down oil and gas exploration and rely on unreliable wind power - later necessating importing coal from China to keep the lights on, etc), but they are highly incompetent so they can't actuate most of their ideas. Basically they waste a bunch of money and get nothing done except marketing of themselves. At least they get nothing done. When the right is in power, they are much more competent and their ideas are more sane so there is less to worry about. But they want more power for themselves, more support of US and Israel, disrespect freedom of association, they lockdown for grandma too. Nobody is perfect but they are far better.

I don't think the U.S. has more "respect for property" than NZ does.  The U.S. has high levels of civil asset forfeiture without judicial review, anything law enforcement claims was involved in a crime... and indeed that isn't even necessary anymore.  Most states also permit local prosecutors to take personal property from people who haven’t been charged with a crime.  In NZ they generally can only take the proceeds of crime and only after conviction.... civil asset forfeiture requires a high court ruling that the asset in question was indeed part of a crime before it can be taken.

Jacinda was an authoritarian. That wasn't obvious from the start (although some of us had seen the young-socialists videos). She had her way of seeing things. I don't think she was evil, she just had a different opinion and one that many of us did not want to live under. She wanted to protect everybody and punish people who interfered with that. She couldn't handle the feedback though so she resigned.

The NZ government is very subservient to the US regulations, including banking, five-eyes spying, extradition of Kim Dotcom, etc. That is because we have virtually no military and depend on the U.S. to protect us. It is why we are getting off-sides with China even though China is our largest trading partner. We are kind-of fucked in this regard. I think we need to push back against the U.S. to stay neutral, but this government wont be doing that.

The media was locked-up by the last Labour government who paid only certain media companies based on (unwritten) favorable coverage of the government. But all the people I know were wise to what was happening. Hardly anybody I know watches the news anymore. Lots of people listen to underground radio like Reality Check Radio (which can't get a license... funny that) or to podcasts like Joe Rogan.

COVID woke up tons of people. There is quite a resistance movement and liberty is on the rise.

And where I live, amongst farms, people are very independent and libertarian minded.  And the people next door matter FAR more than the people in some city far away who think they are running the show.


We have fair elections. And we don't have a police state targetting the political opponents of the people in power.


Switzerland at least used to be that every man of a certain age range was issued a rifle and a sealed canister of ammunition, and was periodically trained by the military, and if your canister was opened you had to explain why. Guns and ammo were controlled, but everybody had them.

New Zealand has gun onwership. 5% of people have firearms licences, and there are about 1 million guns among 5 million people, or about 4 guns on average for every licenced firearm owner. Gun laws are stricter: you must keep them in safes, and ammo/bolt in a separate safe. You must be approved by the police (e.g. not have a criminal record, not be a danger to yourself or society in any way). Pistols are much harder to get approved for so there aren't a lot of pistols, and for some dumb reason anything that looks scary has recently become illegal. I have a firearms license.

But nothing compares to America on this point.


Looks fun. I'm in.


This new bios update fixes the bug and adds 2 more that we hope you won't figure out too soon.
;-)


I meant "word" ... Not world. Although it is a worldwide polycrisis.


I've just encountered a new world:   polycrisis


Some parts of NZ are indeed captured (like the HRC) but mostly by ideological ideas rather than by wealthy sociopaths. Other parts are not. The two big parties mostly give you the same product in a different colored wrapper, and the mainstream media is a mouthpiece of the government and especially of the left (and we have really good underground media fighting back - Reality Check Radio).

But in my opinion, less of the infrastructure, the voting, the courts, etc, are captured.  Small parties get into parliament and make a difference.

Also, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit, New Zealand ranks 2nd in terms of democracies at a score of 9.61, while the US is at 7.85 and falling.  Greece, the Czech Republic, Estonia... all score higher than the USA.


As the CEO used to say... "yes, yes, but what have you done for me lately?"


Speaking of busting nation-state spies... When AMD released the Zen2 chips, the RDRAND instructions were outputting all 1's  (the number -1) consistently. That's not very random.  It was fixed in a bios update.  The fact that this happened tells you a lot:

1) The random number generator can be bypassed
2) Someone at AMD intentionally bypassed it as a "bug" in order to alert us.


I respectfully disagree with some of that, but thank you for busting nation-state spies.

Yes these institutions you mention generally coordinate.

The entire concept of classification and "need to know" causes a serious problem:  the right hand does not know what the left hand is doing. It can't be audited. It can't be cleaned up. Psychopaths have entrenched their empires. Movies have been made about it (the Bourne Identity comes to mind). It is more confusing than not to consider it a single entity, and if you don't consider it a single entity, then which part is working in lock-step with the Military, DARPA and the Treasury? Just the figureheads.

My judgement is that Trump does not hate the military, nor was his hand forced.

The following places did not lockdown: Belarus, Brazil (Roraima and Rodonia), Burundi, Iceland, Japan, Niacragua, South Korea, Sweden, Taiwan, Tanzania, USA (Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming) and Uruguay.

The WHO is trying to put legal infrastructure in place to enforce global lockdowns, but they didn't have it when COVID hit.


Look, we can't have this debate without breaking down what we mean by Establishment. There are a lot of powers that often work together and appear as one giant thing. But sometimes they work against each other. It depends on the thing.

The media LOVED to hate on Trump. Huge for ratings.
Big pharma LOVED Trump for operation warp speed.
Israel LOVED Trump for moving the Embassy, recognizing Golan Heights, Jared Kushner negotiating the Abraham accords, assassinating Solemani.
The mliitary LOVED Trump, he funded them massively.
The FBI and CIA were split, but mostly worked against Trump. Trump is trying to repair that by offering the FBI a new headquarters building. Smart political move, but I'm not sure how far it will go.

But if you have not noticed, there are other powerful people working extremely diligently to make sure Trump does not get elected in 2024.  They were working hard to make sure he didn't get elected in 2016 (and failed) and in 2020 (and succeeded).  They obviously include the Democrats, but they heavily infect the FBI and CIA, many judges, University administrators, etc.

The point is that it used to be the case that Americans could freely elect their President, and these powers worked to influence the vote but by "above board" means. Your vote still counted. I don't think that's true anymore, now I think they use any scheme they can, legal, illegal, unconstitutional, removal from the ballot, child-pedo-ring extortion,... anything and everything.  And as a result your vote doesn't count anymore.  It is only a battle between verypoweful people, and you are I are not "part of the club".

In contrast, here in NZ we may get bad leaders, we may not agree with our leaders on everything, and our leaders may have too much power without as much separation of power or constitutional guard rails that the US has... but at least we do elect them fairly. At least I believe we do.

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Riiiight. That is why they throw hundreds of lawsuits at him, suing to get him off of the ballot. Just to distract us from the fact that they love him and want him to win. 😑


The establishment is anti-Trump. That's the only direction that matters.


I'm talking to 29/32.

I had to block a bunch of IPs in Japan that were (accidently IMHO) DDoSing my relay.  I'm not sure all relay operators were able to resolve that same problem.


I think a time will come when right-leaning and libertarian Americans who are not in agreement with the establishment will realize that their country is captured beyond any hope, that Trump 2016 was the last anti-establishment presidency and the people are no longer represented. It has not happened yet, there is still hope. But once you all come to that understanding, just remember this:  There is not enough room for you all in New Zealand.


Could be a bad connection. Try hanging up and dialing again.


Oh yes, different limits for different event kinds could be very useful.


Which part is not correct? the statement is self-contradictory.


Possible, but I think people are probably just trying to make a living by running relays, and they think this will earn them more. I think it will earn them less once people figure it out.


Max event size:  Please allow events up to 65,536 at least.  I've seen relays blocking my follow list of 177 people because it was greater than 16,384.  Long follow lists will be 64k or even more.

Auth:  Please allow plebs who aren't signed up to read the events posted by your paying customers.  Nobody is going to sign up to all the paid relays where all their customers post to.  Sure, charge to post, but charging people to read those posts is IMHO a bad idea.  Everybody else: stop paying such relays for their service, they are doing you a disservice by hiding your events from most of the people on nostr.

Max subscriptions: Please allow at least 16 (preferably 24).  I do a lot to try to combine subscriptions instead of making lots of little new ones, but combining subscriptions often means downloading the same events over again, which you really don't want me to do anyways, do you?  Even playing tricks to try to limit subscriptions, I still hit limits on relays that refuse more than 10 subscriptions.  You can easily hit that with:  following notes, my own config, metadata batches (4 or 5 might be in flight), inbox events, "load more " chunking can be another 2-5 subs (I add new subs so that i don't redownload the same events yet again)

Feel free to block scrapers:  filters should have either ids set, or two out of three from (authors, kinds, tags).


"Nobody uses twitter anymore, it's too crowded."  - Yogi Berra


yeah, better.


Cloudflare says I'm blocked.    😕 damn cancel culture.


We have these branches:

`master` branch - intended to never be rewritten, all schema changes will only go forwards, safe for general use
`unstable` branch - intended for developers and enthusiasts who want to help test new code, might require database wipes. Might be force pushed (rewritten, not cleanly 'pull'able).
Topic branches - intended for developers only, often just the one developer working on that topic. Totally unsafe, may break databases, tends to get force pushed and rebased onto unstable.


That is what NIP-05 is for. It creates a binding between a website and your npub.

But this doesn't help you manage your private key safely, or recover if your private key is lost, or if you want to rollover because your private key was never kept very securely.


followed && !dtonon


I refuse to allow cylons onto my battleship. And while we are at it, I refuse to allow a networked computer system onto my battlestar.  -Adama


I can't think of how.  Gossip uses egui, and it never supported unix-style pastes (like middle-button paste). Only CTRL-V worked. It has been like that since day-1.  Can you verify that CTRL-V does not paste for you?


They should put Zara to work on the IDF uniforms 😂


That is a fact I was not aware of!


Thanks for looking into it.  I'm still not sure of the cause of my relay problems.


Ok, it wasn't Bostr. After finally blocking all the bostr clients (there were a lot) and running some tests, I'm still getting intermittant SSL failures.
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Good eye, I missed that.  I think that has been an improvement.


What I notice from these two pictures is that people have gotten fatter and less stylish. I hope that trend turns around.

https://image.nostr.build/8eca6ee67ac0b4b184c09fd43d6264010e439c1e4e458ca5a8f05198ef8838c7.jpg


And at least 3x as good as phones.


No. This can only be solved by writing more robust relays that can handle DDoS situations, and smarter clients that can handle all kinds of relay situations better.  No matter what you do to a protocol, someone out there wont follow it and if what they do breaks your software, your software needs to harden up.  I'm as guilty as anyone.   We have work to do.


I can copy and paste from other apps into gossip. And i don't think we changed anything so fundamental as to affect that. But nostr:npub1hlq93jdtkfg29a8s7fqzzzh82q3pkc20rxucwt4geh6e56wk3y2qxdz5wg might know better.


My mistake. Amazon Aurora is a totally different thing from the Aurora app store.


I made gossip for me.


My github comment was only meant to indicate that maybe #bostr can be changed so that it is less aggressive. Of course you cannot control other people's deployments.  But you can perhaps tweak the software so that it isn't so aggressive.

I was quite upset of course, after days of frustrating debugging, website coming up and down, thinking a state-level actor was attacking me given how crazy the symptoms were... to find that it was only an inadvertant DDoS by some #bostr clients I am in fact greatly relieved.

I don't really even know what bostr is, other than "the thing that took my VPS to its knees". I'm sure it has a higher purpose and I hope for that to be achieved.

Cheers.


From the perspective of writing and running a client, most of the relays are bitchy and it drives me nuts trying to manage and work with all these different bitchy relays with different rules and behaviors.

From the perspective of running a relay, a lot of clients are aggressive as fuck and it drives me nuts trying to keep my tiny relay from running out of resources without denying service to the nice people.

Nostr is a battlefield. And we're using hastily written software barely glued together from bits of string and chewing gum.


I'd rather be too early than too late, especially for something this frickin' big.  Steve Eisman is gonna have regrets.

But I have to agree with nostr:npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn about that suit. That is some suit.


nostr.cooking


PABLO IN ALL CAPS???   STRONG BUY SIGNAL


They are just encouraging the behavior!  🤣


Nostr still suffers from the following fundamentally hard problems:

1. Distributed editing with an unreliable history (e.g. "my contact list got wiped!")
2. Key management, recovery, and rollover

There are probably one or two more that I can't think of right now.

These are problems that IMHO cannot be solved perfectly, and the trick is to find the right "good enough" solution.


Tip: I did that, they didn't work, I fought the tools that built them, I decided AppImage was too hard.


GOSSIP 0.9.0 has been released

git: branch '0.9', tag 'v0.9.0'

Upgrade Instructions

    - SQLite 3 code has been removed. If you are running version 0.7.x of gossip, you need to run a 0.8.x version of gossip at least once in order to keep your old data. Otherwise you can just start fresh.

New Features

    - Person Lists:
        Curate your own lists of people
        View a feed of just those people
        Save to nostr events, synchronize with other nostr clients.
        Mark members private to save secretly in encrypted contents.
    - Onboarding wizard: Steps a new user through what is needed to get set up
    - Support for the new nostr CLOSED message.
    - Tagging now works by just typing an '@' and the name and picking from a popup list.
    - Restyle of DM Chat
    - Restyle of Profile pages
    - New login page
    - Improvements to event deletion (multiple issues resolved)
    - "show more" on long notes
    - scrolling improvements
    - name improvements (which name to use)
    - Better tracking of threads and replies (reposts, replies via 'a')
    - Command line commands: reprocess_recent, print_followed, print_muted, bech32_decode, bech32_encode_event_addr, print_relay, add_person_relay, print_person, import_event, print_person_lists, add_person_list, rename_person_list,
    - Relay communications are kinder to relays
    - Documentation reworked
    - TLS now defaults to rust code, but native (operating system provided) root certificates.
    - Restructured as a library and a binary, so that people who want a different UI are free to replace the UI while continuing to use the underlying library.
    - Lots of little things I didn't bother to add to this list. See the git history for the whole truth.

SHA256sums:
67d140fe6336c55596a7556c55f8f9961515613635ba8f0526016e419d76d95a  changelog.txt
e1e6149e34b95de289a08cdedda32d9b1b44544a4925d6e23980489603d772cf  filter.rhai.example
83760acc0ad65f0bea06bdce73a158041b2816a3924d98ab4693bdc7cd9fd22c  gossip_0.9.0_amd64.deb
063e209ed9bdba3b64c5d67e0be170883f35bb76df29e6a0922c23eb117a3431  gossip-0.9.0-Darwin-arm64.dmg
73f6708d70867f0e5cc68d55eaa2d81e49f385adb07d9c783552a8a69204f1e1  gossip-0.9.0-Darwin-x86_64.dmg
b0fa1af9e5b98aaa13887cf8871850884e5fbc9031c85247cca4e6c9f54cf497  gossip.0.9.0.msi
e2860f22b4ae91017e138509f14a0c6c7e63aaae1bda7178b85020301b67cce4  LICENSE.txt
702bd583d106ed3d142f7cf92eb86a681fa93a7e46c3a1643773374694242bf2  README.macos.txt
65a1e61fc5374f7c391f230856809c8b37c8527c25a7a0d9113ce46d8920a8ef  README.txt


This is sad. He did good work.

This guy always reminds me of my relative John Dilger for some odd reason.


Mountains lie ahead of you. Put them under foot.

Happy New Year!


Must be wrong then.


Whew!


I wonder about this box called "Secret Leader Election"


Fucking Aussies! Snakes, all of 'em!

https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/12/31/deadly-snake-forces-halt-to-pro-tennis-match-in-brisbane/


□□LL□T
□□□□SS

"BALLET CLASSES"


If I was your wife, I'd tell you to boil your own damn pot of water.  Otherwise, a very sound method.


I'm not qualified to answer your question, I only read the article and a have high level viewpoint.

Basically everybody has been trying to quantize relativity. These guys instead tried to relativize quantum mechanics. In retrospect that seems obvious, but I don't recall people trying that before.


Humans sex-differentiated because it improved our survival. Women became experts in child rearing, home-making and social relationship building while men optimized for defense, hard labor, high risk activities, and mechanical work. A team of (1 woman, 1 man, N children) ends up surviving better than a team of (2 androgenous humans, N children) because specialization is more effective than everybody trying to be a jack-of-all-trades where compromises need to be made.

Individual variation is still high. Some women are beasts, some experts in mechanical work, etc, and some men are effeminate. But those are exceptions. Statistically speaking, more often than not the roles are trad. The exceptions are interesting, because their lineages survived in competition with traditional families, these exceptions didn't get selected out, so there is something interesting to study as to why they exist.

Even in the trad case, women are not "subjugated" or weak. Almost all women are very strong, capable and independent. Evolution selected all of us to be as survivable as possible. Women are only relatively a bit weaker as a compromise so they can be better with children. We can see this in sports competitions. I don't think anybody should hold up "weakness" as a trait women ought to have. That's quite wrong. Everybody should glorify strength even in women. The same goes the other way: being caring and nurturing is a good trait in a man, so long as he is not so caring that he can't stand up against a real threat, or he can't kill meat ;-).

I agree that masculinity is not toxic.

But I disagree that weak little men are the woman abusers. Any man can be a woman abuser. And women have to cope with the fact that they benefit from a stronger man, but also that puts them at risk. In some species, the males kill the offspring of the previous males. This makes the female fully available to care for *their* young instead of that other male's young. This isn't a thing among humans, but there are similar instincts that make some men dangerous to women. Women have to be judicious to ensure they chose a mate that loves them and wants to protect them, and not one that is too selfish and uncaring and might turn on her or on the children.

You can define "real masculinity" as men who don't abuse women and children, but if you do you lose the original definition so I don't think we should be redefining things.


I can honestly say that about this theory "I never thought of that."  And I'm not being sarcastic, I think this theory might have a real shot.

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It different contexts "they" means different things. I left it vague intentionally, to have a better chance at being right :-)

The Epstein client list is coming. Some of it at least. That gets us one step closer. We see who "they" had over a barrel... but still not "they" themselves.


My bold prediction for 2024:  We will find out who "they" is.


Part of it is already open source. But I don't think I'm going to do the game, you are right, bitcoin and nostr are just too important.


No. I will try it.

The gameplay experience I want to replicate and build on is the Eve Online experience. Massive PvP battles (thousands of ships on screen in system at a time), lots of ship roles (sensor jamming, tackling, shield boosting, transport, etc), fights for territorial ownership, plenty of opportunity for spys/subterfuge, make your own way, complex mechanics that takes years to learn.


Anybody interested in building an MMORPG-RTS?

Asset creation used to be the most expensive part of MMORPG building. But now that we have A.I. I think that is going to change massively.

I have a lifetime of ideas (started thinking about these kinds of games when I was 9) about engines, mechanics, and what makes a game fun that have never been put to good use. I built a game engine a few years back and published some of an old version of it at https://github.com/siegeengine (I don't think it works anymore) as well as just a few posts at https://gnomonicgames.com but 90% of what I was working on has never been published, including a wiki explaining the game and why it is the way it is.

Of course I'm working on gossip right now. But who knows what is going to happen when June rolls around. I could see gossip being pretty much "finished" by then.

Game Properties:
  MMO - massively multiplayer online - you can see and interact with many players at once.
  RPG - players adopt roles
  PvP, Competitive - player killing without griefing, competitive in other ways
  Real-time strategy - players change the world, and the world continues to evolve while you are offline
  Open-world, sandbox

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I congratulate myself on another year of NOT being chosen to be on the NZ New Years Honours list.


I've assumed it's just 1. But I dunno for sure. If it's just 1, and some have 0, we still have more than half as many private keys. It's still tremendously huge.


Some sequences of bits are not on the secp256k1 curve.  Some are reflections of the same point and collapse into others.  So there are actually less private keys.

Since Satoshi chose this curve, a lot of research has happened in ECC.  Bernstein worked out various properties that make a curve "safe", essentially means it is hard for developers to misuse the curve.  secp256k1 is not a "safe" curve.  https://safecurves.cr.yp.to/


This is not the way.


I have no idea what they are saying.


Yes they have a common enemy and put aside their ideological differences. I guess I was wrong.


From further reading, it appears the relationship between Hamas and Iran is complicated and on-again off-again. In 2012 Hamas was cracking down on Sunnis that converted to Shia. Later Hamas was receiving funding from Iran.


85% are Sunni. There have been people converting to Shia.


🤣

I hope they also counted carbon credits for all the unburnt aviation fuel in the planes that get shot down. It is easy to forget to count it.


Hamas builds their own rocket propelled grenades and anti-tank missiles, and morter launchers out of plumbing pipes. They have some US made weapons from Afghanistan and Ukraine. But mostly the imported weapons are of Soviet manufacture that are claimed to have been modified by Iran. They also copy weapons: Their Shabab drone is a copy of the Iranian Ababil-2. I think they take any weapons they can get, and most of the world is behind them so they get weapons from all sorts of places, including Russia and Iran. I"ve heard they have some from North Korea and China too.


I'm bookmarking this do I  can follow along and do this every morning!


Westerners don't understand the Islamic world very well.  Islam is divided into two main groups: Sunni and Shia.

Iran is Shia. Hezbollah is Shia. The Houthis are Shia.

Hamas is Sunni. Why does this article lump them in as an Iranian proxy? I have a guess as to who made up this bullshit.

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Hmmm. 🤔 I hadn't thought of it like that. You could claim that real video/audio wasn't real.


Oh yes, they were ruthless dominators, and they started the biological weapons stuff.


I've heard chickens are easy too, and scale down further so you hardly need any land at all to get plenty of eggs.  I can't do them while my GSD is still alive though.


Let us compare buying a lamb leg to raising one on your farm.

In the first situation, a farmer raises the lamb, and sells the lamb for a price barely covering his costs, let's call that "C".  In NZ this sale is GST free and it is illegal for the farmer to sell that lamb leg to the public. Then the supermarket pays for transport, storage, display, wastage, staff, marketing, overheads, and profit - marking up the price by a huge amount, lets say to 2.5C. Then the supermarket sells that lamb leg for this larger price, but charges an additional 15% GST which they pass on to the government, making it 2.875C.

On the other side of the equasion, you worked for a paycheck. Your paycheck was taxed at 30%. You bought the lamb leg with the after-tax funds.
So lets say you did a certain amount of work W.  You only got to keep 0.7W to spend.

To make the math easy, let us say that W, the work you did, was the same as C, the work/costs that the farmer did. Of course a weekly paycheck would be a lot larger, but we will look at only a fraction of your paycheck.

So now you are paying 2.875 / 0.7 to buy that lamb leg.  That is 4.107 times as much as the work to grow your own lamb leg.

Farmers have big equipment and run lots of animals so they can get the price down. That is true. But you only need to do 25% as good as the farmer to break even.

Farming animals is easy once the fences and gates and water troughs are in place. Just remember to open a gate every few days. If one gets sick, kill it - vet bills are insane. And when you need meat, you need to process the animal yourself - homekill services are expensive too. Sheep can have a lot of problems (hooves growing into spirals, worms and failure to thrive, flystrike, needing to be shorn, etc) but breeding can virtually eliminate these: for example, wiltshires don't need to be shorn, their wool falls off naturally. And if you cull the bad ones you will be improving the genetics of the flock. I tend to kill and eat the bad looking males (scouring, wool not falling off well, hoof problems, whatever it is).

Anybody who can live outside of the cities on a large enough property and who eats meat should consider doing this. I find it really easy and the only real problem I have is that I have too much meat and I'm gonna have to build a loading ramp so I can take the extras to the yards and sell them.


Not everyone can, but far more people should IMHO. Just being 'open source' doesn't mean anybody actually read it and checked it was good code, didn't have backdoors, etc.


Facts are disputed. The wikipedia articles cover these topics pretty well:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_biological_warfare_in_the_Korean_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKUltra


I am donating 2 million $WORTHLESS to @jb55 for all his hard work. That's 5% of the total supply that I imagined into existance. I got a friend to buy one for $1 therefore the total market cap is $40 trillion and the value of my donation is $2,000,000 USD!!!  Everybody must now love me.


Just wanted to add that in any system of "need to know", the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing. Intelligence organisations are mostly dysfunctional.


The US used bacteriological weapons against North Korea during the Korean war: flies and spiders infected with the plague, cholera and typhus, as well as chemical weapons. Americans are on tape confessing to these heinous crimes, expressing intense feelings of guilt. In order to cover up the American war crimes, they came up with the story that these Americans were captured and brainwashed by the Chinese, that the Soviet Chinese had perfected brainwashing techniques able to make people believe they did things they didn't do. It spawned a gigantic cover-up operation known as MK Ultra which went on for some 20 years looking for truth serum and mind control drugs as a counter-operation to the fictitious Chinese one, and which was eventually shut down as "worthless". The truth is that you are in control of your own mind, and your mind is far too complicated for it to be controlled otherwise. And these people who confessed to committing war crimes were making honest confessions. They completely failed to find a way to mind-control people, other than the old-fashioned "lying".  That is the only technique that works, and it is the technique they continue to use.


Sounds like companies that use open source in their products will be held liable for bugs in the open source they chose to include in their products... and won't be able to pass the liability on to the open source developers.... instead of consumers taking all the risk. I'm of two minds on that, not sure what to think.  But I predict lawyers will go after deep pockets. I don't think they will come after open source devs, even if they were paid in donations.


I don't care about that part.

I care that Proton thinks supporting govt spys is a good thing... which makes me very wary of whether they actually want to keep my email secret.


It even has backmasking:   evol drow eht no gnikohc dna pihsnoitaler yreve pu gnikcuf em fo cilobmys si ti


I decided to try to learn some new music.  This song seems to be all electronic/studio stuff so I had to improvise and make some changes. But I got it in one take.  Don't miss the special ending.

https://media.nostr.build/av/a2f3993e7af7908a157d7ffd20bcc6a5dc782d1659e4bbc5114b993d72daf43d.mp3


Here is the proton mail blog post about this year's charity fundraiser

https://proton.me/blog/2023-lifetime-account-charity-fundraiser


I write this not because bellingcat is in the news.  But because ProtonMail just sent me something about some fundraiser where they are donating proceeds to a bunch of groups including bellingcat and I thought "WTF? Do I need a new email provider?" I guess I do.

IMHO every service out there that is marketing "privacy" or "security" should be seen as highly sketchy right from the get-go.  I no longer trust ProtonMail (well, I never trusted them with anything other than my boring emails anyways).


Free speech matters. Here is an example.

On YouTube, all of the first 40 hits when you search for Bellingcat are positive on Bellingcat (or report whatever they reported).

On Rumble, about 15 of the first 20 hits are negative on Bellingcat (I say "about" because one was a foreign language, and another was not clear by the title and I didn't bother listening).

If we didn't have a free speech alternative platform, nobody would know about the claims and evidence that Bellingcat is sketchy. Could they all be Russian disinformation about Bellingcat? Sure. But we get to be the judge of that.

I tend to judge them as a probable CIA asset because they never find the West guilty of anything, only Russia. And they amazingly have access to information that is impossible for any normal person to access... and they did so long before they had their own funded satellites. Also a UK report found "Bellingcat was somewhat discredited, both by spreading disinformation itself, and by being willing to produce reports for anyone willing to pay."


If you do a repost, on some clients (like gossip) replies go to the original post, and you can't even reply to the repost event itself. The nostr protocol doesn't care, but some clients just do it like that.  So yes, quote posts will be interacted with more.


yep. 😕


But sometimes I think maybe he needed a real big emergency to have enough of an excuse to bomb the F out of Gaza without getting too off-sides with the U.S.


Haha! We are all ignorant asking ignorant questions. We just make the best guesses we can given what we think we know, and we talk amongst ourselves to learn more.... to "think in groups" as Jordan Peterson put it I believe.

Yeah Israel was almost at a civil war I heard. They had real trouble electing a government. Netanyahu was under investigation for corruption and apparently he corrupted the judges too, to try to wiggle out of the corruption charges. I heard the only way he could stay in power is under emergency powers, but that required an emergency, and hence there is speculation that he created the emergency so he could stay in power.

But I do not think he intended for 1000 Israelis to be killed. A smaller emergency would have sufficed.


The line separating good and evil runs down every man's heart. The only reason I tolerate the speech of both neo-Nazis and woke leftist idiots is because sometimes they talk about unrelated topics in a domain where their comments are relevant and useful. I don't like cutting off even entire humans anymore, much less so entire communities of them. All humans are complex. Alex Gleason is doing the lords work keeping everybody as connected as possible.


Yeah, and for that it is plausable. But without any direct or indirect evidence, only a motivation, and with no knowledge of feasible mechanisms by which Putin could have pulled that off, I put the odds at precisely: not very high. But if there was a case to be made I wouldn't rule it out.

I think Netanyahu allowed it, but screwed up by how much it was allowed... but even that is hard to fathom. How could high-tech Israel have screwed up so badly? With advanced Russian spy shit, that mystery might be better explained. But again, just because there is a possible fit, such things are scant evidence.


I can see how that would benefit him, but no I don't think so.


I'm assuming (since you didn't elaborate) that the Pentagon said the drone was launched FROM Iran (not BY Iran). I stand corrected?


Ok one of the ships was attacked in the red sea.  That one may well have been the Houthis.  I'm talking only about the other one.


News:  A few days ago two indian ships were hit and damaged by drones while heading from the Red Sea back to India while they were about 800km South of Iran.  Neither were sunk and all crew members were unhurt.  The Pentagon claims the drones were fired by Iran.

Prediction: the US fired these drones in order to get India on their side, and to manufacture Iranian guilt (a country that has continued to claim it is not involved). Houthi drones can't fire that far, and I don't think it makes any sense for Iran to fire on ships linked with India that were heading to India.


Looks good 👍


I didn't catch your talk in Tokyo so I'm listening to it now.

I agree that we need to provide powerful mechanisms for feed curation, including as communities that moderate content, as friends that flag content, etc. Feed curation gets even more complicated than just "community norms" though. I don't want to see nudity when I'm working because it is potentially distracting. But after work I'm fine with nudity. Gossip now has lists, so you can choose what kind of content you want to see right now, and switch to something else later.

Gossip has "sensitive content" warnings. Gossip has person-muting and thread-muting. Gossip has spam filtering via script too. But it needs more.

I think NIP-32 labelling is a good idea but can't be programmed against without a hard ontology. NIP-56 reporting is a good idea but has a too-simple ontology. NIP-72 moderated communities are too siloed and won't include most of the people I want to follow. So gossip doesn't do any of this yet .. I'm waiting on a better solution to be proposed first.

I don't care if we aren't growing (I don't need growth to pay the bills), as I've mentioned multiple times now, but I guess I would care if we shrunk and withered away.


We have a huge amount of work to do in that regard. I've got NIP-46 support slated for gossip 0.10, but I don't even know of any NIP-46 providers I can use to test it as I develop.


We say "get stuffed" here in New Zealand too. And I'm an immigrant from California. I use a mix of American and New Zealand sayings and spellings.


Yes, that thread. I don't think I know your opinion, which is why I listen.


funny


IMHO gossip's relay management still needs a lot of work, just like a lot of other things still need a lot of work. I want to see the other answers to this question so I can cheat off of whatever they did (!)


I don't catch the reference. Which parts do I hail from? What is the prison island?


If someone posts illegal content on a website and the government shuts it down, they can post it again on a new website, and the government chases them around trying to squash it.  BUT we don't shut down the world wide web because of this "flaw".

Just swap "website" for "relay" and nostr is the same model.

I don't think we should be touting that nostr "can't be censored". We should be touting that it is decentralized.


I just realized that the world-wide web doesn't have central moderation.

How is it that we are still breathing?


I have never encounted a community of people with a more positive attitude than the nostr community (at least the subset that I follow). Almost everybody is upbeat, positive, can-do, bright-eyed and bushy tailed, "let's build it", "let's fix it". I appreciate that a lot.


So today I learned from hacker news:

Normies think bitcoin is a scam.
Normies expect other people to curate their feed.
Normies want a central operator to complain to.

I'm glad normies don't join nostr. I think we should not be catering to normies. Normies can go get stuffed.


The craziness continues to accelerate!


If you are reading this message, you are the resistance.


and no trailing commas.


All the keys need to be quoted.


I like that she colored her hair purple. It makes them easier to spot.


That is quite an escalation


Hard to read all those comments from group-haters. I've gone the opposite direction from blocking grouos in that I don't even mute entire people anymore (people are more than their worst idea).


I got confused because I already scanned into my clipboard from the camera, I didn't need another scan I was looking to paste somewhere.


I was on the other side. I scanned their damus QR codes into my clipboard and looked for a place to paste into an android nostr app.
I don't know lots about lightning. Does Alby give them an lnaddress like WoS or do they need a third thing?
I'm gonna need to attend a "how to onboard people to nostr" class or something.


I'll probably sober up and think its easy again!  :-) Nah, its probably just every client is different and I'm so used to my own client I can't drive these phone clients since I rarely nostr on my phone.


Ok next time I'll go into my profile, open my qr, and click that button to scan someone else's qr. Totally logical? But now I know. Thanks.


There is a well known technical issue where lists of contacts get clobbered. But I thought it was *between* clients, I didn't think a single client would clobber its own contact list.


I'll check it out.


I'll tag nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s he will know better than these jokers


Mirrors


I tried that and it didnt work, but it is doing it now. Maybe they were too new - I'm not sure how Amethyst searches (at relay, at which relay, etc).


Wrong direction. They showed me their QR codes.


I tried to onboard my friends tonight and had a heck of a time. Both had iPhones so I got them both on Damus. And they could show me their QR code. But once I got it, I couldn't figure out how to paste their public key into my phone client to follow them. I tried nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg, coracle (nostr:npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn) and amethyst  (nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z) and none of them had an obvious way to follow someone by pasting a pubkey.

Also one installed nostr:npub1getal6ykt05fsz5nqu4uld09nfj3y3qxmv8crys4aeut53unfvlqr80nfm  but couldn't figure out how to connect it to Damus nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955, and I couldn't either.

Eventually I followed them both after they posted and I searched for them.

This needs to be easier on phone clients. There need to be maybe more menu options? Or maybe they are hidden somewhere? I had bragged about how much I know about nostr and am involved in nostr, and then I couldn't even get them setup. It was embarassing.

Oh, and nostr:npub1wmw3ny90zg6gmy7jlme76vthjjreapn94cmx9vduxzjhntm9xamq24stj0 and nostr:npub1ckhwr3lvc8g5yvwg22hv8vysvk437q0hlftvm5d432x43ps2ll5qfkpq0g are gonna need zaps once we get their wallets setup. They were floored to find out that random people might just send them money for something they post.


Hey this is my friend Ky


Merry Christmas all the way from New Zealand!


yep I do that


Yeah I saw parsley in other recipes. I hate parsley. I like what tarragon does to it. I guess I'll just call it my own invention.

And celery for crunch since the gherkins won't be crunchy enough. But gotta have those gherkin bits - a critical part of the potato salad experience.

Here in NZ all the potato salads suck. So this Christmas I'm showing everyone how it is supposed to be done (except I'm using tarragon instead of parsley)

I also go heavy on the eggs.


Does anyone else put tarragon in their potato salad? I don't see it in many recipes online. And dill and smoked paprika of course.


🎄🔔 M·e·r·r·y  C·h·r·i·s·t·m·a·s 🔔🎄


If every interaction is a random opponent, defect is the best strategy because it's just like a single-round game.

This is why small villages where people know each other are safer places than downtown in large cities. This game theory is the deep fundamental reason why you should have friends, family, a community of people you know and interact with many times, and also why humans tend to distrust strangers.


Lack of basic stuff can make you miserable. Some people who are very impoverished can improve their happiness greatly by getting more money and more stuff. But that doesn't apply to most of us.

Happiness is strongly coorelated with good relationships and good health.

I think mindset makes a big difference too, but that is harder to study scientifically.


If you are a happy person, making more money can make you happier.  But if you are a miserable person, more money cannot fix that.


Try https://yewtu.be/watch?v=mScpHTIi-kM


This video is about one of the most important things that everybody should understand.

If you have kids, make sure your kids watch and understand this video.  This is A MAJOR FACTOR in determining whether or not you will be successful in life.

https://odysee.com/@veritasium:f/what-the-prisoner's-dilemma-reveals:a


You must mean into NIP-02 (kind 3)?  I would merge NIP-51 into NIP-02.  Maybe keep NIP-65 separate, but I think my vote should count less since I'm a biased NIP-65 author.


When I said "Tomorrow's News" I didn't mean I had inside knowledge of something going to be released tomorrow. I wasn't even thinking of that interpretation. I was trying to make a cheeky sarcastic prediction about where all this censorship and disconnection is headed. Sorry for the confusion.
nostr:npub1cq47m26ft2xh8c33jtapvxstsdzgy86gg35prv0gzravvk6cfaysa9sukg nostr:npub16jdfqgazrkapk0yrqm9rdxlnys7ck39c7zmdzxtxqlmmpxg04r0sd733sv nostr:npub19mun7qwdyjf7qs3456u8kyxncjn5u2n7klpu4utgy68k4aenzj6synjnft nostr:npub1guj2eu50h3q7cw5gzl7s5vcq3wwu7j3rnscyytv4dcw6u8pheeeqrzr7aq nostr:npub1mcneaunh0n9qy54sse0vr06nwhejzghumfjlmu3r54ugwx83qhlshqwtll nostr:npub1kyglvayh649etnjf2jznlynsrx0uz63vaehuc2pjhwdtj9vph88qyvph68


It is the white spot among the black birds you are focusing our attention on right? The birds can see it, clearly. It's not an illusion. Probably is a balloon as you say.


Didn't nostr:npub1az9xj85cmxv8e9j9y80lvqp97crsqdu2fpu3srwthd99qfu9qsgstam8y8 or someone else (can't remember who) do Internet over radio or something?


Well that news is only about 5 hours old so most people haven't heard it yet.


Like in France, Rumble pulled out of Brazil rather than acting on censorship orders from Brazilian judges.


I suppose I should finish the verse:   All through your crises, the mad inflation, they robbed you of product, seek their cessation.


Seems that Glenn Greenwald read my post ... either that or smart minds think alike.

https://rumble.com/v42tfen-system-update-204.html?start=1928


Tomorrow's News:

Tomorrow it will be reported that the Internet will become disconnected from and unavailable in Brazil because all service providers (platforms, websites, and ISPs) cannot take the legal risk foisted upon them by the Brazilian judicial rulings.  Goodbye Brazil, it was nice knowing you.


word


Don't cry for price controls Argentina!  The truth is, they never helped you.


It might be genocide, I'm not a linguist. I think it's better to just say that they want them gone somehow.

It seems they believe that if they retaliate with overwhelming force, that Palestinians will be "beaten into submission".  But I don't think it works like that. It might work that way with animals, breaking an animals spirit like a horse... but once a creature has 'religion' they will die for their cause, their spirit can't be broken.  So IMHO they are not doing it to "kill them all" but I think that they won't get what they are seeking unless the do commit genocide, so I don't see how this ends well.


I saw this post moments ago, looked up the meaning, and right then an old friend called and wanted to do lunch tomorrow at either 11 or 2.  I chose 11.  Now I can't wait to see what happens.


For comparison, Black Sea rates are around 2.75%, and there is an active war happening over there.


BTW that is not the odds of an imminent war. That is the odds that an imminent war would totally destroy some randomly selected ship, plus a bit for profit.


One way to predict the future is to look at people with a lot of money on the line. The cost of war insurance for ships transitting the Red Sea is currently about 0.5%, but has recently doubled.  I'd say the risk of imminent war (during a ship transit time) is still, on an absolute basis, quite low.  https://www.lloydslist.com/LL1147660/Red-Sea-war-risk-rates-still-rising-after-doubling-in-past-week


(!)  I had not even heard of such a thing (by that name).  Thank you for bringing the NAM to my attention.


Ok, resolutions have no enforcement power, sure. I don't think they should. But nations negotiating and communicating so they can understand each other's position better has got to be a good thing. That is what I appreciate about the U.N. general assembly. And when all but 2 vote a certain way, that is useful information, not something that should be ignored because the rest of the U.N. are communist idiots.

I would say Israel is committing ethnic cleansing, not genocide. A genocide requires an intention to eliminate a people, and 20,000 people out of 7 million is too slow to call it a genocide. They want them gone, but not necessarily dead.


But if people must be able to read their old messages, than compromise of a person's nostr key compromises all of their past communications with everybody, and all of those everybodys should be concerned about that (your secret message exposed because someone else was careless), and forward secrecy won't help.


Forward secrecy requires every message to be encrypted under a different key that is not derivable from long term secrets, which probably means they have to be randomly generated and both parties probably need to remember those keys somehow, forever, in order to read old messages. We might need a new event kind that stores all those keys encrypted under your own key.


NZ's own dancesafe! Harm reduction. Glad to see it.


And I can only take credit for coding. nostr:npub10000003zmk89narqpczy4ff6rnuht2wu05na7kpnh3mak7z2tqzsv8vwqk came up with the design.


Thanks. I just did that yesterday. I missed the 'focus' issue the first time but nostr:npub10000003zmk89narqpczy4ff6rnuht2wu05na7kpnh3mak7z2tqzsv8vwqk was quick to correct me 😅


Thanks.  I don't support anyone either.


ding ding ding!


Ok on that point I agree. It should not have any power.


The U.N. is useful as a central point of negotiation between all the nations of the Earth. Given there are 193 nations, the alternative to the U.N. is 18,538 bilateral treaties constantly in flux.

It is my strong opinion they should not have power.  All of the shit the administration wants, that the WEF wants, the socialism, that bullshit, I am against.

But when it comes to nations debating and voting, I am for that, and critique of the former is not critique of the latter.

Putin was asked about this point and he made clear he supported the U.N. because it is all we have for worldwide negotiation, and you have to work with what you have.


May I inquire, are you right-wing? Do you support Israel? Just getting some stats on what kind of people take this position. Thanks.


May I inquire: are you right wing? do you support Israel? Just getting some stats on what kind of people hold this position. Thanks.


Israel has not committed genocide. It is however committing an ethnic cleansing.

As for the ICC I have strong reservations. No power should be global and centralized. I'm glad the U.N. is feckless and the WHO should not have power either. Nations should retain 100% of their sovereign power.


WHO is useful for worldwide intelligence on outbreaks.  It should not however have power (neither should the U.N. see some of my other comments). I'm glad NZ rejected that.


IMHO it is a good thing that they are toothless. Otherwise we would end up with one world government. The U.N. best serves as a point for global negotiation.  The U.N. can organise collective action of member states.


This really makes me curious as to what the prompt was.  Was "shit floating in the ocean" part of it?


A lot of American right-wingers dis on the United Nations, consider the whole thing a joke. I'm starting to think this is because they call out Israel. Is that correct? Was all the anti-UN rhetoric planted by Israel in order to make it acceptible to ignore the U.N. callouts of what Israel does?

Of course the administration of the U.N. (the administration of any organisation) is full of woke idiots. That's just how administrators are.

But primarily the U.N. is a major means for all of the countries of the world to negotiate. And if all the countries of the world vote to pass some resolution, except for two of them, that has nothing to do with the woke nonsense of the administrators.

Don't be fooled.


These are the important things in life.  Train them up to appreciate the masterworks


Is nostr down? 😁


The media are already writing articles about it.  They cannot resist.

nostr:nevent1qqs0696ualczusf9gkdu079ugwd6q6zuz38mwfz8pqnne7mez59el5qpzamhxue69uhkccfwwfjkcctev93xcefwdaexwtcd0fxfw


Today I'm launching Flare, a video sharing site built on Nostr! 🎉

Like YouTube, Flare lets you upload, view, comment, and like videos from your favorite creators. BUT unlike YouTube, we can't strike, shadow-ban, or demonetize you just because we disagree 🤗

Since Flare is built on Nostr, you are free to serve your content from anywhere and consume content from any kind 34235 client you'd like.

Check it out at https://www.flare.pub/ 🔥
https://v.nostr.build/VygA.mp4


Burning question:  Do US elections take place on a jet, or in the back of an R.V.?

context:
Vivek Ramaswamy: "...the basic principle that we the people select our leadership, not the unelected elite class in the back of palace halls. That's old world Europe, not the United States."
Russell Brand: "A lot of people saying it's taking place on an R.V., a lot of people saying it might be taking place on a private jet"


Bit more complicated than I was imagining. I wish you well.


Where is Judge Dredd when you need him?


I feel like I didn't say anything interesting in that episode. But it was a window into my mind so I guess that's at least a curiousity for some.


The heat is internally generated. It happens in the shade too.


Hearing this, I'm glad you chose to move out of that country. I hope your new country isn't like this.


Check out my bounty at https://resolvr.io/b/naddr1qp8kjmtsd3jk6etwwskkzttwdaehgu3dwpex7ar0vdhkcttxdaez6erfwd68y6tzw46xjmn894cx7errv9ehguedd9hz6ctww3jkumnpwphkgtf3v5unyv3hxc6nqctyvyqs6amnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0dspzqwlsccluhy6xxsr6l9a9uhhxf75g85g8a709tprjcn4e42h053vaqvzqqqr4vgcwznvj


These graphs also have to be adjusted for how much built up infrastructure there is.  As time has moved on, we built more and more stuff, so more stuff gets damaged now.

If you adjust for that and inflation, then the graph is flat.


Having thought about it a bit more... the way Coloradians can fix this is to contact their local state legislature representative and ask them to appoint electors in such a way as to represent the popular vote for Trump, that is, to change the law so that this Colorado Supreme court decision becomes moot.  States vote for presidents via their electoral college representatives, and they are chosen according to whatever the legislature decides. So the Colorado State legislature can effectively bypass the Colorado Supreme Court. And if that gets challenged, the US supreme court will enforce.

Colorado has become a blue state anyways so it's probably not relevant.


I've been thinking about this and I don't think the US Supreme Court should overturn this. Ballot access is a state issue. States vote for the president, not the people. If Colorado decides to exclude Donald Trump, that is a Colorado issue, not a United States issue. It is up to the people of Colorado as to how to react to this.


So far everybody that has cared to comment has disagreed with my prediction. Which will make it so much sweeter when I turn out to be right.


There is still an appeal to the US Supreme Court that I didn't know about. So this is still in play.


There are 333 million people in the US.  Some subset of them will break with civility and lawful behavior for the sake of democracy. I don't know how many. I'm making my prediction based on the reasonableness of the position -- in 2020 the reasonableness of committing insurrection was pretty low -- sure the vote *might* have been rigged, but nobody has a smoking gun.  But the reasonableness of committing insurrection when courts are claiming things that are factual nonsense and whose judgements directly deny democracy to the people is much higher. The moral case for defending your constitution is much stronger than in 2020.


Woodrow Wilson also brought in the income tax, prohibition, and got the U.S. into WWI. What a swell fellow.


It was supposed to be 26C here in PN, but it only got to 21C.  Weather is harder to predict for an island than a continent. Weather is harder to predict at these latitudes than others. Our weather is harder to predict than just about anywhere else on Earth.


nostr:nevent1qqswgy04d2l3fajrq0wh0hrdawu5fvedmmudq78z2n2s6q9gd49e7xgpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43z7d4fhcu

Ok I made a prediction about this already, so this event upgrades my prediction to "there will be an actual armed insurrection.... when the US presidential election happens."  I'm sad that it came to this.  The argument that Trump engaged in insurrection is laughable.

nostr:nevent1qqsqjpmqnzqspe2ay63q8vk2tk9nl5zgejyued40sfgkcpcez20m5uspzpmhxue69uhkztnwdaejumr0dshszxrhwden5te0v96zumn0wd68yam0wf4hxtnrdakj7qgswaehxw309ajjumn0wvhxcmmv9u6fvmkm


Being a "state", a government, a nation, is a PRIVILEGE granted by the people. It is NOT a right. No state has a right to exist. It is a privilege that can and should be revoked once a state fails to serve it's people.


Oh, also, I've listened to Vivek more recently and that guy really really impresses me. He comes closer to how I think than RFK Jr does.


I take his meaning as that they receive more aid per-capita than anywhere else. I take issue at the term "pampered" given that they don't receive much of this aid because Israel blocks it, and because they are also the most terrorized people on Earth.


The "what an ass" comment is about him calling Palestinians the most pampered people on Earth. I understand perhaps they've received more aid per-capita, but you could only construe that as "pampered" if you completely ignore that they are the most terrorized and bombed people on earth.

He is heavily pro-Israel which is a deal breaker for me at this point. I don't think anyone could be pro-Israel unless they either don't have a decent diet of information from both sides, or they have a monstrously evil psyche. He is certain of his view, which means he is either monsterous or both ill-informed and certain, and the combination of ill-informed and certain is itself a big red flag for me.


I watched his interview with Krystal Ball.


He says the Palestinians are the most pampered people on Earth.


That tweet is from back in February 2021, when there wasn't enough solid information against vaccination yet.  There was only reason to be skeptical because it was new and couldn't possibly be well tested yet. I was vaccinated myself in Aug 2021, having done a lot of research, and considering myself a borderline case (I was always against mandates, and never thought kids should be vaccinated, even back then).

When he says "we should aim to safely vaccinate everyone who is eligible" I don't presume he meant to force it on people who don't want it, although if you take it strictly literally it sounds that way.  But at that time, people just presumed everybody would want to be vaccinated, so making a distinction at that time about those who wanted it vs those who didn't wasn't even part of the public consciousness yet.


If I had a garden area anywhere nearby that would be a brilliant plan.  But I have a garage, a sleep out, the parking area, and a dog kennel with some shaded pathways. No place for a garden near that downspout.


I take back anything nice I ever said about RFK Jr.  What an ass.  My pick for American president is Vivek Ramaswamy.


I do not know.


Update on my rainwater harvesting issues.

The guys came today and drained and cleaned out my tank, and also installed a diverter (which I'll talk about in a second).  The water cartage will arrive in about 4 hours and fill the tank about halfway (it takes ages for me to drain a tank, and a decent rainstorm can fill the tank, so half a tank is plenty). At that point I'll have potable water again.  This water flows through two whole-house filtrers, a 20 micron and a 1 micron filter.

I have what is called a "wet" system which means the rainwater goes underground and then back up to dump into the tank. The water level remains at the height of the tank inlet, and that includes in the downpipes from the raingutters, which is about halfway from the ground to the roof. It stays full of water ("wet") all the time. Insects could fly in and create larvae, and the sun hitting white downpipes warms that stagnant water quite a lot, making the situation worse.  When it rains, water pours into these pipes from the gutters, as does dust, bits of roof lichen, leaves, pine needles, anything that gets onto the roof.  The rain collection is slow enough that organic matter that has gone down the rain gutters just collects in the bottom of these pipes (which run underground) and rots over time. Once the density of that organic matter gets high enough, it becomes like a black-grey stinky sludge... not something anybody would associate with drinking water, and the cause of the recent sewer smell in my drinking water.

So my tank collects water both from my old sleepout and garage, but also from my new house. These are two separate collection pathways. The new house pathway is clean and fine, the new downpipes are solid black (they block sunlight), and there is a diverter at ground level. The old house pathway is stinky and contaminated and had (until today) no diverter.

So they installed a diverter at ground level on the old pathway.  After every rain, I am to open it up and let the water come flooding out onto the lawn. The force of water is supposed to flush out most of the organic matter as this happens. My new system for the new house has one of these, but the old system never did and I didn't even know it was supposed to (it was like that when I bought the property).

I'm also going to divert the gutter that is closest to the trees into a drainage ditch and no longer collect water from it, because that gutter gets leaf matter a lot faster than the other ones do.


In general yes.

China can block ports entirely. But nostr is run on port 443 generally and they don't broadly block web traffic. So they have to block relays specifically usually by IP address and domain name. Unless they have found and blocked all the relays, they haven't blocked nostr. I've received a message from a person inside of China within the last 3 days (on popular relays even) so I don't think the've blocked relays at this point. I expect they will block relays at some point in the future en masse after they believe they have found enough of them for the blocking to be effective (if they just block them as they encounter them, people will migrate and it will fail for the same reason that vaccinating into a pandemic fails).


Also important:  the event pointer you have shared does not encode the public key as 32 bytes, but as 64 hex characters.


This is why Russia and China have some trouble moving out of the dollar completely. They cannot trust each other not to devalue their own currency as a way to owe less to the other.  Do I need to say what the obvious solution to this is?  I think the bitcoin community already knows.


Any inconveniences that anybody experiences from Coracle are intentional and you deserve them.


Accurate.


I am primarily limited by heat dissipation.

If I'm outside working in the yard at 17C in the sun, I have about an 85% duty cycle, where 15% of the time I have to get into the shade and wait for the body heat to dissipate.  By 23C my duty cycle drops to about 50%.

This is partially due to being overweight, but at 100kg and nearly 6ft I'm not morbidly overweight.  It is partially due to the seasons changing and my body not yet having adapted to working in hot weather (These figures were measured over the last 3 days).

But there is a third reason I find more interesting. My blood vessels are barely on the surface. You can see them on the backs of my hands and the tops of my feet and that is about it. Phlebotomists have a hard time finding my blood vessels to draw blood. This is a genetic adaptation to my ancestors living in very cold weather, keeping the blood warm by having the blood vessels run deeper.  The downside is that I can't dissipate heat very well when I need to, but apparently my ancestor's problems were primarily freezing to death, not so much laboring under the summer sun.

Unfortunately when working with others, people don't understand this and think I'm lazy, always wanting to take a break.  But put me in 8C weather and I can go at max VO2 for many hours. And once in pain, give me some alcohol and I'll go for another few of hours.

As an aside, the fact that my body wants to carry more fat than modern medicine considers healthy is also probably genetically selected as a way to stay warm in the winter.

Maybe I should move somewhere colder.


I came here to chew bubble-gum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum.

GM


Ok I just listened to one of my own recordings backwards, and it definitely has backmasking in it.. except strangely it's in German. I'm gonna need a translator.


Backmasking started with the Beatles. Led Zepplin surely knew of it.

It is amazing how much of the backwards song sounds like legible lyrics. But I think it is probably just a neat coincidence. I do not believe in the supernatural, I do not believe Satan inspired him to sing it in a particular way such that these lyrics would come out (the lyrics don't even cast Satan in a good light). Nor do I think he tried to do this.

Robert Plant claims they were too drunk in those days to even play it correct forwards, much less figure out how to make something have lyrics when played backwards. He was disappointed when people claimed there were backwards lyrics, having spent so much effort on the forward lyrics. Called the whole thing bollocks.

But it is still really fascinating that there are these backwards lyrics that are kinda-misheard kinda-a-stretch, but close enough that you can hear them if you listen for them, and that they are almost coherent, soundling like the dirge of a dead person who is now in hell, a daemon beyond hope.

I spent some time trying to sing bits of Stairway to see what my voice sounds like backwards, or indeed to sing what it sounds like backwards and see if it sounds normal reversed... and for some phrases it's pretty easy, and for other phrases I cannot get it to work.

There are enough legible parts that it makes me wonder. Sometimes all our thoughts are misgiven.

This is about how I hear it backwards: "Uhhhh, flack wood. Yeah what's sung yeah oxishna, ... ahahahahahahahahaha remind you all for you, yeah we're all, yeah we're all one, so we can offer Krishna, oh hear him Christian within me, oh it stirs my sin, the river, oh she swells with our lousiness, all our life will end for him, we're all out of signs, I know I'm sorta shocked, the lord my god now will save me, .... Oh, I will never be saved wood cause I live with Satan. One wish today that you'll all pray for three who will make it here late. Pray now and you'll see the lord turned me out. But, oh, I was the shaggy fool, clothed in agony, lost at a height....Oh, There's no escaping it... Oh, so here's to my sweet Satan. The one whose little path would make me sad, whose power is Satan. He'll give, he'll give you six saint stick. There was a little toolshed where he made us suffer, sad Satan. ... ohohoohoh ... family won't get loose, get off of me. Always soothes the worker. Always will be as we now meh. I see ruins said he, the world they offered me. Who wished the lord's fall, if we lose feather, say you'll save me...  And no wimps can bend the rules.... And no wimps can do... Hunt next to the shore cause they see all from there, See here's the news, who walks with mute grief! Perhaps no one found thee, Heavy left me out, spake the Reve, someday failed we'll lose one line-up, they've gotta leave forsaken, and no wimps can do, and no wimps can do.  He who say the lords thoth have our laws, Matt must be superb, mass is ended, over there he who should learn thee, any moot that serves by my sworn music, I wish it with snow be shushed, all for my mass's sake. here why its sung, here oppositioner, Oh, he who should show make make his show make his. There's one chance - take his show. Show worthy to look for us, odd, sickly. Here why it's sung, here, oppositioner. Who owns this earth built below? Oh sweet Israel.


grapefruit


Wow, Tom Waits is a very atypical musician. Deep grovelly voice, more of a rant or a chant than singing. Hadn't heard of him before.  "If there's one thing you can say about mankind, There's nothing kind about man..."


You can look it up now. It was a trick question.


Does anyone remember (without searching online) which song has these lyrics?: "There was a little toolshed where he made us suffer, sad Satan."