I think that 99.92983% of lawsuit threats do not go beyond yelling and threatening. Besides that he would lose. 

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 @emperor's new groove 

 I mean to say, I'm kinda watching a movie right now, and it might take a few months to finish. 🤣 

 Yes subkeys are a good idea. But NIP-26 wasn't implemented broadly and cannot work unless most relays supported it, which they didn't, meaning you cannot query for someone's delegated events.  I had it in gossip for a long time but recently removed it after determining that I could not find a single event that had used it. 

 I'll put it back into gossip if people start using it. I took it out because it created a lot of edge cases that were hard to manage. But the git commits can be resurrected.

IMHO the "delegation" tag should be changed to an unused single letter, then relays would all support it (at least for queries, not for deletes) without doing anything. 

 I set em up. You knock em down. 

 Awwww..  cute kitty cat just wants a bowl of milk.

... or blood.... I suppose anybody's stomach would do. 

 I don't know. But studies have shown that myopia develops in children who don't play outdoors very much, and does not develop in children who do spend a lot of time outdoors (people used to think it had to do with reading books).  Late-onset myopia (e.g. in your 20s/30s) tends to develop from heavy computer/screen usage where you  don't refocus your eyes and just look at the same distance object for long periods of time.  The best thing for your eyes is to  look at things off in the distance, either by going outside, or putting your computer in front of a window so you can keep looking into the distance (not sure that has been studied though). You can also get some glasses looking things that you flip which go from +2 to -2 or something to force you to exercise your cilia muscle (the one bending your lens and focusing), not to make it stronger but to stop it from spasming.

Myopia is caused by your eyeball growing longer. It is not about muscles being weak . It is not going to grow shorter. Wearing glasses could make it worse, yes, but I don't think you can make it better by eye-exercizing yourself out of the condition. Once you have it, you have it for life. Most people wear the glasses because they want to see clearly, even if it gets worse, because they can always just get a new prescription and continue to see clearly. 

 I don't know much about this, except that blue light at night supposedly might interfere with your circadian rhythms.  Red light doesn't, and I suspect it is because we evolved with fire... if looking at a fire reset our circadian rhythms that would have messed us up quite a lot.

I doubt looking at the sun at dusk/dawn improves eyesight. It certainly causes your pupil to shrink way down, which focuses things better, and so it may appear to immediately improve vision, but that isn't fixing anything permanently.  But there might be more to it, I'm just not aware of it.
 

 Yeah I think bounties are worse than work-for-hire.  It would be better for both parties IMHO if funded projects were put out as a work-for-hire contract, the contractor screened applicants and accepted just one, and paid out only if and when the work was completed to the spec that they specify up front.

With bounties you get multiple devs working, people complaining that they helped and didn't get any of the bounty, people not capable of the task elbowing out people who are, and the contractor has a lot of uncertainty around whether or not someone is working on it. 

 I can't think of a single time when I disagreed with Glenn Greenwald, or that he has been ignorant or sensational.  I can't quite say that about Tucker Carlson, although I usually share his view and I always appreciate his view. 

 Your instinct to disagree is the right instinct. The way to find truth is to try to disconfirm things, not to accept things. 

 I find Glenn more nuanced and well researched than those names.

I've been unsure about the veracity of Aaron's and Chris's views on Venezuela, for example, wherein they never dare to think socialist policy has any affect whatsoever on that nation's outcome, but that it is 100% attributed to the evil acts of the United States. So while I think they do research their work (Aaron especially IMHO) I think they let their ideology influence them too much.

I don't know Jeremy Scahill. 

 I'm panicking 

 Gossip does not manage a Tor connection, nor does it talk through a Tor SOCKS proxy (e.g. on port 9050 which is typical). Sorry. Partly I'm not supporting that because I think that is a dangerous way for anybody to be using Tor.  But also because I just didn't bother to code it.

The reason torbrowser exists, rather than pointing your normal browser at a Tor SOCKS proxy, is because those developers found all kinds of ways that the web stack can accidently go around Tor and leak.  Even though gossip doesn't use the web stack, I'd feel safer knowing I didn't break somebody's opsec accidently with some bug.  Gossip and all nostr software is highly buggy still as it is all still so new.

I strongly recommend that if you want privacy, you use whonix or qubes.  If you are on an operating system that uses Tor for everything such as Whonix or Qubes, then yes gossip will work with .onion addresses just like with any other DNS address. 

 I wonder how performance compares to the SiFive Unmatched.  I'd like to see it tested by phoronix.  The SiFive Unmatched was too slow to be usable, and RISC-V excels mostly at super low power situations rather than performance.  If they got reasonable desktop performance to the level of a raspberry pi 3+ or so, I would be happy to buy one. 

 Ah right. 

 Listen to Cameri 

 In chorus, every connection is IP blocked for 1 second after disconnection.  That is to prevent rapid reconneciton loops.  That block last longer on bad behavior. 

 Looks like some of the 'order by' statements are pre-union. You should only sort after the unions. 

 Since this is postgres, can you do an EXPLAIN on that query, or preferably any similarly slow but not-so-hairy query? 

 Also, do you have an multi-column index on (kind, pubkey) as a pair?  It may sound superfluous but it is faster than having two separate indexes (which you still need however).  Because under the hood the data is laid out in such an index like this:

  kind1,author1 -> offsets of events
  kind1,author2 -> offsets of events 
  kind1,author3 -> offsets of events
  kind2, author1 -> offsets of events
  ...

and it can jump to the matching kind and author in one fell swoop without doing a hashjoin (for example). 

 Marzipan pastries are heavenly 

 nope? 

 I'll bet his risotto tastes like shit 

 If you presuppose that the world is being run by a unified-in-purpose dark entity, things will never quite make sense.

It is better to presuppose that there are many different people, each with a different idea of how the world should be, and who work together where they can, but fight for power otherwise.  So what George Soros wants differs from what Hillary Clinton wants which differs from what Klaus Schwab wants which differs from what Jacinda Ardern wants, etc.

What happens is that certain bad ideas become popular, certain good ideas become forgotten, and there is a lot of what the courts came to call "parallel action" that isn't actually overt collusion.  For example, the neocons become focused on money laundering and over time neglect to be concerned with actual wartime strategy, and so all the wars are lost. But nobody got together in some dark shady room to decide to lose the wars.

Our human minds are very limited, and it is easier to model reality as a small group of intentional humans, rather than the insanely large group of intentional humans that actually exists. That leads us to these shortcuts, to believe a deep state or global jewry is somehow organized and intentional and has a "plan".

Freeing Assange was just a political pressure move. Assange killed or jailed vs. Assange free makes no difference to anybody in power. They only wanted to kill him because they were mad at him, and to send a strong message to others not to behave like he did.  I think that strong message has been sent well enough, so keeping him longer didn't really matter, except to foster more distrust and antagonism against government power.  So freeing him worked in their favor as the masses hopefully won't continue to harbor as much hate for the power of government. 

 Nostr is down. The CEO is playing golf. 

 Yes it was his NIP.  @Vitor Pamplona and @hodlbod and with NIP-44 @paulmillr as well as some other people providing lesser contributions.  NIP-44 was audited, but NIP-17 wasn't.

I thought it was a great idea and put initial GiftWrap support into gossip very early (9 months ago).

But NIP-17 DMs don't do everything SimpleX does.  Neither is strictly better than the other.

Still I think NIP-17 DMs are good enough. They use ephemeral keypairs so just like SimpleX it is like there are no IDs. And I don't think forward secrecy is really worth it. 

 Ok. Glad you figured it out.

Just for the record: we don't silently create keypairs without you pressing a button to generate one, so you must have created one somehow. 

 Over here Marie, don't wander off 

 Others are saying it's a sleep disorder, a lack of deep sleep preventing the normal brain cleansing mechanisms from removing the byproducts of wakefulness. 

 24, but not for lack of desire. I just haven't run across about 1/3rd of them.

Durian is delicious. I freeze mine and then eat it with a spoon like ice cream.

Half of those are really excellent and delicious foods.  Some aren't that great:  sea urchin, brains (sweetbreads), snails, tofu.

 

 People have very divergent opinions about durian.  I'm sure the DNA people will eventually find the gene the makes us like or hate it.

Now I have to find me some cherimoya. 

 Is it plugged in?  Have you turned it off and on again?  Wait... do you really have a computer problem or did you just want to talk to me again? 

 The note has the long list, and then all the images at the end.  So no client is going to show the images under each bit of text unless the note is composed that way.  I don't see any reason a note couldn't be composed that way.  In fact as an example, here is my first image:

https://scitechdaily.com/images/G299-Type-Ia-Supernova.jpg

And here is my second image:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Saturn_-_High_Resolution%2C_2004.jpg

How do they render for you? 

 On gossip the images render in place, like in Pablo's image.  For your client they render in a carousel at the bottom.

You are right that there is no NIP about how to render the notes.  But I think moving an image from the middle to the bottom isn't correct and was probably just an easy way to avoid dealing with image-text interlacing issues while the dev worked on more pressing issues. 

 I ain't got no problems with alt image descriptions. Gossip should probably render them if the image hasn't been loaded yet. I'll contact the developer. 

 Nah 

 Most people I talk to have no memory of, or were too young to remember the V-HOLD knob on their TV 

 We are praying for you America 🙏 

 🎯 

 I see two baffoons 

 You can kill a baby after it is born and lie and say "it was an abortion".  I've seen a video where a doctor was advising that the mother give birth, and then they have a conversation about what to do about the baby, and if they choose they kill it after birth.  That was what Trump was referring to. 

 If you want to know the truth, search for the video. I don't have time to educate you. 

 I can't find the video, but it was spread around right-wing circles at least a few years ago.

Nonetheless the concept is pushed for by some: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After-birth_abortion

I don't think it happens often, and I'm not taking a side on whether or not it would be a good thing in some cases. 

 Pantone may call that coller "Purple Sage" but we all know it's "Cannabis Bud" 

 I approve it.  Which is more than I can say about my recent shitpost. 

 I keep having complaints about the Gossip client. 🤔  But it is getting better.  Will do a release pretty soon.

We have a better setup wizard than we used to, but I rarely see it.  Still a lot more we can do for noobs I think. 

 I remember when it came out in 2011 or so, people were agahst and in awe of how fast it was.. like this was impossible.  And some smart developers went digging to try to find the "problem" because it must be doing something wrong to get that speed.  And what they discovered was that it was simply using several really smart techniques in ways people hadn't put together before, like copy-on-write, b+ trees, mmap returning direct pointers to the data instead of copying it, etc.

I also think it is probably at or very near the maximum theoretical performance.

Of course unlike you, I don't utilize that performance on my relay.  wss://chorus.mikedilger.com:444/ is currently only serving 15 connections. 

 flatbuffers is great, as are binary blobs that are directly accessible without deserialization (such as my pocket-db) or rust `speedy` (barely any deserialization really, but it does still copy).  It is funny how copying something actually makes a performance difference for us. That is how fast we are now. For most people a memory copy (with its concomitant malloc) is trivial and lost in the noise of their real performance bottlenecks.