yay, count function done and dusted... next! 

 must have been a bug in there somewhere 

 reminds me of the ones with the flies and the birds disrupting speeches also

God Has Spoken Their Doom 

 yeah it has the vibe of a prison entry hall... the one in Sofia has a similar vaulted ceiling in the center 

 is it the one in southwest Amsterdam? i forget the name of it... i stayed there when they used it as the winteropvang... 

yeah that's the thing too... prison populations in most of the west are mostly pot smokers, and a lot of them get worse because of that... in the netherlands they de facto don't put people in prison for that, and that meant a lot of prisons were unnecessary 

 this is what an OMAD meal looks like

it's a bit weird to put that much in one go but you seriously barely want for anything for the rest of the day

works best if it's really nicely fatty beef like Angus or Wagyu properly finished 18-24 months, the fat contains some 30% stearic acid which is a key precursor to a hormone that tells you you are not hungry 

 yeah, i think that i probably want to try OMAD again in the future... just gotta get a good source of beef lol

nothing makes you feel satisfied or gives you the energy to go all day long like around 100-120g of animal fat 

 that's not a given considering those shitcoins don't have instant payments 

 IMO just block messages at the relay level (paid relay with auth) unless the user follows them... IMO, out of the blue DMs are never honest, it's always fine if you have already followed them

possibly web of trust could open that a little wider by possibly allowing follows of your follows to message you as well

i'm thinking about how to do this, for now it's not implemented

IMO it's better to control this traffic at the relay level than the client level

i also intend to make it so automatically queries have muted npubs removed from results since client devs seem to be loath to allow users to completely hide muted events 

 haha, there's no way the numbers at each point are correct, you can see in the very last frame on the bottom left what looks to me like Madeira and i seriously doubt i'm the only one running a node on this island haha

i would guess there's more like 20 bitcoin nodes on this island at least 

 I had a cat die from paralysis tick... Horrible creatures... You have to be in dry and high places to avoid most of these pesty bugs. 

 most of it is desert. only the right edge and a little of the right bottom are green and the bottom left tip are green, and some of that bit on the top left

the land has been above the water for longer than most of the rest of the world... the only volcanic parts are what i just described, or if they aren't volcanic, they have a lot of humidity blowing in from the sea

i think that there is good reason to suspect that not just australia but also antarctica were face forward at the time a massive X/gamma/cosmic/etc blast from a nearby supernova went off, and the whole place was sterilised and just turned into dust and eventually blew away

idk where the idea came from exactly but something like 40k years ago this likely happened

the main point is that there is very little carbon on the land, at all... 

and maybe after it got sterilised maybe it moved way south so it was out of the way of the big flows of water which might have helped plants colonise the land, but that never happened in the last 10k years or so 

 yeah, blockstream was the first

i can't even

people really don't seem to understand the difference between money and a security

oh well, in 4 years time they might start to have more idea
 

 or everything 

 luddites are commies

this shit is just doomers making bullshit stories about how the world is worse because the perfect golden age is past and everything is falling apart

what's hilarious about these numbskulls is they are basically nihilists. let's say 'nihilist lite'

this is what all people that think that everything is going downhill and nothing is going up 

 i was wondering at first because of the small size of the gif if that was actually hillary 

 pet snowball 

 and then pet apocalypse 

 i'm getting one android to just do my banking and occasionally do navigation with all radio off in both cases

my "degoogled" phone i already have it, it has a screen with like 2 rows of 12 characters, old school LED array, i forget what they are called, too long ago i first had one (before AMOLED). it's about the size of your thumb and can only do voice and sms

i just have been trying to figure out how to arrange it... the main problem actually has been the way these batteries are built in and when you leave them plugged in all the time, they literally inflate with hydrogen and are at risk of catching fire

so i'm rooting the bank terminal device, and installing a battery charge regulation app that keeps it from ever going over 80% and that should prevent the thing swelling... and the dumb bank gets their small task of maintaining their one terminal system, so i am relegating it to not being my phone at all, just a dumb brick in the corner sitting on top of my computer case 

 just hoping the bank app won't complain the system is rooted, i had some other stuff complain about that

may have to get a dongle that offloads that from the device by reading the device charge level and actually, you know, doing what i want it to,ie, not blowing up with hydrogen lol 

 also, yeah, i'm gonna go through my gmail, what few things i have tied to it, and move them all to proton, and yeah, i'll be off google completely then, except for the unavoidable stuff i can't remove from the bank terminal brick

will be nice, just thinking about it, how much i would like to not feed google anything

gonna have to wean myself off translate (use about every other day) and maps (about once a week)

only google related thing i will use is Go which is fine because it's actually good enough they aren't running a persuasion bullshit campaign to get hipsters to fawn over it like Rust and Mozilla 

 Caveman here reporting for duty.

I will likely have to keep play services on it after installing the xapo app but I will have root so I should be able to remove everything else. And yeah just osmand, for the rare navigation requirement...

I can't see myself ditching it completely from desktop but I can stop using mail and calendar, maps on desktop I use maybe 2x a month, translate maybe 5

Yeah, but anyway fuck google. 

 most likely because that's over 64kb... strfry... i'm lovin it

khatru and relayer crap out over 500kb 

 they also sing very pretty songs 

 especially the ones with the red/orange chest 

 aaaavvoooo caaaadddooo 

 yeah, i think the "definitely bad" list is valid but the "eat only this" list is stupid

i can say that seed oils and artificial sweeteners definitely seem to cause magnesium, boron and potassium deficiency though

and this peripheral neuropathy... i think Jack Kruse is pretty much on point about all this stuff and he's not rabid carnivore or keto, his recommendations are mostly paleo and related to whatever the modern poisons have upset 

 yeah, here in europe maybe 75% of packaged/bottled drinks are contaminated... a very small number of them use stevia which is mostly ok but i think it's also a problem similar to liqorice 

 devs are kooky, no deletes they say, it will be fun they say 

 it is large because it's rather clever, but maybe too clever 

 probably not much because it basically offloads a heap of work from the app itself, one is the signer, one is the relay, one is notifications... they all sit there doing nothing until teh user pokes at them

oh yeah, pokey might be a bit of a power drain, the other to no 

 i am not working on my relay any more tonight, that's it... that tears it

so i'll try putting my relay back on but i expect it to blow up memory usage again... maybe this time i will catch it at the right time to get an idea where in my code i have erred 

 no, amethyst crash realy

it's ok, it is my bug, so i will fix it, i'm glad to have another thing breaking my shit because probably otherwise it doesn't get tested

most likely it's just doing something reasonable that i didn't think of in my algorithm 

 Ristretto Nakamoto 

 not sure if you considered this but running COUNT queries over windows of time that are short enough should let you estimate good limit boundaries in those time periods

it reminds me that i currently still just run a query which decodes the events in response COUNT... when in fact, the search first makes a set of indexes and then searches for them and returns the list of derived keys for the actual events. this number would be the answer.

you could even do bisection searches so at first you only query half each side of your window and then break it down from there to find the smallest window size that works and then you can paginate based on that (ie, it will never exceed a limit once you have that, unless somehow a lot of backdated events get injected)

pagination is always a two step even with more "sophisticated" database query systems anyway 

 one filter per sub... do you really need more than 80? khatru and relayer don't even have a limit for this (probably because Go can handle that shit anyway, supposedly) 

 yeah, amethyst is special

it's my new way to discover more bugs in my code

https://cdn.satellite.earth/7da12f5e84f9d7b7b33eb124fe460f3ca3290794b4d9514fdbe925922f5b54d8.png 

 nah, it's enough to just add to my relay list and open it up and then when everything explodes, hit the task manager and kill 

 diet cherry of course, to maintain his demon brain, since apparently all the presidents and whatnot seem to thrive on this shit 

 meh, client devs are the most prominent and least qualified

relay devs are like, can we count them on more than one hand at this point?

the influencoor/follower mindset has poisoned the dev process by putting too much energy where it has least effect for the business, i think you can say 

 yeah, maybe i'll get some funding to focus my work on this, with a long term of funding... it's a hard problem and you don't know whis until you actually try to build a relay and then watch your logs as the clients sodomize it 

 have fun when the filesystem itself needs to be accessed outside of the boot environment because 

for some reason, these BSD (and thus solaris) unixes aren't up to speed on making disk mounting and fixing easy, you know, mount... umount... fsck...

these tools won't help you with zfs and ufs

its probably the biggest reason why nobody uses BSD or solaris anymore

it's not intuitive at all 

 zfs is an abomination from Sun Microsystems Solaris OS which is based on BSD

BSD also has a shitty, similar thing that ZFS is an quote "improvement" on

you can't use mount, umount, or fsck... it's all some bullshit zsomething this zsomeotherthing that 

 no, what you need to do is stop the daemon, duplicate the state of it, and restart it, and if it fucks up you just zap the old version, copy back the new version, and wait an hour or two and it's back 

 i use badgerdb to store the actual events as values in keys in my database, but they are rarely over 500k... bitcoin blocks are 2-4mb typically, honestly, they should not be stored in the DB, the differential is the age old stacking problem of slivers and chunks that used to be a big problem with networks until about 10 years ago

if i was going to write a database driver for btcd i'd use badger for the indexes, and store the blocks in a flat filesystem named by the block hash... they are too big

or, it might work with badger, because badger actually stacks the values in one file and the keys in another...

anyway, my point here is that the entire filesystem of bitcoin's leveldb mutates so much you can't really snapshot it properly, they randomly change half the dataset for whatever reason and when you use `cp` with `-rfvpu` which retains the perms and only copies files that have been changed... it still copies all of the files because all of them have been changed so, yeah

it's dumb because bitcoin values are mostly just the blocks, and the indexes are mostly just keys, so having them separated would actually make backup time-effective instead of a collossal pain in the ass 

 i use badgerdb to store the actual events as values in keys in my database, but they are rarely over 500k... bitcoin blocks are 2-4mb typically, honestly, they should not be stored in the DB, the differential is the age old stacking problem of slivers and chunks that used to be a big problem with networks until about 10 years ago

if i was going to write a database driver for btcd i'd use badger for the indexes, and store the blocks in a flat filesystem named by the block hash... they are too big

or, it might work with badger, because badger actually stacks the values in one file and the keys in another...

anyway, my point here is that the entire filesystem of bitcoin's leveldb mutates so much you can't really snapshot it properly, they randomly change half the dataset for whatever reason and when you use `cp` with `-rfvpu` which retains the perms and only copies files that have been changed... it still copies all of the files because all of them have been changed so, yeah

it's dumb because bitcoin values are mostly just the blocks, and the indexes are mostly just keys, so having them separated would actually make backup time-effective instead of a collossal pain in the ass 

 lol, the events are stored in values, the indexes in keys

and yes, this would instantly solve the problem of bitcoin

if i had any time spare i'd make a PR to create a btcd database driver with badger because it would probably fix most of its slow IBD 

 yes, i forked all the things... and i got sick of khatru so i forked relayer, realyer was much easier to deal with, i've made more progress in 3 months than i made in 6 on khatru 

 you just need to figure out the relay configuration

it's too obfuscated for me... gossip is written in Rust so i'm not touching it, and i don't understand how other people figure out how to get it working, it seriously is a several hour episode the one time i got it sorta working, i personally feel that people who use languages like C++ and Rust have their models of reality warped in a way that is difficult for primitive natural minds to decode the output from 

 oh yeah, you could also use wireguard and host it on a VPS only accessible over wireguard 

 well, even you could run it on your own home server, if it has a wireguard tunnel to a VPS and you would then be able to access it away from home too 

 i seriously doubt mike's client can cope with two instances writing to the app DB... that stuff will just be in the browser cache if you run a custom instance of coracle or nostrudel 

 have fun causing race conditions

welcome to the real world of concurrenc networks 

 yeah, this is also one of the big hassles with web apps is the web browser doesn't easily let you connect the app to a local cache relay... you could then also connect that cache to wireguard and use the same cache on your other devices as well

to do shared state like this you have to build a separate configuration/cache service 

 Yeah I have seen this in next also, puts the wrong display name and avatar on posts sometimes 

 yeah it first appeared in yesterday's update i think 

 you might like Suspicious Observers... there is growing amounts of science papers about the influence and correlations between solar activity and weather, and he is constantly bumping new found papers talking about new data relating to this... i'm a bit addicted to the excitement of "wen next big CME and aurora" these days because they are clearly going to be fairly frequent for the next year or two, we have already had three major low latitude auroras 

 So as long as your batteries are sufficient voltage I guess? 

 probably just need a voltage triggered off switch that just turns all that side of the circuit off once it drops below the voltage the devices need 

 scammers must be afraid of me, i get like maybe one a month 

 i think it was the catholic orthodoxy who invented the "word of god" meme and it was always before that understood that humans wrote it, from their own experiences or what they heard from someone

this meme of authority totally poisons the whole thing, it makes nonbelievers justifiably incredulous