oh i love these kind of absurdist, science fiction style things

the hilarity is the fact that post offices are outdated, and so are addresses

they should just be GPS coordinates

this would lead the courier to a point on teh road nearest me... ie, the entrance to my caminho about 40m up the hill. perfect.

address schemes are completely out of date. GPS for delivery locations. Hell, i'd just specify the coordinates of that point on that road up the hill, and specify to call me when they arrive and how long it takes me to climb up to it. 

 yeah, call at delivery... and if no answer drop at ponta delgada... that would be the preferable

anyhow, i figure i gotta get adapted to this new scheme... technically i haven't actually changed my region in madeira, but it's about 12m away from where i was.

i was talking to the landlady's gopher of my previous place and he also was of the opinion that if i had no intention to stay more than 2 years that there was no point in faffing about with registrations

pretty funny

national governments and local governments have no idea how to deal with european foreigners

the fact is that they actually don't care, and most of the time you can just go from one EU place to another, schengen or not, and for the most part nobody is going to bat an eyelid if you don't go get your tax shit organised

they barely even care here in portugal, except if you directly deal with local businesses... the post (CTT) doesn't care... literally only the banks and the telcos care... vodafone was fine giving out a post paid account to me last year based on some shitty piece of paper from financas, and again they ask for this shitty piece of paper even though i have the number and they are not happy with only the number... but most other businesses are fine with just the number, if they ask at all. which most don't

taxation is voluntary

if you complain about it, it's because you didn't bother to learn that it's voluntary 

 haha... 12km... it's a pretty long walk tbh.. nice walk, but long walk 

 yeah, it's wild what the left turned into

meanwhile all the left went to the center i think... according to the modern political compass

seriously, if it's not clear:

1. communistic groupthink mentality took over universities starting in the 60s

2. pandering to the justifiably angry outcasts at the margins of society who had valid complaints instead of the factual basis that these prejudicial processes were unlawful, were politically offensive

3. focus in on enabling and coercing everyone to want to have no children so the ponzi scheme would not collapse 

 it's all just clippy to me

https://cdn.satellite.earth/5e9e9f40f6f89e58dde7dc46df62d2f0cf5acfc15337f07129287a29358b2404.jpg 

 and microsoft unnecessarily created a file metadata bit flag for it instead of following a model that already existed when they bought qdos and rebranded it ms-dos... mainly because 8.3 rigid filename schema, which on unix was - i think - 32 bytes at the time (it's now 256 and i think NTFS has a 256 byte total path limit, microsoft is always dragging their knuckles) 

 also, the fact that it coincides with the code for pwd is awesome

the #golang idea of making ... mean "recursive" is genius IMO, and i generally can't say enough for the unix wisdom of sir Robert Pike 

 i think there should be two options:

1. show old version and links at the bottom of it to reveal updated versions
2. show newest version and links at the bottom of it to reveal outdated versions

let user choose which default, and when the link is clicked, they can see all versions 

 oh yes and i forgot

each version has its own reply tree. keep them separated 

 it will get the tag "comedy" i'm sure 

 lfg, better than hippies turning into skeletons trying to lower their carbon footprunt 

 it could at least be a mockumentary 

 i would love to see it happen but i'm concerned that there isn't actually an audience for it who will fund it in the end of the process 

 and the increase there is more than the hardware they made there with that energy that got shipped here will ever compensate for... if you even actually believed this carbon dioxide bullshit at all, making stuff more efficient is the only path to better, and this is also obstructed by a law of economics that says increased efficiency leads to net increase of consumption

the simple fact is, the only way to reduce carbon dioxide emission is to kill people 

 btw the law i refer to is Jevon's Paradox - that as efficiency (mainly cost) increases, the net consumption also increases 

 for anyone else who is in a situation where there is wifi they can't stop, and a microwave is available, they make perfect faraday cages to block the router from sending out the SSID even as close as 4 meters
nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzqnyqqft6tz9g9pyaqjvp0s4a4tvcfvj6gkke7mddvmj86w68uwe0qyghwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnvv9hxgtcpzamhxue69uhk6mr9dd6jumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6tcqyrl59qstkezq3dwd28c2k73uua4hveul3nkxzpf58xskghudcl93c4daew6 

 best solution makes use of the microwave oven i don't want to use - put it inside it, unplugged of course. the interior of the microwave is designed to contain this kind of radiation, though probably not 5ghz so well 

 and, i can even close it almost fully closed without kinking the wires up too much and no more visibility of it... here's proof

https://cdn.satellite.earth/cd512722d3b285e1e360a9d3b0499e5e399428905e2ac9d3c2370e6489e469a8.png

you can also see that it is normally only connected via ethernet (the <--> symbol next to the battery charge indicator), and it has NFC enabled but that's it 

also i wanted to show this because if you use amethyst you can see my status message and one of my neighbours has this as their SSID on their wifi, probably the neighbour up the hill with the two cats 

 yeah, it's just fucking rude and shitty

and they aren't the only ISP locking this on with this device, most of the info i found about people trying to disable it and sometimes effective were on an ISP called Optimum, and MEO portugal is the one doing it here

so glad i was able to find a workaround though... probably can rig something more reasonable as a faraday cage that still lets the thing breathe (the microwave will allow the heat to dissipate also) but EVEN WITH THE ANTENNAS UNPLUGGED it was able to see and connect to it... mind blowing... the signal is so strongly sent through the wires that it transmits even without a proper configuration of antenna 

 yeah, i will investigate whether i can get my own non-wireless, ethernet only optical router

putting it inside the microwave and closing the door is effective... the wires are not being squashed that badly because of the way microwave doors at the bottom meet at a right angle of the base so there's no overlap or other ding pushing at them, it's working, no hotspot detected, that will do for now, not gonna use either the wifi or the microwave (for similar reasons)

the only thing to worry about is i need to put those antennas back on right, i didn't photograph them before unplugging them... i suppose their range will be simply not so good, as it's a 4 antenna MIMO array 

 but yes, if i had some alligator clips and wires attached to an earth pin on the power system it would kill the radios... i don't see how it could lead to current going into it unless my place got struck by lightning or something, current goes where the strongest positive potential exists, which is earth... it's also a hassle, the case comes apart with clips easy enough, but to put earth through to silence all those antennas would mean leaving the case open

this way now is safer, just put em inside a faraday cage, gone 

 i'm definitely not going on any big walks until monady anyway... my knee just went "whinge" just now

got all my stuff sorted now... 5kg of beef patties in the freezer, 3kg of dripping in the fridge, and the shop up the road actually has decent looking steaks so i can eat steaks too

it is a bit of a climb but i'll be fine lol 

 haha, i'm unfollowing people who follow them so yeah
 

 none of them have a functioning set of consistent axioms in their thinking... this is precisely what brainwashing is about - breaking people's ability to think... turning their own minds into a prison they can't think their way out of 

 omg

villain origin story... were they ever not villains? 

 way too many anecdotal to be even remotely considered to be anything but a government protected conspiracy against the people 

 are you homophobic? 

 i present:

close your fucking legs you slut 

 i see, and these rapists, are they in the room with us now?

i hope they destroy social security because it's a ponzi scheme and there is only crumbs left for gen x and millenials as it is

and if having children, as a woman, seems like something you don't want to do

get a hysterectomy

and move to a place where there isn't swarms of immigrants from countries where rape is common 

 it's not just an opinion it's an accusation

firstly that men who have sex with the speaker are rapists, because they don't seem to mention anything about sex WITH consent

and social security is a ponzi scheme, and is already running out of money, and if it's for a woman who is single with children... are you so sure she didn't get pregnant by a "rapist" to have a child so she could get money to not spend on actually raising this child, and put them into the sausage factory called The Department of Education to be miseducated and barely able to do math by the time they finish? 

 also, if you never noticed, they want you all to cut your tits off and live in a pod in a 15 minute city

the birth rates of western countries is sending the population demographic off the cliff with all those cranky old people dominating the population, why else do you think they made a virus that is most lethal to old people and then do everything to make sure nobody acquired immunity and give them jabs that make them even less immune? yeah... to fix that demographic problem 

 ...school...school...school...college...education... who would have guessed there was a connection 

 nostr reminds me of The Hive (the drug forum) in its openness and gfy vibes 

 oh, there is the steam controller radio too but that only activates when i turn on the thing... so i only get my balls nuked while i'm gaming haha, apropos lol 

 hm idk if the earthing makes as much difference out here in the sticks, especially when i turn off all the radios and such... no nasty chemical factories nearby, just the occasional dust storm from the sahara blowing over, but i've got a heap of metabolic problems from sugar metabolism due to celiac and t2 diabetes or at least some kidney damage from artificial sweeteners... but it's probably helping me stay neutral so i'd guess it's helping but not maybe as much as when i actually get my diet right

and yeah, IR is the best... fun fact, these lamps were the first commercial form of electric lighting, they are a dim orange light, and emit a lot of heat... they seem to last pretty good too, carbon is one of the highest melting materials, even more resistant to heat than tungsten... i think of these vacuum tubes with carbon as being like the golden edges of burning charcoal without the burning part, just the warm 

 i'm a big fan of ctrl-enter to send as a shortcut to activate the send button also (this works with coracle and nostrudel also) 

 are those duck eggs? the yolk is super reddish 

 gary johnson is cringe 

 i get that sometimes too but, and not to alarm you, i also had a developing problem with my kidneys and spleen... energy drinks and seed oil fried potato chips were probably the main contributors, and backing up the rear was beer

i haven't had this as much recently since i stated taking extra potassium, magnesium, cutting out/down on the energy drinks, drinking more water

the thing that was most memorable for me was having a thought and then literally in the moment between having teh thought and going to do something on my pc, i'd be struggling to recall what i just thought, forgetting many things that i used to be good at remembering

i'm pretty sure that the number one issue with all of this is chronic high blood sugar, and dehydration, there are many contributors to this, some i have listed, others you may never have heard of

like, not consuming enough potassium containing foods... this means, not meat, but stuff like bananas and potatoes

magnesium is an especially hard one, and doubly if your digestive system is in a bad way and like me, i have celiac, so if i put seed proteins into my gut, everything goes faster, and the result is not enough magnesium, as it's the slowest to absorb

i also was reminded about vitamin A too, this is an important one, and the absolute best sources are liver, and carrots, in that order... the best liver is goat liver, as i recently discovered, really mild flavor for liver

but above all of it, i just will say i'm pretty sure it's from excessive blood sugar, which causes the formation of amylose starches in your blood, and these little fragments of waxy glucose plastic interfere with the movement of neurotransmitters and the flow of electrons through other tissue like muscles, and in general probably interferes with the normal function of stuff that goes on between your neurons, the astrocytes especially, they are little starfish that run around joining synapses together 

 no, i don't think there is hail very often here... probably because of the salty air 

 wait' isn't the line in that song "tin roof... busted..." no i don't want a broken tin roof lol 

 no, i think it was "rusted" ok, they do that tho 

 sir, this is a wendy's 

 yeah, pretty much all my life

and i wake up, and sometimes i'm like, "meh i dun wannan" and then after about half an hour i get sick of not falling back to sleep so i bounce out of bed and get moving 

 700/month for this place but this is really out of the way it's a "palheiro" or cottage

it's keeping my costs where they were, and i suspect i would have seen 50 euro more at least if i'd renewed, and it's so quiet, i can't begin to explain how beautifully quiet it is here

there is places out on the west on the actual southeast/eastern edge also around at the moment but nothing as out of the way as this one, when i saw it i was like, i bet this is amazing... and i very nearly stumbled on it withonly trying to locate it by hints in the photos, and i probably literally took a wrong left turn 25m down the path and missed it, but i got a good sense of the area out of that and then a few days later i got the call and teh guy was really cool too and this place... well, put it this way

i could smell the remnants of hippy drippy lentil soups in this kitchen, so, it's that kinda vibe... cheap, mostly natural, and out in the bush

i suppose there is probably more places like this, the dude who rented it to me was like, he gets loads of calls to rent this and similar places to people but he only wants short terms so i also got 6 months which fit in with my plans very nicely 

 There is a lot of other things like this. Depression, for example, is a kind of psychosis where the future is only dark. This is also a false form of wisdom. 

 i'm kinda chuffed that i figured that one out before i read that plato already figured it out though... first principles are so important 

 Yeah, sometimes really bad. Usually from bad alcohol combined with energy drinks and dehydration.

I recently started to get double vision also. It's a bit similar but I think from peripheral neuropathy, caused by kidney damage fro artificial sweeteners and T2 diabetes.

For sure dehydration is a key part of visual migraines tho 

 Lots of water, cut out diuretics, supplement magnesium and potassium, and zinc and copper (important to keep those in balance) 

 Er, I meant focus on verbs. Bulgarian has a elaborate, extended set of verb tenses, a notable one being reported speech. 

And in modern colloquial speech they use the word vika/vikam (they/he said, I said) which is actually present tense like I say, he say, like the ,"I say I say I say" expression.

The word actually means to call out also, kaza or kazvam means to say. 

 Haha, that is the opposite mutation though. Noun turned to verb. 

 I also have ancestors from there among others. The cult of Saturn has only eclipsed the world in recent decades.

Just like an eclipse it will end and the light will creep back, though it will feel like all at once as a dawn. 

 it's incredible to me, and the response i got from these guys over my educated skepticism was borderline malicious trolling

they just don't get it that they are trying to get people to migrate from the best protocol in existence instead of extending it

microsoft proved the efficacy of this method of overwhelming an open protocol to take control of it, they called it "embrace, extend and extinguish"

when you have a dogged userbase for something and you want to eliminate this competition, you don't make a new thing that does much the same and hope that people will jump across

you use the thing people want to use, you make it better, and then you make it hard for the existing dev community to maintain their userbase thereafter.

that's why i just don't get how they don't seem to understand that their best option, as a small dev shop, to do something for actual user privacy and improving nostr's penetration into social media, would be to extend the protocol, even still

relays are the general method of transmitting, it's basically a web of POP servers, from an architecture perspective... adding some amount of fast converging consistency to the data that needs to be made consistent would be a good thing

i have this disagreement with shitcoin smart contract projects as well, they simply don't get it that you do eventual consistency on such highly heteregenous network topologies as social networks... data only needs to get to where it's asked for, it doesn't have to go everywhere and it doesn't have to be there all at once, best effort is ok

there's so much potential for making this happen in a big way but no, we have to make our own mostly replica of nostr protocol architecture and add our bit and then "promote" it by going to nostr and expecting a warm reception from the obviously skeptical, and technically advanced userbase of nostr 

 transformers would be a more well known example i think of gen-x preteen cartoons... and maybe He-Man and the spinoff She-Ra... and Cabbage Patch Kids and Rainbow Brite and Strawberry Shortcake... and we had the first cartoon version of the Lord of the Rings... oh yes, Labyrinth, The Dark Crystal, Star Wars