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 i just had the owner of this place wander past, whistling as he went, and i saw he went around the side of the house and thought "hmm maybe owner?" and he said hello and asked if there was anything needing fixing

probably the main niggle is the hot water system, when the pressure is allowed to flow through the thing the overflow release valve drips constantly, so i turn it off

hopefully it will be fixed soon and i won't have to run around to the bathroom every time i want to fill the kitchen sink with hot water to do a wash.

in this i also learned that - i think - the portuguese word for "later" is the same as in russian, "porje" (POR-zhe)... the amount of archaic latin in the slavic languages was a surprise to me when i started to learn portuguese... they are actually more latin than the central/southern western european languages 
 food bill is a bit of a chunk of the inelastic spend, but really the biggest one is rent... best to go as far away as you can from the center of a town to find cheaper stuff, and maybe even put up with a slightly less secure neighbourhood, since you aren't gonna fill the house with desirable, marketable items for burglars

i always found it completely unacceptable that in Australia typical rent cost was 1/4-1/2 of your baseline income, and i struggled to get work in australia because of the combination of the welfare system and the excessive costs of accommodation and having rebelled against an increasingly tyrannical education system at the time i was finishing to get my university entry score (i got OP 15, enough to get into general sciences but not CS, which required a minimum 9) - and that all happened due mainly to one pivotal event where an english teacher specifically started to target me with the use of an early form of social credit score system they introduced just as i got to year 11

at first it made me drop out altogether because i excelled at sciences and arts but i almost always was late handing in my english assignments because they were so brain meltingly retarded, both the content we were supposed to absorb to do it, and the subject matter in the case of creative or other types of writing

note that i was also able to touch type by this time... i could churn out text faster than anyone else in my class but i just had no mind to concoct the kind of trite garbage that i was expected to write 
 https://i.imgflip.com/99v2u3.jpg

probably will be a thing for a while 
 #gm it is time to post notes and write codes 
 i work when i get the bug to work

typically i'm working for 4-8 hours a day, average maybe 5, if you tote that up, it's ~35 hours

i only really get into the zone when working for longer than about 2 hours at a time maybe two or three times a month... my work times typically are an hour here, 2 hours there, another hour here, maybe another hour and a half there 
 Oh man. I gotta find a good 80s GIF. We're short on time. 
 them shoulderpads tho 
 Remember to call someone stupid before discussing different views 
This simple trick will help av... 
 i have impulse inhibition deficiency... when i hear bullshit i call bullshit 
 i can definitely confirm that telling someone their idea is stupid tends to get confused with you saying "you are stupid"... unfortunately they tend to not listen to another side when their idea is stupid anyway, but your statement was sarcastic 
 took my phone out on my walk to the shop this morning... so i decided to take a photo of the view above/behind my place

https://cdn.satellite.earth/77f4dc5b28fa97da7626d391bc0840344d19b80ac75f8015b50fcdf5bbdd5776.jpg

and the most important item i acquired on my shopping visit, cost me 90 euro-pesos

https://cdn.satellite.earth/64f89d0403c8e0b99d80e72a72a812feccb17c814ac80f439c90e2020cb5261d.jpg

it needs to thaw out and i think i'll need to cut it up into 3 or so and put two in the freezer again (that's ok isn't it? idk, i don't have a saw to cut this thing up when frozen and i'm thawing it in a refrigerator) and then i'll be cutting it up into cube-shaped chunks to stick on a skewer and roast over glowing coals in my bbq

so looking forward to that, i haven't played with fire in a long time 
 Boa Ventura, on the north-eastern coast of #madeira... the mountain on the right is called Arco do Sao Jorge 
 Arco de Sao Jorge 
 the supermarket nearby, which has a card terminal, meaning i don't have to run around chasing ATMs and holding much cash day to day, is also quite a climb up the hill

after 2 days of too much walking already, i'm really going to find it easier to not go there if i don't have to

this will mean i go in the morning and get things that are actually important, and then, in the afternoon, i'm not going up there

after thinking "oh, i'll get two bottles of wine this afternoon" yesterday, and seeing them both empty this morning and my head resounding with urgh, i am going to make ways to convince myself that i don't want this item

it's heavy... the bin is half way up to the shop as well

been thinking about how much i will not want to buy stuff that has a lot of weight later on... going to stop buying bottled water as well... i think this local water is actually probably not as nasty as it is on the mainland where they have bigger water facilities... and it's actually water from springs, basically spring water

to be honest, by the taste of it, i barely even know it's out of a tap

nah, i can tell it's out of a tap but it's certainly not heavily chlorinated

it's so beautiful out here

i don't want to cover it up with bullshit 
 and sometimes, the seething freedom 
 i kinda expected this

when i have peace all around me

i don't want to play any music on my pc

i just think to myself, "what is going on outside my windows"?

later it will be mostly roosters, but maybe this morning i will hear the canaries and blackbirds and whatever they are called, the tick tick birds, aka "washer women" birds... and maybe i will even hear a pair of tomcats facing off

it is so quiet tonight, i feel rude filling it with my keyboard noises even 
 you just don't understand what beauty there is in the absence of bullshit 
 I was today old when I found out I have a distant cousin named "Kat Knapp" 😂 
 it is the prophecy

the convergence of the real people 
 i have an odd urge to drink coffee but it is way past midnight 
 i suspect that her foot is not made of lead tho 
 honestly, idgaf about zaps, zaps are great and all, but when i get a 🫂 react from people

my satisfaction. 
 as i see it, zaps are just a harbinger of actual business

web of trust, and reactions are much more important to social relevance and receiving a sense of being valued

i find it funny, because i remember you and stella as two of the most important blatherers that i wanted to read the blatherations of

and it won't stop being that way, i love you two

real measures of "karma" don't have a monetary feature to them, they are literally about engagement and things that even a modern AI would hard pressed be able to recognise 
 nah, i still hate it but people mean it kindly 
 just been playing metro: last light again

the part where you team up with the commie bitch

and it helped me remember something

evil people have a limited range of perception

and the best defense is being aware of who can see you

yes, i know anyone who goes on nostr can see me

and yes, that's why i disagree with the ... as it is said in the computer science... "consistency" of the network data

we don't need that

we need users running their own relays

this bypasses most of that vulnerability

people send their messages to who wants to read them

it's not just security but efficiency. 
 dirge for planet is the most famous (if you even know about Stalker) song that came out of ukraine related to that game

but this is a really nice one

https://youtu.be/b3Hqqh3CwXU?list=PLoZ6mGGV_seQOOyL3fmoKh2JEDtEf0Gca which they made for the third game Call of Pripyat

also i could go into the entire metro 2033 thing and how this all relates to it

but i'm just gonna reboot and play metro 2033 instead of posting any more of this shit 
 https://youtu.be/fz3B1J3eU7Q

i am a tree hugging hippy loon at heart and for me this video sums up my wild spirit so wel

#musicstr #russki #russian 
 this song from the ukrainian game Stalker, it features in the intro of the first game Shadow of Chernobyl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDCNlqMgnvo&pp=ygUQZGlyZ2UgZm9yIHBsYW5ldA%3D%3D

is also very hippy, and enviro bullshit

but the background of all this is people being brainwashed

and that's my enemy 
 https://youtu.be/nspxAG12Cpc

i am just a worthless liar

i am just an imbecile

i will only complicate you

trust in me and fall as well

i will find a center in you

i will chew it up and leave 
 Enough Canadians for now 👀
nostr:nevent1qqs0ccd83uj9026vv4m9k7a9qpj90mhguhnvyzk88m97qhnfu892gs... 
 i follow russians already... and czech, croatians, serbs and bulgarians... and argentinians and brazilians

and my list is less than 100 
 it was written in the stars that in the next 8 months things would turn completely

trump is part of it but milei beat him to it

the people have a new thing

and we as a species have a much bigger mutual threat coming

most of us are gonna die

and those who survive are going to hole up in caves in very high mountains. 
 i love having an oled display

it is so perfect for a dark environment

typical all white displays are very high energy consumption, old school amber/green mono monitors were relatively cheaper per human readable data density...

the reflective paper style display is still not cheaper energy at the same rate

my screen updates at 240x per second, and it's best with the darkness as the background

this is the life

darkness is the background

get used to it

distilling the good out of it is the purpose of life 
 also, sorry #notsorry

both #catholic and #orthodox churches have perpetuated lies that have led to a rational rebellion against their ideas, even spitting in the face of Jesus because of this

in my opinion, for the most part, christians are on the path, the Way

but many others have found it as well, and christian texts only cover europe

africans, south americans, north americans, east and west asians... they all have comparable models and i'm not going to declare what is the truth, just that while Jesus is a central figure in the history, he was but one of several whose messages aligned perfectly 
 i'm almost completely convinced now, but for doing really deep research, that actually, Jesus was not born 2000 years ago but 2400 and he was contemporary to several other notables

Chuang Tzu

Guatama Siddhartha

there is others, but 2500 years ago was the time when it happened, when the angels returned and gave their lessons and several of their students rose up to change history 
 hocico continues

https://youtu.be/uA5PTYfuQmk?list=OLAK5uy_nW1I2M4ogydZcOmhEPVSgvRjYPyqviusc

dammit nostrudel has got no mention working anymore unless i find the npub and nostr: it 

i wanted to mention moizen

i love this band... there isn't many aggrotech bands out there in the world anymore but mexico seems to be the home of one of the most important, and enduring

x-fusion and suicide commando seem to be the only others that continue on

some might think that these artists are corrupted and evil and stuff but i disagree, i think they are just exposing the nature of the demon 
 Do you feel like something is fishy when big money predicts bitcoin is going to the moon? It's be... 
 it happened the same three times 4 years in a row

they aren't predicting anything that hasn't already been widely propagated 
 if they pull more of the balance sheets into bitcoin it will slow the collapse i guess?

isn't this really what we were trying to achieve anyway? to move the concept of cash balances to an actual hard currency?

this is a win

ok maybe they throw things under the bus but ultimately they are all guilty and they will burn because they are thieves 
 been grooving to this tonight

https://youtu.be/1e76KZaYX-E?list=OLAK5uy_k3v4Kb1-lF_Gv12e6EDGFIFBttgwV2OBE

it's a friday night after all

i feel slack for not bombing it... but i spent half of today walking along the coast road and chasing after some real solutions to reducing my blue light with 620nm actual red LEDs to light up my space at night

not that i normally will be up this late, but i want to have something there to light it up

i got this QD-OLED display specifically to cut back on my blue exposure and some good bright red old school original LEDs will also help me see without exposing me to blue

i think this artist is italian but maybe they are portuguese 

ah, of course, greek mythology

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabeiri

but this is them

https://soundcloud.com/cabeiri

-CABEIRI music project is consisted by two brothers
Dimitris and Nickolas from Athens/Greece
and they are best known for their live sets that range
from deep spacey Ambient to down-tempo Trance.

siva six is another favourite of mine from greece, these guys are definitely up there with siva six

and on that note, here is some siva six

https://youtu.be/WNZa_bZwDDw

appropriately titled in a greek word apocalypsis 
 anybody going to be in DC during the trump inauguration?  im considering going to check it out. 
 i think a lot of them are, but it's not just about the money, it's about the authenticity 
 In a society priding itself on "openness" anyone who keeps a secret is guilty of an offense 👀 
 everything i say is junk. win! 
 i doubt i have typed 100mb yet 
 but maybe i will someday, only God will know 
 based on my my peak daily output around 5000 words... that's a phd thesis every 20 days when i'm really roarin 
 yeah, it would be pretty funny to train an AI on your own notes and then make a new nsec and publish them on it 
 they already have too much to deal with but it's not hard to crank that up even higher... protonmail only costs like 10$/month so you can make much out of that ... assume they store everything, you can dump 10gb or more a month of that shit and then delete it in all the accounts and who the fuck cares

idk... just doesn't seem like it's gonna really make as much difference as just getting the fuck out of the way and letting God rain hell on them 
 i think it would be higher value distraction if it actually had grammar tho 
 yeah... i realised about 18 months ago that you can compress a lot of data into small numbers that represent bigger numbers

just based on the harmonics... i kinda went a bit mad on that, i can't even articulate right now what my thing was but i am sure it was wrong.lol! 
 this is why i stay on the margins, in places with weak governments or where the popular will prevails

what they show in the media is not popular, it's what they want to think is popular

what is popular is not being fucked by the Man

nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzpk9xancv89h24rme53yhl6dh0hyhwce528eu5hrrfcsgvkg3vermqqsf6rzc3rnmyy9p9gqyj0ljvqjnqhs7cv9yw2tws4dmlp53asdf7wg3m00ac 
 these betas make me sick, i don't ever want to face one in person or i will be tempted to give them a glasgow handshake as soon as they start smarmy shit at me 
 oh crap, i thought it was kiss but ok

glasgow kiss

i'm good at glasgow kissing

you don't want to tie my hands behind my back or get behind me and try to take control of my arms, i can do it both ways 
 as a fellow person of knowledge of distributed systems, i approve this message

bitcoin managed to grow slow enough that i can afford it easily today

but nobody else in the industry even considers the idea of the Mountain Man Self Hosting as being feasible

EXCEPT THE MOST VALUABLE "cryptocurrency" which is actually affordable... you can get 1tb SSDs for about $90 these days, how's them apples? 
 i tried to use X again about 6 months ago and was immediately banned

i concluded that i was lifebanned... and probably you are too considering how much you are enabling other lifebanned to talk to each other 
 Life hack. Hangers stretch the collars on your T-shirts? Get bigger shoulders. Problem solved XD 
 for most people that literally means only another max 3 inches each side and then badluck
 
 Feels like peak clown world is behind us.

nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxu... 
 there is a celestial alignment 25 june next year that matches the description in a 2500 year old hindu text called the "Vishnu Purana" that is said in that text to be the end of the dark age. 
 tbh this looks like we got a 🎯 on our backs to be the thing every scammer is pretending to be 
 Who the fuck hikes in boots? 
 also, i can say i walked from novi sad to almost sofia on foot in a week once... is that a hike?

another time i walked from Nettuno to Forlimpopoli on foot, that was 5 days i think

i also did those two both in boots, one of them in barefoots like the ones above 
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nettuno
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forlimpopoli
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novi_Sad

you went to schools governed by the department of education USA right?

i went to those places in person... i lived in novi sad (means new fields) for almost 3 years and i spent a year in jail in Sofia

ironically, sofia especially stood out to me in linux timezone lists... it just seemed like a cool name, and then i was living there

amazing city, though it used to be better 
 also, i did the whole walk from nettuno, with a few days in rome, and then on to forlimpopoli, on foot, barefoot shoes i bought in amsterdam... some finnish things, waterproof... they were great until i was in the snow in Sofia that winter and my feet turned into pure white prunes 
 oh yeah, forlimpopoli... that was after my feet wore out after i got a train ride thanks to some boar hunters in popoli, of all places

rode the bicycle up through bologna and venice and out to trieste and blew out its front tire... was a tank this bike... i liked to think of it as a mussolini bike, probably made in the 70s, by the marble plastic of the handlegrips

and i was like, ok, i won't steal a bike again, after that crash

and the next day i walked over the border to Slovenia into Nova Gorica and there was this nice bike just sitting there... so i took it

nearly froze to death half way to ljubljana and ultimately dumped it just before getting to Maribor as i crashed it crossing a train crossing and the wheels got caught in the rails and flipped me onto the ground

i hobbled to maribor but God gave me a half can of whipped cream and half of a bottle of wine along the way that i found, i forget where exactly nearby... so, it wasn't so bad, and then shortly after i came to Celije and not long after that i went across the border to hungary and goddamned border police picked me up as i was already in hungary, but i had no passport... because it got stolen back in Nettuno

anyway, good luck with your american education 
 it was stupid and i just had to do it 
 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. 
 your bug reports always welcome, i would love to have you test my stuff because i know you won't hold back 
 walking around gives a lot of time to think, especially when one doesn't bring a smart phone with one

and as i was on my big walk this morning back to sao vicente to retrieve the last few essentials for me to be able to do my thing here (some toiletries, some frozen foods, coffee machine and pods) i had a thought

mobile phones originally were a great thing... now you can make and receive calls from anywhere

but then they turned them into a Viewscreen in your Pocket, 1984 style, and did all this shit to get people addicted to carrying them around and staring at them every spare moment they weren't busy, and even often when they were, leading to more than a few accidents

i think there will be a move back to the idea of a phone just being a way to make and send short messages and do voice calls... i sure feel a lot better knowing the little phone in my pocket can barely do anything except tell the telco where the sim is, approximately, phone is too small and dumb to be able to do any more surveillance or manipulation than this. perfect. 
 i am not so sure it has closed all the holes

and some of them are in the mind 
 i mean mental peas 
 Presenting adoption as an alternative to abortion is faggot behavior. 
 did you have a pedophile for a biological father?

i did

now what was it you were saying?

you act as though the adoption industry is worse than the abortion industry

hey, i got news for you girl

the fucking circumcision industry took a piece of me

did you lose your flaps?

shut up 
 obvious glowie is obvious 
 they gave you saline

how would you know if they didn't? 
 This is all I can do at this point:

nostr:naddr1qqyxzepcx3jnxc3nqyghwumn8ghj7enfv96x5ctx9e3k7mgz... 
 imo, it would be simple enough for clients to do automatic typo corrections, conservatively, anyway

but i hadn't heard of this kind of scam before, and it definitely is an issue, so i'm leaning towards the option of "show newer versions" and always show the original first to users, if you are going to support it at all

fundamentally i don't see why not but the scam potential definitely makes the original more important and less vulnerable to manipulation 
 i mean default to "show original"

fiatjaf is right that it increases the complexity of the protocol, but fundamentally if every edit post or diff update refers to the OP of the thread, a filter that just searches for the op itself and all events that put an "e" tag to that event will find the whole thread in one simple two part filter