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 Odysee is also popular I think 
 nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzp978pfzrv6n9xhq5tvenl9e74pklmskh4xw6vxxyp3j8qkke3cezqyw8wumn8ghj76r0v3kx... 
 I watched a brief snippet of butthurt democrat drones crying and one says "this is my villain origin story"

And I'm like, does this mean all the evil shit you do next is excused?

And then I was like, have these Marvel etc movies these days been focusing on justifying the violence of villain characters?

See, I don't even watch this garbage. I guess that's the subtext. Justifying revenge for perceived slights that actually are justified by the fact that the whining villain didn't get away with a heist?

Yeah, no.

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 I thought it was a booty girl 
 Curcubit fabric 😂 
 Heh, once I see scale properly...

It's just a gourd.

You keep water in it I guess? 
 I don't actually believe any of you are so ascendant as to not care about an increase in your pur... 
 The whole point is we are reclaiming our power. 
 The things that get censored now are not censored because of spicy adjectives but because they are true and direct attention to the thing the deception seeks to direct attention away from. 
 In moments like this, it really hits home: should have sold the chairs. 
 Yeah, I shouldn't have bought the 32" uhd qd-oled lol

But I love that screen. The real mistake was spending 400 on a pair of shitty VA 2k panels 
 I literally could not find 32" OLED, and then 32" qd-oled at just over 1000 so... Que sera. 
 It was on spechul 
 don't let anyone ever tell you that the place you are in doesn't drag you down

it can

and even, this was understood by Mohammed and inscribed into the Qur'an

if you cannot make profit where you are, migrate

and it follows

if the place you are in sucks the life out of you

migrate 
 The whole power structure of Nazi Germany became usa. Research project paperclip. 
 i had a kind of vision about this one time... it was like... God is the aggregation of all the things of lasting structure as time moves forward into infinity, and God, proper, is that infinity at the end, with all the structure 
 Nostr seems to be where all the kids who grew up in the 80s and 90s, and all the kids who wish th... 
 that's basically generation X btw 
 well, i think Prodigy summed it up in their album title:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/86/TheProdigy-MusicForTheJiltedGeneration.jpg

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

and they aped the Pepsi marketing font on this title too which is quite funny

we were the children of the hippies, is why, and that whole thing was a psyop 
 LOL the CoC comes for all who participate in open sores!

nostr:note1qqqteg5msmvhwnckdjw9zdltgjn3... 
 CLN is kinda kooky tho, i mean, C, really. C.

go to LND and you can encounter a completely unresponsive, xenophobic in-group who won't merge anything unless you submit it at least 5 times

it's easy to criticise because fundamentally it's a very hard problem how to make state channel payments with path routing, and the contradiction in the mindset of the people involved who build this thing with source routed onions and then make Bolt11 invoices... 
 i think i'm going to get quite addicted to eating beef in this form

https://cdn.satellite.earth/714c57fcc8bb477e4564f869ea6f36bc5c2b69025cf20b1a49ac5962cbe3f812.jpg

charred and crispy on the outside, tender and juicy on the inside, and smoked beautifully with its own tasty fats plus lots of nice tarry tar tar 
 yeah, just gotta figure out how to get the ratios right so it's just the right amount of juicy and just the right amount of charred... and also how to run the fire... so much to learn! 
 yes, they like to make that claim even though nobody has even proven that quantum computers can actually do schnorr's algorithm, which supposedly bypasses the discrete logarithm problem 
 Believing Anarchism is a serious way to structure society the most juvenile world view.  
 no, the most juvenile world view is thinking Daddy State is going to save you from work and pain 
 isn't it strange how unicode has no real gun, or rifle... just this piss: 🔫  i mean pistol

and yet we have these: 💣 🧨 💥 ⚔️ 🔪 

these 5 elements represent things that often are associated with terrorism or murder 
 what's worse... guns, which can mean murder or self defense, or bombs, which are just war and terrorism

the woke virus contaminates everything 
 🫃 yeah, show me one case and i'll concede lol 
 discord on linux using the deb install is uberghey

every other fucking day, especially when i just want to do work and not managing yet another fucking upgrade, it tells me it's my lucky day and i have to download yet another version of their bullshit even though then as soon as it starts running it downloads more shit

what. the. fuck.

i hate discord.

i'm so glad my work is migrating back (i think back) to slack 
 my work is migrating to slack... at some point soon i can just uninstall it 
 They even still have that picko materinu pas mater gluposta 
 i encountered a fun bug with the steam controller this last couple of days... idk, maybe it's some update in the libinput library for X or something, and maybe it doesn't affect wayland... not even sure that wayland has its own input system though

the problem that happens is it's like the shift key is stuck down... unplugging the steam controller radio dongle doesn't fix it, shutting down steam doesn't fix it... 

oddly enough the fix that seemed to work without forcing me to restart X (which i wasn't gonna do because of needing to finish a long running process on a very big file, recent prior post discusses that) was to simply plug the controller in via cable

managed to string together a load of USB extensions that put the controller far enough away that i can sit comfy in my couch and play Kingdom Two Crowns with it, without it breaking my X session

i hope these fuckers will fix their goddamn driver soon

i don't even get how this shiot happens since after all it's just a fucking serial fucking port. pathetic. 
 pretty sure it was affecting the gameplay too, making the controller prone to triggering that shift key when i didn't mean it... specifically i'm really wondering about whether the game's input system is treating a double tap on keys as the same as pressing shift with the key... i customized the controller for this game so that my left touch pad is just left and right, walking... and right of the right touchpad holding is supposed to be the shift key... but it's very prone to detecting double taps on all of these touchpad surfaces and it interprets them to mean other things

namely, sprinting (or galloping, maybe more accurate) and when i double tap on the shift key, it does the "special action" which for various mounts does different things, the gryphon does this wing clap thing that kills greedies, and in the new DLC with the ancient greek theme the Hades 3 headed dog does this crazy thing where it spits fire and launches forward, killing greedies in its path... other mounts do other things... it's all a bit beta if you ask me, but i do ever so much enjoy this game 
 my categoriser thing, which writes events from the giant trove i got from semisol (180gb) into a set of separate files depending on at what point in the process of unmarshalling from json, checking the event ID, encoding to binary, and finally decoding from binary and checking that the original unmarshaled/marshaled json matches the encoded/decoded binary form

it tests every part of my codec and now i have a series of grouped events that failed at different points and i can now isolate the groups of events to test whether there is bugs in my code for that step of the process

this event cache dates back almost 2 years, newest in them i think abut 4 months ago:

168G dump.jsonl  
5.6G fail_frombin.jsonl  
7.2G fail_ids.jsonl  
551M fail_reser.jsonl  
2.0G fail_tobin.jsonl  
436K fail_unmar.jsonl  
168G read.jsonl

dump is the original, and read is more or less a copy of it reconstructed by writing back each line out of it back to disk before any processing (more than a few don't decode at all)

fail_unmar.jsonl is mostly ones that have broken json string escaping and stuff like line breaks in the middle of strings, but they could be bugs in my json decoding code... so they will be examined, first just by seeing that indeed the syntax is wrong according to another decoder (the one in my IDE), and those that are valid according to the second decoder will be used to debug the unmarshal code.

fail_ids.jsonl are the ones whose ID did not compute as the ID listed in the event (idk what to do with these, they should be rewritten with their real ID but then it breaks inbound references) - 7.2gb out of 180 have wrongly computed IDs... mostly they are old though... i think in the early days there was some ambiguity in the escaping rules... and more than a few in there are ones with bogus extra fields that are invalid according to nip-01. these also may have other errors in them, some of which i can adjust my code to decode correctly, or to interpret correctly, but if that breaks the ID then no.

2gb of events that failed to marshal to binary, that's my marshalling code, which is good, step 2 after making sure my unmarshal code is not failing to decode valid json

5.6gb of events went to binary fine but were either encoded wrongly in binary or failed to decode from the binary... i know there is several issues there, with the tags and content specifically

551M of events that fail to re-serialize the same way as the originally unmarshaled data, so this is more stuff involving the json encoding library

separating them makes it much easier for me to focus a debugging session on one section of the codebase, so, this will hopefully let me chase the low hanging fruit, and chip away a larger chunk of events from failing in a given step

so much work to do... this is the burden of me rewriting this whole encoder code... i'm still quite sure it's very fast, but probably i will find that fixing the bugs i see that some of the speedup is dialed back to handle the correct procedure for the errors

but probably not much

 
 frogs are notable as being an animal with an extremely weak protective membrane against penetration of chemicals through their skin

in a metaphorical sense, one of the characteristics of people who are fond of the pepe meme are like frogs, they find it difficult to be happy while there is a constant flow of bullshit through their psychic skin

it affects everyone but the psychic frogs need more isolation and need to be in cleaner places to be healthy 
 it would be kinda cool to see what an open, nonbiased model fed on nostr would produce... even to have it select the theme and all, just based on the feed 
 and spit roasted wagyu beef skewers with sides of boiled goat liver and parsley 
 it's a ridiculous projection

but actually, the trump will not deliver anyone from the MIC's global panopticon either

what will, is buying bitcoin, moving away from the idiots so you don't get so easily targeted, getting strapped, build your bunker, and don't forget that probably catastrophe is coming within decades to wash the world of these politically obsessed, violence loving citizens 
 nosy communists with fervent belief in the Leader's doctrines <---- vast distance -----> me 
 i have only been out here in the boonies for like, what, 4 days now, pretty much gone fully #fruit/#dairy/#carnivore and i look at my face in the mirror and i swear i've shed 5 years of visual appearance of age

gotta do #bbq today, didn't make a fire yesterday because i had plenty to go on with, i didn't know how much would be a full meal

#beef is magic... it really does seem to have something in it that makes you feel more satisfied, and nothing works the same

unbelievable that i have to move to the boonies to find a slab of uraguayan beef in the freezer that is sooo good for me... 
 peace and quiet are very remedial for a fish like me... all those negative normie pain vibes get into my skin and poison me, i swear 
 iranian and russian national interbank payment networks are now linked

most countries have a national interbank payment clearing house system, like for example in bulgaria there is BORICA... they have just linked the russian Mir and iranian Kahroba interbank transfer clearinghouses...

this is the most concrete example of the decentralization of the legacy banking system, and the death knell for the political control lever of the formerly international SWIFT network

when money becomes a weapon, people have to move to other money, it's as simple as that

what they are doing to nations with their control of SWIFT is the same as what they are trtying to do with us with CDBCs

people will just have to move to bitcoin and lightning and ecash

there won't be a choice in it and the banksters and their lackeys in governments will not be able to stop it

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iranian-russian-card-payment-systems-officially-linked-tehran 
 Its not that bitcoiners are disagreeable - people just don't ask questions, and don't understand ... 
 Normal in times of hysteria 
 my main paid gig at the moment most of my time on the clock i'm learning a new language and runtime API (for sui and aptos blockchains) ... which is really boring but i gotta get up to speed because i'm sure i can do this stuff, it's simple, andd tedious, like i say - "smart contracts" are just database scripts, so i just gotta grit my teeth and do this boring shit that will involve no high performance, no significant opportunities for optimization or anything actually fun really

i'm assigned to maintaining a port to a second chain with the same language, and right off the bat this stupid thing is getting in my face because when i have the plugins for both "languages" enabled it breaks my goland, as i discovered just now... so much yawn... they invent these new languages and then make nowhere near the commensurate effort to make it easy to work with their bullshit

anyhow

so, what am i doing?

yes, working on #realy right now - and currently i've modified my codec tester to just print out the events that fail somewhere in the process of encoding/decoding to thin out the field... rn ~10k events failing to encode/decode to binary or possibly just decode from json, out of ~250k..., and about 300mb so my codec is failing on what the json linter in the IDE is happy with, so my code is wrong

there's about 4 or 5 different categories of errors popping out of this, and anyway, the point is if i just let it run and clean out 180gb of events , will thin it down to probably  200-300mb of raw events, which will speed up subsequent work to debug what is causing these decode/encode failures

trying to debug the current first bug that it hits is a complicated tag encoding bug and all the noise in the logs makes it harder to focus on it

so, i figure, collect all the ones that are not working, then i can thin those out, try to find the lowest hanging fruit and thin it out even further sooner... i want to get this codec working 100% correct and to eventually have it so that anything it doesn't like is invalid JSON... and it's already just rejecting and not logging anything that has linebreaks anyway, they all fail with EOFs

i wish i could focus on getting this right, but i understand that nostr is still so new it's extremely speculative that it will ever have a market footprint and that's fine, but it's what i love working with and what i love to do with what i love working with is making it as correct, and as efficient as possible

when i finally get this codec all fixed, and it only rejects garbage, i can finally start tinkering with other things i want to do... i'm very experienced with binary encoding and network transports and error correction so it will be fundamental stuff, and it will make a big difference but it isn't gonna win me any fame

i'm working in the bowels of the factory, i'm not the courier delivering it to the customer 
 Finally reached the top of my nostr feed... What, is btc pumping or something? 
 yeah, about to pass 90k rn 
 i have totally kicked the double vision problem now

my kidneys are still weak but so long as i keep remembering to drink water...

and now i have bbq

man... last two main meals i have had since i roasted up me some beefs

looking forward to it tomorrow, i think i may start early with the fire even 
 Journaling is underrated 
 i think it was our favourite gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson actually... he was definitely an expert on the mockingbird project 
 today i learned how to allow specific IP addresses to bypass wireguard tunnels

this is a set of 4 addresses that are what resolve from ctt.pt and appserver.ctt.pt and appserver2.ctt.pt - essential websites for anyone living in portugal, and irritatingly geofenced so that accessing it via my bulgarian VPS address over wireguard causes the thing to not work.

you add this to the [Interface] block of your wireguard.conf 

PreUp = ip route add 3.33.211.116/32 via 192.168.1.254 dev enp7s0
PostDown = ip route del 3.33.211.116/32 via 192.168.1.254 dev enp7s0
PreUp = ip route add 15.197.240.141/32 via 192.168.1.254 dev enp7s0
PostDown = ip route del 15.197.240.141/32 via 192.168.1.254 dev enp7s0
PreUp = ip route add 52.50.235.136/32 via 192.168.1.254 dev enp7s0
PostDown = ip route del 52.50.235.136/32 via 192.168.1.254 dev enp7s0
PreUp = ip route add 54.76.6.35/32 via 192.168.1.254 dev enp7s0
PostDown = ip route del 54.76.6.35/32 via 192.168.1.254 dev enp7s0
PreUp = ip route add 62.28.56.1/32 via 192.168.1.254 dev enp7s0
PostDown = ip route del 62.28.56.1/32 via 192.168.1.254 dev enp7s0

where 192.168.1.254 is the default gateway provided by your router

the CIDR suffix of 32 means "precisely this address" as it is 32 bits which is a full 4 octets address for IPv4

#wireguard #portugal #halp #geofencing #amazon

and yes, their shit is running on AWS

#fuckbezos 
 also, it's actually 5 addresses

anyway, hope this helps any other portugal dwellers especially #madeira dwellers who might use a wireguard VPN and also have hassles with https://ctt.pt 
 well, this is one more tool to help get around this bullshit if you use wireguard tunnels... i know it's an option for proton and probably others out there, mine is DIY because it's so easy to set these things up... the documentation can be hard to find though... 

would be awesome if someone made a legit stackexchange killer built on top of nostr 
 indeed but that's partly because most of the "tooling" is GNU 
 *Hiring Freedom Techs* 

This position has countless benefits and great ability to move up and la... 
 sounds like bitaxe? 
 go go go! 
 I know the name but I need to investigate. Jacks have been good to me. nostr:note1sy9emrdtlaxnrkj... 
 i've delved deep into his work and it's very interesting, his ideas about how humans were infected with a virus ~10,000 years ago because they were driven down to the equatorial regions in a cooling period (the dryas) and this virus weakened the membranes and led humas to having a vulnerability to leaky gut, and the development of the appendix... or maybe he says it was a lot longer ago than that

i find that it's at least as interesting as the stuff from Ben Davidson, the Suspicious Observers guy who was one of the figures involved in the Electric Universe thing and Kruse is also on the margins, a key thteme in his work is the idea about the influence of light and radiation and the importance of quantum effects in biology, and he rightly points out that the chemistry theory used in biology doesn't even take into account quantum effects meanwhile inorganic chemistry (eg quantum dots, entanglement) are way ahead of that

you just may not have actually heard the deeper stuff and only hearing what many people are repeating

the entire meme of "touch grass" he was a big factor in how that developed, and many people swear by earthing and i also earth all the time and i also wear barefoot shoes, and the reason why is because it feels right to me when i do it, and the pile of evidence in favour of the importance of the atmospheric cavity resonance and magnetoreception on biology suggests that the importance of quantum, magnetic and electrical effects on us may be way underestimated by mainstream biology and upstream from that, medicine 
 yeah some people just have zero credibility 
 In one month, I will be turning 25. I really want to make the most of the next 5 years, so that b... 
 if you can't get decent work where you live, migrate 
 yes, when they are worn out 
 definitely wrong advice... i've had more than a few see-through shoes in my life because i was homeless 
 i think it should be:

don't criticise someone until you have seen through their shoes, and then give them a new pair of shoes because they are obviously destitute. 
 i'm literally 48 now and still to meet the lady...

but i already have been suffering the chronic illness and i'm part way through healing... and it was only my body that was weakened (i got pretty bad peripheral neuropathy and muscle weakness due to kidney damage from dehydration, diuretics and artificial sweeteners)... i am already starting to get back kmy strength and like a broken bone i'll be stronger from now

still a few more things to resolve but so long as yer dad isn't dumb and following mainstream "medicine" advice and actually sorts out that stuff the experience brings a more stern but understanding personality forged by years of being an idiot

honestly though, it's going to be a pretty widespread issue for many people in the coming years because of the poisoning of the women both in body and mind that has made them unsuitable and unwilling to participate in making a family... hopefully that will change soon 
 looks like everyone on bluesky is on the same server? 
 there is others but federations just naturally agglomerate... this is part of why nostr's design does not include a consensus (bluesky inc's servers are thet central hub, and every other node broadcasts upwards to it) 
 reheating the excess of my barbecue yesterday it tastes actually better because i cooked it up a bit slower on the pan so it finished cooking through to what i'd describe as just right, between medium rare and well done

the garlic and the char and the smoke make it sooo much better than pan fried 
 Imagine the dollar is pegged to bitcoin 🤯 
 in australia "pegged" means thrown really hard, as fast as you can, enough that it will hurt, maybe kill someone if it's like a rock 
 Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brough... 
 my ancestors were pacifists protesting against war and lived through nazi occupation and then was driven from indonesia by furious muslims, in a land that was for a long time previously buddhist...

what do you know about the subject of being a refugee? nothing. 
 Been playing around with FB ads because unfortunately I cannot shitpost on here and sell products... 
 when i was doing my own biz my ads i delivered them to the letterboxes of the areas i was trying to get customers in

i tried one time to do this in bulk with a big letterbox delivery spam company, spent $700 on it, and got zero responses, out of 5000

i estimated that with a laser printer and personal delivery i got 1% response rate, so on equal volumes that means 50, so, comparing, zero versus 1%

most methods of advertising are extremely excessive in volume and indiscriminate in the targets

it's probably the same for you

i picked my areas... places with nice lawns and nice cars, places where people had the money to pay someone to come and fix their PC 
 yeah, that seems like a good thing to try at least

it's all about getting regulars... once you get enough regulars you can start to grow 
 Sweet. It could have been done with keysend or AMP tho.

I built a whole protocol for this, just not the LN part. 
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 the thing is that all of these evil systems have one thing in common

they condition people to limit their intelligence

thus they basically limit the productive capacity of society, and further, their system of command raises and narrows the peak of the bell curve of wealth distribution until eventually the majority cannot stand the impoverishment any more

the appeal of being a brainwashed acolyte is that you don't have to make decisions or be responsible

or in other words, most people basically don't want property or responsibility, they just want enjoyment, and anyone who convinces them that being obedient to their creed leads to paradise can reap some 1/3 of the human population as their loyal, but retarded igor style (frankenstein) slaves

i don't know if there is any way within the confines of our current knowledge to break this pattern but i like to believe that empowering that 1/3 who refuse to be obedient to exert more influence and limit the diminishing effect of all that brainwashing and concentration of wealth, by moving that wealth into funding actual advances in science, we create the mechanisms that enable breaking the inevitable stagnation and dark ages that these methods of power bring about

ultimately though, if you understand that putting your lot in with the herd means going to hell, who cares about what they do, we are put here to keep the fire burning and move things forward to the eventual point where no amount of stupidity can limit our part of the population and you get the ascension