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2023-09-19 22:32:39 UTC

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I love it that people still think I'm young. It's not just on the internet I give off the air of youthful inexperience, if you ever get to see me in person you'll be asking yourself, "Is he just making it up that he's 47 years old?".
It's ok, really, I just have to adapt. It's difficult because I'm old, and because my bad habits have led to problems with my ability to learn, (though a big part of that has also been the endless degradation of the food supply), but honestly, living inside this stupidly plastic body, I was spoiled, very very spoiled, for my first 30 years. Most people have already got degrading memory, eyesight, strength, hormones by the time they hit 35... Mine only really started to go bad about 5 years ago.
I'm determined to recover all of it though. Just gotta nail some projects and get my little farm and herd of goats... it's a bootstrapping problem, but really all I need is will, I've already got the spirit part worked out. Being stubborn is a virtue in a world of wibbly wobbly confusion.

2023-09-19 22:19:00 UTC

I know I am a bit random in the way I write and probably some of the damage to my long term memory from thiamine deficiency maybe makes some of my text repetitive.
But really, do I read like an AI?
And if I do, maybe that's because they are training them on a substantial volume of my text cos you can probably find several volumes of War and Peace worth of my text on the internet if you care to search.
I'm not even going to drop any names to give you a clue but I can assure you, unless you are also starting to think the AIs are manipulating all of the various servers on the internet to rewrite history, already, oh my god are we in a bad place now.
The need for eliminating those who would see us replaced by machines is getting more and more acute by the day.
Simulating life and treating humans like cattle are the very same kind of behaviours. Only people without hearts or souls can consider this the right business to put their money into.
The thing is, that's YOUR money that this is being funded by. And the endgame of all of this is literally to slaughter you all, as you are induced into hallucinating each other as mortal enemies.
I'm not the only one warning about this, anyone who has read the Metro 2033 books or played the games would be familiar with this scenario.
The evil people who are behind all this are not long for this world. They are not going to be let out of the gravity well and everyone who refuses to stand against them is going to perish with them when the next round of the Great Flood comes past in a few years time.
I don't even care whether our ancestors who live up there actually exist or not, so much as the thought that this planet's imminent massive destruction is coming and that those who are responsible are going to be wiped out.
That is the greatest joy in my life right now. The thought that this evil shit will soon end.
There used to be humanity and freedom in the world, and now, it is one big simulation that nobody knows who is real and who is a robot any more, nobody knows what is a girl and what is a boy.
I remember, and I refuse to ever back down from that memory, no matter how much my brain decays and my memory fades. There will never be a replacement for a real, messy, greasy grey brain, and a nasty throbbing heart.
There is a million evil bastards out there, at least, however, they are all the same, and every one of their programmed drones, is the same. They have no heart, they have no soul, and they are jealous of us who do.
I'm not letting them take this away from me, even if I have to suffer through even more and worse than I have had to suffer so far. Because submitting to them is worse than death. Submitting to them is being erased. Submitting to them is allowing beauty and love to be erased.

2023-09-19 22:08:13 UTC

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I already thought a lot about this while designing a gossip protocol for Indra. Not having expiry for ephemeral data makes managing the purging of caches complicated, much simpler to put a reasonable time window on it.
As far as this nostr protocol goes, quite frankly, it's amateur hour in protocol design, and the supposed designer of it amply demonstrates on a regular basis how little he understands about security, distributed systems or even the most basic things like why bitcoin doesn't benefit from being anchored to shitcoin chains.

2023-09-19 21:57:25 UTC

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I'm quite human, I assure you. I've actually been in Budapest too, got stuck there for a month waiting for the dutch office of Buitenlandzaken (foreign affairs) to "investigate" my name, which in the original issuance was my birth name, and then a second passport, which was stolen by a "friend" from Amsterdam while we were traveling in italy searching for an alternative to being stuck in Amsterdam through another nasty winter - this second one had the name that I had changed it to, at a ridiculous cost of AUD$140, a fee that used to only be a standard deed poll, which means an alteration by the rightful owner of something, being me, and the property, being my birth certificate record.
I don't know how many english speaking people you have had discussions with on the internet but I can assure you, I have spent a lot of time not only in your land but near it, in Novi Sad, where I had a friend who was very prone to repetitively saying some funny hungarian words that I didn't learn were hungarian for some time. Pakrac (Pakrac) the name of a town I never saw. "Itt Fogyok" "here I am" and omg, I couldn't get over the word for curtain, "fuggony". For an english speaker that is hilarious.
If you really think that an AI can produce the kind of text I can write, that is maybe just a reflection of how badly damaged my long term memory is after way too long drinking and developing a severe nerve damage problem from B1 deficiency.
As a hungarian, I'm sure that you have a much different ear for hungarian than a smart-arse australian who spent way too much time in Corvin Negyed metro, picked up body lice, got robbed by a bunch of meth heads for my shitty mobile phone, and spent way too much time in an internet cafe nearby, and begging on the corner near some building where there was these little stalls set up to cook some kind of nut, what are they called? hazel nuts?
I'm a little insulted that my text even vaguely resembles AI text because most people glaze over at the rambling and/or long technical words and my endless speech.
What can I say?
Hungarian looks and sounds like turkish to me, that doesn't mean I don't know what I'm talking about, I'd say it means I can actually hear all those crazy vowels you have in hungarian that maybe you are so stuck inside you don't even notice that they don't exist in many other languages, certainly not in europe. Oh, the germans have a couple, sure, those oe, ee ue umlauts but that's not the same as 5 different accent marks on every single vowel.
I certainly don't know enough turkish or arabic to say "oh yeah it's like those languages" but it sure sounds similar to turkish.
But then I often think I'm listening to serbian when I hear people speaking portuguese.
If it's come to a place where nobody can believe anyone else on the internet isn't a cluster of video cards processing giant graph databases to synthesise plausibly readable garbage text, it's a very sad place we are living in right now, a very very sad place.
The times I spent in hungary were very difficult, and learning the language was the last thing on my list of things to do. Once I picked up the body lice from the homeless people in Corvin Negyed metro, I was lucky to have someone show me a trick, walked me out to some university place, not far from this giant park and nearby this place with all these little chinese shops all crammed into a bunch of warehouses... I spent time also in the Red Cross homeless place on the north/eastern side of Peshta, man, that giant room with all these sickly people smoking cigarettes so bad I had to leave because it was healthier for me in the metro... I mean, idk what to say.
I doubt that any AI has had this story to tell before, because it's my story.
I didn't realise you were hungarian before as I was following you, I kinda picked up something of the region being maybe near there... I did spend a lot of time in Novi Sad, altogether 3 years.
Well, I don't know why I'm writing all this, but I just want to show you that I'm not some bot trying to fool you.
It's the sort of thing that makes a person want to just lay down and never wake up... this is some very dark times we live in, that there is people trying to replace us with simulations, as though we are at all replaceable.
Kasanam. Itt fogyok. Nem tu dom.

2023-09-19 21:08:35 UTC

I used to have a lot more patience and wonder in the technology of computers, and now it just drives me crazy how little it has advanced in 38 years.
I just have higher priorities than dumb shit the way too many options for simply sending audio to bluetooth speakers that are a little too far from my desk to function properly.
MPD. VNC. RDP. SSH. Pipewire. Pulseaudio. Icecast.
How to say you are old without saying you are old.
All my energies are now directed towards not having to deal with such low priority things in favour of higher priorities.
This might be a consequence of the fact that figuring out badly designed shit is my work now, I just don't want to have this when I'm relaxing. I just want to reprogram my programmable keyboard, and needed some music.
I'm solving this problem tomorrow. I just want it to be a simple audio stream, and I want it to be in the loungeroom, where it will drown out the workaday screeching children who seem to communicate entirely with screams and who seem to spend more time in the playground than in the classroom, and it seems like wrestling with each other is the main activity being taught.

2023-09-19 19:51:22 UTC

So, I was looking at some various options for potato chips this evening, and specifically to determine if there was anything that didn't have maltodextrin in it.
I don't remember seeing this one sugar in everything before 2020. I also don't remember when Palm Oil stopped being the main oil.
Turns out that Maltodextrtin is like instant week long pain for my exposed dental nerves. I used to like potato chips. And corn chips.
I can't eat any of them anymore. It's really a big disruption in my comfort level.
I'm sure it's secretly intended to hurt people but those who ask questions and do their own differential diagnosis figure it out and just get even more determined.
If they keep this up, pretty soon the only things I can eat from a supermarket are some of the fruit and the non-processed meats, and maybe some of the seeds and nuts.
They are contaminating everything else with things that I can't help feeling is deliberate to fuck with a specific set of genetics that I am one of the inheritors of, and that the whole purpose of the PCR test hoax was to gather DNA to refine this strategic irritation.
Normies don't even realise what's happening, which tells you that "normy" means a specific pool of genetics, because it's about proteins and immune responses.

2023-09-19 19:46:10 UTC

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Godspeed!

2023-09-19 19:45:39 UTC

I have this windows installation on my pc, and yet I spend like 30 minutes playing games every day, at best, and this is the only thing I do with it.
Thanks to their presumptuous and aggressive policies, however, I think I can say I spend more than twice that amount of time, on top, on most days, working around the bullcrap that they impose on my hardware.
My bluetooth devices, thank you sony, don't like to bind to my linux system and windows at the same time. They preemptively, and nonconfigurably attempt to bind to my device not only by its MAC address, but also by the OS, so every time, I literally have to unpair, and repair it for each time I want to go play 30 minutes of tomb raider.
The contortions of the filesystem are another time sink as well.
I am starting to realise it's not worth the effort anymore, since I only seem to want to play a bunch of games that I can run just fine on Linux anyway. I just got a little tired of the constant procession of hardware support problems, so I just put my games installation on windows.
But Shuttleworth, and Torvalds, with their respective projects, don't make life easier either. Constantly Ubuntu is updating kernels, breaking my system's support of the video and/or power subsystems. One only turns around for 12 months and blink, oh, new, same old problem again.
I'm of the opinion, and probably have always been of this opinion, that this is deliberate disruption to slow down the development of competitors for the establishment picks for who gets the cheap money first to build this stuff.
It has nothing to do with merit or virtue. It's actually the opposite. Apple and Microsoft stuff is the most retrogressive, slow to advance, and least accessible to new developers.
Even as I am writing this, it is obvious what a waste of time it all is.
This is why we can't have nice things.
Technology is the enemy of power.

2023-09-19 19:34:51 UTC

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Coracle is the best. I hope you at least get funding to stay afloat anyhow. I know you will understand when I say that in this world it's usually thfe most despicable who get front row in the line.
I mean, honestly, it's a miracle that this protocol has got this far by the history of things. The protocol is not even remotely a new concept, as old as ZKP and blinded signatures and elliptic curves.
"someone" has been making sure none of this gets to production. That "someone" and all his comrades and peers are the top dogs in the IT industry right now, and I think you know who I mean. They are just the chosen ones who get all the resources and favours to make sure nobody else displaces them with actual innovation.
So, yeah, I know what it's like down there in the trenches, and bless you for your service.

2023-09-19 19:25:32 UTC

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Yes, that's exactly what I'm talking about. The ancestors and descendants should not be repeated, but grouped, with the OP and "relevant post" unfolded.

2023-09-19 19:23:49 UTC

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Ah, hungarian, it is one of the most different on the continent. Well, it's similar to turkish which is a lot close to arabic. To my ears, turkish, hungarian and chinese have a lot of similar vowels.
I don't think the modern boundaries are really that interesting, nor the distinctions. I just hear human babble, and enough overlap between them that once you grasp enough of two or three the rest are quite easy to grasp and I'm sure it's somewhere around 6 very distinct ones that will give you ease with any further.
Latin, Nordic, Greek, Slavic, Turkic and Germanic. That's european languages in one big mess together.
The modern borders are very new. Most people don't even realise that Germany is barely 120 years old. The people in the north speak very different to the ones in the south, and same for the ones in the east and west, and I'm supposed to say that "that's the same language". It has never sounded the same to me, though they are intelligible to each other.
Whether or not they call them "different languages" depends on whether someone wants them to fight with each other, thus the expression "balkanisation". It's just propaganda.
Before WW2, europeans percolated across the continent freely. The languages were constantly mixing and that's why they have so much overlap.

2023-09-19 17:43:51 UTC

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They will ignore us until they can't. And then we will all suddenly be nazis.

2023-09-19 17:41:07 UTC

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I can go with that but I have seen some things that I think you may not be aware of that suggest that the tentacles of the blue and yellow family were involved.
I am no communist, but I get what people liked about Marx's ideas. I am no nazi, but I get how his words moved so many people.
It was actually part of how I got so interested in The Apocalypse of Yajnavalkya - that I had been pre-loaded by some vague reference to some campaign to attack a documentary artist as relates to his work on Atlantis, by a weak and crappy point that the Nazis were also investigating Atlantis.
The people of Atlantis were not the Aryans. But the resemblance is there. The emerging archeological evidence suggests that the oldest bones of WHITE people was in Morocco. Is this in any way really connected with Hitler and National Socialism?
I doubt it.
But read the Book of Enoch. The unmistakable references to people with pale white skin and red hair in it are there. This book was known to be familiar to the contemporaries of the 12 Apostles, as can be amply discovered if you read Enoch.
I could go on and on about this and I have barely scratched the surface in what I have learned but I'm convinced also.
But I do think there is some slimy things about Marx that you are not aware of. Even if they didn't achieve very much in their own time, that may not be because they were not favoured, but rather, that the time had to pass to inculcate people with the receptivity needed to continue to progress things until you reach the events of 1913 (the federal reserve) and 1917 (the bolshevik revolution).
There was more than a few things involved. The year 1865 is stuck in my mind, as is 1894. I may have those out by one or so, but both years were very important and as you know, the earlier one was contemporary to Marx.
I was raised Seventh Day Adventist, and for that cult, 1844 was also another year of importance. My uncle converted to Mormonism and the mormons, SDA and JW are also connected christian groups tied to early stages of the events that unfolded.
All of it is connected, but it is hard to find the strings when you depend entirely on hard documents. The spirit of it is clear, however, or the lack of spirit, maybe more accurate.

2023-09-19 17:28:16 UTC

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Indeed, even if it's scary, it means you are not so easily surprised. Confusion is their most base and fallback method of manipulation, and when you have a map of their bullshit the surprise is weakened.
I follow my heart, and my intuition in all things, and check them with my reason.
I have very good reason to be excited that some very intense but long awaited events are coming in the near future, and that those of us who hold to our faith and reason will be rewarded.
And that reward is not (only) some nice accommodation on a distant planet, it will also be a meaningful and important part of the task of clearing out the scum from this place.
Mark my words.
You will have reason to remember me.

2023-09-19 16:40:25 UTC

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There is a lot of people who like to apologise for marx's "accidental" involvement in the worst atrocities in history. It always shocks me when they are ones who were forcibly trained to memorise it and then their whole society abandoned everything after the economics proved unsustainable.
If you dig into the history a bit further, you find that actually, Engels was something like a Handler, and Marx was just a charming, intelligent rhetoric expert. He is so famous because he made all the socialism tenets seem reasonable.

2023-09-19 16:37:55 UTC

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Solzhenitsyn. (I had to check that, it's terrible phoneticisation). I know several slavic languages to a usable degree and I know all the mess between them. It's been quite funny landing in portuguese territory because they use so many phonetics in common with the serbs, most especially.
The latinisation of foreign languages into english is a total shitstorm of bullshit. The amount of times B/V, P/B, C/Ts, and so many other things get muddled is incredible. Like, how in the FUCK did "Beijing" get mangled into "Peking" exactly? Wade-Giles don't voice their Ps? And unvoice their DJs (to kh)???
It's my opinion that if you were to point at one european language and settle on using its phonetics to express the phonemes of other languages, Russian is the most universal. Some of the characters have to be swapped around from what you expect but basically, there is more european phonemes in russian script than any single other european language.
It made me very sad that the western yugoslavians, in particular, have been abandoning cyrillic.
If I was designing a single alphabet for europe, to cover all of the nuances, it would be russian with the double consonant letters of serbian, the ones for Dj and the short "ty" sound that westerners usually misread as "ch".
Out of all of europe, the Bulgarians are the closest to accurately phoneticising foreign languages, except for their funny habits of germanising a few things like W. Visky, Vinni puh... this is also a russian habit.
I have this overwhelming feeling like somewhere along the way, a whole culture learned to speak by misreading the phonetics of another culture. B/V are a great example. Now I am exposed constantly to portuguese, I see so many times words that make more sense with B where they write the V. Moebel, the german word for furniture, is Moveis. Everywhere the portuguese put 'eis' it's "el" or "al" eg Animais. Even their word for "more" is "mais" which if you follow that substitution gives you "mal" which is the german word for "more" as in multiply.
It's no wonder once you learn enough basic level in about 5 different european languages you can understand all of them. I don't struggle very hard to understand anything anymore, whether it's italian, spanish, portuguese, russian, bulgarian, yugoslavian, german.. I have had little exposure to the nordics but I know their stuff overlaps a lot with english, german and russian a lot too.

2023-09-19 16:07:41 UTC

@nprofile…nw2j feature request: option to fold all threads automatically.
Might need to have a thing that merges together all ancestors of the same parent thread under it too. But I can cope with that better than just having the same thread recur at different points.
Just wanna say tho, your work is stellar, and I hope you continue to be blessed. 💜

2023-09-19 16:02:09 UTC

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That would be why Xi shows up for BRICS confab and Putin is on live feed... of course!
I'll just add that, in this game, the "wild card" is a valid game piece, and he's got levers too.
The only people in the world not being influenced are those doing the influence and the tiny sliver of the population who automatically look for the strings at every turn.
They are everywhere, and they are nowhere. But they can't control everyone. Some people have enough humanity left in them that they don't trigger the agent program, when you reveal things to them, even if they think you might be crazy.

2023-09-19 15:57:58 UTC

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This isn't the Harari of the WEF by any chance?
omg, it is.
The "hackable animals" guy.
No wonder he promotes the idea of shared fictions. That's the lever his organisation is using against the vulnerable part of the population.
I'm not hackable. I'll stubbornly resist the nudging until the whole population falls off a cliff and as I sit in my cave, finally being forced into pure subsistence, I'm gonna laugh.

2023-09-19 15:55:24 UTC

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I'm pretty sure he is someone's useful idiot, but not Xi. Xi is a useful idiot too.
The real people behind all this "don't exist", or otherwise they'd be quite famous.
It's one of the laws in the 48 laws of power. Being in the ear of the visible power figures is more powerful than being the one who people might want to send to the guillotine. Being another step removed is probably even more powerful, and less risky.

2023-09-19 15:00:57 UTC

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India is aligned with Russia, and opposed to China. Not hard to see the geostrategic factors in this.

2023-09-19 14:59:33 UTC

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This seems pretty likely to me. Possibly simply the types of sugars feeding the bacteria, causing the excess production of a metabolite that is toxic to the nerve.
You probably knew that most food grade citric acid is produced by feeding E.Coli certain types of sugars. I wouldn't be surprised if this is involved somewhere in it because I also suspect citric acid contributes, the combination of malts and citrates at the same time is probably optimal for the problem to be caused, which again also points towards an acid loving bacteria.
I've had this weird issue with certain foods, especially sweet ones, that yes, malt seems to be a common factor at least to some degree, that causes nerve pain in my jaw area in general, not just on the right side but on the left as well.
It is probably relevant also that when the malt has been caramelised (ie stout beer) there is no problem with this.

2023-09-19 14:53:48 UTC

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I don't think so. I think it's the core vulnerability.
If the knowledge of the truth is shared, it is a strength that makes the group stronger. A group delusion makes an unstable society that can be exploited by people who understand this.
I think that the genetic/epigenetic basis of this capacity to ignore reality eventually must lead to a crisis that involves a massive amount of deaths from the inevitable consequences of such errors being ignored and the problems of them accumulating over time.
I know I'm not in that group, I am repulsed by this behavior and as much as I am not a fan of people dying I am also tired as fuck of living in a world full of people who are capable of being deluded into believing a cold virus is lethal to anyone with adequate to moderately poor health.
This is a society that will run on command over the edge of a cliff, and I'm not gonna stand in their path, tyvm.

2023-09-19 14:45:26 UTC

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I am almost certain that it was the combination of sugar and artificial sweeteners. I was eating some 70% chocolate that probably had maltodextrin in it, and that is the stuff that causaes the problem. Either that, or a lot of sugar plus sucralose and/or acesulfame K.
The problem was way way worse with maltodextrin, Marks and Spencer's brand chips, even the "plain" salt and pepper have maltodextrin in them, and one pack of that stuff and I am in pain for a week.
I didn't just test it once, I tested it twice, because I am stupid. Second time around was the "unflavored" salt and pepper. Two weeks that I was hardly functional.
This time hasn't been so bad, which tells me either the dose of maltodextrin was too low, or it was the combination of Acesulfame K/Sucralose and a shit-ton of sugar combined. The problem wore off within 24 hours this time.
I'm not putting off the dentist visit for fun, I don't have the money to deal with it right now.
I'm just avoiding all artificial sweeteners preemptively now, and reading anything else closely to make sure they haven't put this vile garbage in.
Maltodextrin is the worst artifical sweetener there is. It makes me piss brown instantly, and now it absolutely is fingered for causing a long lasting tweak on my exposed dental nerves.
The dentist who said to leave that half broken lower right wisdom tooth in was sure there was nothing amiss with the whole tooth, that remained, and I wish I'd insisted on getting it out at that time when I had the chance, but on the other hand, I now know without question that artificial sweeteners have effects on nerves that nobody talks about.
I'm getting them all out as soon as I can, I want this anyway, as my lower jaw is crowded anyway, and it will greatly help my smile to have some more room down there.
I have extremely robust teeth, abnormally robust. In 40 years, the last 20 of which involved drinking a lot of acidic, sugary energy drinks, and still out of that only two cavities ever formed, and this wisdom tooth is just a freak, half of it died, the other half is fine.
Once the wisdom teeth are out of my mouth I'm sure that my dental issues are going to go away completely, as I have been religiously brushing and more recently added flossing and a non-alcohol containing mouthwash to my regime, and the only other problem I have at the moment is I think my brush is too hard and it's hurting my gums.

2023-09-19 13:26:03 UTC

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The sooner toxic people are shunned the sooner life improves. I had a whole swarm of them on me at the beginning of 2022 and within weeks of realising what was going on, everything got a hell of a lot better.
And the same applies to people on social media too. I'm now proactively muting people I see my follows replying to retarded notes regurgitating official narrative talking points.
The less I see this shit, the more time I have to do things that matter. Distraction is the last resort of the manipulators if all other tactics are failing, and the one that shunning completely defeats.

2023-09-19 13:22:21 UTC

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The mass hallucination continues.

2023-09-19 13:20:50 UTC

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*much higher temperature.

2023-09-19 13:20:02 UTC

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Another trick that might work is using baked epsom salts to dry out the dissolved extract in butter. With totaly dried out epsom salt, all the trace water that would otherwise contaminate the butter is eliminated and takes the chlorophyll with it.
I might just add that you don't get any of this kind of problem if you do your extraction with naptha (petroleum ether) in the first place, so long as you completely dry the bud before you do the extraction. It comes out a golden honey colour instead of nasty greenish black.
In fact, even better is to just go straight to oil, start with something like beef dripping, do your extraction into that directly, and then separate with water.
Dripping is better because it solidifies much harder at a much lower temperature, meaning you can get the job done sooner.
Cocoa butter also is a reasonable alternative, and contains a lot of stuff in common with beef dripping, mainly the stuff that makes it hard, stearic acid.

2023-09-19 13:10:17 UTC

I am for only the second time having problems with my internet connection. Specifically, I have a VPS in Kazakhstan, and I mirrored a moderately large repo to the Gitea server on it, and then tried to clone the one from my server.
It gets to part way into downloading the larger *.pack files in the git and connection is severed.
Tried with the zip, again, gets a few megs in and bam, MAC error on the packets.
I literally have to use a VPN to download stuff from my own VPS right now.
They don't seem to tamper with my traffic if I use a UDP based VPN that starts in the netherlrands so fingers crossed it stays that way.
The new Iron Curtain is coming, people.

2023-09-19 13:07:05 UTC

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The man who said "pull it" would be a good start.
But as much as it's interesting history, I'm in no need of being better convinced, and I think you probably already have encountered the hallucinations that normies have about the impossibility of the GoVeRnMeNt DoInG bAd ThInGs. ThAt'S iMpOsSiBlE. sOuRcEs?
https://image.nostr.build/542a116228087dcb5ca94824226fc2231795d6c88bb1433ca3f70a119817334d.png

2023-09-19 13:03:33 UTC

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Ok, well I only wrote this: https://elfspice.tripod.com/acacia/acacia_extraction.html
I know nothing about psychedelic drugs ok?
I'm pretty sure that the techniques I described in there, that I learned from researching extraction chemistry on thehive were key to DMT being accessible to almost everyone now.
Also, don't tell me to shut up, that's never going to work.

2023-09-19 10:11:14 UTC

Hallucinations are not only seeing things that are not there.
They can also be not seeing things that are there.
The brain's capacity to edit things out, this type of omissive hallucination, is something that the majority of humans are capable of and experience on a regular basis, and can be induced to experience it, unwittingly, by hypnotic suggestion.
Some people, like me, still have the hallucinatory capacity, but not the vulnerability to hypnotic suggestion.
It's kinda frustrating because I have hypnotic/trauma imprinted programs in me, but normal hypnosis doesn't seem to touch me, no matter how much I want it to.
This is probably why I got so interested in psychedelics, and probably need to resort to them to finish the job of clearing out the crap.

2023-09-19 09:59:58 UTC

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My very first reaction to it as I watched the live broadcasts was "oh that's rather convenient for georgie poo".
Oh it was completely manufactured, and a lot of people benefited. The owners of the towers saved a lot of money not having to deal with the asbestos problem, for one. And it was then easy to ram through the Patriot Act as well.

2023-09-19 09:23:31 UTC

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If Stalin and Mao used Marx to excuse their authoritarianism then he's still implicated. Not only that, Marx's character and his family connections are highly suspicious.
I am sad for you if you grew up in eastern europe and your elders didn't warn you about what the dangers of Marx's hogwash were.

2023-09-19 09:16:31 UTC

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911 was an inside job. None of it could have happened without a lot of trusted public figures conspiring against the public.

2023-09-19 09:03:15 UTC

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Well, I totally understand your thinking there but I just don't have to think about it any more. I can plug this thing into a phone even if I want to, and as I say I have two of them and they aren't that big.

2023-09-19 09:02:12 UTC

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I agree in principle, the power factor is needed. Walking 10 hours on flat is not gonna help you run, but walking up 20' slopes for 10 hours a day will, because you need so much power in each step compared to on the flat.
As regards to typing, I do only have to press more lightly but my velocity is overall higher because I can now type close to 100wpm where on stiff membrane normie keyboards I topped out at 65 or so.
So the speed in this case does compensate because velocity increasing increases power.
I basically can't type on the old layout anymore tho. When I have to deal with qwerty I'm two fingers and annoyed as hell.

2023-09-19 08:58:15 UTC

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yeah, I love my chery silvers. I have seen these other types, the mechanical/optical and membrane suspended but I specifically want to get away from rubber altogether, I type so much that the switches stop working after about a year on a regular membrane keyboard, and even sooner if I also game on it at the same time. I think optical would be a good thing so long as the switching mechanism doesn't change the spring/lever mechanic.
Also, fuck what people are used to. People used to think that all women should wear 3"+ heels too, even though we haven't been riding horses for a century. Heels in general have not gone away. Also very biomechanically unsound.
Fuck their unergonomic shit. some things are worth suffering a bit of inconvenience for. I'm sure you also have an RSI/carpal tunnel story associated with the heavy and nasty stiff membrane keyboards.

2023-09-19 08:53:00 UTC

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I made a special layout that follows dvorak and puts J = ж, x = ю, w = ш, c = ц and these characters go in logical places along the number keys: ы№эчёщъь I did all this to type bulgarian cyrillic, and discovered that the bulgarian layout is missing only one key that is present in the russian, but all bulgarian symbols are on the russian, so I just use the russian layout, and that lets me also type the "yo" Ё
I want to change to programming it using the compose key combos because then I don't have to change the layout as well.
Did you know that web browsers always leak your keyboard layout? I was typing since 2004 on Dvorak, leaving a more than distinctive fingerprint on web browsers. Even with all the antifingerprinting turned on, nope, they still confess your damn keyboard layout. So it's nice to now not be leaving that mark everywhere.
And yeah, I'm gonna have to reprogram my keyboard again so I can make all that easier.
I could never go back to qwerty, and with a pair of idobao 75s laying around I never have to go back to staggered either.

2023-09-19 08:06:45 UTC

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I am never buying an android phone again. But I am anchored to one thanks to needing a fiat onramp, it's either that or kyc to a bank. The xapo bank is the lesser of two evils I think. I can keep that bastard phone far away from me and/or turned off and locked up. Rgiht now, it needs to be on so I have internet but once the cables are connected it's going to be locked up except when I need to receive some sats.

2023-09-19 08:04:07 UTC

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Reddit is a hive of programmable drones. Remember wallstbets?
In fact, you can look at the steemit network for an example of a cult that sprung up from the reddit hive, that used many of the same techniques to bring on groupthink.

2023-09-19 08:01:49 UTC

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Or you could do like me and type at least 5000-10000 words a day, compensating for the lower cost per keypress :D

2023-09-19 08:00:59 UTC

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Always good to meet a fellow touch typist and mech keyboard fan...
The only thing I would like more than this keyboard I have now is if it had another 15 keys so it can comfortably have a dedicated numeric key section. As it is I already placed the arrows in the centre of the layout.
When I've got some time to spare I'm going to learn how to hand code these things because currently I have cyrillic, dvorak and qwerty, and the cyrillic I'm probably not going to use much anymore за съжаление but it's annoying because keyboards are programmed by the key location, so to do other languages you have to fuck around with layout switching or, what I haven't done yet - using the compose keys to make them press whatever I want. I want to be able to type portuguese symbols on this so at some point I have to spend a day or two learning how to do that. Compose keys are a pain as well because the systems are different on every platform, so I'd literally have to make one program for linux and another for windows.
I doubt you have this issue, most people just stick with the trad jagged layout and are not forced to make choices like this because nobody seems to understand that ortholinears with pissy little layouts like 40 and 60 are seriously messed up for real work.

2023-09-19 05:51:21 UTC

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I have an Idobao ID75 ortholinear keyboard with cherry silver. They trigger at half the normal pressure. Most "experts" say that this leads to a lot of typos but actually, no, though probably the average person is so dull and insensitive it would. For me it means I'm using a lot less energy and straining myself a lot less per volume of text.
In case you wonder how I type so much without injury.

2023-09-19 05:48:48 UTC

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Nostr DMs practically are email. They should expire on the server though.
Expiry dates on events would be a great thing for assisting in managing the volume of data to eliminate stuff that users don't need to have relayed any more.

2023-09-19 05:47:05 UTC

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indeed, and even there, a bad explanation for a thing that works is prone to change. The fact of it working, and the way to produce the device, do not.

2023-09-19 05:45:57 UTC

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hallucinations are not the same thing as visual effects.
you don't see things that aren't there on dmt, psilocybin, lsd, you see them distort and have pretty patterns on them but not fundamentally not there. If you want to hallucinate, you need to eat datura or brugmansia or amanita.
hallucinating is a very bad thing. Most people hallucinate that the government isn't out to rob them of every last penny they can get away with. Most people hallucinate that their phones are not spying on them. Most people hallucinate that it's ok to be 20kg or more overweight.

2023-09-19 05:30:18 UTC

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The AI's got plenty of proprietary parts in its programming. The algorithm is prone to hallucinating.

2023-09-19 05:24:59 UTC

"The Science" changes because of marketing bullcrap.
Real science doesn't tend to flip flop. It grows organically and mostly only the newer things change as we move further outwards from them.

2023-09-19 05:15:04 UTC

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humans can eat sugars so they can build up a fat layer. It's a fallback mechanism for when real food is hard to find.

2023-09-18 17:58:42 UTC

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why the government? The money is owned by a cartel of private individuals. So is the government but put that aside for a moment.
They are trying to suspend gravity. They can't control the mass movement of money, only attempt to nudge it this way and that. Sooner or later gravity returns as the manipulations run out of power versus the facts of the market.

2023-09-18 17:16:04 UTC

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I severely doubt that even after a year honey's still got enzymes in it to any great degree. And it's hella fructose.

2023-09-18 17:15:23 UTC

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Is there some reason why people aren't running their own?
I almost was but then I know I am sharing its address with the world and I couldn't see how to put auth on it. VPS has more important duties, I'm not letting it get polluted by spam.

2023-09-18 16:58:42 UTC

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Tapsigner is awesome.
Ledger is garbage.

2023-09-18 16:57:57 UTC

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It's the most epic demonstration of what E=MC2 means. Christopher Nolan is a serial epic film maker, I think almost everything I have seen from him blew my mind.

2023-09-18 16:51:07 UTC

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Also, how do you do your fiat ramps? I don't have the convenience of a stable location and have had to contend with neobanks for several years now, and all of them basically you can't use them without play services, both Revolut and iCard refuse to run on a rooted device also.

2023-09-18 16:40:22 UTC

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I'm sure you know that google doesn't give the source of the firmware. There's basically no mobile devices, and no laptops or even desktops that don't have mysterious things in the firmware.
The kernels have a lot of mitigations for them though, but these bastards have the edge with their government protected monopolies.
I've been following the open hardware/firmware thing for literally decades. They don't want us to own our hardware.

2023-09-18 15:08:32 UTC

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Well, there's not a hell of a lot more they could be doing than google and co are already doing, at the system and firmware level.
I almost never use my phone anymore anyhow, I'd already have gleefully smashed it to shards if it weren't for needing my fiat offramp.
amethyst is really shit tho, seriously.

2023-09-18 13:55:33 UTC

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fuck amethyst. plebstr is much nicer.

2023-09-18 13:51:57 UTC

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I'm too busy trying to code and also trying not to spend too much time here.
As far as criticising security and threat model flaws in anything, as a programmer I'd like to see such criticism even louder, actually.
People should not be blase about this stuff. Learning that it's not all peaches and cream should be lesson one.
As far as criticising other people's approaches to presentation, I say go ahead and say whatever you want but you're on shaky ground if you use collectivist arguments and plural pronouns and other such marks of weak thinking.
Criticising the users, on the other hand, you are very much in agreement with me. Specify the target of the criticism. If you wanna criticise newbies, you can go back to the mute list. Friendliness is the first rule of being welcoming. No amount of blunt hammering is gonna teach anyone anything except that you are a twat.
Not you, of course, you seem reasonable.
It has been more than a decade since we had this freshness and light we see with nostr. All the veterans of the distorted silo social networks don't know what is happening here, and that's awesome, cos they can stay the fuck away, tyvm.

2023-09-18 13:46:17 UTC

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They should have done a profile shot of Jack for that 🤣

2023-09-18 13:18:41 UTC

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I dunno but I'm working on some BIP340 schnorr signature stuff that has a ZBD/NBD badge on it, and it's terrible terrible code. Yes the label says "Naive" but it looks like it was written by a bunch of 13 year olds who just spent the weekend learning Go.

2023-09-18 13:14:36 UTC

IMO, it is a conspiracy to call cryptographic secret keys "private", to muddle the definition of secret (known only to a privileged party) versus private (almost always involving at least two privileged parties).
A bedroom is private, and yet most adults share it with someone.
A piece of land with a fence around it often has a sign saying "private property".
Who shares their cryptographic secret keys with their partner, or anyone? Anyone?
It's kinda against the whole principle.
What's inside your brain is secret. What's between you and your wife/business partners is private. The special knowledge of your company - yes, private, not really secret.
I know that the two have overlapping meanings but it's not "secret property", it's "private property".
It's a secret key. It's secret because you don't tell anyone. As soon as someone else knows it, it's either private or public.
It may sound like I am trying to make definitions where there isn't one, but there really needs to be a distinction since what's in my brain is secret, what I tell my friends is private, and what I post on the internet is public.
If my secrets are not kept only to me, then how does anyone know if I'm behind the actions related to the use of the secrets?
How many stories have you heard about people abusing the ability to access a shared secret?
Why does Shamir's Secret Shares scheme have the qualifier "share" in it, if it isn't because the individual parts are still secret?

2023-09-18 12:55:55 UTC

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Interesting because it's one of the few phone number tied signal protocol (formerly red phone) protocol chats that doesn't make you check you still have that phone number. You can set up a telegram account with one, and then never use it again.
Sounds to me like once again they are being targeted because of this.

2023-09-18 12:54:34 UTC

I so need to get to a dental surgeon. I'm sick to death of this wisdom tooth.
I also don't know what it is I'm eating that tweaks it out.
First suspect that is off the menu is artificial sweeteners of any kind. I already know that maltodextrin tweaks the bejesus out of it, but there seems to be other things too, not so severe.
I also can't tell if it might not be something to do with super sugary chocolate (pure chocolate is fine, but I suspect very strongly sugar), or sunflower seeds, sunflower oil, chemically extracted olive oil, fried potatoes. Not sure either if it might not be something to do with natural or added monosodium glutemate. I used to get tooth pain from my chipped teeth years ago from certain kinds of drip filtered coffee too. Citric acid is definitely under suspicion.
Part of the thing is that I daily use potassium nitrate containing toothpaste to numb the dental nerves that cause this problem, and in spite of this, I'm getting an escalating problem again.
I also suspect sugars in general because certain things do this thing, I don't have a clue what it is exactly, but it seems like transdermal absorption that goes into the area around my jaw and causes this twitchng and swelling and pain, and I have this intermittent sense of swelling around my left ear as well, which seems to be tied to the thing in the jaw.
Things that don't seem to have any impact on this:
- milk
- beef
- cream
- butter
- peas
- stout beer
I'm just gonna continue to avoid anything that involves sugars or seed oils, I strongly suspect both are involved.
The sunflower and pumpkin seeds are in my diet to augment my Thiamine intake but they may be contributing to this problem since they are among the things whose introduction correlates to the increasing pain.

2023-09-18 12:38:02 UTC

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I think newfoundland might be close?

2023-09-18 12:28:03 UTC

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The darkness of those map sections also correlates to the degree of socialism prevalent in the places in question.
I'm not sure what the point is.

2023-09-18 12:14:45 UTC

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Do you not understand linguistics either?

2023-09-18 09:59:34 UTC

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When I was in Istanbul airport there was like 25% of the women were like this whore.

2023-09-18 07:32:27 UTC

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They pray to saints in buddhism though.
Probably more historically accurate to the origins of this "god" thing anyway.

2023-09-18 07:29:02 UTC

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This is ~14.4% average inflation over the last 8 years.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/06/hyperinflation-inflation-interest-rate/
According to the WEF, inflation "may reach" "10%"...
uh huh. Fucking liars.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation#Definition
The International Accounting Standards Board has issued guidance on accounting rules in a hyperinflationary environment. It does not establish an absolute rule on when hyperinflation arises, but instead lists factors that indicate the existence of hyperinflation:[9]The general population prefers to keep its wealth in non-monetary assets or in a relatively stable foreign currency. Amounts of local currency held are immediately invested to maintain purchasing power;The general population regards monetary amounts not in terms of the local currency but in terms of a relatively stable foreign currency. Prices may be quoted in that currency;Sales and purchases on credit take place at prices that compensate for the expected loss of purchasing power during the credit period, even if the period is short;Interest rates, wages, and prices are linked to a price index; andThe cumulative inflation rate over three years approaches, or exceeds, 100%.
By this definition above, we are in hyperinflation already at 14%
1.144 ^ 3 = 2.74
That's 270% in the last 3 years taken on the average from the last 8 years.
In actual fact, starting in 2020, the inflation rate has been more than double that. I remember noticing it was happening already in 2019, seeing price mismatch at a supermarket in Shumen, Bulgaria, that had more than 30% between the shelf label and the sticker on the products, which couldn't have been more than a year, absolute worst case scenario.
#nevent1q…ytkv

2023-09-18 06:49:49 UTC

Started my day with a walk in the dark up the road to the end where the gully/creek passing my place ends.
I will probably go in daylight in the near future and find out where the footpaths are out that way to follow them up and see how far I can go on foot towards the nearby peaks.
Life is good living on a rugged volcanic island. Except for the dogs that people cage up just to bark aimlessly for no purpose at the, mostly cats, wandering past.
I did see a rabbit along the road too. I will probably never see them in daylight because of the cars, but I'm very curious what variety they are. I could see he had a little tufty white tail.

2023-09-18 06:45:56 UTC

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Actually, farmers is definitely a high suicide rate vocation. Banks are absolutely evil to them.

2023-09-18 06:43:17 UTC

I have a nip-05 now 🕺

2023-09-18 05:30:36 UTC

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I wasn't testing if I could post the notes, just if the relay was getting them. I don't want to run the relay without some kind of access control, and web apps don't understand localhost.

2023-09-18 04:07:50 UTC

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yeah nah, nice to see I can do it but I'm not exposing my VPS to the kind of damage I anticipate from having it run a relay that I am openly declaring on my events to public relays.
Still waiting for a minimal native nostr GUI that lets me run my private relay here so I have all my events and can repost them if I want to.
Best I focus on finishing my bounty project.

2023-09-18 04:04:30 UTC

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yes, it is working. But I can't be pushing out a note naming the URL without filtering access to it. Maybe I can just firewall it for now...

2023-09-18 04:03:01 UTC

testing, testing, 1 2 3
checking if my relay is working

2023-09-18 03:31:15 UTC

Just trying to install mattn/nostr-relay...
go: downloading github.com/btcsuite/btcd/btcec/v2 v2.3.2
go: downloading github.com/dgraph-io/ristretto v0.1.1
go: downloading github.com/gobwas/httphead v0.1.0
go: downloading github.com/gobwas/ws v1.3.0
go: downloading github.com/mailru/easyjson v0.7.7
go: downloading github.com/puzpuzpuz/xsync/v2 v2.5.0
go: downloading github.com/puzpuzpuz/xsync v1.5.2
go: downloading github.com/tidwall/gjson v1.16.0
go: downloading github.com/klauspost/compress v1.16.7
go: downloading github.com/savsgio/gotils v0.0.0-20230208104028-c358bd845dee
go: downloading github.com/valyala/fasthttp v1.50.0
go: downloading github.com/decred/dcrd/dcrec/secp256k1/v4 v4.2.0
go: downloading github.com/btcsuite/btcd/chaincfg/chainhash v1.0.2
go: downloading github.com/cespare/xxhash/v2 v2.2.0
go: downloading github.com/dustin/go-humanize v1.0.1
go: downloading github.com/golang/glog v1.1.2
go: downloading github.com/pkg/errors v0.9.1
go: downloading golang.org/x/sys v0.12.0
go: downloading github.com/gobwas/pool v0.2.1
go: downloading github.com/josharian/intern v1.0.0
go: downloading github.com/tidwall/match v1.1.1
go: downloading github.com/tidwall/pretty v1.2.1
go: downloading github.com/andybalholm/brotli v1.0.5
go: downloading github.com/valyala/bytebufferpool v1.0.0
go: downloading github.com/decred/dcrd/crypto/blake256 v1.0.1
Is anyone else bothered by the presence of Decred in this list?

2023-09-18 03:22:36 UTC

They tempt me with violence
They punish with ideals
And an image of myself
That is nothing if not unreal
-- Snog - Hunter

2023-09-18 02:36:32 UTC

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Notes do get deleted, people.
#nevent1q…lsga

2023-09-17 21:15:37 UTC

Easiest way to not see garbage on the internet is to not download images and media.
You're welcome.

2023-09-17 21:14:26 UTC

I'm on a strict bandwidth budget right now and to achieve minimal usage, I'm learning about how to do some old school shit.
https://whatvwant.com/how-to-disable-images-in-chrome/
I may get addicted to this because the pages come up way faster.
This isn't the olden days of dreamweaver and tables full of fixed sized images. CSS is still coming down and can practically replace images for most stuff. Theoretically they could still be loading SVGs but I think they are not loading either.
Feeling some nostalgia rn, really liking it.

2023-09-17 20:56:54 UTC

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I think more about Atlantis than either of those things.

2023-09-17 20:12:47 UTC

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No, it wouldn't because the identity would be based on the signature on the nonce, not the signature on the note.

2023-09-17 19:42:26 UTC

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I'm third generation of probably a very long line of refuseniks. My grandfather used to register his car in a different state to arbitrage this cost. My mother and father both did and do all kinds of things to avoid being robbed. Me, I've figured out what the game is here, and I'm telling you:
Every psychopath who steals your time, is part of their system.
Every psychopath you give no more time and attention to is denying their system of its life blood.
You have no power outside of refusing to give your time and energy to them.
Choosing bitcoin is consequential to this, not causative.

2023-09-17 18:56:44 UTC

Why is it that the Richat Structure is the only such example of its kind on our whole planet?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richat_Structure
The article tries to say that it's a "highly eroded" geological dome.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dome_(geology)
There are several other examples of other types of domes, but not one that is formed out of a volcano.
Not. Even. One. Other
Doesn't that seem a little weird?
Consider the scenario. We have a volcano. For some millennia, it spews basalt.
Then a bloop of more silicaceous stuff appears, and it spews a bunch of hard orange terracotta stuff. Ok, it's mostly iron, I'm just describing it so you can understand it. Terracotta is iron rich aluminosilicates. Red sand.
Then later, it starts spewing some more basalt. (black, this contains a lot of black iron oxides, as opposed to the yellow and red of previous phases).
Again, some terracotta.
Ok, so what next? Oh yes, this looks like :Cobalt. Ok, it starts spewing a bit of cobalt.
Then suddenly it's cobalt and nickel.
Looking at the colours, there seems no other logic to how this thing could have formed. I'm seriously wondering how in the hell such a thing could happen at all. It's not just unlikely, it's cracking a 128 bit password by brute force with all the computers in the world for a million years unlikely.
Firstly, our planet's core does not contain very much nickel and cobalt. Just look at the geology of almost every volcanic region on the planet, they are everywhere.
Most nickel found on earth is associated with meteorites. The metal was first discovered by the Chinese. It, cobalt and iron are the main "ferromagnetic" metals. That is, they can hold a magnetic alignment permanently.
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The structure is clearly not natural, at least, not the flattening part. The materials are not uniformly dense or uniformly chemically, or mechanically soft.
It may well be that if you took an old volcano, and cut off the entire top of it, you could get something like this. But you couldn't do that with modern technology without an INCREDIBLE amount of energy and worn cutting devices. Or gigatons of TNT, used in thousands and thousands of careful explosions.

2023-09-17 18:40:28 UTC

There needs to be a new type of Nostr note that signs a nonce with the same key every time but each new note is published with a new key.
The current arrangement is bad cryptographic security. Read BIP 340.

2023-09-17 18:39:10 UTC

There needs to be a note type for "switch to new npub to continue following this npub, kthxbye".
I'm considering making a new key, just for a laff.
It is also bad cryptographic practise to use EC keys for more than one message anyhow. Read BIP 340.

2023-09-17 18:37:14 UTC

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GFY

2023-09-17 18:35:51 UTC

Something that is happening rn that reminds me how feeble the internet really is, is that I have burned through 200gb of data on my Vodafone mobile internet tourist plan.
Until I organise something else, my max download speed is 150kb/s, though probably it goes faster at night when everyone isn't watching 4k youtube videos on their 5" mobile phones.

2023-09-17 18:27:28 UTC

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I wish the world had trains like Bulgaria. It's a cultural thing, clearly, even the neighbours are fucking it up and they aren't even in the EU (serbia). Serbia used to be cool like Bulgaria. Bulgarians are clearly superior because they refuse to change things that work.

2023-09-17 18:13:51 UTC

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local first
number one mistake of the internet rn is substituting remote for local.

2023-09-17 18:12:12 UTC

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check what relays you are sending them to.

2023-09-17 17:54:15 UTC

I don't leave tabs open in my browser any more.
Control-W, Control-W, Control-W. Ah, it's gone. Time to get back to work.

2023-09-17 17:53:35 UTC

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I disagree. The problem is giving your time and energy to psychopaths. Everything else flows from that.

2023-09-17 17:48:44 UTC

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I don't think the smartphones have any impact on the aliens.
We are just in a phase like the olden days of mainframes and dumb terminals. This led to the personal computer and the floppy disk.

2023-09-17 17:47:25 UTC

Number one clue that we are going to see a massive electromagnetic event in the near future is that everything needs to be rewritten. The software is such a mess. Web browsers were not meant to be user interfaces, but rather, libraries.
When things go this wrong, they always have to crash.

2023-09-17 17:42:50 UTC

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What becomes full must empty out. What is empty can become full.

2023-09-17 17:24:24 UTC

I remember the days before the internet.
They were a lot more peaceful.
I am not saying that the connection isn't a good thing, rather, that we should still store all our data locally, and not depend on the wires to give us everything, or when they inevitably fail, we will have nothing.