dantzler

Biochemist interested in decentralization. Open to collaboration.

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2026-07-23 18:49:42 CEST

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I am happy for you. I learn something every day - I used quercitin during covid to enhance zinc bioavailability. Did not know it was found in nettles and also has anti-inflammatory properties. We have a few nettles growing in the woods at our tree farm and are trying to encourage/propagate them.

2026-07-23 05:27:19 CEST

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You are not alone in that.

2026-07-20 17:53:45 CEST

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What don't you like about mint? I run debian trixie on my laptops and it just works. Mint is debian under the hood, which is why I asked. For desktops I use gnome or xcfe, but there are various options. Once you get it set up, you should be good to go and most any issue can be quickly solved with a decent LLM troubleshooting session. I've set up a few bargain thinkpads for non- or less-technical friends and generally the only friction is getting them to update the packages regularly.

2026-07-15 18:05:29 CEST

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I tried to make a model that would engage the small, brass valve handle of a Wye adapter. We have many of these on our farm and my partner has trouble sometimes turning them by hand. The handle is a non-symmetric, skinny diamond shape. I just wanted a reasonable negative space that matches the handle like a socket, with an extension for leverage. I tried Claude, GPT & Gemini and none of them were able to get the shape right even after uploading a photo of the valve handle and a hand drawing with micrometer measurements.
This was a couple months ago, so I should try again.

2026-03-12 19:05:01 CET

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Indeed. I appreciate your open mind.

2026-03-12 18:09:26 CET

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I just didn't have the heart to do that, plus Linux just seemed like this wild land to explore. My last windows box was 7. I was never allowed admin privileges at work and it was a constant source of frustration for me. Once I started learning Linux I was hooked. I hear you though and have heard that from other wise folks.
The first (biotech) real startup I worked for let me be my own IT dept. I ran Debian stable on a p52 and ran windows in a VM so my laptop could talk to the instruments in lab. It was great. I still fire that old VM up occasionally to use the instrument specific software if I need to for consulting.
These days I'm moving more towards learning to use LLMs to both build software and learn programming & security best practices. Doing this in a Linux environment is much more comfortable for me. The telemetry and embedded AI in windows is quite scary.

2026-03-12 17:54:02 CET

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I have been a Debian user for years. These days I run Trixie on my main workstation and multiple Pis and Sid on several other boxes, plus my laptop. My node runs Trixie and my Pi5 with openclaw runs ubuntu server headless. My ancient beagleboneblacks are now running trixie.
In general, stuff just works, and Sid gives me access to more fresh packages, even if it is a headache sometimes for constantly filling up /boot with new kernels, not working with more conservative stuff I use like Rstudio, etc.
I'm genuinely curious about some other more hands-on distros like gentoo or arch for learning and more control. Plus the whole Cali age-verification thing for dbus has me concerned and looking preemptively for alternatives.
I'm not a dev per se, but I like hardware (think homemade antennas, sensors, etc.) and writing Python tools. I do some bioinformatics for work. I came to Linux based on a loathing of windows, being somewhat of a control freak, and wanting to learn. I am eternally grateful that it exists as I interact with it nearly every waking day.

2026-02-10 21:50:07 CET

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The freezer doesn't work. When it is 'freezing' at the beginning it stays near ambient temperature. The vacuum pump seems to work although we had to replace the oil after a relatively short while. What seems weird is the coolant compressor seems warm, but doesn't seem to be running.
I did extend a run that seemed almost done until the morning so I could go to sleep. It looked like some water made it down to the pump the next morning, but we cleaned all that out. The no-freezing part we noticed on the next run before the vacuum would be on. I need to allocate some time to troubleshoot. It seems like a fairly simple system, much like the lyophilizers I have used at lab.

2026-02-10 21:05:52 CET

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I'm no dev, but I love using my imagination (and a basic understanding of systems, CS, Python, etc.) to indulge my enjoyment of tinkering and building things. Nothing that I have released, but I may at some point share.
I'm interested in a making a transaction explorer/tracer with good visualization that uses only queries to a local full node.
Also playing around with BLE sensors & a Pi or old beaglebone to collect environmental data (temp, pressure, humidity, etc.), store it in a SQLite db & make visualizations. For me this has practical aspects since I'm trying to grow things at a remote site where the actual temps are more extreme than the NOAA data from the nearest weather station suggest.
AI is such a great and fun tool. I used to do similar things with books & stack exchange and now it is just way faster and more focused on the ideas and architecture.

2026-02-10 20:23:19 CET

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Honest question: how do you feel about linchpin libraries like secp256k1?

2026-02-10 18:55:02 CET

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Is that support? My printer (a kossel pro that I built) prints most things pretty well, but recently I tried printing part of a meshtastic board case.
One of the parts required support and my printer kept blobbing up while trying to do the support structures. I have always tried to do my designs to not require support, but this is someone else's .stl file.
I spent some time with an LLM doing research and it seems like there are things I can try (e.g. slow things down, make the supports have a bigger footprint, et al) to tweak in how I slice the print, but I have not had time to get back to that project.
On an unrelated note, our freeze drier decided to stop 'freezing'. We had a whole batch of bananas turn out with a chewy texture. Do you know of any good resources to troubleshoot? It sounds like the relay is clicking but the compressor is not coming on, even though it feels warm to the touch. Same model as yours, I think.

2026-02-02 23:55:04 CET

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I'm in a similar boat, needing to raise funds for day to day activities while I try to find a decent job in science. Rolling month-to-month at this point, supplementing with other assets when I can.

2026-01-28 22:40:28 CET

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My pleasure. Happy to find interesting, positive folks here!

2026-01-28 22:31:45 CET

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I've been saving copper pennies for years. In 1982, they were mixed, so a non-destructive way to tell is weigh them: Zn pennies are 2.5 g and Cu pennies about 3.1 g
I've also been saving all my nickels, which are 75% Ni & 25% Cu.
Today, a copper penny has almost $0.04 of copper and nickels are worth around $0.07
Being both a sound money enthusiast and somewhat of a metal head, I figure some day I will melt these down (separately) and cast a cool piece of art. Or use the pennies in a project that needs copper to conduct electricity or heat.
My partner's kid is into pennies since they are being phased out. They get all my zinc ones, but I did gift a 1964 50 cent piece for xmas that has done nicely since then.

2026-01-28 21:34:58 CET

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Super cool!

2026-01-28 21:24:23 CET

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This is a sound analysis. It is not easy to bring significant additional silver to market. Industrial demand is fairly inelastic. At some point the price will disgorge holdings from retail to meet the demand.
As an aside, I have heard multiple reports from folks (some from my bitdevs group) who have had a hard time selling physical back to e.g. coin shops. They are getting -30% off spot if the store even offers to buy it.

2026-01-28 21:19:39 CET

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Mostly up to and including 1964, except for some later half-dollars and dollars. This is a great resource:
https://www.coinflation.com/

2026-01-28 20:13:01 CET

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I'm in the same general area. Can see St. Helens from our country road.
I'm learning about how to produce biochar on site. Thank you.

2026-01-28 20:09:22 CET

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I did not. For wanting to assert bodily autonomy I was fired from 2 scientist jobs in the biotech industry. One of my best friends got Guillain-Barré syndrome from his first booster.
Kevin Mckernan & Jessica Rose are trying to share data on DNA contamination in these products and are being fought by the establishment, who are using the review process, etc. to suppress their work. I believe they actually inscribed a reference to this paper in the timechain and are using nostr as an uncensorable mechanism to share it.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/08916934.2025.2551517?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%20%200pubmed#abstract

2026-01-27 20:17:55 CET

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Whereabouts are you? I am interested in hugelkulture and we have many similar plant species on our property (PNW.) Thank you for sharing the process/progress. Our forest has more course, woody debris than I currently know what to do with...

2026-01-14 09:26:16 CET

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Hi from X. Thanks for sharing your npub there the other day.

2026-01-08 05:05:08 CET

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You're in good company. Welcome.

2026-01-08 05:02:42 CET

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Welcome, Berk. Nice salmon prep!

2025-12-23 08:42:26 CET

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I'm in again at some point. Next few Wednesdays are tough. Open to shifting day though.
Hang in there @nprofile…q8k3

2025-12-18 23:54:42 CET

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Fascinating - thank you!

2025-12-18 22:27:45 CET

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31.10 pounds smoked

2025-12-05 20:29:38 CET

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Thank you for the rec. Will try it out. I had been using station-specific apps like kexp or c89.5 but appreciate the opportunity to increase musical diversity!

2025-12-02 20:37:48 CET

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Thanks for the post. You reminded/inspired me to spend more time learning about rocket mass heaters. We have lots of firewood, but it needs to be seasoned. Score on the mill trimmings!

2025-11-27 18:20:18 CET

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You too. Enjoy family.

2025-11-27 02:28:11 CET

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Have a great turkey day, all!

2025-11-20 02:11:06 CET

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Beautiful. Did not know the name - thank you. It is plentiful on vine maples and other trees around me. Looks like some buttercup & maybe trailing blackberry, too? Alder or hazelnut leaves?

2025-11-13 18:17:25 CET

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found 48 proofs , but no ecash recovered. has me in a loop of 'going to the next interval', whatever that means. UX could use some work.
I get the message: "Good news is that already spent Ecash has been found. Continue with next recovery interval."
I've gone through 4-5 intervals, but they take a while. It does say that it is restoring from mint.minibits.cash The # of proofs found sometimes changes. It look like the intervals are ~ 50; I'm on 550-600, but don't have patience to keep at this much longer as I have not yet had coffee.
says keyset ID 00500550f0494146 (sat)
Running latest version of minibits on graphene.
good exercise - thank you. makes me think twice about the 9k sats I have under another seed.

2025-11-08 03:26:56 CET

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I fell into that trap once...
Started with a 55 gallon tank then added a couple 100s and a 26 bow front. Then put a 20 gal at work on my desk. I did fantasize about a custom, large tank.
Then I bought my own house that required some fixin' and downsized eventually to zero.
I'll probably get another tank at some point because it was so peaceful to watch the fish. Maybe incorporate aquaculture into homestead for different reasons.
I raised various types of mostly south american cichlids because their behaviors were interesting and they had quite a lot of personality for fish. Always good entertainment when my cat pickles would dip her paw into the tank with a feisty 7" labiatus...

2025-11-07 18:23:40 CET

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This sucks, I'm sorry to hear that.
which mint? It would be great to understand the failure mechanism. Bad mint or something else.
I still think cashu has a lot of promise, but there are tradeoffs. Love the idea of multinut.
Hope your weekend goes well.

2025-11-07 06:29:09 CET

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If your device (e.g. phone) has internet access, you can 'teleport' to different geohash locations. Click the top bar on the right where it has the # symbol. The characters after that are your geohash. In the #location channels you can switch to widen your radius from (BT) 'mesh' to 'block', 'neighborhood', 'city', 'province' or 'region'. Or if you know a specific location geohash, you can enter that. No extra hardware required.

2025-11-06 22:46:56 CET

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Thank you. I've had trouble with getting zaps working. Is there a good source of info you know of? I tried to link a phoenix wallet. Using amethyst, yakkihone, primal & sometimes jumble or ditto. I got set up early with nos2x, so I don't use alby.

2025-11-06 22:37:02 CET

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Folks in my signal group report that lava moved their coins without their permission and they do not appear to be doing DLC verification anymore.
Here are a couple takes from X that can provide more insight:
https://x.com/_arshbot/status/1986156462519832921
https://x.com/bonomat/status/1986308591796822041
Personally, I would avoid them like the plague, but I'm pretty conservative & boring.

2025-11-06 22:17:50 CET

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Have you considered @nprofile…9puf ?
I would be happy to test it out with you.
Thanks again for the great discussion last night!

2025-11-05 23:19:34 CET

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20:00 Eastern time zone?

2025-11-05 23:13:49 CET

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I'm game. Flexible on timing.

2025-11-05 21:31:54 CET

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I agree. Welcome to nostr!

2025-11-04 19:59:55 CET

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Wanted to share this in case it is not on your radar:
https://www.agweb.com/news/business/bitcoin-set-revolutionize-us-agriculture

2025-11-04 19:49:55 CET

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thank you for bringing this to my attention!

2025-11-01 01:23:39 CET

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Thanks - this was pretty interesting!

2025-10-23 18:44:18 CEST

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To be honest, I think it was user error. Pretty sure I just missed the nos2x window that popped up underneath another window and I wasn't approving the sign-in, hence could not get in using my nostr profile. Thank you.

2025-10-23 02:33:39 CEST

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I tried to pop in but hivetalk is not letting me join. Planned to say a quick hi, but I have a 5 hour interview at a startup tomorrow and am studying/working on slides. Hope y'all have a good night.

2025-10-16 07:15:46 CEST

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Thank you!

2025-10-16 06:25:09 CEST

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what are you using? I use ollama locally and just played around with this repo so I could talk with PDFs. I keep running out of memory though...
https://github.com/fahdmirza/doclingwithollama
I would like to be able to make audiobooks locally, too.

2025-10-09 01:52:26 CEST

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I can make it.

2025-10-01 23:52:41 CEST

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core v30
When my bitaxe arrives (thanks @nprofile…lwfh ) I will look into mining with Ocean or figure out how to translate/proxy to stratum v2.

2025-09-28 06:48:27 CEST

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You can always take it to the next level by using ideas from von Neumann to avoid potential bias in your dice:
Take any even‑length list of D6 outcomes (e.g. a 120‑length vector) and pair them sequentially (N0, N1), (N2, N3), etc.
They emit one bit per non‑tie:
0 if the first roll < second roll.
1 if the first roll > second roll.
Discard pairs where the two rolls are equal.
Repeat until you have sufficient bits for desired key entropy.
You probably don't need to do this, but it was a fun rabbit hole for me. I'm almost certain that e.g. seed signer et al do not use this approach and rather just ingest the raw die roll results.

2025-09-27 02:39:34 CEST

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The link took me here where it says out of stock.
https://pay.zaprite.com/pl_7kTSUVDT8g
I'm interested and was looking for the price. I'm kind of cash poor at the moment, but am keeping and eye out for economical ways to learn the mechanics of mining. I have no realistic expectation of hitting the 'lottery', just want to learn, integrate with my node, etc.
Thank you for replying.

2025-09-27 02:20:01 CEST

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and they are gone...
Thank you for the heads-up! (I did not get one this time)

2025-09-23 22:13:18 CEST

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Strongly agree.
The covid era reinforced both how important it is to think for oneself, and the lengths the entrenched narrative-creators are willing to go to demonize, discredit, de-platform & de-monetize people who dare to think critically based on their own lived experience & knowledge and information from their web of trust.

2025-09-23 19:52:28 CEST

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I agree with the vast majority of what you have written here. 😄
It is challenging at the beginning of developing a garden (we are only now 1 year on the property) to move things in the direction of healthy, microbially rich soil. The fun is in the journey and the learning.
So far, using deep leaf mulching from the abundant trees in the non-garden space has helped out compete weeds and add organic material to our clay-rich soils. We hunted for symphylans this weekend and fortunately did not find any. I'm excited to put some soil under a microscope to look at what kinds of nematodes we have, among other tiny soil creatures.
As you say, plants in healthy soil, like a healthy body will resist assault by pathogens. Both human and plant immune systems are truly amazing.

2025-09-23 19:21:11 CEST

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I will look at that. Thank you.
I agree that the Spanish flu is not what it seems and that many if not most of the people reputed to have died from flu likely died from something else (e.g. secondary bacterial infections, etc.)
Your profile lists homesteading as an interest, and I'm pretty sure that is why I originally followed you. I'm also working on homesteading. We harvested dozens of pears, asian pears, shallots, onions, potatoes & zucchini this past weekend. I am lucky to have a horticulturist as my beloved partner.
In the spirit of curiosity & improved plant yields, consider that there are plant pathogens that have been classified as viruses (various mosiac, wilt, leaf roll, leaf curl, etc.) that unfortunately infect tomatoes, potatoes, beans, cucumbers, peppers, spinach, etc. There are empirically determined mitigation strategies such as crop rotation, sanitizing of tools, reduction of insect vectors and pests, etc. I am trying to learn more about these to improve my ability to produce food.
The narrative around plant pathogens is less charged at the moment and may provide another perspective to learn and understand about this class of plant diseases.
Thank you for engaging respectfully and I agree that we are all free to believe what we wish. Be well.

2025-09-23 17:39:07 CEST

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What would be acceptable evidence for you?
I left out a bunch because my note was long AF.
When we transfected cells and could see editing via next gen sequencing, we had controls. If we 'transfected' with just buffer (no AAV vector) or if we transfected with purified empty capsids (no payload) or if we transfected with a non-functional 'dummy' payload we got no editing. So we controlled for some spontaneous process occurring in the cells to give us our results - it turns out we required intact capsids with the correct engineered payload to see function that we could measure.
For your car analogy, did you also park your car under a carport roof or next to a sprinkler on a sunny day to explore other ways a car could get wet or stay dry?
An AAV virus is on the order of 25 nm in size, so hard to study. Like many things at this scale, we must be creative and attempt to form hypotheses and devise experiments to test them.
If I had access to a BSL4 lab and a supply of monkeys recently deceased from ebola and I handed you a teaspoon full of their bodily fluids that I had subjected to techniques used to purify/enrich for viral particles, would you consume it if I offered you 1 BTC to do so?
[ spoiler: I would not let you because I care about your well being! ]
Humans may think we are pretty smart monkeys, but there are innumerable things in our universe that we do not understand or even know about. I find being comfortable with this more fun that constraining what I am willing to ponder based on an evolving framework.

2025-09-23 17:02:24 CEST

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I'm not a virologist, but I have studied viruses and used them to study other things, hijacked their function, etc.
At one job we were studying a challenging membrane protein - a calcium transporter called orai1. This protein is made of 6 subunits that arrange themselves in a hexagon embedded in the cell membrane, with a central Ca++ pore. We were trying to make antibodies against it, but it is incredibly challenging to try to solubilize a membrane protein with higher order structure in a way that preserves how it looks in nature.
A colleague in Denmark had a plasmid from grad school containing the gag/pol gene from a murine leukemia virus. The proteins coded for in this gene are necessary and sufficient to produce viral particles that bud off from the cell membrane of a transfected cell. We used HEK293 cells that were already overexpressing Orai1 and I purified the virus-like particles using an ultracentrifuge. These VLPs were decorated on the surface with intact Orai1 and we were able to use them to get spectacular antibodies made.
At another job I worked with the AAV virus. We hijacked this one such that we could replace most of its tiny genome with e.g. a piece of DNA that coded for an ADAR guide RNA. The guides were designed to bind to a defective mRNA and could effectively change an 'A' to a 'G' in that mRNA. In the case of e.g. certain types of muscular dystrophy, changing the 'A' in a premature stop codon to a 'G' resulted in full length dystrophin being made and the potential for a kid with that genetic disease to live a more normal life.
I did analytics on these vector preps that involved using ultracentrifugation to separate empty capsids (most of them) from full capsids that contained our DNA payload. We ran a fairly cutting edge mass spec technique that is able to literally weigh each capsid to observe the fraction with payloads vs. empty, and also even partial (smaller) payloads. We could also study the mass distribution of the capsids themselves since they are made up of 3 proteins all of slightly different masses and the 60 subunit icosahedrons assemble stochastically and therefore the viral particles have different ratios of the 3 structural proteins - hence you get a distribution of empty capsid masses.
My colleagues put these preps on cells and were able to measure mRNA editing in the cells using next generation sequencing.
So here, from a bunch of biophysical first principles, I was able to see evidence of viral structure and function as defined as being able to get into a cell and interact with the cellular machinery.
Be careful of people who tell you viruses don't exist. Sometimes in an information war, adversaries will plant ideas that are picked up and espoused by people who are otherwise sharing uncomfortable truths, in order to discredit them and lower the impact and reach of their message.

2025-09-20 17:02:33 CEST

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Hang in there man. Take some time for yourself and perhaps go for a quiet walk.
I'll be away from the internet for the weekend but perhaps we can chat again next Wednesday.

2025-09-19 21:48:35 CEST

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I did have a job after the covid debacle at another startup that I really enjoyed, but they ran short on funding at the end of last year.

2025-09-19 21:46:33 CEST

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Thank you. I appreciate your positive attitude and thoughtfulness.
I'm doing well. Unemployed and teetering between trying to find an ethical biotech startup to continue that career vs. moving to our tree farm full time to raise a few animals, garden, forage and do forestry.
A cool in between option is that I spoke with the CEO at Umbrel this morning about doing tech support for them. That would be super fun and facilitate a more graceful shift away from the city. I am very passionate about freedom tech and would be happy trading my time to further that cause. Opportunities like that are scarce for a biotech junkie like me.

2025-09-19 20:16:12 CEST

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Here is their recent paper. Not surprisingly, the blob is trying their best to get it retracted as it does not paint Pfizer in a very positive light.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/08916934.2025.2551517?needAccess=true
I came across Jessica because we were both learning R and playing with VAERS data, but she is much better at it than I. 😉

2025-09-19 20:11:40 CEST

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This brings back painful memories. I also watched as people who wanted sovereignty over their own bodies were demonized. I'm glad @nprofile…0u9v did not get fired and proud of @nprofile…00y7 's husband.
I ended up getting fired from 2 jobs. Ironically, these were both in biotech where anyone who was intellectually honest knew that when you are dealing with a completely novel drug modality, it is simply not possible to deem it 'safe' without years of testing and data. I wanted to wait to see more data.
My early foray into getting better at R by digging into the VAERS raw data coupled with my personal risk made the cost/benefit analysis tip in favor of waiting. Seeing Kevin McKernan & Jessica Rose' work on finding significant DNA contamination in the vials is yet 1 more reason to be glad I did not give up control over what goes in my body.
Despite that being a terrible time, it also catalyzed an immense amount of personal growth & exploration, as well as opening my eyes to aspects of society that I had previously passed over.

2025-09-12 19:00:30 CEST

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Higher hydration doughs are definitely trickier to handle.
I read Ken Forkish' book and then hacked his method to suit my lifestyle - mainly lower hands-on time / less fussiness. I typically let it go for 24 hours and manage temperature during fermentation & proofing. I have to adapt to the season.
Today I'm going to use the cooking water from a batch of chickpeas/garbanzos to boost protein content.
Happy baking!

2025-09-12 18:55:25 CEST

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Thank you for the kind words. Lot's of VCs in biotech space took advantage of cheap money and when results did not pan out the purse strings were tightened.
If I can't find another biotech job within ~4 months or so, I will leave the sector and need to reinvent myself. I will leave the city and move permanently to our rural property. Forestry, farming and exploring / vibe coding in the freedom tech space will be my new daily activities.

2025-09-12 06:00:53 CEST

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If anyone seeing this is in Lewis county, WA (or nearby) please reach out so we can collaborate on this idea. I'm working on gardening and weakest there, but very interested in creating a circular economy. By weak, I still have a big garden and orchard and partner who has a degree in horticulture. I have grand aspirations.

2025-09-10 19:15:13 CEST

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That takes me back... I was in college in the early 90's in Boulder. I wanted to make something of my life and pursue a career in science. CU was located in a giant playground, so I had to discipline myself to focus on my studies. All classes were in person back then and I used to go to every lecture and sit in the front row right in front of the prof. That helped me focus.
To this day I see the value of being on site for work even as I slowly move from the tile (lab) to the carpet (office space.) Nothing replaces being able to go drop in on a coworker and one of my favorite aspects of being in biotech/adjacent is the multidisciplinary environment. I could go chat with statisticians, bioinformaticists, process devs, IT, business devs, engineers, data scientists, legal, logistics, etc.
A college experience with intentional pause from internet distractions would be valuable these days. I can imagine using a local instance of an AI/LLM that needs to be built, trained, etc. by the students would be a good compromise.
Returning to the idea of (personal) discipline, I see much discussion (e.g. on linkedin - don't judge me, I'm looking for a job 😉 ) around employer recruiters and job candidates using AI in the job application process. It all comes down to how the tech is used. I can't speak to what employers are doing firsthand, but I can imagine 2 scenarios for a job-seeker. 1) would be using the LLM to write your cover letter, customize your CV, etc. and 2) would be using it to do some deep research on the company before reflecting and writing your own cover letter. These approaches engage your brain differently and result in different incremental amounts of personal growth.
Anyway, just some thoughts after reading your reply.

2025-09-10 18:35:52 CEST

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What kind of flour are you using? I have found that higher gluten holds structure better and a very active starter can also contribute to oven spring.
I switched from a high gluten flour (Grain Craft's Power Flour) to Cairnspring Mills Trailblazer bread flour and found that my loaves are baking flatter - I judge them as to whether they 'break the plane' defined by the opening of my 5 quart cast iron dutch oven.
I bought some bulk vital wheat gluten at the co-op last weekend and am going to experiment with boosting the gluten of the trailblazer flour, which is locally produced in WA state and does not use glyphosate as a drying agent. The power flour has great performance for bread and pizza, but it is a national brand and may not be as clean.
I'll try to update with results.
#foodstr

2025-09-10 03:26:48 CEST

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Check out Matt Smith's interview on Coffee & a Mike #1197. They discuss Matt's son doing an alternative to college during those years that involved training as EMT, learning to fly, learning to sail, ranching, etc. The book is called _The_Preparation_. No affiliation & I haven't read it but have heard those 2 discuss it on multiple occasions and thought it was a cool idea, especially these days.

2025-09-10 02:33:32 CEST

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Brilliant - thank you!

2025-09-10 00:01:58 CEST

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If I may ask your advice, I am trying to figure out how I could make silent.link work for me.
I bought a peplink max cell modem/router off ebay for cheap, flashed the most recent firmware and popped in my Fi data only SIM. That gets me a fairly stable, if low speed and expensive internet connection on the tree farm. I have a Pi4 plugged in via cat6 cable and I can ssh into the Pi using a tor hidden service or zero tier. I use the Pi to get remote webcam views to keep an eye on things.
It seems like silent.link uses an eSIM. I gather I could probably get this to work on my Pixel+Graphene, but I need a full time data link at the farm, even when my phone travels back north with me. What are you using it with? I guess I need to research other cheap cell modem/routers that can use eSIMs...? First few I looked at were way more than the $50 the peplink cost me used. Any recommendations?

2025-09-09 23:45:17 CEST

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Thank you, again. They are on my radar, for sure. I appreciate you sharing your experience. It's always good to have a choice of activities.

2025-09-09 20:28:02 CEST

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Thank you. Was on the tree farm all weekend. At the moment those times are a 'data diet' for me as I use a metered Google Fi plan. It is handy to have access to a data-only sim that I put in an ebay peplink max, but $10/GB encourages me to curtail my bandwidth dramatically and enjoy the woods. :)

2025-09-06 19:54:27 CEST

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This looks functional and I would like to start with something similar for my tree farm. Where did you source the batteries? I'm in Puget Sound area and imagine they coast a fortune to ship.
Also, I echo @npub17nv…4u85 admiration for the radio. What is that setup?
Some day I would like to integrate some solar+battery power stations with HaLow nodes. I've been enjoying reading @npub1ya2…x9ty

2025-09-05 02:11:16 CEST

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good evening from PNW. I'm always happy to find other PNW folks.

2025-09-04 19:45:58 CEST

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Nice work!

2025-09-04 04:15:30 CEST

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"Daddy?"
"Yes, son?"
"What does regret mean?"

2025-09-02 22:52:46 CEST

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Great episode! Love the farmer's market bank idea at the end!
#nevent1q…gn6p

2025-08-27 20:46:55 CEST

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Good on you both for sticking to your principles. I will stop by if I'm in Spokane. (I'm on the wet side.)
#nevent1q…22ap

2025-08-27 18:38:26 CEST

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That is beautiful. I also love the timbers. We don't have many rocks on our property, but may use similar splitting techniques with wedges to make rustic lumber for benches and other projects. I appreciate the simple aesthetic where the function defines much about the arrangement of materials. The use of raw stone and wood where their identities are very clear tells a story and ties the human built structure to the lot.

2025-08-26 21:08:51 CEST

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Welcome.
I grew up south of the mason dixon, but am now in the PNW. nostr is a special place

2025-08-26 20:17:03 CEST

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2nd used laptop. An old thinkpad with a 2TB SSD would be future proof for a while.
@nprofile…5pzk suggested following you. I'm also interested in Ag and working on a piece of land in Western, WA. This weekend we picked pears, plums, zucchini, squash, tomatoes & black+blue berries. I also fired up the chipper for the first time and made a yard or so of doug fir & alder chips.

2025-08-20 19:56:06 CEST

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Nice looking peaches!
We recently got a similar freeze drier. What are your parameters for the process, or do you use the default settings? We don't have peaches on our farm, but we do have apples, plums, pear, asian pear & berries. I look forward to experimenting with the freeze drier. Eventually we'll have more eggs than we can use.

2025-08-20 19:51:45 CEST

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What is the recommendation for a non-google repo, or should I just keep downloading the fresh apk from github if I don't want to use play store?
Thank you for your work - we need tools like bitchat.
#nevent1q…ztyw

2025-08-20 17:39:57 CEST

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Can confirm. I have one of these (an analog version) from my early days in biotech. We used it as a homogenizer. I bought a new blade assembly and sanitized the carafe before making soup or hot sauce with it.

2025-08-18 04:27:51 CEST

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I love my refurbished vitamix. Had one at work, changed jobs and missed it. We also had a ninja there that I did not prefer to use.

2025-08-15 23:33:54 CEST

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LOL, I get left channel only on a Linux workstation with a hard wired Juli@ sound card.

2025-08-13 22:31:48 CEST

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The Black Hat slide deck is pretty interesting for nostr nerds considering potential vulnerabilities in the nostr ecosystem. This relates back to a recent note by @nprofile…2y2j on the importance of building for a hostile state environment.
From Black Hat:
"Nostr is an emerging open-source, decentralized social networking protocol with over 1.1 million users—and a critical blind spot in its security design. While decentralized architectures promise resilience and user control, rigorous real-world security analyses remain uncommon in this space. In this session, we unveil the first comprehensive security study of Nostr and its popular client applications, demonstrating how subtle flaws in cryptographic design, event verification, and link previews allow an attacker to forge "encrypted" direct messages (DMs), impersonate user profiles, and even leak the confidential message from "encrypted" DMs.
We also show how a lack of signature checks in many clients—whether due to outright skipped verification or a TOCTOU caching flaw—enables effortless data tampering. Even a single oversight can escalate from simple forgery to full-blown confidentiality breaches.
Far from theoretical, our proof-of-concept attacks target widely used clients—one with over 100,000 downloads—and systematically bypass the platform's intended privacy and authentication controls. We'll share how you can replicate these exploits with minimal setup, explain how loosely defined specifications in a decentralized protocol can introduce critical weaknesses, and outline both immediate mitigation steps and best practices for cryptographically sound design. By revealing these cracks in a widely touted "censorship-resistant" system, we aim to jumpstart a more rigorous approach to securing decentralized social platforms—before attackers go mainstream with the vulnerabilities we've uncovered.
"
#nevent1q…0lu2

2025-08-13 22:21:21 CEST

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I agree with you. We are moving quickly into that hostile state environment.
Security, privacy, resilience & solid UI/UX trump bling any day.
#nevent1q…dlfr

2025-08-13 22:18:52 CEST

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I'm using zerotier, but considered both. Any thoughts on comparison between these two?
My problem was I needed to be able to connect to a remote Pi on a cell modem that is behind CGNAT. I could not come up with a reasonable solution that used wireguard or ssh tunnels. I tried setting up a tor hidden ssh service like I normally use for remote Pis, but I couldn't get through the cell network inbound to the Pi.
@nprofile…v2u9

2025-08-09 04:08:31 CEST

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Thank you. I'm running llama3.1 locally but want to do more. I will check this project out.

2025-08-08 19:29:43 CEST

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I know this is an older note, but thank you for sharing!
#nevent1q…yw8v

2025-08-07 23:59:47 CEST

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The story of why British sailors were called "Limeys" is illustrative.

2025-07-26 02:53:21 CEST

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I look forward to learning about your journey.
My partner & I are doing the same thing in the pacific northwest. Our land is mostly forest, with about 3 clear acres. We are deep into soil improvement, planting trees & perennials and forestry / stewardship is also thrown into the mix. The land supports a wide range of wildlife and we have even seen a cougar.

2025-07-24 18:42:24 CEST

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I run a TrueNAS instance w/ 6X 6TB HDDs in RAID-Z3. Not the most efficient, but I'm running the drives until they fail.
For backup, I keep several spare drives around and use one of them to back up critical data like my genome, books, music, movies & personal files.
Your post reminds me I need to pull the server and replace a drive that is on its last legs. I use SMART to monitor the health of the drives. This server has been running continuously since 2017. My server is similar to the one described here:
https://ramsdenj.com/posts/2016-01-01-freenas-server-build/

2025-07-23 18:55:08 CEST

GM! #foodstr
Sourdough from Cairnspring Mills bread flour & Bob's Red Mill organic whole wheat. Banneton lovingly woven by my partner.
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2025-07-17 07:15:20 CEST

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I enjoyed your analysis. Thank you for producing.

2025-07-09 01:52:52 CEST

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I suppose that makes me an outlier 😉
I'm a biochemist who is conservative in the sense that I want government or the state to play as infinitesimally small a role in my life as possible. The 2 other careers I contemplated back in HS were architect & engineer. My love of problem solving and design put these on my radar back then and I had the opportunity to do a mentor program in a medicinal chemistry lab with an old school natural products chemist.
Currently trying to reinvent myself as the biotech job market is really tough right now and I wish to move away from where biotech overlaps with pharma/healthcare; I used to do discovery biology in the oncology/autoimmune space, as well as analytical development.
If any of you beautiful nostriches read this and can advise how a biochemist could generate a modest income doing something that overlaps with btc, I would love to hear/explore it. I'm currently thinking a lot about forestry, ecology & microbiomes (e.g. soil, plat roots, gut, etc.) and the btc angle could simply be funding and operations, plus treasury if cash flow treads water.

2025-07-02 18:20:35 CEST

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GM
I too notice many similarities in the bitcoiners I meet. I recently saw someone Adam Livingston on X recently collected a sampling of myers-briggs types of bitcoiners and the results were heavily INTJ, INTP, INFP, ISTP & INFJ.
A few folks that overlap with the bit devs meetup I attend also shared some personality test results and the overlap was striking.
Personally, I click with bitcoiners more than any other group of people. 2nd group would be scientists/engineers, but the distance is far from 1st. I gravitate towards folks that don't feel the need to fit in and are comfortable being disagreeable.
I found the X thread:
https://x.com/AdamBLiv/status/1938406262233760198?t=Jv0CO_NoHAR0il9YNXVORw&s=19

2025-05-29 01:51:30 CEST

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Thank you @npub1qny…95gx, this is a great resource. Well done!