2024-06-02 19:50:31
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by npub16dh…0nkq
Take a long walk to a coastline, then up a mountain through a forest or jungle, making sure to have some Mexican, Indian, and Thai food along the way, as well as some final conversations looking back on life with my gf, family, and closest friends.
2024-06-02 19:40:26
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by npub1m4n…c2jl
Except that I noted repeatedly that I am increasingly fighting the tendency to act like this, myself, because I find it so irritating when other people do.
And, apparently, I'm not the only one who finds it irritating or counterproductive.
I'm in the line of fire, now, because I wrote a common complaint down so clearly that they finally can't ignore it.
#note1rv0…krrm
2024-06-02 19:25:45
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by npub1c85…6lkc
You are wrong about men having no say. We have no say about women's bodies in regard to their health decisions, and women have no say about whether we should go to war to defend their bodies. Men's purpose is to protect the innocent, and there are events where the innocense of the mother transitions to less than the innocense of the infant. Where life begins, and when an emerging human life's rights are recognised are central to this discussion, and it takes both men and women to decide together where that is. The Bible is NOT clear on this, contrary to many so-called christian zealots. One interepretation of the bible is that life begins with the baby's first breath because that is when you recieve the spirit of God. I'm sure you would love that interepretation of what you call an ancient text from a bygone era, but your opinion has no credibility when you reject aeons of mankind's strugle to distill the truth. The nature of man has not changed over the past 200 years, and science has only revealed the necessity moreso than from times of ignorance that we must resolve the conflict between our definitions of murder and human life.
On another note, and to reiterate my criticism; the more common instances of doctors and hospitals claiming they can not perform abortions under any condition whatsoever because of "archaic laws from the 1800s" are intentionally misrepresenting the facts. This in conjunction with attorney generals, most totally corrupt, systemically strike fear in health providers by introducing uncertainty where there should be none. In the case of Wisconsin, the 1800s law was clearly reformed under Governor walker and Wisconsin's highly qualified legislature to account for life threatening and medically necessary produres to preserve the life of the mother over the child. This law, though codified for more than a decade in preparation for an overturning of RvW, is systematically ignored. Rather than doctors with this knowledge standing on this firm legal ground, and rebutting the media and murderous socialist feminist power in government, they cower and leave women to die.
2024-06-02 18:33:11
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by npub1fjq…leku
actually, i already know they are croatian, the name is Milan in slovenia, bosnia, serbia, macedonia and bulgaria, the extra J is definitely croatian, though the bosnians are fond of adding them everywhere for no reason, like "mlijeko" haha
2024-06-02 18:26:42
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by npub1fjq…leku
paleo, charcoal grill maxi here
the best food in the world can be found in the little grill houses on teh margins of Sarajevo where you can pick up roast chicken for very little money and the taste and the smell is divine
serbian mince specialties are also very good, cevapi and pljeskavica, with sides of kaimak and ljutenica lol
no, very much a big no on vegan "food" it's for rabbits, i'm a human, that diet makes me weak
2024-06-02 18:22:47
by npub1fjq…leku
it should be obvious but making a trending feed for nostr instantly narrows it into a twitter bullshitfest
it doesn't seem to be obvious to some people but i saw it right at the beginning, and this "circle jerk" appearance of a small set of popular nostr client devs grated on my gears so hard it made me mad, and i've heard other people say the same thing
so, i have a proposal
let's petition, and shame, to add to the weight of this, how nostr onboarding is being impeded because of this centralisation of the feed by these idiots using trending indicators to filter feeds
it should not be default, at least!
this is not twitter, and will never compete with twitter, the whole point of it is that it is so much more than twitter, threads, facebook, instagram, soundcloud, bandcamp, youtube, all rolled into one, just that right now, those marginal use cases are being swamped by this idiotic reinforcement of popularity as a means to more popularity
#nevent1q…3dth
2024-06-02 18:14:20
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by npub1fjq…leku
interesting, i only read out of it that being too famous is kinda crappy but i was seeing it from the inbox hell side, rather than the plebs are better side
see, i have argued the point with her before also that small follow list is better, i add a few now and then and then trim them back, rarely getting much over 50, and my feed is happiness
she is very chatty though, but i don't mind, as a child my mother tells me that i would not stop talking and she would just smile and nod and sometimes pay attention
2024-06-02 18:05:52
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by npub1fjq…leku
meh, it only really saves time at startup because nothing is compressed, now it just does a simple memory copy operation
i probably could make it generate the parameters whole, the Z coordinates in all of them are 1 anyway, so they can literally point at teh same bytes, and it would expand from the 512kb size to like 620kb or something extra (about 50% more space for the data than the original, compressed version) and it would start up a whole 4 milliseconds faster
i'm gonna leave it how it is tho, because i think that embed is the better way to do it, and it avoids spinning up a decompression algorithm to unpack it, just a straight memory copy
what i'd be more interested in seeing is if i can get more performant signatures by having those precomputed vectors increased in size to a few megabytes for a 50% improvement in signature verification
but i'm dubious
2024-06-02 18:01:16
by npub1fjq…leku
@npub180c…h6w6 remember those precomputed vectors for secp256k1 in btcec?
well, i rewrote it to use go 1.16 embed, and a little init function that loads the values from the binary data into the runtime struct (so i presume GC will throw out the originals later
it's kinda ugly... firstly, size difference in my relay binary:
old:
-rwxrwxr-x 1 me me 19951480 jun 2 16:55 /home/me/bin/ratel
new:
-rwxrwxr-x 1 me me 19779512 jun 2 16:55 /home/me/bin/ratel
unsurprising considering this data was in total 512kb
and the other thing is it can't just slap that data into place, it has to snip out the X and Y coords out of pairs of 32 bytes, which then has another 8 bytes that must be zero in the MSBs after that, and the Z value has to be generated as 40 bytes with a 1 in the LSB
but it might shave maybe milliseconds of startup time in exchange for a bigger binary file
2024-06-02 17:23:24
by npub1fjq…leku
so, i was meaning to do this a LOOOONG time ago, but here i am today finally doing it... probably helps the intervening time i understand what i'm doing better
in the golang BTCEC library, there is this complicated rigmerole that isn't really a big deal in terms of how long it takes but they generate a huge stack of vectors - basically 32 x 256 x "Jacobian Point" which is X, Y, Z each being an array of 10 32 bit numbers
so, it's a pretty big set of data, 32x256x120 for each point (10x4x3 bytes)
they do all this rigmerole compressing it and turning it into base64, and it was written in the bad old days before Go 1.16 introduced the embed library, which lets you turn any arbitrary binay file into a string or byte slice in your app
so, what i'm doing is rewriting the generator so it makes the binary file raw, and then embedding this into a little file, and an initializer function that unsafely snips it into the required segments, with the required types, and then once i have proven it works i can discard all the extra waffle of the olden days
i'm not sure if the signature algorithm can be sped up by making even more precomputed points than this, probably, but i'm still a bit of a noob at this stuff so i just want to succeed at replacing an ugly bit of code with something neat and sweet
#golang #ellipticcurve #secp256k1 #refactor
2024-06-02 15:33:58
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by npub1m4n…c2jl
Every man I've met with a fancy car was low-key a pig.
Every man I've met with a really fancy car was a professional driver or an automotive engineer.
I like station wagons best.
First class air travel is nice and every time I fly economy, I hate it, but I'm poor, so oh well. Of course, I hate air travel, in general.
FC train travel >>> FC air travel
I like nice hotels and watches. I wear an elegant analog watch, encrusted with little diamonds, but nothing very expensive. I would happily trade it in for a Rolex.
I'll stay at the Best Western or a hostel without complaint.
I have mostly expensive clothes, but not many and not obviously fancy. Just wool and silk and stuff. Or handmade items with embroidery or knitted.
Wear the same items over and over for years. Been wearing some for decades and inherited others from my mom.
Never understood the point of private air travel or yachts, unless you're worried about getting shot or paparazzi.
Mansions. I hate them. Cold, airy, impersonal, like a castle. I want a cottage or a large apartment with a nice view and a pretty garden, which I have.
I am the private chef.
I don't want a maid, as I am German and enjoy cleaning and tidying and sorting my trash.
Love middle-class food and drink, but I'd include a nice €50 bottle of scotch and €10 German caviar in that category.
2024-06-02 14:54:01
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by npub1fjq…leku
it's a stupid rule, really the phonetics are more or less identical to german, "ie" is like the slavic iy, rising tone like english EE and ei is like - well, like the old vulgar latin like the word "eye" such as your native language portuguese, except when it's french and then it's back to front like counterfeit which sounds like counter-feet
and then there is the ai dipthong which is also french but also german and has different sounds depending on the word, as also the reverse is usually spoken with an intervening schwa like the russian e and я
that's why english is such a fucked up language, way more exceptions to rules than almost any other language, it's a blend of german, french, latin, greek, irish, welsh and scottish
2024-06-02 14:50:03
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by npub1m4n…c2jl
I don't think it's directly fixable, TBH. You can only create new types of use cases and someone could make a name for themselves there, so that you end up with smaller hierarchies where the elites aren't automatically at the top.
You can't go back and reorder a social media hierarchy. They just compound, like interest. Every person who shows up will follow the same people as everyone else and add a few more, so first come, first serve.
Social media has such a low barrier to entry (post "GM", "stack sats", or a selfie or AI pic, once per week or month) that there's no real way to catch up through effort or talent. You have to shine someplace else and that might carry back over to social media because we don't have silos.
2024-06-02 14:37:53
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by npub1lr2…lf8t
https://m.primal.net/IWAp.jpg I'm going to look up, marvel at the ephemeral beauty, and remembered that I lived life with my head in the clouds!
All of us will eventually die... but sadly, only few of us truly live.
I have owned a little but I saw the world. The thing is; rather exactly that, than own the world and seen very little of it.
I've scraped a living, but at least it was a living worth scraping...
Because; the more you want, the poorer you feel.
2024-06-02 14:37:42
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by npub1fjq…leku
yeah, it's returned to my radar because of stuff like the auroras of the second week of may this year, seen as far north from teh south pole as new caledonia, which is unprecedented, and confirms that the earth's field is weaker than it used to be and that also means increased radio waves and radiation in general...
earthing at least reduces your absorption of radio waves, the shortest path for the electrons and the field to carry it to earth does not pass through the inside of your body, plus, the ionization some of the higher frequencies of microwave radiation causes a deficit of electrons inside the body and this favors oxidative free radicals, which attack anything with missing electrons, so it makes us more vulnerable
the x- and gamma-rays and such cannot be mitigated by earthing, but the damage they do to enzymes and DNA and proteins is at least not being exacerbated by over-active oxidative radicals
there's a lot more bad things coming in the future related to all this but earthing at least will help you stay stronger
2024-06-02 14:28:36
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by npub1fjq…leku
the reason why bitcoiners don't like moneros is because you all act like you are so superior and that's the reason why you are here, because i would have thought with your obsession with privacy you'd stick to darkweb forums but no, here you are, trolling, and you know you are trolling, and you play dumb like you are "teaching" us "stupid and unsophisticated" bitcoiners something
guess what, i can see what you are doing, so, fuck off back to your darkweb, and when you get there, fuck right off again
2024-06-02 14:16:45
by npub1lr2…lf8t
“How beautifully Plato put it. Whenever you want to talk about people, it’s best to take a bird’s-
eye view and see everything all at once—of gatherings, armies, farms, weddings and divorces,
births and deaths, noisy courtrooms or silent spaces, every foreign people, holidays, memorials,
markets—all blended together and arranged in a pairing of opposites.”
—MARCUS AURELIUS, M EDITATIONS, 7.48https://m.primal.net/IWAN.jpg