Efforts at greater public wellness (digital commons among others) seems in alignment with Nostr. I'm a garden-variety web developer who has embarked on using this potential utility for shenanigan-free convivial public discourse. 🤙🏼
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Last Notes npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren Here's ... um, some audio-art from 10 years ago that I assembled from the available tools at the time, alongside perhaps personal motivations. Now such genre might be labled 'robot-quaint'. However, couples, trying their best on the slippery skating rink that is relationship ... well, that's timeless! https://skits.netlify.app/stories/counselinghttps://m.primal.net/Jnxi.jpg npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren What's nost to like about it? Oh... well, actually, the pseudo-name thing? Am I just an old guy perhaps? I mean, "Hey! That's a very trenchant comment, worthy of a thoughtful response ...RacoonTits™️" Ya, I must just be old and naive about why I'd certainly want to go with DarGoyle and not just Darren. ...doh npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren https://m.primal.net/JIXj.jpg npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren now THERE'S a genre i can dig ! aloha npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren https://m.primal.net/JGQD.mp4 npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren Honestly why do I care? There are shared public common concerns, of which transportation is but one. (Clean water is another.) If the majority conclude that radically slower and lower energy livelihoods are the correct path to sustainable and ultimately better ways to live, I'm down. But Bitcoin has very little in common with that. Rather, it is predicated on very high speed, globally connected "roads". npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren Marx may not have envisioned what ownership and control of the means of production could look like in 2024. Pretty sure he didn't even OWN a lightning wallet. https://m.primal.net/IKqv.webp npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren or might puzzles employ prepositions when helpful ! npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren How much technocracy do you really want controlling your life? Would your benefits as a member of this elite class determine your answer? Real questions. Real answers welcome. (oh, and good morning!) npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren https://soundcloud.com/ohelostudio/ontological-death-of-a-salesman npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren https://soundcloud.com/ohelostudio/the-realm-of-bits npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren https://youtu.be/1U-AH0CVhHQ?feature=shared npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren So then the sh*t gets real (by that I mean gnarly social order. chaos. violence) particularly within, and among those closest to and most dependent upon the empire's reach, i.e. cities. Some – keenly aware of concentrated, corrupted, and hierarchic power's ability to f*ck them over with the reasonability of a D11 bulldozer – they once again embrace the values (and work) of a subsistence livelihood in the country, ideally on the periphery, and with locally available resources and shipping potential. These newcomers, seeking personal autonomy, and the liberty and ability to make their homes, undoubtedly benefit and are dependent upon local traditions, customs, and knowledge. ('Not being a dick' is merely the first step.) Ability to competently work. There, I said it. Along with the convivial mindset to fit in to where they are essentially taking refuge from said sh*t storm. In such a scenario – wherein appropriate, mature, low-energy tools, need be communally shared and competently used (think: roofs, water, food) – where exactly does fiddling with so-called decentralized computers needing a global internet connection come into play? It doesn't. Those ones would be disabused of such priorities pretty quickly. npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren little ditty that came from a post-northern lights dream. nice girl: Aurora Aurora, you came to me last night as in a dream I recognized you mostly through smell your round complex plumeria-scented sweat Never anything not particular about you You'd come to the dance with another but how could you not? that didn't matter though maybe it did. We had our dance. You remember that waltz that we did? with our arms moving through the air I've learned how precious and brief these things are time has taught me quite a bit on Earth nothing's the same and everything's the same you project onto me, and I project onto you I can savor your smell. Aurora, it's become a little easier to see you go but the pangs are still there Who would pass up time spent with you? but you're not to be contained and that's okay I look forward to seeing you again. npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren educational! however, I'd ask: How is this inherently technocratic and hugely consumptive remedy not elitist in potentially worse ways? Is there also some inherent worldview or ethos in Bitcoin that better addresses public wellness? Or is it inherently libertarian, with the bit about we needn't limit anything and so on? Asking for a friend. npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren Lmk if ya get that one dialed in. And don't forget the gonad variables. To get cornier sounding; is the game about f*cking, family-ing, or my personal favorite: friending? (drop-down 'intercourse menu'™️?) 'Positive outcome', you say? How about the estimable unreasonableness of our hearts? I'll zap a bunch if'n you crack that algorithm! Anyhow, good luck! And take some encouragement that it's been gamified going back about 3 billion years. Short of zaps at the moment, I offer working titles for a mere two stripes of this game (among the many that your franchise need address) 'Vagina Hunter' and 'Donkey Whisperer'. (the former isn't too predatory sounding for such a game is it?) npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren That's maybe a problem of technocracy. In itself it simply doesn't work out for the 'others'. Not sayin' I know what DOES work out – but gaining whatever clarity is available is probably part of the equation for not sh*tting our collective bed. npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren Was given an orange suppository onstage at cornychat and feel like roughly 15 BTC ! https://m.primal.net/IFZi.jpg npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren learning more of Strfry's Lightning Memory-Mapped Database (LMDB) [and its primary role as memory manager] renders the above question sorta naive ... npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren anyone got scoops on how one can monitor their strfry server in a simple light way? thanks in advance npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren https://youtu.be/pZ_tUzdJABQ?feature=shared npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren gratuitous zz top nostr field testing ... npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren There must certainly be a market for retro VR metaverse content? I, for one, am tired of rubbing my eyeballs in random fashion, just to simulate the cable-scrambled porn of yore. Additionally, this inconveniently ties up both of my hands. npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren dang it! that's good promotion right there! Kudos to Nostrnests! I shan't forget you when I become a ... nostar™️ npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren "sunday test drive" nest is live! Come join 🤗 https://nostrnests.com/naddr1qqjrscnxvcer2en9956rsv35956rqdf494skvdek943nyc3jvyerjctyvy6r2qg4waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t09upzpdp9mm5h5wy57kcm2y3x6kfrephfywsfqwdrdfpwqrwdn7shvvp3qvzqqqrkvufunlcm npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren Happy to be back using ... my nostril (anyone?). Cornychat is the sh*t with its new chat feature (or social audio's kitchen, as i think of it). Oh, and heretofore nonexistent freaky AI-generated music came up too. Just another week in 2024 it seems. Here's a little pop ditty that I 'prompted' and otherwise massaged in my audio editor: https://soundcloud.com/ohelostudio/plastic-songs npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren Here's an occasion on 'social audio' to play 'I've Got the World on a String'. me, on my gypsy jazz type guitar, with my friend Sam on 'uke and singing. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sjwgKd2agpl3xfllcxV_aa4mpcSPIcL8/view?usp=sharing npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren "you don’t have to rely on anyone to bring Bitcoin about" ~ bitcoin advocate quote Bitcoin ultimately equates to energy expenditure/consumption as currency – and very computationally and energetically complex at that. How does Bitcoin not perpetuate hierarchy? People and physical ecosystems are inherently connected and mutually dependent, drawing nourishment from reciprocal and interwoven values (racing to accelerate computers to consume massive complexly generated electricity, is furthest from permaculture as you can get). Is there something I'm missing? Given Bitcoin's acknowledged rapacious energy consumption and its distant association with any specific living context or community on Earth, how is it not antagonistic to livelihoods that eschew unnecessary computer operations as self-determined approach to a more sensible, empowering, and convivial way of life? Is this a lesser of two evils kind of thing? (asking for a dialectical ad hominem-averse friend) npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren Sure, sliced bread is great when toasted. But when you're entirely off-grid, there are a few more components required before toasting can commence. I say off-grid. Actually, I now have a pretty smart glass-fiber line that does pretty smart internet things, given the right configuration. That, and a bunch of other stuff (clean clothes anyone?) happen with these, my current (anyone?) seven special components, sort of from the bottom: Battery charger and its magic box that auto-switches if'n I need charging (I don't.) Mid-left: car-type DC fuse protection thingie. Top: charge-controller by Epever that just works (as opposed to crappy ones that break). It connects to a couple of 400w solar panels and the lithium battery and does nifty stuff (including feeds to my 24v DC frig. [which in turn feeds me]). To the right is a 24v lithium battery that is expensive and requires some config. fiddling – but after that, relieves one of the maintenance and more primitive aspects of lead-acid batteries (reckoned to charge on for 10 years+ to boot). The little heat-sink-looking thing next to it, is where I step down the batt's 24v to 12v to power a water pump, some now widely available DC light bulbs that are 4w for good light, as well as my fiber-optic-box-thingie (tech term), and a mobile travel router. Both of these use negligible amounts of electricity (and yet, they much desire a stable 12v which the lithium battery and transformer deliver admirably). Anyhoo, fellow web developer Vic kindly inquired about if I document this version of the development rabbit-hole, which I don't, so here it is. It's really quite similar to the sometimes rewarding, always challenging, world of troubleshooting and deploying software (read: you learn to cultivate patience). And when it works, you get to eat toast and shower and post to nostr and stuff. https://m.primal.net/HYCz.jpg npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-01-11/mark-zuckerberg-pivots-from-away-from-wearing-gadgetry-on-his-face-cause-its-lame-af/ npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren that's hot. npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren from my dict: bigeois | biˈZHwä | of or characteristic of the technocratic class. upholding the interests of technology; not low-energy or slow: "bigeois society takes for granted the sanctity of progress" npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren I've known of json. I've known of websockets. However, I've only known of this clever decentralized way to connect to one another – without some arbitrary gatekeeper with moral concern that begins and ends with shareholder profit using whatever technique maximizes it. Putting it another way, I'm pretty stoked to find this coalescence of fellow humans interested in the liberation of a liberated digital commons. That's a lot of the l-word. Brings me to nostr's seeming affinity for bitcoin and by extension, possibly a libertarian political stance. I'm sure I'm not accurately summarizing all of nostr. What I'm saying is that I just don't happen to be a bitcoin guy (well, I did get zapped 24k times but it was a fluke [involving a dominatrix. let's just move on]). To be sure, my personal jury is still out on cryptocurrency, but I don't even know about stacking ducks or corn any of that. Still, I'm definitely interested in a community asserting its agency to make decisions in decidedly decentralized ways. Nor are the centralized clowns in any danger. Their racket thrives on energy. (And no, you miners out there, I don't claim to know the score of who squanders more energy than who.) This is sort of a long-winded way to introduce a piece I made just over 10 years ago. It speaks to my persuasion (in addition to a wisp of the zeitgeist of the time) about the myth of progress and such stuff. It comes up if you hear enough people emote "I just looove technology!" They need to read more probably. (and a fine tech in itself!) In the subsequent 10 years, it's only become more difficult to posit some dogmatic worldview with a straight face. Nonetheless, I've met thoughtful, kind people here and I'd feel remiss to not show a little of my cards regarding such stuff. Oh! and ironically enough, I'm a web developer. I perhaps delude myself that we can use this stuff like a nice light bicycle that travels freely and with conviviality – and without someone's orange bullsh*t hanging on it, weighing it down. (I think that's an amazon reference but ...) I hope you like it: 'The House of Infinite Progress' https://skits.netlify.app/stories/progress npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren If Glen Greenwald isn't hip to Nostr, one hopes his friend Ed will turn him on to it. npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren I'd think a major elephant-in-the-room part of the 'solution', is clearly recognizing the antagonism that online (on-device) has with being human in an actual place. Cliche-sounding or otherwise, I think this also relates to my gnawing irritation with a libertarian political stance (worldview). Wellness doesn't come from living in isolation of one another, nor did it ever. Nor are we independent nor invulnerable. Far from it. Still, the basic decentralization and free agency to communicate with one another is Nostr's potential. Naive or otherwise, I'm staying tuned to see how it might evolve to use-cases appropriate for local community empowerment (and joy among other self-defined needs). The potential global reach and capitalizing-potential is always gonna motivate the technocratic 'tools'. However, there is a huge 'educational' need for folks to see through the veils placed upon us through schooling that has been promoting progressive consumption of all kinds. I'd think that your cynicism that perhaps 'no one cares' is being informed by some of the said rackets etc. Sorry to be a tad ranty, but that thin layer of introspection seems contagious. Regardless, "Who's doing what to whom, and who's benefitting?" (and who's getting screwed?) seems a timeless question worth asking. 🤙🏼 npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren Nostr DOES seem analogous to having access to quality bike parts AND fair access to the pathways. If its adoption leads to on-the-ground community wellness; that will be the proof-of-pudding. npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren I made this 10 years ago, as the digital wave heights came further into view. https://skits.netlify.app/audio/AYWT.mp3 npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren would this address the issue? import { fetchData } from './yourAsyncFile'; export function yourExportedFunction() { // Call the asynchronous function and get a promise const asyncOperation = fetchData(); // Use the then() method to handle the result when the promise is resolved asyncOperation.then(result => { console.log(result); updatePage(result); }); // Note: Code here will execute immediately and won't have access to the result. // Make sure any logic dependent on the result is inside the then() block. } // Example function to update the page function updatePage(result) { // Update the page using the result of the asynchronous operation console.log('Updating page with result:', result); } npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren gratuitous kudos to https://flycat.club/ for making a fine-looking client! npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren good old clarity will never be abstracted away npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren is this being streamed from elsewhere? npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren interesting. does the mullein feel friendly to your lungs? npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren here's another sound on nostr-experiment. it's another edit i did of a sort of music performance room on clubhouse. the face-smashing karaoke performance is by a guy named Duke who quasi-scandalized some on clubhouse who sometimes struggle with democratized microphones and the rest: https://audible.pages.dev/HotelLeonia.mp3 https://void.cat/d/93DRHa4UwsLdTGK1UHhrCK.webp npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren ...was wondering about how hiking up sound files in Nostrland. nostr.build is apparently one way (and seemingly very akin to having say, an mp3, stashed anywhere on the internet. cool. here's me trying to sing nostrdust ... i mean stardust: https://media.nostr.build/av/eb5663970eb90fb7a6e8780d1c60af00824dd5679ba22c10aab5b7645c91d468.mp3 npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren A lot of interesting nostr scoops shared at the weekend's binge-o-rama on nostr nests. Anybody know where the audio recordings of the various talks might be found? thanks npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren hey! had a look (listen) to tunestr. super cool. the 'demo' band has a nice organic groove too. looking forward to learning more about it! npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren ya, an impressive array of features. Fwiw, I'm currently enjoying Iris for its civilian-level signup among other things. 🤙🏼 npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren heh, guess not. some excessively wishful thinkin' right there... npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren Can one just toss a 5mb mp3 into Nostrland? (gonna test and see) npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren er, I believe I just spotted a Replicant here in Nostrland. trippy. npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren This is a link to an audio pastiche of mine that came from some of the many experiences that are had upon social audio, in this instance, clubhouse. Alas, clubhouse has seemingly bet the farm on a sort of asynchronous-minded change up. No idea why, but one imagines considerable 'externalities' that accompany VC-backed ambitions etc. My personal stumble into Nostr comes from an excitement of non-siloed, decentralized goodness, meeting up with such social audio i.e. robust dialogs and the good fun and edification they can entail. (Shout out to Nostr Nests and the myriad of nice folks I've met there thus far!)🤙🏼 🎙 https://soundcloud.com/ohelostudio/ontological-death-of-a-salesman ps-obviously the next step would be how to hike MP3s etc. up to the promised Nostrland. Anyone with scoops regarding such liberated sound files etc.? npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren In addition to plain old Saturday, for me anyway, this week marks my initial participation in Nostr (for the uninitiated, Nostr is a way to participate in the Web in a decentralized [ i.e. not beholden to Sluggo-the-proprietary-corporation-that-can-just-disappear-you-at-will ] myriad of ways). To be honest, I really don't share the bitcoin zeal of a lot of others that inhabit this space. Suffice to say ... er, well ... beyond a certain threshold of energy consumption, technical processes begin to dictate social relations. As esoteric as that may sound, I'll leave it at that. But really, this sort of cryptographic identity that shares a through-line of sorts with cryptocurrency is just that and nothing more. I work with the webrtc protocol which affords really nice decentralized peer connectivity via browser-to-browser. (For my new Nostr-nerd friends here, if there isn't a slick little 'signal-server' implemented for Nostr, that would be a nice tool. (In webrtc, you need a way to identify the browsers you want to connect to ... audio, voice, and a data-channel ... by way of this signal server. I'd think that shifting some of the transport to a data-channel thusly would be sleek, even robust. If there is such a thing, don't hesitate to drop a line. Okay. Techno-jazz out of the way, brings me to another impression from this initial survey of this fledgling and open-ended protocol. And that is a factor that I suspect will evolve for its obvious benefit. I'm calling it a breezy entry way to Nostr. Getting Aunt Sally on board is another way of putting it. To put it as rant-free as I can: All this supposed liberty and boost to a shared public utility to encourage and promote open public discourse – that Nostr could seemingly avail – is just another version of a technocrat's gleeful cheer of "neato!" until folks with shitty old android phones can use it as easily as said-Sluggo's onboarding. In closing, aloha and mahalo (thanks) to my seemingly kind-hearted new Nostril friends. (that Haw'n reference may "dox" myself as to actually living in a particular place (living-context) on the Earth. I'll save that rap for a penchant for using this stuff within actual community (read: not 'community' predicated on "hey! we don't do proximity here" heh.https://m.primal.net/HUDY.jpg npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren dig yer catharsis ! npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren $0.43 to have a brief gander at these puppies? Do I need another browser extension to express flattery? npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren hey you nostrstud ... is your npub now purple ... or are you just glad to see me? npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren Verifying my Nostr Nests identity: tA3xHkXCn44rmEgz-rX3rRQAi-HRCdXw7GBFcTrXy3A https://nostrnests.com npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren Verifying my Nostr Nests identity: tA3xHkXCn44rmEgz-rX3rRQAi-HRCdXw7GBFcTrXy3A https://nostrnests.com npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren Hi, I followed you and came here to sort of belly ache about your client needing macOS beyond my 11.3.1 (and my typical trope of 'let us wrest these tools from techno-elites blah bla'). However, hearing your woes of water, and having been on catchment for about 25 years now ... well, there's Nostr ... and there's water. Me, I been through a fair amount of the permutations of harvesting rainwater (Hawai'i Island). Your persistent stanky water anecdote brings me back to the formative years of the homestead when, to my dismay, and after longer than I'd prefer; I realized that I was showering in water infused with essence of dead rat. Dues paying! Stanky rat-water anecdotes aside, and fwiw, having water that cycles robustly has been real important ... obviously catching it cleanly is super important. I should add that my homestead is in the rainforest ... so copious rain. (How many inches per year down your way?) Mostly this is a note wishing your and your water well (anybody?). We have gnarly stories of leptospirosis and the rest, however, best I can tell, I, nor anyone else consuming my water has. In fact, over the years, when having to travel, it was always a drag to have to leave my super clean water behind. Even now, living on the kona-side of this island, I haul water from my homestead as it is unmatched. Again fwiw, I run two tanks, so the second one gets filled by the first off the gutter, which 'cleans' it ala, well in a way not unlike how some pool filters sort of work. I have a little sediment filter. (caveat: don't use my techniques dear readers. use UV filters and ... masks if need be!) Nah. And then, at the end, I run a 1/2 carbon 1/2 calcite filter to harden the water a bit. (Then I can caffeinate with fine taste. But, by all means I rescind my OS-kvetching until your water clears up. ...then if there's a crustier version of Gossip that plays nice with OS 11 ...?) Aloha. npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren ... on primal fwiw npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren at the risk of outing myself as a nostrdork, i can't read this either let alone get excited npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren Not dissimilar to my receiving of 111 satoshis (my first ever crypto-dough). Now I just need to choose the optimal retirement setup. https://youtu.be/lXzH4qF7Lsg?feature=shared npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren Nostr seems friggin' decentrally awesome. However, the current barriers to entry are surely precluding all non-propeller-headed, non-technocratic folks, from participating. Bringing wide-spread public discourse into the larger Polis would seem to be its highest and best use. To those of us – frankly less interested in cryptocurrency (and its attendant energy reality) and finding libertarianism mostly lacking in regard for our commons – such perspective is more aligned with our collective answer to that eminently reasonable question: "What good is it?" (that said, I've much appreciated the help and aloha encountered thus far!) npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren send me free bread (i'll show my nips if need be) thanks! npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p Darren Um, this here is my nostr note. Not super profound. Really just commemorating my nostr slog ...