vinney

Welding the power of organized violence against the free market of people using unregistered digital securities.... Not something to applaud.
If Bitcoin wins it will because it ignores governments, not relies on them to do its bidding.

2024-09-17 03:48:00

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Happens to me, too, I just never thought much of it. I'm on GrapheneOS and try to be pretty tight with what I install and let run. Maybe some problematic relays in bad states or something?

2024-09-16 19:39:54

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that was cool.

2024-09-16 19:37:26

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Haha nah keep it! You make great art, at LEAST with a penny lol

2024-09-16 18:27:21

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..Bitcoin?!

2024-09-16 18:19:27

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This post is even more important than your OP. Kudos

2024-09-16 18:04:15

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Just "in the area with a rifle"?

2024-09-16 17:13:42

More than you wanted to know about a little-understood but important aspect of diet and health, explained in a nontechnical manner, with oversimplifications abound.
Your cells need some kind of fuel to function. this fuel can only come (ultimately) from the outside world as food. AKA "diet". your blood carries the fuel to the cells so they can do their work. on most diets, the main fuel for cells is glucose, which the body derives from sugar or carbohydrates (which are basically sugar + some complexity).
on other diets, the main fuel for cells is fat. on these diets, fat/lipid particles are carried on little blood ferries called lipoproteins (the final "L" in LDL and HDL). LDL carries lipids _to_ your cells so they can use it, HDL carries unused lipids _away_ from your cells (to the liver) so they can be disposed of. (on both very high carb and very low carb diets, your cells will still use some amount of both glucose and fat for energy, but the ratio will change dramatically).
Naturally, if you have a lot of these ferries in your blood (because you are using fat as cell-fuel), your LDL and HDL counts ("total cholesterol") will be high on basic blood tests.
LDL - the ferries that carry fats to your cells to burn - come in two varieties:
- small + dense
- large + fluffy
both carry fuel to your cells, but the small/dense ones have an unfortunate side-effect of slamming into artery walls, penetrating them, and accidentally depositing their lipids there. This is the "plaque" of cardiovascular disease fame. The large, fluffy particles do not penetrate the arterial walls as readily - they bounce off and keep going on to their destinations. their effect on arterial plaque is not zero, but far less impactful than small, dense particles.
In either case, the HDL particles are always good: they remove excess lipids from the body. this is why HDL is "the good cholesterol". There are advanced blood tests available which measure particle size (so, like, an _acutally useful_ test), but odds are your doctor will refuse to order this test. Strange!
We didn't mention Triglycerides yet. Suffice it to say that more triglycerides = smaller, denser LDL particles = more arterial wall penetration = more cardiovascular risk. To finish off our triglycerides sidebar, the dietary patterns that increase triglycerides (bad!) are: excess calories from carbohydrates, added sugars and refined carbohydrates, low fiber intake, low omega-3 intake (especially in combination with excess seed oil intake), high trans fats consumption (more on trans fat in a moment).
Back to finish up cholesterol: this is why a diet that is high in _good fats_ (again, more in a moment) will increase "total cholesterol" - you have more fat boats fueling your cells - but doesn't indicate greater cardiovascular risk: because the large, fluffy particles are not damaging your arteries and the large number of HDL particles are protective!
Furthermore, if you reconsider the sidebar on triglycerides you'll notice that avoiding refined carbohydrates and sugars has the added effect of lowering triglycerides, which keeps the LDL particles even healthier. You'll often see the simple recommendation to keep the HDL/Triglycerides ratio high. this is why. HDL good, triglycerides bad.
We didn't even get into insulin sensitivity - one of the most important factors in metabolic health... another time.
A last word on dietary fat types: Not all fats are created equally. You can look into monounsaturated and polyunsaturated on your own, but I want to mention two others here: Trans fat and Saturated fat.
Trans fats mostly come from _artificial sources_, like processed vegetable or seed oils. most often found in ultra-processed, packaged foods. yuck. trans fat **lowers HDL, increases inflammation and increases proportion of small, dense LDL particles**. These are all the bad things we discussed above.
Saturated fat is mainly found in meat, dairy and coconut oil. It **increases LDL particle size and raises HDL**. These are the good things we discussed above.
So, yes, while someone's _total cholesterol_ may go up when eating saturated fats, it doesn't necessarily mean their cardiovascular risk has increased.
Now that you understand how cholesterol works, compare moderate saturated fat intake to eating a diet full of refined carbohydrates, sugars, processed vegetable/seed oils, and all the other items we explained above...
Ok really now, the **last** last word: the "cholesterol" you see on a food label has less impact on blood cholesterol than you thought. the details are too squirrely to go into here, but the takeway is: the fat content discussed above is the lion's share of the impact, with the number you see next to "cholesterol" on your food label having a negligible effect.
#diet #paleo #keto #health #healthstr #foodstr #carnivore #cholesterol

2024-09-14 22:01:22

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Hopefully one day we can build an ancap revolution civilization WITHOUT there having to be an apocalyptic event leading to ruins first 😆

2024-09-14 19:31:45

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I didn't read this whole thing, but I see "Nostr exclusive" + hundreds and hundreds of well-organized words and you know I'm gonna zap that

2024-09-14 16:17:43

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Invite my dumb ass to those

2024-09-14 00:38:33

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Got some good room recommendations?

2024-09-14 00:17:22

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Everyone commenting here isn't wrong about POS and the downsides of ETH, but it is absolutely worth looking into the rich smart contract ecosystem, EVM and creative dApps that the Ethereum people have built.
Personally, I consider Bitcoin *Money* (and the only real money we've ever seen), but Eth can jump in for some useful decentralized compute here and there. I wouldn't _stack_ Eth, but its nice to have some around to interact with applications.

2024-09-13 17:03:27

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I like this Marcus Aurelius style of note

2024-09-13 15:57:03

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Don't tell me what to do.

2024-09-13 02:41:02

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:D it was a joke. "wot relay" == "what relay?"

2024-09-12 21:23:16

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"go fuck yourself"
"don't tell me what to do"

2024-09-12 17:41:46

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I'm a software developer and a longtime enthusiastic user of decentralized technologies. the relay management and inspection is by far the part of nostr that eludes me the most and brings me the most anxiety.
I feel like I don't have (and can't get) a good handle on:
- which of my relays are being used for what across which clients
- what relay settings are being shared between clients (and how)
- how my .well-known/nostr.json relay list interacts with this
- given my current relay settings, which npubs' notes can I access very reliably vs which I'm getting by proxy/broadcast/reply
- no good way to keep notes on my current relay settings and why I have certain ones selected (after spending some time working on relay settings it seems rational, then 3 months later I don't remember what's what and/or what may have changed out in the world)
- etc....

2024-09-12 17:08:55

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Oh yea, I just replied to it I think.

2024-09-12 16:19:50

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Wait what? I don't remember this?

2024-09-12 15:39:23

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Follwing your new npub

2024-09-12 15:36:48

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Money moving into the realm of pure spirit

2024-09-11 17:13:04

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Who painted it? Where did you hear this?

2024-09-11 17:04:02

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If this was a missile (fired from an overpass) wouldn't it be EXTREMELY large? Look how long that object is... What kind of device are you suggesting fired it? It would need to be enormous.

2024-09-11 16:59:56

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I'm very curious about the remainder of this quote (as data ownership is sort of the name of the game for my company)

2024-09-11 16:38:47

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"gun biomes" 😆
There is definitely a subset of the population for whom the presence of guns in the biome produces a lot of stress and anxiety.

2024-09-11 16:34:01

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What's the image?

2024-09-11 05:15:13

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Yes, prices (at least on tech) should go down forever when denominated in Bitcoin.

2024-09-11 02:49:04

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Just installed from zap.store. It's refreshingly minimal and quite attractive! But I'm sort of untethered without usernames and avatars 😄
I guess zap store has the older version... I'll find the 0.14 somewhere

2024-09-11 02:40:25

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Odysee

2024-09-10 23:28:58

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What awful feed timing! https://i.nostr.build/KYQZKjUaWBkjF2o6.jpg @nprofile…nzlv

2024-09-10 22:10:48

PoW 18...

2024-09-10 21:44:04

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I find it adorable that the reactions to this comment more or less describe early homo sapiens history on Earth
@nprofile…t70t @nprofile…56e3
https://i.nostr.build/OOhCRf3puZtPtDVe.jpg

2024-09-10 19:51:49

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FUCK EM

2024-09-10 19:49:05

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You made it! I was watching the "will he onboard...?" spectacle from the sidelines and rooting for you. Welcome!

2024-09-10 17:14:49

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Turns out if you divide everything in the world by 21 million, you get 1/🤡🌎.
Aka the inverse of clown world

2024-09-10 16:41:25

This is exactly why "trust == follow" is too crude and we need contextual trust.
If I set up a company WoT relay and followed my personal account with it, a bunch of (lovely) memers would be posting memes on that professional relay. If instead my company account could attest that it trusts my personal account "for programming" and my personal account trusts a handful of npubs "for programming", then the WoT relay would tend to have more programming posts and fewer memes.
Not to mention the fact that I follow some people I *actively distrust* and dislike - but I still want to see what they are posting. so like the last people I'd want in a protected trust circle!
#nevent1q…6gcy

2024-09-10 16:26:06

I want to set up a community relay with the following features, what are my options?
- a set of "public" notes that anyone can see
- a separate "in-community" feed that only a certain whitelist of npubs can see
- same for chat: a public chat any npub can participate in
- a private chat that only a certain whitelist of npubs can see

2024-09-10 14:53:43

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Yes exactly - top right corner

2024-09-10 13:22:48

#AskNostr #foodstr pitch me your best egg-cooking skillet that:
- is not riddled with PFAS or other shit that is going to poison me
- is not carbon steel nor cast iron (already have great ones)
- works on induction!
- eggs aren't going to stick and drive me insane
I suspect that "regular old nonstick" might be the only option left, even though it probably violates #1 above. Maybe ceramic coated cast iron?

2024-09-10 06:17:38

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Amethyst already devours my battery, I can't imagine what would happen with citrine... Maybe I'll try though!

2024-09-10 05:51:51

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Wait are you saying you have an idea of how to fix this bug but the GitHub PR flow is confusing to you? Or you aren't sure how to do the work involved to fix the bug?

2024-09-10 05:10:41

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It's far easier than you think. What are you trying to do exactly? I can help.

2024-09-10 05:00:36

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The last layer is always the hardest! The patterns there are weird and have stupid little edge cases that are easy to forget after years.
I've gone a few multi-year stretches without touching one but I always get it back. I don't know what method I learned, but it seems pretty grug-brained... Set things up, then repeat some shit a bunch until good. Repeat with different shit.

2024-09-10 00:01:25

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I'm a massive fan of that journal!
https://i.nostr.build/EeNXwjpiZ2R7mUQT.jpg

2024-09-09 22:48:52

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Very *few pages

2024-09-09 04:03:59

Got it!
https://i.nostr.build/Ro7yzhQPZSvxcbmD.jpg
#nevent1q…ftrf

2024-09-08 18:43:10

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Is there a single citation anywhere for any of this stuff? Or just collections of prose from some anonymous person?

2024-09-08 14:24:00

Hey, @nprofile…g7c9 I'm just passing along a message from @nprofile…nrss...
https://i.nostr.build/8TQI3eMJta5mHNNU.jpg

2024-09-08 13:26:15

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Explain the "not you, your corporation" thing.

2024-09-08 01:05:16

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Japan is rolling out self-replicating mRNA this fall.

2024-09-06 15:49:51

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You should follow @nprofile…34xq

2024-09-06 13:39:28

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"I believe this is why housing [...]"
What's the "this" in this sentence?

2024-09-06 13:37:07

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You're talking about web of trust #WoT. WoT hasn't reached its full potential yet, but plenty of good people are working on it. It would allow people (customers in this case) to make attestations about other users (vendors in this case), and those who trust these customers would see those reviews or reputation.
If you don't already trust someone, your WoT graph would care what they say about a store

2024-09-06 13:32:19

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I honestly don't get people's "Nostr doesn't work" thing. You install a major client on your phone, generate an account.
Where do new users go wrong?

2024-09-06 13:30:20

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Oh yea I see the weird little details now.

2024-09-06 13:29:30

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Is this actually AI though?

2024-09-06 13:25:58

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Melvins are still going

2024-09-06 02:47:03

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I haven't had an antiperspirant touch me for many months.
What's an "alum block"?

2024-09-06 02:40:45

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Hey nice! I'll check it out tomorrow!

2024-09-05 20:42:20

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West coast, eh?

2024-09-05 20:38:30

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This guy has a Jamaican accent?

2024-09-05 17:23:19

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Thanks! I had tried going deodorant-free a few months ago and I think it leveled out after a little, but the "level" was still a bit higher than I'd prefer.
I've since radically adjusted my diet (much cleaner) and this is a good reminder to me to try again - maybe my results will be acceptable now!

2024-09-05 16:23:58

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Plus you can self-host it extremely simply with a docker container!

2024-09-05 13:35:39

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Lol they wrote this...?

2024-09-05 13:29:34

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Yea that makes sense and is a very self-aware position (obviously more self-aware than some random jackass on Nostr's assessment 👋).
In that case, isn't it almost like "okay, but so what?". It's sort of just a description of a situation but not a strategy to deal with the situation. It sounds like you likely already know where your personal strengths and weaknesses lie and the label "ADHD" doesn't add much useful information to the picture. Perhaps just treat it as a strong underline on the problems you've already self-identified and hit those harder and/or be more patient with them.

2024-09-05 13:09:48

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Man, the IRC is dead, too? Where did all the users go? What's the new scheduling point?

2024-09-05 13:02:05

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Is the BBS dead?

2024-09-05 04:19:22

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Lol those poor morons.
Here I am using a self-hosted web front end. Try and censor this shit MFers

2024-09-05 04:18:20

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Don't buy it. Use their bullshit diagnosis as that last push you needed to finally get your shit together.
Drink more coffee, sleep better, exercise, fix your diet, hydrate properly, read stoics - do anything else before you start taking amphetamines or whatever else they want to give you.

2024-09-04 23:36:49

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@npub1a00…9q3h

2024-09-04 22:25:05

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https://github.com/operating-function/pallas
"Simple shit that just works" is lindy and is also our reason for being as a company.

2024-09-04 22:19:15

Of COURSE they are coming for mesh networks
OF COURSE
#nevent1q…q7h7

2024-09-04 13:50:36

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Yea don't do that.

2024-09-04 13:07:14

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I've floated ideas like this to super-Trumpy people I know and boy do they dislike it when I do so.

2024-09-03 21:54:43

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What kind of fluid is the ice in and how do we know it's ice? (And also not just temporarily fused to the bottom of the glass, as would happen if it was frozen in there)

2024-09-03 18:57:52

What compels a person to wear a mask outdoors in 2024?
What is the little voice inside his head saying as he loops that thing over his ears?
https://i.nostr.build/RJzqbPMNtp031zpo.png

2024-09-03 13:34:50

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Use a browser.

2024-09-03 05:58:21

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If it does, how will I know?

2024-09-03 05:57:24

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Hah yea I think it was. A few weeks back.

2024-09-03 02:54:29

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I'm with you there. I'm looking forward to the day my company can offer sovereign personal content hosting for every Internet user (optionally on your own hardware if you want. Or not). We need some time, but that's one of our core goals.

2024-09-03 02:52:03

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I have a nearly complete picture. Got questions?

2024-09-03 02:48:26

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Long atheism has never steered me wrong, my brother in Christ. (Huh??)

2024-09-03 02:47:37

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Fuck yea! Nostr needs more RPG actual play reports.
A Nostr play-by-post would be even better!

2024-09-02 21:48:32

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Nah, just filter for only people you want to see (using any one of many personal algorithms. Including web of trust)

2024-09-01 15:54:02

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Holy shit that's fast dude

2024-08-31 20:05:39

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I could argue that this is where we are now. People "know" (unconsciously, via their browser and OS settings) certain DNS resolvers that are considered global / canonical. There's nothing stopping someone from choosing some wacky resolver that points domains to wacky IP addresses.
Nothing stopping them, that is, except for the lack of user-facing settings and apps with good UX. Imagine you had a web browser that had a little drop-down next to the URL bar that let you choose between "default global DNS" and "my region's DNS" and "my social circle's DNS" and "my secret club's DNS". When you enter a domain you would (maybe) get different results depending on your DNS context... This is maybe a silly contrived example, but it would work today with just an added select box.
You could imagine integrating something like this with Nostr lists or groups or something. It's just a lack of creative experiments preventing this

2024-08-30 21:09:37

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If my machine and your machine can find each other peer to peer, then as long as we have each other's IPs, we can find each other's websites (without domains).
If you say "I run Google.com" to a resolver service, and I ask that resolver service to route me to google.com, I'll get you (and whatver site you serve me).
If I ask a DIFFERENT resolver service for the same domain, I might get a different website.
Non-global.
But this is fine and good. Maybe I actively want YOU to be my Google in the some particular context, so I use that resolver in that context... And when I want a different provider to be "my google" for a different context, I point to that one.
Silicon valley can provide its own resolver and everyone can call that "default/global" if they want. But the global nature of it is just window dressing. There is no global, beev

2024-08-30 21:02:58

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👀👀also want to know about this

2024-08-30 20:59:26

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👋👋

2024-08-30 20:57:02

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Doesn't have to be Nostr. Any kind of resolver system that takes a name or hash and returns an IP will work. This is a solveable problem. And basically _easy_ to solve if you don't require the names to be global (and I personally don't think anything should be global)

2024-08-30 17:52:45

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duh, I guess that makes sense now that I'm hearing it... I have a few local grass-fed beef sources - I'll just go talk to them and see what a deal would look like. Thanks!

2024-08-30 14:57:32

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Alright youve got a massive quarter of beef, frozen. Now you want to cut some off to cook this week. How do you do that?
Or do you thaw the whole thing once, butcher it all down and then re-freeze the portions?

2024-08-30 14:56:22

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I try to buy as much locally as I can (lots of good options here, especially in summer). Typically more expensive that way but it feels better

2024-08-30 02:26:42

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We won't let them starve us or turn us into fat unhealthy drones, dependent on state gruel.

2024-08-30 02:25:55

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Lol! I do intermittent fasting 16:8. But there's still a caloric and macronutrient reality per day, whether it's one meal or 5 :/

2024-08-30 02:24:51

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Yes exactly. I'm not about to stop doing this and let my health degrade.
It feels like an attack.

2024-08-30 02:21:22

If I keep up with this low carb high fat Paleo-ish thing I'm doing, it looks like groceries will be close to $200 a week. Just for me, not including other groceries for my wife.
...wtf

2024-08-30 01:35:25

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Do you post a note for your new articles manually or do you have some kind of Nostr integration?
Also learned about love-rss from you today, which is awesome!

2024-08-30 00:26:34

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Would provide a simple, sovereign family group chat (no Telegram, Signal, Apple or Google required). Add a basic password to it so it's not publicly visible