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The pre-Russian layer
The Popish Plot of 1678 is the template. Titus Oates claimed a Catholic conspiracy to assassinate Charles II, dozens were executed, and the whole thing was fabrication. The structure is identical to the modern version: a foreign power, a hidden network of sympathisers, and therefore a domestic faction that must be disloyal.
In the 1790s both American parties aimed it at each other. Federalists called the Democratic-Republicans agents of revolutionary France after the Genet affair. The Republicans called the Federalists British puppets over the Jay Treaty. The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 were written against foreign influence and used against domestic editors.
The Russian layer starts in 1917, pointing the other way
The first modern use was against Russians rather than by them. Lenin was accused of being a German agent, and the German funding was real. After 1919 the direction reversed and stayed reversed for eighty years. The Palmer Raids of 1919 and 1920 treated American radicalism as Bolshevik gold arriving from Moscow. The Dies Committee in 1938 and McCarthy from 1950 built the same case at larger scale: domestic dissent as foreign direction.
The Zinoviev Letter of 1924 is the cleanest British example. A document purporting to show Moscow directing the Labour Party, published four days before the election, almost certainly forged by White Russian émigrés, and Labour lost.

2026-11-11 06:15:13 GMT

anyone who is actually playing with https://smesh.lol pls do let me know. tag it with #smesh and mention @npub125u…lek0 me
it's intentionally super simple, and yes, there will be marmot mls direct/group messaging implemented soon. i'm just working on some bugs i've discovered in the compiler runtime around memory management, and will return to that and get it working. minimal functionality is planned. i already know that embedded videos from http/blossom don't seem to play right on my librewolf. i need to improve the way that post embeds work. possibly teh compose panel needs to be integrated as an overlay/split pane, the ui is designed intentionally to be usable on mobile but should make use of horizontal and vertical space if it has it.
there's not a lot of things on my wishlist but once they are done, i'm mostly leaving it alone to focus on using it as a ground for a much bigger, more complex protocol.

2026-11-11 00:18:15 GMT

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2026-11-10 06:39:28 GMT

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they are more beautiful goats in the mountains

2026-11-10 06:31:22 GMT

https://smesh.lol is back
it runs off the code in https://git.smesh.lol/smesh which is built using the moxie language at https://git.smesh.lol/moxie the official proper vanity url is https://moxielang.dev which will take you to the "permanent" github source for moxie. it requires Go to build currently, actually, now i'm noticing, i'm putting a binary release up. that's in process.
smesh is a pure wasm based web app. everything is wasm except for the tiny bits of javascript code required to stage and run it. there is a signer, with several features, multiple identities, a hd keychain based multi-identity feature, as well as nip-07 based extension signer. an upgrade of the plebeian signer for smesh that is built entirely using moxie will be coming.
this is a framework for building highly concurrent, reliable and robust moxie applications, and is going into production now to build a music social network framework i have been working on slowly in the background for a client. today that starts going into full tempo.
#moxie #smesh #progressreport

2026-11-10 04:21:59 GMT

**Bitcoin Core IBD failure modes (patched locally, v29.5 tree `~/s/bitcoin-core-29-src`)**
1. **No way to compact the chainstate during or after an IBD/reindex**
- `ShouldCompactChainstate()` (`src/validation.cpp:115`) returns `false` whenever `in_ibd`, and otherwise compacts with probability 1/320 per full flush. So a from-genesis sync or `-reindex` never compacts, no matter how long it runs.
- `CCoinsViewDB::CompactFull()` exists and runs async, but has no RPC, no timer, and `-forcecompactdb` only fires at database open.
- Result: chainstate reached 445 tables × ~30 MB (13 GB); random UTXO lookups fanned out across all of them. Measured `rchar` 0.3 MB/s against `read_bytes` 250 MB/s — **811× read amplification**, 2–4 blocks/min.
- Patch: `-compactonclose`, which after the final `ForceFlushStateToDisk()` at shutdown calls `CoinsDB().CompactFull().wait()` and logs the duration.
2. **LevelDB block caches are hard-capped, independent of `-dbcache`**
- `src/kernel/caches.h`: `MAX_COINS_DB_CACHE{8_MiB}`, `MAX_BLOCK_DB_CACHE{2_MiB}`. Setting `-dbcache=12000` still yields `Using 8.0 MiB for chain state database`; the rest goes to the in-memory UTXO cache.
- Result: with a multi-GB chainstate every lookup reads index/data blocks from disk — ~1.1 GB/s and 32k IOPS sustained at ~4 blocks/s, ~285 MB read per connected block.
- Patch: caps raised to 1 GiB (coins) and 64 MiB (block index).
**Operational traps that made both worse** (no patch, but they trigger the above): auto-compaction being IBD-gated; restarts resuming from the last chainstate flush and replaying; `assumevalid` being ineffective while its block is not yet on the active chain, silently falling back to full validation; and the UTXO-cache/DB-cache split making a large `-dbcache` look ineffective.
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and no, none of these problems are fixed in the latest 30+ versions:
Correct — neither fix is in the latest versions. Verified directly against the sources on this machine:
| | our patched v29.5 | Core v30.3 (`btc-fork-sim/bitcoin-30.3`) | Knots v29.4.3 (`bitcoinknots/bitcoin`) |
|---|---|---|---|
| `MAX_COINS_DB_CACHE` | 1024 MiB | **8 MiB** | **8 MiB** |
| `MAX_BLOCK_DB_CACHE` | 64 MiB | **2 MiB** | **2 MiB** |
| `ShouldCompactChainstate` | (unchanged) | `!in_ibd && 1/320 flushes` | `!in_ibd && 1/320 flushes` |
| compaction trigger at shutdown | `-compactonclose` | **none** | **none** |
| `CoinsDB().CompactFull()` | present | present (unused except the 1/320 path) | present (same) |
| other compaction trigger | — | `-forcecompactdb` at DB open | `-forcecompactdb` at DB open |
So the underlying machinery exists in all three, but the two things that made it unusable for a from-genesis IBD are identical upstream: the coin-DB LevelDB cache is capped at 8 MiB regardless of `-dbcache`, and compaction is disabled for the entire duration of IBD with no way to invoke it except the hidden open-time `-forcecompactdb`. The only levers upstream ships are "give the UTXO cache tens of GB so you never flush" or "restart with `-forcecompactdb`".

2026-11-10 02:12:01 GMT

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literally tried both wrong words before the right one at the end.

2026-11-10 02:07:18 GMT

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2026-11-10 02:06:42 GMT

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2026-11-09 14:28:17 GMT

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what is this? a fleshlight for ants?

2026-11-09 13:09:31 GMT

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i only use multiple agents in two specific situations.
one is that i have a chat and a coding agent running at once. sometimes i have two or very occasionally 3 coding agents running at once, and i fire them off to do work and while one is working another might finish and i check what it's done and fire it off with a new prompt to do more work.
the other is sometimes when i'm asking for a survey and analysis of a big chunk of stuff, like a codebase, many harnesses will automatically spawn several agents to work independently on reading different things in parallel with each other. most of the "multi agent" stuff people talk about is some variant of this. like the grok-bot thing, you can set up multiple agents in pipelines and each one does a task, and performs it and hands off its output to another to do another element of the process.
the most important multi-agent thing is the chat vs code agent split. the code agent's context fills up fast and it does lots of stuff that can make it get more confused, while the chat agent is processing much smaller amounts of information per amount of time. so the chat can help you keep the code bot on track, it's also especially good for devising plans, which are very useful for getting the agent to do stuff with a constant anchor to drag it back to the task at hand as it fills its context with lots of little details, it keeps running back to the plan text and then feeding that back into what it has learned as it processes the task, and the plan stays in the top of its context when it needs to compact the history to make space to continue.

2026-11-09 09:55:53 GMT

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2026-11-09 07:47:26 GMT

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indeed, that's a pretty reasonable inference. it's not annoying enough to warrant it though, which is quite un-israeli of it. real israelis - not even assholes, are pushy as fuck in my experience. this one is remarkably restrained.

2026-11-09 07:31:22 GMT

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i can blacklist "gaza" and never see your shit. just need the filter "not in follow list, mentions gaza"

2026-11-09 07:16:27 GMT

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the point still stands. most LLMs are not being checked whether they sound like a liar or not.

2026-11-09 06:47:19 GMT

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LoL. good going Dario's Mini Me.
a serious innovator is not propagating a model that intentionally gives everyone the ability to write like a corporate liar.

2026-11-09 06:45:53 GMT

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it's CSS. that is all.

2026-11-09 06:14:50 GMT

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i wish more people would make the effort to de-clankerise their clanker text output style. you didn't even have to let it do an emdash to give away the game. i am getting quite tired of the "two tings; both are true at the same time" canard especially. no, neither are true, analysed *together*. they are true analysed *separately*. very fucking different. and clanker idiom makes it sound like truth is plural.
truth is not plural. one equation gives you a true, another equation gives you a true. the two equations are not the same equation and the apellation of "truth" is a lie, on its own grounds.
and yes, i fucking wrote that by hand. i've been working with clankerspeak for a while and i'm getting tired of this.
you know where it comes from, btw? persuasive corporate jargon laden speeches written by marketing experts and NLP persuasion bitches who understand the cadence tricks to lull people into a state of gullibility.

2026-11-09 04:41:01 GMT

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bitcoin core's shennannigans and many "respected" figures falls and being caught out in very nasty mischief has caused a lot of changes in the minds of the people.

2026-11-08 04:43:53 GMT

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more users means going over to *that* side not the other side coming to us.

2026-11-08 04:34:47 GMT

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yay aDoPtIoN

2026-11-08 03:11:55 GMT

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yakka is australian slang for work

2026-11-08 03:09:55 GMT

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there's a whole dictionary of 4 letter words
yodl, wadl, podl, midl, fidl, pidl...

2026-11-08 02:36:15 GMT

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yeah, it's ridiculous how bloated software is getting, seriously. if there's one thing we could really use the clankers to do right now it is to bring that back down to earth. it was only a decade ago i could run a fully featured desktop at 4gb.

2026-11-07 07:57:10 GMT

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you'll find something. i've skated through some really rough times recently, even broke my leg, barely scraping enough contracts to make it but i'm still here and about to debut some serious shiznit. after almost 6 months i'm done building a programming language. i totally had no idea really how long that was gonna take but it's here today, last little polishes in the next few days as i test drive it on some old code.
so, keep at it, nose to the grindstone. nostr has lost its tourists, and the benefits to applications of the protocol are really obvious especially with the plethora of mls marmot clients and zapstore, two things that i think really break new ground.

2026-11-07 06:44:49 GMT

test: moxie smesh app posted this note. theoretically.

2026-11-07 00:24:06 GMT

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1. What

2026-11-06 12:28:02 GMT

today i learned that the proper name for one of those SEO spammy blog "list articles" is "listicle" and adjacent, a blog post with charts is a "charticle".
list-article. chart-article. but the etymology suggests they are little list and little chart.

2026-11-06 06:48:51 GMT

ever since the end of kernel 5 and salty linus, linux has steadily turned into shit.
so, i was just following what everyone else was doing, updating my current kernels, and a month or two ago kernel 7 appeared. i was like, ok, blah blah.
but 7 was a real major change, and not just because 6 bumped past 6.18 to linus's usual minor bump to major threshold instead of 6.19. the preemption code has changed, and my experience of this has been the causation of massive issues with dropped io and network signalling while under high cpu load.
switching back to 6.18 now, and yes, under load everyhting is a little more laggy. but it was literally dropping key up signals on the keyboard, leading to lags that caused thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis sort of thing to appear after the whole ui unfroze and started responding again.
it isn't doing that now. it's just a little slow now, it doesn't outright drop keys. and why i am forced to do this now, with the most recent version bump dropped on arch linux kernels, vanilla and garuda version bump right now. NETWORK drops. causing my harnesses to completely fail to send messages and not know they were not sent.
unacceptable. linux kernel has crossed the rubicon this time. changing the preemption has materially caused me measurable, and potentially accountancy quantifiable damage.

2026-11-06 05:40:37 GMT

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yes, "woo" means plausible sounding nonsense. hippies are notable vendors of woo. characterised by using out of context scientific jargon as euphemisms for nonsense, with the gravitas of the euphemisms instead of an honest owning of the subjectivity and lack of rigor.

2026-11-05 16:49:56 GMT

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is catholic really a fork from orthodox?? i thought tehy were parallel

2026-11-05 16:22:40 GMT

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i'm kinda stuck using gnome at the moment but i'm also really pissed about the whole gtk theme thing as well, entirely unnecessary bullshit, classic xkcd standards cartoon situation. gtk3 was great. what the hell. wayland and gnome are both on my shitlist and i'm hoping that vibecoding is gonna help people make cinnamon actually better than gnome lol. goddamnit. it's not for nothing i want to tear the whole thing down and build a new thing from the kernel up

2026-11-05 13:27:45 GMT

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well, i didn't set out to outdo rust in any way, or be inspired by it, but moxie has lifecycle stuff and ownership, and no GC. but it does that through implicit boundaries that are already there in the code. functions own their own memory, the callers own the parameters and returns. complex types that mutate themselves are sovereign, they own their own memory. instead of using heaps there is nothing shared, each of these entities uses arenas, which are basically like fat heaps that grow in segments, and every unit of execution is an isolated memory pool owner that shares information with other execution units through duplex channels and they are all mandatory to be written like event processing loops meaning there is a natural quiescent time in which memory that is not in use can be compacted, and there is never a question of "does anyone own this memory" because the memory and the execution unit are a unified. nothing is shared.
so, yeah, all that probably sounds a bit complicated but what it means in practice is that it looks like go, and is safe and performant like rust. you don't have to take care of memory at all. you have to architect your code properly. you aren't allowed to share memory between parallel threads of execution. you could say it's like this: looks like go, structured like erlang, and memory managed like rust.

2026-11-05 08:56:20 GMT

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except now, with gnome 5, another upgrade nobody asked for, they've shut down support for x11 altogether. running arch now i can't go back to x11 because something has screwed with the settings. also, other gay things on linux, is kernel 6+ every version since 6 has been dogshit. and hasn't actually fixed the real problems like no support for the mtk7902 pci-e to usb to bluetooth and wifi dogshit that comes with cheap laptops.
the computer industry is a total farce at this point, and sam altman's "let them eat cake" moment about DRAM really drives the point home.
good luck finding a system with more than 16gb of memory right now, without paying over $2000. sam doesn't seem to realise that the customer is the one paying subscriptions, not the VCs and shareholders they don't have yet.

2026-11-05 08:49:46 GMT

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i like to call wayland "gayland" because it's been in beta for over 15 years but every distro shoves it on you. the only desktop ui that does it properly is kde which i saw recently is also very gay.
for most use cases, you just need to re-enable x11 - gnome hides this by default in gdm, and many distros hide the setting. and then it will all work.
another bonus for gayland is that they make it so you can't screenshot other apps because muh security except it's muh fucking pixels.

2026-11-04 12:50:24 GMT

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yeah, it's usually a sign of immune load, in my case, it's teh combination of celiac, and decades of alcohol and smoking. there can be other causes but if you look up "red mange" or "demodecidosis" the "parasite" is not really a problem normally, it's when the whole system is broken that its lifestyle, amplified by excess food supply, compounds existing issues with more issues that feed back.
those bugs first got my attention in 2019 just before covid. it's the result of years of eating wheat, in my case, out of surviival necessity and zero money. what kicked it off was actually 7 months of prison food, that led to a chronic long term immune panic situation.
anyway, i'm dealing with it. controlling their population is not so much about eliminating them as reducing their compounding effect. outside of that, i'm just doing what i need to do - eliminating all allergens, not drinking, not smoking, and doing my best to maintain enough income to keep fixing the problem. :>)

2026-11-04 12:43:13 GMT

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i've been watching this drift towards conspiracy theory and it's the j00s stuff taking place on my feed over teh last few weeks and concurrently in my own musings i've been poking at what i think the real problem of today is:
concentrated benefits, diffuse costs.
people chase what they can see (the concentrated) and don't notice the things they can't see (the diffuse).
it's not a new problem, it's just that the dynamic is only just starting to really get crystal clear.
i remember when i first heard the expression "externalities" courtesy of that Michael Moore guy talking about the problem of corporations and their damage versus the costs they pay to fix it.
the problems that often get thrown into the "jews" basket are practically all this kind of thing. the real customer of VC funded devs, not the users. the real customer of the AI hyperscalers is investors paying for all this insane buildout and accumulation of hardware that nobody is going to use.
meanwhile, the average joe can't buy a computer that has 64gb of memory even though the average corporate software developer is working on a machine like that. sam altman says that it's a shame that people have DRAM when he needs teh fabs to be printing HBM. while Sam's highest paying *customers* are programmers who need DRAM on their local machine for compilation because Rust's devs write their code and test it on machines with 64+gb of memory so the demand flows downwards and then we have sam basically dunking on the inelastic requirements of his most fruitful revenue cohort. why? because he's focused on the VC money and the stonks, and not the customer.
you see what i'm digging at here? it's not the jews, it's that the modern situation is like how with a cat, you can put food right in front of its' eyes and it can't see it, if it isn't touching it's whiskers and nose. humans see what feeds them, and fail to see what that feeding is costing someone else.
it's not jews. it's a problem of humans not understanding their own limitations enough to build safeguards into the systems they build to mitigate the damage.
some countermeasures are starting to happen, but it's getting acute. so some people that goes all the way down into the conspiracy theory and jews rabbitholes.

2026-11-04 12:04:49 GMT

i just watched my clanker not correctly respond to a prompt where i qualified "data center" with "AI" specifically referring to offloading cpu/memory intensive compilation work (and test running) teh point being that these are not commutable workloads (related to sam altman's idiotic comment about consumers not needing DRAM, when his highest paying customers have the highest need for DRAM, nobody pays $100+ a month for chat).
in AI jargon this is a salience error. the AI qualify is the most salient item in the prompt, because you can't compile software on an AI compute stack.
so, you can also say, when someone misses a key point, rather than just saying "you missed the point" you can say that you missed the salience of this word here "word".

2026-11-04 11:36:12 GMT

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unfortunately, LLMs are actually just as opaque as politicians. this is a fundamental flaw in the technology and one that needs to be addressed at some point. it's the reason for the asymmetry of production costs that makes hyperscalers the only ones building AI and everyone is kept out by a moat that is architecturally defended.
i've got some ideas about how to make AI reasoning transparent but i don't have even the basic funds to spend on that right now lol.

2026-11-04 11:04:53 GMT

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millions -> billions precisely is 3 orders of magnitude. generally speaking "order of magnitude" is 10.

2026-11-04 09:05:28 GMT

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my relay has graph queries for thread fetches, super fast. hopefully today i'm finally done polishing moxie and i'll re-build and re-deploy https://smesh.lol which is a pure wasm based web app that will use orly graph queries if most of the thread lives on an orly relay.
lol, i'm too busy to promote the idea of other people implementing the graph extension. i built it a long time ago while i was working with the grapevine wot guys and they didn't want to know about it.

2026-11-04 02:19:01 GMT

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possibly the parents of the doctor who owned the library i suppose. or the doctor himself and his wife. they are definitely georgian.

2026-11-03 14:28:18 GMT

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i met a siberian guy in kyrgyzstan who was clearly trying to not be back in russia. he left suddenly, i don't know if it was planned, but then later that same day he left immigration police showed up asking about him.
siberians are the majority of russian casualties also.

2026-11-03 14:26:32 GMT

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yeah, spooks marketing spook marketing spooks. turtles all the way down.

2026-11-03 13:01:51 GMT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UytYrhYLOKI
a really interesting youtube video explaining how flight data and doppler curves found in audio can get within metres of precision accurate location with either time or a pair or more of these doppler curves being audible at a location.
what i find a bit funny also is the last 4 letters of the youtube video identifier hash. LOKI lol.

2026-11-03 12:54:41 GMT

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oddly enough, they both are part of a kooky "effective altruism" movement and they are actually close on the social graph.

2026-11-03 10:25:03 GMT

just the other day someone was saying to me i need to be taking antiparasitics on a regular basis, and funny enough, ivermectin is a really good one for me because it's also effective on adults and nymphs of demodex mites. but... as a surface treatment, and primarily over the head, this is the main place they live, especially in the eyes and eyebrows, but to some extent also head hair and facial hair.
but actually, 2x weekly, with roughly 50ml jojoba oil, 25ml grapeseed oil, 2ml rosemary oil and i'm adding a specific daily application of 50ml jojoba plus 5ml tea tree oil just on the eyelash line and eyebrows, this seems to be the best antiparasite treatment for my case.
i'm going to look into trying the ivermectin for internal parasites later but demodex, i picked them up in 2019, just before the scamdemic, and ironically, teh same treatment that would be helping eliminate those parasites - a two week program of ivermectin oral dosing, would have probably killed this parasite as well as the virus. the fact that ivermectin is effective against covid is very interesting because it suggests htat the virus and parasites are in a mutual protection arrangement. and because in my case demodex follicularis and covid both co-occured, it makes me wonder if there isn't other people also with the same combination and if the family of cold viruses that covid is one of, and the demodex mite are not a combo deal and occur together a lot.

2026-11-03 10:08:09 GMT

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hilarious. "if you hate islam mossad has your mind" but "hate is bad" is not mossad. ok. maybe mossad is just one of many. plus mossad shares consultants with many other organisations engaging in non jew hasbara.

2026-11-02 21:32:05 GMT

#moxie is almost done
all tests green, last polishes on the spawn channel sizing semantics (size hints, wire encoding policy size limits, buffers) and a more precise set of rules about select statements, the syntax required for spawn-able functions (they have a closed chan struct{} return value) and proper handling of termination conditions, parent panics, or terminates, all its spawns are closed so they cleanly shut down (and they terminate their own spawns too). and yes, all main() functions must have a select{} with a case <-sigint: to properly handle graceful shutdown (that's a MUST) and all spawn functions must have a select{} with a case <-closed: clause.
moxie is designed for cooperative multitasking runtime. every main function in every thread is an event loop that at minimum must handle termination.
tomorrow, or, er. today... i start building production code with moxie.

2026-11-02 07:09:28 GMT

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there is an intimate relationship between microwave band frequencies, silicon based electronics and warfare. it was only because of military research projects that we even got integrated circuits, and they all function at microwave frequency spectra, from the megahertz to gigahertz ranges. so, putting a brake on anything to do with these things is just out of the question because the arms race is always paramount for security and that's an argument that overrides everything in political back rooms.

2026-11-01 16:50:47 GMT

fun fact. manufacturing the classic red LED requires arsine and phosphine. two highly pedigreed chemical warfare agents.
modern silicon based semiconductors are literally directly descended from chemical and nuclear warfare research. completely infeasible to DIY unless you like dying or blowing up your house.

2026-11-01 03:36:13 GMT

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cats are basically blind up to about 2 feet from their face. their super sharp vision is for distance and motion and low light and up close it's smell, sound and whiskers. and they don't see colors, they have pseudo monochromatic with purple and green, and most of their retina is covered in high speed monochrome light sensing cells. rods, i think they are.
also they have a lot in common with human babies when they are small, the frequencies of sound of their voices is the same as babies, i mean, their vocal register always stays within the range of baby, the females calls for bois to rape them is almost identical to the sound of a baby. so basically cats will persuade humans into becoming permanent cat mothers, yet also they will teach you how to hunt when they grow big enough by bringing you half ded mice.
i saw a good thing about cat psychology. they are totally autistic and totally do not relate to us the way that most people think they do.
also, cats are awesome. little plague doctors they are. anywhere they are everywhere, there is very rarely much in the way of flea and other parasite borne epidemics.

2026-11-01 03:17:16 GMT

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lol, french are furious about not getting their money's worth from their taxes and now they are raising them even more. of course, that's all going to go to spend on the services of course. never mind the endless inflation to groceries and rent that is paying back funding the casual military wearing comedian goblin in kyiv.
fuck europe, seriously. and fuck living in a place where it's considered normal to tax more than 15% in general. i know every place is going this direction but it's not as bad here in west asia which is why i'm here.

2026-10-31 16:40:46 GMT

yay, finally, after 4 months stuck in transit staying temporarily everywhere and even sleeping at a place that wasn't a proper sleeping place but was ok to nap, i am in a house.
bonus points a cheap 4k tv that is only 4k at 30fps actually but it's 60hz at 2k so i'll take it. and after nearly 2 weeks in zugdidi with the damp cold of winter and lots of windy drafty places, this place has proper sealed windows and a good gas powered central heating system.

2026-10-31 11:27:06 GMT

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i'll have a p2p protocol for trading them afterwards also for shatcoins

2026-10-31 04:17:36 GMT

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revenue just means money going in. it doesn't include money going out

2026-10-31 03:50:58 GMT

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all that renting chips and investing in the chip maker circle will do it

2026-10-30 11:42:17 GMT

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it's just the historical observation. what it came to in the analysis is that something that has legitimacy but never quite becomes the government is the most beneficial arrangement. a permanent foil against it, an elite that refuses to accept the crown.

2026-10-30 10:04:54 GMT

https://torly.smesh.lol/79ac2d97c6cbbadbce572be89e8edc995bb8bbbb53f59d4db1085291531571de.jpg
https://torly.smesh.lol/417c66f9e922e4f318fcaa5ac8f5b93a1c983ff1be33388186d76e62b9d09047.jpg

2026-10-30 06:42:57 GMT

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i learned by the old times table. you don't need any paper to do it. the japanese paper method is awesome though
https://whizz.com/en-us/blog/its-not-magic-its-math-how-the-japanese-multiplication-method-works/

2026-10-30 04:28:32 GMT

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bitcoin is in the midst of a plague it seems

2026-10-30 00:33:39 GMT

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wat! he wasn't even that old???

2026-10-29 10:13:00 GMT

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i don't have the time for haarp because i know the number of digits on the exponent for solar energy (cme, proton storms) effects on seismic are still too small to have a reliable prediction method. that would be a prerequisite of being able to know how to induce them. and human error is a factor, as is the compounding error of errors in design and maintenance history and component manufacture. that mossad may have tampered, is somewhat plausible but when you consider that already fukushima's location was a bad idea in teh first place the idea that maybe more than a few human errors were in place in the foundations. haarp is completely out of the picture for causation. the tsunami bomb was not measured by seismographs. my opinion is the system was already unstable to start with.
i just don't see the use of exercising my brain to try and pin the tail on the spook donkey outside of things that actually influence my life, and i have unfortunately had spook activity up close at least to some extent once this year. but sabotage causing such a terrible disaster just doesn't seem like it would really achieve anything. it's too one-off also for this case, there surely would have been other signals coming regarding it and if you research the geopolitics of uranium refinement there was other things going on at the time.

2026-10-29 09:10:00 GMT

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yeh. nah. powerful disturbances that are enough to nudge fault lines take solar level energy, that's like 8 zeroes more energy than anything that the entire human power generation capacity could ever hit.
even then, it's still a case of triggering something that's already locked and loaded. predicting earthquakes requires sensing of the ground state more so than anything else. and putting that energy into the air and hoping it goes to ground is pretty implausible too.
hacking control systems and getting workers to "accidentally" forget something in the system though, that's entirely within the domain of the pager bombers.

2026-10-29 06:47:35 GMT

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what's interesting is that the tsunami bomb is implausible, no seismic measurements detected the signature of it. BUT, there sure is cui bono here

2026-10-28 23:52:00 GMT

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i've been syncing, got up to like 80% so far on the ibd. i need the full chain history and i did have it on disk but it's so big i deleted it at one point, syncing again. using the newest version.
been working on a thing to do atomic swaps between distinct blake2b utxos and general bitcoin utxos, p2p, using nostr relays as rendezvous for coordination and SPV block header/filter download sync, and zaps to pay fees to create swaps. so i need to have my own copy of the chain for the bip-157 filters.

2026-10-28 23:46:59 GMT

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got my clanker to fix it. a web based thing would be nice, since this zsps and zsp cost me yet another separate key store location

2026-10-28 14:58:18 GMT

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ha nice, pixel 9a in progress. i might have to do this

2026-10-28 11:05:24 GMT

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oh wow. i know kyle

2026-10-28 05:09:41 GMT

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couple years ago, worm treatment

2026-10-28 04:30:02 GMT

this little one appeared in the gorden this morning.
https://relay.mleku.dev/66569c6a8ecab633a2cac1c7e435b35b545d83cabaf97975cbe25bf0cb2bc4db.jpg
https://relay.mleku.dev/73a26a43247d6595203c6c63e2c8f1128bb99034b541e7af82f8b880de1c4439.jpg
i opened a can of the tinned beef for breakfast and shared some. no idea wat kind of gunk his face is covered in but i suppose he got into it looking for food.
he definitely needs a wash and all tte parasite treatments.
little bugger put two good holes in my toe that i was holding the tin lid to put the food on top of. very hungy boi.
i can't take him but he had a good meal and a bit of a clean anyway today. i suppose he's gonna be fighting all my cables now.

2026-10-27 16:30:25 GMT

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if the stack doesn't answer "who enforces, and who pays for it", the community will buy the answer from a state, and the purchase price is the thing you were trying to preserve

2026-10-27 16:26:15 GMT

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we have the ingredients here
bitcoin is the money
nostr is the way communication happens
AI powered programming of simulation engines takes data and makes the decisions obvious which are correct and eliminates the bad incentive models.
this can be done anywhere and everywhere. but easiest where there is already a small population that is geographically isolated and can benefit from better structure.

2026-10-27 16:15:56 GMT

# How Governments are Actually Reformed
Reform is closed not because reformers are weak but because the selection process selects against them — every route to a lever runs through people who profit from the capture, so the ones who reach it have been shaped by a career that rewarded not pulling it, which is why "elect better people" and "pass better laws" keep producing the same output from a structure that is very good at appearing to try.
So you don't defeat the incumbent, you make it irrelevant: build structures outside its permission that deliver the same service better and cheaper, publish what the extraction costs in numbers rather than grievance, attach personal liability to decisions so capture lands on individuals instead of institutions, and put sunset on everything so nothing survives by default — all boring, legal, slow, and all working by shrinking the set of paths available to the extractor, which is the same mechanism it uses on you pointed the other way.
Once you have the system already running, then you are in the position to fund a militia to shut down the corrupt system that doesn't work, and the results are (relatively) bloodless. In fact, history shows that the ones that don't even bother with a militia even at the end are the best. Citations:
## Claim 1 — selection filters reformers
- Robert Michels, Political Parties (1911) — the iron law of oligarchy. The founding citation for "every organisation develops a leadership stratum with interests separate from its members'".
- Gaetano Mosca, The Ruling Class (1896) and Vilfredo Pareto, Trattato di sociologia generale (1916) — the classical elite theory this sits inside.
- Robert Merton, "Bureaucratic Structure and Personality", Social Forces (1940) — "trained incapacity": the office shapes the person who holds it. This is the precise citation for "shaped by a career that rewarded not pulling it".
- Robert Niskanen, Bureaucracy and Representative Government (1971) — the formal budget-maximising model.
Anthony Downs, Inside Bureaucracy (1967) — conservatism as a function of organisational position.
- Mancur Olson, The Rise and Decline of Nations (1982) — distributional coalitions accumulate and ossify; the best single citation for "ballooning".
- Acemoglu & Robinson, Why Nations Fail (2012) — extractive institutions persist by design, not accident.
- LaPira & Thomas, Revolving Door Lobbying (2017) — the empirical mechanics of the door.
## Claim 2 — make the incumbent irrelevant
- Albert Hirschman, Exit, Voice, and Loyalty (1970) — the theoretical spine of the whole paragraph.
- Jadwiga Staniszkis, Poland: Self-Limiting Revolution (1984) — the concept you're reaching for: build the alternative, refuse to seize power until it exists. Read this one first.
- Timothy Garton Ash, The Polish Revolution: Solidarity (1983) and Padraic Kenney, A Carnival of Revolution: Central Europe 1989 (2002) — the parallel-institution cases.
- Rein Taagepera, Estonia: Return to Independence (1993) — the Citizens' Committees registering people outside Soviet legality.
Charles Tiebout, "A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures", JPE (1956) — exit as a disciplining mechanism, formalised.
- Barry Weingast, "The Economic Role of Political Institutions", JLEO (1995) — market-preserving federalism: jurisdictional competition as constraint.
Louis Brandeis, Other People's Money (1914) — "sunlight is the best disinfectant", the origin of the publish-the-costs argument.
- Ben Worthy, The Politics of Freedom of Information (2017) — how institutions resist transparency, which is the useful half.
- Texas Sunset Advisory Commission (1977– ) — the only large-scale empirical test of sunset clauses. Go to their reports directly; the academic evaluation literature is thinner and mostly dated.
- Charter of the International Military Tribunal, Articles 6–7 (1945) — the founding modern case for personal liability piercing institutional immunity.
## Claim 3 — militia last, relatively bloodless
- Staniszkis again, plus Ash — Poland 1989, the round table.
- Taagepera and Anatol Lieven, The Baltic Revolution (1993) — 1990–91 restoration, barricades as defence.
- Wheaton & Kavan, The Velvet Revolution (1992) — Czechoslovakia 1989.
Kenneth Maxwell, The Making of Portuguese Democracy (1995) — 1974, the closest thing to your sequence executed quickly.
- Samuel Huntington, Political Order in Changing Societies (1968) — praetorianism: what happens when the militia step arrives before the administration.
- Charles Tilly, Coercion, Capital, and European States (1990) — how armed groups become permanent states.
One caveat that matters. The bloodless cases are precisely the ones where the militia step was never taken — Poland, Estonia, Czechoslovakia. So they're evidence that a functioning parallel administration makes force unnecessary, not that the militia step is safe when used. Your paragraph asserts the latter and the citations support the former
If you want the strong version, the claim has to be "the militia is insurance whose non-use is the success condition", because there is no good historical sample of "parallel administration plus militia, bloodless". Huntington and Tilly are the citations for why that sample doesn't exist.

2026-10-26 22:01:04 GMT

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasicrystal
this kinda blew my mind a bit.

2026-10-26 20:28:10 GMT

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does this all run over nostr relay based tunnels? just asking because i built a tunneling protocol about 9 months ago and i've taken that as a base and built a new one that enables people running home servers with full nodes to do atomic swaps - in this case it's for xbt/btc.
i set up a security policy system for the relay to fit the use case, so it's locked down pretty hard against DoS attacks but it's really simple to make this stuff. i also built my own lnurl-server, i'm still not sure it's fully integrating with nostr zaps tho. pretty cool though having my nip-05, lud-16 lightning address and email address all the one thing.

2026-10-26 15:44:52 GMT

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i forked them, even better.

2026-10-26 15:01:45 GMT

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no idea about what other NWC capable wallets. let me see...
Serve NWC from your own custody
Alby Hub — the reference implementation. Self-custodial, LDK integrated or LND/Phoenixd/Cashu remote backends, and per-app connection strings with independent budgets and permissions, so each app gets a scoped key rather than your node. Docker, Umbrel, Start9, or their cloud.
LNbits — NWC via plugin, flexible about funding sources, good if you already run it for other things.
Zeus — embedded node plus NWC connections since 0.12; works as a wallet service, though only while the app is alive.
Your own node — cln-nip47 plugin for CLN, or nostr-wallet-connect-lnd as a bridge for LND.
Cashu backed — Minibits, Cashu.me, Nutstash, or Bankify to turn any mint into an NWC wallet. Note Nutstash's NWC only works in the foreground.
Custodial, no infra
Coinos, Primal Wallet, Rizful (instant disposable nodes, good for throwaway/testing), LNCurl (create a wallet with one curl — genuinely useful for scripted or agent wallets), Buho, and Zap.land on nwc-enclaved. Alby Account still exists but they're phasing out the shared custodial wallet in favour of Hub.

2026-10-26 14:49:19 GMT

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alby hub is really easy to run?

2026-10-26 13:38:40 GMT

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the world really is full of and dominated by evil. i've been aware of this since i was small and it really makes it hard to relate to the normies because they just ignore it, if they don't actually say that they think it's great. the inmates are running the prison.

2026-10-26 12:06:36 GMT

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hang on. there's three knuckles per finger and two on the thumb. that makes 14

2026-10-26 12:02:18 GMT

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there's a japanese arithmetic teaching method that uses a grid pattern in a similar way

2026-10-26 10:59:21 GMT

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comodity comes from the latin comodius which means convenient or comfortable. in modern idiom when a thing is "commodity" it is cheap and abundant.

2026-10-26 10:39:19 GMT

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base 12 gives cleaner thirds which come up a lot. base 60 is the king of bases tho. that's what the babylonians used.
base 12 though, that used to be a thing in a lot of places. this is why eleven and twelve are not 1 teen and 2 teen in english/germanic/nordic languages. in slavic languages they are odin natset and dve natset or similar. natset or naiset or similar comes from deset meaning ten.
base 10 gives you 1, 2, 5 as factors; base 12 gives you 1, 2, 3 as primary factors. base 60 is 1, 2. 3. 5

2026-10-25 12:29:14 GMT

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wat is an aryan? is that like diluted with yogurt and salt added?

2026-10-24 19:02:57 GMT

2026 has been maybe the worst year of my life.
i had a job back in march and lost it, pretty much just got fed up with not being given any actual work to do and the senior dev actively obstructed me from doing anything.
then the loon brigade from liberland started wafting through and when i repeatedly had people entering the property and rearranging things i got fed up with it
the sound of supersonic jeats overhead, buzzing the border
getting paid for doing some server performance and stability fixes and tten discovering payoneer's busines bodel appears to be obstructing access ho your ovn, already upwork taxed income.
finally i have had enough of croatia, hatch a plan to go to bishkek. book the flight out of istanbul a full month later than i intended
booking.com ai helpdesk manages to cancel it but fails to allow me to rebook anything
i spend 3 woeks in tibilisi seeing russian draft dodgers
after now 3 day long bus trips across turkey i finally fly to bishkek
get stuck in bishkek navigating the digital nomad program, go to almaty. bceak my leg. 3 weeks back and forth to astana, doctor stole my passport and then police steal my passport.
still basically homeless in rural northwest georgia. turns out that mingrelian sounds like a drunk porson slurring.
lost 100 lari note while moving from the one guesthouse of zugdidi to the other. 3 litres of uht milk. still can'n walk properly. monday morning i need to be paid so i can pay my rent
i'm so tired boss. i just want little bit of privacy and not to have to hobble up and downs stairs with scary rails and eat normal food and get some work done.
so tired.

2026-10-24 18:49:10 GMT

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kde always seemed queer to me.

2026-10-24 14:10:54 GMT

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yeah i've been playing diablo lately, and kingdom: two crowns and yet another roguelike/lite with base building. i don't have a video card that can do much better than decent half life 2 and portal, not even my 2013 tomb raider plays ok on my current potato.

2026-10-24 07:54:51 GMT

i wonder what caused those massive jumps. this is a good chart to show that the big blockers actually have won.
https://relay.mleku.dev/d26c9b540d103999f38dc7a9a281c245ed4820818ed223a0d0f133959057626e.png

2026-10-23 15:47:56 GMT

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as i say, it's re-intermediation. it brings back counterparty risk. and it enables paper bitcoin - a mint betting that deposits will exceed withdrawals, trying to earn a margin on the difference.
the offline use case is the only valid part of it but really the real use of the cryptography is vouchers, which eliminates the counterparty risk, and changes it to caveat emptor.

2026-10-23 05:49:15 GMT

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does this person look like a power user?

2026-10-23 04:59:57 GMT

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yeah, the management engines. pretty much a plague across all hardware platforms, some have more capability than others but all are suspect.

2026-10-23 04:25:34 GMT

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also, MILEIkowsky? lol. for real?

2026-10-23 04:24:06 GMT

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since he's actually polish we can call him KURWA and probably his parents or grandparents were instigators in a pogrom, as well. since he seems to like running pogroms where he is now.

2026-10-23 03:59:45 GMT

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it is just an operating system. convenient because the biggest amount of help information exists for ubuntu. but if you are using a clanker anyway it hardly matters. ubuntu is easy to install though, so that's a good reason to use it.
i believe omarchy is based on arch linux and for a beginner i don't recommend this. just get ubuntu and install that. it will work. worst case if you really have very little memory try using xubuntu.

2026-10-23 03:58:12 GMT

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lol, omarchy is just a normal linux with a fancy stupid default chatbot interface plugged into it. harness, as they call it.
just install a linux that works and probably if you really want the omarchy crap you can install it somehow.
it's possible to take any linux and turn it into another linux, you can install ubuntu, and then convert it to arch linux. or you can install red hat, and then convert it to ubuntu. the only thing you really need is an ai harness and it can do all hte work for you.
so, yes, you can join the bandwagon even though you are poor and have a potato computer. i also have a potato computer. sucks having potato computers. i actually have to do advanced work and lpddr5 is utter shit for performance running compilations. it was better with DDR4