How can you not be worried, that the end will come out wrong? My Master has that job, mine is to do just what He said. Obedience is freedom. If I had no King to love, I would be ruled by passions, when my passions I must rule.
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Last Notes npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed After experimenting with C++, I rejected it as combersome, slow to compile, and few benefits (such as golang and rust provide). Rust is even slower to compile. I stole some C++ concepts for C, using a nexted exception analog with try/catch macros and also swiped obstack from gnu compiler. Thus most memory management is automatic with obstack freeing objects from more deeply nested levels. Objects point to a class structure with function pointers for virtual methods. Virtual method calls use do macros. As in x = do(obj,parm1) or do2(obj,p1,p2). Archive of sql implementation using that C style: https://github.com/sdgathman/btas/tree/master/sql In contrast to @nprofile…xauz , I consider the golang/npm/rust library repos dangerously fine grained. Instead of a few dependencies with trusted maintainers, a golang project e.g. has hundreds of dependencies by little known individuals - any one of which could have (and has had) trojans built in. And these contributors can artificially boost their reputation by e.g. [reputation farming](https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2024/q2/304). Large topical libraries like glibc or libsodium are much more manageable. Golang projects are extremely cumbersome to build for projects like Fedora with reproducible builds. To me, it is insane that people type 'go build' and get the latest code from random strangers on the internet integrated with their binary. Now download all 200 dependencies, at least eyeball the code for all 200, try to check the reputation of a random sample of the 200 contributors, check the LICENSE of each dependency and compatibility with your license (and Fedora policy) - and THEN tell me how "easy" golang is. npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed https://image.nostr.build/49410bf1216c5010ee54a35928974989c631a694c0310efe7bb2915c45a6416c.jpg npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed The whole point is to reduce population (and profit in the process). Thomas Malthus wasn't recommending population reduction - only pointing out that supporting larger populations requires innovation, which requires freedom. Hence, totalitarian regimes require reduced population to function. The globalist goal is totalitarian rule. Note that there can be practical freedom under a dictator/monarch that doesn't micromanage (stays in his lane). The globalist totalitarian rule is a bureaucratic one (Deep State/administrative state). It's not a new problem - the Deep State in Bible history was referred to as simply "the officials". Or in modern talk show parlance, "anonymous unelected administrators". npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed Or as Chesterton put it: "A piece of paper from a government doesn't erase sacred vows." (Conversely, a piece of paper from a government does not a sacred marriage make.) Whatever the pros and cons of government paperwork, it is external to marriage itself. npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed Yes: https://mises.org/library/periodical/misesian-2024-v-01-i-02 npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed I'm betting "someone else" is paying their tuition ... npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed "Private" can have several meanings and shades thereof. One emphasis here might be that the key mapping is not run by a globalist corporation. A key (in at least two senses) database must be resistant to forgery (TLS cabal forges site cert), censorship (ICANN cancels domain), disaster (replicated across multiple geographic areas). Another solution would be for everyone to run their own DNS server with DNSSEC and ignore ICANN. But that is a big stretch (normies don't know what DNS is). There is an existing block chain - namecoin (info page at namecoin.org). That is already used for secure, distributed, censorship resistant key value mappings, including domain names and pgp keys. That is where I put my keys. I wonder why Proton did not use that? It does cost namecoins to create a domain, but updates/renewals require only a transaction fee. Maybe there were scaling concerns. Jeremy (namecoin founder) himself may have requested a separate chain. npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed A git repo is also a private block chain, and replicated. Think of it as a special purpose git repo. npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed Meetup? npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed Linux in general. The downside is that end users have (for them) confusing high level options such as "Ignore routes obtained via DHCP". Or the even more mysterious low level kernel parameters. npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd4u4B-hrlE npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed You left out men wanting to shirk responsibility for children they donated sperm for - and pressuring their girlfriend to murder their child. And families wanting to avoid the social embarrassment of an out of wedlock child - and pressuring the woman to have the kid murdered. But there are video of truly unhinged women anticipating their next pregnancy because, like a serial killer, they get such a rush from murdering their children. And the more case of common women who have been convinced that family and children are a barrier to their economic success - that thus sadly, they must "terminate" their children to ensure prosperity (aka Molech worship). npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed Less trivial than FIFO queues are priority queues. I implemented SkipQueue (and SkipMap and SkipList) which has the performance characteristics I typically need. Priority queues are really useful. npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed As a "munition", it is also protected by the 2nd amendment. Govt is prohibited from infringing or prohibiting the free exercise of cryptography. Know your rights. npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed I get all my computers from the dumpster, or used fixer uppers. Just got a nice ECC server for $60 plus some RAM and (used) SSD drives. npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed Web search seems to indicate that you need a lightning node to provide a lightning address. I have bitcoin, not a lightning node. So the mutiny wallet requires that I install a lightning node? I was looking for a custodial lightning address to get started. But others have recommended I keep working on getting a self-hosted lightning node and run it as a leaf node (which doesn't require 24/7 uptime). npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed The non essential rulers that make our administrative law that supercedes the Constitution are the millions of Federal bureaucrats. We defund the most non essential by convincing the Congress to pass a balanced budget instead of a continuing resolution. npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed While there may be some greed eating away at some dev's soul, the biggest driver is an attempt to create a parallel decentralized e-commerce platform. As with any other decent open source project, "eat your own dog food" is part of the testing. You have to actually use it to notice UI flaws as well as bugs. npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed I might buy a personally tried and true brand "on sale", but the general rule is avoid the cheapest (which are often more trouble than its worth), and the more expensive (which are often catering to those wanting to glory in their wealth). npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed Having begun my computer career in the 70s, I am still triggered by the sight of magnets in the vicinity of a computer (that might theoretically utilize magnetic media or magnetically steered electron beams). npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed A more viable medium of exchange than USD fiat after it inevitably crashes. npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed But then you realize they hire a private security firm. npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed They do understand "names of websites", and I get buy in on a first step of renting a domain name from an ICANN registry and using it for email - even if hosted on gmail. They understand that this gives them the power to change vendors (at least until ICANN cancels their domain) or even self-host. Most registrars also offer WordPress websites. I try to push "compiler" style content management like Hugo - but the process of transforming then uploading their content (and local version control) is too abstract for "normies". npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed What *is* the "new internet" was introduced to the public in the 1980s - public key cryptography (I remember where I was sitting in the college library when I read the SciAm article on public keys, knapsack and RSA algorithms. PGP was revolutionary. Now we *can* have authenticated IPs. What is distressing to me is that people don't seem to realize that the globalist TLS cabal can forge any domain in the world for most people - because their browser trusts cabal CAs for everything. HTTPS is worthless without some PKCS#11 Making DNS Federated Again is a little easier for people to understand. npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed Having used "the internet" since 1975 (still have the first protocol spec), I would define "internet" as peer connections carrying IP protocol. We also had uucp net, which was a transport independent store and forward network. We collected all known peer connections in a text file and ran a graph analysis overnight to optimize routes (bang paths) to destinations. Today, no one seems to know what a "peer" is anymore. From questioning people about what the "internet" is, I get the idea they think it is their web browser. I.e. HTTP(S) is the only protocol they care about (and indirectly though unknowingly DNS and TLS CAs). Even smtp, they have only experienced through some web client (usually gmail). The term "protocol" is unknown - except in classical schooling groups where they practice social protocols at formal dinners, concerts, and other events. This is relevant, and a starting point. npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed No different than Uganda taxing "social media" for everyone. The net effect was that the popular quickly discovered decentralized and federated social media - a very positive effect. The law is only effective on centralized "social media" that requires registration. The Uganda govt was paywalling IPs of large centralized outfits like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc Someone will have to look at the Florida law in detail to see if 3rd party registration (such as for Activity Pub sites run by someone else) is prohibited. Yet another incentive to run your own or go fully decentralized. npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed I call it the original (OG) web or decentralized web. I watched big tech run constant ads for people to give up their independent web sites that ran on their own desktop computers and "for just a small percentage or even just collecting marketing info we'll run your whole online life for you!" No changing UPS batteries (video of secretary crawling around under a desk to do that because of poor setup). We make backups for you! (And for the feds.) etc etc The BIG weapon against the deep state was crypto. The OG web was decentralized and pretty much uncensorable, but entirely unencrypted and unauthenticated. IP forgery was a thing. Forging usenet articles was a common joke (especially on April 1). Now we have the tools for authenticated IPs and e2e encrypted packet delivery, and a number of protocols for that. Please note that ICANN DNS and cabal TLS are totally centralized and censored. One thing that could be incorporated into Nostr is a .NOSTR (or other) tld (ala .BIT) where nameservers are shared via Nostr. ICANN DNS would only be used for onboarding. The globalist TLS cabal can forge and MITM any TLS web site. You can't rely on it. While a private TLS CA is appropriate for an enterprise like AT&T, what better fits Nostr is to use make connections using one of the authenticated overlay mesh networks like yggdrasil or cjdns or pinecone. The dendrite Matrix server incorporates pinecone. Fedora and Redhat offer Cjdns. Yggdrasil is a golang thing - easily compiled if you don't care about downloading random dependency versions from the internet during build (you should - but that makes building a lengthy research project for all the dependencies). Someone started an yggdrasil-js project - which would fit right in with Nostr web clients (but isn't ready yet). npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed Just use raw IPv6 with an authenticated mesh protocol: https://fedoramagazine.org/decentralize-common-fedora-apps-cjdns/ npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed Yes. Subsistence farming (or more practically, hunting/gathering) SHOULD be the bottom line fallback in case of extremely oppressive employment - NOT an ideal way to live. The problem with industrial Britain was that oppressed workers had nowhere to do it (farming/hunting/gathering). All the land was owned by aristocrats. This drove the attraction to socialism (replacing oppressive capitalists with oppressive government, which somehow never goes away on its own as promised by Marx). In the hey day of America, there was some positive shakeup of Britain when American millionaires (billionaires in today's money) would buy land in Britain from bankrupt aristocrats, and sell/rent it cheap to those willing to use it productively. Sort of an early "Habitat for Humanity". (Many gave it away, but this was not effective - go figure. ) npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed Correction, excerpt from an ancient homily for Holy Saturday (Roman Church). npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed https://image.nostr.build/d15c8f2974b75df94ca21f9438f5e50d2dd8ca15f3d489697bc5166198242745.jpg npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed [](https://media.notthebee.com/ntb/posts/post-65f23d064e112.jpg) npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed If the context is Nostr, then run your own relay to store locally. npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed That seems like an AI generated image. npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed That "getting rid of existing programs" is indeed the stumbling block. As mentioned in my lengthy post, I would consider converting individual govt handouts to UBI as progress (e.g. Food Stamps). But govt has tricky ways to pretend they have removed a program - but really just hidden it. npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed Why are most relays rejecting my notes? No diagnostic is given, but I am down to 2. npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed The proposals they are calling UBI are not even close. The whole point of UBI is that there are NO other govt social programs. NADA. No Social Security. No Medicaid. No food stamps. No subsidized housing. So in the US, you would take the ~$1.5T spent on social programs each year, divide it between ALL citizens (including babies - and maybe even fetuses), rich and poor, Bill Gates and the drunk in the ditch. That comes to about $5000 each. Of course most people don't really need an extra $5K a yr, and Bill Gates certainly doesn't. The reason for distributing to EVERYONE is to avoid strings attached via qualifications. There is no penalty for getting an entry level job (as there is with welfare). This also minimizes the bureaucracy needed for the distribution. Basically, just send a check to every SSN for instance (not that I endorse SSN). Before Biden, I could live on $5K/yr as a single, study in the library, scrounge computers from the dump to repair (which I do anyway), eat the Walmart rotissiere chicken + pack of greens for $5 each day (illustration only - change it up of course). Wear pants until they stand up in the corner, then get a new pair at the thrift. Sleep on the mulch bed at the mall (popular actually) - it is (or was) entirely doable. From that basic subsistence, I could work on employment, write novels, start a micro-business, or otherwise be useful or at least amuse myself. The fear of statists is that some recipients of UBI might buy drugs and kill themselves - hence all the strings attached with food stamps, etc. True enough, but people manage to buy drugs/liquor anyway. A stupid objection. There has always been a form of UBI - subsistence farming. Unlike UBI, this was hard physical work. But you could (and people did) live on it. The US has put many rules in the way of that, but there were a few dozen subsistence people living in parks that I knew about for the last 40 years - hunting, fishing, gathering, small plantings. Unlike tourists, they did not litter (nothing to litter with) - but the park rangers were always trying to evict them for some reason (don't want to give people ideas, I guess). When employers are abusive to the extreme, subsistence farming has been the historical fallback. The problem with industrialization was that city dwellers had no such fallback - horrendous abuse must be endured, the only alternative was starvation. An English worker fleeing a city would find all the land owned by aristocrats, and any attempt to hunt/fish/gather would be punished as "poaching". This very real injustice is what gave rise to the very bad solutions of socialism and Marxism. G. K. Chesterton has many more insights in "Eugenics and Other Evils". UBI is a libertarian socialist idea to replace subsistence farming in an industrialized world. Of course, the actual programs called "UBI" being proposed are totally different. They are yet another redistribution of wealth on top of all the garbage already in place. Hence I do not support them at all. But I would support a real UBI that *replaces* existing programs at the same dollar amount. Compromise would be in not replacing everything. Maybe leave SS but replace food stamps with a UBI for example. npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed Deep State creeps. npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed If you really felt that way, you would write in an honest, eligible, and competent candidate. That is the only real way to vote "None of the above". I've done that a few times (even called the person to check their willingness to serve, told others who I was writing in, and they got hundreds of votes). If you won't do that, all that complaining is just laziness. npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed On the other hand people concerned about these issues an using Linux are not exactly going to report it. It's like trying to track gun ownership with a poll (and crypto algorithms are classified by US govt as a munition). npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed My only objection is that the money is only as good as your internet. A more remote threat is the 51% attack (a majority of miners can coordinate to block transactions of a targeted key or keys). npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed Don't forget Hawaii. (The statehood votes were suspicious, but still.) npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed Looks like a side of beef. npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed Executive summary: step one is having your own domain Details: Your own email service. Or "self-custody" as they say here. It's actually quite straightforward except for spam control. And that is easy if you go with a whitelist only. More complex is a system for people to apply to correspond by email with you. (Make them use Nostr to do so. :-) (I use bayesian and other filters, but these are always a headache. I am about to do a compromise and make specific email domains whitelist only. The first will be gmail.com, as that sends 99% of the spam my way.) First skill is buying and managing your own DNS domain. Ideally, you should also have your own primary and caching DNS server. With your own domain, you can "point" your email domain to any service, and shop around without changing your email address. BUT, say you outsource your DNS server. The DNS providers all offer email service. Use theirs. Using your own domain for email is basic self custody. When you have your own primary and resolving DNS servers going, then you can switch to your own smtp server as well. Or to another provider that uses your own domain. Privacy you say? no smtp provider can supply that. You have to use encryption in your email client. PGP, GPG, SMIME. (There are more, but those are commonly supported in other peoples email client.) Advanced topic: Ackshully, ICANN DNS and the TLS cabal are allow globalists to cancel you and even read/modify your TLS streams that use cabal CAs. This is more complicated than email, but you should also use private TLDs, And private CAs. You can share the name servers for your private TLD - just like you would share Nostr relays. (Unless you want it to be secret as well.) That is a high barrier for normies, but you could have an ICANN alias for them, or even register a short ICANN domain as your "TLD". To address the TLS cabal, we get into PKCS#11 policy in your browser to control what domains the CAs loaded are trusted for. npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed American workmanship. Math is racist. https://image.nostr.build/7e29b09a70f2b10d767a55aeafd53ffae033f0cda81b1a8b2be798aea367f00b.jpg npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed You don't use a phone number with XMPP or SIP. Or Matrix. The bridge services are just for your old tech friends (although they don't use automated switching). npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed Any protocol that requires a "sign up" should be ignored (it is actually a proprietary service). If it becomes a business necessity, hire a bridge service. npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed There are many bridge services from telco to digital federated voice/messaging. I use diamondcard.us for SIP and jmp.chat for XMPP. jmp.chat also does SIP and Matrix. npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed Demonic grin #nevent1q…zkqz npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed #cor acle It would be nice if the reply count separated people you follow from unknown npubs. It is annoying to see replies, anticipate meeting new people online, and click - only to see another spam. Maybe I'm not using the reputation cut off properly. I notice many of the spams have -4, -5 reputation. npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed https://babylonbee.com/news/man-ruled-too-senile-to-stand-trial-still-fine-to-run-country npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed In this case yes. But ICANN (also controlled by WEF) can remove the rumble.com domain any time they please. And all the CAs in the the shadowy TLS cabal can forge rumble.com or any domain at all for the clueless masses that trust them. The Nostr infrastructure so far has no real mitigation for this. Need more global mesh vpns and private TLDs and DNS servers. (See opennic.org for normie accessible alt DNS.) npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed I claim that the US was not always an evil tyrant. And while the CIA assassinated JFK, and many undeclared wars fought since WW2, the real evil began in the late 1990s by my reckoning. That was when they began centralizing the internet with ICANN, TLS cabal, and SaS, and when the Neocons plotted their conquest of the Middle East in 1998. npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed The US was never a democracy. It was founded as a Republic. Democracy is an awful form of government, recognized as such since at least Plato, and explicitly rejected by the American founders. God set up several forms of government of Israel, beginning with the Patriarchy (the real thing in Genesis), then servitude (Egypt after Joseph), then Constitutional Anarchy (Law of Moses), then Constitutional Monarchy (Moses provided for an eventual king), and the final Kingdom will be Christ as absolute ruler of the world. All other wanna be world rulers (including US neocons) are anti-christs. Democracy: two wolves and a lamb voting on what's for dinner npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed By "socialized healthcare", do you mean: 1) everyone has to contribute to funding care for those otherwise not provided for or just wanting to save some money 2) A UK like system where regular people are prohibited from obtaining care on their own and unwanted treatments (e.g. mRNA injections) are forced on people at gunpoint (except for the politically connected elite, of course) npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed Satoshi expostulated, "Do you not realize I’m speaking about church leaders who expound such differences to their followers?" At high enough temperatures, distinctions in physics disappear. Electrons, protons, neutrons, etc all become quarks. Einstein showed that E = mc², but matter and energy become not only equivalent, but indistinguishable and inseperable at temperatures like the early universe. Similarly, with severe enough persecution, distinctions between Christian groups disappear. In a prison camp, rules about communion between Catholic/Protestant are suspended. My high school chemistry teacher had a poster, "In the event of nuclear attack, all rules against praying in school are temporarily suspended." It is said that there are no atheists in foxholes. (I haven't served, myself.) npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed Still need more progress on "separation of school and state". npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed Agree. Nothing wrong with repurposing. It's just that since Trump created it to *increase* his reach after getting canceled from Twitter, a walled garden is the wrong way to go - IMHO of course. Wait - is it still a walled garden? Can I follow truth social people from another domain now? npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed Good to know. That is a completely acceptable situation IMO. I just need to explain it to new users. It is a feature, not a problem. "Spam" is truly defined by the individual. npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed truth.social is a mastodon fork made into a walled garden. (I actually think that was a tactical error, but I don't run a big business.) npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed We all have corrupted biology. And even if you did it to yourself (or someone else) intentionally ("sex change" or mRNA anyone?), you can repent. It doesn't seem to be the first time. In Genesis 6, fallen angels mess with human genetics, and 6:9 says Noah was תָּמִים (tamim: complete,sound) in his generation (like gen Z or gen X). As is typical for Hebrew, tamim is somewhat ambiguous and elsewhere refers to moral purity in some places and to genetic (seed) purity in others. npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed So about $12 - like what cash machines at the airport charge. npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed Since I don't do Big Tech phones, Damus and Amethyst are out. npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed git-ssb packages each commit into an SSB message. If the commit is too large for the 8k text limit, it is stored as a "media" file and linked. SSB provides an ipfs-like distributed media storage (referenced by hash and can be served from any node that has it). npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed Just publish a link to a private git repo on Nostr. Git is already distributed and decentralized. The only purpose of github (and SourceForge and other Big Tech repo collections) was for publicity. npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed I want to "like" this, but I live here. What Nostr clients have reactions? (Like "grimace" in this case.) npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed The Neocons are all announcing "the war to end all wars" (i.e. WW3) today. They seem to have settled on WW3 instead of a bioweapon to stop the election this year. npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed You don't pay for air. Yet. (See "carbon" taxes.) npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed For censorship resistance, there are several huge threats not really addressed by Nostr: ICANN DNS, cabal TLS, ISP. Low handing fruit: never ever use ISP nameservers. Run your own resolving DNS server. Do NOT use the ICANN root zone unmodified. Practice adding private TLDs - from the common 'LAN' TLD for local names to secret TLDs that you share only with trusted collaborators to public alt-TLDs (like .NOSTR) that anyone can use by configuring the name servers you supply. Always use your own primary DNS server. Use peers (even competitors) or 3rd party services for secondary service. Note that 3rd party secondary services will only handle ICANN TLDs. Consider becoming a server for the opennic.org collection of alt-TLDs. It is good practice. Cabal TLS is not secure and never has been. The cabal can forge certs and MITM https and other TLS connections. The problem is that common browsers trust all cabal CAs for all certs. The first step to addressing the problem is a PKCS#11 policy for the browser. I just learned that all browsers are supposed to support that last week (I was working on an extension to "veto" certs via user supplied rules or js code). Normies need a simple way to use private CAs with confidence they will be trusted only for designated domains/TLDs (and that cabal CAs are NOT trusted for those domains/TLDs). When I started on the internet, we connected peers via rs232 cable, a leased line, or a 24x7 phone call with a dial-up modem. These methods improved, and additional tech like coax, 10baseT, ISDN, Wifi, etc were added. The internet remained decentralized until around 1996, when globalist began pushing for a more centralized approach. Not only ICANN, but convincing people to drop peer connections and just use an ISP, drop self-hosting and just use a service. All this centralization was so convenient. Nicky Haley advocates a national ID to access an ISP. Elites will be pushing for this. It is past time to relearn peer connections. The best technique IMO is virtual global mesh networks. These support a mix of ISP and peer links and do not rely on the original internet routing (BGP) which required too much manual intervention. The best virtual nets are e2ee with authenticated IPs (IPv6). IPv4 must die. It has become a tool of centralization. (But you probably have to compromise to accomodate normies until they can install a p2p enabling VPN on their devices.) npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed I haven't figured out how to do lightning with self-custody BTC yet. I am willing to have a custodial lightning wallet - as long as I can limit the BTC at risk and keep the BTC myself. Actually running a lightning node myself seems to have requirements that are not worth the small amount of BTC at risk. Is it possible to have a self-custody wallet with someone else's node? How does the node operator get paid? I read up a bit more each week. npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed There is no such thing as "unlimited" internet of any kind. It is a mathematical impossibility - like "zero bandwidth transmitter". Fiber has a high rate to the home, but you connect to the same routers and switches at the ISP office as when you have cable. I actually prefer cable (unless your application truly requires Gbit or more over the internet) because fiber has a higher cost to install, longer MTTR (takes longer to repair), and shorter MTTF (fails more often). What is called "unlimited" means "unmetered" - you are charged a flat rate. This causes many perverse incentives for both ISP and customer, which I won't go into here. (Similar to an all-you-can-eat restaurant - which is never truly all you can eat and also has perverse incentives on both sides.) The economic incentives are much saner when paying for actual bandwidth consumed. A compromise is "tiered" plans, where you pay a flat rate for each capped tier, with an option to auto upgrade (if slowing down services is not an option). npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed We found the top of a door frame a good place to secure a long ethernet cable. There are other creative ways to incorporate into wall decor. In an office with a drop ceiling, just run it through the ceiling. npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed Will not all of these take up a taunt against him, speaking with mockery and derision: ‘Woe to him who amasses what is not his and makes himself rich with many loans! How long will this go on?’ Will not your creditors suddenly arise and those who disturb you awaken? Then you will become their prey. Because you have plundered many nations, the remnant of the people will plunder you— because of your bloodshed against man and your violence against the land, the city, and all their dwellers. Habakkuk 2:6-8 npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed There is actually a rational basis for it. They have found that govt and establishment has lied to them about so many things, that when the govt says the earth is a globe, they assume that is a lie like everything else. (And the moon mission was lie too, and there is no base in Antartica - another lie.) I can respect that. The problem is, they are too innumerate to do basic measurements to find out for themselves what kind of geometry they are moving around on. (Only 100 miles travel needed to pretty much rule out an overall flat geometry.) npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed Is this the murderous younger brother Pygmalion when Elissa/Dido left Tyre to found Carthage in the 9th century BC? Or a different one? npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed My understanding from 19th century novels was that Britain shipped prisoners off to Australia to get rid of them (or give them a second chance, depending on how you look at it) - so the early colonists were not exactly voluntary. npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed Namecoin domains are another answer - more setup for normie users. I also use raw IPv6 on Cjdns and Yggdrasil (permanent and authenticated) - only a bit longer than telephone numbers and easily stored in contacts in e.g. SIP client or p2p SMTP. No need for DNS or TLS at all. Opennic.org provides non-gov TLDs, with fallback to ICANN. Easy for end users to switch to an opennic NS. npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed There is no "account" to lose access to. Do you mean your nsec got deleted with no backup? npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed Any federated protocol can use an ipv6 mesh vpn (or any global vpn really) to become fully decentralized. I used SIP over Cjdns for a long time, using more XMPP and Matrix now. SMTP over Cjdns lets me contact old friends moved halfway around the world. Whether they are using amateur wifi links, DSL, or conventional (since 1996) ISP. https://fedoramagazine.org/decentralize-common-fedora-apps-cjdns/ npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed I just realized that between Boeing DIE program creating unprecedented manufacturing defects, United CEO with boanthropy drag dancing for employees, etc, etc --- I am now numbered with those afraid to fly commercial air. https://image.nostr.build/d8326b8733c01690ac0d56faa25a9598f82151e19b4f53444cfb366ff8eebe83.jpg npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed With a handle like mrclownworld, maybe you should just set to mute. He'll still get his jollies from the insults, and they won't bother you. Win-win. npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed https://rumble.com/v47dk09-tense-watch-as-ezra-levant-pummels-bill-gates-foundation-president-about-ga.html npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed I can see that viewpoint. And having lived through the exponential growth of the "Military Industrial Complex" post WW2 in the US, I actually have some concern for Russia. Russia is now the "good guys" of the world (to the extent any nation can be - which is not much). Their economy is booming. Near 100% employment. Money is flowing through *their* "Military Industrial Complex" at unprecedented levels. It all reminds me of the US in WW2 and the aftermath. Will they avoid the same "Deep State" trap? How? npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed Your problems stem from the "Deep State" (unelected bureaucrats in three letter agencies), not Americans. We just need more Americans to realize that the MSM/Legacy News is entirely controlled by the Deep State. And Americans need more courage to resist unconstitutional administrative "law". npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed Do you get a similar warning about US companies? npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed @nprofile…p09q @nprofile…t5pg #nevent1q…wm95 npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed See below for where BTC comes into this. The Fed is not the only disaster hanging over users of USD. The US is pretty much the only nation that does not harden it's grid against a natural solar EMP such as hits the US every 100 years (last two in 1859 wiping out telegraph lines in Eastern US and in 1929 wiping out railroad signalling in Western US). While alarmists like to say we are "overdue" for another, that is the gambler's fallacy. It's an average frequency of once a century, but like flipping a coin, the odds of the next flip aren't affected by a previous streak. In any case, we are talking 1% chance for any year or 1-.99¹⁰ ~ 10% for any decade. The chances of avoiding this catastrophe indefinitely approach 0%. I.e. unlike other threats, this is something certain to happen but we don't know exactly when (like the 2nd coming of Christ). There is also a risk of high altitude nuclear EMP - which is even more destructive. But I'll ignore that for this post. While no one is directly harmed by an EMP, the two Congressional studies determined that a solar EMP would kill 90% of Americans within a few months because of dependence on our electrical grid and communications. It will take a year for the civilian grid to be restored. Military equipment is shielded, but their operations get 99% of electrical power from the civilian grid. Higher Latitudes like Canada get more frequent, but less powerful solar EMP hits. They get one every decade. Their stuff is shielded. Both Obama and Trump issued executive orders to start shielding US power grid. They were ignored. And the Federal Govt doesn't really have that authority anyway - so they amounted to suggestions. SO - for year fiat USD will be inaccessible. It may even be wiped out (depending on how well central banks shield their records). Cash will still work, of course. Also, BTC will be inaccessible. It may even be wiped out. (You *do* have a cold wallet on paper, don't you?) But it doesn't have to be. This is why Bitcoiners should also be avidly into mesh networking and amateur internet links. Is your BTC node accessible over Cjdns or other IPv6 mesh vpn? An EMP is localized - it will not disable the whole world. In fact, the next one might hit Europe or Russia instead of the US. It's a roll of the dice. So if you have, e.g. amateur links reaching to Canada or Mexico, and you've shielded (stored in a faraday cage like grounded steel garbage can) the necessary equipment, you can reach the rest of the world through a global mesh VPN like Cjdns or Yggdrasil. There are also non IPv6 mesh networks like Reticulum that use lower bandwidth channels like shortwave radio, letting you connect directly to the rest of the world. This would at least let you tell other Nostriches about your trials and tribulations through a relay that supported any of these mesh networks. Unfortunately, that does not let you buy groceries. Or anything. To spend Sats you need to buy something from someone else also still connected to BTC. To spend USD, you need cash. Bottom line. PLEASE - won't anyone set up a non-ISP based mesh link with me? I have experience with Wifi links, but these require line of sight. I have an SDR but haven't done shortwave since highschool and have forgotten stuff, and would need guidance. I dropped ham radio when the US govt banned the use of encryption by ham licensees. Obviously, I wouldn't care about a license in the event of this certain catastrophe. npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed Oh no! I didn't see any meetup on meetup.com. Then I checked Calendar in coracle.social - there it was! Oh well, maybe next month - if the Black Swan hasn't been released yet. npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed I'm still working on packaging a relay for Fedora. But I have long experience with DNS. There need to be relays hosted on non-icann TLDs. My blue sky vision is for many nostriches to run recursive DNS resolvers with custom root zone featuring many of these private TLDs. This is something private companies and extended families should do, but probably incomprehensible to normies at present. A more immediate step is to apply for a NOSTR TLD at opennic.org. Must have a constitution setting out the rules to register a domain and tier 1 servers meeting their QA requirements. The application is voted on by existing TLDs. It is easy for normies to use opennic for their DNS. https://www.opennic.org/ Namecoin is an excellent way to register TLDs in a globally consistent namespace, and is in excellent harmony with the Bitcoin vibe. Not very accessible to normies (but they are working on it). https://www.namecoin.org/ npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed The US provided $6bil to Hamas (formally given to Iran with the admonition - whatever you do, don't give this to Hamas). And weapons dumped by the US in Afghanistan were used. The US arms both sides because it makes money for the "military industrial complex". It's been that way since WW2. They had a good end game for WW2 itself, but nobody thought to provide an endgame for the ramped up "defense industry". npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed My favorite is (Nostr) Damoose - the purple moose. npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed You are right, what Israel is doing will come back to bite them. But calling the Israeli side "genocide" when Hamas is doing it with their human shields is wrong . It happened over and over in the Old Testament. God used one pagan empire after another to discipline them, some of them genocidal like the Amalekites. However, the land will always belong to Israel, and "Nevertheless, all who devour you will be devoured, and all your adversaries—every one of them— will go off into exile. Those who plundered you will be plundered, and all who raided you will be raided." Jeremiah 30:16 npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed MIX assembler for the win! I always use balanced ternary environment. npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed I just suck on raw garlic cloves. npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed Apparently, the WEF is planning an AI powered misinformation campaign. #nevent1q…2p49 npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed I don't see any Canaanites complaining. I do see your point in that the land was first promised to Abraham, and the complaints are mostly from descendants of Abraham by Ishmael (by Hagar) and the 12 princes of Arabia (by Ketura). npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed Syntax is not an issue for me - a matter of taste. The problem with golang IMO is the centralized library repo - the same problem as javascript and npm nonsense. npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed To all the other advice, I'll add this. Listen to the animals, especially birds and other small animals. In a forest, a sudden silence tells you a large predator is approaching (bear or human). In a city, there is much more background noise, but I've found it very worthwhile to notice e.g. how birds post lookouts which give a piercing alarm when a cat approaches. Learn the alarm calls of the creatures around you. You should have seen the look on our cat's face when I imitated an alarm call and the bird she was stalking flew away. (I don't interfere when she stalks mice, rabbits, or invasive bird in the US like English Sparrow.) I've had animals warn me on several occasions. Once I noticed them all running silently in the same direction. I figured something was wrong, so I cut short our family hike, and headed back to our cabin. Just in time. Finally, our dull human senses could smell the smoke, and see the line of fire in the distance approaching. We had time to pack up the minivan and leave. (We learned that the fire had been set by an arsonist.) npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed Where will the BTC come from? You can't just wave it into existence like Fed money. npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3 Custom Designed Ominously, more and more merchants do not accept USD cash - which Constitutionally in the US is the only legal tender for all debts public and private. This might have something to do with the FBI seizing "large" (exceeding some undisclosed limit) cash deposits by small businesses because of blatantly unconstitutional "civil forfeiture" rules.