2024-05-08 17:41:01
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by npub1cgc…2ndy
Exactly! It's something I dont know if people acknowledge or even experience on the broader scale but i wanted to bring it to the surface. I can't say whether its good or bad because I operate from a monthly budget, so discounting something that the community already finds valuable enables me to share those sats with people who might be new & trying, in hopes that those people will appreciate it, become more involved, and stick around. Or sometimes just to make someone's day a little brighter. I don't know if it works. People seem to stay more for connection than monetary gain at this point (aside from the obvious exceptions)... I agree though, cultural change will have to happen. Hopefully acknowledging stuff like this can help shift it. 😊 ...and thank you, I appreciate your perspectives too 🫂
2024-05-08 17:25:19
by npub1fjq…leku
i've firmly become of the opinion that anyone who is on #nostr who is agreeing with the culture changing meme of "omg bitcoiners" is blatantly funded by glowies
unfollowing any of you who post that shit
way too many people think that miraculously non-imprisoned snowden is some kind of a hero, where was his time in gitmo? manning has more credibility to me, and he looks like a basket case to me
and the assange? also, so much creepazoid i can't even begin to express how weird it all looks, straight up theatre if i were to just say the straight version
no, bitcoiners are here to stay, and we are the backbone of nostr, and any attempt to turn this into the Gmail of social networks is not going to take all of us away, even if they wear the cloak of our legitimacy
2024-05-08 16:50:02
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by npub1m4n…c2jl
We also should account for the fact that berating people to stay committed to their marriage, while their acquaintances are divorcing, is fruitless moralizing.
If people see parallels between the lives of the people divorcing their own lives, they will be inclined to follow suit. That is why divorce tends to be "contagious".
Better would be, if they saw fewer commonalities and could view the divorces as "weird, personal unfortunate" incidents. That requires removing such commonalities.
2024-05-08 16:49:02
by npub1fjq…leku
just been reading The Book of Jubilees again and it is at the part where there is the war between Esau and Jacob and i felt like i was reading The Lord of the Rings for a moment
the weird thing is that it's all over a perceived blessing from daddy that Jacob's mother pushed Jacob into that it all started from, yet the reality was that Jacob was just the better man
it was just like the Cain and Abel story all over again... Cain was a gardener, and thought that The Lord would be impressed by his nice fruits and veg but The Lord likes barbecue and was just simply unimpressed
then, toxic Cain gets a bee in his bonnet that somehow Abel stole the praise due to him and thus he plotted to murder his brother
the cost of people getting things back to front in human relationships is pretty incredible
if you had the ability to quantitatively measure how upside down someone's map of the world was, would you not dream of coming back to the earth and using this machine to remove all those Cains from the world?
i know i sure would, and i'm pretty sure that our brothers who have such a machine are on their way...
2024-05-08 16:40:29
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by npub1fjq…leku
i think that when real money and zaps become as easy as likes likes will become boring and people will be chasing zaps like there is no tomorrow
think of pavlov's dog, when he's got used to salivating over a bell, and then suddenly there is delicious still warm corpses in front of him to chew on... how fast do you think that conditioning will reverse?
it will take a while for it to register, sure, but when it does, the frenzy will be ... how to not exaggerate?
2024-05-08 16:39:47
by npub18am…p424
I don't often talk about this, but with Swan's dive into what is essentially cloud mining, I felt it would be good to discuss this.
About 3 and a half years ago, I decided to mine Bitcoin at home on a small scale. The goals were to deal with noise, heat, and to learn. I ended up heating my house for the entire winter (an all winters to follow) with Bitcoin. Eventually, I wanted more hash power and started to look into options.
Lord Fusitu'a (RIP) saw my Twitter discussions about wanting to buy S19s and DMed me about it. He said that I didn't have to buy S19s and that their was a better way to proceed it I wanted to learn more.
He introduced me to a company called VBit. They were a cloud mining company that sold hash power in different increments. 33 TH, 66 TH, and 100 TH. They supposedly had facilities in the US mid-west and in Canada. They were a Philadelphia company! Go Pennsylvania! I was skeptical, so Lord invited me to on of their meetings to be transparent.
My takeaway from the meeting was that this was essentially the Amway of Bitcoin mining. It was a MLM with sales tiers, partners, and referrals, everything MLM! Very shady.
I asked Lord about this and he said that he's vetted them and been mining with them for 6 months and has on-boarded many Tongans to this company. He said I could just mine and not participate in the MLM portions of the company. He said many people did this.
Again, I was skeptical, but I really wanted to get an S19 and start to mine at a larger scale. It was hard to get an S19 now, with many being in backorder, so I decided to move forward. I purchased 100 TH, an S19, for $12,000. I was able to mine with the hash that I wanted and not have to worry about dealing with the excessive noise and incredible heat production in the summertime.
Because I was skeptical, I didn't use bitcoin for my purchase. I used a credit card. I knew if I had a problem, I could get my money back. Or at least I had hoped.
Everything was great for 5 months or so. I was getting monthly payouts. I was happy.
And then the Shitcoins started to blow up in May and June of 2021. It turns out that VBit was leveraged and trying to earn yield, with customer's funds, at Celsius or another entity that blew up.
But no one knew this for months. All payouts stopped. Zero communication. The company CTO left. The CEO was unable to be found. And then the company changed from names from Vbit to Advanced Mining. 🧐
Well, that was enough for me. I contacted my credit card company and was able to get $9,000 back. Advanced Mining settled with me, saying that I had made $3,000 worth of BTC withdrawals and they didn't need to reimburse me for that. I was was happy with that outcome and wanted this over and done with.
I found a couple Advanced Mining support groups on Reddit and Telegram where so many regular people, that weren't Bitcoiners in the same capacity as me, were completely rugged.
Advanced Mining has since been investigated by the SEC and sued in several states. I don't know what's been going on with them over the past year and a half. I stopped paying attention to them once I was out and happy.
My entire point here is that if it's not your physical device or your hash power, there's a major risk. Please be careful out there.
2024-05-08 16:36:39
by npub1fjq…leku
"gradually and then suddenly" is a meme in the bitcoin/nostr community, but many people don't know it's based on physical laws
in the simple example of state changes, the distance between the change to gas or the change to liquid is the last 3% or so... in terms of celsius, at 4`C it's still liquid, and then at around 1-2`C you start to see crystallisation start suddenly, likewise at the opposite end, it is only at around 95 it starts to bubble a lot (state change from liquid to gas) but isn't really going hard until you push it to 98`C and at that point there is so much gas being formed that the whole pot empties onto your bench
pH is another one... it follows a logarithmic curve, each pH unit is 10x the one before... almost every chemistry student has tried to titrate a solution to pH 7 and the speed with which it goes from 8 to 6 is incredible
2024-05-08 16:28:21
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by npub1fjq…leku
yeah, the memory thing still has a lot of work ... i strongly suspect the logger of being responsible, but i needed it as it was to debug things
at some point soon i will improve the logger so instead of having functions that drop strings, you can put the function itself and the function only gets called if the logger runs... this is a small modification from existing println/printf functions, to be able to put a stringer in there without invoking it, so it only passes the function with its parameter set and if it's not to run then it doesn't string
2024-05-08 16:19:33
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by npub1fjq…leku
if i was busy with this stuff, i'd get a chest freezer, bolster it's insulation layer by at least 2x, and modify the thermal pump controller so i can just turn it on and leave it on until i switch it back to maintaining temperature... and hm yeah actually, might be better to get a smaller chamber to use for this, for specific freezes, and get them to freeze fast, and then once frozen drop them into a normal big freezer... would be worth getting the compressor from a giant freezer, and put it on a tiny little thing enough for your day's eggs so you can freeze them up in like 3 hours hard solid, probably they would thaw out and be almost like fresh eggs
2024-05-08 16:17:15
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by npub1cgc…2ndy
More users, less zaps will become the norm, at some proportion i can't math out. There's only so much money to move around. Most don't have much to spend and aren't capable or motivated to create things to a quality that others consider valuable. Those that are will do well, and they are also the type that are more likely to save over spend since successful wealth accumulation is a multifaceted thing. Then there's the weird psychological side of it all. I've been trying to pay some awareness to my own zap-chology & I find if I see a note garner quite a bit of value from others, I'm less likely to zap any true amount of sats because I'm comparing my current zap wallet balance to what that single note has earned. I have to make conscientious effort to overcome that feeling for situations like supporting the tools that I use or believe in (with the expection of zapraiser goals that are visualized. That motivates me)There's all the little quirks too, like zapping friends first, zapping notes that haven't gotten any activity, respecting onlyzaps people, lowering my bigger zap amounts to avoid the top zap spot in primal... different personalities will handle zaps differently obviously but there will be a common subset of behaviors that emerge, maybe already have. I do have to say, last summer was wild, though, glad I was around for that 💜
2024-05-08 15:59:55
by npub1fjq…leku
i had a strange dream this morning, the only fragment that i remember was this array of all kinds of odd golden-coloured animals... some were like scales, some were like golden fur, some were like worms or pangolins or something
was very odd... they were all so friendly too, no sense of threat from them, just a little menagerie of like 30 different, but all friendly, strange golden animals
#dreamstr
2024-05-08 15:43:48
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by npub18u5…txdp
Fujifilm is a good system! I know some people who swear by it! Feel free to share how you're finding it, I would love to hear more.
They work flawlessly with the adapters. The control ring adapter is the best one as you can get the functionality of the control ring on the RF lenses but with EF and EF-S lenses. Depending on your budget, I would say look into the R50, or the R7, or, if you're interested in full frame look into the R8 and adapt your glass to one of these.
These are the cheaper cameras in Canon's lineup, but they really didn't pull their punches with them. All are great choices!
2024-05-08 15:10:14
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by npub1fjq…leku
https://mleku.dev/git/lerproxy
this is a fork of https://github.com/leproxy/leproxy that i made... with the intention of adding rewriting, haven't got to that yet
but it has a feature where you specify a nostr.json file path (should be absolute) and it will serve it up on the domain, in a mapping.txt file with a line like this:
n.mleku.dev: /home/git/nostr.json
in addition, you can use it as a simple to configure reverse proxy for other things, like i do, pointing a subdomain of my domain names to my relay and my testing fork of nostrudel which removes all the default hard coded relays and points only to mine
if you want to know how to set up go to build it, which i highly recommend:
https://github.com/quanterall/kitchensink?tab=readme-ov-file#install-go
IMO it's too simple, that if you can already use an ssh terminal you already know enough to setup and build the thing from source code, so, no, there will probably never be a binary release, gfy
2024-05-08 14:52:20
by npub1fjq…leku
i just resumed service with my domain mleku.dev because i like it better than mleku.com tbh, i just thought it was something to do with some transparent shit that was going on, but no, probably it was an update in the chrome codebase that started enforcing CORS harder
saves me from rewriting all my code to use mleku.com, which i wasn't that keen on, and i've reverted my nip-05 back to n.mleku.dev
all the .com links are still probably working just ... the go.mods all have mleku.dev domain anyways so you already had to do that if you happened to be using anything in there
i've got downtime coming up next week, i want to spend a bit of that cleaning up some stuff... there's some definite bugs in my logging library, it's not correctly printing stuff with % symbols in it, as though it's going through a printf without any parameters
i'm also going to update the https://mleku.dev/git/nostr library to the current codebase because there has been a bunch of new fixes that will now go back there, i'm moving the badger eventstore and L2 evenstores into their own repo, and i'm thinking about how to put replicatr into its own thing and isolate the shitcoin database side of it from the replicatr relay core so people can use it without feeling dirty
i'm still gonna have the code working at the current main location of the replicatr/nostr/eventstore monorepo on github.com/Hubmakerlabs/replicatr but in fact upcoming work is not going to be focused on this, and i'm switching to a lower time allocation to my paid work as i have stacked decent amount of sats to go on with, and i want to have spare time to do my own hobby horses like ... actual nostr work, and possibly even starting up some potentially financially viable nostr related network service business
anyhow, the most important thing right now is getting through the last phase of the grant i was building replicatr to be the core of, and after next week i'm switching gears and realigning my focus, because i can
being bitcoin/LN/nostr only is a luxury that requires you to have stacked sats and have a side gig that keeps the wolves at bay... i had none of that, i nearly fell onto the streets end of last year and that just was not an acceptable situation
#deardiary #devstr #replicatr
2024-05-08 14:12:15
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by npub1m4n…c2jl
There are very particular states where property is just split 50/50, after one day of marriage, and wealthy men in those states can get reamed, it's true.
They think the entire world is like that, but it isn't. Divorce usually leaves women poorer. They often leave despite that, which should give us all pause.
2024-05-08 14:06:14
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by npub1m4n…c2jl
Yes, reducing occasion to sin, for both sides. 💯
I have always had that sort of setup, and that has actually reduced my incentive to leave, when we've had an argument. I can leave with enough for a down-payment on an apartment and a car, just by grabbing my phone and walking down the street to my uncle's house.
Feeling trapped induces panic and increases sneakiness and vindictiveness.
2024-05-08 13:53:21
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by npub1fjq…leku
ah yes, regarding paramagnetism, which entrains strong magnetic fields (paramagnetic materials are permeable to magnetic fields but don't hold them) they are a common component of volcanic rock, and some say that they are very good for plant growth
being that i'm of the opinion that more magnetic flux = more life, i think that is very true, and as the earth's field becomes weaker, the danger to living things is going to get more and more as less and less the field protects
places like Madeira and central Italy and Iceland and everywhere there is recently (hundreds of thousands of years) active volcanoes or massive para- and ferromagnetic deposits, where the field is naturally stronger, will be the safest places to be, assuming tehy are high enough and far enough from tsunami and storm systems, and not near a shallow magma reservoir (eg yellowstone)
i think the reason why madeira has such a starkly different north and south regions is because the dominant air currents that carry the air, at all, flow from the north sea down to the equator, and as such, all the water hits this paramagnetic blob and instantly gets stuck to the ample dust from the constantly decaying young volcanic rock (which is also more paramagnetic than old land dust) and combine that with the frequent flux of dust from the sahara, again more nucleation potentials, and it explains why the weather is so strange here
i prefer it on the north, this is where the rain falls directly... but in the south, it is perfect subtropical paradise with few days of cloud and rain and low albedo leading to constant warm condtions... it's much cooler here on the south, and i prefer it, though sometimes i curse it
anyway, mister space weather is always going on about the eastern rockies but i think that any place there is a dense volume of paramagnetic and ferromagnetic rock is safer to be, from around 500-1000m above sea level, and i think that the balkans, the mountainous regions of southeast africa, the himalayas and the siberian mountains, and probably the higher parts of australia and new zealand are the place to hole up while the galactic pole shift spiral passes through
humans have survived these cycles for over 200,000 years and i have no reason to believe that we are in for another episode like the one that almost wiped us out 75000 years ago
but it could be a decade or more of no electricity and no global internet and no global market
plan accordingly
2024-05-08 13:45:52
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by npub1wtu…e7js
That makes sense. I figured a cultural difference had to be at play. In the states I’m noticing a huge movement of men who have no interest in getting married because the woman can leave at any given point (and do in much higher numbers than the men) and basically bankrupt the men, along with depriving them of their children.
I’m not saying we don’t have bastards here that women need to be able to escape from, just that the pendulum seems to have swung a different direction here, which has caused that same skepticism on the other gender’s behalf.
As a side note, my wife’s desire to be a house wife was a pretty big part of my decision to propose. Her assistance at home unlocked a ton of freedom and even financial possibility for us.
There is more than one way to make sure a woman isn’t trapped. It was my initiative to make sure the land was jointly held, that she had access to the same accounts I did, and to make sure she stayed (geographically) close to her own family and was in regular contact with them. (Means and a place to go is essential to any woman attempting to escape an abusive situation) I would encourage any young woman to seek a man that does the same - and to consider the opposite a huge red flag.
It’s a comfort to me that she’s set up this way, as it removes a temptation to get away with any misbehavior or taking for granted - as I don’t have to worry about feeling like I could get away with it. If that makes any sense.
2024-05-08 13:30:26
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by npub1m4n…c2jl
I don't think "owning together" is enough. I think the homemaker needs to own things outright. Solely in their own name, so that they can take it and walk out the door.
Like have their own retirement account, gold vault, Bitcoin wallet, etc.
It's a psychological thing, mostly, but psyche is important.
2024-05-08 12:02:22
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by npub1fjq…leku
yeah, i have been following Suspicious Observers (formerly spaceweathernews) and the stuff he's been digging up about geomagnetism and stardust and radiation being the primary drivers lately has been fascinating
the disaster cycle is definitely a thing and it shows that the ancient hindus had been told of this stuff a long time ago, they called them Yugas and specifically name ~25000 years as being a grand cycle, which has 4 phases... and the ancient hindu texts say that a conjunction of jupiter, moon and sun in the last 1/3rd of the sign of cancer 25 june next year is the end of an age according to the ancients
so, there is a lot more going on and i think that as the time comes closer to hand more and more is going to come together and make it obvious that the old prophecies were made by people with such advanced science that they could pinpoint such events to precision
yes, SO also he has been talking lately about how the magnetic fields of the solar system have massive impacts on how energy can flow around our planet so there's that one too
2024-05-08 11:01:49
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by npub1fjq…leku
also, first error is to register a corporation, i may work for one, technically, but i can also see that everyone gets tired of the grind of startup and takes the giant offer when it comes
my plan is to build up independent wealth and just build the things i like for fun
i think Jack could explain a few things about working for a government chartered limited liability corporation, and also what happens when it gets listed on the stock exchange as well
spoiler alert: you are working for the entity that registers your corporation
that's simply not on my bingo card and never will be, already did 3 months working for them years ago and every time i have to go near their little branch offices i feel like my life just got shorter, and that isn't counting the ones that actually have weapons
2024-05-08 10:45:08
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by npub1m4n…c2jl
Well, 80% anyway, compared to 94% for men, including people near retirement age, the chronically ill, and caregivers of adults.
We don't know how the other 4 would behave, If they were at home, or how having more women at home would effect the behavior of the other women who are already at home (reducing boredom, for instance).
2024-05-08 10:08:15
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by npub1m4n…c2jl
I think it's also:
3) They dislike working and want her to suffer along with them out of solidarity/fairness.
4) They are completely unaware of how much more sleep and leisure single women (including mothers!) have, and how much women like self-directing their lives, so they don't realize that their wife is missing out on anything.
5) Worrying about female infidelity (not unfounded, particularly if he is away a lot).
6) Worrying that she'd spend all of the money on shopping and spas (makes sense, if she does a lot of spending while working, she might not stop merely because the income is lower).
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I think we underestimate how many men see their wife's employer primarily as a sort of adult babysitter, rather than a source of income.
And I think college is an alternative way that women fulfill #3, as it's tedious to sit in lectures and write exams, so she isn't "relaxing or having fun" during that time.
So, women who find working difficult because their families move around a lot or their husbands have demanding hours, etc. can use that as their fallback "We Are Suffering As A Team, Everyone Is Struggling" option.
2024-05-08 09:27:05
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by npub1fjq…leku
there is nothing intrinsic in nostr that forces anyone to be in the same pool either, that's just because all the clients are built by bitcoiners that the main subjects on most of the relays is bitcoin and nostr
nothing is stopping anyone from coming along and making a shiny new client and throwing a bunch of advanced relays up and running a corporate nostr island that is in fact entirely isolated
they aren't doing it because they are stupid, not because we are a bad beta testing cohort for a protocol being built on a shoestring
POP and SMTP and IMAP were mostly designed and built by postgrads with scholarships or as part of their PhDs or whatever
the only reason google and facebook took over the internet was because the US government covertly funded it with ever increasing tax money as a part of an endless budget of surveillance capitalism, this is not the way we want to be going and history says that such efforts always end in failure because they are not market driven, no matter how much VC capital you have, you just aren't going to sell fidget spinners forever, eventually the novelty wears off
2024-05-08 09:19:37
by npub1fjq…leku
PSA:
tons of VC money and hype mongering mainstream media shilling only gets you a short term victory
long term victories are harder, more bitter, and in the end the guys who fought them are remembered while the 5 thousand VC funded startups that didn't focus on building a neutral protocol are forgotten
Names like QNX, Compuserve, AOL, where are they now? almost nowhere, because they were hostile to open standards
and requiring a weak 2fa to sign up to the protocol is a hard pass for me, i've already been victim of more than a few KYC leaks over the years and account hijacks, more than i ever wanted to suffer
definitely not going back to that shit, twitter was the last place i was willing to go, as a last ditch effort after long ago abandoning endless advertisements on facebook
even today, with google's monopoly, i am not constantly assaulted with advertising to use email
why should social be any different
instant turn off if the protocol is gonna try and push me to buy some new hot token shit NFT bored monkey bullshit, at all, at all
i can't even stand it when i hear people who claim to know about computer science and infosec praising stupid fluffy bunny bullshit
it's fartcaster, and woo-cast... not buying it, idgaf it will be forgotten before 2026
2024-05-08 08:32:06
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by npub1m4n…c2jl
What being a housewife does, is allow you to increase your leisure time during his work hours, so that you don't mind all of the evening and weekend stress, as much.
But men get upset at the thought of their wife relaxing, while he's at work. Seems lazy, to them, and a lack of solidarity because they don't realize that she probably considers some/all of her "leisure time" together with him as "work time".
It's a miscommunication of sorts.
2024-05-08 08:04:58
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by npub1m4n…c2jl
Women have to work a day job, either way, (most men don't want a housewife), so I guess a lot of women are just preferring to be alone and have more leisure time, sleep and independence.
Which I can understand. Having a husband is exhausting, so if you still have to get up and put in your 8 hours at the job, it's like, "What do I keep him around for?"
This is also what divorced women usually tell me.