2024-05-11 19:42:31
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by npub1fjq…leku
they just don't have sensors that can detect things that aren't emitting things at us and are already here
technically, solar plasma is essentially dark matter... we only know it comes after the x-ray burst because that's how it happened many times, we can't measure it, they model it based on many sensors and their models of the emission and the historical results of that
really, dark matter is anything that doesn't emit radiation constantly, and the only way we can detect it is with radar or visual light or something, and those two things just fade off into useless after a few hundred thousand miles, in photography they call that distance "infinity"
2024-05-11 19:40:49
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by npub1x3c…4c3w
Let's agree that seafood, fish, poultry and eggs are included in the term "meat". Am I right then?
Besides, longest possible life is not necessarily what I am after. My body could probably stay alive for 200 years on life support, but thanks, no thanks.
I had achieved everything there is to achieve by the age of 40. Next is to stay healthy and comfortably watch the world go by until, ideally, you die unexpectedly of a heart stroke in your sleep. It does not really matter how old you are at that time.
2024-05-11 18:56:52
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by npub1er0…py3m
First of all, thank you for building Nostr.build 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
There is no shame in promoting your product. People have the choice to buy or not buy.
This is a very long note. DM me if you want to talk more. I’m happy to help.
I have no experience in B2C sales but I do have 15 years of experience in B2B sales on large accounts. Here are some suggestions for your consideration. You can take any, all or none of them:
- Never sell yourself short. You are offering a fantastic service and giving it away for free. Put a limit on it. Delete media from unpaid accounts after 6 months.
- Paid accounts get their media stored for as long as they remain subscribed, plus 6 months.
- Every time an unpaid account reaches a storage threshold (e.g., every 1 GB) or uploads a given set of files (e.g., every 100 files) send them a DM letting them know about it, and the benefits of the paid accounts.
- Use free accounts as your marketing . Put a small watermark or banner under each uploaded picture with a message like “Stored for free at nostr.build”.
- You’re probably doing this already, track the conversion rate from free to paid. You have 2 growth metrics: new free signups and free to paid conversion rate. Whatever actions you take, need to be designed to improve those metrics.
2024-05-11 17:54:02
by npub1kad…z2an
Shadows in the darkness, so far away from home
Standing all alone, noone there beside me
Shadows all around, so far away from home
I know I'm not alone, It seems we're lost in space and time
Shine on
Shine on now, and warm the tears we've shed through years
It's our prison, final reason for the freedom and the glory that we feel
Are you for real?
2024-05-11 16:27:07
by npub1fjq…leku
we got a solar maximum coming up... and the storm that made aurora visible to even as south as florida last night suggests that there might be more incidents of record breaking EMF incursions into the atmosphere soon
what if the bursts have their strongest resonance in the mobile radio spectrum, in microwave frequencies, and instead of having a grid down and internet down situation, instead just 99.999% of mobile towers and mobile radio devices and wifi get fried
now that's a scenario i am excited about
and further, it might mean that the world starts to take seriously the idea that we should be focusing on making our electrical shielded with good quality earthing, our computers should be desktops, and our displays, which probably are quite vulnerable, to have a nice faraday cage wrapped around them
and then when the REAL solar storms come, the "global killshot" and the market has moved enough to delivering genuinely EMP proof house and consumer fixed electronic devices and network systems are focusing on shielded, mostly underground wired or for overground all is optic fibre, and the impact will be minimal
but the best part is
people will stop carrying around mobile phones and considering radio to be a practical network connectivity method
they will see why people like me are averse to slow, and congested radio spectra, and maybe it will start to come out in research how much our health is negatively impacted by being exposed constantly to radio frequency radiation
if the sun is gonna do it anyway, nothing we can really do about that, but if it fries all the radios
https://i.imgflip.com/8pq2h5.jpg
2024-05-11 16:07:51
by npub1m3x…a5sf
https://song.link/us/i/1582922007#tunestr #progstr
"Dangers on the road
I’ll scrutinize the four directions, one by one.
And when i stop to rest i’ll turn my head and look behind my back along the path.
A sorrowful parting
The karmic traces rise like weeds
Beat my body, bruise my soul
But i guess i’ll have to face it .
Roll up my sleeves and take it.
No mind here to erase it.
Aurora.
Crowded little room
You could have the sky
But the inner paints the outer world
And you’re cozy in your tomb
Fatigue a locomotion, adversities a strong potion.
The demons come to pollinate.
But i guess i’ll have to face it
Roll up my sleeves and take it
No walls here to contain it
Aurora.
I guess i’ll have to face it.
Open my arms, embrace it.
My liberty is patient.
I’ll step right in and face it.
Open my heart, embrace it.
No walls here to contain it.
I guess i’ll have to face it.
Roll up my sleeves and take it.
No mind here to erase it.
Aurora."
2024-05-11 15:49:13
by npub1fjq…leku
oof... so, another nice result of having a giant motherlode of events to blow into the relay has revealed that the garbage collector i wrote takes forever for as little as 1.3Gb of data
so it's getting disabled... well, my first time writing a GC and it works great for a small cache but it's entirely unsuited to a big one
and further, the blower gets quite stuck while the database does garbage collection, probably stalls the whole thing, seems to me like there's a problem with the design of this database that really really doesn't scale not just imaginary doesn't scale
1.5gb GC stop the world for 3 minutes is not ok
*facepalm*
2024-05-11 15:12:16
by npub1s07…uk63
What if most people around you (with rare exceptions) are 130 IQ+ but they're all worn down by decades of fiat stress, conditioning, malnutrition, addiction, daily psychological attacks via media and ads, having dedicated little to no time for finding their top inner voice and best self?
#nevent1q…7cnm
2024-05-11 15:06:27
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by npub1m4n…c2jl
Have to go to a big birthday bash, tonight, and despairing about what to wear, as it's going to be full of stuffy academics who will give me the side-eye for looking too attractive, at the same time that my husband will balk, if I overshoot and go too dowdy. Decisions, decisions.
He just puts on a clean shirt, combs his hair, and walks out the door. 😭
I hate parties.
2024-05-11 13:33:08
by npub1fjq…leku
https://contabo.com/en/storage-vps/
contabo's pretty good, i've used them before... but anyway, if you were ever wondering if you could run a full bitcoin node on a VPS, i think this would be adequate, the 800gb rig would do you for a node right now at $9.50/month and that likely would leave enough for a CLN instance to run on it as well and have a decently high uptime
i can see how the next level, VPS3, has enough to run bitcoin core, cln and a nostr relay with all the events on it for $14/month... i can imagine how it could do some cool stuff with payments built in, running channels directly to it and probably some cashu thing so when your LN wallet is offline it can DM you nuts instead, securely within the relay... so...
if it costs as little as $14/month to run the infrastructure, and you have the expertise to run it, it's easy to see how you could charge people like $3/month and after you have 5 customers you are in the black
this is gonna blow up big style in the future and in case it wasn't obvious why it's so important to get nostr working with auth and building out integrated subscription models, that thing has so much storage users could also drop their media files on it, and at the next level at $26 you have got enough to handle probably a few score users full btc/ln/ecash/nostr/blossom storage and with a spider running on it, subscribed to other paid relays, your clients could literally see the whole network with 5 seconds latency with only one connection to one relay, maybe a second one for backup...
wild... the prices are coming down, and the nostr is coming up
2024-05-11 13:23:41
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by npub1fjq…leku
the game The Long Dark is about a geomagnetic disaster set on an island in northern canada
in the game there is these periodic bursts of aurora and when it happens all the power starts flowing through all the electric devices, radios turn on, the power lines buzz, and there is a general buzzy noise everywhere... i assume their hypothesis in devising the scenario is that the magnetic field is normally so high it stops the electricity working but then when enough stellar plasma/magnetism hits, always at night, that all the electrical devices become charged and start operating as normal
it's quite a flimsy backstory but the game is fun anyway, and i like it because it's not your usual disaster scenario, it's probably more close to real... if for a time it became normal for aurora to be as far south as texas and florida for months on end because the earth's shield is way low, lots of freakish shit would be happening for sure, and there is good reason to believe that is where things are going over the next 30 years or so
2024-05-11 12:43:15
by npub1fjq…leku
https://youtu.be/cEMXp1HlzUs
i personally believe that all large celestial bodies keep growing over time unless they are smashed or merged into others
saturn and jupiter are examples of precursors to stars, the complexity and size of the magnetic fields of these planits is clearly a progression from our large planet, and the question of whether mars or venus were ever habitable, i think no, i think that mars and venus are in early stages of forming their magnetic fields
my hypothesis is based on the idea that space is a noisy mess of random particle formation, but at the centre of planets full of at extreme gravitational pressure, like in the centre of our planet, the largely iron core, which is at a supercritical state where it is solid, and it is liquid, and it is plasma at the same time... at a sufficient pressure, the compression of the iron/nickel/cobalt metal becomes so high that it becomes superconductive, once the mass reaches a certain threshold
once that superconductive compressed state emerges, it becomes permanent, and due to the relation between gravity, mass and time, the amount of time that these randomly forming particles that have been observed deep underground inside lead shielded vacuum chambers, where to us here on the surface they blink out in picoseconds or less, at the time flow speed in the core of the planet, they live for probably millions of years, the coherence of the ferromagnetic superconductive supercritical mass of the core, induces cohesion and particles that would have blinked in and then back out due to missing harmonics, are able to find them, and then blink into permanent existence as stable atoms, electrons, neutrons, all that... so...
what you get then is that after matter aggregates enough from the flow of gases and dust and particles and rocks and larger particles, eventually it accumulates, out of all the available nearby matter, to become large enough, and it then starts to experience the melting pressure of the gravity of the mass, the ferromagnetic materials start to chromatographically separate towards the core where they are the most stable at this level of pressure, and as it continues to grows, you get moons, and then the moons grow to become rock planets like ours,mars and venus, and then eventually they grow to become gas giants, and then gas giants, once they get big enough, not only continue to grow at a proportional rate of mass ath their core, they are experiencing centrifugal force of the high energy particles are thrown outwards and eventually form a stellar corona and so on and so forth
2024-05-11 11:43:48
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by npub1m4n…c2jl
No, most people look at trending, is what I assume. Some of the clients have it really prominent. But if trending just looks like what their feed would look like anyway.... 🤷♀️
Who isn't following Jack, Gigi, Lyn, Odell, Calle, and Carla, or having their content reposted ad nauseum in their feed?
The trending list seems to mostly be a condensing of our feeds, so that each post only appears once, rather than 58 times. 😂 So, that is value added.
2024-05-11 11:34:26
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by npub1m4n…c2jl
Obviously, people here care about what those people have to say, but everyone follows them, already, so the trending list adds no information, and many people arriving probably don't care about what they have to say and see the trending list and assume this is just a shrine to a few personalities and a place to say incomprehensible texts full of naughty words.
2024-05-11 11:03:18
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by npub1m4n…c2jl
"But writing about it is time consuming."
This, right here. Anything that requires research, planning, or deep knowledge, is an "unnattractive post" because the reward for that effort is too low.
There are other topics or styles of post that require much less effort and receive more reward. This is what I meant about feeling like I'm being nudged: write about this, not about that. So we all subconsciously drift toward where there is the most reward for the least effort...
("Reward", not just in zaps, but it discussion with humans.)
2024-05-11 10:47:30
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by npub1m4n…c2jl
Well, that depends upon whether you find emotional disturbance fun. That seems to be something most people actively avoid, as they find it tiresome.
People seem to use social media as a digital pacifier, to lull themselves into a stupified state; a trance. The replacement for "zapping" TV channels, binge-watching Netflix, masturbating to porn, or being soothed by elevator music on telephone hotlines.
Who can produce that better and more personalized, than bots?
Humans err, they get bored, they have a bad day, the say something upsetting, they're solipsistic, they have a manic moment, they become afraid, they post in the wrong time zone and their notes have grammatical errors...
This is all noise disturbing the elevator music.