2024-06-13 19:47:16
by npub1gpp…z7l5
During a performance in San Francisco, on June 2, 1973, as Led Zeppelin was playing their classic song "Stairway to Heaven," a white dove flew into the venue and landed on Robert Plant's outstretched hand.
Plant, known for his charismatic stage presence and connection with nature, embraced the dove and held it gently, seemingly in awe of the unexpected visitor.
The crowd erupted in applause, captivated by the remarkable sight. https://image.nostr.build/9f9bdad70ba7bbf8478ea8bd83156434c11507cb45884b3e7622cc6edb1cfc78.jpg
2024-06-13 19:18:25
by npub1ak6…y8fx
Stopping to appreciate the moment. I am out laying in the sun by my pool, dogs are in the grass chewing some bones, puffed a little fire, fresh americano poured from my espresso machine, just paid off the modest kia, gonna plant some nasturtium seeds under the tomatoes, birds are chirping at the feeder, and there is a slight breeze.
#grownostr
2024-06-13 18:57:38
by npub12je…qrx9
NGC 1672
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#jwst #NGC1672 #webb
Image Credit: X-ray: Chandra: NASA/CXC/SAO, XMM: ESA/XMM-Newton; IR: JWST: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI, Spitzer: NASA/JPL/CalTech; Optical: Hubble: NASA/ESA/STScI, ESO; Image Processing: L. Frattare, J. Major, and K. Arcand
Published: 05/23/23
2024-06-13 18:51:20
by npub12h5…0rvt
'In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.'
Simone de Beauvoir
https://cdn.nostr.build/p/nkr7.png
#wisdom #philosophy #psychology #spirituality #poetry #art #surrealism #psychedelic #dream #midjourney
2024-06-13 18:45:12
by npub15gu…krp6
Marvel’s Blade: Is Mahershala Ali Leaving the MCU Reboot Movie?
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Marvel’s Blade Reboot project is currently one of the most eagerly anticipated MCU films. The iconic movie franchise, which originally starred Wesley Snipes, is getting a full reboot. Although the casting is not yet finalized, there has been some speculation among MCU fans about whether Mahershala Ali is leaving Marvel’s Blade. Here’s everything you need […]
The post Marvel’s Blade: Is Mahershala Ali Leaving the MCU Reboot Movie? appeared first on ComingSoon.net - Movie Trailers, TV & Streaming News, and More.
https://www.comingsoon.net/guides/news/1765581-marvel-blade-mahershala-ali-leaving-left
2024-06-13 18:45:12
by npub1zyg…m36h
Segway's robot mower spared me from my least favorite chore
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I’m sure some of you have looked at robo mowers as Roombas for your yard but, sadly, many of them require you to install a boundary wire around the perimeter of your lawn. And any product that requires you to dig a trench is the opposite of what “low effort” means to me. That’s why I was interested in trying Segway’s Navimow i105, its £945 (around $1,200) GPS-equipped mower which eliminates that busywork. And keeping your lawn neat and tidy is a job that’s all busywork.
Ask a gardener and they’ll tell you the secret to a great lawn is to seed a piece of flat land and then mow it into submission. Regular, militant mowing kills off all the other flora, ensuring only grass can grow until everything looks well-manicured. But that relentless mowing requires a lot of time, a luxury I’ve never had. It’s the sort of job a robot mower was born to do, given it can scuttle around and trim grass without you there.
Segway’s i Series is the company’s latest, more affordable offering compared to its pricier S Series. The new units have a smaller battery and range, with the i105 able to handle areas up to 500 square meters. Unlike some GPS mowers, the i105 is equipped with a forward facing HD camera with a 180-degree field of vision. So while it relies on satellites for positioning, it’ll have enough sense to stop before it clatters into an obstacle. It’s not packing sophisticated computer vision smarts, but it’ll play safe lest it charge into a pet, inattentive family member or prized flower.
I wanted to test the Navimow because I have whatever you’d call the opposite of the platonic ideal of a Good Garden(™). My house sits at the base of a hill, with the garden built into tiers along its height, and the lawn 1.5 meters above ground level. There’s a sheer drop down its nearest edge and a foot-long drop along the side where the pathway has been cut into the ground. It’s a high-stakes test to see how accurate the unit’s positioning is, given what would happen if things went wrong. Plus, I’m not green-fingered and my lawn is usually overrun with an orgy of Borage that grows faster than I can cut it down.
Setup requires you to plant the Navimow i105’s docking station and connect it to a mains power and standalone GPS antenna. Once the unit is paired with the app, you’ll use your phone as a remote control to drive it around the perimeter of your lawn. You’ll also quickly learn that what you thought was a flat lawn has plenty of hidden bumps and dips. Which meant my first few mapping runs left with me a very wonky edge that I had to keep tweaking.
Photo by Daniel Cooper / Engadget
You’ll also need to give your lawn a good mowing before you run the Navimow, because it’s obviously not built to clear masses of unkempt grass. Spare a thought for me, as I was testing this during a typical British April, where we get torrential rain and bright sunshine in equal measure. And that will give your lawn — and the weeds lurking therein — time and opportunity to spring back. The unit’s obstacle avoidance made it skirt even just a sprightly patch of grass and weeds, leaving me with a patchy cut that meant I had to get the lawnmower out again.
Setup took about half an hour, which didn’t feel too onerous given there’s a fair chunk of stuff to do. Staking the GPS antenna into the ground, running the cables and locking down the charging station are all easy enough. I’m fortunate enough to have no tall buildings or obstacles blocking my GPS signals, either. Once it was all working, all I had to do after the initial run-around was let it work its magic without supervision. And, on flat ground in fair weather, Navimow does all you could ask it to do.
Bear in mind that the Navimow will have the same limitations as any other robotic domestic aid (like a robovac). The cutting blades sit underneath the center of its body so it can’t do edges unless you opt to have the machine ride beyond its boundary. If you can’t do that, then you’ll need to get a weed wacker to trim the unreachable edges of your turf. But I’ll admit, I’m very much an edge case compared to most folks.
I was deeply concerned about leaving the Navimow out in the weather, but the company said its IP66 rating for water- and dust-resistance meant I shouldn’t worry. The company will sell you a canopy that can sit on top of the charging station to protect it from the elements. You’ll have to bring the unit indoors from the end of fall to the start of spring each year, but that’s hardly a shock.
That’s a relatively minor gripe, however, and I’ve enjoyed the ability to set this thing to run out on a regular basis. Once the inclement weather and weed growth subsided, the unit showed its worth eliminating around 90 percent of the busywork I would otherwise have to do. The fact I have a neat lawn that only needs a quick trim around the edges has been a delight. And I’ve spent more time in the garden now than I would otherwise given that it’s nice by default, rather than needing a mow.
Fundamentally, if you have a patch of ground you’d like to see become a lawn and don’t have time to do it yourself, take a look at this. It may not be the set-and-forget solution you could hope for, but it’ll reduce the amount of effort to almost nothing. And, while it costs a grand, if it lasts more than a couple of years, it’ll work out cheaper than hiring a gardener to do the same job.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/segways-robot-mower-spared-me-from-my-least-favorite-chore-163659951.html?src=rss
https://www.engadget.com/segways-robot-mower-spared-me-from-my-least-favorite-chore-163659951.html?src=rss
2024-06-13 18:38:31
by npub1aeh…4nwx
A film crew was working outside of @npub1key…lt3h yesterday shooting a Netflix series. The crew kept coming into the bar to use the bathrooms, because, let’s face it, port-o-johns suck.
One of the guys looked around and asked me what kind of things we do at the bar, and I told him, “You know, normal bar stuff. Comedy, trivia, happy hours, bitcoin.”
He replied, “Bitcoin? How’s that doing these days?”
Me: “People are often surprised to learn it’s not dead.”
Guy: “So…do you think I should invest in it?”
Me: “That’s not my place to tell you. But you might just want to get some, in case, y’know, it catches on.”
2024-06-13 18:08:19
by npub1ejx…wxpf
#PV 🌞☕💜
It's ₿847,780 o'block.
🏴☠️⚡💎🙌💊🧡🚀
🔶🔶🔶 Market-Data 🔶🔶🔶
#BITCOIN price is at $66,569.00
Sats/$: 1,502
ATH: $73,599.00 (Hourly Close)
Time since ATH: 91 days, 9 hours, 8 mins.
#BTC is -9.55% down from #ATH
#BTC has 10.56% left to reach #ATH
Market-Cap: $1,312,194,276,850
Market-Domination: 51.82%
24h Total-Trading-Vol.: $35,059,501,637
🪙🪙🪙 BTC-Supply-Data 🪙🪙🪙
Circulating Supply: 19,711,589
Coins left to mine: 1,288,411
Total-Supply-Progress: 93.865%
Halving-Date: ~2028-04-22 07:45
Days until next #BTC-Halving: ~ 1408
Blocks until next #BTC-Halving: 202,220
🕸️🕸️🕸️️ BTC-Network-Data 🕸️🕸️🕸️️
No. of Full-Nodes: ~7,628
Chain-Size: 539.1 GB
Overall Transactions: 1,023,397,026
Transactions 24h: 674,388
Avg. 24h TX Fee: ⚡7,973 | $5.30
Median 24h TX Fee: ⚡3,870 | $2.57
No. of Addresses: 54,661,908
⛏️⛏️⛏️ BTC-Mining-Data ⛏️⛏️⛏️
Avg. Blocktime: 10.03 min.
1-Day Net-Hashrate in EH/s: 589.7
7-Day Net-Hashrate in EH/s: 607.38
30-Day Net-Hashrate in EH/s: 601.961
90-Day Net-Hashrate in EH/s: 606.961
365-Day Net-Hashrate in EH/s: 500.054
Net-Difficulty: 83,716,654,861,184
Dif. Progress: 52.6%
Dif. Change: 1.01
Next Dif. Adjustment: 2024-06-20 08:01
Blocks until next Dif. Adjustment: 956
Mining-Sustainability: 52.6%
Mining-Reward per Block in BTC: 3.12
⚡⚡⚡ Lightning-Stats ⚡⚡⚡
1-month tendency
#Nodes: 13,102
#Channels: 51,400
Tor-Nodes: 9,102
Clearnet-Nodes: 1,757
Total Capacity in BTC: 5,077.70
Avg. Capacity in Sats: 9,878,797
Avg. Base Fee in mSats: 949
#Bitcoin #soundMoney #zap #twentyOneMillion #blockForBlock #stackingSats #zappingSats #nyknyc #dyor #unbankTheBanked #bankrun #runBitcoin #financialFreedom #nostr #plebchain
2024-06-13 18:03:37
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by npub10c8…m734
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Tem uma frase que diz que só se dá valor quando perde. Não sei se ela se aplicaria ao Estado ou não, mas fato é que por milênios só sabemos o que é viver sob um Estado e só teorizamos sua ausência.
Esses dias vi um vídeo libertário dizendo que o Estado nem sempre existiu, e que, na visão de mundo do autor do vídeo, houve em tempo que havia só um individuo e que o indivíduo precede o Estado e seu modo de governo coletivista, etc.
Mas será mesmo que a primeira organização humana era ancap? Se havia um só indivíduo no mundo, ele não seria o "dominador supremo"? Sei que muitos ancaps são cristãos e não sei o que eles pensam quando lêem, por exemplo, que foi ordenado ao casal dominar e sujeitar a terra, embora o texto se refira apenas a dominar sobre a terra e aos animais e peixes, os primeiros não acabariam tendo uma posição de comando nas primeiras sociedades? Num contexto pós queda, o homem já havia sido posto sobre uma condição dominante sobre as mulheres. Imaginando que havia uma primeira família, além do domínio do homem sobre a mulher, os primeiros pais exerciam autoridade sobre os primeiros filhos?
Mas ainda que se considere uma cosmovisão diferente, não bíblica, será que os primeiros humanos definitivamente não tinham posição de autoridade sobre os outros? Não havia uma hierarquia e leis de convivência onde todos estavam sujeitos e quem tinha autoridade para legislar, executar e julgar?
Sobre o Estado, eu não acredito que ele tenha uma função parasitária e de entrave na produção de riqueza e boa qualidade de vida, acontece que o positivismo moderno mesclado com o marxismo têm gerado esses efeitos terríveis.
Bastaria reformar a constituição e a legislação tributária de uma forma que tivéssemos menor intervenção e mais liberdade. A mudança seria lenta, mas conservadores não tem pressa.
Eu não vejo problema algum com o liberalismo, pelo contrário. Se não fosse a intervenção/influência liberal no cenário político mundial, os ditadores teriam avançado mais suas pautas opressoras. Deveria ser mais grato e reconhecer. Creio que o liberalismo é uma ponte para chegar até o ancapistão que vocês querem, sem ele, quem iria conseguir voar saltar sob o abismo deixado pelo autoritarismo?
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2024-06-13 17:38:20
by npub1f7m…ank9
I just had a passing thought and I better post it before I forget. Anil said so. Anywho, psychology is quantum. You heard that right. The thing is about quantum is that it doesn't make sense. It's make belief at its finest. It is an object that occupies space and time, at the same time. Not possible, super position. Newton said so. But in the domain of psychology, you can make yourself feel better by smiling. Did you get that? First, you don't feel well, maybe you are a bit down. Then you smile and then you somehow "trick"
your embodied biology in believing that you are happy, on account of the smiling and all. And then you feel better. Amazing. In a certain context, "wet streets do cause rain". I jest but I think I made the point. Psychology is weird. Try it next time you are feeling down. Smile like an idiot. Does it work? Report back please 🤔
#nostr #asknostr #plebchain #psychologystr
2024-06-13 17:27:31
by npub1clk…pup9
This is what we’re up against. Keep building. Keep fighting. It’s Bitcoin or tyranny.
“Despite consumer concerns about privacy, security, and resilience, this sector is expanding rapidly and holds the potential to revolutionize the global financial system. Nineteen of the G20 countries are now in advanced pilot stages, and nations like The Bahamas, Jamaica, and Nigeria have fully launched their CBDCs.”
https://www.thefastmode.com/expert-opinion/36128-what-to-expect-in-mobile-payments-over-the-next-year
2024-06-13 17:22:57
by npub1qgv…vt5h
Lesson 164
Now are we one with Him Who is our Source.
1. What time but now can truth be recognized? ²The present is the only time there is. ³And so today, this instant, now, we come to look upon what is forever there; not in our sight, but in the eyes of Christ. ⁴He looks past time, and sees eternity as represented there. ⁵He hears the sounds the senseless, busy world engenders, yet He hears them faintly. ⁶For beyond them all He hears the song of Heaven, and the Voice for God more clear, more meaningful, more near.
2. The world fades easily away before His sight. ²Its sounds grow dim. ³A melody from far beyond the world increasingly is more and more distinct; an ancient call to which He gives an ancient answer. ⁴You will recognize them both, for they are but your answer to your Father’s Call to you. ⁵Christ answers for you, echoing your Self, using your voice to give His glad consent; accepting your deliverance for you.
3. How holy is your practicing today, as Christ gives you His sight and hears for you, and answers in your name the Call He hears! ²How quiet is the time you give to spend with Him, beyond the world. ³How easily are all your seeming sins forgot, and all your sorrows unremembered. ⁴On this day is grief laid by, for sights and sounds that come from nearer than the world are clear to you who will today accept the gifts He gives.
4. There is a silence into which the world can not intrude. ²There is an ancient peace you carry in your heart and have not lost. ³There is a sense of holiness in you the thought of sin has never touched. ⁴All this today you will remember. ⁵Faithfulness in practicing today will bring rewards so great and so completely different from all things you sought before, that you will know that here your treasure is, and here your rest.
5. This is the day when vain imaginings part like a curtain, to reveal what lies beyond them. ²Now is what is really there made visible, while all the shadows which appeared to hide it merely sink away. ³Now is the balance righted, and the scale of judgment left to Him Who judges true. ⁴And in His judgment will a world unfold in perfect innocence before your eyes. ⁵Now will you see it with the eyes of Christ. ⁶Now is its transformation clear to you.
6. Brother, this day is sacred to the world. ²Your vision, given you from far beyond all things within the world, looks back on them in a new light. ³And what you see becomes the healing and salvation of the world. ⁴The valuable and valueless are both perceived and recognized for what they are. ⁵And what is worthy of your love receives your love, while nothing to be feared remains.
7. We will not judge today. ²We will receive but what is given us from judgment made beyond the world. ³Our practicing today becomes our gift of thankfulness for our release from blindness and from misery. ⁴All that we see will but increase our joy, because its holiness reflects our own. ⁵We stand forgiven in the sight of Christ, with all the world forgiven in our own. ⁶We bless the world, as we behold it in the light in which our Savior looks on us, and offer it the freedom given us through His forgiving vision, not our own.
8. Open the curtain in your practicing by merely letting go all things you think you want. ²Your trifling treasures put away, and leave a clean and open space within your mind where Christ can come, and offer you the treasure of salvation. ³He has need of your most holy mind to save the world. ⁴Is not this purpose worthy to be yours? ⁵Is not Christ’s vision worthy to be sought above the world’s unsatisfying goals?
9. Let not today slip by without the gifts it holds for you receiving your consent and your acceptance. ²We can change the world, if you acknowledge them. ³You may not see the value your acceptance gives the world. ⁴But this you surely want; you can exchange all suffering for joy this very day. ⁵Practice in earnest, and the gift is yours. ⁶Would God deceive you? ⁷Can His promise fail? ⁸Can you withhold so little, when His Hand holds out complete salvation to His Son?
https://acim.org/acim/lesson-164/now-are-we-one-with-him-who-is-our-source/en/s/570
2024-06-13 17:20:12
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by npub1m4n…c2jl
Like, if you give a poor person some money, they'd be likely to spend it or give it to someone else.
That's not because they're crazy or stupid. It's because
1) Their standard of living is so low that blowing money on something seemingly ridiculous like new sneakers will give them satisfaction for a long, long time and may raise their social status among their peers.
2) They don't have substantial financial savings and you probably didn't give them enough to have some, so their best economic bet is to stay good with their frens and relatives or impress someone to make a good connection.
3) Their chance of getting more of that money is very low, so the relative risk of gambling it away looks more attractive.
2024-06-13 17:19:23
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by npub1jlr…ynqn
The outbox model is not *currently* sufficient, but neither is the hints system. So do we do our best with the broken state of nostr, or try to improve it? I want the broken stuff to break, so we can make it better.
The hints system will never be sufficient, because it encodes changing data into immutable events. The gossip system can be much better (though not perfect), because pubkeys are far more permanent. The shortcoming here is that if we ever figure out key rotation you'll still have to follow the chain of pubkeys for a given user, but that should not be that difficult.
So yes, using only outbox, this note would not load, because gossip (the client fiatjaf used to publish the note) doesn't provide a pubkey hint. However, side note, the note loads fine in a fresh session, because I'm following the relays in the nevent (which are functionally equivalent to relay hints, but otherwise quotes really would never load).
2024-06-13 17:07:48
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by npub1m4n…c2jl
People be like, I'd buy Bitcoin, rather than a house.
You can't live in a Bitcoin, tho, and if you don't own your own home, you have to pay rent and rent is crazy-expensive and is money thrown down an endless black hole. And if you have a family, your tiny, crappy apartment will feel very tiny and very crappy.
They be like, Well, my kids will thank me, when they're older and it be like, You think you're going to have them growing up in a hovel, despite having money, and then you bust out 2 Bitcoin on your deathbed and any of them will be there to say goodbye?
2024-06-13 17:03:16
by npub1r0r…q9ac
Every day, when my 3 yo wakes up, he comes to the kitchen, looks at me suspiciously and says …
Didge ye make food?
He’s not asking if it’s done, but if I dared cooking without him. He doesn’t like it when I start early.
So he pulls up a chair to the stove and starts assisting, usually taking over stirring and flipping.
He gives me hell if I cook without him. Kinda cute but kind of annoying 😏
2024-06-13 16:41:53
by npub1hxj…agw3
Web of Trust: Navigating the Social Graph
- "In this paper, you will find a definition of the social graph, principles for thinking about it, and practical ideas for using it for DoS prevention, social discovery, anti-impersonation, accurate ratings, and more."
- "You will also learn about alternative mechanisms that can be used in conjunction with social graph analysis to provide more compelling and complete solutions."
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/navigating-the-social-graph/
2024-06-13 16:41:18
by npub1qsp…5afj
⚽ The transfer window opens tomorrow, here are all the latest headlines and rumours 👇
💷 £100m offer, Newcastle FFP deadline, Man City release clause stance - Bruno Guimaraes transfer truth - https://tinyurl.com/v7d994cb
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#Sports | #Sportstr | #GameTime | #Transfers
2024-06-13 16:38:30
by npub1uzy…y7g3
https://www.teach-me-bitcoin-son.com/media//generated/get-a-capsule-duo-one-for-the-seed-and-one-for-the-passphrase.png
Son: Dad, did you back up your 24 words in steel?
Dad: Son, no, not yet.
Son: Without your 24 recovery words, there is no way to access your funds. I can't stress this enough.
Get a "Cryptosteel Capsule". These solid metal devices are cheap, easy to use and super reliable.
Dad, are you using a passphrase?
Dad: Yes, you suggested using one.
Son: Yeah, that's great. However, you have to secure the passphrase as well. In that case, get a "Capsule Duo", one for the recovery seed words and one for the passphrase.
#Bitcoin