Reverse searing experiment
#barbecue #asado https://video.nostr.build/24e3eccfca9ff64344fb0bb3bbac9132e1d4736f7c6f1e3ed88e5a0ce9d7e74e.mp4
Wow... it looks incredible 👌
Do you feel alone from very early childhood? How do you manage to deal with it?
Like many of us, I found a solution in focusing on building things rather than trying (too hard) to find long-life meaningful social connections. People come and go; you or they outgrow us at some point. Existential loneliness adds on top of normal loneliness: new people often can't understand us after we grow to a certain complexity threshold. Yet building things creates the feeling we're doing something meaningful.
However, the older I become and the more I notice how health failures may affect things I can possibly build, the more meaningless life feels without such deep and meaningful connections. It's kind of a paradox that it was easier to live with the loneliness feeling in the earliest childhood, when the psyche was much more vulnerable.
Psychotherapy and traditional spiritual practices look like a crutch to me in this case: useful but not sustainable enough. It also became another sophisticated way to say "shut up, be happy" to somebody we're not willing to have a deep connection with (it's just "be happy" becomes "have a drink/take a pill/go to a therapist/go to another psychedelic retreat"). While we're still designed to be social, even introverts.
What do you believe is more sustainable in the long run: focusing on building things (and possibly attracting the right people this way, with no direct intention of doing that) vs attempting to find meaningful connections directly (with a risk of wasting your energy on nothing)?
https://youtu.be/0u9RL696xms?t=3722s
#asknostr #meaningcrisis
Building, and focusing on improving or maintaining myself, always seems to be easier, more comfortable and more productive.
It's a bit chicken-or-egg, but regardless, I have difficulty connecting with people for a reason... Every time I try to force myself to integrate more, it's followed up with a swift reminder of why I ended up focusing on building.
Every. Damn. Time.
And with no improvement each time, either. Not only does it not work, but I never get any closer to making it work.
That's not to say I don't have friends and connections, but they are friends and connections on natural terms, and they are 1000x easier.
I think I made it clear it was NOT for sexual gratification. 😤
That's hilarious... I think my Friday afternoon playlist has been decided.
These guys...
nostr:nprofile1qqsqqqqqqqez8xh5ydawgvv3z9592mvjmwwmcg2l9lrh7pc96gvvlwsppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qywhwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnzd96xxmmfdejhytnnda3kjctv9uf4v3dc I made my decision I gonna be a hockey referee but im gonna be a linesmen because its easier. Think i can make it and do it?
I'm a firm believer that anyone can do anything if they put their head down and do the work. 😉 Get to learning and doing!
I just don't think it's all thaf helpful to view the price in a vacuum. 5 years ago it was widely viewed as speculative, and the price peaked around 70k. This was in a financial environment of literally historical liquidity injection. There was someone much money rolling around that it gave the market a premium, letting it go to heights that were fully unsustainable.
The entire world is different now. So few dollars are available in the system, billions are being loaned from the Fed's emergency fund regularly. People are also in record debt. This isn't just America, either. Bhutan sold 6000 BTC this year to stabilize their own finances (which saved them from the IMF but would have impacted the price).
The fact that we hit a floor around $80k in this environment is very encouraging to me. Even in a literal global financial emergency where everybody needs money, we are only down about 40% from the all-time high.
What I'm saying is that when we put everything into perspective, I think it paints a bullish picture. As soon as the liquidity flows, Bitcoin will take off.
(For completeness, the AI bubble and then gold's amazing rally soaked up what liquidity was available... these will modulate eventually and some of that will also flow into BTC).
All that said, you're not wrong for feeling disappointed, but I can't find my way to a bearish sentiment :)
Thanks for the share, man. I'm glad folks are enjoying the article 🧡
I had half a frozen lasagna and most of a tray of cookies... you're doing fine 😂. I'm a fool for anything chili lime and those potatoes sound amazing, got a recipe?
(Also Merry Christmas 🎄)
The food looks phenomenal... Very jealous of that chunk of roasted meat 😂 Merry Christmas, man 🎄
Do you have a source for this claim?
I never said Amethyst is sending me anything. I very explicitly showed that I understand exactly how it works. I have not followed anybody who posts CP spam, it is from random people posting to # asknostr on unmoderated relays that my follows decided to post to. I have no way to prevent this with the updated method.
Y'all seem to be upset at me for pointing out that I preferred when I wasn't subjected to CP from every random relay my follows post to. 😂
Bro.
And therein lies my problem... "Your follows want you to see that ad". My follows currently have more control over what I see than I do. All they need to do, to force my client to download junk from any relay against my will, is to add it to their list (whether their intention is good or not). That puts me in the situation where I have to play whackamole with spam every time I follow a new person or one of my follows adds a fringe relay.
I'm not making things up to be upset about... 😅 The new setup makes it impossible to protect myself from CP ads by default, and the old way did not have this problem. Every day on the # asknostr hashtag I see multiple CP spam ads, and I have no recourse but to find out what relays they are posted to and manually block them after the fact.
I fully understand the mechanism, and why you have chosen to take this route. That's perfectly acceptable as it's your choice and what works for a lot of people. That is why I phrased my question as "could this be an option?", for those who the other way worked better for. 🧡
The main issue I have is with followed hashtags. # asknostr is spammed with CP and incest ads 20 times a day. Again, on old Amethyst, this would not have been a problem. Please stop telling me it that seeing CP and incest ads is just "the way nostr works".
I guess my point is that both methods have their flaws, and I would personally much prefer to miss replies or posts than see CP advertised on my feed every day. I'm not sure it's at all feasible to give normies the choice to either pay for a proxy relay, or see incest ads every day until they manually block nefarious nodes.
All of that said, it's still an amazing app and I appreciate all the work you've put into it. 🧡
This is a genuine question, because one of us is missing the other's point here and it could definitely be me 😂... but can you tell me what I said that conflicts with that? I don't think I ever said the relays got written to my 10002 or that I was writing to those relays.
My point boils down to:
- Amethyst now pulls from relays that I didn't specify
- It did not do this previously
- I prefer the old way because in the new way I have to blacklist bad nodes in my client instead of whitelisting good ones
Merry Christmas 🎄 Good discussion 😉
I can guarantee I never added btc.klendazu.com to my relay list myself, but I'm pulling posts from there for two users.
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Also Merry Christmas 😅🎄🧡
GM and Merry Christmas #nostr! 🎄🧡
I'm not mistaken in my preference.
Amethyst (and all other clients I was aware of) originally "worked" by allowing you to set what relays you read from. This, to me, is highly preferable, because otherwise (and now) all it takes is a few of your follows to be less than scrupulous about which relays they post to, and you end up having to run administration tasks to manually block spam-heavy relays due to no fault of your own.
I prefered when I could just set my client to read from a few relays that I trust not to post CP. Now I have to hope plebs don't post to badly maintained relays (but they always will, because they are incentivized to do so in the name of audience reach / decentralization).
It's Amethyst's "gossip protocol" I think it's called. Instead of only retrieving from your specified relays, it grabs from the relays that everyone you follow is posting to. I'm not a fan of it myself, it makes granular control of relays pretty much impossible. I'm sure it has advantages, like it being less likely that you run into an event you can't see, but I'd much prefer to be able to specify my relays.
The feeling that using kitchen gadgets is cheating is one I wish I could be free of. I want a bread maker and a slapchop dammit, I've earned my wings!
This journalist lady on Twitter is the best non-MSM SME: https://x.com/AmberWoods100
She's worked in this area for years and really knows her stuff, shows receipts. She isn't sensationalist but definitely goes down the rabbit hole.
And yeah, a couple of things so far don't look great for Trump. Nothing his supporters won't be able to easily excuse, though, and nothing prosecutable.
The main point of interest right now surrounds the 10 co-conspirators that were identified and investigated. Especially since Kash said under oath that there were no co-conspirators.
Looks exactly like every mince pie ever made in Home Ec 😂 (in a good way). Now I have to figure out how to get mincemeat in the midwest US within 2 days...
I maintain that Bitcoin's price is not under attack. We are in a low liquidity environment. The price of Bitcoin is relatively low because people need money, which is what Bitcoin is. Hodl is fine until you need to pay rent.
Bhutan have sold 6000 BTC in the past year to prop up their suffering economy. It saved them, it did its job, but that kind of selling will put downwards pressure on price while we have such a low market cap.
I'm perfectly happy with Bitcoin's price. It's holding relatively steady in very choppy seas.
I think this thread answers that question 🙂. I reckon it just sounds scary to make your own QR code, especially if you don't particularly understand the process, so folks just search for someone to do it for them. This is how all those QR codes you see at restaurants and on signs work, it only needs to be generated once and then the image can be put anywhere on the internet or in meatspace (though they probably often use some kind of dynamic link for stats, too).
Hope this helps!
What data? The URL is encoded into the QR code.
Like a barcode, the numbers don't need storing externally. The bars *are* the numbers. The QR code image *is* the URL. When you scan the code, your phone decodes the image into the link and then takes you directly there, no third party needed.
What that service might have been doing is linking the QR code to their server, which then looked up your link and forwarded them to it (after collecting the visitor's statistics and cookies). The only real advantage that would provide is allowing you to update the target link after the fact.
A URL can be encoded directly into a QR code. Once it is created you could print it, upload it to any image sharing site, or include it in an email / on a Wordpress site, etc. 👍
Well here's one out of a million good things about the country: there are about 5000 dog shelters in the US, and at every one, there are anywhere from a few to a few dozen dog walkers... folks who give up part of their day, multiple times a week, to go and walk dogs to make sure they are happy, socialized, and exercised.
Don't give in to the fear and hatred. The moment you find yourself saying "there's nothing good about XYZ" should always be a reminder to step back and gain new perspective, because it is never, ever true.
I believe nostr:nprofile1qqsv0t9t78ldyqd9xxz7fhz7p346u279mvvaww4lsszntuc9mrc9rqqpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhszrnhwden5te0dehhxtnvdakz7qghwaehxw309aex2mrp0yhxummnw3ezucnpdejz7pm5w70 is working on something like this. I caught one of their testing streams the other day. 🤙
#gm #morningwalk #mentalhealth
Bitcoin was the first global issue I ever understood. Seeing how biased the media has been against it, with half truths and blatant misinformation, was my first glimpse behind the curtain of just how cowed society is (at least in the US). It's been an unpleasant realization.
#morningwalk #caseydog 
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