A radio, a gutter as antenna and you can send emails to a post office station 2,500 miles away 🤯

Sometimes I have very brilliant opportunity to purple pill people, but I remember I would dox myself if I do, because there are only a few like me. It's so painful to keep silence in such occasions! ☹

Without binary protocol option there is no speed. JSON is low entry barrier but it's atrocious.

Relays should serve JSON AND CBOR, simple client flag can achieve this.

We can't be serious about speed without it.

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Counter-economics was one of the culprits of the fall of communism in the USSR, let's not underestimate #Agorism.

The response from the Bitcoin community has been overwhelming.

YOU have stepped up and fully engaged in our mission to respond to the disaster in North Carolina.

THANK YOU

Our initial response is underway and we will share updates as we receive information from the Area of Operations.

Our larger recovery team is taking shape and necessary resources are being identified.

This will be an ongoing mission and continued support will absolutely be needed.

Please continue to share in your networks and spread the word.

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A number of groups headed out there. First batches of donations from Nostr are going out today and tomorrow. Sending to groups that I’ve either been recommended from a plethora of different people, and/or that I know and trust someone specifically in the organization.

Then going to get more piece meal about the funds.

The BTC Veterans seem to have an awesome setup together. Trying to be of use to them as well because they will likely be a big help and also a great resource on the ground to confirm things.

So I've just thrown together a Keet broadcast room so I can post updates about #hurricane #Helene and any info I get from the ground in western NC. Also will post about where donations are going and how I'm trying to verify the mess of murky info flooding in on socials.

I will also be posting here, but Keet is just a better place to keep it all in a single stream.

Join me on Keet.io - West NC Hurricane Recovery Feed (no expiry)

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All of this FEMA talk in socials reminds me of when I tried to trespass FEMA from a whole city once.

Story time:

FEMA came to my local city, which I am a councilman for, with updated flood zones mapped out and they requested the city join their national flood insurance program. This was earlier this year or last year, I can't quite remember when exactly.

The program allows building owners in the flood zone to buy "federal" flood insurance.

Sounds innocent, but the program also provides the city with a specific ordinance that the city MUST pass. The ordinance requires the flood insurance in the flood zone for any permits, and possibly for any federally-backed mortgages IIRC, and it requires the city to enforce it. So the city has to force folks in the flood zone to buy insurance.

And if the city didn't join the program, there would be consequences:

The city would be ineligible for FEMA assistance in the event of a disaster. New mortgages for buildings in the floodzone would no longer be able to use federally-backed loans ( ! ). And the city would no longer be eligible to receive federal grant money (cities get a lot of this, our money is broken).

I viewed this as the federal government forcing an ordinance on me and my local citizens that we don't want. It was the feds saying, "Do this or you don't get the millions of dollars that your city takes from us via grants."

I even went to an open house that FEMA put on about this issue and I asked why individual property owners couldn't just join the program voluntarily, why does the entire city need to do it and force the insurance on people. The people there weren't the people who could change anything, so it wasn't useful.

Flood insurance, in my opinion, should matter to three parties, none of which is the federal government: The building/homeowner, the bank/person behind the mortgage, and the insurance company insuring the home.

I voiced my concerns about this program and I suggested the program was unethical in its implementation. I urged a no vote and recommended the city trespass FEMA personnel from all city property to send a message to them. Then when (or if) the feds follow through with denying federal funds to the city, we get senators and local media involved.

Because federal grant money and federally-backed mortgages were being held hostage, the city council voted to join the program, with me being the only no vote. Even the other councilmen acknowledged just prior to the vote that they felt they were being forced and didn't have a real choice. Costs and regulations are so burdensome nowadays that small cities rely a ton on grant money. I hate it.

Oh, and by the way, this is probably something every city in the nation with even the smallest part of it in a flood zone faces. So if you live within a city, might be worth checking in and seeing how they handled this.

Now that it is on my mind again, I suppose the city could still trespass FEMA personnel. An item for next month's agenda. LFG!

Stay frosty out there.

When will we learn to stop believing in and depending on the Federal Government for anything???

The winning couple see the best in each other.

The winning couple see the best in each other.

Don't forget LXMF

Easier and better option - relays should support #Reticulum as well as HTTP(S).

Reticulum packets are always compressed at the transport layer.

It's an established standard that "just works", no need to herd cats into a completely new binary protocol.

Entire planet basically runs on millions of open source libraries from unknown devs who get no praise, no glory and often times no money.

Running purely on passion and principles

This is peak humanity

Remember when Facebook went all in on the metaverse, changed their name to meta and lost billions? 💀

When will they change their name back? It must burn to look at it everyday

Call me cynical but I expected a bill with that name to make the privacy much worse 🤣

Check out #Reticulum