Is Ubuntu ever gonna fix Tracker and the endless black screen of kernel upgrades?
Just trying to chill with some civ vi and it's indexing my entire go build cache.
Framerates drop to sub second for hours.
sudo chmod -a-x /usr/libexec/track*
Fuck you Mark Shuttleworth.
Only if you are realllly careful to check it before it escapes into the world.
I'm a big believer in ad hoc architecture of code but you do have to gradually make it logical and extensible in the ways it promises to be extensible.
But zero donations without a court order of guardianship!
The reason why there only needs to be ONE blockchain money ledger is very simple.
It is a GLOBALLY DISTRIBUTED LEDGER.
It cannot transition faster to new states (clearing transactions) than the nodes can validate and propagate the transactions physically across the network. Every bit you push that upwards, you are eliminating otherwise viable network locations and hardware.
Every shitcoin project starts from the premise that shorter block times, or bigger blocks will make this structural limitation of the global state ledger model go away.
They always base their clams on simulation networks that lack the real world delays and unreliability and congestion. A protocol can work fast on loopback without actually being usable on a real network.
- Faster blocks means poorly connected nodes are excluded.
- Bigger blocks means the basic cost of running a replica of the database (eliminating the need for trust) rises rapidly beyond the majority of those who wish to's capacity to pay.
And combining the two, big, fast blocks even further narrows down the number of key network backbones that can host viable servers, from the NETWORK perspective, and the cost of such real estate tends to also be a further impediment. Rack space is some of the most expensive real estate in the world, and the fatter the trunk it's attached to, the more expensive still.
Shitcoiners literally are acting like us plebs can compete with Amazon and Google data centres on their position on the backbones.
Shitcoins that try to push these limits wind up in a situation where the possible customers are not numerous enough nor is the volume enough to sustain the network as a real global shared ledger, and so they become worthless, and eventually are abandoned. If they even had a legitimate purpose and were not just a way to hide a ponzi from the SEC.
If they even had a viable and reasonable potential userbase of profitable business operators to base the operational costs of the network on, it would still be difficult to justify using a broadcast model when multicast and and point to point connections are what you build centralised distributed systems out of.
day 2 straight-edge
From tomorrow, I will be starting on an exercise regime.
Breathed pretty easy last night, was a little slow falling asleep, but damn good feeling to breathe normally, almost normally now.
It would have been impossible to do enough exercise to get any kind of results until I stopped drinking and smoking.
My metric of success will be when I have a whole day without nearly getting stuck for a few minutes with a muscle cramp.
Currently because I have been transitioning to some old school leather shoes, with nice flat barefoot soles, half of the muscles in my calf are seeing work they haven't had in years, I mean literally. Normal shoes barely give your feet any real work forward of the heel. I am walking properly, like the Chinese medicine saying "walk like a pigeon". Meaning that you relax your arch when lifting and let it spread out from the middle of your feet as you put the front part of the foot down first and let the toes stretch out to provide fine balance.
Those muscles are getting to be a bit more conditioned, and I should just point out to those who don't understand what the fuss about barefoot is, half the muscles in your calf are for actuating your toes and fore-foot. Normal thick heeled, padded modern shoes treat your feet like they are stumps with no articulation or inbuilt suspension.
It hurts a bit for a while, if you do too much walking for the condition of these under-worked muscles. And if you were like me, drinking like a fish, with overall malnutrition and B vitamin and electrolyte deficiencies, the reaction of the muscles is cramping. Which is because I am not getting enough salt for the amount of protein and energy in my diet. Salt is required for fat digestion, and fat gives you all-day energy, it is not the 3 hours and nothing of breakfast cereal, slathered in glue containing, refined, dead milk.
But for today, I am working on indra code mainly. I have discovered a ridiculous private key leak in upstream code that I have to fix.
Anyone who anthropomorphises God is acting and thinking as a child, like as though to their prototypes of parent figures. You can't have a rational argument with a child wrapped in an adult body.
Intangibility is not a counterargument.
Numbers, words, ideas, principles. None are tangible. Love is not tangible.
Like the wind, it acts in ways outside of what we can apprehend.
Getting cranky over a word used to describe a highly abstract principle is a waste of your time.
Most religions essentially boil down to cult franchises, as far as their beliefs have no practical utility.
Forget the words. If you don't feel the wind and wonder at it's invisible touch as if you will let yourself have the peace of recognising the unity of the universe, and the awe at the intricate, completely thought out things.
Isn't it still amazing that somewhere along the line our ancestors emerged from mud and speciated, differentiated, agglomerated and symbiotically became interdependent, and then we appear, and in 200k years of history, we appeared and have scarcely changed.
To the religious, that awe is sacred.
The biggest problem with being a materialist is you are forbidden this kind of joy. Matter just eventually degrades into beta particles and entropy, right? No love, no hope, no life.
I'd rather see it as a battle against entropy, that all life is part of, and our survival every day is a victory and a blessing.
And I bet you still aren't sure where to put life cycle decorators.
GN plebs, nostriches and cypherpunks.
May the sun ever shine at your back and the road rise to meet you.
It's pretty sad that people who understand well enough that Antifascist is just a word trick, don't seem to understand that Atheist is the same kind of word trick.
Like Christians like to point out about Satanists - Satan only makes sense as a story as an accessory, and a consequence, not as an original source. Like saying that the winner of a competition is not the point of having a competition.
If you are against fascism, that means nothing. You can still be any other kind of totalitarian without being a fascist. Or national socialist.
If you are against christianity, that means nothing, because there is nothing about christianity in itself that is either venerable, or despicable, yet as an atheist you are presenting yourself as being superior because "you grew out of that".
I think of myself as a Christian, but I don't believe in the Holy Trinity or the crucifixion or any of that.
To me, to be Christian, means to be against the violence of political, banking and military power.
To me it is the utter rejection of any man claiming to be chosen by God. Such men are always seeking to look powerful by squashing and killing other people who make them "look bad".
To me, Pontious Pilate was more Christian than Herod. A pagan roman administrator. The Jews openly demanded a well known criminal be spared well deserved execution.
Does that mean I hate jews? That I am anti-judaic?
Seeing the value of ideas, and in their correct application, is what we are all supposed to aspire to.
But the reality is, the great majority just take whatever they are given, and shun those who think about it. Especially if they don't agree with you about what Heresy means in the contemporary cult of power, whatever form that takes at the time.
To be christian, is always, and ever, to be against that power.
I'm just wondering how many books out of the Dewey Decimal 0-100 you have actually read, if you have never heard of anyone associating the One God of the Abrahamic sects with "Cosmos" or "The Universe" or "Chaos" (as in theory or magick).
Let's see. Theosophy. Taoism. Buddhism. Do I need to go on?
In terms of global demographics, most people define what christians call "God" with "The Cosmoss".
There is no evidence to a fish about what water is either. You think that's air you're breathing??? Who told you that?
Musk is just yet another cantillionaire and there's no way he's gonna be doing anything to displease the people who are running him.
Last thing he would do is acknowledge the fact that social media is a means to brainwash and mind control children to political lobby interests. So he inflicts censorship on the adults in the room.
Not hard to see this isn't gonna make him a lot of money in the long term, but clearly, someone's paying him to keep this charade up.
I'm a caffeine-only straight-edge as of today.
Still keep reaching for the other things but they are now off the menu.
Haven't had such a clear mind since I was in my early teens.
It seems to me that computer games are not what the non-drunkard me likes, but rather, I keep longing to get back to a music composition tool as my recreation, instead of pointless, repetitive and retarded computer games and their half baked narratives.
Not even that interested in reading. I really got my fill before my 20s, and topped it off with Human Action and The Lord of the Rings.
Freedom, most of all, is freedom from slavery. Start at home, and make your addictions only to the invisible and intangible stuff inside your self.
There is no such thing as "normal" and "healthy" at the same time.
All culture is a cult to a powerless image that doesn't give a fuck about you. So how can it be healthy to be a slave if that means your interests only matter so far as your master needs them for you to perform the work they want from you.
Never going back. Besides all else, it's hard not to notice, after going sober, how much more life there is in a day! Never going back.
btw, says LN support on the site but the app certainly doesn't show or even mention it. Just a segwit deposit address.
I'd seen them before and considered it but was using kraken to do LN deposits and market trades back to SEPA instant. But this card is not european based it's a tax haven bank account, of the more minor kind.
AH, it is UK related. Well that's where I am right now. Still, very nearly british bank but not. Should be better here anyhow, and probably a little better for USD usage in central america.
https://void.cat/d/FQKmLM2wAMDW7Z1F5Rwhvn.webp
I'm sure Bill is waiting patiently for this trial balloon before launching his patent 606060...
Mind control is basically brainwashing by remote access device. It's a variation on the principle of cultists being put together to reinforce their cult identity and obedience to the cult principles.
Mind control is the central business of media these days, and every single shitcoin project uses mind control techniques.
In most cases that I have seen, the culture of the organisations behind shitcoins are cults also, with varying degrees of non-remote, aka Brainwashing rituals as part of their system.
Even Nostr is cultish in some respects, but not so much centering around the not really very much of a showoff fiatjaf. Nostriches, apparently, are the evangelists of Nostr the social media cult.
But it's not a cult if it's not centered on a person.
It's a great illustration of how humans are in a constant process of programming each other.
Distributed systems theory, itself, is practically a model of cult meme propagation systems, that is, taking a disparate group of entities, and making them function as though they are a single entity.
Cybernetics is said to be meant in terms of training animals to work for us, but it's the basis of mind control also, which is the projections of cult-like models and anchor phrases, aka 'buzzwords' that mark the active and avid cultist.
Like us computer users, from the early days. Many of us got excited in part due to the way that this technology can eliminate miscalculations and help accumulate knowledge and reduce the frequency of incorrect applications of it. That applies to good things and bad things.
But ultimately it's an arms race you have to join or see the enemy use it against you.
That was me a year ago moving from Bulgaria with bulgarian and lithuanian bank accounts paying Bosnian bank transfer fees. 5 euros, same price, flat fee, up to the max withdrawal on the machines.
The pain is double, not just those fees but no other lower cost way to get funds into the local jurisdiction.
The only solution was to pull the maximum, which was about 250 euros, meaning a 2% minimum fee.
This is the norm where the money is not Big 4 currencies, the banking systems of those are very hostile with fees to outsiders. In those places, cash is best for most dealings in the local area, and pulling it out in this kind of volume.
q!
Dammit! I hate VI. Yet the command-first modal editor does make a lot of sense for TUIs.