The fact is that the odds that in 10 years on social media that I would not by chance be exposed to some nice girl who wanted to be with the guy she bumped into on social media are so slim it should be obvious that I am not so uninteresting as the way my contacts on social media happened during this time went down.

It's just inconceivable. And I need to point out that during this online drought, I did meet a really nice lass, even while living on the street, and I can guarantee you I'm far more charming than 99.99% of the guys you find at the homeless drop in centers in Amsterdam. How I can be good enough for a one in a thousand girl, a spunky, outspoken, clownish girl, who I would have married in a heartbeat, and yet some 7 years of facebook and not one.

It's just ridiculous, and I think it's time someone pointed it out.

The thing that brought most people to social media was dating.

One of the earliest instant messengers was called "icq" I Seek You, and it deliberately made it easy to find potential partners. Even on that platform I had several encounters one or two of them leading to physically meeting.

It is like, they pulled all the genX people onto social media with this hook, and then they made sure that only commie-friendly people had relatively open access to a real social group, as a way to keep us from realising that this shit was stopping us from having a social life.

The reason why I stopped using Facebook 4 years ago was summed up by a study that revealed that anyone that fell within their definition of the term "alt-right" was being deliberately denied access to the full range of content being posted by follows, and intentionally boring.

Boring af it was, for two years it had been boring, from about 2017, and then they started wedging in ads and even Fluff Busting Purity extension wasn't keeping this crap off my feed.

Boring, and every 5th post was an ad. After I clicked through on a few I decided that this platform was no longer a social media but an interactive TV, and that's not what I signed up for.

Virtually half of the population now is in this marginal box that the commies in Silicon Valley are being paid to filter and exclude from public discussion.

It is moving slowly now, but you watch over the next year how fast Truth Social, Gab, and all the rest, the user base moves to Nostr and builds their own alt-right goggles in some cases.

The actions on the part of these techo-wizards-of-Oz has resulted probably in millions of people having no chance of bumping into a viable partner, last time I got a new gf via social media was 2012 facebook.

Ever since then, they have been deliberately isolating us from each other.

I guarantee the number one reason why people will come to Nostr, as things play out over the next two years, will be for the stories about meeting soulmates and getting married.

I *guarantee it*.

All of the social media used to have this phenomenon, ever wondered why it stopped happening?

Yes, happy people cannot be manipulated so easily.

And every single extra charge just seems to directly result in a bigger shift towards him in the polls.

Maybe they really are not aiming to stop him but make sure he gets there?

Quantum vaporware lol.

Not one elliptic curve private key has ever been derived from its public key. Not even after literally billions of dollars and yottawatts of cooling.

Why does anyone think that just because schnorr's algorithm seems to be solvable with Qbits, that nobody has yet demonstrated a fast reversal of the one-way transformation from 32 byte private key to 33 byte (1 extra bit actually) public key.

Not one.

Not even a small example with smaller keys, like even 32 bit keys. Yes of course there is elliptic curve numbers in 32 bits, and solving one should take average 2 million attempts by brute force. Just to show us that done in 1 million attempts or better. Nope.

Vaporware.

I think that even when the normies show up to Nostr it's still gonna be better. Because the protocol isn't owned by anyone, even if they coopt it and run a heap of relays, the rest of us will still see our posts and be able to use our relays and apps.

There is a trend towards using real money as rewards in business. You see at ASDA supermarkets, their rewards are in POUNDS not points.

How long until they figure out that it can be sats, and it will work a lot better, and hell, wen Blizzard adopt LN?

Wow, KPMG seems to be pretty bullish about Bitcoin helping these multi death corporations look good. They even break down shitcoin money laundering and show that bitcoin is a tiny fraction of what the others are doing.

It's not at all controversial to talk about the thought policing that Zelenskiy's regime has been enforcing, and how many people have been put in jail for thought crimes.

This is why most ukrainians are not there anymore. I don't know the exact figures but it's in the tens of millions of people who scattered across europe and the americas. I was in Varna at the time, and there were hundreds of new people showing up on a regular basis, some ukranians, and a lot of exchange students, indians and pakistanis and such. Varna is a town with some 10-15% ethnic russians, and is just a ferry ride from Sevastopol and Odessa.

It's not at all balanced to talk about the war as though the bombed apartments was everything. Plenty of stories and information to find out there about how US, UK and other european special forces were setting up positions in these buildings and even sometimes there was still people there, huddling in the basements...

War is hell, and just like every war, this one is based on false premises, and is really just laundering money for a criminal elite.

And yeah, it's very visible to me here where I am. There is 3 houses near me where ukrainians now live. One, around the corner, she is a dressmaker, she has her little ad box out the front advertising her services.

I just pray that everyone who has any sense has long departed from that place. The way the current US government administration is provoking and promoting continued escalation, I think that in all this a lot of people don't understand what's actually behind this, historically.

And at that point I have to stop, but let's just say that not all modern jews had jewish mothers somewhere back in history. They were from the northern regions above the Levant, and this tribe has an old old vendetta that goes back to Tsarist Russia.

The whitest people in the world are russians and ukrainians (and all the rest of the baltic and scandinavian). The whole "white is bad" project is all about revenge on them.

I've seen several times freelist management packages in projects I've worked on or looked at or used. You can turn off GC with Go, but at that point nothing will get deallocated, so everything has to be reused.

As such, it's not as well suited to embedded or kernel development.

There is an embedded version, "tinygo", that uses other memory management strategies in its much smaller runtime.

I really don't see there being that many cases that can't be faster built and easier to maintain with the help of GC though. Kernels, and minimalistic, embedded apps (think arduino).

The guys who invented Go were 30 year+ veterans of C and C++ programming, one of them even was the co-inventor of C, Ken Thompson. IMO, if they said use GC, then a lot of other people don't know what they are talking about.

Go, like Rust, it is practically impossible to have a stack smashing or other memory allocation error vulnerability. One you can pick up and run with, build something useful in your first weekend with it, the other, you will still be scratching your head 3 months down the track trying to remember everything you have to memorise to use Rust's memory allocation system.

We are definitely at peak Clownshow this upcoming US presidential election.

https://www.racket.news/p/campaign-2024-officially-chaos

Suddenly the media that was pretending that Biden wasn't a neck sniffing, demented old pedo, now that his little guy is rolling towards getting a slap on the wrist, is saying that Biden might not be so great after all. Wow.

And meanwhile, Trump is now slathered with over 70 charges and at this rate will be in police custody in late stage political rallies, somehow DeSantis has turned all unpopular and the people are chasing orange man instead.

This could well be one of the least attended elections in US history, as a result of all this insanity.

But I'm sure Biden's got his Kristalnacht plan all ready to go...

I didn't play computer games much as a kid, I was much more interested in programming and music composition, and in the first 4 years I owned an Amiga, I composed many pieces with FastTracker.

In 2006, I started to become the full out drunk that wasted most of my 20s, 30s and first half of my 40s.

I drank through 20L of unaged apple cider as I first played the game Half Life 2, and gaming and drinking became a fixture with me for a lot of the time since.

Now that I'm not drinking again, the same thing applies as when I was a teen. I prefer composing music and writing code.

I made the effort to get myself the modern equivalent of the original SoundTracker and related sequencer table based music notation, Renoise, almost 2 years ago now, and haven't hardly even touched it yet.

I just recently re-downloaded it, saw there was a bunch of extras I hadn't seen, some soft synths or patch sets or idk what.

Next weekend I am gonna sit down and read the Renoise manual and learn how to write music with it again, and make it my evening relax activity instead of gaming.

Games are just so pointless. For the most part, they are just like movies but much more interesting, and longer, some are literally days to play through, like Half Life 2, that one typically takes me about 24 hours or so in total... and my steam play history says I have spent over 500 hours playing it!

The game I'm playing most often on my PC now is chess.

I'm gonna get back into the music. I'd really like to make some sounds like Black Lung/Snog, like Noisuf-X, like the stuff in Stalker games, the spooky ambient stuff, the track Trailer Part 2, this kind of sound I would love to make... sounds like alien machines marching or something... ah man... And some sounds like Siebzehn or Aes Dana, I love that shit.

CRKT also make a really nice replica of that old A.G. Russell Sting fixed blade dagger.

https://www.bladehq.com/item--CRKT-AG-Russell-Sting-Fixed-Blade--8750

I used to own a couple of these, and taught myself how to throw it accurately at gut level about 5 yards forward over-hand (it does a 180 spin from held with the handle down with a short flick forward that would be way too fast to react to at that range). Though cos it's solid when it hits the ground it sounds like a chrome vanadium alloy wrench.

For sure one of the best knife brands out there, and I see, they make really nice tomahawks too.

This dude is a legend, I hope he isn't having any problems from visitors after that podcast.

Christians are good allies for Bitcoin, maybe one of the best. All you atheist bitcoiners, pay attention.

It's incredible they are celebrating bitcoins that have lost their fungibility.

Nothing a good mass coinjoin won't fix...

It's diamagnetic. You can make another notable diamagnetic material using high temperature, low pressure deposition of carbon. Pyrolytic carbon it's called.

https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Diamagnetism

A diamagnet opposes any other magnetic field with one oriented 90 degrees at both axes, meaning that it repels away from any magnetic field. They don't do anything notable to other diamagnets of course, they simply redirect magnetic flux lines, and yes, they levitate above magnets, no matter which direction they are pointed.

Rare earth magnets are high magnetic permeability materials, but diamagnetic materials are pretty rare, at all, and certainly so far nothing nearly as strong as the difference between ferrite and a rare earth magnet.

I'm sure that ukrainians who disagree with their fascist puppet government are all sitting in prison too. A lot of them their only crime is where their parents were born.

The borrow checker is way too complicated. Give me a well tuned mark and sweep GC any day. Latency of concurrent processing matters a lot more on a system with heavy load and Rust has zero to add to the field regarding this matter.

Rust is just a fad language, just like C++ was a fad language back in 1992. It has precisely one feature distinct from C++, and cargo is basically a carbon copy of Go's build system with macros added, so, sorry, it doesn't count.

Sure, it saves compilation time, most of the time, but it's still at least 100x faster to compile the same app in Go, versus Rust, from scratch.

I doubt the trade-off of security and safety of the borrow checker really stacks up against the speed of C execution and hand-optimisation.

Variants, objects and templates are very expensive features to compile. Programmers abuse these tools all the time, leading to the endless, predictable bloat of lower throughput and higher resource consumption.

Rust does nothing towards teaching programmers to write simple, clean code. It just gives you a very hard to learn way of making an extra few fractions of a percentage of safety for maybe 10% throughput but gives you no reduction in latency and takes about 3 months for average programmers to master this most fundamental feature.

And like all macro-using, preprocessor using languages, it gives so much expressivity that learning how to do anything with the language starts with a long review of the myriad of options, instead of a solution that is precisely the fit and most concise and performant.

There is nothing in this world to fear.

But you rightly should be afraid of what happens if you do.

All evil projects violence because evil is fear. Bow down to evil and you are stained with evil. The fear.

That's why it's the first commandment. To not worship any other than the one true God.

Worship is fear. Only to try to deceive God is a valid cause to fear.

Evil isn't incinerated for revenge.

It's because fear blocks the gift of God, this incarnation, this story, from reaching into our hearts.

There is nothing to fear in this world. It comes to an end, our time here. And if we didn't do our best to seize and witness the gift of life, we spat in the face of God.

We signed up and then spent the whole time like a child not wanting to hear the truth.

Denying life is wishing for death.

Being that anthropomorphisation is common among the most aburd of common christian dogma, as is the plainly pagan Christmas and easter crap, and the holy Trinity, you probably wonder which kind of christians are like this.

Not Catholics. Not most protestants. And the Catholics sure are sitting on those dead sea scrolls. The few fragments I know from them clearly show that the real, pre Catholic christians did not believe in either the crucifixion, and all that easter rubbish, they believed in the direct personal contact with the Divine, and then there is gnostics as well.

I don't think that it is a coincidence that Tao, Deus/Deo and Chaos all have the e-o and the T/D glottal stop, and a final S. And Lao Tzu was not a historical man, and neither was Jesus.

People who think of God as a super powered big grumpy angry gramps in the sky are just projecting their child image of parents into a justification for their abusive, arbitrary authoritarianism.

Who would seriously want to believe in such a depressing, violent and partial God??

It's literally the image of the Adversary, this kind of carving up the natural uncarved block of humanity.

Which reminds me, one of the historically verifiable writers of Taoism, Chuang Tzu, invented the image of our nature as like a tree, and brainwashing and authoritarianism tries to cut is into boards for them to walk all over.

One of the most famous fragments of the dead sea scrolls literally uses the Taoist wood metaphor, in relation to where the Divine nature is visible. Inside. And omnipresent.

This does not comport with the Babylonian incest story of samirimus, Marduk and nimrod, that is the basis of Trinity doctrine, and the easter, the crucifixion, even older as a myth of the sun god. That ridiculous Psy op called the Venus project points this out but basically they twist it and claim these are original christian beliefs.

They are not.

I was raised SDA and every year there was a discussion about how the supposed christian festivals are all about the sun god.

The very same one who demanded human sacrifice in ancient central and south America. Huitapotli or something. Also feathered, dragon like, and a creature of deception. And all of these go back to Sumeria, and the concept behind Zionism was literally an ancient war propaganda campaign, that still seems to be waged by certain ethnicities who were once enemies of most of the middle east.

Sheesh. I forget sometimes what utter lies are the content of much of christian beliefs.

Jesus was a story made out of a bunch of other stories, and then the Roman establishment pretended conversion and then bit by bit made Christianity a clandestine polytheistic cult with people calling Mary the mother of God.

I mainly just wanted to remind you that this theism you speak of has been so muddied and twisted for political purposes it's no wonder it's kinda insulting.

But Christianity never lost the most important thing: it is a religion about laughing at fear, and preferring life and retreat to subjugation and death.

It is a religion that refuses to recognise political authority. It was the basis of the British system of equity jurisprudence, which is basically pure capitalism.

And as Nick Szabo points out, christians invented the idea of voluntary employment as the default, and opposed slavery.

When you think of christians, the real ones are Amish and gnostics and draft dodgers, tax avoiders, there was plenty of them on the underground railroad, my grandfather helped smuggle food to Jews being hidden by his church fellows. The christians who protested against the Vietnam war, and who are endlessly talking about the banking conspiracy.

If you ask me, it's clearly an offshoot of Taoism, and so is Buddhism, and look at the timeline.1000BC was taoism. 500bc was Buddhism. And then we had Christianity, and then Islam, all in a sequence, all of them further and further west.

I'd even say that Bitcoin Maximalism is a variant on the same theme. Do we really know it was one guy? Nope. Just like Jesus and Lao Tzu.

An imaginary person cannot be martyred. The movement around them is protected by this illusion. And it's fundamental belief is that no human authority shall be feared, that the judge you don't want against you is not in this world and hates humans who ape him with their megalomania.

That's all my own personal theory.

At yes, theory is also another of these t e o words.a paradigm is a thesis, or a theory. And Tao is the way. Like a theory, and tied to some aspect of our senses, aesthesis...

I like my theory. It was built from my desire to join all the dots. It's good enough for me, combined with my recurrent anecdotal experiences.

I'm sure it's a collection of ideas you won't find many other people to share it with you.

Where is that? It reminds me a bit of the bridge off Liman over to the edges of Fruska Gora, but that one only has single columns, and I don't know of a Belgrade bridge with that kind of structure? Hungary? Austria? Germany?

Someone recommended me Xapo, which is based in UK jurisdiction, something something LN and Bitcoin.

Turns out you can only deposit using on-chain.

Lightning, you can pay with it, but not receive.

Why would I waste my time sending sats on chain to them just to pay LN when in only one block confirmation Wallet of Satoshi lets me do that without me giving over a copy of my passport and residence permit, hell, it's not even that hard to hide your IP address from WoS either. And it certainly doesn't require an unrooted android device. WoS works fine on rooted devices. Zero bank apps work on rooted devices.

Being that while I live in the UK, I can live on gift cards and never even touch my BG and LT based neobank accounts at all, the only downside being restricted to shops like Sainsbury, Curry's, Argos, ASDA, and not my friendly local convenience store...

Just doesn't seem like it's really worth it considering the KYC part.

If they will accept my bulgarian residence permit as my registration address and not demand the impossible, ie, anything that requires me to have a residence permit here in the UK when as EU citizen I'm free to come and go as I please - I'll use their online-only card, via my phone's NFC interface, for the convenience of being able to send sats to it for 1% fee or under. EFT terminals in the UK don't play nice with Visa and MC prepaid cards. No registration address tied to it. But I haven't been living at my registration address for a year now. But fuck them, if they will accept that, then good.

Right now the only thing that appeals about Xapo aside from what will probably be really slowly confirming bitcoin only deposits, it's not an EU bank and that means I get instant payments from UK based bitcoin exchangers.

Really adds nothing to my convenience at all.

Banks are the worst businesses in the world, and I simply don't buy it that they are all vultures just because of their government charters. I think they LOVE to piss on us plebs. You should have seen the smirking face of the bank manager when his First Investement Bank of Bulgaria ATM swallowed up my Wirex card and refused to give it back without Wirex sending them an email, and Wirex hardly even answered my support requests, and kept on making excuses about how they will "fix the problem real soon now" and I watched that shit for 3 months and I was like, yeah, nah. Wirex shafted me once already, and then I was stupid enough to deal with them again.

Fuck banks. Fuck the government.

Hurry up and have WW3 so all those stinking bank buildings are turned into dust.

I'm gonna spend the second half of my days on this planet far far away from the grasping hands of legalised extortionists and fraudsters, and counterfeited currency that is robbing me every minute I don't spend it.