What is this kid's mother wearing? Looks very sus to me.

I'm well amused to note a few things that as usual Wikipedia isn't mentioning, here in this article about Sirius

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius#Colour_controversy

It has been variously reported at several different epochs, dating back to ancient greece, and several further reports in the several thousand years since.

Essentially, within relatively short spans of time, the brightest star in the sky has been observed to be reddish at some times, and blueish at others.

I'm not sure why it would be controversial to suggest this, but I read somewhere some time back that pointed out this changing colour of Sirius and suggested that it may actually be our Sol's binary twin.

The motion of Sirius, relative to us, is quite close, to the point it is:

> The brightest star seen from Earth, Sirius is recorded in some of the earliest astronomical records. Its displacement from the ecliptic causes its heliacal rising to be remarkably regular compared to other stars, with a period of almost exactly 365.25 days holding it constant relative to the solar year.

"remarkably regular". Like as though it has a huge amount of inertia in common with our solar system.

What's bizarre is that this is not an idea that is generally even known of by astronomy fans, or that the colour change situation could be explained by our solar system being in orbit with Sirius A and B - while at the same time, most moderately informed people will know that our sun's absence of a pair is uncommon, the vast preponderance of stars now observed have been determined to be binary pairs.

Just a reminder of how stupid even smart people are - that an obvious implication about blue/red changes in a VERY BRIGHT STAR that we know by parallax is under 9 light years away - OF COURSE its motion is tied to the motion of our planet. I mean, sure, we can't see much that isn't glowing within that 9 light years radius around us, other than Sirius and Alpha/Proxima Centauri, but the synchrony of motion screams common origin to me.

I've got plenty of ideas that probably are wrong, and maybe this is one of them, but idgaf, it's just very interesting.

The idea that scientists have the best, and not to be changed again idea about anything, is quite patently ridiculous.

And no less ridiculous than the idea that there isn't a bigger truth out there, when we know plenty of smaller truths.

I'd long known about the whole thing with military training and heavy packs, but it's a whole thing in fitness:

https://3vgear.com/blogs/adventure-log/how-to-get-fit-while-rucking

Having spent a lot of my time homeless carting around 10-15kg on my back, I had sorta forgotten what it was like, until the other day, with 8L of water in my pack, and again today with 12L.

I need to get a better pack at some point but the 25L I have at the moment is adequate. The only thing I need to do is put a cushion at the bottom where the bottles currently jut into my lower back.

Combining rucking with barefoot shoes, it's a weird but cool feeling, walking properly on the ground, with this huge weight on my back. Really feels like you are pushing the ground behind you, if you know what I mean... haha.

I'm gonna do 12kg every other day for a while, eventually I want to be able to put a full 20kg, and then do my 3 mile circuit at a gentle 8km/h, then I'll be fit.

The other thing I'm doing, just started today, is pull-ups. Tried to do some with the 12kg on, couldn't lift my chin to the height of the bar, nowhere near it.

Gonna be a really good feeling when I have 20kg on my back and I can do even one pull-up like that.

For finicky GPUs especially, Pop OS is a good option. Also Manjaro's MHWD thing works great.

Before abandoning ubuntu altogether, you might want to try 20.04. For me it seems to be the goldilocks of linux for my MSI laptop. The kernel 5.15 also pretty damn reliable.

Kernels, tracker search engine, and a couple other things... problems that ubuntu has had forever and somehow never fixed.

Tracker, in particular, is a real pain in the ass if you have source code in your home folder. If you don't tell tracker to not touch those areas, it will bog down memory and processing to index it, every day, especially when you are playing games.

I've got a troll/sock puppet jerkoff nagging my comments on a centralised bitcoiner site at the moment.

It made me think about - currently Nostr lets you publish zaps as events, there needs to be a flag on them which is the `Fuck You` flag and does the opposite of whatever normal zaps do for visibility sorting.

The hate zap should be called GFY.

Regarding content moderation

It should be possible to have zaps that work the opposite way regarding visibility.

The zap would go to the operator of the platform or the relay operator who picks it up first, or some other configurable.

In the long run, trolls will learn they can't actually manipulate other people by gaming visibility without either running out of money or being buried by a swarm of angry plebs.

Straight outta carbon

I just heard a new expression today: warrant canary

How to say it without saying it that you live in a Stasi fascist state.

wisdom tooth, half of it fell out dead a couple years ago and then I got some work done, a lot of fillings that were badly needed. I wanted them to extract the tooth but they insisted on leaving it. I really wish I'd not let that slide.

Gonna get them all out soon. None are badly impacted but none are fully in position and my mouth could use a little more room. Probably would be good for my cleaning routine as I'd be able to floss a lot more gaps.

Yeah, I am a little worried this isn't just going to go away.

I need to take a trip back to the Balkans.

stolid

Yay the face isn't in total agony tonight, just a little bit.

Weirdly what's really bugging me now is sore muscles everywhere, and, i think there's midge flies in the air.

The second warm day in the year for the UK and already got biting insects.

I hope the rest of this month is gonna be better than the last 4 weeks, I'm exhausted with this bullcrap lol.

Yes, Sascha Dikiciyan made a lot of very nice cyber music for Mankind Divided :D

Though that asian, k-pop sounding one is pretty unforgettable.

First rule of signals intelligence is don't put encrypted messages on the wire if you don't have to.

Systems engineering is so much fun, and horrible, at the same time.

I came up with a design and mostly implemented it mostly alone in the last 8 months, and only a month ago finally fully shared the thing in detail. It almost took 2 weeks of extremely long conversations to get through everything and build a consensus.

I had consciously made a decision to use a shortcut in an area of the design, reasoning that more complex arrangements could be added later, and to get the eyes on the core tech.

Well, it was maybe not the best idea. Because that change could have ended up being a lot more complicated, the more things it had on top of it that had to be adjusted for the changes.

Well, I am not sure that's fully correct, but I also didn't want to get people excited to start playing with it and then a little later it's broken because this key change did not get made soon enough for it to not wind up affecting a bazillion other things.

So anyway, I also think from an engineering perspective, and use my creativity to envision new ways to do some particular thing, and when it comes to engineering, simpler is always better, and the more things standing on it the more important it is fixed into place sooner.

They usually call it "architecture" - the process of managing feature sets and the time for development, except unlike a building, coming up short is easier to do, and then to not have a critical part joined together in the centre of the mechanism. haha. oh the facepalms.

So, yeah. I 100% agree with engineer Lyn here, and I liked a lot how she also moved it not just in the field of engineering but also pointed out how laws and constitutions are also similarly important to get right, and not change very much.

Last year I became very much convinced there was zero use cases for blockchain that were not Bitcoin. My reasoning is exactly based on the engineering.

I could point to the code and say "yes, we can change this here and that there and voila, tail emissions, no more problem of the 2140 miners having no block rewards.

a) doesn't matter right now, precision is plenty enough

b) by the time it's needed, probably it can be refactored by AI.

What most people don't understand about AI is what it does is cut out testing time, because minimalistic simulations can often compute way faster than any physical prototype.

Blackrock will lose if the question is about bitcoiners pulling every last sat off the market.

That sounds like ubuntu after you do that first upgrade and it upgrades and defaults without menu visible to a kernel that can't run the screen at all. Like it always has since at least version 7.

No idea what to suggest, it really depends. I know that for me, with AMD, 5.15 kernels seem to be the best. But 6.1 and 6.2 kernels can be ok too.

I dunno why they make it default to not give you an indication when to press shift to select a different kernel, cos this is always happening.

cockroach is the only word in my mind, for some reason.

https://git.indra-labs.org is live... just a simple Gitea instance for our git hosting. Will be current and ready to pull and play with from there shortly.

I wanted to put something like habla.news up, with our posts from nostr, but it seems that this kind of application is not well documented for a JS-phobe like myself, first one says "HEX" npubs, I'm like, "wut?" and eventually find a tool written in rust that I can get a binary of and convert to the bech32 format lol.

haha.

https://www.indra-labs.org and https://indra-labs.org are just pointing at a mostly empty static page right now, nothing to see there at all.

Spent way too long searching for forum/blog/something/nostr whatsits but nothing quite working nicely.

A draft landing page will be up on the main addresses soon, built by our volunteer webmaster, a young aspiring web dev from Nigeria.

By the way, did I ever mention I hate web browsers? Ah yes, I might have.

I'm fasting, and stopping all sweet, caffeinated, acidic or milky things, and no vegetable oils.

It's one or all of them. Fasting will also help calm it down sooner.

The pain is subsiding a bit now, I might get lucky.