I also need to comment that IMO, a turntable without 3 way drivers and a nice 80s-90s era japanese speakers is a broken aesthetic.
I had a system that was the opposite way around in late 2021. Harman Kardon amplifier, Onkyo 3 way speakers with PIEZOs playing 48khz 16 bit audio from FLAC.
To me, the aesthetic of a music playing device is the QUALITY OF SOUND.
Anything else is like pink flamingos in the garden. Completely tasteless, like a John Waters movie.
THE EGG MANNNNNN!!!
Something else relevant to the topic of prayer:
1 Philippians 4:6-7
6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. 7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
This passage was given to me at a rather odd and opportune time as I was lost in Rome, my passport stolen and no way to replace it.
By following this, I found a path out of my predicament, eventually. It was a difficult road, but I learned so many things along it.
It's just a lightning rod, in a reverse sense of that idiom, for people who are looking for answers to how the money is used to rob people.
The reason being that the concept of cantillionaires and the original meaning of "inflation" are almost central canon of the Bitcoin meme. 21 million bitcoin, as opposed to the ivory tower interest rate control of central banks.
It's important alright, because it is a defense against this method of covert mass robbery.
And because it is a lightning rod for related discontent, it is also becoming a protocol centre point, like a protocol lightning rod, for open protocols, like Lightning and indeed Nostr.
I am saying the word Lightning a lot this last half hour. Super hyped about the connection between Indra and Lightning.
I currently am suffering under the use of a pissy bluetooth low bandwidth speaker set, namely sony SRS-XB23. Which have extra double nastiness because they appear to use some kind of post-effect and tuned resonator chamber to provide more bass frequencies than the drivers can actually directly emit. The bass is phantom bass, and does not propagate nearly as strongly as it sounds through walls and doors.
I can feel the difference, because there's something somehow wrong... probably the fact that the bass frequencies my ears are being fooled into hearing, are not travelling through my desk nearly as much as their volume suggests they should be.
There is many uploads on Youtube that claim to be able to alter your consciousness in some productive way, but I have to say this is one of the few I've ever heard that actually works.
Drives my mind back to the groove over and over and over and over.
Today, a full first draft of all Indranet protocol messages, and descriptions of how they are layered has been written.
The best thing, the cherry on top for the day's work is that the primary mitigation in Indranet, for preventing timing correlation attacks, requires the construction of messages that fork, and join, so that an attacker has several concurrent bursts to examine and attempt to narrow down.
Lightning bolts, people. The bolts of none other than the King of the Gods, Indra, that conduct across his Net.
Back in 1999, I lived in a share house and one of our flatmates for a time was a physicist/engineer who was working on research in building pure optical network switching technology.
Meaning, at that time, optic fibre connections passed through an electrically controlled system that depended on receiving the message optically, demodulating it to electrical signals, and then using a standard switching circuit to then convert it back to optical for the signal direction to its intended pathway.
In that time, from what he talked about, it sounded like they were pretty much solving that problem at that time, and the increase in the efficiency and latency of the optical switches dramatically increased.
In my mind, the future of networking, and indeed data storage, was not microwave radios, or thermoelectric "flash" memory, but photon based signalling.
Photon based networking has a big disability compared to microwave/radio based networking, in that many materials interact with all the various possible frequencies of light that could be used, especially the invisible kind, infrared.
The interesting thing is that optical signalling has FAR greater bandwidth. than radio. The nearest equivalent in radio systems, which is part of the 5G standard, involves frequencies from 10ghz up to 80ghz, right up to the boundary with the infrared spectrum. These frequencies are not nearly as capable of penetrating physical materials, in fact the millimetre wave's most visible public use case was the TSA's body scanners.
These frequencies in fact cause quite intense heating right on the skin surface, and do not penetrate deeply, at best they penetrate only far enough to heat up our skin's temperature sensors, and other senses (most likely can cause damage to eyes, for example) and are used in weapons.
They actually concocted that whole security theatre thing as an excuse to monetise the development of millimetre wave technology, whose primary use is exactly what you expect - active denial systems, causing humans to become disabled, unable to move in range of the emission area, or cause a riot type situation to stop as all the rioters fall on the ground feeling like their skin is being burned off.
I'm willing to bet that is the bulk of the money that was funding the entire 9/11 hoax.
Because actually, they could just have been doing this with a huge, much broader band of infrared spectrum, which they also now had the technology to pump bits through. Starlink is not new technology, again, it's monetising old research funded by DARPA, and the same for the higher frequency microwaves used in 5G systems.
But they could be perfectly safe infrared. Infrared can carry far more data than high energy microwaves, with zero risk to life.
It is a common trope amongst "debunkers" to say "microwaves are not ionizing radiation".
This is a straight up lie. 20ghz band, or thereabouts, ionises oxygen into ozone. This is the main type of solar radiation that causes the formation of the Ozone Layer that supposedly poly chloro-bromides were "destroying" and causing increased ultraviolet radiation.
Ultraviolet, specifically UV-C, is also ionising radiation, and the most famous for generating ozone. Ozone is as toxic as carbon monoxide.
The reason why they are dumping all this microwave energy on us is because this gives them an income stream to continue the research into weapons that can be used to specifically target people, technologies that have a lot in common with other types of weapons such as neutron bombs, which produce a minimal amount of heat but epic amounts of gamma rays, thus sterilising everything, and with sufficient exposure, causing humans to die. It ionises DNA/RNA, thus halting the process of cell division, and stopping the operation of complex peptides and enzymes and so forth, many of which are critical stages in life processes.
If the purpose of the technology was networking, it would be using IR and probably the entire visible spectrum of radiation.
The other problem that makes IR difficult to use, and is common to the entire light spectrum, is that many materials reflect it, and density changes in the media can dramatically alter the path of travel. The microwaves don't get distorted by these same forces. This is the basis of the phenomena of a mirage, which is caused by a sharp density change between air next to the baking ground and the air above it, which is dissipating the heat.
Terrestrial transmission of data does not require electrons at all. In fact, I would go so far as to say, that the future of computing and networking technology will be optical and quantum. But with current, electromagnetic based technology, quantum entanglement is an extremely expensive exercise, something that they usually don't mention about it, is that those electrons have to be kept contained within strong magnetic fields at extremely low temperatures in order to be separated and allow the two electrons to be probed and measured, revealing the fact that their motion is permanently entwined, or "entangled".
This recent hoax about superconductors is also propaganda.
Both superconductivity and optical signalling/computation technology are areas of intensive research, but the quantum models, like the relativistic models, do not provide enough of the essential information about how to eliminate that energy cost.
It is a direction they would have already achieved extreme high bandwidth networking, and even viable interstellar communication systems, but that's not what they are working towards.
They just want to be able to farm us humans, and microwaves are far more useful for this. And they don't care that it is toxic to life.
Yeah, it's been a harsh awakening for many of us. The intuition about it is what made this whole cypherpunk game theory thing so fascinating - that if we had the correct protocol we could abolish certain things entirely forever.
It's still true, just that in most cases we don't have the protocol yet.
https://www.livius.org/articles/religion/messiah/messianic-claimant-15-simon-bar-giora/
I personally believe that this is the historical, factual man behind the bulk of the Jesus story in the new testament. He was eventually caught and where previously the Jewish orthodoxy had been rooting for him, they turned on him once his forces were defeated.
The Christian movement was more than just a pain in the Romans' ass, to the point that to save the empire, Constantine "converted" and established the Universal Church.
You can read further into this story, this happened when they tried to hide out from the Romans as they fled battle, in underground passages, and wound up digging a new tunnel upwards to wind up walking straight into the Romans.
So now you know on what the Pythons were basing Life of Brian, and why political uprising was the central theme.
It was always my personal feeling that the things that the Jesus in the bible did that mattered was not the impossible virgin birth, or the resurrection, but chasing the money changers out, asserting that the government does not have the right to collect taxes, and that the people should fight back.
Here's the quote from that page's quote text:
> Simon, thinking he might be able to astonish and elude the Romans, put on a white frock, and buttoned upon him a purple cloak, and appeared out of the ground in the place where the temple had formerly been
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> At the first, indeed, those that saw him were greatly astonished, and stood still where they were; but afterward they came nearer to him, and asked him who he was.
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> Now Simon would not tell them, but bid them call for their captain; and when they ran to call him, Terentius Rufus (who was left to command the army there) came to Simon, and learned of him the whole truth, and kept him in bonds, and let Titus know that he was taken.
Life of Brian was based on at least part of this story, absolutely no doubt whatsoever. And drew on actual history relating to the agitation of the Jews at their being annexed by the Romans.
Yeah, that Harari character at the WEF and his "hackable animals" story. Literally even said something to the effect that they would be above God. I mean, seriously, he literally said that, you can easily find it online.
Yeah, Wikipedia is practically worthless for information about anything that might contradict the Current Thing. More than several observed cases of edits preceding campaigns of political and propaganda.
Me too, in fact, by undertaking the effort to ditch my mobile phone (can't fully yet, but I can keep it in a faraday cage with its sensors taped over), I have had to get a bitcoin wallet on my pc, and now there is a wallet set up on my synced bitcoin-qt.
I believe so. The higher the layer, the better privacy, IMO.
https://www.massmux.com/assets-on-the-lightning-network-with-rgb/
RGB is client-side validated state and smart contracts system operating on Layer 2 and 3 of #Bitcoin ecosystem.
RGB is not a token protocol. Though issuance and management of highly scalable, programmable and private assets of different sort is possible with RGB, it can be applied in many indusrtied far beyond financial world.
Works with Lightning Network
No on-chain usage nor trackable footprint because of client-validated paradigm
Scales independently from Bitcoin timechain
Includes zero-knowledge & privacy built on best research-based products: Mimblewhimble: Bulletproofs by Andrew Poelstra, Liquid: Confidential Assets by Blockstream
RGB is layer 3? Someone started another smart contracts on top of LN early on but it didn't go very far. But that makes me like the sound of it a lot more, I do not like DCs or any kind of side chain, I think that attaching blockchains to blockchains is like using car and truck tyres in place of gears. Yeah, it will work but it's fragile and wears out a lot faster.
Indranet is a layer 3 also, its not for contracts though, it's just a programmable, prepaid distributed relay network. This programmability is something we are focusing heavily on, rather than just doing a source-routed version of Tor.
The bulk of the implementation is done for that mere purpose but we aren't going to go forward to release with that because it's not really solving the problems we are targeting. The rigidity of the Big Ball of Mud that is this Tor-replacement implementation is not something we want people to get used to and see future uses excluded.
I own two of these:
and to date the best I have managed is a bunch of DSA key caps, clear ones, which have been engraved with legends. One I spraypainted over black, the other is clear.
Of course, this kind of DIY labeling is hard to read and kinda crappy. I totally forgot since I was in Bulgaria at the time and for whatever reason, finding relegendable keycaps was a huge pain even in EU member Bulgaria, partly because the main sources for relegendable keys were in UK and USA, and importing stuff in bulgaria, until recently, and still anywhere in former yugoslavia, is a nightmare of delays, stupid customs rules and outrageous fees. Put it this way, I did it twice about 6 years ago in bulgaria, and the tax was more than the item and shipping.
But just casually searching after someone posted up one of those keyboards that is basically like the top panel of a laptop, mentioning mech keyboards, and I was reminded again of relegendables and so I looked, and found the same supplier that I would have ordered from before in either Bulgaria OR Bosnia but they couldn't ship them to me.
https://thepihut.com/products/relegendable-plastic-keycaps-for-mx-compatible-switches-5-pack
Nicely confusing link, as there is another type they sell that are in a 5 pack, but you see in the text:
Relegendable Plastic Keycaps for MX Compatible Switches - 10 pack
THE PI HUT
SKU: ADA5039
And by the way, outside of the USA, this is the only place you can find these things. You'd think that since custom programming your mech keyboard would need you to have labels so you can learn how to use the layout, but, in a stunning display of the stupidity of most humans, we see that this is almost impossible anywhere they don't speak english.
The other sweet thing about these keys is they are thinner even than the lowest profile DSA. There is another key profile for MX keys that is similar to this, possibly a little flatter, but they aren't relegendable.
I don't even need to use a printer to label these, really, just scissors and a decent marker and some adequate quality paper.
I can see I'm going to be playing with the QMK configurator quite a bit in the near future with this. There's a few small changes I'd like to make to the layout, most especially it's gonna be awesome to have the QWERTY labels visible for my gaming layout. It was just a very big time sink getting these keyboards right that I am reluctant to spend the time on it again for such a shitty result.
The other thing I am super excited about is being able to program in MIDI keys. I have a smaller, crappier ortholinear, 5 rows, but only 12 columns, rather than the extra 3 on this Idobao ID75 (it's an OLKB preonic), but I didn't get cherry silver for them so they are heavy for my silver-accustomed fingers.
I'm especially looking forward to a keyboard with no corners on the keys. After you sit down and write over 10k words in a day (a typical day for me), your fingertips literally are a little sore, and cos I can't rip myself away from this computer thing, it's my income source, it was also part of my motivation for ditching the phone. firstly, I'm sure that constant exposure to microwave radiation is going to cause some sort of problem in my fingers circulation, especially if it's high frequency millimetre waves, like the 5g phone that I'm liquidating tomorrow, and that makes things even worse.
In fact, I'm almost certain that microwaves are a big part of what is causing fluid retention and pain in my hands when I am exercising that makes me feel like I need to constantly move them around to try and shake that garbage out. I'm pretty sure there is something in energy drinks also that is adding to this.
I'm not so keen on doing purchases online with my xapo account though. Forces me to open up my phone and turn it on. I am not using the physical card to pay online though, if that gets stolen it could be a big problem for me. But thank the LORD for bitrefill, a lot of things I can just pay via bitcoin. If amazon sells it, I don't have to use $$$.
Yeah, it's going to be a little like the opening scene of the Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy methinks.
They'll all get their little fruhstucken and then the place is going to hell.
I think that is probably about right for how much of the supply of dollars that they have to burn before the money gets back into sync with commodity demand. And yep, this time is different, previously on logarithmic scaling it has looked like bitcoin has been wilting, but that's just because the economy is tanking. A rocket fuel powered race for dollar hedges once the spigot starts up again seems very likely indeed.
The propaganda of the Keynesian ivory tower econometrics has intentionally confused everyone about the difference between supply changes of money and supply/demand changes of commodities.
Bitcoin is a hedge against profligate fiat issuance.
Right now they are burning, burning burning dollars, and every derivative fiat will be rekt by it, all commodity prices are going down but that's all just window dressing.
Demand for commodities is also down at the same time, and for a change holding dollars isn't a bad idea. As soon as they lift their paws off the brakes it's back to Bitcoin though.