Impersonators are gonna get to be an even bigger problem as they develop the market in AI "cloning".

It's kinda sad that in nearly 30 years there's been very few real innovations in cryptosystems.

It's hilarious how hard they are jumping the gun on this. The technology is nowhere near adequate to be anything like a copy. The privacy implications are pretty incredible too.

The LLMs are actually a variant of data compression, similar to how MP3 and MP4 compress complex waveforms, these do a similar thing to language. They are not effective at either, however. No clone of anyone is ever going to be able to copy the creativity, it's just endless repetition.

Also, if you can't tell when text is AI generated, you probably would be a suitable candidate for being cloned, because your content will not be creative.

And people wonder why nerve damage is starting to become such a big problem. And IBS. Seed oils definitely cause IBS, and for me at least, a nasty skin rash, and I can't even eat most eggs, something I never realised until just recently, when I got an episode of biliary colic (probably gallstone, made of hard cholesterol) and someone pointed out they feed the chickens on grains.

Unfortunately, they also feed much of the meat animals grains too.

RUMINANTS ARE SUPPOSED TO EAT CELLULOSE NOT STARCH!!!!

Accuser des innocents des crimes d’une minorité de coupables est tout aussi grave que l’intimidation.

It's part of the waste from phosphate production, for one, about 1/3 of the supply of apatite, which is basically calcium phosphate, is calcium fluoro-phosphate, called "fluorapatite". Gypsum is the main byproduct, but when this fluoride containing variant of the mineral is used, the gypsum contains fluoride, and it is easily isolated then by adding sodium carbonate/hydroxide.

There may be other waste sources too, I'm not sure, I think it is also found often with uranium ores too. I'm pretty sure that it also comes a long in trace amounts in the fluoride, yay, uranium.

I don't think Al, as in aluminium, has anything to do with it though. The connection to aluminium is that fluoride and aluminium are synergistic together in our bodies, accelerating the damage caused by the aluminium.

oh, here it is:

After separation of the residue by filtering, pure gibbsite is precipitated when the liquid is cooled, and then seeded with fine-grained aluminium hydroxide. The gibbsite is usually converted into aluminium oxide, Al2O3, by heating in rotary kilns or fluid flash calciners to a temperature in excess of 1,000 °C (1,830 °F). This aluminium oxide is dissolved at a temperature of about 960 °C (1,760 °F) in molten cryolite.

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

It's related to Cryolite:

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

Cryolite (Na3AlF6, sodium hexafluoroaluminate) is an uncommon mineral identified with the once-large deposit at Ivittuut on the west coast of Greenland, mined commercially until 1987.[8]

Uses

Molten cryolite is used as a solvent for aluminium oxide (Al2O3) in the Hall–Héroult process, used in the refining of aluminium. It decreases the melting point of aluminium oxide from 2000 to 2500 °C to 900–1000 °C, and increases its conductivity[16] thus making the extraction of aluminium more economical.[17]

Cryolite is used as an insecticide and a pesticide.[18] It is also used to give fireworks a yellow color.[19]

There you go. Cryolite powder is dusted on grapes, and some other fruit I believe. This makes all forms of grape juice, including wine, quite rich sources of fluoride and aluminium.

I got shat on by a fruitbat once. It wasn't quite as bad as birdshit but it was still pretty vile.

It is a bit gabber, yeah. This one is much more:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWfD3NKXChk

It is sad that this band has more or less been out of business for nearly 10 years, they are so awesome cyber/EBM.

I got a small grant right back at the beginning 12 months ago from Geyser.

I applied to spiral.xyz and they require basically an MVP alpha.

Defining this is not simple when the concept aims at highly programmable routing, but as far as proof of concept, tests already have been written for a basic codebase that tests the cryptography and protocol handling.

Already have checked out opensats and much the same answer from them as spiral.

The requirements need more technical appraisal at this point because the protocol was not well specified previously, it was just coded and tests were written.

I'm really not that bothered to have to work on cosmos, though less so for a working on an ethereum distributed validator system, to be honest. As far as I'm concerned from a technical perspective it is already a proven concept in its initial, ragged implementation.

It's you all out there who are missing out by not having resources directed to adding some more eyes and hands to get this thing out there. We discussed strategy quite intensively, as for how to find the short path to us being compensated by the system itself, and that path means building a hybrid Nostr/Indra relay which enables distributed LN based paywalling for up and download of notes and content.

Ok, I'm understating it. Really I'm frustrated af to have to go back to shitcoin dev work. Last year it was incredibly irritating that the shitcoin community had abandoned Go and everyone is all Rust Rust Rust and it's such a garbage language I learned how to work with it by necessity but for me it is a shitcoin itself compared to Go.

I would say outcomes have to do with how much bullshit about getting things done is part of the culture. It amazes me that affirmative action still gets traction in the general population when every bit of evidence shows that it just gives privileges to people that they would not earn by merit, and attracts free riders.

After having had my Brave Sync breached about 9 months ago, I started to become a lot more wary of this business of trusting any servers, even when all they are doing is providing a rendezvous path to connect two NAT router inbound connection blocked devices, such as a pair of PCs or a phone and a PC.

I also lost a lot of emails some time back from my protonmail when I had to do a password recovery, everything was encrypted to a key I didn't have anymore.

So, I'm now shifting all my reliability measures to my own hardware, which I can thoroughly audit and exclude from outside access far more easily than a public website.

Backup to a second disk, at least, and also, for Protonmail, get yourself their Bridge (the import/export tool is b0rked), and install Thunderbird and keep all your data backed up on your own systems.

This is a great example of how utterly the shitcoin token model fails to produce sufficiently useful services in a distributed manner. Why am I still needing to trust a few third parties to do offsite backups still?

The answer is that we are still waiting for someone to build streaming payment systems that use real internet money, ie LN, for such services.

Interestingly, this also is key to how the async receiving payments problem can be solved for LN as well.

I am currently shifting my efforts to fiat mining via shitcoin development work, because I have been unable to get people to realise that Indra is the missing link that will make Bitcoin and LN complete and more secure.

The majority of the work will now shift to another person, who was sponsoring me to this point, but there is still gonna be a lot more waiting time for the solution to be ready to be deployed by people.

I'm just a programmer and protocol designer, I'm not a marketer and I don't talk bullshit. This means that Indra is drowned out by all the endless reinvention of the wheel of way too many wallet clients and mobile apps, and not enough fundamental new protocols being built on top of Bitcoin and Lightning Network.

If I have to chase up funding, a) I'm useless at marketing and b) the inefficiency of devoting my energy to something I'm far worse at than building Indra is hard to justify.

Big blockers are unimaginative, unintelligent morons.

We have the solution for high volume payments already, it just is a little immature technology still since it requires careful maintenance and strong redundancy on the nodes running it, if you want to be able to reliably receive payments (thus requiring LSPs and third parties to intermediate). It currently has a liveness requirement that is onerous.

All that is required to make it a complete solution is a way to distribute that third party trust requirement for asynchronous payments and we are golden.

If the thought behind big blocks has to do with "smart contracts", which basically means securitisation, then GFY, just because fiat mixes cash with securitisation doesn't mean it's good for anyone, and the market segment that it would attract is not going to improve broad adoption.

"Worse is better", has been a golden rule of computer technology since the days of Unix's inception (and the birth of the C language). What it really means is found in one of the "laws of unix" - a piece of software should do one thing, and do it well. Adding complex programming to a money ledger is an example of mixing concerns and leads to bloat and bugs. Bitcoin's purity is key to its strength.

Alimony, as in, paying for your wife to keep your kids, right? What is the product of this? Sodium fluoride is a neurotoxin, for some time it was a common ingredient in rat poison. It blocks signalling of chloride channels, which are almost universal in the nervous system.

At least for the most part they don't make a racket all night long every time a rat or cat is walking around.

If you don't like cat's that's because you only ever saw ones that were being abused or poorly kept by their owners. No different with other pets, either, birds and rodents in small cages, it's just wrong.

I was staying at an airbnb where the owner of the dogs there claimed to love them. She had rottweiler <3 fridge magnet. But she never took her two rotties for a walk, ever, hardly ever let them out to run around in the horse yard where they were mostly locked inside with the horse, and on top, another 3 or 4 dogs that never saw sunlight locked in another space near the front gate of the property.

No surprise you didn't like the cats if they had that kind of keepers. Humans react the same way to imprisonment too.

Just to chime in saying I already said "shame on you if you feed it grain based dry food" :D

I babysat an old fluffy cat back in 1999 that was quite fat and had diabetes. Giving it the jab every evening at dinnertime into his scarred neck was so horrible.

IMO, humans are very close biologically to cats. And it's not purely meat, to be very clear. They also eat some leaves, especially grass. Fibre is important for digestion even for otherwise pure carnivores.

If they don't have the decentralisation the core utility is missing. It's not cash if it's dependent on one or a small number of organisations. It's not cash if it can't be anonymous (bitcoin can be anonymous because of UTXO accounting).

Why is it that we must be subjected to sodium hypochlorite and sodium hexafluorophosphate or sodium fluoride in our water, and yet you can buy basically the same water in a plastic bottle with neither of these endocrine disruptors added?

If there's anything going on in the world that right now is literally National Socialism, it's what they do to the water. The fluoridation of water was originally used to pacify prisoners in concentration camps.

If the block size doesn't also raise the processing requirement above what is available at the price point then of course not.

If you don't know what I mean, go get a 10 year old computer and see how long it takes.

Spinning disks are already pretty much impractical because you will be waiting at least several weeks if not months for IBD. I found you can squeeze it with 100gb of SSD set up using a caching tool, but it still was almost a week to sync.

If you already have access to a fully synced node, copying its data directory to a spinning disk might be viable, but the amount of read/write required for the database, my intuition is that it's just not practical with a ~550Gb chain, it will still struggle to sync just new blocks as they come in.

Not saying you didn't do everything you could, I know what it's like, I had a little cutie that did this and it was an epic moment when I woke up hung over and she was crying to be let out so she didn't have to pee in the corner, and I clocked her right between the eyes and she shunned me for 3 days.

I stopped locking her in after that, and the problem went away.

If that's not possible, and you can't exclude her from the boy's bedroom effectively, then you need to send her away. I presume that you live in an apartment. I just moved into one, and I don't want to torture a cat by trying to contain it in here, it's basically impossible to contain cats without having problems.

I lost a pretty white and black cat in 2018 because he kept on sneaking outside my top floor apartment and most likely pissed off a negihbour by frequently breaking into their apartment through an open window, I never saw him again after one day.

Cats are not easy to keep if you don't live on ground level or live near a main road. Nothing worse than that moment you realise they have disappeared.

https://youtu.be/IXIU93yBSrc

My theme song for the day. It should be a Bitcoin Maxi theme song.

Also, you are welcome for now knowing of this excellent Belgian electronic music artist.