XMPP lol. I have no idea about chat protocols, never looked into them. I hope that a chat protocol as good as Nostr comes out of all this :D

yeah, I've been taking it easy the last few days, as I went substantially too far in the previous week walking up and down very steep hills. Gotta get me a bike, too... this place is hella hilly, but the old roads that were built before cars are windy but gentle, and thus also good for cycling, plus, not so full of insane drivers who are nearly as bad as italians.

Skin problems are also helped by simply sweating, which you are gonna do any time you are doing heavy exercise, especially resistance or hard cardio.

I've not actually done any work yet with the Lightning protocol API, although I did try to do a refactor on the protocol buffer specs on LND, those guys are pretty incompetent, quite frankly, you should see how epic the bugs in the configuration system are of btcd and lnd. Beyond ridiculous, and they won't probably ever get fixed (as such I'm planning to use CLN and Bitcoin Core with Indra, even though btcd/lnd are in Go, and I wish they weren't garbage).

I'm not a "protocol user" I'm a protocol designer. I'm easily bored with following other people's patterns if, and usually they are, the APIs constrain what I can do with it.

Though if someone is looking for someone to do protocol design and prototyping, I'm quite adequate at it. Also cryptosystems, cryptography, binary encoding, error correction, event handlers, network handlers, and concurrent programs in general.

Obviously, I'm pretty fast at typing too.

Yeah it's been a big thing. How I figured it out was last week I ate like 8 eggs in a sitting, and the next day in the evening I had an episode of biliary colic, which I looked up and figured out it was the cholesterol from the eggs. So I was going to phase them out of my diet, and then nostr:nprofile1qqsr26r4lltjnvrwadxp67ns58m4qpzaqemhf5sup7hlujhjh7t296qpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduqs7amnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wd4hk6qgswaehxw309ahx7um5wgh8w6twv53exel3 pointed out that most eggs are made by chickens fed on grain, and the garbage in the seeds gets into the eggs.

And the last part was, because I got the colic, I also had an episode of nasty skin rash, some sort of irritation of the pores, I think, because it is red spots, really itchy. The reaction also required sun exposure, as I had been sunning beside a pool at the Airbnb I was staying at. I thought at first when it broke out it was the chlorine, and maybe chlorine was part of it, but it seems to be the eggs, and from the eggs via the seeds fed to the birds. Chickens don't naturally eat seeds. Neither do cattle, goats, or any other animal that they feed seeds to. And the carnivores that get fed seeds get diabetes!

Seeds = allergies, diabetes, heart disease, cancer. Avoid.

Also, just so we are clear, every single plant protein has glue-like proteins in them, which irritate the intestinal membranes and can trigger leaky gut, allowing allergenic peptides to enter the blood and cause a general rise in inflammation levels, as well as anaphylaxis.

The anaphylaxis is more commonly manifest as "allergic asthma". This I also suffer from.

So, everything that gives allergies, look for the seeds, the seed protein, the seed oils. That's where most of it originates.

Most people are not allergic to lactose in the West. A very large proportion of people who have white ancestors even one or two, probably aren't lactose intolerant either. The A1 protein can be allergenic but again, it's probably more to do with the contaminated fats.

I'm running alby? It's just a heavily modified build of Chrome. Also you can right click on most of the shitcoin things and disable them. Someone should make an extension that automatically disables all shitcoinery.

I dunno what nos2x is - I suppose it is a crypto enclave or something?

GM

I used to think I had an allergy to milk. Then I discovered that I might actually be allergic to seed oils that contaminate the milk via the feed given to the cattle. Also, there is A2 protein, from jersey cows, that is said to be less irritating than the usual Friesian black and white cow. And then there's goat and sheep milk, sheep is very high fat (6-7%) and goat moderately high fat, but high in MCTs and with fat globules small enough to emulsify naturally and not require homogenisation.

Another thing I discovered was that eggs, which have a lot of cholesterol, are also problematic due to being fed on unnatural seed feeds for the chickens. This gave me a skin allergy and upset belly for literally 25 years. In addition, it was giving me gall stones, which I think that part of my former alcohol addiction was all about burning that cholesterol to make hormones.

Just wanted to share that because you may not have realised that milk might not be as allergenic as you thought, may not be the actual cause of your allergic reactions, at least not wholly, or maybe not at all.

Milk is amazing food. The perception that it is bad for you largely stems from the fact that it's direct competition to seed oils, and distracting you from exploring the idea that other causes, that the big megacorps are profiting off, while soft-killing people and diminishing their lives, they do everything they can to muddy the waters and piss in the pool.

Lactose intolerance is actually quite rare in people who have substantial indo-european genetics, and the mutation that allows adult humans to tolerate lactose sugars first appeared around 40,000 years ago, basically it's a switch that most mammals have that turns off after some time after weaning.

It was this mutation that led very quickly to humans herding cattle and breeding them from Aurochs into the modern, sedate and passive animal we have today.

I'm drinking a lot of milk lately. I wish I could have unpasteurised raw goat milk but maybe next year I can get that organised.

Most of it happened to me when I started following bitcoin maxis on twitter early last year. I was already leaning in this direction but then right on cue as I'm digging into maxi culture and memes, the shitcoin circus started a long and completely predictable series of disaster acts culminating in numerous imprisonments.

As I see it, the legacy, NSA/CIA driven social media sphere has been past peak about 5 years anyway, and I expect within a year they will be scrambling to adopt nostr and herd the users into their algorithmically filtered relays and using their "authorised" apps that don't let them see things they don't want them to see.

But the gate is open and there will be a trickle and the above text will describe their path to becoming their own shepherds.

https://indra-labs.org/

I've been busy this morning, this is a simple blog app called chameleon, which lets me add/update posts by pushing them to a specific git repository.

I'm not that familiar with the state of CSS or how this app is constructing its page content, so it is a little wonky in in-between sizes from mobile browser versus FHD display, but in both widths it is ok, maybe someone would like to fix it, you can make an account via OpenID, haha that itself, idk... just reply here or tag me if you would like to help make it a bit more shiny, otherwise, it'll get improved sometime later.

In my opinion, most programming languages cause brain damage, with the exception of Go, and I include markup languages in that, with the exception of Markdown, which is not quite so brain damaged.

Most people have no idea what HORNET was unless they read the LN white paper.

I've been using these things this way since 2016 as it was how the steemit.com web app worked.

I have always kept up with the most secure browser that I am aware of, which currently is Brave. It blocks advertising which is usually where malware hides on websites, not usually on the apps themselves.

The "tech" is fraud anyway. I dug into it because everyone at the company I was working for was getting into it. The hash chain time count system... isn't even what most of the network runs on, yeah, it's just yet another pBFT variant dressed up with an impractical window dressing protocol.

it's not a PWA but it does have service workers I think. I don't know how nostr:nprofile1qqsf03c2gsmx5ef4c9zmxvlew04gdh7u94afnknp33qvv3c94kvwxgspz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3xamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7tpvfkx2tn0wfnszymhwden5te0dehhxarj9cmrswpwdaexwnanw2j built it, maybe he can tell you

it's an android app.

The permissions notifications is from Alby if that's what you are using. I just "trust" the browser's isolation and log in with my nsec.

I discovered #plebstr and never going back. Though I only ever use it on the move, for home there is #coracle

I'm sure most people on Nostr have already encountered the airdrop spammers. Their spam is very unsophisticated, the note content hash is identical in a lot of cases and could be screened out just by this.

Partial matching would be the next followup countermeasure.

AI matching would be another, but I think probably at first it would be unwise to mute but instead have it just put a ? flag on suspected posts and a confidence rating, and users could then train the AI progressively to become smarter.

Something that's really important for people to understand. AI cannot be creative, because it is not alive and has nothing at stake. Creativity is forced by survival, because it tends to be "out of left field" and "off the wall". It is things that come out of places that seemed extremely unlikely to yield anything of value.

This is something that an AI cannot do, because it doesn't have enough general intelligence to do it. All the AI compute in the world can't replace the devil at your back.

I'm surprised that you didn't know that HORNET is a source routed onion relaying protocol. https://scion-architecture.net/pdf/2015-HORNET.pdf

High-speed Onion Routing at the NETwork layer.

It was published in 2015 and two years later Osuntukun, Antonopolous and Pickhardt made LN.

I know about it because it was the second thing about LN that inspired me to start working on Indra, source onion routing is the basis of Indra, the secret sauce is the use of ECDH shared secrets to create bidirectional paths controlled by the client.

Very interesting concept there... The name is a bit confusing though, since it's part of what inspired the original design for LN onion messages.

Your camera's got a dirty lens btw. Microfibre cloths are the best remedy.