I have been trying to thin my feed down to get that stuff out. It was funny seeing Janet Yellen's endless firehose of memes, but honestly, it's so 2012 facebook. And GM/GN and Pepe is so 2020.

I love this protocol, but people are still forming a culture around it, taking what they had before and putting it here. That will change as developers build new things that leverage the possibilities that could never have happened on centralised social media.

I always get it. I turn off everything in my room at night, the wifi, which isn't in use by any device, is 15m away on the opposite side of the apartment.

It disrupts sleep and our brain function. It interferes with us receiving the cyclic radio signal created by the sun and the rotation of the earth.

And yeah, I think that it makes people weaker and more susceptible to manipulation, and stupider, and they even defend it by saying you are crazy for believing that.

They are in a dream, anaesthetised, running programs they don't realise are against their own interests.

The basic parts of the universe are so simple. The rest of it that we see around us, how much of it was the work of humans that were here before, and we don't even know it?

What if the Genesis story is really about primitive humans encountering advanced humans who "made" many useful animals and plants for us? And among them, evil ones who created the cult of kings and are currently busy Penetrating Ze Cabinets.

I want to see a nostr client that generates a new key for every new thread, always anonymous. Like 4chan but nostr.

One key that generates many many more keys. Reduces the attack surface for getting hold of the main master key.

HD keychain...

I'm sure that putting eucalyptus trees around helps too. Those trees are nature's gasoline.

I wasn't really the one talking about 5G radios, as much as they already have proven powerful enough to cause small birds to internally rupture, I was thinking of directed energy weapons that are specially designed precisely to focus such beams, for the express purpose of causing metallic materials to heat up.

I'm talking about the kind of power level, at a burst, that you find inside a domestic microwave, contained to an area of similar size. This is quite easy to do, and I'm sure there is probably dozens if not hundreds of devices floating above us in low orbit with this capability (via a small nuclear reactor and large capacitor).

1.20 sorta worked. 1.21 didn't get to the key input screen, this one has no maximize or window sizing option. If this was a PR on most repositories it would still be a draft.

the "need".

Do we really need to be jammed together to all get in our cars at the same time to go do work that nobody actually needs done? All the while putting people so close together they can't help irritating each other and leading to social conflict that would have been avoided with distance.

Anyhow, exploiting thermal mass storage of dirt and rocks is something that doesn't mean you can't build tall structures, it just means you probably will spend more on such materials. Cheap building materials like concrete are not good heat stores, whereas certain kinds of rocks are very good, mostly related to the content of metals inside them, and their ability to hold that without expanding so much that they weather fast and break down.

The reason why banks "care" about the "environment" is so they can make you lower your energy consumption and inflate your currency harder to rob more from you.

Energy is the primary factor of production, and manifests first and most strongly the effects of increasing the supply of money.

By making people think they are doing something good, they get to rob the people of even more wealth than they could have.

The entire schtick of the recycling bins, the leaf logos, the pretty pictures of plants is nothing more than a ruse to distract you from their ever increasing greed, and pilfering of your future.

I guarantee that they can cause fires with correctly sized magnetically susceptible particles of sufficient size, and sufficiently high energy levels.

You would be familiar with how a coathanger wire gets hot when you bend it. The changing of the geometry of metals opens up gaps in their semi-crystalline structure that heat escapes from. Microwaves induce this on a very small scale, in a conventional microwave it's around 2-3x the diameter of the faraday cage mesh in the front door, for a millimetre wave, obviously it's 1/10th or so this size, getting smaller as you go up the spectrum until you get to infrared.

Really, photons and electrons are the same thing just that photons have wavelengths that are small enough to directly interact with molecules and atoms.

But as for how they cause the fires, my guess is it's not a direct effect, but rather that there is bits of metal around, especially the soil, the microwaves heat them up until they emit enough infrared that nearby, dry plant material like dead grass or eucalyptus leaves, especially those, since they are full of flammable oils, have enough kinetic energy to start reacting with the oxygen in the air, and voila, fire.

Microwaves resonate with metallic materials and water. When an object with capacitance, like a tree, is radiated, it discharges the electrons to earth. Just like how you see arcing from metallic objects inside a regular microwave (which is in the 500-1ghz range, somewhere about there), this is from the electrons escaping to get into the earthed body of the microwave.

If you fully encapsulate a metallic object in water, such as an egg wrapped in aluminium foil, it is safe to irradiate the water and the egg will not be directly heated, which causes some nasty reactions that smell really bad, and probably are not healthy.a I mean really bad... but the water soaks the radiation and cooks the egg via regular conduction. Any metallic object inside the body of water will be effectively shielded, as the water absorbs the thermal effect of the microwaves on the metal.

The most microwave-thermal metals are magnetic, ie, iron, cobalt, nickel. The heating effect of microwaves is from the magnetic induction in the material, which flips polarity in phase with the microwave frequencies involved.

Since there is small amounts of iron in most plants, large plants like trees would have enough magnetic induction to heat substantially above the temperature of water and catch fire.

Think of what happens when lightning hits a tree. The core of the tree explodes from heat and this builds up steam which then expands like an explosive.

There has been recorded cases of pressure cookers jamming and causing very substantial, non-fiery explosions that killed people and did a lot of damage. I think in some movie, tv shows and stories this has also appeared, and I know from when I was a kid putting cans of drink in microwaves was pretty messy.

I'm sure that this kind of confidence existed in the general population several times before. I bet the people of Pompeii never thought they'd be in the path of the lava too.

Sure, I could probably work backwards from what I can remember to recover a lot of technologies but I'd rather not leave it to chance.

Nostalgia is another benefit of keeping old tech around, especially when the old tech carries the information about how to build the new tech. I mean, transistors... I could probably figure out how to make them out of valves, given a few years and endless resources but a manual on how to print at least 1980s era ICs would be a hell of a lot more useful.

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”

― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

I'm kinda amused that the worst part of school is now fully automatable. I would have got into my CS degree if I had AIs to placate the tyrannical english teachers who didn't teach a stick of grammar after junior highschool. I could even touch type at the time but it was just a big NO I'm not writing yet another idiotic screed to have my views on things criticised by a pompous twat who wasn't even competent enough to get a real job writing.

Fiat means decree.

Transgender is an example of fiat gender.

There was an old fable about fiat clothes, called "The Emperor's New Clothes". The king also declared that it was clothes, but eventually someone blurted out that it wasn't.

Same always happens sooner or later to fiat everything.

Saying it is something doesn't make it that something. Sooner or later reality must prevail.

Old school stuff for in case electricity fails. We are still waiting for another carrington event, it is inevitable that sooner or later the sun will burp out a burst that wipes out half the planet's grids, and fries all the circuits permanently.

Otherwise it could end up being a long road back to where we are.

Exactly, a whole new language to learn, on top of the 20 we already learned in the last 20 years. Language builders just don't get cognitive load.

It looks pretty sweet but I'm sticking to Pop OS while their power management actually works and almost every other hardware I can't suspend and wake up my pc properly.

Most likely when I get back to my comfort zone with a big desktop box I'll go to nix.

The only thing that annoys me is it sorta seems like they invented yet another language to specify packages instead of adapting something existing, one man can only make use of a limited number of different languages at once, goddammit.