Thoughts about the Fermi paradox.
Where are all the aliens? Why don't we see them?
1. Life is common in the universe, but it is just happy on the planet it inhabits, and doesn't want to expand and communicate.
2. It does expand and communicate, but we are too stupid, biased, primitive to see and comprehend.
3. They might be out there and sending messsages, but we've just not been looking hard and long enough.
4. Intelligence (how we define it) is just a brief abnormal peak of evolution playing around. It might revert back to mean soon. Survival of the fittest. Single cell bacteria are super fit, since billions of years.
5. time and distance issue: They have been here already a hundred thousand years ago and left again.
6. We do see them (UAPs/UFOs). yet, for some reason, we only manage to take blurry fotos.😂
#aliens #fermiparadox #uap #life
Wow, definitely. From the perspective of biology, our brain just creates an interpretation of the sensual inputs it gets, optimized for survival in the environment we live in. Reality is what we can see, hear, smell, touch, and measure with instruments.
Is reality everything? Is it absolute? I don't think so. It is just a tiny fraction of 'what is'.
I ve always been wondering and asking myself how other lifeforms on this planet perceive reality, e.g. whales or ants, or trees. Will we ever be able to communicate with them? It might be mindblowing, confusing, and still mostly incomprehensible.
Does reality only exist if we look? If there is no observer, the simulation might simply stop. All users logged out, game room closed 😆
I've been using #Microsoft #Windows for 30+ years. A few weeks ago, I have voted with my feet and left. 👋
Most of the time, I've liked using MS products. But the last few years MS made it harder and harder for me to maintain control over my own personal data. Creepy upcoming "features" like "Recall" which cannot be uninstalled and the ever growing trend to cloudify everything made me explore Linux desktop distributions (once again).
I am fully on #Linux now. And I am super excited because it is fast and flawless, and I as a user am back in control again. There are many Linux distributions which are super easy to install, maintain and use, especially for people who what the Windows (or Mac) look & feel. Plus, absolutely no terminal skills needed at all, just point and click. For all my major applications there are open source alternatives. And the few remaining special programs can be run in a sandbox.
Last, but not least: My old laptop is twice as fast now 😀 no more "application is not responding" messages or staring at the revolving blue loop.
Take a look and give it a try. It is free. It is open source. It is from the people, for the people.
It is easy now (really, I've tried a few times in the past 20 years but now Linux has really matured enough so even my grandmother can use it 🙂)
Try a few of the recommended distributions (many can be simply explored running on a USB stick, e.g. the ones from the links below) and check it out yourself.
🤘🍀🙏😘
#foss #linux #opensource #digitalsovereignty #itjustworks
https://itsfoss.com/best-linux-beginners/
https://www.zdnet.com/article/best-linux-desktops-for-beginners/
P.S.: I've tested and explored Ubuntu, Linux Mint and Zorin OS. I like the latter two the most. But that's subjective 😉
I've been using #Microsoft #Windows for 30+ years. A few weeks ago, I have voted with my feet and left. 👋
Most of the time, I've liked using MS products. But the last few years MS made it harder and harder for me to maintain control over my own personal data. Creepy upcoming "features" like "Recall" which cannot be uninstalled and the ever growing trend to cloudify everything made me explore Linux desktop distributions (once again).
I am fully on #Linux now. And I am super excited because it is fast and flawless, and I as a user am back in control again. There are many Linux distributions which are super easy to install, maintain and use, especially for people who what the Windows (or Mac) look & feel. Plus, absolutely no terminal skills needed at all, just point and click. For all my major applications there are open source alternatives. And the few remaining special programs can be run in a sandbox.
Last, but not least: My old laptop is twice as fast now 😀 no more "application is not responding" messages or staring at the revolving blue loop.
Take a look and give it a try. It is free. It is open source. It is from the people, for the people.
It is easy now (really, I've tried a few times in the past 20 years but now Linux has really matured enough so even my grandmother can use it 🙂)
Try a few of the recommended distributions (many can be simply explored running on a USB stick, e.g. the ones from the links below) and check it out yourself.
🤘🍀🙏😘
#foss #linux #opensource #digitalsovereignty #itjustworks
https://itsfoss.com/best-linux-beginners/
https://www.zdnet.com/article/best-linux-desktops-for-beginners/
How do you explain #Bitcoin?
Or, at least, chose a proper starting point?
Everytime, after like 2 minutes, I feel like...
🥴 
#bitcoin is neutral.
Neither red or blue, neither commy nor libertarian.
Bitcoin is for everyone, no matter if you like them or not.
Whenever politicians talk about bitcoin (superficially), be sceptic. Let's not get coopted
Insane!
Why don't at least the companies do self custody or use a professional multisig vault service?
Playing around with local relay. Not quite there yet...
That makes sense. 😂
Is the cache size related to the number of relays I am connected to? I.e. are there duplicates of the same 50 GB profile image from multiple relays in the Amethyst app cache?
Bitcoin is neutral.
Such a simple yet powerful word.
Bitcoin isn't red or blue,
left or right,
Black or white,
friend or foe.
#bitcoin is neutral and for everyone, like water to drink or air to breathe.
Fresh juicy sweet figs, irresistible 😀 
After 3 days, my nostr:npub142gywvjkq0dv6nupggyn2euhx4nduwc7yz5f24ah9rpmunr2s39se3xrj0 Android app cache is already at 1 GB size 😯 I am wondering what's all that cached data. Is this typical behavior?
Day 3 on Nostr, now wrapping my head around relays.
+ super excited about Amethyst, Amber and Citrine, though still trying to figure out how to get everything running smoothly. 😂
Huge shoutout to nostr:npub1w4uswmv6lu9yel005l3qgheysmr7tk9uvwluddznju3nuxalevvs2d0jr5 for the great work
So curious who's gonna be the first guest! Good luck and I cross my fingers that everything will work as planned. 🤞🍀🙏
If in doubt, zoom out.
Thanks for reminding again, nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z
One of the most important rules of long term investment ever.
Nevertheless, I check prices almost daily. 😂
Still a lot of room to grow and tame the mind...
Thank you for the detailed explanation!
Being new to Nostr, I'm still trying to fully understand the relay concept and its possible implications:
1. What prevents esp. large relays from/selling relayed data to the highest bidder (data brokers, marketing/profiling companies etc.), and/ or hand over to a government agency if requested? Does it make a difference if a relay service is a paid service or free privately managed one?
2. Relayed data is all unencrypted Json, right?Ist it stored permanently on relays (like all BTC Txs/UTXOs on all participating nodes)?
