https://www.zerohedge.com/political/meet-lawyers-taking-big-government-supreme-court-and-winning

the theme of fighting back against the increasing arrogations of unelected federal bureaucracies is not a distinct issue just for the USA, it is also a huge problem in europe too, and probably to a lesser degree in other places (such as the far flung commonwealth nations)

we have specific battles to fight against things that impact our two main interests here - free speech and the freedom to transact privately, but suffice it to say that we are not alone and there is many out there who are moving in alignment with us against the creeping depredations of the state, and the criminal oligarchies that are behind it

i hope some day that everyone understands that the state is a fiction, just like Bastiat said, and that it is, as Rothbard said, a band of thieves writ large who simply declare their crimes to be legal and rob everyone

part of the transition process is going to involve a reassertion of the non-partisan, universal principles of jurisprudence, and it warms my cockles to read about how people are banding together, LAWYERS, no less, to push back

tl;dr

algorithm means a procedure to filter and modify information

that is what i mean by sophistry

pretending you are smarter than your audience, when someone who is actually smarter can see you are lying

GM is literal hitler, just ask the ADL

it is 420 days until the grand conjunction of moon, sun and jupiter in the last third of the sign of cancer

the end of the krita age, according to the Vishnu Purana

things are coming down the pipe

what got under my skin so much about it is that DRM is literally where they send you a key and then an encrypted file and pretend that is security

"for their own purposes" and "for authentication" so it's a fucking cookie, obviously, but why the fuck do you obfuscate the obvious fact to anyone who understands cryptography and security???

two things come to mind when i see gowron's eyes:

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https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/bulging-eyes/

yes, hyperthyroidism, that was the one

also, you might have to dig around to find more related to this but it was my observation back in the early days of prozac and SSRIs in general that there was a lot of women i encountered who suddenly started having googly eyes like this

thyroid disorders are obviously part of this, and halide metabolism is probably related as well, but the other thing to note is this

when people bug their eyes out, it can also be a symptom of brainwashing and attempts at hypnotising you, there is something about bug-out-eyes that changes the way your brain is working, just look at the images and tell me it doesn't give an instinctive, unconscious trigger of alarm

https://youtu.be/EbAV5bXqhMM

never go to war for any ideology that you haven't fully understood

get the fuck out of the way

#musicstr #tunestr #philosophy

#nostr is the #baselayer

there is something super awesome, like a super power or something, when you are building a relay and you watch the relay reacting to your client as you scroll down the screen, and the relay is being sent requests behind the scenes and you can see it happening in real time

anyhow... had a productive morning, now i have to sort out my lunch and work on polishing up documentation and presentations for the moment... things that don't matter without a product to promote... and the product is getting really nice now, so it's time to clean house

#deardiary #devstr #nostr #relay #nostrmilitia

suffice it to say, the entire purpose of my meeting with said colleague was precisely to add code to the smart contract that functions to give total control to the deployer to add administrators and whitelisted users, and block all other access

nostr users hate sophistry

i had a really serious grumpy outburst at my colleague last night related to the sophistic documentation of the Internet Computer Protocol's authentication systems

there is a file that their blockchain client, used to deploy smart contracts, creates on your disk, that is a .pem.encrypted file

they say "something something under the hood something our purposes something something"

which is complete bullshit, and if the code of this thing is open source then i can go and find out exactly how it gets there

i'm not gonna waste my time reading their code, i'm just gonna impute the logical conclusion: they send a cookie, that they encrypt so the contents cannot be read by you if your dev machine is breached, and that it's a COOKIE

the way the text reads in the documentation, makes it sound like it's authentication

and apparently, it seems that if you do leak that file, someone else can take control of the resource you deployed (the smart contract) and spend all the assets tied to that resource on your behalf

which is AWFUL security and a classic example of the kind of shitcoin sophistry that grinds my gears so bad i yell at my colleague for not getting it that they are LYING and pretending that's ok

it's not ok, this kind of behaviour is disgusting, and it just shows you some of the flaws underlying the psychology of some parts of the dev community, who think they are so clever they can gloss over critical security mechanisms and that everyone is just gonna be like the guard soldier being told "these are not the droids you are looking for" no, these are the droids, and you bitches are trying to trick me

yeah, nostrudel doesn't set these automatically... i haven't found gossip pleasant enough to use to know anything about how it does things but i remember previously it was quite aggressive about sending replies to relays related to users relay lists before outbox became a big thing

depends on the client they are using at the time and if they added the relay to it... i think gossip just uses people's published outboxes, mine lists my relay, and if that is the case then they publish to my relay

i think at the same time if they don't set them in the client like in nostrudel, it won't automatically do it, this is a key distinction between nostr:npub1acg6thl5psv62405rljzkj8spesceyfz2c32udakc2ak0dmvfeyse9p35c gossip and nostr:npub1ye5ptcxfyyxl5vjvdjar2ua3f0hynkjzpx552mu5snj3qmx5pzjscpknpr nostrudel implementations of outbox model

i assume that probably gossip has now got some kind of rudimentary configuration to choose not to always use published inboxes to send replies/DMs to but who knows... it seems to me like this could be something useful to add to clients - as part of the ASD - which of your follows you want to inbox and whether or not you want to inbox randos

there's a lot of security matters to be thought about when it comes to clients presuming to make connections and leak timing information to other parties, it probably is going to take a while to hash out the best practises and minimal user friction that provides best possible security automatically, and probably MANY more arguments about the pros and cons of specific ways of donig it haha

they aren't using outbox model clients, obviously, whenever my relay is running and the whitelist is not enabled to filter only my traffic i get queries from other addresses from time to time, often when i'm in the midst of engaging

delete is already singular, the save has a preliminary search that looks for the matching ID and then if not found writes to it

changing that so the scan is one step and the write is a second step

oof super proud i managed to rewrite the query and counts now... i guess i need to check over the delete and save make sure they are single purpose as well

#devstr #layer2 #replicatr

it sorta seems like it doesn't make sense that you can have a data store being handled by multiple processes at the same time, but this is the wonder of ubiquitous multiprocessing inside extremely fast memory caches on modern CPUs, the queries can come in, and the multiple threads can literally be accessing the same pieces of memory at the same time (though usually from different copies that have reached L1 cache for a core) and voila, race condition

so it's really FKN fast, but has this problem that processing can get out of sync, and the main thing you have to do to resolve this issue is not do many things inside a DB transaction

to make an analogy, imagine if instead of bitcoin being entirely distributed, and instead there was a small group of aggregator nodes that everyone sends their transactions to... but they send them to different ones at different times

when the aggregators push everything together, it can happen that two transactions are different, a so-called "double spend attack"... yes, the problem i just fixed prevents the database equivalent of rewriting a record two different ways in too close a time period to isolate them - well, doesn't prevent it, but makes it shrinkingly unlikely because each individual write is now isolated in one item in the database log and thus the chances of them having a temporal overlap is now basically zero

a lot of waffle just to say "replicatr event store will handle extremely high demand when it comes"

pretty sure it was fiatjaf, he's got that kind of sense of humor

anywhere that is friendly to the Empire is a dangerous place to be

the IRS is the biggest protection racket on the planet, and they take all that money, send it to ukraine and africa where it "goes missing" and somehow ends up back in the pockets of the oligarchs

most ginormous mafia racket on the planet

for all we know mister hoytech is dead, for his activity on his github

she's right you know... they are public

something i wish the rockstar devs of nostr would finna grasp - DMs are not public, application specific data is not public, stop FUCKNIG BLASTRING IT

and start having some notion of the distinction, ffs, man, they don't even get why authentication matters, yeah, this is a next step on from it so i'm not gonna hold my breath... instead i'm building better solutions that actually understand the fucking semantics of this system

ah, you see, that's where they made their first mistake

cyberhornets don't do regulation or swallow the fraud of government

it's either a common consensus, like things like measurement standards and RFCs and maxims of law, or we are gonna do every little subtle thing we can to topple it, everyone knows big events are always theatre to promote political rhetoric

engineers gonna engineer the undoing of stupidity, eventually, people eventually get it when the pedagogues make nice neat slogans that topple the official story

lunch... chippy fried in coconut oil, salt and white pepper and grilled with 3 slices of goat cheese

#foodstr

it's some old british thing about how mysterious dudes like horses with dark colors

https://github.com/search?q=repo%3AHubmakerlabs%2Freplicatr%20memoryhole&type=code

in case you think i'm just making that up... you can see how far back i committed that line also

i think that reporting has a value, it's just that you can't evaluate it without a secondary system for determining the trust level... WoT will probably go a long way with this - you can set a confidence level based on your social network distance to the reporter, that declines with the further away they are... but this all needs to be tested in production

yeah, i playfully label it "MemoryHole" in my code

maybe you haven't actually written any relay code, because you would then understand the relay sees the IP addresses they are coming from

piece of cake to just log all that and filter for correlations between channel requests and IP addresses

or, like i say, am i missing something?

it doesn't seem to me like this really solves the problem, if we assume the attacker has control of the relay that was sent the channel inits, maybe i'm missing something?

also, the channel state has to be stored by both ends somehow, or it only works, like simplex, per client key

i think it's now definitely worse than usa... seems like everyone is just eating pork and chicken in the eu now, and beef and lamb barely even register a blip

yes, EU trade rules have totally distorted the market in favor of high value durable export goods, like cheese and canned goods... i mean, idk what to say, half the catfood is actually gravy slathered over TVP, and the cats hate it, of course, because it's not fucking meat... UHT milk everywhere, half the shops don't even stock fresh pasteurised milk

it's one of the things that makes me want to go to the high country east of the rockies in a bad way

unfortunately all the goat milk goes directly to making white cheese here... i've asked around and buying the fresh raw milk doesn't seem to be a thing... i mean, i'd pay more than the cheese factory is buying it for, of course... i should try harder to get hold of it... in soviet EUSSR goat milk drink you

i'm in madeira now... it's really not flat enough to run cattle, only sheep and goats here, mostly penned in small enclosures and moved around from place to place, often they are tethered (the goats and cows, that is) - mostly for their own protection (and also so they don't eat people's front gardens or poop on the road)

the only way i'm gonna get raw dairy is when i run my own little herd of goats... you guys over there are lucky that the people have resisted the pasteurisation industrial complex... same with beef... there is almost no beef here in europe, at best maybe you can get brazillian beef as we are part way across the atlantic ridge

bulgarian yoghurt is truly a wonder food

also, it's only some parts of asia and the americas that can't do milk very well, the lactose intolerance thing is way overblown, and the contribution of the highly bred A1 milk protein also has a big part in people's problems with milk

replicatr is now running stable... logs are showing a few odd things that suggest i can probably make it faster, but it's not crashing anymore, so i think i've eliminated all the unsafe array accesses and race conditions

gonna revise all the badger database transactions tomorrow, shrink down the duration they spend open and put the RWMutex back in place

i'm quite pleased actually to figure this out... makes me think i might have some ideas about how to actually do immediate mode GUI with Go with max framerates... it's all about building a good DSL that wraps the essentials in easy to read scripty style code... without costing anything in interpretation or disambiguation

looking forward to making #layer2 a meme on #nostr

relays that are just dumb caches backed by big, fat distributed databases

i especially want to have a crack at making PnyxDB a #layer2 for nostr

200+ replica, weakly consistent low latency distributed database... seems to me like a perfect fit for #nostr, and then maybe a #layer3 becomes possible with crazy stupid big databases like the one that #arweave has got running (gonna be working on a project for them soon, related to this, and this is what is in my mind... was my first instinct - currently finishing up a #layer2 for Internet Computer Protocol and next up, #layer3 with arweave

none of these people involved in these aspirational shitcoin projects aiming at massive decentralised storage and compute really have a clue what tehy are doing, based on my understanding of DST theory, but i'll take their money and build the thing they don't realise they want built

cos that's how i roll

cool to meet a fellow Big Black fan tho... not many of us out there

ah yes, the industrial metal sound... more like metal than techno... no, that's not my preference, but i get it, it's just not my thing

i mean, i would dance to this, but just wouldn't buy the cd

oh yeah, this is a bit of a gap in NIP-01 filters spec... currently it's undetermined behaviour, if you ask for a limit of requests or there is more that match your filter than it will deliver (most relays hard limit to 500 per filter) then how do you know if there's more? it's a guessing game, the only way to avoid this problem is to set big limits and make tighter boundaries on the request filter (times or numbers of kinds etc)

i think that the relay should send one last message tied to a subscription indicating "..." when the filter stops before the data does, is just a matter of even running one more than the limit and if there is another, then send "..."

the ordering of replies implicitly tells you how to form a request, as usually it's based on when the event was received and so you just repeat the query but bring the "since" timestamp to the last one found to be sure to be sure

i have to prune back how much my relay logs but there's no reason it can't be ephemerally logged so you can have a poke at it, like, watch it realtime

yes, before i even had any idea of making one he already removed names, so there's that too

sooner or later he's going to lose his welcome in the community with the clear sabotage he is constantly engaging in

most likely his real reason for this is that he's being paid by the CIA or something and like a heap of other devs in the scene don't think of self-sustaining models of funding as being "desirable" since they further decrease the potential for cooption of the system

this is how the advertising model of revenue on the internet led to manipulative, politically motivated skinners boxes - this is how they make it into propaganda

when it's business, they lose control of it

you wouldn't believe how much of the VC scene is full of people being loaded up with black budget profits to promote things that help their handlers

fiatjaf is an idiot, so there's this further evidence