tariffs are taxes on imports, and distort the market incentives away from them. what trump did was flip the script on many trading partners who were taxing US exports heavily while US was not taxing them back.

the result has been that the viability of many one-sided relations between other countries and USA has changed, where it used to be profitable to only sell to americans, and not buy their stuff, it is now becoming more balanced.

taxation on commerce distorts the incentives and breaks the efficiencies created by supply and demand movements in different places. like, if crops failed in USA, then the price of other countries whose crops didn't fail should increase, but because of the tariffs, this equalization of supply that should reduce price fluctuations by a to-and-fro between places that have increased supply, where the other has decreased, doesn't happen.

the great majority of famines of most of recorded history were caused by this kind of interference in price discovery in the market. the oldest one is even in the book of Genesis, and Joseph was the instigator of this price manipulation and the result was very bad for egyptians. the reason why it happened was it made the pharoah even richer.

so long as people are not able to respond appropriately to changes in costs of production to find markets where their profit margin is highest there will always be problems, and i have small hopes that trump asserting a balance by countering the tariffs on US exports and the result, which will be many countries who were riding high on that (china is the worst offender) will be forced to stop doing this retarded shit.

but, hope springs eternal, and the reality is a desert of the real. so long as people are easily distracted into voting for these interventions on their own hobby horses and don't consider the second or third order effects of them, we are going to see a steady descent into madness. i was just reading today about this carbon trading bullshit in EU that will affect germany the worst. the effect of their green bullshit will be that people's transport costs will rise dramatically. all the NGOs and social support associations are crying for subsidies, which can't be funded without borrowing money, and the ongoing failure of the EU is pretty much sealed with this shit.

personally, i just want to get the fuck away from all of it and lower my dependence on external resources and control as much of my own costs by producing them myself and trading on the local grey market as possible.

the people aren't going to realise there is a problem until it's apocalyptic, because they are so short sighted, their minds have been warped by state education that teaches them to think the state is always right. it's never right. the market is always right, but the market can't act when the state is rugging everything.

yeah, i've seen this with my fiat mine job too, and i feel like the boss takes on managing too many things, and he hired this CTO who never talks to anyone, so idk how much she's being paid or what she is doing around any other things but it looks like, too much, and nothing, respectively.

there is often a big problem in many organisations related to people who abuse trust. my junior colleague, who was the second recommendation from the guy who put me in touch with my boss, worked a lot less hours than he put on his time sheet, and after about 6 months he went crazy with it and didn't get paid and not long after, was fired.

idk what this CTO is doing but i know among the people i communicate with regularly who is serious and who is not so serious.

i mainly just wish the boss would stop looking at all the ooh shiny on X about shitcoin projects and focus on something. he might be doing that now, but i'm not sure he needed to hire another Go dev for the task, i looked at the first draft of the project design and i felt like it was a month of full time work for me, at absolute most, and he'd allowed 4-6 weeks.

incompetence is rife out there in the world. also, fraud. and also, some kind of tacit corruption that people just brush away and play along anyway.

if the system wasn't so rotten already, i doubt the corrupt and fraudulent people would be in business anymore. they survive on the inflation going into VC projects, and wouldn't exist if projects were funded by hard money.

not sure if anyone noticed but bitcoin just passed 100k euros today

we know the price against USD was up partly because of the USD being down against the euro but i think 100k euro is ATH for euros too

most relays don't implement the search nip tho. because they are lame. it's something i need to make sure i get with the new #orly - i have written indexes and a unicode aware keyword extraction function already, just hadn't got to finishing the search part yet fully. it's essential, really.

that whole "dvm" thing has been about this stuff, except all juiced up with this "aLgOrItHm" nonsense

btw, space weather news guy has been running a speed dating event lately. seems like a good thing but i'm cursing that i can't make it to colorado

indeed, but i think it would take a second prong to nail that one

yeah, LND seems mostly good but it has some awful bugs in it outside of its network activity. my friend tried to build a docker for it and discovered that its configuration system was a mess. i have worked with btcd before, from the same devs, and it also had a lot of similar bugs in it, that i fixed forking it for the project i was working on (was basically my debut to doing golang server dev)

this was why i started putting out food for the cats and took in the first one that came.

and there's a story to that...

poor little guy was really sick. severe gingevitis, ear infection, ear and eye mites. the vet was quite expensive for getting this sorted out, but he now basically only has a bit of a problem with ear mites and a bit of a cough. i'm finding that after getting a harness for him and putting him out in the sun whenever i can, that the cough is mostly gone, but the ear mites are persistent little fuckers. i'm all ears for anyone's suggestions how to stop that because i have tried a few things, and sometimes i see him winking and worry that the eye mites are still bugging him, but motly his eyes are now always wide open, they used to be half closed all teh time when i first got him.

anyhow, he's my housemate. i do my best to keep him happy and healthy and lately i have been letting him eat as much tuna as he has the appetite for, because i want him to grow up big, like a boy next door is, except not as fat. mochi is still a kitten but he's definitely somewhere near a year old now, getting quite big and i want him to be as big as possible. the only complaint i can make about him is he doesn't seem to understand about holding his claws back, i probably get a bleeding scratch every other day from him playing, and i want to play with him, it's just, as soon as i'm hurting i'm like, i dun wannan play now.

idk, i'm pretty happy with alby hub. there's been a few issues over the last year but many times it was just to do with their choice of using LDK C++ node. seems like that has passed now.

literally all of these things happen to me.

can't change what i am lol. but it's pretty lonely being like this these days, if you don't already have a family happening. i'm getting a bit too old now and it feels like i'm being denied.

after reading this i was like, i need no wifi in my house anymore.

i already understand that LLMs are a compression algorithm. they can now encode such things as the wrinkles on your face as an input to an LLM.

what's funny tho is it's not gonna save them from being burned to a crisp when the sun has a micronova and anyone worth saving is already zooming away out to the pleiades.

of course a monero like you would be puzzled since you think that lightning is not private enough.

this is a picture of how wrong moneros are about lightning

since all of the above come from seeds, probably you can just avoid seeds.

almost no sugar comes from cane anymore. pretty much it's all extracted from corn.

first hour i can get a coffee usually is 7am so i'm up for it lol

i bought me a jar of instant today tho. might not do the walk up the hill for a while at 7am

alby has been a solid choice at all times. works great on brave also.

yeah, i oscillate between going to bed at 11 and 9 most of the time. depends on how rough the day was, if it was a rough day, i inevitably end up awake again at 5am, but most mornings i'm up before 7 anyhow

it's easy to do 5am if you go to bed before 9am. also, my tip on this is get used to having breakfast by 6am and that pushes your clock into the cycle really fast

someone who thinks it's a good idea to move the decimal place 8 points left on bitcoin is obviously retarded

don't forget the cargo culters

#vibecoding ftw

relly

for sure after today i'm not gonna be working on my pet project for a while. i can maybe poll the linkedin but i think i need to be more creative this time. golang specialist job sites seems like the likely best option for me. i'm pretty much top tier golang dev now.

i've been a brave user for like 4 years now... at times there has been issues but they been solid. if they get their funding from shitcoins, well, good, because their devs are the best browser devs. at least it's going to a good cause.

i would like a CZ75, i don't mind if it's second hand

yeah i think it's a good thing. i could feel something coming but the meeting today sealed the deal.

the post mortem is that my employer was hoping to build social things on shitcoi chains and finally realised that only parasites hover around shitcoins, and real people don't use them.

i colud have told him that a year ago. he also mentioned the concept of ditching web3 aka shitcoin "apps" as a target which is funny because i would have told him that from the beginning to try and build a business model on some real services. the ones i had in mind probably had better chance of working on their budget.

so, i am basically ... unemployed now.

i'm gonna go for a big walk and secure some more tuna for my kittah and let the nature and God talk to me.

i don't think it's unusual for europeans, they have been screwing our hormones for a long time

yeah, same here, i basically can grow the goatee and the mo is weak and the lambchops don't exist... this is the genetics i suppose

to explain this, the logs of junie often help me figure out how to solve the problem, and then i get clarity about how to to actually write the code, and that's the reason why i have succeeded at quickly, because the AI tried a dozen ways to not succeed

yeah, not casting shade on it, they have long been a high quality software company

well, i'm just gonna say that you can do this without buying some adobe thing. ffmpeg is very solid

vp8 is better for low bandwidth/small stuff

back in 2008

ffmpeg can do a better job than this if you are pulling and pushing that after conversion. it's usually better if you don't convert at all, and let the streaming server handle that part.

i've never seen this level of b0rk on a video conversion before... stuttering, yeah but not frames looping like this

looks like shitty format conversion to me

we live in times when evil people have organised the corruption of humanity on every level of its existence to such a degree, the biggest vulnerability that they exploit is trust. and the second thing they do is degrade people's ability to think by filling their minds with contradictory, false nonsense, and normalize fallacies as being "common sense".

money is part of how they achieved this, by the use of fiat currency issuance controlled by a privileged few and ensuring most people don't understand how this acts as a funnel to move the wealth to them by stealth and deceit.

bitcoin pushes back a bit on that, because its issuance is not controlled by anyone, it was set up, in a protocol that was designed to be very hard to change because of self interest.

the other thing is that the community around bitcoin has a attracted a lot of people with questions and inccreasingly are deprogramming themselves of the illusions.

but it is naive and silly to say that it fixes everything. it's just one thing that is a bit better, meanwhile everything else has gotten so bad we are practically at sodom and gomorrah stage of corruption in most of the world's large population centers. i don't think we can do anything about them.

what i do think that bitcoin fixes though, is enabling some people, who are waking up to this, to have the power to move themselves into a position where they are buffered from the influence of the babylon system. that's the value i see in it.

still good for people holding dollars anyway. time to stack harder.

after actually relatively strictly avoiding allergens, i'm discovering that the allergies don't just give me asthma and rashes, it also makes me more anxious and angry and crazy.

feeling so much better now.

i think the thing here is that you probably need to make clients specifically for this kind of purpose. they will be more focused on forum and chat, and have stronger moderation systems than an open town square style social media client.

i know that building clients is what you are mainly into, so that's on you :)

there sholud be a category of private. DMs are the obvious one. application specific data is another. drafts is a logical extension of this category

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJCvuDSoj6M

another from Chris Horlacher related to Apocalypse (IMO, he obviously is the author)

a good listen.

it's a parody of xitter

i think it's a problem that you chime in to whack-a-mole about why the use of nostr as a basis for a global central discussion system, and you don't care about the fact that there is more defense against censorship that happens when people can use a tool to easily spin up a system to have discussions like the old school BBS and are actively only funding this kind of work and don't get it that this is an extremely narrow way to use such a broadly applicable protocol.

defending primal and their use of a single cache relay network is unacceptable if you are serious about decentralization.

ah yes, Y2K bug.

mostly affected windows based systems of course, because windows didn't adopt posix time until later.

haha. horsies :)

i don't waste my time reading stuff from people who don't understand that pseudonymity is better than unauditable encrypted ledgers and there's a reason for why people use his favourite coin, being, to buy drugs, but anyone with serious money uses coinjoins to hide their stash.

i find monero fanatics extremely tedious. they are shitcoiners. the end.

kinds are not a singular thing, and they are not descriptive. they are a stupid number that tells you nothing and forces you to refer to some document that probably will change and refers to applications that are still alpha.

what the programmer who is building tools to generate and parse content needs:

1. encoding

2. semantics

3. protocol sequence

kind is all three of these in one, cloaked in a stupid number, and hosted very often inside a PR on a poorly managed specification repository. it's not descriptive, it's just cryptic.

yeah, madeira is crazy steps everywhere. there are some flat parts here and there, they call them "achada" and it's a common name for an area where people live on this island.

the south of the island is not as rugged as the north. more sunshine and less rain has meant a lot more dirt from decomposing rocks, but it's really almost desert conditions on the first couple miles inland, and most of the population depends on water that runs through elaborate channels built around the mountainsides from springs near the top and around the southern parts where all the rain falls. they are cool those things, they call them "levadas" and you can usually walk along them, in most cases there is a pathway beside it but sometimes it gets a bit scary with steep drops right beside it, and sometimes it goes through small tunnels that are dug out of a steep bit of ground. over 600 years people have lived here, the amount of labor digging up rocks and building retaining walls and terraces, is incredible, and nowadays most of it is falling into ruin.

as you can imagine, everyone drives cars around here, and a lot of scooters and motorcycles too. i prefer it on the north side because of less people and more steep terrain and more greenery means it's a lot less noisy. anywhere on the south side there is much in the way of people is a zoo.

i was mostly like this but over the last decade or so conditions in europe have worn me down a lot, especially the food, everything grain fed feedlot and contaminated with soy. plus smoking and drinking hasn't helped much either.

but i'm recovering. the terrain on this island is intense, just going to the shop is about equal to ascending 15 storeys, i never feel like i'm getting ahead much even when i'm exercising regularly, or sometimes too much.

one of the things that i miss about bulgaria is how everyone there lights up when you tell them you are from australia. ACDC and Crocodile Dundee and INXS and a bunch of other australian icons are hugely popular there. the portuguese and dutch are tolally meh.

you know that i was born there, right?