in the near future only programmers will be able to run experimental software. that'll put a ding in the "muh adoption" circus.

it also hints towards the fact that sooner or later, you won't be able to run whatever on android like you can now, without knowing how to use the SDKs.

my new house is so old it doesn't have any earth circuit in the electricity. kinda freaks me out a bit because there is some voltage leak into the earth pins of the multi-adaptors. feels like typical 12V leak from a computer.

i may have to do an elimination test to find out which device has an earth leak. probably need to dust out my PC, at least, that's a common cause of a ground fault like that.

the other thing is, ugh, i don't like it one bit, but replacing the wires is a huge pain. i'm going to ask the owner if i can get a hole drilled in the wall and put a single wire cable through and find some old rebar and sand it so it's got good contact and run the wire down to a point buried in the garden. it will be nice anyway to have an earth that i know is fully functional in my room so i can pin my conductive sheet and foot mat to it, as well as earthing my gear. the PC does actually have an earth circuit in it, and it's supposed to earth the whole case, it passes through the motherboard to the case and connects up to the PSU. sorta reminds me, that the case is not fully closed up.

ugh. no earth. lol. this is dodgy.

they certainly didn't have devices like these back when they made this house that's for sure. and the socket is just two holes in a plastic panel. i think this is the first time i've been in a building this old in europe. it's about 40-50 years old.

maybe i should do better than that and actually pay an electrician to put earth and new sockets into all the place, i'll ask the owner about this when he visits next. he wants some new wiring done anyway, so we could combine it and at least get earth into the upper floor anyway. not so important downstairs, although it seems kinda sketch to me to not have earth on washing machines and hot water systems.

From the New Yorker magazine, 1995:

not far off. 40k for the car, 8k for the vacation.

and how resonant to the two lines from the WEF

you will own nothing and be happy

eat zee bugs

almost like they had some way to plan this for a long time forward, a long time ago. strange. 🤔 almost like maybe there is someone behind the scenes who has some science that isn't accepted by the mainstream but somehow the elites know about it, and this kind of prediction was made, which is remarkably close to the reality already.

i just looked up the pole shift catastrophe theory on wikipedia and the newest shit they bother to show is like 1958.

like, lol. haha. very funny. probably because there has been a growing number of data points building up in the last 30 years pointing to a geomagnetic disaster cycle driven by a thing that only really has become starting to be identified, an oscillating current riding out on plasma thrown out by the stars in the galaxy, that resembles a spiral shape, flipping 360 degrees every rotation of the galaxy (about 24000 year cycle).

the scenario of earth's magnetic field destabilising and moving as far south as the northerrn parts of USA is entirely possible, and it is already part way into canada. the trend of all recorded measurements of the magnetic north pole show that there has been a near exponential acceleration of its rate of movement since the time of the Carrington Event. a decade ago i remember reading stories about how it was screwing up north american airports because of the pole drifting towards them (making their landing strips substantially out of alignment with the compass reading).

i mean, uh. yeah, at this point i'm deciding that when it comes to recent research, the decisions about what material to even mention is clearly not coming from people who give a shit about scientific rigor. i mean, i literally was just reading some shit talking about 1.2 million years ago there being humans. uh. please. there was only apes 1.2 million years ago ffs. where the fuck does this bullshit come from? humans have only existed for about 300,000 years. ah, homo sapiens, yes. based on carbon dating of the oldest bones.

lol, carbon dating.

that's another thing. carbon dating is based on the assumption of a roughly uniform emission of material from the sun over time. but if the emissions were much more non-uniform, and that seems reasonable since solar flares cause big dumps of material, that they probably have totally calibrated it wrong, and not only that, the levels of C14 you find in any given sample is entirely related to whether a big dump of it came from the sun within a few hundred years of when the artifact was buried into anoxic conditions. thus, the estimation of age based on this could be wildly inaccurate after a really big flare.

superflares and micronovas are starting to be found all across the sky with Webb looking out and seeing a hell of a lot more than Hubble ever did. it turns out that in fact sometimes stars dump a shitload of material and don't wink out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micronova

they at least do mention this one but see it's only in the last 3 years that this has even been discovered. stars that blow up but don't totally blow up. just so happens that at least one recently spotted is just ahead of us by less than 50 light years in the direction of rotation of the milky way. very likely more and more of them are going to be spotted and if they do appear in closer proximity to us, and they can probably be quite brief, like at most several weeks visible and then most of the gas and plasma has spread out such that you don't see anything anymore.

anyhow. there's just too many data points on my radar about this and not just astronomy, also a load of old stories that describe things happening to the sun, which date to around 12000 years ago, where people were killed by an "evil sun" and later there is stories about "fiery dragons lighting the ground on fire as it passed". yeah, of course there is no dragon, but there sure as hell is such thing as a rock of several meters diameter or more at a low apprroach passing through and not actually hitting the earth, and as a consequence maybe it explodes from the friction heating.

stars throwing out a shit-ton of material sure would explain it, in the aftermath after it cools and aggregates. and the micronova theories tend to involve magnetic field interactions.

pssh. wikipedia lol.

yeah, simple anecdote: there was a snap frozen wooly mammoth found in siberia in the mid 20th century, i forget the exact date. it was so perfectly frozen that it was possible to cook and eat it. this could only have happened if ice at -150 or so fell on top of it, and it had all the marks of being crushed, as well. what in the hell would put an iceberg on top of a mammoth? oh yeah, massive tsunami wave caused by *dun dun dun* a crustal slip. it was far inland. they found it had stuff in its guts that resembled tropical climate plants.

haha anyway. that's the other thing. a LOT of this research is being done by people in russia, china, bulgaria, romania, and so on. the scientists in the west are so deluded by the orthodoxy they don't even think of questions to ask outside of the expected answer.

nah, i'm far from the tourists out here. at most a few 4wd tour cars driving around. my taxi driver told me (madeira native all his 30 something years) had never even been to this place. some nice waterfalls along the road around here, and great place to live for the view and altitude but certainly not a tourist attraction.

i am on a mobile network connection at the moment

22mbit down, 8mbit up lol

my fibre connection in boaventura was 500/100

seems to perform ok but ugh. i hope we will have fibre here soon.

i definitely won't be downloading any LLM models until then :)

also, not sure if you have been paying attention but in the last two years there has been a LOT of major outages of networks and servers, and no coincidence at the same time there was major solar flares observed and auroras photographed. may 2024 was big, then again in october, and another one in i think it was march or april, been quiet for now but in a month or two it's set to tick up again.

it is also highly correlated to violence and war and insanity, as well as affecting the weather and triggering catastrophic natural disasters. the earth's magnetic field is moving very fast now, north magnetic pole is tracking fast through canada and maybe, if the trend of the last 400 years is an indicator, it could move all the way down to the gulf of mexico, at which point the tension between the crust and the magma, and the amount of energy coming down with the field opening right facing the sun... i mean, do the math. seismic activity has been definitively correlated to solar flaring activity and coronal holes especially (which cause a strong solar wind) and magnetic poles do not deflect this energy, plasma and high energy particles. they funnel it down to the ground. i mean, idk how to explain the epic magnitude of such an event. lightning strikes like the ones on jupiter, same size but here. campi flegri goes off, and that one in greece, and throw in etna and the one on iceland and the ones in south america and china. lol. yeah, nah.

so yeah, probably not only is it an important conduit of communication of the information about what is going on, nostr's architecture means it will remain functional even while half the internet goes dark. this is gonna be very important.

yeah, i think that open communication is going to be a key to our survival going forward. europe is going straight down the toilet, and usa is kinda sorta almost opening up but the only way we get this to happen is by building the tools and once they are polished enough and enough people adopt the tech because of shit like OSA in the UK and the shit in the EU, they WILL adopt it because it's built to evade their control. all the rest of the "open social" networks have single points of failure. nostr is a true web, and will be more of an archaepelago, which is a more failure resistant network shape.

considering that there is good reason to believe that there is a magnetic reversal triggered solar driven catastrophe coming in the next 20-30 years, if the ruling class stops this information and the research and experiments in building to prepare for it, basically we could see another

https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2012/10/22/163397584/how-human-beings-almost-vanished-from-earth-in-70-000-b-c

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youngest_Toba_eruption#Toba_catastrophe_theory

they think it was just an eruption causing a massive glaciation but i'm pretty sure it was closer to 72000 years ago and it was initiated by a magnetic pole flip. estimates of the ancestry of the modern human genome suggest that at one time in the past it was in the range of 1-5000 individuals.

lightning does strike twice but you never know when or where. ignoring the evidence of a cyclic global catastrophe and just carrying on as though nothing is happening is a sure way to get to another near extinction. there was a catastrophe 6000 years ago that is recorded in the rocks near the Tianchi volcano in china, and the event of 12000 years ago kicked off a minor ice age called the Younger Dryas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas_impact_hypothesis

again, one was volcano, another, another volcano, and another, talking about meteor impacts. these things have a remarkable regularity that points to the 6000 year 90 degree rotation of a massive magnetic field structure created by the galaxy, which rotates every ~24000 years (the field, i don't know if it's the rotation, but i do know that this coincides exactly with the cycle of precession of the equinoxes, which does a full 360 in the same period - we are currently at the end of the position of pisces and moving into aquarius now).

if the field change triggers seismic and volcanic activity on the planet it probably also triggers crazy stuff in stars as well, and if that triggers a massive flare... well... firstly, only people in caves will survive, as outside above ground everything is nuked with X-rays within 8 minutes of it happening, and then after that, the amount of energy that passes into the earth causes the magma under the crust to lose traction and the new magnetic alignment induces a 90 degree change that leads to the mother of global tsunamis, of which only a handfull of places on the planet are high enough up to not be inundated.

so, yeah, as i see it, this kind of information is available on the mainstream social media but it may come soon where it's only propagating underground on a protocol like nostr, where people can run their own nodes and surveillance against this is extremely expensive.

anyhow, regardless of all these robots, i don't think it's a viable survival strategy to put all your eggs in the smart machines basket. you should check out the storyline of the game Deus Ex: Mankind Divided for one example of how things can play out. i kinda think it will be a blessing to get a reset. the control grid will be gone. maybe i have to chop wood and forge axe heads and gather rocks to build my house, but at least i won't be living under the cloud of endless threats from government and ruling class bullshit.

both of my parents populated my brain with a lot of basic stuff that has shaped how my models have developed.

mostly it's circumstantial (lots of poverty, and a screwed up culture especially among women) but partly also temperament, i'm not very social, and haven't gone out anywhere for over a decade very much. a recent outing with a bitcoin hiking group was nice, but of course none available. but nice ladies anyhow.

https://www.facebook.com/mountpleasantpd/videos/lightning-strike/732773119645376

i wouldn't normally post facebook but this was an epic lightning strike caught on a police dashcam, so, yeah, click it. they let you see the video too. (yes, tracking tags were removed).

lol. that famous quote from einstein springs to mind. but there is other very likely threats that will put us right back to the stone age. iron age if we are prepared a little. steam age if we prepared a lot. and most people washed away and/or covered in mud. or possibly also, lit on fire by the sun, or maybe exploded by a mega lightning strike. speaking of which, in south carolina yesterday:

https://www.facebook.com/mountpleasantpd/videos/lightning-strike/732773119645376

i would totally be screwed if i didn't get a new job within 2 months. but hopefully i will have my next job for a good 2 years and stack hard and ride the elevator and be able to do a 6 month hiatus and i'd see if i could get a business started.

the current global society is probably past the point of no return. population is gonna fall off a cliff very soon. no people, no market, no wealth.

the fly in the ointment is i have some food-additive induced swelling in my bottom right molar tho, was kinda hard to eat it, but ok, i can eat more tomorrow too. it's a mission to get them though, about 7km but totally worth it, gonna do it every week at least. i'll have some beef tomorrow afternoon too, and my tallow, i forgot my damn tallow in the fridge.

yeah, they just need to not be robbed of most of the fruits of their labors by monetary debasement and taxation.

i can't. i can only attribute my slow aging to genetics that make my deep sleep more effective. there is forms of yoga where they induce delta wave sleep at will and they can literally function on like 15 minutes a day, at normal levels.

i've never got around to learning how to do that. i'd love to even just lower my sleep requirement to like 4h a day. i think another part of it may have to do with digestion and diet as well. eggs and pork, are notable sources of phenylalanine and tyrosine, and eggs are my favourite. omg, i have eggs today, not factory ones also. i think that my low sleep requirement comes mainly from eggs, to be honest. i'm so stoked i got eggs again. damn. i gotta go cook some eggs. shit.

agreed. in the pre-car days, the family had to have at least a couple of horses. a buggy could handle more. but then again, the kids started working a lot younger too. and most people owned their houses outright, only had maintenance costs to cover. and fiat banking completely sabotages all of that. including the cost of the woman being far less productive at labors outside the house, which with the amount of wealth being stolen by fiat money system, means that children are not being raised properly and this leads to a steady increase in bad behaviour and crime, and further undermines the foundation of a healthy society.

again, it's not in the hymnal

yeah, dreaming is very important, it is required for long term retention of learning. the other part of the sleep cycle, delta wave deep, unconscious sleep, is required for the immune system and the repair of tissue. a lot of things disrupt this, especially light, and secondary, noise. you look at most housing anywhere and it doesn't seem like these concerns are addressed at all, at all. street lights shining straight in windows that aren't adequately covered, constant noise of traffic, and idiots sitting at their TVs until 11 at night watching bullshit, that means anyone else who wants to sleep proper 10-4am natural sleep cycle, is disrupted by noise, and probably light as well.

most of my life, 6 hours has been the norm, i just literally go to bed at like 10 and wake at 4 or 5... well, i've been sleeping lighter with all this work and the cat acclimating to the new place. he keeps waking me up, and there goes another half hour of my sleep. will be nice when i can kick him out and let him do the night hunter thing.

Make Big Families Great Again

i'm the same, i've kinda broken myself this last few days though with the amount of work carrying heavy stuff around and travelling up and down insanely steep terrain on a 250W ebike. still tomorrow i gotta do a 40km ride on a non-powered bike on not a hell of a lot less crazy terrain. but then i'm done. ahh. and then i can get started on my new job. 😁

seeing the cat bowl half empty of his afternoon meal already is all the reward i need, oh, and looking at that giant rock over to the east of me.

it's completely bonkers to not use gas if you have it nearby. it's only transporting it long distances that sucks, because of efficiencies of scale in the containement systems. my mother used to have a friend who was a taxi driver and he ran his car on gas.

government is the enemy, no doubt about it. the market would solve this problem. the market would have gas for areas with local access, diesel for long range and coal for heat and power for industry. instead we have retarded intermittent solar and wind, no storage capacity without extremely expensive lithium batteries (in pollution cost, and fire risk).

the biggest downside to gas for cars is you can't really safely park them underground. omg. fine for an above ground carpark tho.

running out of energy is the best way to reduce population. the amount of kilowatts is directly correlated to the growth in population.

what i'm more concerned with is there is no preparations being made for the inevitable, and coming soon solar event that will not just render all of our transport, sanitation and food production systems inoperable, it will also destroy all the tools we need to recover from it.

if we don't get prepared by moving critical resources that the loss will destroy recovery capacity, underground, where they won't get fried by an X100+ flare, it's gonna be decades of respiratory disease epidemics in winter, and reverting to cooking with wood and international transport is basically over.

that's what i'm preparing for. i think that steam and diesel power can be sustained if you don't lose the tools required to forge steel and dig enough coal/chop enough wood to get that heat to drive the factories that will produce the higher levels of the market.

nothing is being done about this, while everyone is pointed at CO2 and methane, we won't even have cows to pull our ploughs if they have their way.

environmental groups are just another sock puppet of the same hydra. their ultimate job is to convince people to accept being poor. not just retarding progress but going backwards.

from brave leo:

Kilowatt Hours for PV Silicon

The process of manufacturing photovoltaic silicon requires a significant amount of energy, particularly in the initial stage of converting silicon dioxide into metallurgical grade silicon (MGS). Producing 1 kilogram of metallurgical grade silicon requires 14-16 kWh of power.

This energy-intensive step is a crucial part of the solar panel manufacturing process, although the panels themselves generate far more energy over their lifetime than is consumed in their production.

i'm not sure what the ratio of weight to wattage output of the cells that are grown in a very hot oven over weeks, including that energy for producing all the dopants that provide the photovoltaic effect.

also, it doesn't specify how much over. because if it's only 2x its still a bad deal compared to a coal fired generator, or refined diesel and octane type fuels (and the propane and butane you get in the process, which is difficult to capture because of what i said about the problem of gas fuel storage).

i'm highly skeptical that it doesn't near as much energy again to grow the crystals after refining the silicon.

and like you point out, the problem is when it generates the power. that is entirely random. it's practical for satellites, where they can depend on a fairly constant power level based on the orbit, but down here you got clouds and smoke.

if you factor in, based on this theoretical 2-5x output per input, the cost of the batteries you need, and how frequently they need to be replaced, i'm pretty sure it drops back to very close or under unity.

wind powered water-gravity batteries would make way more sense, because other than maintaining the water level to sufficient for your energy input, you would have totally on-demand just by dialing open the tap.

the environmental damage and toxicity of lithium mining and battery production are factors they never mention, also. in fact, probably lead-acid batteries would be better because they are more durable, and the lead is easy to recycle, and toxicity-wise, pretty minimal risk of catastrophic issues. lithium, on the other hand, once it's refined into pure metal, is a severe fire risk, and will not stop burning until all of it is converted into oxide and carbonates.

so, yeah, in theory, great, solar panel is about 4-5x output as input. but the need for batteries destroys all of that benefit, at least halves it, probably worse, and using lithium, adds on top of that a serious fire risk that leads to airborne pollution from what burns with it.

i'd rather go with uranium. it's heavy enough that it at least doesn't spread that far if the meltdown is contained. and it's efficiency is higher and also can be dialed up and down on demand.

the point that there is more factors in the equation is another thing that never gets discussed in the slogans of the envirofascist misanthropic cult of government population control, and the fact that a huge amount of political power and especially military power (if you include police and judiciaries) in that, is extreme.

a free market would settle on the appropriate solutions. the centrally managed systems can't get even half way to an optimal solution because it's all about enriching the people at the front of the monetary spigot, at the expense of everyone else.

honest scientists and engineers wolud not pick the solutions we see now. they have use cases but they are not general purpose technologies.

i'd argue that they are just spinoffs of military research for purposes of perpetuating a constant state of fear in the population to use to manipulate them to continue to tolerate this intolerable state of affairs.

i believe Daniel is in fact a christian, and this church of environmentalism and government is actually the synagogue of satan. Samuel states that God told him that a king would destroy the culture of the Jews. and after samuel, it's just non stop stories about prophets and judgements against israel and punishments. shouldn't be a surprise, they kept on with the government, and that is idolatry in itself, and the very notion...

well that's where it gets sticky because catholics believe in the legitimacy of the pope being "God's Representative" when it clearly states all through the bible that if he isn't talking directly to you, you aren't praying enough, or properly.

It's basic materials science. But don't let me disrupt your faith in the church of humans are bad.

Lol. Just go read the tech specs of a solar cell. Average lifespan times average power output. Other read about how much energy it takes to grow pv voltaic crystals.

I don't think any person with competence in physics would disagree that if you don't get more energy than it costs to make the device, it's just a jumped up, unreliable and light battery.

The energy required to forge the enormous steel and fibreglass blades of wind generators, and the magnets and tower, are also very energy intensive, and the blades, being mostly polyester and glass fiber, cannot be recycled. Plastic and aluminium both take huge amounts of energy to produce, or in the case of plastic, it's made from. Dun dun dun... Oil.

i hate expressive programming. is there *really* a need for complex iterator syntax when you can just use for loops? i mean, Go's for syntax is incredibly flexible, range loops over slices and maps, simple zero to X loops are just "for x := range X" you can also do regular C style "for initializer(); test(); iterate()" and badger uses a syntax like this with functions that sit in those 3 spots. and objects. ugh. really, give me structural typing over objects any day. and 5 billion different fancy operators when two or three flexible constructs are easier for slicing up arrays? and work queues are much easier to do with channels and goroutines and it's pretty efficient at maxing the CPU load for throughput, though i do sometimes wish i could reach for kernel threads specifically for throughput.

scaffolding and starting writing tests and translating code from other languages, and writing tedious and simple algorithms that are well established, especially on a specific data type are the things i mostly do with a coding agent. i will probably use it a lot to scatch together the beginnings of UI designs as well.

idk even where my node is, i just rent it from alby. occasionally there is issues like in recent days but i'm just chalking it up to the space weather causing general internet congestion and glitches, we've had quite a few M class flares and a coronal hole just blew past. ooh, and it's time for the news too.

i don't think anyone should give them any air time when in london you can have your mobile swiped right out of your hand by dudes in black riding motorcycles. where rape gets off with a tap on the wrist while they are putting people in jail for mean tweets, and daring to publish video of actual violence at protests and criminal activity.

anyone who is still there should do everything they can to get to USA or europe or anywhere else. shit is gonna get even worse yet.

who gives a shit what they do in backwards ass third world countries anyway.

also,

it's alcohol and bitter volatiles. it tastes bad when it gets sprayed near your mouth.

the smell is ok but you don't eat perfume for a reason.

if it's ephemeral, it should not be cached. at all. if there is nobody to receive it, it goes to /dev/null

use a regular, replaceable or parameterized replaceable if you want it to be cached. put an expiration on it, or update it frequently, as in replaceable.

don't mix up the use cases by making the middle man do cache duty when there is a cache method existing already in the protocol. if your application is using ephemerals but you expect to need this, you should consider switching the events to replaceable or addressable events, and putting expiration timestamp tags on them. otherwise what happens when your realtime collab app gets confused when it drops the subscription and then gets 10 seconds of past events loaded into it.

distil the problem down to see what i'm talking about

why is p2p better? no middleman. why is it worse? it requires concurrent connection

why is relay better? asynchrony and getting around routing problems caused by the limitations of the IPv4 and NAT issue. and the clear and obvious constant obstruction against p2p connections that is deliberately being done to keep these clouds as middlemen in everything. for the benefit of the gigacorps and their spook friends.

relay is the solution that you have to make. rendezvous, specifically, that's why it's pretty much a fixture in every p2p system, and the usual achilles heel. consider tor and the directory servers. IPFS and the need for rendezvous service for nodes that have full inbound routing, for those that don't.

what is that they are adding to the p2p to make it work? a relay doing rendezvous.

NWC protocol hides the messages inside encrypted content anyway, and if you take the same approach for any rendezvous use case you see, the more busy this protocol is, the more silly it would be to keep a back-queue of events and send them when? the client is not going to *expect* to have ephemeral events that are older than like 2 seconds. this is gonna cause broken problems in the clients using relays as rendezvous as well.

yep, it's a mess, and the people funding this mess don't care, because they are just funneling donations through and taking a cut. the product is for them, not the users, and certainly not for the business people trying to talk to their customers.

and my point is that if you base your design decisions on trustlessness with a relay based protocol you are gonna have a bad time.

i lean heavily towards the idea of finding ways to get more people being the middle man in their conversations. if 10% of nostr users are running a relay that's a lot better than being stuck with the problems of a trustless p2p architeture

if the event kind were added to #orly's privileged event kind list it would only serve them up to author and p tagged npubs

one of the benefits of compulsory military service

i learned it because of having been assaulted so many times in my teens and 20s.

and a lot of that is caused by the phone, ironically

in london, that's what i've heard also, nick farage was talking about it a few weeks back

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