I vote (despite being a nostr newbie) to integrating ipfs.

With physical currency, gold is the leader, but there is also silver, important because it has a high commodity value from silverware to batteries (to film back in the day), and you need both. And then there are less used metals like platinum (hard to work) or copper. Notice that original US constitutional currency had gold, silver, and copper. This has been the case for thousands of years.

If you want an arbitrary analogy:

Bitcoin = gold

Namecoin = silver (provides globally consistent namespace)

Pktcoin = copper (provides metered income from amateur internet links)

Old cars are very valuable because they have less totalitarian "features" like remote disablement or GPS monitoring. If it's old enough for a mechanical carburetor, you can use homemade syngas in emergencies. (Or homemade biodiesel for older diesel engines.)

I'm new to Nostr, but have been in the internet for 40 years, and seen centralization destroy it from around 1998. Nostr is solving important problems (I describe it as a modified SSB accessible to "normies").

But you are still depending on

1. centralized IP addresses,

2. centralized DNS,

3. centralized (and shadowy undocumented) TLS cabal that determines what CAs are in normies' browser to be trusted for any hostname whatsoever,

4. centralized routing (most normies have only one ISP).

I've talked about baby steps for DNS, IP and TLS elsewhere. I want to give a shoutout here to someone working on the centralized ISP problem.

Caleb J Delisle is the author of Cjdns, a mesh IPv6 VPN which solves the IP problem, and virtualizes the routing. His current project is PktCoin. Namecoin is useful because it provides a globally consistent namespace (i.e. not competing with BitCoin as a currency). PktCoin uses proof of bandwidth as proof of work. The idea is to compensate amateur internet links by cryptographically verified amount of bandwidth provided. It integrates modified bitcoin code with cjdns.

The vision is for people that invest in longer distance pt to pt connections to get compensation, or even just allocate part of ISP provided bandwidth to random Cjdns users.

For my own purposes, I think I'll just make my own url shortener on my own domain.

Since the url already has a particular host, "all" you need is a shortcut database. There are 3rd party sites that shorten urls as well, but better if the original url site does it. Of course, that means storing more data.

Totally on target. I also note that the false prophet having the power to to make the "image of the beast" speak and move is today not so mysterious.

Wish list: coracle direct links work in most contexts, but boy are they long. This is a problem when posting them to, e.g. SMS.

The satellite.earth client has much shorter direct links. I'm guessing they use a hash, or possibly a database with random ids.

An example of a satellite.earth direct link:

https://satellite.earth/thread/note1cy5ggl77z0z5u9tup993wsl9me0tanhsudm9ueefr4glqmwcrresv6exhf

Of course, given the nature of Nostr, I can post with Coracle, and then get a direct link from satellite.earth.

I was gifted the Women's Day encyclopedia of cookery as a young adult. One Christmas, I tried the Crumpet recipe. It called for 1 cup milk and 3 cups flour, making a stiff bread dough. But then it says to "beat" rather than knead after each rising and pour into muffin rings. Well, that wasn't going to happen with a stiff dough, so I baked it as bread. Pretty good (like Challa with lots of butter and egg).

Next Christmas, I doubled the liquid to 2 cups, figuring it was a typo. This allowed actually beating the dough after each rising, but still wouldn't pour into the muffin rings. So I scooped it with a 1/4 cup measure and dropped into the rings. This resulted in something like an English muffin, but softer and richer and slightly sweet. It was a hit.

After more research, I learned that there should actually be 3 cups liquid (yes, it was a typo). But everyone insisted that I had to make it the same way - the 2 cup version. It became a family tradition on Christmas. I did try actual crumpets, but meh, if you're going to make pancakes, the baking powder version is as good and much quicker.

I was around and following when US funded and armed Hamas to counter PLO, which had a constant stream of false flag "massacres". There were no bodies, just video, and sometimes unedited video would leak where the corpses would get up and start cleaning up after the shoot.

Don't make the mistast of think that because Israel has done shady things, therefore the Arabs are the innocent victims.

Consider [Jeremiah 30:12ff](https://biblehub.com/bsb/jeremiah/30.htm#12).

Addressing Judah (and refugees from northern Israel) God says,

All your lovers (allies) have forgotten you;

they no longer seek you, for I have struck you as an enemy would, with the discipline of someone cruel, because of your great iniquity and your numerous sins.

But to those raiding, He says,

Nevertheless, all who devour you will be devoured, and all your adversaries—every one of them— will go off into exile. Those who plundered you will be plundered, and all who raided you will be raided.

Merry Christmas from Factory Farming and Cow Cannibalism!

It was reported back in the Mad Cow years that dogs did not get mad cow from eating infected animals. I surmised this might extend to vultures and other carrion eaters. I wonder if dogs/wolves are also resistant to this new version? At some point, we have to bring back the wolves - even if they are a nuisance for farmers.

I should clarify, on the servers involved.

Metadata (who,when) is stored on the server, and accessible to the admin. This is necessary for delivery under federation. If you do the protocol fully decentralized (an option with Dendrite), then it is fully e2ee and only the nodes involved have the metadata.

I'm sure it's something I'm doing wrong. I see some other notes with one hashtag per line, and I tried to use two.

https://coracle.social/notes/nevent1qqs24essj9uhhjgamf08xxjswcetkgueq3vy7vqmc7yht9ln7a7uvqqpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsz8rhwden5te0vd58y6tnw3cxjmrv9ehx7um5wgcjucm0d5hsz9rhwden5te0v3jhxcmgdahkc6twvuh82ucprfmhxue69uhhqatjv9mxjerp9ehx7um5wghxcctwvshsz9nhwden5te0v4jx2m3wdehhxarj9ekxzmny9uq3wamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwdehhxarj9e3xzmny9uq37amnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3dwfjkccte9ejx2un9ddex7umn9ekk2tcprdmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68yurvv438xtnrdakj7qgewaehxw309aex2mrp0yh8xmn0wf6zuum0vd5kzmp0qythwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnswf5k6ctv9ehx2ap0g6z8dn

https://coracle.social/notes/nevent1qqsgqfve4s62rmzyxg93cxd7jz28a5yrcaxn03nq6cswd60qvflsgpspz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsz8rhwden5te0vd58y6tnw3cxjmrv9ehx7um5wgcjucm0d5hsz9rhwden5te0v3jhxcmgdahkc6twvuh82ucprfmhxue69uhhqatjv9mxjerp9ehx7um5wghxcctwvshsz9nhwden5te0v4jx2m3wdehhxarj9ekxzmny9uq3wamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwdehhxarj9e3xzmny9uq37amnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3dwfjkccte9ejx2un9ddex7umn9ekk2tcprdmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68yurvv438xtnrdakj7qgewaehxw309aex2mrp0yh8xmn0wf6zuum0vd5kzmp0qythwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnswf5k6ctv9ehx2ap00s59f5

Epiphany (Jan 6) is the traditional day to open presents for 2000 years. Opening them on Christmas is crass commercialism.

I added some recordings of mine, and tagged them with #music and #musiciansofnostr - but nothing comes up when I search on those tags. Using coracle.social client. What am I doing wrong?

Next up - mark of the beast.

I don't speak Spanish conversationally, but I read it with a dictionary

and I played piano for a Spanish church for a few years. This was my

favorite Spanish Christmas carol:

https://gathman.org/music/ogg/MariaPobreMaria_session.ogg

#musiciansofnostr #music

Here is my latest song, with commentary. I'll have to figure out how to use #disqus

https://gathman.org/blog/2023/11/cosmic-take-down/