I've been using Cjdns. It provides (cryptoauthenticated) IP6, so nostr, email, matrix, bitcoin, etc are accessible just by running a node. It runs on layer 2 or UDP.

Similar projects are yggdrasil and pinecone.

I think he might be talking about the Happy New Year bot spam, which he thought you were doing as a test or something.

On SSB, you only see events from ids you follow, and ids they follow, etc to N levels. The Happy New Year spam had 0 followers. Why was it showing up? How do Nostr clients select what events to show in "FEED"?

"Now I rejoice greatly in the Lord that at last you have revived your

concern for me. You were indeed concerned, but you had no opportunity to

show it. I am not saying this out of need, for I have learned to be content regardless of my circumstances. I

know how to live humbly, and I know how to abound. I am accustomed to

any and every situation—to being filled and being hungry, to having

plenty and having need." Paul the Apostle

I get that Israel has a corrupt "deep state" like the US, and they probably deliberately allow Oct 7 just like 9/11. I get that Israel and the US initially supported Hamas to counter PLO. However, completely ignoring the longstanding practice by Hamas of "human shields" to protect their military installations and constantly complaining about resulting civilian deaths just has me rolling my eyes.

Please, talk about the government corruption in Israel and how allowing Oct 7 may start WW3. Talk about how maybe the all out attack is not really going to stop Hamas. But stop with the blaming of civilian deaths from bombing Hamas installations on Israel.

Where do I buy?

All I could think about in that scene was the biggest drug crisis in America: sugar. Fiercely addictive, and horribly destructive in the quantities and concentrations depicted in that scene. Rampant obesity in children and teenagers, a third of teens with pre diabetes. All feeding the profits of Big Pharma to treat the symptoms of sugar overdose without addressing the cause. High blood pressure. Liver failure. Heart disease. Etc.

I'm eyeing helping a neighbor who knits Bolivian hats and doesn't speak English well to sell them online without a lot of hoopla.

NextCloud is also packaged for Fedora. You might try that instead of Umbrel. (I am biased, I use Fedora and Rocky for everything.)

If all you want is to save some files on a server, an old and simple solution is WebDav. Just put up an HTTP server with PUT enabled with authorization. Linux has a webdav userspace filesystem and it still comes with Microsoft as well.

Nope. Only hired them. I'm the skinny math geek. I do my own electrical work for 110V. I hire a pro for 220V. I do my own minor plumbing repairs. I used to do my own car repairs, including rebuilding the engine. But I got rid of my car (wife still has one) in 2005 and got a bicycle. Car was too expensive for commuting, and I actually got a little bit of muscle.

Our family was officially below the Virginia "poverty" line. I could have had more effective income by working part time in retail and taking the "earned income credit" and sending our girls to government schools. That last was the deal breaker. (I would also likely have been fired from retail as I don't have much patience for fools and "Karens".)

I'm in a similar position. Was laid off in 2020, and only making a few thousand a year on hourly jobs. All the jobs here in the Shadow of Mordor are things like "building the CBDC", "vaccine passports", "correlating phone GPS with political orientation based on social media posts", "new weapons for defense industry", etc. That last is actually Constitutional, but not for me. I can't keep secrets and don't like modern weapons. And the "military industrial complex" is currently VERY addicted to escalating cash flows from endless wars.

I lived with roommates to be able to pay for college while working without debt. We were the "Five Guys". Too bad we didn't trademark it. We also cooked and catered parties. These were all Christian guys. It was the tail end of the Jesus Revolution in the 70s. Check out the excellent movie of the same name. It is very accurate. I often visited Calvary Chapel while living in CA.

Today, the price of college is ridiculously inflated. If you don't have the cash, don't do it. Even if you do have the cash, it is usually a bad investment today because it is so overpriced. Do an alternative (online classes) to actually learn stuff. And keep a portfolio of accomplishments - much more persuasive than a degree.

Debt is worse than low wages. Don't do it!

"The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender." Proverbs 22:7

This may sound old fashioned, but a lot of the tradesmen I have hired have worked for themselves, and their wives, who had also worked the trade and understood it, did the invoicing, accounting, customer calls, etc. Teamwork for the win!

One of my projects is open source (and more importantly, self custodial - not SAS) accounting tailored to the tradesmen who have told me their troubles in that vein. E.g. printing invoices in the field is a win. Not all customers are happy with email, and you need a signed paper. And if you hand write the invoice, then your wife/accountant has to double enter it.

Employers don't really care about a degree. They care about accomplishments - even the beginnings of accomplishments. Even 40 years ago, no employer ever even glanced at my diploma. Even when I stuck it in front of their face (I worked hard on that thing - what a waste). What they did care about:

* used small language model to generate buzzword compliant sociology papers garnering B+

* used QR factorization to model dN/dR for particle size distribution in the atmosphere for my dad

* wrote a popular multi-player game in college

* etc

.. you may or may not be a math geek. But the key is to DO things, not sit in lectures (most of which I did not attend - unless they were actually useful).

I had the opportunity to try farm work with an innovative farmer. He avoided minimum wage nonsense by exchanging our initially unskilled labor for a discount on the organic veggies we helped plant, weed, harvest. (I was too thorough and slow for harvest - so was put on weeding duty, where that trait is helpful.) I wish I had started learning about (real, organic) farming earlier! I'm 65 and just getting started.

As you do things, you may discover enough market for your output that you don't actually need to work for someone. Of course, then you have the navigate the maze of government interference with workers actually owning a "means of production." You might have to hire an expert to deal with it ...

From your other comment, you tried hvac - good! You discovered why the dirty and dangerous jobs are more often taken by males. I would note that plumbing is similar. All the plumbers I have hired have had massive upper body strength from hauling steel bathtubs, water heaters, etc. This does not bode well for most female practitioners.

In the 19th century, women would often manage a farm, researching the science, what to plant where and when, and hire men to actually wrangle a horse drawn plow, or harvest grain. The women would work in a kitchen garden, which required more brains and less brawn.

Isaac Asimov wrote a short sci-fi story about a guy that is stranded on an alien planet, that looks just like earth, has delicious food, beautiful girls, all in all a paradise. He even marries an alien girl. But his health rapidly deteriorates. Spoiler **** It turns out that all the chiral organic molecules on this planet were the opposite of Earth. ****

This story made me more aware than most of chirality in supplements.

In a similar vein, human and animal Vit E supplements often use dl-alpha tocopherols. Natural sources provide d-alpha tocopherol. The synthetic version is cheaper, but is a mixture of D and L. The L-alpha tocopherol is ineffective, but seems to be innocuous. So far. That I have noticed in research.

Getting my BTC full node caught up. Doing Dec 28, and the blockchain is up to 606G. At this rate, moving to an external 1TB drive will only last another year.

I noticed on bitcoin-core an option to keep only N Gigs of blockchain history. How does this work? What if somebody sends you some BTC in a transaction that spends from a transaction N+1 or more Gigs ago?

Another question. What is to prevent someone from altering an old block with low difficulty to change a transaction but have the same hash? You could then field a bunch of nodes to return it instead of the original. This is easier when everyone is only keeping the last N Gigs of blockchain history.

This would allow redirecting an ancient transfer to someones cold wallet to go to your own instead.

Pet food often contains dl-methionine. D-methionine is an essential amino acid found in animal products. Your carnivore pet needs it. It is expensive, so manufacturers use a synthetic version. Labs are VERY bad at selecting a specific handedness, so you get a mixture of both isomers. Unfortunately, l-methionine is toxic to the liver.

"Everything is an adapter." That is how I explained electronics to my wife, who after that "Aha!" moment, was able to expertly help organize my parts.

Examples:

keyboard - finger input to IBMPC, PS/2, USB, Bluetooth

IBMPC to USB (to plug your beloved IBM full travel keyboard into USB)

A/C outlet to power supply input

A/C input to USB 5 or 20 v output

MIDI to USB

5mm audio to USB

12V to laptop DC

etc, etc

Same with "deleting" on Farcebook / Xitter if you think about it.

Everything but portability, yes.