Morning all. Out of curiosity I have scrolled down a YouTube feed of economic forecasting and commentary. I can see every reason to feel quite doomy, especially as the content sliwly meanders from econonics to pomutics to war and ...

If you want to hurt somebody, words can be more violent than physical force.

But if you see words as a bunch of letters arranged in a certain order, words can't hurt you.

And if you know about Bitcoin and about the Nostr community, a YouTube doom scroll can't hurt you.

Taking it further, if you try look past the words of someone trying to hurt you, or look behind the motives of a YouTube, you might see a weak, or scared messenger.

And if you are drinking from a positive peaceful well, it is easy to simply shrug and smile and acknowledge you have heard their words, or taken time to look through the doom scroll, but it's not something you are going to worry about. You march to a different beat, have a good day.

Go for it, we aren't supposed to be comfortable. It's the only way to grow stronger. I got through the worst of that tech debacle day, learnt what to step back from., what to go for. Cheers

That's a powerful thread. Cheers

Horses for courses. There are parts of Spain you'd slot right in, with your wellies? North coast can be a real ducks paradise.

I can't get my chickens to lay into a bowl. What's the secret? 😉

Lashings of rain which is good, for second consecutive day. On the other side of the equation, not getting out much. We live outside except for the 60 days a year when there isn't sun here, so Im feeling a bit deskbound recently!

My barebones solar installation is very fast at charging, but is struggling under the stress of coping with me being indoors. But at least there is still juice to type this and listen to a podcast. :)

And just heard I'm an uncle again, yay.

Nostr needs to work on the tens of millions of devices already built but destined for landfill. The world's poorer off will thank Nostr forever for liberating them. Sorry, you got caught up in my little hobby horse topic for the day!

I cant stop thinking what lots of different server runners might be doing with my notes instead of one person at company HQ! I'm really struggling with the relay concept. By the time I or a lot of other users find out a relay has been taking the piss and selling data and who knows what, the user concensus view is irrelevant? Still looking for a 101 on what I am missing.

Using Sierra after 10 yeas on Yosemite, I am like a beaten dog being shown love for the first time in ages. It is bliss. And I appreciate every keystroke.

That's the first time I have ever been part of a 1%! Thanks :)

To answer your question about the percentage of people who are poor in terms of access to internet and devices. Lots!

This is the percentage of population by country who use the internet. I read that as the % of people who can afford a device and the fee to get online. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IT.NET.USER.ZS?locations=A9

Globally about half of homes have a PC. Phones are the main access point online now, though, but the developing world doesn't have 82% smartphone use like in the US or Europe. https://www.statista.com/statistics/539395/smartphone-penetration-worldwide-by-country/

Obviously Nostr devs aren't responsible for whether people can afford to have an internet connection, but some apps are clearly caught up in the built-in obsolesence trend. What are considered "throwaway PCs and devices" that could be affordable to millions of people, won't run browsers that are required to access a cross section of Nostr apps.

If a guy can write software to pay for groceries in Africa with bitcoin on a dumb phone, it can't be beyond the wit of a community that wants to be global, to make sure its apps and clients are visible on old browsers.

Laying poison is a bad move. You can end up poisoning all sorts, especially the cat that's supposed to be catching the mouse, which as @wedge social points out, a cat is far from the dead cert killer we are all led to believe as kids! I have spotted mice before my cat.

We are the apex predator but we can be kind about infestations. Don't give pests a reason to move in. The place I live now was wasp infested, rat infested and ant heaven when I moved in. I haven't killed one and they have pretty much all gone.

For mice, block up gaps from outside. That tip about steel wool is a good one, or rolled up hardware cloth around entry points for pipes. They hate the smell of mint. I have a big bunch hanging up.

Don't leave food lying around.

I view cats as a deterrent, not a last line of defence. Have them for patrolling, putting rodents off settling down. And a dog patrolling too. We have a big hound it is a killer and the rats know it, another reason for them to keep out the way! A 35kg dog is no good for attic duty though :)

Last resort is humane traps to get them out and dropped off in a new locale. The thing is, we are the pest when we set up shop in a house in a field or equivalent. We can do better than just kill everything.

Upgraded to 2017!

https://nostrcheck.me/media/7b43b1cba4f78d8e684a81a0cf5fcd4ff41e0b06411ba840d675cabb9e0d45a3/4c7b036d50577c2ce6e7d6598ef94cef06d1c9a219de5fb8921060f4f408dd40.webp

Now I can see all the Nostr clients in their entirety. Shout out to #anonostr and #satellite and #Nostrchat the clients I found that worked just fine on an old desktop browser. I am sure there are a lot more.

But a friendly word for #Iris and this very #Nostter client from which I typeth. I was excluded from your Nostr experience until I was able to upgrade.

You might say, get with the program, old fella, catch up. Fair enough, but maybe listen to the perspective of a younger man who knows his shit - Obi at Fedimint. His epiphany on developing a truly global entity: you have to think of the poor people first, not the ones with the disposable income to throw their cash at solutions.

There are many more billions of poor than comfortably off. It is likely the former who will most need the opportunities that the Nostr protocol offers. Just saying. It's marketing 101, know your market.

Now, I have a couple of years to work out how to get Linux Puppy working. I go it installed and booting up through the BIOS, but now its stuck and Linux forums are enough to make Einstein scratch his skull.

I sleep on a 2" thick EPS board with an eiderdown for padding. It is the same "softness" as the physio's bench. Best thing ever for my back. Not very romantic though. YMMV!

A good read newsletter if you are interested in privacy issues and freedom software https://www.fsf.org/free-software-supporter/2024/september

"this month, we are highlighting LibrePlanet Artists, which is a network of #graphicdesigners, #photographers, #illustrators, #videographers, #animators, and #audioengineers committed to creating free artwork only using free software. They help to create educational materials and other media for #LibrePlanet teams, as well as to advocate for free software generally."

https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:LibrePlanet_Artists.

Lucky neighbours

Checking out #Arweave It ticks a lot of boxes as a Bitcoin for data. Limited supply of tokens, miners incentivised to do their proof of work and keep the data up and available for public access for 100 years. A protocol that enables all manner of apps to be built on top. Sounds very Bitcoin meets Nostr!

But why do they need to invent a token? For all the decentralised blockchain talk, a central body holds the tokens and distributes the profits. Sorry, but it just sets off alarm bells.

I would be more convinced about Nostr's censorship resistance if Nostr were to adopt the more Bitcoiny aspects of Arweave. Because I really don't grasp the Nostr relay theory. It seems so open to human interference.

Please point me to some more info to read around Nostr relay resilience. If I grasp it, you got me, but for now, it's not convincing.

Anyone come across a bootable drive reformatting itself on a start up?

I've tried two different usb drives, erased partitioned, formatted as Msdos-fat, guid, converted an iso of Linux to dmg, renamed the partition and drive and burnt the dmg to disk with DD in terminal. Unmounted and ejected.

Remounted and looked at Disk Utility to double check the drive was still as I expected.

Then start up with alt key and the drive isn't recognised. Check in disk utility and it is no longer msdos fat, and the disk name has changed to the dmg file name. Wt......!!!

How was your day. More predictable, I hope.

#linux #mac #asknostr

The rain is absolutely torrential. Thunder cracking directly overhead, hold on to your hats. It is most welcome.

Most of the picture-perfect olive groves that Spain is known for, receive EU grants (€350/ hectare to plough) After this storm passes, they will be inaccessible, flooded, and the top soil a bit more eroded.

Man, not the sun, is the principal driver of localised changes to ecosystems. When the rain hits my land it is stored. When thevsun hits my land, the ground cover absorbs and slowly releases heat. The bare soil next door hits 60c in summer. The hydrological cycle is disrupted.

It is very difficult to do the maths to prove to the genersl population what that means for the climate. But it is easy to see what it means for our ecosystems.

Millions of bad decisions since we discovered agriculture, accelerating over the last hundred years, exponential the last 40-50 years, result in the current big ag complex. Join up the millions of plots of land being farmed in an unnaturall way, multiply out the local broken hydrological cycles, you dont need a person on social media to join the dots for you.

And you really should question why there are still significant voices playing down our direct role in ecosystem collapse. You just don't hear the naked truth that we have been shitting on our own doorstep for too long and the consequences are playing out before our eyes.

"They" can't tell you what to think, but they sure can tell you what to think about.

They talk about climate change, global warming and similar terms - such a trigger, and such a vast concept to get our head round. We either get super freaked out/ depressed, or mostly switch off, overwhelmed. That strategy is playing right into our chimp brain. It's clever.

The day a govt and corp talk and act in terms of dealing with global ecosystem collapse, global because they join the dots of local ecosystem collapse, then they have my vote, but it won't happen because they work on an exploitationall economic model. Is there any other sort? No, but there are ways that's more sustainable than others. (The only thing Man literally creates is art. Every other moment, we just exploit what we inherited from creation )

Anyway, until society wakes up and runs itself along eco-friendly lines, and refuses to support big ag production as is, I'm afraid we are on a one way track to famine at one end, and slow degeneration through malnutrition ( obesity being that signal,) at the other.

Why? Because I am not the only one who can no longer rely on the seasons. I might be able to adapt, to "control" my veg garden, snd I can have groundcover and shade trees and chickens to mitigste agsinst weird rain, wind and sun, but I sure have no way to controlv the vast majority of the land around me.

Consumers could force hands quicker than me ranting or govt policy. Like @bitcoin bull said about changing the financial system peacefully, bankrupt the fuckers. Equally speedy change could be off the back of the masses refusing to buy shit food.

They say you cannot afford good food

I say, if it's nutrient rich, you don't need a lot of food. Really, its a lie that big ag and huge scale farming is the only way to secure a huge food supply for better fed, healthier populations. Production from small market gardens is insane. And now I am rambling. Cheers

#km0 #growstr #local #ecological #Spain #olives #circular-economy

enough excitement for one day. GN

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Army_Man there's a movie to pique the imagination. Took me til over half way through to recognise the Swiss Army Man.

Found it on an old hard drive. DVD rips are stunning visual quailty compared to streamed movies, at least where I am. Its like someone cleaned 10 years of dirt off my screen.