Topiary chicken is getting there hopefully finished in the next year or two 🤞

#grownostr

Hey look a surprise Bitcoin sale!

It's a blood bath out there today.

As I post this:

- NVIDIA shares dropping like a stone. Last down over 16%.

(NVIDIA has erased more than -$600 BILLION of market cap today.)

- Microsoft almost down 4%

- Google almost 3%

- Taiwan Semi Conductor down 14%

- Oracle down almost 13%

Not everyone is down tho...

- META up 1.46% and Apple up 2.25%

The only two in the bunch. Both of whom have focused on open source / local AI.

It's all in reaction to DeepSeek exposing how much waste has been going into US AI projects.

DeepSeek is ~96% CHEAPER than ChatGPT.

- Cost of OpenAI o1: $60.00 per 1M output tokens

- Cost of DeepSeek R1: $2.19 per 1M output tokens

And, again DeepSeek R1 is MIT Licensed.

Total panic at the tech companies and the wider market today. And they should be. I have been trying out DeepSeek R1, locally on my LAPTOP - and it works great. And fast. This is a win for open-source.

I just wrapped up recording this week's Self-Hosted, which will be out Friday. That means I'm done for the week early!

My wife and I are taking our small car on a few-day road trip around the Olympic Peninsula to celebrate our upcoming anniversary.

I have lived in Washington my whole life and have never really explored this beautiful area of the state.

But it's been a while since I road-tripped in anything but the RV. It feels unsettling to leave all my stuff behind, and I don't know how you people do it! I gotta sleep in some strange bed? Weird! 😅 I can't bring my shitter with me? Crazy! But most of all, I won't have all my tech...

I'm just bringing my Pixel, and I don't plan to use it for anything besides maps.

I hope we have a lot of fun and get to recharge our batteries. If you're in the area and see a little black car zoom by, give us a 👋

When she was about two she used to talk about how it wasn't real, now she is a bit of religious zealot about it all, even telling me to go to bed early because I might interrupt him 😆

Ya'll think im crazy

but I'm not the only one

Clean Wine🍷 -> No Hangover 🤯

🇬🇧 or 🇨🇳 ???

Yeah whole, he usually just puts them in a crate for ease of removal. He has another freezer that's clearly for small ice-creams and it doesn't allow for access of a crate. However he was doing eating apples when I saw his setup, if you are doing pears they will likely collapse under their own weight when defrosting so load then straight into the press and/ or anothercontainer to defrost there to catch the juice.

Also you could potentially macerate them before (or after) freezing if you wanted to try it he isn't doing that. Perhaps it's too messy to use a mill and just smashing it up a bit by hand will work.

Normally if you leave the macerated pomace to stand for 12-24 hours at room temperature there is an enzymatic process that helps it separate. You can then pour the pomace into the press and a lot of juice just comes straight through the press bag, which if you have a small press can make it quicker despite the time delay. So if you are pressing over a couple of days it might be worth trying, the effect is more pronounced with pears over apples

Yeah go for. I know someone who freezes apples on purpose and presses them and ferments them into cider and the result it excellent, its the same idea as ice wine. He is freezing them and not pressing them months later but I can' really see it being any different at all.

The only downside is the energy and time cost. The plus sides are that usually you don't have to scrat (mill the fruit to small pieces) and any undeveloped sugars like starches are broken down with the freeze /thaw. This really makes for a much higher quality juice which ferments better and just has a much cleaner flavour after fermentation, hence why its done at all.

I think every person involved in making cider for long enough ends up like that 😆.

For keeving you need fruit from old trees as it's lower in nitrogen.

If you haven't got old trees you can play around with my seemingly still novel cider making method as it will be a few years till I can afford an orchard.

It's basically carbonic maceration a technique from winemaking. You get a clean tank fill it full of fruit, perry pears are best but you can use apples too but you will still need to press them. Then you fill the tank with C02 and leave it for months. Siphon any juice off and press any solid material that remains. The fermented juice tastes different in a interesting fizzy way has more colour and greater aroma. It's also useful to do if you get a bumper year and you dont get the time to press everything all at once.

I'm 5 days into #nostr (still a clunky user of primal but working thru it) with 9 followers including nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx and 1 zap from nostr:npub1gu47n7fxfm4py48jktmu6tdqcvva4e87fntynuzzf62zxnw2e7tsc6907g. I have enough dopamine fix for the next 21 months .

Well, fuck. #dropbox is kind of pointless now, so I did a bunch of online research and decided to use sync.com. Sweet deal! Paid for the first year, got excited...

Then realized there is no #linux desktop client.

I've been using Linux for long enough that I forget many services don't support it.

#wine isn't doing it, either; errors when trying to install any of the #windows clients so far. Dammit.

Time to beg #synccom for a refund.