Will try find some useful documentation, but I’ve found having around 10 fairly popular relays is ideal.
Here are the ones I’ve been using, which I found to be reliable and haven’t caused issues like you described. 
How many relays do you have configured? Have a number gone offline?
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Your proposed design looks very similar to my understanding of BlueSky’s atproto.
nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m are there high level architecture diagrams? I couldn’t find anything wholistic in the docs.
Simplistic take. There was a huge number of Aboriginal nations.
Aborigines used alternative technologies. For instance, instead of writing and cartography, they used song:
A knowledgeable person is able to navigate across the land by repeating the words of the song, which describe the location of landmarks, waterholes, and other natural phenomena. In some cases, the paths of the creator-beings are said to be evident from their marks, or petrosomatoglyphs, on the land, such as large depressions in the land which are said to be their footprints.
By singing the songs in the appropriate sequence, Aboriginal people could navigate vast distances, often travelling through the deserts of Australia's interior. The continent of Australia contains an extensive system of songlines, some of which are of a few kilometres, whilst others traverse hundreds of kilometres through lands of many different Aboriginal peoples — peoples who may speak markedly different languages and have different cultural traditions. One songline marks a 3,500-kilometre (2,200 mi) route connecting the Central Desert Region with the east coast, to the place now called Byron Bay. Desert peoples travelled to the ocean to observe fishing practices, and coastal people travelled inland to sacred sites such as Uluru and Kata Tjuta.
Since a songline can span the lands of several different language groups, different parts of the song are said to be in those different languages. Languages are not a barrier because the melodic contour of the song describes the nature of the land over which the song passes. The rhythm is what is crucial to understanding the song. Listening to the song of the land is the same as walking on this songline and observing the land. Songlines have been described as a "cultural passport" which, when sung in the language of a particular region and mob, show respect to the people of that country.

Raspberry Pi's are great little machines, at the right price point and for the correct use case.
however, the premiums they were selling for over the past few years made them a poor choice for noderunners. instead you could pick up a Dell Optiplex Mini or Intel NUC for a similar price, and use Proxmox to virtualise a whole bunch of VMs / containers on the same device.
for instance, i'm using an Intel NUC which runs:
- Pi-hole DNS container
- Network hardware management container
- Bitcoin node VM
- Usenet clients (SABnzbd, Sonarr, Radarr) VM
- Transmission BitTorrent VM
- Various VMs for testing
in doing so, i have been able to free up 2 switch ports, 2 GPO outlets and simplify management and backups.
Raspberry Pi's are great for embedded applications or as an energy efficient dedicated server, but i think the flexibility and learning opportunities available when going down the x86 route make micro PCs a better option for most.
hopefully the Raspberry Pi Foundation increase manufacturing capacity and prices remain reasonable moving forwards, but for the plebs spinning up a Bitcoin node, micro PCs are worth the investment.
just less flexible.
given the premiums they were selling for over the past few years, you could get a Dell Optiplex Mini or Intel NUC for the same price and use something Proxmox to virtualise a whole bunch of VMs / containers on the same device.
for instance, i'm using an Intel NUC which runs my Pi-hole DNS instance, network hardware management server, Bitcoin node, Usenet clients (SABnzbd, Sonarr, Radarr), Torrent client, and some VMs for testing.
in doing so, i have been able to free up 2 switch ports, 2 GPO outlets and simplify management and backups.
Pi's are great at the right price point and use case. hopefully they increase manufacturing capacity and prices remain reasonable moving forwards.
Some big media account on Twitter asked people what they think the best music album ever was, front to back.
While some albums are more iconic than others, the fascinating thing about the question is how it tends to be a sign of what era someone came of age in (i.e. which decade they grew up as a teenager), and what cultural part of that era they were more in line with. Sure, some people go back and find older iconic music and appreciate it the most, the absolute greats of the past, but the more typical outcome is that someone finds music from their coming-of-age years to be what somehow sticks out.
For me it was rock in the 2000s, and my mental answer to the question of "best album?" was Meteora by Linkin Park.
While it was a very popular album and also well-remembered, it doesn't generally go down on the ageless list of greats. In other words, it's always kind of a top two or three genre item. I could argue why other more iconic albums are better, and why they "should" be my answer. For example I could go a little bit before my time, but still close enough, and say Nirvana's Nevermind was better. That would poll better.
But basically, as a product of my time, Meteora is just the one that struck the right chords at the right time when I was a teenager. It's the one that spoke to me. I would listen to it casually, and then also listen to certain songs in it before martial arts tournaments to get myself in the combat zone. Even as my musical tastes changed over time, that's the album I listened to the most of all time, and so when I hear it in the present day, I still appreciate it a ton.
The fact that they crossed genres appealed to me a lot. Their main vocalist, Bennington, struck their melodic and emotional aspect. The other vocalist, Shinoda, was their hip-hop guy, with a rougher or more practical aspect. Mr. Hahn brought an electronic aspect, and Delson brought the rock guitar aspect. Some of their stylization was anime-aligned, and I was into anime at the time. Basically whatever vibes I might be feeling as a teenager at the time, there was something in Linkin Park that spoke to it, with Meteora being among their best and which came out at the right time when I was 15. It's like Bennington would speak to my emo aspect and help me acknowledge it, while Shinoda and the others would pump me back up, and tell me to not fuck around and get back out there, and boost my confidence. Yin and Yang.
Another reason I thought of this is that here in 2023, Linkin Park released a 20th anniversary edition of Meteora, which included a couple songs like "Lost" that didn't make it into the original. It all hits a bit harder for us fans based on the fact that the lead singer, Chester Bennington, is no longer with us. RIP.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NK_JOkuSVY&ab_channel=LinkinPark
Anyway, I’m doing a series of “real thoughts” uniquely on Nostr, and this is the second one.
Conclusion: Sometimes what hits harder subjectively is worth appreciating, rather than just whatever can be argued to be the best objective answer. Somewhere on that border between "objectively good" and "came out at the right time and hit the spot for you and imprinted itself" is your answer that is worth exploring and sharing.
What's your answer?
See for me it’s the opposite. I have a broad taste in music, everything from Norwegian black metal to Japanese ambient and almost everything in between.
While Pink Floyd are not my favourite band by any stretch, Dark Side of the Moon is, in my opinion, the greatest album of all time and was released long before I was born.
Guess great music is timeless. 
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I prefer minimal design but the borders have practical benefit.
Think you should keep them.
Congrats man. Fk that scammer.
Absolute. I eat a tonne of scotch fillet but fresh fruit and vegetables, especially ones you have grown yourself without the pesticides and herbicides, are fantastic! 🌱
This immediately piqued my interest, but the website and JohnCompanies site looks like it hasn’t been updated in about a decade.
Doesn’t inspire confidence.
Anyone used this provider? 
have you offered to help them fix it?
I would ditch WhatsApp.
Nostr, Signal and Email are sufficient.
Twitter just for spaces.









