nostr:npub1wjwj5r9ytyhgg7nwmy75t8xrhphw6c8kq94fuv0qdjg6g0fruffq02ue5t I hate how file management on Android is evolving, anyways. I can't properly browse directories because the app is trying it's hardest to hide the fact that filesystems have a tree shape. I don't know why they are doing that. Does anyone know a good open source file explorer for #Android?
I don't know any good ones, but Ghost Commander was so buggy I uninstalled it. Following this discussion with interest!
The rest of the West, failing harder and acting as a crumple zone.
(Disclaimer: I live in "rest of the West")
Central banking requires "proof of violence" by state armed forces. Otherwise it doesn't remain central.
That is far more costly in energy alone than BTC will ever be.
Okay. Call me sheltered, but how do you not have a place to run a credit card sized RPi? Unhoused and living somewhere someone might steal/vandalize even a RPi?
If your only options are to run cool software on your own PC or AWS, that excludes people who don't have or can't afford an always-on device. A more detailed answer is linked below.
https://iris.to/note1ecus38seazsyjf93dwrcf0ewc7x24r5fgfyyzuq4t8dr7xk5fd4qtvzwrd
Dude, that is a terrible argument for a great technology.
A $5 RPi Zero will compute anything way faster than BitVM at a far lower cost.
BitVM is awesome, but cost or "equity" isn't why.
The Eye of the EU, looking for fake news, copyright infringement, and anything relating to #Palestine
Good, hopefully he succeeds!
OTEC on its own seems to me like harvesting lightning - attractive in theory, enormous in aggregate, but miserly in its density and daunting in its engineering.
But OTEC as cooling, or as the cold side of another heat engine (geothermal, also fission, maybe coal) sounds like all kinds of win!
I like this plan!
Especially the no-more-than-two plastic formulations part.
Glass can do some things plastics cannot - it can be sterilised by autoclaving without being softened/melted, and for work purposes it can contain organic solvents and mineral acids that will eat any plastic except maybe PTFE. But I agree with you, I would prefer to minimise glass and focus on re-using rather than recycling it.
With your organic waste stream, especially the solids, you could also consider sterilising that and using it to grow a cellulose-eating fungi such as Pleurotus (Oyster mushroom).
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We have a censorship bottleneck on our media. Most of what we say here is thru images or videos, and each is stores in few Servers.
So government can just shut them down and we lose our images/videos
Proposal would be to let many media servers be used for each post and store the hash of the image in case they get counterfeit.
We can even use hashes to get media from IPFS, so servers can save on storage
#nostr #amethyst #damus
My 2c - IPFS already has decentralisation and DHT functionality working at scale, better to piggyback on what works than roll our own
"An air-fryer can't do anything the oven cannot do", I said when we got one.
But I have absolutely been converted - the air fryer is absurdly quick and convenient to use, the oven hardly gets turned on now.
The incredible power of OTEC - & How it works so well with Bitcoin
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/bitcoin-unlocks-ocean-energy
Of all the technologies that get me excited for the future of Seasteading, OTEC (Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion) really gets my heart pumping. It's a 100-year old tech that generates energy out in the deep sea by sucking up cold water from the deep & using the difference in water temperatures to generate power.
Sadly, this 100-year-old, working technology has never been scaled up all the way to practical usage because who needs tons of energy out in the deep sea? People who also have lots of oil? Yeah, so nobody has ever invested what it takes to make this tech fully viable. The energy is just too stranded.
Both Bitcoiners and Seasteaders have their own important reasons to resurrect this line of research, however. Bitcoiners could not only use the stranded energy that this produces to mine with, but all of that freezing water up pumped up to the surface would be an INCREDIBLE cooling source for our mining rigs!
Meanwhile, seasteaders have quite an opportunity to use this tech as a main source of energy for our daily operations, and such a colony would then become an ideal base of operations for seabed mining of manganese nodules! Bringing up these little lumps of near-precious metals would make any seastead rich beyond our wildest dreams. Check out this video if you're not familiar with the opportunity: https://youtu.be/9Af_XA507Ho
The synergy of a seastead powered by OTEC that both mines bitcoin and the seabed floor is simply incredible, offering the understated income opportunity of the century. At the very least, it's a solid reason for Seasteads to exist, & a cause for people on those seabeds to live in comfort & wealth, not just be a glorified fishing platform.
We bitcoiners even have a head start down this road. OceanBit CEO Nathaniel Harmon (X: @NateHawaii) is working on scaling up an OTEC energy plant in Hawaii and is an outspoken Bitcoiner who realizes that bitcoin's use of stranded energy is key to getting the job done. Read the article about him in Bitcoin Magazine to see how incredible this opportunity really is: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/bitcoin-unlocks-ocean-energy
The real problem with OTEC is the minimum scale for viability. Probably hundreds of billions of dollars.
The theoretical maximum efficiency of any heat engine is the Carnot Limit: (hot side temperature - cold side temperature) / hot side temperature, all measured in degrees Kelvin, or degrees Rankine if you're USian.
For a gas turbine, this can approach 70%. For OTEC, its low single figures.
Then subtract friction, biofouling and corrosion. The numbers are only remotely positive if you go huge. Visible-from-the-Moon huge.
Waste management cycles on a Seastead
Seasteaders will be, by necessity, pioneers in the recycling space. You can't just throw everything overboard when you're done with it, and we'll need lots of raw materials to make stuff out of. Below are the major recycling efforts we'll need to incorporate in our quest for sustainable deep-water living.
Liquid waste -
Luxury yachts and cruise lines have long had to deal with the problem of liquid waste management, splitting the job into 3 subsystems. They typically set out with a full tank of fresh water, and empty tanks that are nearly as large for "grey water" and "black water" as well.
Some types of water usage, such as kitchen faucets, turns into grey water, and that goes to fill up or flush toilets, which then goes to black water. Ultimately, the black water is flushed in the deep sea and we let nature scrub it back into clean water again over millennia.
For more on that subject, check out the Seasteading Institute's "Where does the poop go" FAQ video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd2FCpU5wu8
This is established technology & wouldn't change much on a seastead, but we have other waste to consider than just what goes through our pipes.
Solid wastes -
All of our trash, down to every last banana peel, scrap of metal & plastic bottlecap, it all needs to be accounted for out in the deep because there is no junkyard. For decades seasteaders have been looking for an acceptable solution to deepsea trash recycling but it seems hopeless when we consider how bad the problem with trash & recycling is even on land today. Basically, just 9% of all the plastics you throw into a recycling big can be recycled at all!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-quksK76Rw
Plastic waste -
Thankfully, a couple of very interesting new developments are in testing these days. Chemically they do work, but the only question is if they are going to be practical to use at scale.
The first has already been highlighted in this short video by the seasteading institute: Recycle waste plastics into building materials for seasteaders:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t02KFwHDeKs
There is much promise here for creating a concrete replacement, because the process isn't as energy intensive as a recycling plant typically is.
The second new development is even more useful; convert waste plastics into a hydrocarbon biofuel! Aduro Clean is one publicly-traded company that claims it can do exactly that: https://adurocleantech.com
If this process is perfected then such biofuel would naturally become a major source of energy generation on most seasteads.
However, now that 3D printers are common, I personally feel that the technology which most quickly takes us from an empty coke bottle to a printer filament spool will be the one we most need to pursue. Making biofuel out of our waste plastic wouldn't be an unwelcome use case, but creating just about every physical object we need would surely trump that usage by far.
Organic waste -
Most biological waste like banana peels, eggshells, paper & coffee grinds will have no trouble finding a home in compost bins, which then, with the help of a few worms, become soil for seasteaders to use in gardening. Naturally a lot of our solid waste from toilets can go in here too, but no one is going to want to live nearby that compost center! An air-tight system for composting stinky trash would be a great advancement we could make for a seastead.
Metal waste -
Finally, recycling metal waste would obviously need some kind of a smelting center. It would be great to see a seastead melt this stuff down and create new spars out of all waste metals out in the deep, but that process is extremely energy intensive, on par with all of the energy a large OTEC plant could produce!
Most likely, for the first 100 years or so, our metal waste would either get batched & sold to passing barges that recycle them on land, or simply dumped out in the deep. We've lost a few steel-hulled ships down there over the centuries already, so we're pretty sure the fallout is minimal from that choice.
Having worked with recycling industry clients, I have a little bit of insight into the practical problems faced.
Aluminium is a dream to recycle, just requires a flux and heat. Scales down to room-sized plants.
Glass is the same, albeit with more heat and larger plant, and you need to keep lead glass out of the input stream.
Plastics, mixed, are a nightmare. If some a--hole adds a bit of PVC to you waste stream, you will get Dioxin in the resulting product, be it liquid fuel or recycled flake/powder/filament. And even if they don't, separating the different polymers is impractical, and failing to do so means your product is only fit for burning.
TL;DR replace plastic with aluminium where possible.
Failing that, use a single plastic polymer and do not allow others to get in.
Failing that, Fischer-Tropsch it for liquid fuel, and burn it only far away from any living thing you care about.
Haha so accurate!
I built Linux From Scratch once. Actually I had a life, but I was a student. No adult should attempt such a monstrous project unless being paid to, professionally.
Debian. Well, Devuan these days
Totally. Well said!
A wise truck driver once told me: "It's not how much you make, it's how much you don't spend!"
I haven't owned a TV in years, but I checked out the "news" on Australia's public broadcaster ABC.
Can't recommend, it stands for Always aBout Caren. Think NPR/NYT but with staged koala photos
https://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/Leaked_Australian_blacklist_reveals_banned_sites
That list shows what Australia's previous government was actually administratively blocking in the name of "child safety". Euthanasia. Porn. Poker. Christianity AND Satanism. Abortion-critical medical info.
I suppose we can add Russia and Palestine to get the current list that X has been disregarding...
Yes Epic, it will be an improvement. External snoops will only be able to monitor your network traffic, whereas on AWS they can see /everything/.
Consider hooking up a Tor Hidden Service as well/instead of Wireguard - it avoids the need for port forwarding, completely, it does its own routing (no dramas with DNS) and it includes its own end to end encryption (so you don't need an SSLTLS certificate either). https://community.torproject.org/onion-services/setup/
There are some Muslim Ukrainians, and Muslim Russians too.
But many very-traditional Orthodox Christian women cover their hair. As do some Orthodox Jews. The headscarf isn't definitive, you have to ask