"you don’t have to rely on anyone to bring Bitcoin about"
~ bitcoin advocate quote
Bitcoin ultimately equates to energy expenditure/consumption as currency – and very computationally and energetically complex at that. How does Bitcoin not perpetuate hierarchy? People and physical ecosystems are inherently connected and mutually dependent, drawing nourishment from reciprocal and interwoven values (racing to accelerate computers to consume massive complexly generated electricity, is furthest from permaculture as you can get). Is there something I'm missing? Given Bitcoin's acknowledged rapacious energy consumption and its distant association with any specific living context or community on Earth, how is it not antagonistic to livelihoods that eschew unnecessary computer operations as self-determined approach to a more sensible, empowering, and convivial way of life? Is this a lesser of two evils kind of thing?
(asking for a dialectical ad hominem-averse friend)
Sure, sliced bread is great when toasted. But when you're entirely off-grid, there are a few more components required before toasting can commence. I say off-grid. Actually, I now have a pretty smart glass-fiber line that does pretty smart internet things, given the right configuration. That, and a bunch of other stuff (clean clothes anyone?) happen with these, my current (anyone?) seven special components, sort of from the bottom:
Battery charger and its magic box that auto-switches if'n I need charging (I don't.)
Mid-left: car-type DC fuse protection thingie.
Top: charge-controller by Epever that just works (as opposed to crappy ones that break). It connects to a couple of 400w solar panels and the lithium battery and does nifty stuff (including feeds to my 24v DC frig. [which in turn feeds me]).
To the right is a 24v lithium battery that is expensive and requires some config. fiddling – but after that, relieves one of the maintenance and more primitive aspects of lead-acid batteries (reckoned to charge on for 10 years+ to boot). The little heat-sink-looking thing next to it, is where I step down the batt's 24v to 12v to power a water pump, some now widely available DC light bulbs that are 4w for good light, as well as my fiber-optic-box-thingie (tech term), and a mobile travel router. Both of these use negligible amounts of electricity (and yet, they much desire a stable 12v which the lithium battery and transformer deliver admirably).
Anyhoo, fellow web developer Vic kindly inquired about if I document this version of the development rabbit-hole, which I don't, so here it is. It's really quite similar to the sometimes rewarding, always challenging, world of troubleshooting and deploying software (read: you learn to cultivate patience).
And when it works, you get to eat toast and shower and post to nostr and stuff.
#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=886x495&blurhash=iZLqhM.ASjIU-%3ARjkDRkV%5B-%3AIUs%3AWCNGV%3Faxt8Rk%250MwWVtRWCR*jYWBfkIUs.WBadt6kWf7RPWBRjjEjYogM%7CkCf5bHof&x=f0f36771fc12e64dd54d3ac22e77fb52ad09f56d4f702d9fad114245a96af88ffrom my dict:
bigeois | biˈZHwä |
of or characteristic of the technocratic class.
upholding the interests of technology; not low-energy or slow:
"bigeois society takes for granted the sanctity of progress"
Nostr DOES seem analogous to having access to quality bike parts AND fair access to the pathways. If its adoption leads to on-the-ground community wellness; that will be the proof-of-pudding.
I made this 10 years ago, as the digital wave heights came further into view.
would this address the issue?
import { fetchData } from './yourAsyncFile';
export function yourExportedFunction() {
// Call the asynchronous function and get a promise
const asyncOperation = fetchData();
// Use the then() method to handle the result when the promise is resolved
asyncOperation.then(result => {
console.log(result);
updatePage(result);
});
// Note: Code here will execute immediately and won't have access to the result.
// Make sure any logic dependent on the result is inside the then() block.
}
// Example function to update the page
function updatePage(result) {
// Update the page using the result of the asynchronous operation
console.log('Updating page with result:', result);
}
gratuitous kudos to https://flycat.club/ for making a fine-looking client!
good old clarity will never be abstracted away
interesting. does the mullein feel friendly to your lungs?
nostr:npub1ksjaa6t68z20tvd4zgndty3usm5j8gys8x3k5shqphxelgtkxqcstjvr7p my fav desktop client is nostrudel.ninja - has a lot of extra features many clients don't have
ya, an impressive array of features. Fwiw, I'm currently enjoying Iris for its civilian-level signup among other things. 🤙🏼
er, I believe I just spotted a Replicant here in Nostrland. trippy.
In addition to plain old Saturday, for me anyway, this week marks my initial participation in Nostr (for the uninitiated, Nostr is a way to participate in the Web in a decentralized [ i.e. not beholden to Sluggo-the-proprietary-corporation-that-can-just-disappear-you-at-will ] myriad of ways).
To be honest, I really don't share the bitcoin zeal of a lot of others that inhabit this space. Suffice to say ... er, well ... beyond a certain threshold of energy consumption, technical processes begin to dictate social relations. As esoteric as that may sound, I'll leave it at that. But really, this sort of cryptographic identity that shares a through-line of sorts with cryptocurrency is just that and nothing more.
I work with the webrtc protocol which affords really nice decentralized peer connectivity via browser-to-browser. (For my new Nostr-nerd friends here, if there isn't a slick little 'signal-server' implemented for Nostr, that would be a nice tool. (In webrtc, you need a way to identify the browsers you want to connect to ... audio, voice, and a data-channel ... by way of this signal server. I'd think that shifting some of the transport to a data-channel thusly would be sleek, even robust. If there is such a thing, don't hesitate to drop a line.
Okay. Techno-jazz out of the way, brings me to another impression from this initial survey of this fledgling and open-ended protocol. And that is a factor that I suspect will evolve for its obvious benefit. I'm calling it a breezy entry way to Nostr. Getting Aunt Sally on board is another way of putting it. To put it as rant-free as I can: All this supposed liberty and boost to a shared public utility to encourage and promote open public discourse – that Nostr could seemingly avail – is just another version of a technocrat's gleeful cheer of "neato!" until folks with shitty old android phones can use it as easily as said-Sluggo's onboarding.
In closing, aloha and mahalo (thanks) to my seemingly kind-hearted new Nostril friends. (that Haw'n reference may "dox" myself as to actually living in a particular place (living-context) on the Earth. I'll save that rap for a penchant for using this stuff within actual community (read: not 'community' predicated on "hey! we don't do proximity here" heh.
Time to piss off the neighbors. https://video.nostr.build/442927f65301277fb73dcd284c9db0682f87e0f6e51af26a1a75e1a5535d4262.mp4
dig yer catharsis !
$0.43 to have a brief gander at these puppies?
Do I need another browser extension to express flattery?
hey you nostrstud ... is your npub now purple ... or are you just glad to see me?
Hi,
I followed you and came here to sort of belly ache about your client needing macOS beyond my 11.3.1 (and my typical trope of 'let us wrest these tools from techno-elites blah bla'). However, hearing your woes of water, and having been on catchment for about 25 years now ... well, there's Nostr ... and there's water. Me, I been through a fair amount of the permutations of harvesting rainwater (Hawai'i Island). Your persistent stanky water anecdote brings me back to the formative years of the homestead when, to my dismay, and after longer than I'd prefer; I realized that I was showering in water infused with essence of dead rat.
Dues paying!
Stanky rat-water anecdotes aside, and fwiw, having water that cycles robustly has been real important ... obviously catching it cleanly is super important. I should add that my homestead is in the rainforest ... so copious rain. (How many inches per year down your way?)
Mostly this is a note wishing your and your water well (anybody?). We have gnarly stories of leptospirosis and the rest, however, best I can tell, I, nor anyone else consuming my water has. In fact, over the years, when having to travel, it was always a drag to have to leave my super clean water behind. Even now, living on the kona-side of this island, I haul water from my homestead as it is unmatched. Again fwiw, I run two tanks, so the second one gets filled by the first off the gutter, which 'cleans' it ala, well in a way not unlike how some pool filters sort of work. I have a little sediment filter. (caveat: don't use my techniques dear readers. use UV filters and ... masks if need be!) Nah. And then, at the end, I run a 1/2 carbon 1/2 calcite filter to harden the water a bit. (Then I can caffeinate with fine taste. But, by all means I rescind my OS-kvetching until your water clears up. ...then if there's a crustier version of Gossip that plays nice with OS 11 ...?) Aloha.
... on primal fwiw