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A New Battery In Development Means We Might Be Able to Spend The Day On Venus  Thermal batteries can utilize the ambient atmospheric conditions to heat a special high-temperature electrolyte that is solid and inert at standard room temperature.

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-new-battery-in-development-means-we-might-be-able-to-spend-the-day-on-venus

After riders getting assaulted and murdered by drivers over the last few weeks I expect a huge wall of bikes today leaving West Oakland Bart at 1 PM.  map of route attached

[huge wall of bikes](https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?hl=en&mid=1L_TKvxNPeQ6mBYJPV_qkWKjyVbnFm4s&ll=37.817090306414876%2C-122.27173&z=13)

The water level at Lake Powell, the massive reservoir on the Colorado River whose southern reaches straddle the Utah-Arizona border, hit a record low this week, sinking to just 3,522 feet above sea level. A 23-year megadrought combined with climate change has left the reservoir at just 22 percent of its capacity—so low that it […]

[Lake Powell’s Water Levels Sink to Another Record Low](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/02/lake-powell-dead-pool/)

Rage against the War Machine rally Feb 19.  The protest will call for peace negotiations in Ukraine and the end of military aid

Nigerians getting rugged

The Central Bank of Nigeria began circulating newly designed banknotes worth 1,000, 500 and 200 naira (2.03, 1.02 or 0.41 euros) on December 15, 2022. The move was intended to replace dirty, old cash currently in circulation, tackle inflation and counterfeiting, as well as promote a cashless society.

The old banknotes were set to expire on February 10, before Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari extended the deadline for citizens to continue using their old 200 naira banknotes until April 10. The 500 and 1,000 naira notes must be exchanged or deposited in banks.

But a lack of new notes in the banks – as well as allegations that banks are hoarding the new notes – have left people desperate, with lines forming outside banks and at ATMs.

https://observers.france24.com/en/africa/20230217-nigeria-naira-cash-scarcity-protests-banks-election

step 1 of ~20 for git-ssb.  please repost git-nostr is important and needs funding.

#!/bin/bash

usage()

{

echo "

Usage: git nostr create [] [options]

ex: git nostr create nostr ws://192.168.1.164:8080

Create a new git-nostr repo and add it as a git remote

Options:

--private (not implemented) Make repo private

--recps ,... (not implemented) List of recipients for a private repo. Implies --private

--secretkey nostr secret key

--relay nostr relay url

"

exit 2

}

if [ $# -lt 1 ]

then

usage

exit 1

fi

PRIVATE=0

while [[ $# -gt 0 ]]

do

key="$1"

case $key in

-h | --help)

usage

;;

--private)

PRIVATE=true

git config nostr.private $PRIVATE

shift

;;

--recps)

RECIPIENTS="$2"

git config nostr.recps $RECIPIENTS

shift

shift

;;

--secretkey)

SECRETKEY="$2"

shift

shift

;;

*)

if [ -z "$REMOTENAME" ]; then

REMOTENAME="$1"

else

NOSTRRELAY="$1"

fi

shift

;;

esac

done

if ["$SECRETKEY" -eq ""]; then

SECRETKEY=`git config --get nostr.secretkey`

fi

if ["$SECRETKEY" -eq ""]; then

SECRETKEY=`noscl key-gen|grep private|awk '{print$3}'`

git config nostr.secretkey $SECRETKEY

fi

git remote add $REMOTENAME $NOSTRRELAY

nostril --envelope --sec "$SECRETKEY" --kind 17 --tag e "git-repo" --content "git-nostr" | websocat ws://192.168.1.164:8080

echo "created nostr public key: "`nostril --sec $SECRETKEY | jq .pubkey|sed 's/\"//g'`

Anyone remember Reagan holding a press conference to apologize for Iran/Contra?

DeveloperWeek hackathon this weekend requires a video.  a git-nostr proof of concept.  I didn't get very far, but this runs through upload/downloading git patches via nostr.  Still trying to get to feature parity with git-ssb.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7bbF18886g&t=71s