basically any kind of indicator can just be a token in the input of the classifier and then you don't have to worry about interpreting the token because the classifier will figure out how much it should count
in my experience, if there is a Bayesian filter score and you combine it with other scores, the composite score will be less reliable. i had SpamAssassin on an email server that i ran for years and i wondered why spam kept leaking through and when i disabled everything but the Bayesian filter, it started working better. on a later email server i just dropped SA in favour of Bogofilter - the original Bayesian spam filter which does nothing else - and it did the same job. a Naive Bayesian Classifier library should be able to do the same job. and NIP-05 verification is just a token you add as an input to the classifier. it'll learn to recognise that token as a good sign if you train it enough.
i was proposing Bayesian filtering on relays the other day but nobody cared
macOS users: yuck, Microsoft software!
Windows users: yuck, Oracle/IBM software!
Linux users: yuck, proprietary software!
Fediverse feature that more Nostr clients should implement: filters
hide posts containing certain words from your timeline.
a little thing i learned: you can get a very nicely spec'ed ARM Ampere server from Oracle Cloud on their free tier. 4 cores, 32 GB RAM and 200 GB block storage. the control panel is... well, it's Oracle so it's a bit yuck, what do you expect... but it's free, so you can't complain.
my Nostr indexer runs queries to look up profiles, contact lists and relay lists it doesn't have. normally, a contact list also contains a relay list, but this is non-standard, so that's 3 objects in total.
to speed things up and avoid hitting relay rate limits, i collect pubkeys to query in batches of 70. but that third object - the relay list - is very rare, so i end up running a lot of useless queries. the volume of queries would be a lot smaller if i just ignored it.
it doesn't break anything but it feels a bit wasteful of resources.
i suppose what i could do is keep a list - per connected relay - of objects i have already requested in that session. after all, if the object does appear later on, i should expect the relay to announce that, so it doesn't need further querying.
you feel a bit small when someone sends you a donation of 100 Romanian Leu and their currency is worth 2.4X than your Norwegian Krone.
when i see an amount dollars, euros or pounds, i don't even think to compare, because they're worth 10X more and are reserve currencies, so they're in a different league.
Leu and Krone are both in the league of "obscure currencies worth about 0.1 dollars, euros or pounds" though, so it's a fairer comparison...
suddenly, there is a little money on my Revolut account
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if you're hate watching it, you're still watching it...
it's not your camera. your cat is just blurry.
"comfortably cringe" reminds me of a Pink Floyd album except funnier
the good thing about being pseudonymous is that you can tell some fairly personal stories
stop encouraging the hellthread by replying to it, you idiots 🤣
Ritalin was the first thing i tried and it did help. silence in my head, no constant thoughts bouncing around, and also, i became less forgetful. i'm notoriously forgetful. my short term memory isn't great. the psychiatrist actually pointed this out because when he heard me talking, there was a fair bit of going in circles. it's easier when i use a computer because it helps me remember what i was just saying. anyway, on Ritalin, keeping mental lists became easier. without it, things keep falling out of the mental list. problem was that it didn't last for very long and also gave me headaches and constipation. most of the meds i tried had unpleasant side effects for me, so that's why i'm not on them.
that whole episode is actually a major part of why i dropped out of the computer industry. i was trying to medicate to keep working because my motivation was faltering but it didn't work and just made me sick in a number of ways instead
interestingly, when i tried Vyvanse, it triggered a psychosis and i hallucinated