Subnostr

i've been minimally using matrix, and nostr messages for the small amount of IM i do these days, but then today after an important contact kinda begged me to install simplex.

i was like, "but there's no desktop app."

https://simplex.chat/downloads/#desktop-app

there is now a desktop app. even has a .deb for ubuntu/debian/pop users, i'm running the appimage, and for all the silly people with windows and mac, even you can have simplex.

it seems to be the choice du jour for nostr/bitcoin users.

i have a friend in bulgaria who pointed me to another, similar app called 'session' but i'm a bit sus on that one. well, simplex is probably not much different, but the principle is the same: identity is a key you hold.

not your key, not your identity.

i guess i can drop my simplex link into my nostr profile too, to make it easy to get in touch with me.

mleku 2y ago

as i was posting it into my profile i saw the last part of the simplex address.

sooooooo... this is basically torchat.

at last, someone has made a torchat again.

mleku 2y ago

i've been minimally using matrix, and nostr messages for the small amount of IM i do these days, but then today after an important contact kinda begged me to install simplex.

i was like, "but there's no desktop app."

https://simplex.chat/downloads/#desktop-app

there is now a desktop app. even has a .deb for ubuntu/debian/pop users, i'm running the appimage, and for all the silly people with windows and mac, even you can have simplex.

it seems to be the choice du jour for nostr/bitcoin users.

i have a friend in bulgaria who pointed me to another, similar app called 'session' but i'm a bit sus on that one. well, simplex is probably not much different, but the principle is the same: identity is a key you hold.

not your key, not your identity.

i guess i can drop my simplex link into my nostr profile too, to make it easy to get in touch with me.

Replying to

mcshane

🧠

mleku 2y ago

scratching my head wondering how someone could believe that was the intent of the image.

Replying to

Jeff Swann

We all live in a fiat world surrounded by fiat minded normies. It's in the news, entertainment, social media, the products & services we buy, it's literally everywhere. IMO lots of drowning out is required either away.

mleku 2y ago

that's what i mean... the amount of your energy that is released for your use when you take the risk of detaching from the scenario where they constantly impinge on your consciousness, costs you time and health, and when you get that back you realise just how expensive it actually was, and what a bad deal it was to tolerate it.

my biggest irritations now are screaming children and occasionally singing canines and loud motorcycles echoing through the valley.

the noetic pollution is drastically reduced compared to the UK, and my productivity has gone up 10x.

Replying to

Séimí Mac Síomón

Trying out nostrudel.ninja because everyone is saying that it is the dogs-tits , but to be honest with you , it's too busy , just looking at the feed gives me a headache . It does seem fairly quick to load shit up though , so there is that .

mleku 2y ago

coracle only for me.

it's simpler and the guy building it has a heart.

i have several other nostr web app devs on my block list because of their garbage notes, definitely not keen on using their garbage apps either.

mleku 2y ago

i am fighting with btcd because i don't want to cuck my work with imports of decred repositories or hidden imports of other packages that duplicate what i've already got imported in one place.

it may seem like i'm making a lot of work for myself but actually, this is so the work i do later on isn't so difficult.

not many people seem to think of their future self in their today actions.

the btcd repository is an example of a monument to not giving any thought to future self.

i'm only fixing it for me, but maybe some poor soul looking for a way to write Go apps without drowning in btcd will gratefully bump into my work and praise the lard that someone cares about these things.

Replying to

Jeff Swann

We tend to become more like that which surrounds us.

Thanks to podcasts & audio books & the internet, it has never been easier to immerse yourself in the right ideas & to surround yourself with influences from the right sort of people.

If you are stuck with people that you do not want to emulate, then you must drown them out with influence from those who are more like the sort of person you want to be.

#personalgrowth #selfhelp

mleku 2y ago

first option is gtfo. second option is drown them out.

i can assure you, the payoffs of option 1 tend to outweigh the costs of option 2.

sometimes it's just a matter of closing the door, if that's the case, then you can go with 2 cos there's not a lot of drowning required.

Replying to

HolySats

I am installing new sandbox for my daughter - as a present for her upcoming birthday…

Yes and I did hit the plastic plumbing in the process hidden not even 10 cm (4”) under the surface.

Fuck my life.

#garden #work #pow

mleku 2y ago

tako je zivot

mleku 2y ago

i have only two words for the chaos of btcd module hell

picko materinu

btcutil is a shitstorm of retardation. gonna have to go back to the drawing board on the can of worms i just opened:

(this is what happens when you are trying to avoid maintaining source code due only to go modules and don't bite the bullet and do it properly)

no idea how i'm gonna fix this at this point, maybe i need to step back a couple of steps to see why did this. btcec was simple compared to this.

btw, all of this is unnecessary because i have got all these things all zipped up in a couple of neat packages. i will just have to deal with redoing the imports when the upstream gets patched and it's gonna be a security hazard until i find a better solution.

[me@ip3 btcutil]$ go mod tidy

go: downloading github.com/mleku/ec/chainhash v1.0.0

github.com/mleku/btcutil imports

github.com/btcsuite/btcd/chaincfg/chainhash: reading github.com/mleku/ec/chainhash/go.mod at revision chainhash/v1.0.0: unknown revision chainhash/v1.0.0

github.com/mleku/btcutil imports

github.com/btcsuite/btcd/btcec/v2 imports

github.com/mleku/ec/secp: github.com/btcsuite/btcd/chaincfg/chainhash@v1.0.2: reading github.com/mleku/ec/chainhash/go.mod at revision chainhash/v1.0.0: unknown revision chainhash/v1.0.0

github.com/mleku/btcutil imports

github.com/btcsuite/btcd/wire tested by

github.com/btcsuite/btcd/wire.test imports

github.com/stretchr/testify/require: github.com/btcsuite/btcd/chaincfg/chainhash@v1.0.2: reading github.com/mleku/ec/chainhash/go.mod at revision chainhash/v1.0.0: unknown revision chainhash/v1.0.0