i consider all other projects to be either scams and/or cooptable, and i've been in this since 2012 and that's all the alts have ever been.
lightning obsoleted every altocoin project's aspirations to do payments better than bitcoin 5 years ago, and is mature since late 2021.
nostr's size is already proving that we don't need another token to make a working, censorship resistant, troll-proof and scammer resistant social network, either, after barely a bit over a year, it is already attracting interest from users stuck in all the silos, X, reddit, facebook.
we don't need another blockchain. *tina turner singing* all we need is some people with ideas and some people with money... 🎜🎝🎜🎶🎶
it'll do whatever it does.
mass manipulation viral bomb user influx is unlikely to really happen or end up on any of our little humble relays anyway.
there still isn't a protocol for paying for relays yet, it's sooo early.
they should just try drinking bone broth only, that feeds you aminos that will turn into carbs worst case.
but seriously, people should just stop with the carbs.
lactose in milk is the one carb you can pretty much get away with that won't substantially put weight on, meanwhile feeding you plenty of protein and fat to get glucose from when you need it.
i have been having no other carbs but lactose for weeks now, and currently consuming maybe 10g of coconut sugar with a supplement i got, it's making me really cranky.
once your body gets used to no carbs you feel better all the time.
ah, everyone does that... the nostr makes you more humble :D
ah yeah regarding the programmable keyboard... it's not even that hard to do, although funny keys like a bitcoin key or whatever can be a bit funny, cos USB only sends key position signals, and depends on pc's interpreting them as regards to a layout, rather than sending a signal representing the symbol.
it can be done, but a different protocol has to be used for every different OS. i haven't dug into how to do that yet, though i wish i had the time to, it's a pain in the ass because i have already got a dvorak latin and custom russian cyrillic layout layer on mine but i have to press two rather complicated key sequences to switch between them, and for games, because so many older games especially make huge assumptions about keyboards don't for example, let you customise keys like "<> which on a dvorak keyboard are... yeah, right there where the WASD sits... so i have to also have a qwerty layer, and a button to switch that on and off.
if i had the compose key stuff set up right, and macros programmed in, i could eliminate that, have not just my dvorak, dvorak-russian/bulgarian and qwerty layout, i could have some easy keys to do portuguese and spanish and yugoslavian accents, since i can probably find excuses to be able to type in those languages as well.
ah, i didn't spot the software part.
i can't stand writing on touch screens, i hate the feel of them, the fact you can't use them with water says bad things imo.
yeah, unfortunately, nobody seems to have got the idea of a user customisable input app (keyboard). if you are handy with java or kotlin or objective c or whatever is used on your device maybe you should find a decent open source keyboard and build tools to customise it!
- fluoride in the water promotes cancer by disrupting apoptosis. generally messes up the entire thyroid-related endocrine systems.
- bromine in plastics and foods also disrupts the iodine related enzymes that terminate dysfunctional cells that are basically cancerous
- radio waves disrupt natural reception of solar/terrestrial/atmospheric radio cycles that act as triggers for timing, and this disrupts error correction systems
- carbohydrate foods preferentially feed cancer cells, because they don't do anything except replicate.
- going on international flights regularly x-rays and gamma-rays you hard core
- using x-rays to test for the presence of cancers increases incidence of cancers
- artificial sweeteners, preservatives, flavourings, and other synthetic pseudofood chemicals tend to all disrupt endocrine and cellular/mitochondrial metabolism which is part of what leads to cancer.
of course, above all, all of the above things increase viral and pathogenic bacteria/fungi loads as well because none of them belong inside our bodies and cause our microflora to go wrong and these guys are so numerous that our body weight is more non-human organism than human. so of course these also promote cancer.
curing cancer is easy: just eliminate all the causes and the body can mostly sort itself out.
antipathogenics like HCQ and probably the horse paste stuff and others also help because they thin out the pathogens getting into our blood, and the viruses, especially, thrive in combination with parasitic spirochetes and amoeba and so forth, and its these that carry the bad DNA around to spread the cancer into other locations.
really, cancer is just one thing: cells that should be dead because they have wrong DNA in them.
https://ymdkey.com/collections/75-keys-ortholinear i got two of these
https://thepihut.com/products/relegendable-plastic-keycaps-for-mx-compatible-switches-5-pack
sadly i still need another 7 packs of these to cover the second one but they are pretty reliable (the keyboard i mean).
it's incredibly difficult to get the keys outside of UK/USA, i had problems in bulgaria and bosnia with shipping.
anyhow, you probably will want one of those staggered key layout things, but the relegendables will cover you there for all the letter keys at least.
it's quite a lot of effort to get used to typing on a pure grid layout keyboard with no double or any width keys, basically nobody hardly does it and as such the best layouts for them are pretty much unknown and probably what people use is highly idiosyncratic, but i can tell you one thing:
i never want to go back to normal keyboards. the cherry silvers i have on the switches, they could be even softer, with shorter travel for me too.
the faster i type the more it matters that the keys don't go far and don't have to go far to register a press.
as some other mech keyboard heads i have talked to on nostr say though 'if i get used to it, i'll never be able to cope with regular keyboards'.
my answer to that is: my idobao always travels with me if i'm gonna do any serious work.
someone seems to be autozapping me just now, just one little note to test this hypothesis.
GOOD MORNING MATT, DON"T FORGET TO BE PROUD OF WHAT YOU ARE GOOD AT< AND SPENDING YOUR SATS ON THINGS THAT ARE BETTER THAN STACKING SATS>
a little piece of advice for anyone wanting to have a pleasant conversation with me.
don't start talking about onboarding involving of protocols when your idea implicitly breaks the security and/or anonymity basis of the protocol.
this is the fundamental basis of what makes bitcoin maximalists "toxic". they won't even hypothetically entertain a discussion that hinges upon breaking fundamental security features of the protocol just to get users in.
we ain't here for the gainz, to see our fiat bank account go up, or to have pointless conversations with normies about whether tyrant A is better than tyrant B, and why we are the devil for not slavishly worshiping their gods.
we are here to see the world made better because people have learned why these things matter.
after 2 days of maca (with coconut sugar making me into an irritable shit) and having gone to the extra effort of getting 15L (5 days supply) of my milk 2 days ago, i already want to get up and go for another big walk but actually there's no reason for me to go anywhere for at least 2 days.
best i redirect this drive to productive things, rather than flaneuring.
like, i'm only half way through my sit-ups regime for the day, another two sets of 30 must be done before the end of it.
and here i am blathering on in yet another nostr note. lol.
back to the code!
yeah, the lack of widely standardised markdown on nostr short form notes, mimicking the shitcoin silo posts of FB, X et al is not helpful either.
even though probably literacy rate among nostr users is probably in the top 10% of the population.
i can tell you all can read because you write like you can read.
fun fact:
the word 'beverage' is rooted in the word for 'baby'.
another of the strange linguistic transformations between U, B and V across the european continent.
they sorta look cute but they are nasty. at least they are slow, generally you are only gonna get shredded by them if you are stupid. really they are the australian progenitor of the sloth, who is at least big and a bit less stupid.
possoms, on the other hand, again you have to be stupid, but they will shred you also, even when they don't mean to. possoms and ferrets have a lot in common in this way, except ferrets bite you more, whereas possoms might just want to grab onto you and put their very strong claws straight into your arms 3-10mm deep.
thanks for that... i'm here in madeira and will be going to Bitcoin Atlantis (because close by) and i forgot to follow Jeff, he's one of the instigators.
someone needs to do a version of the song from "Meaning of Life" replacing "sperm" with "sat" as an ode to zaps
Things have changed a bit since the pod. Not using GitTea, found a way to leverage Git in the browser without GitTea.
Also, Loki/Mleku is just working on the CLI Signr/Wallet and Adam is taking care of the rest of the GitNestr backend now — if anything, we need more hands working on the frontend with nostr:npub1u9e887ad8pl49cxgzqkuljxcxy89dtac7jkyuajnukxg6hu2hufqdjdsp7. Although, Loki/Mleku optimizing BTCD could be useful for nostr:npub1h0rnetjp2qka44ayzyjcdh90gs3gzrtq4f94033heng6w34s0pzq2yfv0g in the future!
Creating a #nostr version of Discord/Slack or making a SimpleX relay in Go would also be neat to see, maybe Loki/Mleku will take a shot at those soon. Excited for the future!
yeah, one step at a time...
haha, maybe i should just change my display name back...
today i will have the function built that properly provides all the necessary bits of information to enable creating on-chain anchors for HORNETS nodes to be notified of updates to relevant NPUBs they cache for.