in fact, really, they aren't notes, but events. we are using them primarily for human readable messages now, but they could carry more machine readable stuff for several easy to imagine applications, logistics, transport, orderbooks...

what bothers me about the picture is that everything on the left except the apple and plum are terrible tasting and boring and way too much fibre and way too little protein and fat.

the sugar, the synthetic chemicals, the starches. i might be considered 'extreme' by saying that starches are bad too, but really, starches are sugars within seconds of hitting your mouth. sugars are diabetes and cancer and obesity.

Notes and Other Stuff. Really, it's just Notes, note type 1, 2, 3, x, y, z...

people call them "posts" because everything from tweet length to war and peace are called "posts". these are like two or three types of notes.

i think there is an argument for the idea that instead of calling all nostr messages 'notes' that you can invent new types, and that before this gets too set in stone, we can change them to category names. notes really are just another way of saying a similar concept as 'tweet', and then there is post, and then there is article.

why not make synonyms for these numbered 'note' types and enable them to also branch out into types, so you can have markdown posts, plaintext posts, short notes, long notes, etc.

just some thoughts... i'm a programmer and not just a programmer but a Go programmer, and one of the traditions of Go is the idea that names matter a lot. we take pride in our code being readable and almost poetic.

nostr:nprofile1qqsrhuxx8l9ex335q7he0f09aej04zpazpl0ne2cgukyawd24mayt8gpr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmp0qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq3samnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwwpkx2cnnw3ezucm0d5hs9ejxq9 "and other stuff" seems to get forgotten, wdyt?

germans and bulgarians have so many words like this in their dictionaries.

flour is objectively bad. so is sugar. really, no seed oils are any good and certainly not the ones you can get. olive oil is kinda ok, coconut is kinda ok.

that's my experience anyhow. just done a week with a few teaspoons of sugar in my diet after a month with none and i feel like it's compromised my health and mind.

picture on left should be a jug of milk and a fat t-bone steak, and picture on right should include soybeans and bread and flour and pancakes and lollies.

might be good time to tweak some old fleecy rags to make into mittens if ya gotta do a lot of swinging tools around in the freeze. you can't work for very long if you don't protect your joints from the cold, they will get painful, maybe even swell up from the damage, or tips might get frost bitten.

take care out there.

yeah, idk, i think we are diverging into implementation problems there because accessing Tor is quite involved for a client to have as a function.

i was also thinking about reverse lookup PTR records but that is a whole mess as well.

one idea my friend was talking about was putting a compact version of the npub in a TXT record, but that's a whole extra NIP to propose i think.

it doesn't say it in NIP-05 but nowhere does it have http://

but actually, there is a reason why it should be https:// only - to prevent man in the middle attacks.

for the last week i have been suffering from the consumption of coconut sugar. not even that much, maybe 3 or 4 teaspoons a day.

it seriously breaks something in my mind that had been happily stable and strong, it weakens the will.

sugar is definitely a tool for manipulators. making someone feel lassitude on a regular basis weakens resolve.

yeah, i'm using a different VPN IP address now and not seeing any problems with alby.

i didn't try to diagnose it any closer, but i didn't notice that my connection changed to different ip addresses. but maybe it did. if this is the case, than i can see how you wind up with banning a whole bank of addresses on an ongoing basis.

there should be a captcha, in that case, as DoS attacks are not going to be able to solve those. or at least an actual error message on my end that informs me that teh ip address has been recently (how recently) sending dodgy traffic.

my new VPN is based on a static IP address so it should be sorted now.

it didn't even cost much more but it does require a little work to set it up.

i spent so many hours watching logs of tests with my own custom PoW design years ago i saw all kinds of patterns as i altered the algorithm and parameters.

this is just the pattern of bitcoin, every 2016 blocks it readjusts and it tends to overshoot in both directions alternately, even if the hashpower doesn't change. it's like a thermostat, because it's a linear adjustment, it doesn't use a derivative factor, which reduces the overshoot.

i discovered that by meshing together 9 different block time targets, each double the previous, and having them all target an average as well as their own individual target, that i was able to make it both react fast to a rise in hash power as well as stay smooth.

later experience at energi.world i experimented with a super tight PoW they designed to be based on locked tokens, like a temporary staking to let you mine, that a standard single interval block timetable can either be smooth at changing or fast at adapting, and the smooth adjustment can lag badly behind hashpower changes, whereas the fast adjustment was really noisy, over and undershot all the time.

bitcoin's adjustment and schedule is basically in the in-between zone, quite goldilocks, but always you will see each adjustment period it will be longer, and then shorter, and then longer, and then shorter, the change depending on how much hash power rises and falls during the window.

i find it odd people use the expression 'bad hair day' when what they mean is a day where everything goes wrong. how does that have anything to do with hair?

also, i checked - nobody has done this already. someone made a more complicated thing that handles NIP-57 as well for something: https://github.com/AreaLayer/LNURL but i just wanted something simple.

my VPS is cheap, 3.8 euro a month, and the domain registration for my first year was literally 1 euro, and it's more than adequate bandwidth to run a wireguard VPN tunnel, and using my domain, host my NIP-05 and have a shiny domain name thing. lol.

so, i'll put together a simple go app that just pulls an LE cert, and serves up the proper NIP-05 JSON verification file et voila.

maybe something more will spring to mind as a use for it but for now this isn't a terrible waste of 6 euros now and 4 a month to have a vpn and bulletproof impersonation proofed nostr identity.

just been having a fight with leproxy, a little reverse proxy tool written in go that automatically gets letsencrypt certs - yes, i'm trying to get my NIP-05 running. can't seem to get the thing to serve up a filesystem for me at this point.

so, i thought to myself, hang on, i could write a tiny standalone Go webserver app that literally just gets and caches LE certs for the domain and then delivers the correct JSON, all of this baked in using a single environment variable for security, running on a no-shell user, even the LE cert can stay ephemeral in the runtime memory and not even write it to disk.

so this is my saturday afternoon task, after i figure out why my mood has turned sour.

probably just need to go for a walk lol.

the interesting thing is that when your main calorie source is fat, you basically end up with a very stable and healthy body fat ratio too... and i think that it bypasses the usual carb fat pathway stringing together sugars to make the fat, it's just basically absorbed directly.

i've always observed that the fats i consume rapidly alter the quality of fats on my skin. low fat diets dehydrate the skin, if 'hydration' is a correct word for lack of fat.

my new lightning-paid VPS service is awesome.

now, instead of google maps opening at Moscow, it opens in the middle of nowhere in romania, and the physical data centre detected as my geoip is in Washington, Virginia.

i won't get so many hassles from sites mistaking me for a ru5514n h4x0r but maybe russian sites will accuse me of being from the cocaine importers of america... lol.

i'm finding that just plain old milk is amazingly well balanced, i have just a nice amount of fat and the protein plus some good resistance exercise is increasing muscle mass. I dunno exactly how much muscle mass i've gained but by eye and the scale i'd guess i'm up 3kg muscle weight over my lifetime average.

the milk gives you a fair whack of carbs and that extra muscle is a little hidden under a reasonable fat layer, maybe a little more than i'm used to but according to BMI, puts me in the 'healthy' range where before i was just under.

it's carbs as calories that give you fat. the body simply does not absorb fats that it can't immediately use to make glycogen.

imo, the only carb that is not a disaster is lactose, because it doesn't make your mouth into an acid factory. it's been one of my favourite things about the milk diet, no more funky mouth, it's even resolved some serious nerve pain problems i had developed, i think i now have grown a little coating of enamel over a lot of broken exposed areas, i get no pain from cold or spices now. it was getting really bad because just malts were making my teeth get pain and my half dead wisdom tooth would get swelling under it and shift upwards with the pain.

literally doesn't happen anymore.

the other great thing about milk is it makes your skin all shiny and soft.

lecithin is a shitcoin. it's like soap.

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