upon switching back to Brave browser, which does not force me to have DRM garbage running, which blocks me from screenshotting my web browser on pages with it loaded, which is frequently the case with nostr clients, i discover that sans VPS i am still unable to use the alby wallet.

so it's back to the wallet of satoshi on my phone, because it's not possible for me to run a proper LN channel right now as i have zero spare sats for such, and alby, being the only lightning wallet extension, is a huge pain to connect up with a proper native wallet.

i don't have my brave browser set on excessively stringent malware and spyware blocking, but clearly alby requires something known to be either privacy or security violating, and they better fix it.

the large majority of nostr users are very disappointingly unconcerned with matters of copyright freedom, unfettered access to their own computing hardware, and several bitcoin influencoors seem to be unconcerned that librewolf has DRM and that unless you enable it, you get nags ond most nostr clients that you can't disable.

when i have to make a choice between my privacy, computer security, and using an application, being able to send zaps inside the browser interface is at the bottom of my priority list.

because i have very few sats anyway.

wagyu is the ultimate beef.

if i was raising cows i would need to get my hands on a few such beasts. the japanese have bred the ultimate beef cow. nothing comes close to it except angus, and they are fucking up angus in the UK for sure... i remember it was pretty amazing in australia, but australian beef is awesome even without the special breed.

cryptographic proofs can prevent the falsification of what should be the same data.

the 'different world' is just people's opinions and outputs.

the distinction is very simple, but some people seem to be trying to conflate forgery with the necessary divergence of data stored on relays.

it's completely absurd to expect relay operators to host content they literally cannot afford to host, or to host content that they morally disagree with, no matter whether that's the cult woke relay operator or a hipster cult relay or a christian cult relay or whatever.

opinions are not "worlds" unless you are a cult zombie.

https://www.qwant.com/?q=firefox+without+DRM&client=ext-firefox-sb&t=web

this is a remarkably instructive series of links showing the path that led to LIBREWOLF having DRM inside it.

i'm pretty much done with working around this, adding a blocker to prevent spotify DRM previews has led to a substantial loss of performance of my nostr client and this never happened with brave.

'normalize crap quality video' is a meme that people are going to apply indiscriminately.

low quality means bad connection or expensive bandwidth. good that there is any video, bad that it's not a good connection. making it into a hipster pissing contest is stupid.

the way it will work with nostr is simply that such relays will be used to find their type of content is all. this will also serve to restrict their userbase to those who are not interested.

the discussion is no different when it comes to paid relays either. they will specialise in caching the content requested by paid users.

nostr relays cannot be all things for all people without falling into the silo tar pit trap.

the logic of choosing, caching, and broadcasting content has a lot more work to be done in order to distribute the load effectively.

i've done hosting of various kinds of things for decades and the cost of doing it can grow very fast. solutions will be found, and people who try to pretend there is no problem, until they can't pay their hosting anymore, and then panic and dump content indiscriminately will let down the users as well.

and you would have your fans believe that it is not technical at all.

you are not helping the actual work here guy.

um. why?

is that really appropriate for someone presenting a complex algorithm slides at a talk at an international conference?

it used to be normal because people couldn't help it because of bandwidth. you are celebrating regression and stupidity.

that's exactly what grates my nerves so much listening to the children playing here, across the river in the primary school, most especially the girls squealing because that sound is given to the female of the species in order to serve as an alarm, and these little girls are essentially yelling fire in a theatre constantly, and my instinct says danger, but then i rationally know there is no danger, and then all i hear is a spoiled child demanding attention without giving respect.

every computer programmer who writes algorithms starts like this.

in my most recent work there is structure now after one revision but it probably can be cleaned up more.

the disorganisation seems nice right now but it will have to be straightened out when problems need solutions, like spam, impersonators, preventing the network from partitioning into silos, etc.

i made yoghurt last night. two out of the three 1L bottles (glass, of course) are still fermenting away in the heat of my morning hot bath water, i want them to keep fermenting until they are nasty sour.

the first one i've mixed in my usual cacao and salt, and i'm really liking it.

the yoghurt itself has come out perfectly like the stuff i used to buy in Serbia.

as soon as i get a bit of money together i'm gonna be brewing up 12L batches of this stuff, fermenting it fully out for 24 hours to get maximum protein/fat predigestion and near zero carbs, only lots of face scrinching lactic acid.

the fermentation chamber was just a 10L bucket filled with 40`C water, then to try and keep the heat in i put a wrapping of alfoil over the top above the bottles and then covered the whole thing in a leather jacket, sitting on top of a stone bench in the laundry.

in the future i want to have a large deep styrofoam box with an aquarium heater set to hold the temperature at 38 degrees, blood temperature, and hopefully in the not too distant future, instead of UHT pasture fed cow milk, it will be unpasteurised goat milk from a local farmer.

actually, that reminds me, occasionally i see people have thrown out old fridges. an old bar fridge would be a perfect fermentation vessel, just put a big plastic box inside it with hot water with the bottles/jars of milk with starter culture and 24 hours to the ultimate human food.

well that's a rabbithole i don't want to revisit.. virtually every thought that comes to mind when you say that leads directly to hell, and besides that, it actually looks like a disease. i recently had an infection on my feet, here in the warm subtropical weather after doing a lot of walking and eating certain foods that looked like that jacket. lots of little oval shaped blisters.

EN: You can use the links if you want to, i just want you to know that the site is using DRM software, which causes me to be unable to take screenshots of my web browser. So i am blocking the site because Firefox- in fact LibreWolf, does not allow me to disable DRM, it also pops up a nag to enable DRM, distracting me and wasting space on my tiny screen.

PT: Você pode usar os links se quiser, só quero que saiba que o site está usando software DRM, o que me impede de fazer capturas de tela do meu navegador. Então estou bloqueando o site porque o Firefox - na verdade o LibreWolf, não me permite desabilitar o DRM, ele também aparece um problema para habilitar o DRM, me distraindo e desperdiçando espaço na minha telinha minúscula.

translated with google.

i know it's not your fault i'm just saying spotify uses DRM.

i'm trying many other angles, i may have some small contract lined up doing some performance/concurrency debugging/improvements, and any spare time i have outside of what i am committed to i would want to dedicate to such work. much of what i'm doing builds things that could be added also, like right now i'm building an automated SSH deployment system.

i've started looking at the source code a tiny bit, for the relay and for the scionic merkle dag implementation, i'll be adding my bit to it as i get the time.

this thing has to happen. i have hated microsoft ever since i learned their role in creating the idea of software licensing and i refuse to let them close up the gates on us.

it's a holy crusade, it will struggle, but it will win.

no need. change the self and the world changes around you anyway.

the rest of you all, keep enjoying your nightmare. nothing to see here, move along.

the pink in himalayan salt is anyway just red clay dust.

this here open.spotify.com was causing my web browser to mangle my screenshots and attempts to upload .png files.

this is what i see now instead.

sweet gfy of happiness juices are leaking from my eyes

if i have to mangle my experience of the web too much to use firefox i'm gonna throw it back out off my pc again though.

mozilla is full of shit. virtue signalling, spook funded garbage somewhere no the spectrum between google and apple.

that jacket looks like an infectious disease

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