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mleku
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founder of the gopher milk factory https://geyser.fund/project/gophermilkfactory Go and Bitcoin maximalist remnant living in Madeira and working to help the free humans connect with each other.

ok, no tui, just a pure CLI, i wasn't thinking of something that i'd have to pipe to less to actually browse...

is there a good cli client for nostr?

i prefer to read anyway and i'm just discovering how great simplex chat CLI is and the web browser is so clunky

#asknostr

nah it really wouldn't. what would stop real estate speculation is abolition of the Fed and recognition of the criminal nature of the banking cartel and its endless money printing as counterfeiting.

adding a tax on top of property will just wind up driving small landowners off their property because they can't afford the good accountants and lawyers.

every single law ever made to "tax the rich" ends up taking from the poor, without exception.

haha, copy() is your friend. if it's golang, then yeah, nasty race conditions if you operate on returned slices and the sending code reuses it. ooh nelly. tends to be an issue when the library has zero copy and memory allocation avoidance built into it but if it's written properly it loudly warns you to not mutate the result.

actually, when i write such things if it's just a hash at the end better to return a copy and not have to worry about this bug at all.

well, eventually the cow makes milk or is slaughtered and then humans eat it and the poop makes CO2.

in the meantime we get all this extra wealth, including sats.

why would you want a wife who is always out fighting with men at some job when she could be making your kids and house better instead?

this whole "independent woman" thing has been a marketing campaign to justify also squeezing women to pay the banker and goverment taxes while keeping them so busy they can't think about their actual life and family.

women love people and it's horrible that they are driven to fight with people instead of grow them.

sooner or later the natural state has to return.

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Have you ever won a fight that you should have lost? Here’s a funny story.

I grew up in a trailer park from age 6-18 with my single father, who was elderly. But my father had been a police officer for decades, and was an orderly kind of guy. He kept a tight household, and he would work each day and I basically had to be an adult from a young age to take care of myself, and he also put me in martial arts classes starting just before or around age 7 which I then did like clockwork multiple times per week for years straight. Many other kids in the neighborhood were less lucky by not having such attentive-but-hard parents, and went astray.

My neighbor Jordan lived with his single mother, who was kind of crazy and usually not home. Nobody really cleaned their trailer; it was gross. Jordan and his little sister grew up largely alone and in squalor, and were given no direction. But Jordan was a character, and he built his own direction as an agent of chaos. We became friends, and I would hang out with Jordan and his little sister there in the evenings after I came back from school and martial arts practice. Jordan’s best friends aside from me, were marijuana dealers and so forth, and I got to know them. Jordan was a couple years older than me and taught me how to play Dungeons and Dragons, Magic the Gathering, and a bunch of video games, and he was a big cultural influence on me. Most of my hobbies ended up being tomboyish probably because of him; he was the only kid on my street that was in my age range, and just slightly older to be a significant big brother type of influence on me, rather than me being the one to influence him. He and his friends joked that I was the “innocent” one among them; the nerdy girl across the street who was kind of part of them but also kind of different. Jordan usually didn’t call people by their name, but rather had a nickname for everyone. He always called me “Squeaks”.

A lot of people grow up in certain social bubbles, but my social groups at the time couldn’t be more different. My friends at school were like, fellow nerdy mathlete team members. Then I had friends at my highly disciplined martial arts school that felt almost like a military academy, with push-ups and rank hierarchies and “Osu Sensei!” type of shit. And then I’d come home and hang out with Jordan and his chill pot-dealing friends who did whatever the hell they felt like. I feel lucky that I had all these totally different vibes going on.

Jordan would host fights in his backyard with his friends. They were all bigger than me and kind of tough, but had zero martial arts training, and after some prodding I agreed to spar in it once when I was 15. My first opponent was a far larger guy who was obsessed with Pokemon and dealt pot, and he jumped toward me and literally picked me up and was about to body slam me. But he didn’t know what he was doing, and made the common takedown mistake of putting his head on my side under my arm, so I guillotine-choked him as he picked me up, and he immediately crumpled to the ground and submitted to me before he could complete the slam. Jordan was like, “Well, Squeaks wins.”

In my martial arts school, we fought full contact, like I had been punched and slammed and dropped and tapped out for years, but always with headgear on and mouthpieces in. It was always a safe, controlled environment. Julian’s fighting pit was acutely *unsafe*; just with some gloves on and nothing else. I always felt more afraid of a real fight than a controlled fight, and this moment and the subsequent adventures in it helped me build more confidence that even my fellow martial arts students rarely had.

From then on, Jordan held various fights in his yard and loved to put me in there from time to time because it was so unexpected to people. I wasn’t innately talented, and compared to every fighter being a boy I wasn’t strong, but nobody else had the 8 years of training that I had, or any training at all really, so I won every single time, usually through unexpected chokes after initially looking like I was losing, and Jordan was highly amused by this fact. It was comical to him when someone who didn’t know me was there, and he’d be like, “hey, you should spar with Squeaks here, she’s nice.”

The more that I would fight the same person over time, however, the closer the fight would be, because they were way stronger and would learn to avoid the easy traps. Anyone who knows the game of chess probably knows “Fool’s Mate”, which is the quickest way to checkmate someone in a few moves by immediately getting the queen into position near the opponent's king through their front line, backed up by a bishop. It’s one of those techniques that works once or twice against a newbie, and then they know how to avoid it. My initial chokes were kind of like that; I had a few tricks up my sleeve to win the first few times on easy mode against boys who didn’t know what they were doing. If they tried to take me down wrongly, they got insta-choked. Or, for example usually in my second fight against them, I would do the opposite and be super aggressive and go in and push them back, and then after a few seconds they would overpower me and push me back way harder, which I had anticipated and planned for from the start, and so as soon as their momentum shifted hard toward me I would instead immediately grab them and pull them *toward* me and to the ground with their own momentum, and then jump on their back and choke them out before they knew what the fuck just happened. But once they learned to avoid these certain common mistakes like “be careful about putting your neck under her arm if you try to take her down” or “don’t let her use your own momentum against yourself” or “just make sure to avoid her chokes at all cost because she’s not strong enough to submit you with an armbar or anything else”, then it would turn into a longer fight. And at that point they would be more cautious, and I would revert to kickboxing and relying on my speed and technique to just win with stamina and steadily out-hitting them, which was a longer grind. I would then try to avoid grappling them due to the strength difference.

After a couple years, the very last time I fought there before Jordan graduated from high school and we ended up going our separate ways, Jordan put a 200-pound black belt cousin of his in there and was like, “you should fight Squeaks, I think you’ll be the one to finally take her out but trust me it won’t be as easy as you think, and she’s also a black belt, and be careful of her chokes”. We were of similar age and training, but this guy was 75% heavier and a half a foot taller, so this was by all accounts an absolute non-starter of a match. Jordan asked me if I wanted to fight, and I was like, “Sure, why not. I’ll lose this time, but it’ll be fun. At least we have gloves on, lol.”

So, we get into the yard and this guy starts utterly beating the shit out of me every bit as thoroughly as one would expect. Jordan had told him that despite appearances to the contrary, not to hold back, that I had never once lost here before after several fights, and this guy indeed took Jordan’s advice seriously and didn’t play the over-confident routine. He had fought many opponents of many sizes in his training and knew not to underestimate people, and he just wanted to win from the start and treated me as though I was his equal. I got slammed all over the place. I was throwing punches back, but barely. Eventually I was dropped on my back, and before I could get up, he kept coming for me to punch me while I was down. But I rolled and flipped backward and got back to my feet, eyes wide in desperation. He came to me again and kept slamming me over and over. I blocked most of his hits, but the sheer power of his hits made my own elbows dig into my ribs and cause damage. He eventually got over me and started wailing on me over and over, and I couldn’t really go anywhere, like he was looming over me and had me trapped from multiple sides and I couldn’t even really back up. I was focused entirely on defense, because all of his hits had knockout potential against me and I couldn’t let any one hit my head clean, and I couldn’t last long like this. One false move and I’d be literally unconscious. My goal at this point was just like, don't lose teeth or get knocked out.

But after he failed to drop me with those initial barrages, he got more open, more aggressive, more comfortable. He punched me over and over on my forearms, harder and harder, letting his guard down to generate more power, trying to finally end the fight by just breaking through my defenses.

And then, amid my beatings, I saw a brief opening. In his comfort, he started focusing too much on damage and not enough on defense. Between his punches, I regained composure, and I did an all-out full-body hook punch right on the deep side of his jaw. I put every ounce of technique and twisting all my body weight I had into it, and it came out of nowhere from his perspective. He stumbled back from that one hit, dizzy, and sat down on the grass, unable to focus his eyesight. I stopped and looked at Jordan. Jordan asked if he could continue, and he shook his head no, unable to speak. Jordan and me looked at each other like “O_O” and Jordan was like, “holy shit, Squeaks wins.”

But it was a fragile victory in many aspects. I had way more bodily damage than my opponent did. In a half hour he was fine, whereas I was hurt for the next week. My ribs were utterly black and blue the next day; he had hit me so hard and so repeatedly before he got KO’d, that even when blocking his hits, my *own elbows* had repeatedly jammed into my ribs and caused bruises as he pounded my defensive forearms. And my forearms and shoulders were black and blue from taking so many direct hits. Both of us were chilling and playing Playstation 2 with Jordan the next day and I was the one that was injured, not him, even though I had technically won the fight. It became a funny joke among us. All I had done was avoid a knockout, gradually lose on all metrics throughout the course of the fight, but then win it all with one strategic haymaker hook punch after he let his guard down.

He asked, “Want to do a rematch?” I said, “Maybe give me a week to recover first, holy shit.” But by that time he wasn’t around anymore, and the rematch never happened. Likely he would have won, so that was for the best.

My experiences with Jordan and his friends in middle school and high school were some of the most defining for me in my malleable years. My mathletes team for example didn’t teach me shit in comparison to what Jordan did. Jordan was a significant influence on my hobbies and cultural influences for years to come, built my confidence in a real-world setting, and was a good friend.

being small and light aren't necessarily disadvantages. nor is being soft. most fighters are trained in newtonian, brute force but having an instinct for taking control of someone's levers and being able to roll and take hits while avoiding the impact. i'm sure you have heard of Systema, the training methods are very different to most other martial arts. learning how to soak a solar plexus punch is something you do before you have been to 10 lessons, and what it shows to you is that the damage of a punch only applies to a tiny part of its motion and every other moment it is a vulnerability.

bloody marvellous story though. not hard to see how you built you character with story arcs like that in there. i'm also from the fringes and i have a different set of things but not the success level. yet. and anyway, that's a subjective thing for everyone.

a lot of people instinctively doubt the story about global warming already but that book really lays it out and leaves you with no question in your mind anymore that it's a scam.

i'm all for the nuclear power thing, myself, but i think that scaling up our production of carbon power will be a boon for the greenery and the more people who understand that we get more green and more energy at the same time the sooner the lies will come undone. at least, in some places there is a chance of this.

there's a whole swathe of other things to address in there, but it does really seem to me like the segue to bitcoin mining on stranded energy, while also increasing our dangerously low CO2 levels is a good way to get started on the matter of the fiat pyramid scheme.

anyhow, something that i haven't yet seen in the mix with bitcoin mining stranded energy is capturing that CO2 to boost crop yields in indoor, especially cold weather areas.

i mean, imagine growing hay boosted by stranded energy CO2 output to produce grass fed milk and beef, what a combo haha. bitcoin, beef, milk all with no corn :D

ok, lots of THAT kind of corn but not the kind they currently poison cows with.

lol, like the hallucinations of the man behind that account about being a woman also... that's a funny one.

for those who have heard me talk about indra, this is the juicy, most human-readable form of the design that you can find:

https://github.com/mleku/indra/blob/master/docs/formats.md

before i go on, a tl;dr: indra is a connectionless, prepaid micro-session based source routing protocol that is intended to be used for providing traffic analysis security, similar to Tor, but due to its use of lightning micropayments and sessions, also enables the creation of network-native paywalling systems.

it would enable spam control for nostr, for one thing, and it would eliminate location correlation for bitcoin, and it would enable opaque paths for channels that would prevent state-sized actors from discovering the flow of lightning payments from one user to another, in the same way as currently Tor is used, in addition to lightning's native TLV source onion routing. (indra borrows this as its primary method of constructing paths, but turns it into a network transport, not just short messages but intended for bulk traffic and low latency realtime interactive traffic).

the implementation lags a little behind the specification above. two key elements have not made it to the codebase yet:

- the change of the header size specification with the "offset" (the initial implementation made the onion headers fixed size)

- the use of a connectionless, UDP based network protocol, which is essential due to the problem of scaling the network beyond a few hundred nodes with the current code's use of the libp2p connection oriented protocol.

the offset issue is part way implemented.

the connectionless messaging and DHT protocol still needs to be fully designed. it's a bit of a challenging problem to work out because UDP messaging protocols require the implementation of a flow control system, and with the naturally random nature of indra's messaging, it will require some special considerations to cope with delivering low latency while routing blind and avoiding heavy congestion.

if you are a go programmer, you might be curious to browse through the code, i can tell you the first port of call should be the engine, which is the event loop that manages sending and receiving messages, forwarding them both internally and to external relays to forward onwards.

i would dearly love to be able to go back to working on this project full time, but right now i need money and for that i'm working on simpler things that have a more certain future cash flow.

looking back over the codebase so much of it is mindboggling what i wrote, it's not that it's hard to read, but that to understand it you have to be able to trace the flow of data through the thing, and understand the abstraction and architecture before it is clear what it does.

anyhow, i obviously need to focus on what is gonna pay for my next backpack full of milk but i need to put this out there and remind people i spend a year working on this, october 2022-october 2023 and much of the code is written, but implementing the two elements mentioned above must be done first before it can be put on a network.

nostr:nprofile1qqsxu35yyt0mwjjh8pcz4zprhxegz69t4wr9t74vk6zne58wzh0waycpypmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuetfde6kuer6wasku7nfvuh8xurpvdjj7qg3waehxw309ahx7um5wgh8w6twv5hsz9thwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjme0rxq4v7 i know i mentioned it to you previously, nostr:nprofile1qqsqfjg4mth7uwp307nng3z2em3ep2pxnljczzezg8j7dhf58ha7ejgpzemhxue69uhkummnw3ezumtfd3hh2tnvdakz7qghwaehxw309ae8xumvv9ujumn0wd68ytnwv46z7qgmwaehxw309aex2mrp0yhxummnw3exjcmgv4ejummjvuhsr0gzs6 this is what i've maybe mentioned somewhere in the past. a lot of the basic work has been done, i'd love to get some ideas about how to go about getting this thing going. nostr:nprofile1qqs9njktmqadt322myw6eag6f8qxuzl0wv9vpe7zxkn0d73fhy3s7qspr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt4w35ku7thv9kxcet59e3k7mf0qyvhwumn8ghj7mrfva58gmnfdenhyetvv9ujucm0d5hsz8mhwden5te0dehhxarj94ex2mrp0yhxgetjv44hymmnwvhx6ef0gsgz6z the payment streaming system you talked about might be relevant to this project, perhaps it can be meshed together with it or perhaps there is reason to think that the idea of micro-prepaid-sessions is a viable model for simple connectivity, as opposed to specific content delivery.

fibre is important but it's present naturally in meat and milk. not present in eggs btw. lactose acts as fibre when its not digested, and goat and sheep milk have a lot of both soluble and insoluble fibre in them, neatly suspended.

processed meat has less fibrous material in it, especially if it's been treated with nitrates and nitrites, these damage the structure of the sinew and such that functions as fibre in meat digestion.

it's a myth that sausages cause constipation, ffs the intestines they are (or used to be, mostly) wrapped in are fibrous and help encapsulate things. they put a lot of raw potato starch in most sausages so that's a problem there. again, chemical additives and processing techniques affect this.

i have found there's little need for fibre with beef steaks. with milk, a little helps, but a few teaspoons of cacao powder covers it mostly, it has quite a bit of fibre, like 10% by weight.

i should point out that the amounts of fibre needed are not huge. just put a teaspoon of psyllium husk into some water and see how much water it takes on, then multiply that by about 3x to include all the solid matter in your meal that will pass through.

if you have more than equivalent of about 3 teaspoons of psyllium husk per day you will actually have trouble ejecting the extra hard.

i got a one-off design printed on a sweater for my Indra project at a print shop that was right at my front door in a commie block in bosnia. places that print, mostly now also print on fabric.

regarding why hard to find milk: check my profile. I'm in Madeira. population 300,000. centre of the atlantic ocean. nearest milk production area is the Azores islands.

i have no car and walking here is not like walking on the mainland. most paths anywhere involve ascending and descending at least 50m if not 200m over a 5km distance.

i checked the ingredients, it was maltodextrin. they even put it on the "salt and pepper" flavour, that's how i know it's what set my teeth into pain mode for a week. the citric acid probably tore through all the tartar that was shielding my nerves also, which wouldn't have helped, but that stuff doesn't rebuild fast.

the fact maltodextrin does it is very interesting. MSG, ok, understandable, it's a signaling chemical in the nervous system already, triggers activity, in the brain, glutamate excess is the cause of epilepsy, so pain from MSG, yes, i do get that at times. but maltodextrin was something else. it wasn't a direct effect, as far as i can tell, but rather indirect, causing bacteria to poison the nerves, or otherwise damage them in the same sort of way as a burn takes a week to fully stop hurting.

the milk leaves a biofilm coating on my teeth, the casein hardens up and is relatively impervious without strong acid or alkali so normal mouth conditions it stays shielded.

i've got way too much shit on to risk letting my teeth go spastic again. i need the money so i can get a dentist to yank my wisdom teeth, all of them pls, and let my whole mouth straighten up, but that's gonna be a painful process and definitely not one i can even start doing before i have a lot of spare cash.

so i'm grateful that milk provides a general all round solution but it's just a real pain in the arse to have to hunt the whole milk. the moment i have a couple hundred euros ahead of my expenses i'm just gonna order a whole pallet of the damn things. well, 90L, that's roughly a month supply and the stuff expires quite a bit longer than that. 6 months i see... so probably that means the stock i buy at the shop already sat 4 months waiting to be sold.

if i were to get it in bulk, i could order 3 months supply direct from the factory and never have this problem of scarcity or having to walk 10km round trip to get some. not that the exercise isn't good for me, but i really haven't taken a rest more than a few days from doing a 10-20km walk for over 2 months now. madeira standard 20km is like 100km on flat land.

simple pasteurised whole milk, in the nearest supermarket, about 5km away (i have no car), rarely i see more than 10 bottles in the fridge, and the rest is UHT, and out of the UHT and the fresh, both, whole milk makes up about 10-15% of what is stacked up on the shelf. most is 'medium fat' which means between 1 and 2%, which is a really low calorie yield after the yoghurt fermentation is done. 30g fat in 3L. this is not enough calories for an adult male.

the small markets close by none of them sell plain pasteurised milk, and only one of them sells whole UHT milk routinely, and their price is quite a bit higher than i pay if i walk 5km east to machico.

i've been to every store on the island practically. there's only 300k people here, it's not a big place.

nobody seems to keep in mind that i'm living in Madeira. this is an outpost in the middle of the atlantic ocean, directly west of mauritania. the majority of things from bovines here come from Azores, the remainder from the mainland. local production is pretty small scale, maybe a few thousand head of cattle on the whole island.

short man syndrome has too many body thetans.