That tarp on the far left is covering a 25 ton hydraulic wood splitter.

Not almost done.

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My idea for disposing of nuclear waste:

1. Get it into the finest powder possible, while also being soluble in water, perhaps via a combination of grinding and/or combustion and/or other chemical process.

2. Dilute in large amounts of water.

3. Release deep under the sea in the middle of the ocean

Now, most people will balk at step 3. But here is why I think it is actually safe:

a. Each nucleotide only emits radiation a small integer number of times as it falls though some decay chain. After which it is no longer a radioactive nucleotide.

b. One radionuclide is not dangerous. The average human experiences 4,430 decays per second just from the potassium in their body.

c. The radionuclides will diffuse and spread out widely across the ocean, hyper-diluting the radioactivity

d. Hyperdilute radioactivity is already with us and quite normal (see point b about potassium).

e. If the release point in the ocean is remote enough and fenced such that people are made aware to stay 100km away from it (for example) for a while after insertion, people can avoid the concentrations of radiation that are dangerous.

f. It doesn't matter that the half-life is very long (100,000 years) if the particles are broadly spread out.

g. It might matter that some of these components are foreign to Earth (only otherwise created in supernovas and long-ago decayed on natural Earth) as they may have foreign and strange chemical properties. But probably not.

All my life, libertarians have predicted massive price inflation (hyperinflation) and the collapse of the dollar. After 40 years of these predictions I've become numb to them.

Eventually fiat money will go to zero. But to misquote someone: the dollar can remain valuable longer than you can remain solvent. The "cheating" of printing fiat money, especially as a reserve currency, is supported by foreigners that already hold massive amounts of US treasuries and don't want to see their investments collapse, and so they continue creating demand for dollars. Recent news of BRICS finding alternatives will put a shock through the system, but markets are not predicting this shock to be both imminent and severe, and it doesn't make sense that Saudi Arabia (for example) would totally abandon the dollar as that would tank their treasuries. The move out of the dollar will be gradual.

Also, price inflation is strongly influenced by the velocity of money. As they say "you cannot push on a string" and if nobody is spending their massive wads of money, prices won't go up. You are right to be aware of the fact that there are massive wads of money and if-and-when this is eventually spent it will push the dollar down, and you are right that printing money is not fair, but it remains very hard to predict when these massive wads of money will circulate. So the dollar is very risky - it could fall, it could fall rapidly, or it could go up in times of uncertainty.

Bitcoin is more sound as it's supply will only deflate and thus it's value will always trend upwards over time, so long as it remains legal (or accessible nonetheless). Volatility in bitcoin is generally a short-term transient phenomenon reflecting market conditions which are cyclical and unpredictable.

Anyhow, that is how I see it. I am not an economist.

Thanks for that reply.

I'd feel safer if gossip ran in a sandbox. Do you know why it can't run in a sandbox? Do you know why it says "Gossip is damaged and can't be opened. You should move it to the Bin."?

Has anybody gotten the gossip 0.6 release for darwin arm64 to work for them? I've only heard from people who haven't. Why did it work for me? I dunno.

curl to the IP address with a Host header does NOT confirm that is where the site is hosted. If vultr passed this on to you, they passed on nonsense/spam/abuse/harassment. They ought to have checked it first.

[mike@brindylln Desktop]$ dig javzero.xyz

; <<>> DiG 9.18.13 <<>> javzero.xyz

;; global options: +cmd

;; Got answer:

;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 20310

;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:

; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 512

;; QUESTION SECTION:

;javzero.xyz. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:

javzero.xyz. 300 IN A 104.21.24.168

javzero.xyz. 300 IN A 172.67.219.192

;; Query time: 46 msec

;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8) (UDP)

;; WHEN: Fri Apr 28 14:26:47 NZST 2023

;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 72

I didn't mean to imply it was his fault, just that he knows the rendering code better and could probably fix it faster than I could.

I do indeed. nostr:npub1hlq93jdtkfg29a8s7fqzzzh82q3pkc20rxucwt4geh6e56wk3y2qxdz5wg has his hands dirty in this kind of thing, I've been staying out of content rendering for a while.

Damn I didn't know there were announcements sent out. Maybe I can find someone's iPhone and chat while I'm helping my friend (I tried to use my android but it didn't work)

I am now! (whispered to a friend: "have you seen his moustache?")

Sorry I had to cancel ya'all. I will reschedule for another time soon.

Somehow I thought HTTP PATCH was well defined, like byte offsets into a binary blob or something.[1] I don't know why we would need PATCH.

nostr:npub1melv683fw6n2mvhl5h6dhqd8mqfv3wmxnz4qph83ua4dk4006ezsrt5c24

[1] This is the first time I said something stupid on nostr.[2]

[2] Please don't double check.

Only the best for nostr. 😁

Now I see you on the solid.mit.edu page. 👍

Nice. Glad it's JSON not XML. I meant PATCH as in the HTTP verb.

Tried to zap you but Wallet of Satoshi told me there was some problem with the LNURL

Solid is Tim Berners-Lee right? Haven't heard that for a while.

Just .clone() everything!

If I had paid more attention instead of being head down in my own project, I would have already known.

I gotta zap that bastard

So that thing was real?

"You think you're sovereign? That makes you a fascist. I'm reporting you to the WEF for misinformation, and adding you to my list of russian bots." - ChatGPT (not really)

Hell, maybe I'll just use this new MacOS mini with a usb-to-sata to connect the 2TB drive... and whonix.

I recently setup a bitcoin node. Got the whole blockchain caught up. But as I live on a farm and can't get fibre, my Internet is slow and the full node is really slow and bogs the network. You can disable some things to avoid that, I just haven't figured out what to disable, and/or whether I should be running it within whonix or just bare. Oh... and I haven't opened my firewall port for bitcoin yet (long story about router access and mice, ask me and I'll explain)... but if I use whonix not only do I get Tor but I also don't have to open a bitcoin firewall port.

I was looking for a better-than-rpi box and didn't settle on one, so I'll be watching this thread for advice.

People enraged by content on Twitter should consider stoicism (and nostr):

“The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.” - Epictetus

“It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.” - Epictetus

“We suffer more in imagination than in reality.” - Seneca

“Wealth consists not in having many possessions, but in having few wants.” - Epictetus

“Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.” - Epictetus

“The key is to keep company only with those who uplift you, who bring forth your best.” - Epictetus

“Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not ‘this is misfortune,’ but ‘to bear this worthily is good fortune’.” - Marcus Aurelius

That all fits with my understanding. Except your opinion at the end that the manufacturing of consent (great book btw) is only facially about China but actually against the Western pleb. I think instead that power always seeks more power (against the Western pleb, yes) but also seeks to neutralize threats to it's power, which realistically is the Chinese state. So IMHO it is both. I take John Mearsheimer's view on this.

If you are concerned about great risks to humanity such as climate change, nuclear war, gain of function research, or the emergence of out of control general A.I., then you should consider that the only approaching-reliable way of containing those risks is for humanity to cooperate on them worldwide. That means that in at least some sense the West should be maintaining friendly relationships with China, not posturing for war. Because in a war posture there is no hope of containing their research which becomes a desperate attempt to win. E.g. we need to make hyper-intelligent missiles... oops! or we need to make a bioweapon... oops! Etc.

Now more than ever before we need to normalize relations and cooperate. The battle for power seems so childish to me in the face of the real threats.

This is really a tension between loyalty to your nation (if you are American) and loyalty to the truth. People will come down on different sides on that one. But at this point, honestly, we all know what happened. The emperor has no clothes.

You're on my shortlist too. 😁

Hey, and I think Europe might flip too eventually. At the very least, there have got to be a lot of pissed off Germans hating America right now.

Russian media isn't blocked, but it has been deplatformed in many places. I think RT is still on LBRY. You can still get (for example) https://www.youtube.com/@Firstpostt on YouTube (not Russian, but Indian which is pro-Russian these days).

I laughed when the Pentagon said that the casualty numbers appear to have been modified in the recent leak, the ones that were leaked as photographs.

I can't remember a time when the US lied more frequently to it's own people. I know they are doing it strategically (noble lies), but too frequently and not good enough so the net result is just a massive loss of trust. And sometimes it feels like they have contempt for the citizens.

That doesn't mean I accept the Russian viewpoint either. Not entirely. And I definitely don't think Russia or China are better governments, the are a highly corrupt oligarchy and an authoritarian dictatorship respectively. But not as bad (talking to their citizens) as those labels would lead you to believe.

And the idea that the Dollar is about to crash is, well, not realistic. Yes, the world is moving to multipolarity and the dollar will lose it's status over time, but these things won't happen quickly. For example Saudi Arabia pegs it's currency to the dollar, and holds huge numbers of US bonds, they don't want their own wealth to collapse, so they will move out gently over time. What's amazing is how openly they have declared their intentions though, the crown prince, but also so many other countries aligning with the BRICS and refusing to sanction Russia. I see it as a commitment to the beginning of a new direction that will take some time to come about.

Nah, I don't need that. Maybe right-click on the gossip icon and pick something interesting from the options.. like run in a cmd window. I dunno. I'm not a windows guy.

Ok run CMD+R and type 'powershell' (sorry that was from memory... start a CMD or Powershell window). From that window run 'gossip.exe'. Then open an issue at https://github.com/mikedilger/gossip and copy-paste the results into the issue. There should be some error message available.

I'm sorry.

Does it crash or just finish rapidly? Because unlike most installers it just installs and quits, it doesn't show you a wizard. Why? Because I'm lazy. 🥺

What's on your mind?

I made a video tutorial for gossip but it is quite out of date now. Maybe it's time to make another one.

That is one of my favs. Also the Dark Almond (62% or so, I can't recall) and the Rum Raisin as a treat (50%?)

🫂

That is a good summary.