You don't seem to have a very good grasp on geopolitics or why this war is happening.

The US intends to remain the only global superpower, the hegemon. In order to do that, they must defeat China both economically and militarily. But if they went after China first, all the smaller countries in support of China would make that a very hard fight. So they have to start with the smaller countries and work their way up. The US has perfected "soft power" where they use deception (news media) to trick a nation's people into voting for their preferred candidate. If that doesn't work, they bomb them (or they have Israel do it). This has happened now in about 20 - 30 countries mostly around the middle east, but it (CIA operations) has happened in Ukraine multiple times around elections. After they capture Iran, I believe they will go after India. And then Russia via it's former SSR states, which they have been setting up for a long time. And finally China.

In December, Putin asked Biden if Ukraine would be added to NATO (an anti-Russia MILITARY alliance right on their doorstep!) and Biden told him it was up to Ukraine. Putin took that as meaning that it would. So in February he took actions to put a stop to it. Actions that he threatened to take over and over again throughout the prior 25 years as documented in countless places, red lines which NATO crossed and Russia didn't retaliate to. Finally Russia feeling like a boiled frog took decisive action, even as they didn't want to... they were cornered at that point.

Ukraine didn't do anything wrong, except be dumb about geopolitics, and make decisions that were unwise given the context. Ukraine is just a pawn in a much larger war that you don't seem to be aware of.

Taiwan will probably be a theatre of war in the next decade some time. And they will call it Chinese aggression. And that will be correct, but will represent the less interesting half of why China will feel the need to take control of Taiwan: to hold back the military aggression of the United States.

That is my view, based on lots of data. But I'm not an expert in geopolitics, more of a curious hobbyist. I've heard "Provoked" by Scott Horton is a good book explaining the Russia Ukraine war... but of course you won't read it. You will remain in your world of anger and simple explanations.

I couldn't find the droids I was looking for. All I got is C-2PO and R2D1-beta.

Ok I pushed a fix to unstable.

nice

I can rearrange these so the link doesn't move. But I'd say there are multiple problems to be fixed.

You are following 416 people, that is reasonable, shouldn't be the reason recomputing takes so long.

I doubt this matters but:

Turn on Settings > UI > Show DEBUG statistics in sidebar. How big is "ES"? I'm at 1.1 million.

YHWH is the name of the Jewish god, who claimed to be Elohim (or El), the previous word of god.

The pronounciation of YHWH was apparently kept secret by the high priests and was eventually lost. Nobody knows how it was originally pronounced.

Some have suggested YaHWeH, others say JeHoVaH, but these are just placeholders.

I think it is pronounced YeeHawWooHoo

Hmm.

I have "recompute feed periodically" on (every 8 seconds. the default) and when something is new it gives a "Show new updates" link.

For me, recomputing happens so fast there usually isn't even a single frame where the text is printed.

I suppose if recomputing happens more frequently, and if it takes a long time to recompute, then having these rendered on top of each other would be bad. I've just never seen that myself.

Are you on an SSD?

Ok yeah, far more doable.

In general, I side with smaller groups against larger groups that oppress them... all the way down to the individual. So I side with Northern Ireland against the UK. I side with Palestine against Israel, with Catalan against Spain, with all the many nations captured by the Russian Empire against the Russian Empire. With Ukraine against Russia (even though I often have practical advice that might sound like I'm on the other side).

> And I believe you think that Crimea, Luhansk and Donetsk should be allowed to go to rusia peacefully. And I assume you believe that in this case there could be chances for peace and love between all parties and its bad Ukraine who refused to follow this path. I can’t agree of course but I can understand this point from an outsider.

It seems to me to be a way to end the war, even if the bad guys win. It doesn't seem like you can win. But maybe I'm wrong. If the US, Germany, France, and the UK decide to join the war, then you could win. But of course that would be so much bigger of a war that I think it is also a bad path forward.

> Do you still believe its all about peoples identification and not about imperialists trying to grab with violence anything they are capable of?

Both.

Russia definitely has imperial ambitions. They have said as much. Their main purpose is to capture and control regions that could be effectively used against them, for strategic reasons. That doesn't mean it is "right", but it is good to understand the enemy, to understand why they do what they do. Ukraine is how Moscow was invaded every single time Moscow was invaded throughout history. And controlling the Black Sea, not just for their own access to Sevastopol, but also to deny access to Ukraine, gives them more strategic control of the region. But I'm not on their side. I don't think they are right. And if they can be pushed back then that is a better outcome.

But if the US and NATO use Ukraine to attack Russia, that is a much worse outcome. Maybe that is not what NATO intends, but a lot of people suspect this ambition. Because of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_dilemma nobody is right or wrong on this point, nobody can possibly know the truth, and everybody will act in their own defense. So we cat at least understand why Russia does this, even if we oppose it.

I don't think Russia would take Kyiv or Lviv because that would be like trying to swallow a porcupine. I think it is hard enough to get the people of the Donbass region to see themselves as Russians and not as oppressed Ukrainians.

As to matters of fact, I am at a disadvantage. I can only argue from what I believe is true. And that information is certainly likely to be corrupted through propaganda efforts given we are in what people call 'the fog of war'. So I will accept your versions of the facts given that you live there and I don't. And I'm sorry if I inadvertently spread any propaganda or misinformation. But where we disagree on facts and I still think I'm right, I'll try to find sources.

I don't really have time for debating, nor the inclination. But I am a curious person still.

I guess Russian language was taken out of schools. And the Russian Orthodox Church was banned because it was seen as a tool of the Kremlin. You can see how people would have opinions on both sides of those facts.

I don't believe "might makes right." Nor do I believe in stupidly defending your rights when you know it will get you killed. If you came to take my home by force and I couldn't defend myself, I would find another place to live. But of course I would leverage my relationship with the NZ government to get you kicked out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events/2004_November_26

Gift wrap works like it works because it provides certain guarantees that can't easily otherwise be provided. But yes it has this cost.

A agree that NIP-26 or similar key delegation is not easy and maybe not even a good idea in nostr. But it is a good idea in general if we started over.

A remote key (and FROST) works well for bitcoin (e.g. bitkey) with infrequent signings only. But a remote key (nostr connect) for nostr isn't as great. I don't think the problem is with NIP-17 and NIP-59, I think it is with NIP-46. But all these NIPs could be just fine if we had a remote/FROST master key and a local signing key that has been authorized by the master key.

Luhansk declared autonomy and requested assistance from the Russian Federation way back in November of 2004, and Donetsk put it to a referendum.

But if you want to keep those regions full of Russians, oppress their use of their language and their church, and kill all the Russians, go ahead. I think you should cut off the foot with gangrene rather than let it kill your entire nation. But you do you.

-George Carlin

Thanks for adding to my thought process. I agree, interacting peacefully after the war is a big factor that many leaders don't consider sufficiently.

I'd say most leaders over weight the immediate future to the distant future, and one of the major reasons is that they won't be in power in the distant future so screw the country then... now is all that matters to them. There are very serious downsides to electing new leaders frequently, term limits, etc, that few people have thought about. Like this near-term bias, and also that a nation can't keep its promises and is no longer trustable in negotiations.

Yeah I don't know who they think they are fooling.

I wish you safety.

This post exposes nothing new. I'm just reminding you of what you already know: All is fair in love and war.

We are told about the rules of engagement, about war crimes, about crimes against humanity, about genocide, about terrorism. We are led to believe there are legal ways to prosecute a war and illegal ones, and that the whole world needs to work together to shut down the illegal ones.

But every war actor turns to war crimes and terrorism when they feel the stakes are high enough. Even the great powers: The Armenian genocide of 1915, the Holodomor in Ukraine of 1932-33, Germany genociding the Jews and others, the USA dropping nukes on Japan, Churchill carpet bombing Dresden, Israel genociding Palestinians, the RSF in Sudan. The UN doesn't stop any of it. Can't.

What makes my brain twitch is when a Zionist accuses Hamas of being terrorists, as if this is such a conclusive reason to take their side. It's laughably a non-point. Why would anybody expect a genocided people to not cross the line into war crimes to prevent their own extinction, especially when their oppressor is far more powerful and are themselves committing acts of terror? And the idea that the Jews are being genocided by Arabs is equally laughable and not in evidence. They have quite vivid imaginations, and are either delusional to be believing what they imagine, or strategically pretending to be deluded by their imaginings (far more likely). I can simultaneously denounce capturing civilians as hostages and firing unguided rockets into civilian areas, while at the same time seeing Israel as being far more guilty of war crimes. And I do.

I do not think the current conflicts will be resolved well. I think mostly innocent people will be tortured and slaughtered for a long time to come. People in power don't care about other humans. That is how they got into power... stepping where others wouldn't dare to step... on the heads of the innocent.

So the US/German/France/Britain have told Ukraine they are now allowed to strike deep into Russia, no more restrictions on the use of Western supplied missiles.

In any normal situation, if country A and B are at war with each other, and countries C, D, and E supply weapons to country A, country B does not retaliate aginst countries C, D and E. That is, supplying weapons isn't the same thing as waging war. Normally weapons suppliers would not put any restrictions in place (except maybe "don't fire these at me!")

And Western news would have you believe this about Ukraine and Russia. That Germany, France, Britain and the US are just supplying weapons.

But most people already know this is a stretch. We read about the CIA bases along the Russian border in the NY Times. We have heard about targetting assistance from the West. We know that Ukraine and NATO have been tight since the 1990s, doing military drills together all this time, practicing to fight Russia. We know there are boots on the ground in unofficial capacity. And the economic sanctions are also a form of war. Russia knows all this and more.

The West giving Ukraine permission to make long-range strikes into Russia with their weapons is just another escalatory step. It doesn't mean we will soon see Russia striking into other Western nations. I think Russia will retaliate in a different way (I have no specific prediction). But escalation has a way of getting out of control, and every escalatory step is dangerous.

I suspect Russia has retaliated to previous escalation by covertly supporting Ansar Allah in Yemen via Iran. How else would the poorest people in the world have hypersonics to fire at Ben Gurion airport? Russia threatened this, the West ignored it, and Russia seems to have kept their word.

Where I used to work there is a guy who whistles classical songs all day, drives ya nuts. Another guy from that office had AI write a song about it. AI has gotten pretty good at this

https://chorus.mikedilger.com:444/ec72e9842aeca8bad2b8e978dd5559c606cd4e0ddfbbcb0ea73a384dd7bf1264.mp3

I know this won't be well received here but.... news like this usually means it is time to jump ship.

Anders Puck Nielsen (The New Atlas) figured out what is going on months ago and his predictions have been spot on ever since. How? By reading the policy papers that give the US government it's direction. They aren't top secret, you can read them. There has been "continuity of agenda" between the Biden administration and the Trump administration, even though all the rhetoric is completely different and appears to be a huge shift in direction. But the only difference between Biden and Trump in terms of foreign policy is the rhetoric. The US government plods along according to policy.

🤦 Maybe his life isn't exciting enough.

If it is a scientist and the belief is in their field, then it's a good thing. Let Linus Pauling reach for crazy Vitamin C, or physicists believe in crazy E8 or whatever.

But yeah, outside of that it happens all over the place.

Most people are not trying to carefully cultivate the truth in the gardens of their mind. They have competing interests, especially group-membership interests which evolved for very important reasons (not finding yourself dead because people near you thought you were a traitor).

If you only have the Id (since nevent makes the rest optional) there is no slick magic. Now that this is clear, when you create an nevent include the author so other people don't have this problem. I'd even suggest changing the NIP to make the author required for an nevent.

Heh, yeah. He had a cannon that he shot at people who misspelt his magnum opus.

This is the cleanest remastered version of the original Pop Corn by Gershon Kingsley performed with the Moog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZoOtXVkUx4

The song always sounded like such a beautiful mix of things I couldn't pick apart with my ears in this version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSRCemf2JHc

and what I loved the most were the notes that he didn't play. Most of you probably better recognize the 1972 hot butter version... which to me is such a cheap sounding piece of garbage that I lose faith in humanity to find that this is the version most people cover... the wrong version.

In that first link, every part now stands out clearly enough that I could reproduce it (which I won't bother to). Maybe even too clean.

I still have Pachelbel's Cannon in my head. Grrrrr.....

nostr:nevent1qqs2a6xume5k07cwqa3q2nj62fpsg2etuhflk8tn0tk62sqrcdvqs6gprfmhxue69uhkcmmrdd3x77pwve5kzar2v9nzucm0d5hsfmscwu

You'll need smaller pieces of quartz.

Make no mistake.

That's it. I'm not going to follow that up with some bullshit like most people who use the phrase do.

This is a chart of latencies I created quite a long time ago, based on the best estimates I could find.

https://mikedilger.com/latency.html

Notice how slow the Internet is. Bandwidth has increased massively over the years, but latency hasn't because the distances haven't changed (except starlink is closer to earth) and the speed of light hasn't changed.

Notice rotational disks are also pretty slow, 10x faster than the Internet though.

Even SSDs and memory are slow compared to computations. You might be tempted to compute something once and save it to a variable, when in fact it might actually be better to just recompute it over and over in different places in your code. Compilers might improve this for you, or they might not.

What always seems suprising to me is that gigabit ethernet is 1000x faster to respond than your local physical disk! Writing to a server on your network is way faster than writing to a spinning magnetic platter in your local computer.

When writing rust, perfectionists worry about copying and memory allocation. These are the last things to worry about. I think they are useful to worry about, but you need to put it into perspective.

Compare their latency of memory allocation to that of contacting a DVM to sign your event for you. That latter having about 4 network round trips (DNS, SSL establishment, AUTH, and the request itself) takes something like 500,000 times longer. To get a better feel for that difference, if it takes 1 second to do a memory allocation, it takes on the order of 5 days to do a DVM request.

I got past the async issues. nip46 support isn't quite there yet - I have more debugging to do on that before I merge it.

NZ $27.90. No joke. It was the first menu item my eyes landed on, but turned out to be the highest.

Are you drinking? These kinds of questions...

test á/é/í/ó/ú/ü

I'm going to create the world's first AI blockchain.

... what else is big right now? I can throw it in.

GOSSIP USERS:

Several major bugs have been fixed in the last week. If you are on master, please pull and recompile.

* PRIVACY: gossip was authenticating to relays in many cases even if you turned on "require user approval before AUTHenticating..."

* gossip was rendering nevent links as note1 links in some cases

* when clicking the parent link, sometimes it wasn't finding the parent note (even though the note you clicked correctly hinted at which relay the note was at)

* new users who adjusted settings during the first run were having their public key wiped, which appeared to have no identity and they had to regenerate on second run

15 seconds of "Undo Send" was not enough to fix the misspelling of lycra (which I did twice!)

I was glad to have you. Enjoy the rest of your NZ trip, and thanks for the zap!

BTW: Those socks are lyrca dive socks. Whenever I have to work in the weeds this time of year, normal socks get filled with stickers (mostly wild oats). These lyrca socks don't pick up nearly as many.

Maybe I should spend less time fixing the inner problems of gossip reliability when so few people use gossip.

Maybe people aren't using it because of something else that needs fixing first.

Or mabye it is just that people don't use desktop computers anymore.

I would love to have usage statistics but I will not violate your privacy.