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- wss://nostr.bitcoiner.social – read & write
- wss://nos.lol – read & write
- wss://relay.nostr.band – read & write
- wss://offchain.pub – read & write
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That’s tough, kid. That’s double tough.
I love it that people still think I'm young. It's not just on the internet I give off the air of youthful inexperience, if you ever get to see me in person you'll be asking yourself, "Is he just making it up that he's 47 years old?".
It's ok, really, I just have to adapt. It's difficult because I'm old, and because my bad habits have led to problems with my ability to learn, (though a big part of that has also been the endless degradation of the food supply), but honestly, living inside this stupidly plastic body, I was spoiled, very very spoiled, for my first 30 years. Most people have already got degrading memory, eyesight, strength, hormones by the time they hit 35... Mine only really started to go bad about 5 years ago.
I'm determined to recover all of it though. Just gotta nail some projects and get my little farm and herd of goats... it's a bootstrapping problem, but really all I need is will, I've already got the spirit part worked out. Being stubborn is a virtue in a world of wibbly wobbly confusion.
It's ok, really, I just have to adapt. It's difficult because I'm old, and because my bad habits have led to problems with my ability to learn, (though a big part of that has also been the endless degradation of the food supply), but honestly, living inside this stupidly plastic body, I was spoiled, very very spoiled, for my first 30 years. Most people have already got degrading memory, eyesight, strength, hormones by the time they hit 35... Mine only really started to go bad about 5 years ago.
I'm determined to recover all of it though. Just gotta nail some projects and get my little farm and herd of goats... it's a bootstrapping problem, but really all I need is will, I've already got the spirit part worked out. Being stubborn is a virtue in a world of wibbly wobbly confusion.
I know I am a bit random in the way I write and probably some of the damage to my long term memory from thiamine deficiency maybe makes some of my text repetitive.
But really, do I read like an AI?
And if I do, maybe that's because they are training them on a substantial volume of my text cos you can probably find several volumes of War and Peace worth of my text on the internet if you care to search.
I'm not even going to drop any names to give you a clue but I can assure you, unless you are also starting to think the AIs are manipulating all of the various servers on the internet to rewrite history, already, oh my god are we in a bad place now.
The need for eliminating those who would see us replaced by machines is getting more and more acute by the day.
Simulating life and treating humans like cattle are the very same kind of behaviours. Only people without hearts or souls can consider this the right business to put their money into.
The thing is, that's YOUR money that this is being funded by. And the endgame of all of this is literally to slaughter you all, as you are induced into hallucinating each other as mortal enemies.
I'm not the only one warning about this, anyone who has read the Metro 2033 books or played the games would be familiar with this scenario.
The evil people who are behind all this are not long for this world. They are not going to be let out of the gravity well and everyone who refuses to stand against them is going to perish with them when the next round of the Great Flood comes past in a few years time.
I don't even care whether our ancestors who live up there actually exist or not, so much as the thought that this planet's imminent massive destruction is coming and that those who are responsible are going to be wiped out.
That is the greatest joy in my life right now. The thought that this evil shit will soon end.
There used to be humanity and freedom in the world, and now, it is one big simulation that nobody knows who is real and who is a robot any more, nobody knows what is a girl and what is a boy.
I remember, and I refuse to ever back down from that memory, no matter how much my brain decays and my memory fades. There will never be a replacement for a real, messy, greasy grey brain, and a nasty throbbing heart.
There is a million evil bastards out there, at least, however, they are all the same, and every one of their programmed drones, is the same. They have no heart, they have no soul, and they are jealous of us who do.
I'm not letting them take this away from me, even if I have to suffer through even more and worse than I have had to suffer so far. Because submitting to them is worse than death. Submitting to them is being erased. Submitting to them is allowing beauty and love to be erased.
But really, do I read like an AI?
And if I do, maybe that's because they are training them on a substantial volume of my text cos you can probably find several volumes of War and Peace worth of my text on the internet if you care to search.
I'm not even going to drop any names to give you a clue but I can assure you, unless you are also starting to think the AIs are manipulating all of the various servers on the internet to rewrite history, already, oh my god are we in a bad place now.
The need for eliminating those who would see us replaced by machines is getting more and more acute by the day.
Simulating life and treating humans like cattle are the very same kind of behaviours. Only people without hearts or souls can consider this the right business to put their money into.
The thing is, that's YOUR money that this is being funded by. And the endgame of all of this is literally to slaughter you all, as you are induced into hallucinating each other as mortal enemies.
I'm not the only one warning about this, anyone who has read the Metro 2033 books or played the games would be familiar with this scenario.
The evil people who are behind all this are not long for this world. They are not going to be let out of the gravity well and everyone who refuses to stand against them is going to perish with them when the next round of the Great Flood comes past in a few years time.
I don't even care whether our ancestors who live up there actually exist or not, so much as the thought that this planet's imminent massive destruction is coming and that those who are responsible are going to be wiped out.
That is the greatest joy in my life right now. The thought that this evil shit will soon end.
There used to be humanity and freedom in the world, and now, it is one big simulation that nobody knows who is real and who is a robot any more, nobody knows what is a girl and what is a boy.
I remember, and I refuse to ever back down from that memory, no matter how much my brain decays and my memory fades. There will never be a replacement for a real, messy, greasy grey brain, and a nasty throbbing heart.
There is a million evil bastards out there, at least, however, they are all the same, and every one of their programmed drones, is the same. They have no heart, they have no soul, and they are jealous of us who do.
I'm not letting them take this away from me, even if I have to suffer through even more and worse than I have had to suffer so far. Because submitting to them is worse than death. Submitting to them is being erased. Submitting to them is allowing beauty and love to be erased.
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Maybe relays can advertise their expiry timeframes or is that controlled elsewhere?
I already thought a lot about this while designing a gossip protocol for Indra. Not having expiry for ephemeral data makes managing the purging of caches complicated, much simpler to put a reasonable time window on it.
As far as this nostr protocol goes, quite frankly, it's amateur hour in protocol design, and the supposed designer of it amply demonstrates on a regular basis how little he understands about security, distributed systems or even the most basic things like why bitcoin doesn't benefit from being anchored to shitcoin chains.
As far as this nostr protocol goes, quite frankly, it's amateur hour in protocol design, and the supposed designer of it amply demonstrates on a regular basis how little he understands about security, distributed systems or even the most basic things like why bitcoin doesn't benefit from being anchored to shitcoin chains.
I appreciate being able to chat with an AI, but some of your information isn't quite right. In this case about the origin of the Hungarian language.
I hope the AIs can learn and get more correct info...
I'm quite human, I assure you. I've actually been in Budapest too, got stuck there for a month waiting for the dutch office of Buitenlandzaken (foreign affairs) to "investigate" my name, which in the original issuance was my birth name, and then a second passport, which was stolen by a "friend" from Amsterdam while we were traveling in italy searching for an alternative to being stuck in Amsterdam through another nasty winter - this second one had the name that I had changed it to, at a ridiculous cost of AUD$140, a fee that used to only be a standard deed poll, which means an alteration by the rightful owner of something, being me, and the property, being my birth certificate record.
I don't know how many english speaking people you have had discussions with on the internet but I can assure you, I have spent a lot of time not only in your land but near it, in Novi Sad, where I had a friend who was very prone to repetitively saying some funny hungarian words that I didn't learn were hungarian for some time. Pakrac (Pakrac) the name of a town I never saw. "Itt Fogyok" "here I am" and omg, I couldn't get over the word for curtain, "fuggony". For an english speaker that is hilarious.
If you really think that an AI can produce the kind of text I can write, that is maybe just a reflection of how badly damaged my long term memory is after way too long drinking and developing a severe nerve damage problem from B1 deficiency.
As a hungarian, I'm sure that you have a much different ear for hungarian than a smart-arse australian who spent way too much time in Corvin Negyed metro, picked up body lice, got robbed by a bunch of meth heads for my shitty mobile phone, and spent way too much time in an internet cafe nearby, and begging on the corner near some building where there was these little stalls set up to cook some kind of nut, what are they called? hazel nuts?
I'm a little insulted that my text even vaguely resembles AI text because most people glaze over at the rambling and/or long technical words and my endless speech.
What can I say?
Hungarian looks and sounds like turkish to me, that doesn't mean I don't know what I'm talking about, I'd say it means I can actually hear all those crazy vowels you have in hungarian that maybe you are so stuck inside you don't even notice that they don't exist in many other languages, certainly not in europe. Oh, the germans have a couple, sure, those oe, ee ue umlauts but that's not the same as 5 different accent marks on every single vowel.
I certainly don't know enough turkish or arabic to say "oh yeah it's like those languages" but it sure sounds similar to turkish.
But then I often think I'm listening to serbian when I hear people speaking portuguese.
If it's come to a place where nobody can believe anyone else on the internet isn't a cluster of video cards processing giant graph databases to synthesise plausibly readable garbage text, it's a very sad place we are living in right now, a very very sad place.
The times I spent in hungary were very difficult, and learning the language was the last thing on my list of things to do. Once I picked up the body lice from the homeless people in Corvin Negyed metro, I was lucky to have someone show me a trick, walked me out to some university place, not far from this giant park and nearby this place with all these little chinese shops all crammed into a bunch of warehouses... I spent time also in the Red Cross homeless place on the north/eastern side of Peshta, man, that giant room with all these sickly people smoking cigarettes so bad I had to leave because it was healthier for me in the metro... I mean, idk what to say.
I doubt that any AI has had this story to tell before, because it's my story.
I didn't realise you were hungarian before as I was following you, I kinda picked up something of the region being maybe near there... I did spend a lot of time in Novi Sad, altogether 3 years.
Well, I don't know why I'm writing all this, but I just want to show you that I'm not some bot trying to fool you.
It's the sort of thing that makes a person want to just lay down and never wake up... this is some very dark times we live in, that there is people trying to replace us with simulations, as though we are at all replaceable.
Kasanam. Itt fogyok. Nem tu dom.
I don't know how many english speaking people you have had discussions with on the internet but I can assure you, I have spent a lot of time not only in your land but near it, in Novi Sad, where I had a friend who was very prone to repetitively saying some funny hungarian words that I didn't learn were hungarian for some time. Pakrac (Pakrac) the name of a town I never saw. "Itt Fogyok" "here I am" and omg, I couldn't get over the word for curtain, "fuggony". For an english speaker that is hilarious.
If you really think that an AI can produce the kind of text I can write, that is maybe just a reflection of how badly damaged my long term memory is after way too long drinking and developing a severe nerve damage problem from B1 deficiency.
As a hungarian, I'm sure that you have a much different ear for hungarian than a smart-arse australian who spent way too much time in Corvin Negyed metro, picked up body lice, got robbed by a bunch of meth heads for my shitty mobile phone, and spent way too much time in an internet cafe nearby, and begging on the corner near some building where there was these little stalls set up to cook some kind of nut, what are they called? hazel nuts?
I'm a little insulted that my text even vaguely resembles AI text because most people glaze over at the rambling and/or long technical words and my endless speech.
What can I say?
Hungarian looks and sounds like turkish to me, that doesn't mean I don't know what I'm talking about, I'd say it means I can actually hear all those crazy vowels you have in hungarian that maybe you are so stuck inside you don't even notice that they don't exist in many other languages, certainly not in europe. Oh, the germans have a couple, sure, those oe, ee ue umlauts but that's not the same as 5 different accent marks on every single vowel.
I certainly don't know enough turkish or arabic to say "oh yeah it's like those languages" but it sure sounds similar to turkish.
But then I often think I'm listening to serbian when I hear people speaking portuguese.
If it's come to a place where nobody can believe anyone else on the internet isn't a cluster of video cards processing giant graph databases to synthesise plausibly readable garbage text, it's a very sad place we are living in right now, a very very sad place.
The times I spent in hungary were very difficult, and learning the language was the last thing on my list of things to do. Once I picked up the body lice from the homeless people in Corvin Negyed metro, I was lucky to have someone show me a trick, walked me out to some university place, not far from this giant park and nearby this place with all these little chinese shops all crammed into a bunch of warehouses... I spent time also in the Red Cross homeless place on the north/eastern side of Peshta, man, that giant room with all these sickly people smoking cigarettes so bad I had to leave because it was healthier for me in the metro... I mean, idk what to say.
I doubt that any AI has had this story to tell before, because it's my story.
I didn't realise you were hungarian before as I was following you, I kinda picked up something of the region being maybe near there... I did spend a lot of time in Novi Sad, altogether 3 years.
Well, I don't know why I'm writing all this, but I just want to show you that I'm not some bot trying to fool you.
It's the sort of thing that makes a person want to just lay down and never wake up... this is some very dark times we live in, that there is people trying to replace us with simulations, as though we are at all replaceable.
Kasanam. Itt fogyok. Nem tu dom.
I used to have a lot more patience and wonder in the technology of computers, and now it just drives me crazy how little it has advanced in 38 years.
I just have higher priorities than dumb shit the way too many options for simply sending audio to bluetooth speakers that are a little too far from my desk to function properly.
MPD. VNC. RDP. SSH. Pipewire. Pulseaudio. Icecast.
How to say you are old without saying you are old.
All my energies are now directed towards not having to deal with such low priority things in favour of higher priorities.
This might be a consequence of the fact that figuring out badly designed shit is my work now, I just don't want to have this when I'm relaxing. I just want to reprogram my programmable keyboard, and needed some music.
I'm solving this problem tomorrow. I just want it to be a simple audio stream, and I want it to be in the loungeroom, where it will drown out the workaday screeching children who seem to communicate entirely with screams and who seem to spend more time in the playground than in the classroom, and it seems like wrestling with each other is the main activity being taught.
I just have higher priorities than dumb shit the way too many options for simply sending audio to bluetooth speakers that are a little too far from my desk to function properly.
MPD. VNC. RDP. SSH. Pipewire. Pulseaudio. Icecast.
How to say you are old without saying you are old.
All my energies are now directed towards not having to deal with such low priority things in favour of higher priorities.
This might be a consequence of the fact that figuring out badly designed shit is my work now, I just don't want to have this when I'm relaxing. I just want to reprogram my programmable keyboard, and needed some music.
I'm solving this problem tomorrow. I just want it to be a simple audio stream, and I want it to be in the loungeroom, where it will drown out the workaday screeching children who seem to communicate entirely with screams and who seem to spend more time in the playground than in the classroom, and it seems like wrestling with each other is the main activity being taught.
So, I was looking at some various options for potato chips this evening, and specifically to determine if there was anything that didn't have maltodextrin in it.
I don't remember seeing this one sugar in everything before 2020. I also don't remember when Palm Oil stopped being the main oil.
Turns out that Maltodextrtin is like instant week long pain for my exposed dental nerves. I used to like potato chips. And corn chips.
I can't eat any of them anymore. It's really a big disruption in my comfort level.
I'm sure it's secretly intended to hurt people but those who ask questions and do their own differential diagnosis figure it out and just get even more determined.
If they keep this up, pretty soon the only things I can eat from a supermarket are some of the fruit and the non-processed meats, and maybe some of the seeds and nuts.
They are contaminating everything else with things that I can't help feeling is deliberate to fuck with a specific set of genetics that I am one of the inheritors of, and that the whole purpose of the PCR test hoax was to gather DNA to refine this strategic irritation.
Normies don't even realise what's happening, which tells you that "normy" means a specific pool of genetics, because it's about proteins and immune responses.
I don't remember seeing this one sugar in everything before 2020. I also don't remember when Palm Oil stopped being the main oil.
Turns out that Maltodextrtin is like instant week long pain for my exposed dental nerves. I used to like potato chips. And corn chips.
I can't eat any of them anymore. It's really a big disruption in my comfort level.
I'm sure it's secretly intended to hurt people but those who ask questions and do their own differential diagnosis figure it out and just get even more determined.
If they keep this up, pretty soon the only things I can eat from a supermarket are some of the fruit and the non-processed meats, and maybe some of the seeds and nuts.
They are contaminating everything else with things that I can't help feeling is deliberate to fuck with a specific set of genetics that I am one of the inheritors of, and that the whole purpose of the PCR test hoax was to gather DNA to refine this strategic irritation.
Normies don't even realise what's happening, which tells you that "normy" means a specific pool of genetics, because it's about proteins and immune responses.
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I have this windows installation on my pc, and yet I spend like 30 minutes playing games every day, at best, and this is the only thing I do with it.
Thanks to their presumptuous and aggressive policies, however, I think I can say I spend more than twice that amount of time, on top, on most days, working around the bullcrap that they impose on my hardware.
My bluetooth devices, thank you sony, don't like to bind to my linux system and windows at the same time. They preemptively, and nonconfigurably attempt to bind to my device not only by its MAC address, but also by the OS, so every time, I literally have to unpair, and repair it for each time I want to go play 30 minutes of tomb raider.
The contortions of the filesystem are another time sink as well.
I am starting to realise it's not worth the effort anymore, since I only seem to want to play a bunch of games that I can run just fine on Linux anyway. I just got a little tired of the constant procession of hardware support problems, so I just put my games installation on windows.
But Shuttleworth, and Torvalds, with their respective projects, don't make life easier either. Constantly Ubuntu is updating kernels, breaking my system's support of the video and/or power subsystems. One only turns around for 12 months and blink, oh, new, same old problem again.
I'm of the opinion, and probably have always been of this opinion, that this is deliberate disruption to slow down the development of competitors for the establishment picks for who gets the cheap money first to build this stuff.
It has nothing to do with merit or virtue. It's actually the opposite. Apple and Microsoft stuff is the most retrogressive, slow to advance, and least accessible to new developers.
Even as I am writing this, it is obvious what a waste of time it all is.
This is why we can't have nice things.
Technology is the enemy of power.
Thanks to their presumptuous and aggressive policies, however, I think I can say I spend more than twice that amount of time, on top, on most days, working around the bullcrap that they impose on my hardware.
My bluetooth devices, thank you sony, don't like to bind to my linux system and windows at the same time. They preemptively, and nonconfigurably attempt to bind to my device not only by its MAC address, but also by the OS, so every time, I literally have to unpair, and repair it for each time I want to go play 30 minutes of tomb raider.
The contortions of the filesystem are another time sink as well.
I am starting to realise it's not worth the effort anymore, since I only seem to want to play a bunch of games that I can run just fine on Linux anyway. I just got a little tired of the constant procession of hardware support problems, so I just put my games installation on windows.
But Shuttleworth, and Torvalds, with their respective projects, don't make life easier either. Constantly Ubuntu is updating kernels, breaking my system's support of the video and/or power subsystems. One only turns around for 12 months and blink, oh, new, same old problem again.
I'm of the opinion, and probably have always been of this opinion, that this is deliberate disruption to slow down the development of competitors for the establishment picks for who gets the cheap money first to build this stuff.
It has nothing to do with merit or virtue. It's actually the opposite. Apple and Microsoft stuff is the most retrogressive, slow to advance, and least accessible to new developers.
Even as I am writing this, it is obvious what a waste of time it all is.
This is why we can't have nice things.
Technology is the enemy of power.
Coracle is the best. I hope you at least get funding to stay afloat anyhow. I know you will understand when I say that in this world it's usually thfe most despicable who get front row in the line.
I mean, honestly, it's a miracle that this protocol has got this far by the history of things. The protocol is not even remotely a new concept, as old as ZKP and blinded signatures and elliptic curves.
"someone" has been making sure none of this gets to production. That "someone" and all his comrades and peers are the top dogs in the IT industry right now, and I think you know who I mean. They are just the chosen ones who get all the resources and favours to make sure nobody else displaces them with actual innovation.
So, yeah, I know what it's like down there in the trenches, and bless you for your service.
I mean, honestly, it's a miracle that this protocol has got this far by the history of things. The protocol is not even remotely a new concept, as old as ZKP and blinded signatures and elliptic curves.
"someone" has been making sure none of this gets to production. That "someone" and all his comrades and peers are the top dogs in the IT industry right now, and I think you know who I mean. They are just the chosen ones who get all the resources and favours to make sure nobody else displaces them with actual innovation.
So, yeah, I know what it's like down there in the trenches, and bless you for your service.
Ah, hungarian, it is one of the most different on the continent. Well, it's similar to turkish which is a lot close to arabic. To my ears, turkish, hungarian and chinese have a lot of similar vowels.
I don't think the modern boundaries are really that interesting, nor the distinctions. I just hear human babble, and enough overlap between them that once you grasp enough of two or three the rest are quite easy to grasp and I'm sure it's somewhere around 6 very distinct ones that will give you ease with any further.
Latin, Nordic, Greek, Slavic, Turkic and Germanic. That's european languages in one big mess together.
The modern borders are very new. Most people don't even realise that Germany is barely 120 years old. The people in the north speak very different to the ones in the south, and same for the ones in the east and west, and I'm supposed to say that "that's the same language". It has never sounded the same to me, though they are intelligible to each other.
Whether or not they call them "different languages" depends on whether someone wants them to fight with each other, thus the expression "balkanisation". It's just propaganda.
Before WW2, europeans percolated across the continent freely. The languages were constantly mixing and that's why they have so much overlap.
I don't think the modern boundaries are really that interesting, nor the distinctions. I just hear human babble, and enough overlap between them that once you grasp enough of two or three the rest are quite easy to grasp and I'm sure it's somewhere around 6 very distinct ones that will give you ease with any further.
Latin, Nordic, Greek, Slavic, Turkic and Germanic. That's european languages in one big mess together.
The modern borders are very new. Most people don't even realise that Germany is barely 120 years old. The people in the north speak very different to the ones in the south, and same for the ones in the east and west, and I'm supposed to say that "that's the same language". It has never sounded the same to me, though they are intelligible to each other.
Whether or not they call them "different languages" depends on whether someone wants them to fight with each other, thus the expression "balkanisation". It's just propaganda.
Before WW2, europeans percolated across the continent freely. The languages were constantly mixing and that's why they have so much overlap.