I so need to get to a dental surgeon. I'm sick to death of this wisdom tooth. I also don't know what it is I'm eating that tweaks it out. First suspect that is off the menu is artificial sweeteners of any kind. I already know that maltodextrin tweaks the bejesus out of it, but there seems to be other things too, not so severe. I also can't tell if it might not be something to do with super sugary chocolate (pure chocolate is fine, but I suspect very strongly sugar), or sunflower seeds, sunflower oil, chemically extracted olive oil, fried potatoes. Not sure either if it might not be something to do with natural or added monosodium glutemate. I used to get tooth pain from my chipped teeth years ago from certain kinds of drip filtered coffee too. Citric acid is definitely under suspicion. Part of the thing is that I daily use potassium nitrate containing toothpaste to numb the dental nerves that cause this problem, and in spite of this, I'm getting an escalating problem again. I also suspect sugars in general because certain things do this thing, I don't have a clue what it is exactly, but it seems like transdermal absorption that goes into the area around my jaw and causes this twitchng and swelling and pain, and I have this intermittent sense of swelling around my left ear as well, which seems to be tied to the thing in the jaw. Things that don't seem to have any impact on this: - milk - beef - cream - butter - peas - stout beer I'm just gonna continue to avoid anything that involves sugars or seed oils, I strongly suspect both are involved. The sunflower and pumpkin seeds are in my diet to augment my Thiamine intake but they may be contributing to this problem since they are among the things whose introduction correlates to the increasing pain.

Started my day with a walk in the dark up the road to the end where the gully/creek passing my place ends. I will probably go in daylight in the near future and find out where the footpaths are out that way to follow them up and see how far I can go on foot towards the nearby peaks. Life is good living on a rugged volcanic island. Except for the dogs that people cage up just to bark aimlessly for no purpose at the, mostly cats, wandering past. I did see a rabbit along the road too. I will probably never see them in daylight because of the cars, but I'm very curious what variety they are. I could see he had a little tufty white tail.

I have a nip-05 now 🕺

testing, testing, 1 2 3 checking if my relay is working

Just trying to install mattn/nostr-relay... go: downloading github.com/btcsuite/btcd/btcec/v2 v2.3.2 go: downloading github.com/dgraph-io/ristretto v0.1.1 go: downloading github.com/gobwas/httphead v0.1.0 go: downloading github.com/gobwas/ws v1.3.0 go: downloading github.com/mailru/easyjson v0.7.7 go: downloading github.com/puzpuzpuz/xsync/v2 v2.5.0 go: downloading github.com/puzpuzpuz/xsync v1.5.2 go: downloading github.com/tidwall/gjson v1.16.0 go: downloading github.com/klauspost/compress v1.16.7 go: downloading github.com/savsgio/gotils v0.0.0-20230208104028-c358bd845dee go: downloading github.com/valyala/fasthttp v1.50.0 go: downloading github.com/decred/dcrd/dcrec/secp256k1/v4 v4.2.0 go: downloading github.com/btcsuite/btcd/chaincfg/chainhash v1.0.2 go: downloading github.com/cespare/xxhash/v2 v2.2.0 go: downloading github.com/dustin/go-humanize v1.0.1 go: downloading github.com/golang/glog v1.1.2 go: downloading github.com/pkg/errors v0.9.1 go: downloading golang.org/x/sys v0.12.0 go: downloading github.com/gobwas/pool v0.2.1 go: downloading github.com/josharian/intern v1.0.0 go: downloading github.com/tidwall/match v1.1.1 go: downloading github.com/tidwall/pretty v1.2.1 go: downloading github.com/andybalholm/brotli v1.0.5 go: downloading github.com/valyala/bytebufferpool v1.0.0 go: downloading github.com/decred/dcrd/crypto/blake256 v1.0.1 Is anyone else bothered by the presence of Decred in this list?

They tempt me with violence They punish with ideals And an image of myself That is nothing if not unreal -- Snog - Hunter

Easiest way to not see garbage on the internet is to not download images and media. You're welcome.

I'm on a strict bandwidth budget right now and to achieve minimal usage, I'm learning about how to do some old school shit.

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I may get addicted to this because the pages come up way faster. This isn't the olden days of dreamweaver and tables full of fixed sized images. CSS is still coming down and can practically replace images for most stuff. Theoretically they could still be loading SVGs but I think they are not loading either. Feeling some nostalgia rn, really liking it.

Why is it that the Richat Structure is the only such example of its kind on our whole planet?

Richat Structure - Wikipedia

The article tries to say that it's a "highly eroded" geological dome.

Dome (geology) - Wikipedia

There are several other examples of other types of domes, but not one that is formed out of a volcano. Not. Even. One. Other Doesn't that seem a little weird? Consider the scenario. We have a volcano. For some millennia, it spews basalt. Then a bloop of more silicaceous stuff appears, and it spews a bunch of hard orange terracotta stuff. Ok, it's mostly iron, I'm just describing it so you can understand it. Terracotta is iron rich aluminosilicates. Red sand. Then later, it starts spewing some more basalt. (black, this contains a lot of black iron oxides, as opposed to the yellow and red of previous phases). Again, some terracotta. Ok, so what next? Oh yes, this looks like :Cobalt. Ok, it starts spewing a bit of cobalt. Then suddenly it's cobalt and nickel. Looking at the colours, there seems no other logic to how this thing could have formed. I'm seriously wondering how in the hell such a thing could happen at all. It's not just unlikely, it's cracking a 128 bit password by brute force with all the computers in the world for a million years unlikely. Firstly, our planet's core does not contain very much nickel and cobalt. Just look at the geology of almost every volcanic region on the planet, they are everywhere. Most nickel found on earth is associated with meteorites. The metal was first discovered by the Chinese. It, cobalt and iron are the main "ferromagnetic" metals. That is, they can hold a magnetic alignment permanently. . The structure is clearly not natural, at least, not the flattening part. The materials are not uniformly dense or uniformly chemically, or mechanically soft. It may well be that if you took an old volcano, and cut off the entire top of it, you could get something like this. But you couldn't do that with modern technology without an INCREDIBLE amount of energy and worn cutting devices. Or gigatons of TNT, used in thousands and thousands of careful explosions.

There needs to be a new type of Nostr note that signs a nonce with the same key every time but each new note is published with a new key. The current arrangement is bad cryptographic security. Read BIP 340.

There needs to be a note type for "switch to new npub to continue following this npub, kthxbye". I'm considering making a new key, just for a laff. It is also bad cryptographic practise to use EC keys for more than one message anyhow. Read BIP 340.

Something that is happening rn that reminds me how feeble the internet really is, is that I have burned through 200gb of data on my Vodafone mobile internet tourist plan. Until I organise something else, my max download speed is 150kb/s, though probably it goes faster at night when everyone isn't watching 4k youtube videos on their 5" mobile phones.

I don't leave tabs open in my browser any more. Control-W, Control-W, Control-W. Ah, it's gone. Time to get back to work.

Number one clue that we are going to see a massive electromagnetic event in the near future is that everything needs to be rewritten. The software is such a mess. Web browsers were not meant to be user interfaces, but rather, libraries. When things go this wrong, they always have to crash.

I remember the days before the internet. They were a lot more peaceful. I am not saying that the connection isn't a good thing, rather, that we should still store all our data locally, and not depend on the wires to give us everything, or when they inevitably fail, we will have nothing.

I've hit a stumbling block with the phone abolition project, namely, banking. I am going to attempt to run my bank app inside anbox, fingers crossed I can do it. If I can, I'm gonna be so happy. If not, I'm still gonna be happy, because that device is going to be only ever used for this, and otherwise in a metal box. Another project that is evolving out of all this relates to my abhorrence of the web browser. Namely, a dictionary. I'm not going for the hard copy solution, because why should I clutter my space up when I have a storage and encoding/decoding device with a massively higher word/gram ratio than any book????!!!! That doesn't make sense.

MUO

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I'm trying out Artha. It is summoned by default with the keys Ctrl-Alt-W. Word, I guess. This is very nice. As a programmer, one of the most frequent problems one encounters is coming up with good names. It's my firm opinion that after humans finally have a Carrington Event after the age of electronic computers reaches its peak, everyone is going to stop thinking about the internet as something to count on. Good. It also will mean the value of optical transmission and faraday cages will become interesting to people who have got used to living in a fog of electromagnetic noise. I can't wait, actually! Bring on the Carrington Event. There's a lot of cool things to look forward to when most of the world's electronics are fried, and I for one, am not gonna be suffering. I'm going to have my computer work space already prepared. Full Faraday cage, with earthing. Everything inside it earthed, no radio inside the faraday cage ,that's just stupid. All devices with added shielding to ensure they leak as little EMF as possible. I will have offline dictionaries, massive amounts of archival data storage, books, libraries, media, all sitting there like a little Noah's Ark of teh Information Age. If you aren't already starting to think in this direction, that's ok, someone is. When your gear turns into inert matter, don't worry, you can come to me to query my database.