Lashings of rain which is good, for second consecutive day. On the other side of the equation, not getting out much. We live outside except for the 60 days a year when there isn't sun here, so Im feeling a bit deskbound recently! My barebones solar installation is very fast at charging, but is struggling under the stress of coping with me being indoors. But at least there is still juice to type this and listen to a podcast. :) And just heard I'm an uncle again, yay.

Upgraded to 2017! Now I can see all the Nostr clients in their entirety. Shout out to #anonostr and #satellite and #Nostrchat the clients I found that worked just fine on an old desktop browser. I am sure there are a lot more. But a friendly word for #Iris and this very #Nostter client from which I typeth. I was excluded from your Nostr experience until I was able to upgrade. You might say, get with the program, old fella, catch up. Fair enough, but maybe listen to the perspective of a younger man who knows his shit - Obi at Fedimint. His epiphany on developing a truly global entity: you have to think of the poor people first, not the ones with the disposable income to throw their cash at solutions. There are many more billions of poor than comfortably off. It is likely the former who will most need the opportunities that the Nostr protocol offers. Just saying. It's marketing 101, know your market. Now, I have a couple of years to work out how to get Linux Puppy working. I go it installed and booting up through the BIOS, but now its stuck and Linux forums are enough to make Einstein scratch his skull.

A good read newsletter if you are interested in privacy issues and freedom software https://www.fsf.org/free-software-supporter/2024/september "this month, we are highlighting LibrePlanet Artists, which is a network of #graphicdesigners, #photographers, #illustrators, #videographers, #animators, and #audioengineers committed to creating free artwork only using free software. They help to create educational materials and other media for #LibrePlanet teams, as well as to advocate for free software generally." https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:LibrePlanet_Artists.

Checking out #Arweave It ticks a lot of boxes as a Bitcoin for data. Limited supply of tokens, miners incentivised to do their proof of work and keep the data up and available for public access for 100 years. A protocol that enables all manner of apps to be built on top. Sounds very Bitcoin meets Nostr! But why do they need to invent a token? For all the decentralised blockchain talk, a central body holds the tokens and distributes the profits. Sorry, but it just sets off alarm bells. I would be more convinced about Nostr's censorship resistance if Nostr were to adopt the more Bitcoiny aspects of Arweave. Because I really don't grasp the Nostr relay theory. It seems so open to human interference. Please point me to some more info to read around Nostr relay resilience. If I grasp it, you got me, but for now, it's not convincing.

Anyone come across a bootable drive reformatting itself on a start up? I've tried two different usb drives, erased partitioned, formatted as Msdos-fat, guid, converted an iso of Linux to dmg, renamed the partition and drive and burnt the dmg to disk with DD in terminal. Unmounted and ejected. Remounted and looked at Disk Utility to double check the drive was still as I expected. Then start up with alt key and the drive isn't recognised. Check in disk utility and it is no longer msdos fat, and the disk name has changed to the dmg file name. Wt......!!! How was your day. More predictable, I hope. #linux #mac #asknostr

The rain is absolutely torrential. Thunder cracking directly overhead, hold on to your hats. It is most welcome. Most of the picture-perfect olive groves that Spain is known for, receive EU grants (€350/ hectare to plough) After this storm passes, they will be inaccessible, flooded, and the top soil a bit more eroded. Man, not the sun, is the principal driver of localised changes to ecosystems. When the rain hits my land it is stored. When thevsun hits my land, the ground cover absorbs and slowly releases heat. The bare soil next door hits 60c in summer. The hydrological cycle is disrupted. It is very difficult to do the maths to prove to the genersl population what that means for the climate. But it is easy to see what it means for our ecosystems. Millions of bad decisions since we discovered agriculture, accelerating over the last hundred years, exponential the last 40-50 years, result in the current big ag complex. Join up the millions of plots of land being farmed in an unnaturall way, multiply out the local broken hydrological cycles, you dont need a person on social media to join the dots for you. And you really should question why there are still significant voices playing down our direct role in ecosystem collapse. You just don't hear the naked truth that we have been shitting on our own doorstep for too long and the consequences are playing out before our eyes. "They" can't tell you what to think, but they sure can tell you what to think about. They talk about climate change, global warming and similar terms - such a trigger, and such a vast concept to get our head round. We either get super freaked out/ depressed, or mostly switch off, overwhelmed. That strategy is playing right into our chimp brain. It's clever. The day a govt and corp talk and act in terms of dealing with global ecosystem collapse, global because they join the dots of local ecosystem collapse, then they have my vote, but it won't happen because they work on an exploitationall economic model. Is there any other sort? No, but there are ways that's more sustainable than others. (The only thing Man literally creates is art. Every other moment, we just exploit what we inherited from creation ) Anyway, until society wakes up and runs itself along eco-friendly lines, and refuses to support big ag production as is, I'm afraid we are on a one way track to famine at one end, and slow degeneration through malnutrition ( obesity being that signal,) at the other. Why? Because I am not the only one who can no longer rely on the seasons. I might be able to adapt, to "control" my veg garden, snd I can have groundcover and shade trees and chickens to mitigste agsinst weird rain, wind and sun, but I sure have no way to controlv the vast majority of the land around me. Consumers could force hands quicker than me ranting or govt policy. Like @bitcoin bull said about changing the financial system peacefully, bankrupt the fuckers. Equally speedy change could be off the back of the masses refusing to buy shit food. They say you cannot afford good food I say, if it's nutrient rich, you don't need a lot of food. Really, its a lie that big ag and huge scale farming is the only way to secure a huge food supply for better fed, healthier populations. Production from small market gardens is insane. And now I am rambling. Cheers #km0 #growstr #local #ecological #Spain #olives #circular-economy

enough excitement for one day. GN

Swiss Army Man - Wikipedia

there's a movie to pique the imagination. Took me til over half way through to recognise the Swiss Army Man. Found it on an old hard drive. DVD rips are stunning visual quailty compared to streamed movies, at least where I am. Its like someone cleaned 10 years of dirt off my screen.

social media has always sucked up the energy and wisdom and meaningful content of its users But maybe Nostr can achieve what legacy options never could - search like Google. Websites, curation services pulling together to make the nostr gems endure, discoverable.

Been a very unproductive day between relays, and bootable Linux drives not playing fair. No doubt it is me and not having the latest greatest kit and 2 left thumbs. On the positive side of this learning opportunity, the takeaway is: I'm only interested in tools that make me productive. I'm willing to learn, but that's not the same as being a crash test dummy. There's more of me than techies who love to tinker, or if there aren't, Nostr is going nowhere. Or the same place as Linux which is still not in the average Joe's lexicon. I used to run a big how to website so I'm not just having a pop after a bad day on Nostr. Very often we fell short of providing the clearest info, because of too many assumptions. Instructions need to be idiot proof. The word "just" needs to be struck from technical step by steps. For newbies, explanations need to come AFTER we have followed every step and achieved something technically challenging. Under promise and over deliver. .I think the client owners need to step up and have a pinned welcome message with resources to get newbies started. It isn't right to be attracted by censorship resistance, sovereignty over content etc, when it is still a dark art to achieve that. Back to the crash test dummy, learning curve, tinker balance. But Even Twitter had a button to press exports. Nostr users are very helpful but I am fast running out of #asknostr tokens :)

Finally have citrine relay app working on my phone without errors showing on 10/10 relays listed on Amethyst. In citrine settings though, if I input my npub in "Accept events signed by..." a relay goes down. Remove and the relay goes back up. (Not that I can tell which relay is going down!) The version choice on the #citrine github page. As that is all there is to go on, a lot of assumptions are being made about what a noobie would choose. Early, right!

I love cabbage, and I really like how they keep on coming back. They are heavy feeders so it is helpful that they aren't a flashbang veg. #Permaculture will never feed the world, but it sure keeps us close to the land and excited by #nature.

#asknostr what I am supposed to see on the working localhost:4869 page for the #citrine relay I installed on my Android phone? After much node.js-ing, I have now got as far as Terminal confirming everything is talking and reading correctly, but progress is stalled at a message on Chrome saying it sees a Nostr relay or websocket. But that's it. What am I missing? Or is that the feedback? #relay Also any idea how to see and rectify the errors indicated on my private relay entry in Amethyst? cheers

Found an old hard drive with Mac apps from a while ago when I was a busy boy and needed to be organised. This one is a peach for clippings. And is Open Source and free and still supported. After 15 years of hobby coding, the dev must surely be open to zapping.

This year was the biggest olive harvest in living memory, and the almonds are bowing under the weight too. Not a drop of irrigation, the almonds are not an ecological disaster when left to their own devices. However the price to pay is less yield per tree. The olive's alternate fruiting cycle means this year is near zero harvest for us. And it is the drive for consistent yield and price that motivates the questionable practices of the mega farms who have driven their input costs up and the prices down en route to becoming mega farms. It is a ludicrous system of misaligned incentives that the consumer, the farmer and nature pays a heavy price for. Or we could just eat a little less and leave much of the almond industry to nature and find more purpose in the orchards beyond monoculture almonds. #chickens #growstr #Spain #homesteading

The first page ever to appear on the internet.

The World Wide Web project

The Cern contact telephone number is so whimsical! Good morning. One moment, please, I will just connect you. Now look at us. Good morning, I was up all night trawling through GBs of data online from hundreds of websites, and still I can't see what's on the Nostr relay on my phone :)

Another rabbit hole, relays this time, thanks to Nostr and @Derek Ross and @Vitor Pamplona #asknostr how do I see what's on the server? I found websocat, am I on the right track? Another voyage into the unknown.