Been a really hard 12-18 months on the ground cover. Rainfall right down, winds up. Finally a sign of life, hopefully not a false autumn dawn.

Fig trees grow out of walls.

Just asked Venice.ai for a photo of a chicken on a motorbike. The rather bizarre response was a motorbike running over a chicken. Oh well, I guess that's why there is a warning, "May contain offensive material" :)

finally, threads with followers as expected. In Primal. Amethyst just isn't getting it right still.

working on a website running on #ghost Between following my nose and the help forum I have pretty much got it exactly as I want. At some point I will morph it to npubpro, but one step at a time. Compared to Wordpress which I was wed to for years, the Ghost workflow from blogs and pages to settings is literally circular. Very clever ergonomics Just the concept of Code Injection instead of WP voodoo talk of orphan themes says it all, or at least speaks to educating us simpleton users away from dicking around with core theme files to make aesthetic changes. Not sure why they are wed to Stripe. especially pumping tips via Stripe. Alternatives are available ( lighting Zaps page is trivial to add) I'm paying €11 a month, which I hope for Ghost sake comes down because it's a chunk of change.

#asknostr Ever come across #brixton motorbikes?

Brixton Motorcycles | Felsberg 125 XC

Brixton Motorcycles: Built in the image of a classic enduro, the Felsberg 125 XC has a bigger front wheel and sturdy fender.

Scrolled through the global feed expecting to experience a seething cauldron in the human underworld. I guess I struck lucky because all I saw was neutral to positive. I like the world according to Nostr. Maybe everything else is the matrix.

#asknostr Im not so sure about Nostr being a reliable posting house. Since dabbling in relays last week Nostr has been weird. every day my profile shows a different nonsense follower/following count. My follower group is listed unfollowed, so I follow and next day all unfollowed. rinse repeat. Upshot, I get to see one or two people's posts in my feed. At the moment it is Dr berry, all very interesting but I'm not that into diet. Has everybody I have been talking to unfollowed me and I'm not getting it? I'm posting from primal, been on amethyst, satellite. it's clearly a nostr not client thing. Would appreciate some help to understand why my nostr experience has gone from great to excluded!

#zaps Where did the term originate? Watching La Femme Nikita the classic dark French original, 1990. Zaps mentioned several times before the opening carnage. I'm sure a smart Nostr #memestr could do something with that.

Libreboot

Minifree Ltd – Linux/BSD preinstalled laptops with Libreboot BIOS replacement

Minifree Ltd – Linux/BSD preinstalled laptops with Libreboot BIOS replacement

Minifree Ltd – Linux/BSD preinstalled laptops with Libreboot BIOS replacement

In my experience a reliable UK supplier of libre laptops with Trisquel preinstalled. That was a few years ago, things may have changed. The website theme hasn't but the content has updated!

I have seen a few users asking about Alby invites. This is the option they gave me when I was 5000 on the list

Satoshis

Putting together a bilingual website. #Ghost suggest 2: options which are surprisingly costly. Monthly big bucks for an AI translation of your website, however good... olé tus huevos, say I. Weglot is a simple script added to your header. A floating button appears on screen with choice of 2 languages, for on the fly text and menu translation. Impressive rendition .but my god, pricey. Double check but a 50,000 word 2 language site is about 70$ a month. Really? They run a word count to give an idea. I have one site with a few landing pages and one article in 3 languages, ( it was translated manually) 5000 words in total would be 30$ a month. Big sites $1/1000 words per month. Jeez. Weglot is accurate, and you can edit word by word, but that's a lot of dough month after month. Another recommended site with similar quality translations starts at $120 a month for 50,000 words..Where do people get that sort of money! I think DeepL write and DeepL translate plus a little copy-pasting and a final read through by a native speaker is the way to go. If you write regularly,, I'd recommend DeepL Write as an editor for all your original work anyway., it will catch all the minor grammar and speling errors like what you see in this sentence running on commas. It rarely misunderstands context. To avoid internet snafus I have a notepad open next to DeepL' s correction screen and edit off line. Once you have an original text you are happy with, you can use DeepL to translate it. (Don't leave whole process to AI else you could well end up in robot world ) Expect very good initial translations. Side by side with Weglot they read better, I think. The' DeepL option is either free, or 17.50 a month and you can grow your bingual site forever at that price. For big sites and SEO and ease,, going DeepL, you need to have a subdomain for your second language version. If your site isn't too wordy, put the translated versions in a folder and build a faux homepage in a second language and put in your menu bar. Bit of a faff but on a budget ... Or even an accordion at the bottom of each original language page with the translation in it. I think Google bots will find the accordion last and not index the second language, so they say, but for a hobby site, why not. Any other options, I'd like to hear them. Gracias #translation #websites #Spain

What's the deal with reply guy bot. Is it a hint to participate more or a hint to slow down on the engagement?

#Olives bush in nature. That's all.

It looks like the "shadow ban" was down to a glitch with relays settings. Reset the defaults and Im back in the Nostrbuild game.

Not sure what's going on with #amethyst but I have about 3 people's posts in my timeline and that's it. Not that I'm into accumulation but I had an interesting bunch of conversations and people to reference. Will return later to see if relays are able to pull anything together. Rest of my account seems to be showing OK #asknostr