Adelaide Fringe street performers today.

E-scooters in Brisbane were moved to a safer location before Cyclone Alfred hits. 😂 https://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/man-shows-incredible-patience-to-move-his-car-from-hundreds-of-escooters-in-spring-hill/news-story/b9deddabd47366b554c63efd4edd0b99

Another experiment with film photography. This Ricoh XR-1 originally belonged to my uncle. I've had it for a while but never used it until I decided to put a roll of film in it a couple of weeks ago. I don't know exactly how old this one is (the model was originally released in 1977) but it hadn't been used for at least 15 years. I had no idea if it was going to still work but gave it a good clean, put some new batteries in it at which point the light meter started working (it is fully manual operation apart with the batteries only used for the light meter). While the photos I took with it maybe aren't particularly exciting, it did prove that the camera works. The only thing I found didn’t work is the counter so it was hard to track how many photos I had taken. The film was Fujifilm C200.

NBN have set up a page for updates on disruptions to NBN services caused by Cyclone Alfred. I would expect that there will be local disruptions due to power outages and infrastructure damage when the cyclone hits, but hopefully no major damage to the NBN POIs causing more widespread outages. #AUStriches

Major Outages and Significant Local Outages | nbn

Wild kangaroo and organic grass-fed beef brisket. These taste pretty good for a snack.

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Crazy weather here in Australia at the moment. We have a tropical cyclone predicted to bring heavy rains and flooding to parts of Queensland and New South Wales in the north of the country, yet here in South Australia we have had the driest summer in 33 years with some areas outside of the city running out of water.

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Tonight’s walk. Warm night, still 30°C now.

Hoping that the #AUStriches in QLD and northern NSW will be safe and out of the path of Cyclone Alfred. https://www.9news.com.au/national/tropical-cyclone-alfred-predicted-path-landfall-map-explainer/6d1cebd4-eccb-46d0-9a88-6118d26e574c

New seed oil free chips available in Australia made with organic potatoes and cooked in either tallow or olive oil. I came across this company a while ago on Instagram and they have just started taking pre-orders. I don’t know much else about them, and they seem a little expensive for a packet of chips, but I’ve ordered some to try out of interest to see what they are like. #AUStriches

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Adelaide Fringe

Tawny frogmouth #birdstr #photography

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A few photos from my walk in the city this morning

Adelaide Fringe street performers

I created a quick diagram to illustrate the Primal cache issue in a simplified way that may help some people understand what is going on and help with choices about which client to use. There are many ways to build clients and there are advantages and disadvantages of each. In Primal’s case, notes are served from Primal’s cache server which gets notes from the relays rather than the client getting them directly from the relays. The advantage to this is that much of the processing can be done on the server side resulting in a very smooth and consistent experience for users. The down side to this is that it becomes centralised as, without the server infrastructure operated by Primal themselves, the client completely stops working (the cache is open source but I’m not aware of any other instances of the Primal cache being run and most users wouldn’t use a different one anyway). The issues with this centralisation are that it make Primal much more prone to outages and it would be very easy for ISPs to block Primal just by DNS blocking of the Primal cache server or blocking the associated IPs. Primal could also potentially filter or censor the feed from their cache although I’m not aware of whether they actually do this currently. For me personally, I want a client that talks directly to the relays and does the processing locally but others may be comfortable with the limitations and loss of decentralisation and find that Primal provides a good experience. One of the best things about Nostr is that you can take your key and move to a different client. It is worthwhile experimenting with different clients to find the experience that best suits you. 💜🫂