Question about #opsec for #anons on #nostr. Here's an example. Let's say I was doing something illegal and posting on nostr about doing this illegal activity. Let's say the government notices this nster post. What would it take for the government to know that this account is me? Can the government get my IP address? Can a relay be subpoenaed by the government? Is my IP address logged with my peers or relays, permanently correlated with my npub? Should I always use a VPN, or tor? Should I rotate IPs when switching between anon/non accounts? If I slip up once and expose my ISP-given IP address, then is my account completely doxed for good? I currently use #Amethyst btw

I once had a friendship and with a girl because I went to college for a year and then came back in the summer and visited her at her job unplanned. And she was working and I guess I didn't talk to her enough? Or there was a botched interaction because I wasn't sure if she had to get back to work or not. Anyway, she brought my food out and seemed angry. And I haven't really talked to her since. Her name was Stephanie

Perhaps a deeper question is: if AI has been trained against the output of peak human artists, If we were to compare AI to those artists, then would it be a fair comparison? Perhaps not. We might expect the AI to be a little bit better, in some way. In what way? Can we predict how art will progress? Have we already passed our peak? Who is to say? What defines quality in art?

Deliberately optimizing the angle where I place my trash bag when I walk through the door, so that my lizard brain has more time to process the bag as a duty and surrender to the task.

The spray can orientation dot is not for you to orient the nozzle, but rather for you to inspect and tighten the nozzle in general. If not for the dot, you would just reach to spray immediately.

FOOP Flash of old posts when you load Amethyst Hope you don't glimpse a post that's interesting...

Merge Now - fuck the merge train!

I watched some wasps stinging, or attempting to sting my car's rear view mirror. I guess they were mad at it. I disturbed them with my car. But stinging. The mysterious grasshopper like creatures in the book of Revelation "whose pain is like the sting of a scorpion"... What are they? I have never been stung by a scorpion, except perhaps when I was very little. For a wasp, the stinger comes in really quick. See any stylized hornet mascot of a sports team. Stinger coming in hot. In some way, the sting comes in precisely and directly. The sting kills the cells affected and inflames the whole area around. Not that I've ever experienced it...

The best Christmas presents are given in private. Like if you were rich and you wanted to give someone a vacation. You would tell them privately so that other people don't get jealous. Men and women might want to give each other gifts that the other gender just doesn't need to know about. Scary sharp stuff, or girly pretty stuff. Without all eyes looking at you unwrapping it.

The wind gusts came through and tore the leaves off the oaks.

"The Earth will wear out like a garment, and its inhabitants likewise". This is a trite example of course. And I mean it's an average so it may be watered down by masses of bland spec houses. Plus, maybe it's become harder to paint a house (time, money, skills). View quoted note →

The world of Christian recording artists struggles to shoo away talentless impostors.

Are they "typing" if they are selecting an emoji? UA implementer problems...

I wonder if the government has me on a list based on the fringe vocabulary I use and the amount of times I say certain phrases.

Hateful people pretend to act loving. Loving people pretend to act hateful.

Melamine. Slightly abrasive huh. I'll fuck with that. This stovetop aint gettin any brighter.

If I'm honest, I think I have been influenced by LLMS to use the em-dash more.

Melamine releases microplastics? What are they going to tell us next — that sandpaper releases sand?