Creating the first of a short series of customer/prospect self-service tools to help with their #2A #firearms journey. Trying to build self-help, decision support and motivational tools

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#gunstr #SCSA This weekend I will RSO my first Tier 2 Steel Challenge Shooting Association match. It is the first Tier 2 match at our local shooting range. I believe over 200 competitors signed up. It should be a good match and I'm looking forward to the experience.

Replacing a busted disposal unit and worn out faucet in the kitchen this afternoon. There needs to be more thought put into the ease and efficiency of repairs on residential plumbing... It's mechanically simple but physically complex to get access. Not sure how you make that easier.

#Bluesky #whitepaper I read the Bluesky white paper. Pretty heavy on the corporate paternalism. At one point they even state (paraphrasing) their users are too dumb to manage keys - like the Delta class in Huxley's Brave New World. Really seems like a group of self-anointed do-gooders out to save the "digital town square" and make the poor, dumb users feel "safe" - which is how we got into this mess in the first place. The paper's tone is that of an analyst-authored corporate white paper; the architecture one designed by any VC-funded, Sillycon Valley BigTech spinoff with millions to spend. Reading it invokes images (for me) of a group of corporate tech wonks trying to clean the turd out of the centralized social media punchbowl without giving up too much control. They formed a committee, had some meetings, defined the market requirements, bounded the problem, developed the permissable use cases, wrote the business plan, got some money, built a platform. It's "open source," but all the potential #innovation has been architected out. It reads like Twitter v1.5 - a great pitch for VCs, not so much for innovators. Bluesky feels like a problem/solution set created by people whose vision of "what can be is heavily burdened by what has been" - which is just weird because I'm pretty sure they're all dedicated Harris-Walz supporters. I can almost visualize their early Zoom meetings sitting around talking about how they have to "save Democracy!" and free the world from "hate speech," misinformation and Donald Trump. Disclaimer: I have never used Bluesky. Opinions based solely on reading their white paper, Wikipedia page and a few blog posts.

#gunstr "Firearm proficiency is not a one-time achievement; it requires ongoing practice to maintain and improve. The skill sets required to be an effective and responsible shooter—gun handling, marksmanship, situational awareness, and decision-making under pressure—are highly perishable. Much like athletes or musicians, shooters who do not engage in regular practice will see their skills diminish over time."

An Official Journal Of The NRA

An Official Journal Of The NRA | Trained Vs. Untrained

Skill improvement doesn't happen in a vacuum, and trained shooters are better than untrained.

None of the bad things which are happening in America (and elsewhere) today will stop regardless of the U.S. election outcome. The very best result is that some of them will get delayed for 2 to 4 years. If we do get a reprieve, we'd better use it well to advance #Bitcoin, #nostr, #meshtastic and #freedomTech while we can. Because the forces of tyranny never sleep.

I installed #Citrine earlier today. Seems to work fine with #Amethyst, not so much with #Coracle. Can't find a way to add it. I infer from searching that it may be related to security certificate issues. There is noticeable battery drain though. I estimate that keeping it on in the background is reducing my battery life to 8 hrs or less. I will have to work on that.

Bitcoin.Review Nostr rising ep.01 was really good. Super nerdy - way over my head nerdy - at the beginning and sometimes in the middle but still valuable listening for me. I've watched (as a non-coder) the evolution of tech for more than two decades. I think #nostr has a strong chance to succeed where all the federated/peer-to-peer stuff more-or-less failed. Tech, tools, usability have all evolved to the point where cheap, dumb servers paired with smart, innovative clients make sense. There may well be a wave of user empowerment coming, "...the likes of which even God has never seen..." I really liked this closing comment from @jb55 - "This is it. This is the thing we're going to use to take down BigTech and these centralized institutions. It's the largest scale experiment that's ever been done. The amount of support, the amount of people working on it, devs in the space who are building clients, building solutions. I've never seen so much energy in a protocol before. Bitcoin was cool but this is insane, the amount of energy in this space."

🎙Bitcoin.Review Podcast

Bitcoin Review Podcast BR078: Nostr Rising 01 - Permissionless Algos ft. JB55, Hodlbod & Miljan

I’m joined by guests JB55, Hodlbod & Miljan to discuss permissionless algos in the first episode of Nostr Rising.

What is a #nostr contact list, how is a nostr contact list used, and what clients support nostr contact lists? Thanks. #askNostr

Apparently #bookkeepers have a high rate of instability. For the fourth time, I'm now looking for a new bookkeeper because the current one just disappeared. - stopped answering phone calls, turned off voice mail, no response to email, office locked every time I go by. Haven't been able to contact them in over a month. Once I had a bookkeeper literally leave the country without notice. Disappeared with all of my paperwork for four months without a word. A few years later had the audacity to ask me for a recommendation online. Uh, no. This behavior is the opposite of what I think of when I think of accountants/actuaries/bookkeepers. My mom was a bookkeeper, and the most stable, reliable person I ever knew. But I have seen this pattern a *lot* over the past 20 years - enough to know it's not a rare aberration.

A few years ago #Patreon booted a handful of people to whom I had subscribed. I deleted my account at that point and have refused to create another. Today I am forced to choose between my desire to never financially support censorship platforms and my desire to support content creators who choose that platform So far I'm sticking with the former. I just don't support Patreon, even though I understand there are few, or no, good options for most people. I am looking forward to the day #nostr fixes this.

"Creators are only famous at the permission of the platforms they're in. As soon as they say something that they shouldn't, boom, they're out."

Redirecting…

#askNostr #cooking Looking for recommendations on quality, affordable, all-stainless #cookware - stuff you can put in the oven to season. 8", 10", 12" skillets mostly. I've looked at the Made In stuff, just don't know if it's as good as it claims. Celebrity endorsements and big ad campaigns are expensive, and often substituted for real quality. Looking for people with experience with any quality brands.

#askNostr I run an event-based business. In my case the events are classes. Each event/class has a registration page with payment capability so attendees can register in advance. Between now and end-of-year I have ~30 of these. Today I manually post these events, individually, to different platforms. This is labor-intensive, time-consuming, and prone to error. It is also a nightmare for updates. Is there an existing, or potential, #nostr application for this use case? I'm looking for something I can start working with for next year. Not expecting to immediately replace all the walled garden platforms or eliminate all the manual effort or anything grandiose. Just looking for #nostrdevs who may be interested in the use case and making some tools that might start me on a journey toward something helpful.

Im updating our events on fb. None of the images crop correctly. They look like crap. I have to have a different effing image/video for every iteration of platform/ad/post-type. I really dislike this. And I really dislike having to promote my business on conventional social media at all. It seems like every platform sets formatting and content standards in a capricious and arbitrary way just to ensure you can't easily reuse stuff.

Looking for upcoming #nostr / #Bitcoin events in the State of Texas. Who keeps a list? #askNostr. There is an effort underway to organize a nostr meetup in my area, but response to date has been fairly meager...

Meetup | Group not found

GM, #nostr. There just aren't many things that smell better than a fresh pot of coffee percolating in the morning. You can't get that with a Keurig..

Remember back in 2019 when everyone was just sure Jason Garrett was the problem with the Dallas Cowboys? Guess that didn't work out.

A successful, three-festival weekend behind the Pine Curtain. Kilgore Oktoberfest, FRed Lobster Social Club, Edom Art Festival. Time for a nap.

Literally, dude grades out a ~1/4-mi flat track in his pasture and holds a festival for rednecks. Link to conventional socials because, well, that's where their page is. For now... #rednecks

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