Everything makes sense if you imagine the people in charge are fifth graders.

"If there is hope, it lies with the Nostriches." - George Orwell, 2026, maybe

GM ☕ Do we have any Nostriches who have done the #Camino?

So far my relay crawling experiments show a steady state of about 800 nostr relays online and queryable at any point in time, while the collective unique relays extracted from recent NIP-65 kind 10002 inbox/outbox lists is nearly 3000. About half of the difference is down to DNS failures--relays that simply don't exist anymore.

Just coded up a recursive relay crawler using NIP-65 events for discovery. Over the course of a few hours it discovered a total of 2,761 unique URLs for relays (after discarding a variety of malformed or otherwise unusable relay tags.) Unfortunately, actually going out and attempting a connection with each, only *800* were online and queryable! Not sure what to make of this. Clearly many people need to update their kind 10002 relay lists...

I have to say that coming back into the world from seven years of self-imposed hermitage is both gratifying and horrifying. On the plus side, I have recently met and interacted with young people carrying the torch of a movement I had given up upon, yet the forces of humans at their worst remain arrayed as always against us. Nonetheless, I am hopeful again.

GM ☕ Last day of vacation before going back into the fiat world. I don't wanna!

GM ☕

Nerd sniped by so many new ideas in the last few days the day job is really gonna suffer.

GM ☕

The kids are alright.

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proof of life

If it weren't for the police and the army, politicians would just be disgustingly evil people you could safely ignore. This one fact tells you everything you need to know about their actual role in the world--anything else is just propaganda to hide this.

A big beautiful box of pork...

We didn't get lucky, we just didn't listen to you.