"The Science" changes because of marketing bullcrap. Real science doesn't tend to flip flop. It grows organically and mostly only the newer things change as we move further outwards from them.

IMO, it is a conspiracy to call cryptographic secret keys "private", to muddle the definition of secret (known only to a privileged party) versus private (almost always involving at least two privileged parties). A bedroom is private, and yet most adults share it with someone. A piece of land with a fence around it often has a sign saying "private property". Who shares their cryptographic secret keys with their partner, or anyone? Anyone? It's kinda against the whole principle. What's inside your brain is secret. What's between you and your wife/business partners is private. The special knowledge of your company - yes, private, not really secret. I know that the two have overlapping meanings but it's not "secret property", it's "private property". It's a secret key. It's secret because you don't tell anyone. As soon as someone else knows it, it's either private or public. It may sound like I am trying to make definitions where there isn't one, but there really needs to be a distinction since what's in my brain is secret, what I tell my friends is private, and what I post on the internet is public. If my secrets are not kept only to me, then how does anyone know if I'm behind the actions related to the use of the secrets? How many stories have you heard about people abusing the ability to access a shared secret? Why does Shamir's Secret Shares scheme have the qualifier "share" in it, if it isn't because the individual parts are still secret?

I so need to get to a dental surgeon. I'm sick to death of this wisdom tooth. I also don't know what it is I'm eating that tweaks it out. First suspect that is off the menu is artificial sweeteners of any kind. I already know that maltodextrin tweaks the bejesus out of it, but there seems to be other things too, not so severe. I also can't tell if it might not be something to do with super sugary chocolate (pure chocolate is fine, but I suspect very strongly sugar), or sunflower seeds, sunflower oil, chemically extracted olive oil, fried potatoes. Not sure either if it might not be something to do with natural or added monosodium glutemate. I used to get tooth pain from my chipped teeth years ago from certain kinds of drip filtered coffee too. Citric acid is definitely under suspicion. Part of the thing is that I daily use potassium nitrate containing toothpaste to numb the dental nerves that cause this problem, and in spite of this, I'm getting an escalating problem again. I also suspect sugars in general because certain things do this thing, I don't have a clue what it is exactly, but it seems like transdermal absorption that goes into the area around my jaw and causes this twitchng and swelling and pain, and I have this intermittent sense of swelling around my left ear as well, which seems to be tied to the thing in the jaw. Things that don't seem to have any impact on this: - milk - beef - cream - butter - peas - stout beer I'm just gonna continue to avoid anything that involves sugars or seed oils, I strongly suspect both are involved. The sunflower and pumpkin seeds are in my diet to augment my Thiamine intake but they may be contributing to this problem since they are among the things whose introduction correlates to the increasing pain.

Started my day with a walk in the dark up the road to the end where the gully/creek passing my place ends. I will probably go in daylight in the near future and find out where the footpaths are out that way to follow them up and see how far I can go on foot towards the nearby peaks. Life is good living on a rugged volcanic island. Except for the dogs that people cage up just to bark aimlessly for no purpose at the, mostly cats, wandering past. I did see a rabbit along the road too. I will probably never see them in daylight because of the cars, but I'm very curious what variety they are. I could see he had a little tufty white tail.

I have a nip-05 now 🕺

testing, testing, 1 2 3 checking if my relay is working

Just trying to install mattn/nostr-relay... go: downloading github.com/btcsuite/btcd/btcec/v2 v2.3.2 go: downloading github.com/dgraph-io/ristretto v0.1.1 go: downloading github.com/gobwas/httphead v0.1.0 go: downloading github.com/gobwas/ws v1.3.0 go: downloading github.com/mailru/easyjson v0.7.7 go: downloading github.com/puzpuzpuz/xsync/v2 v2.5.0 go: downloading github.com/puzpuzpuz/xsync v1.5.2 go: downloading github.com/tidwall/gjson v1.16.0 go: downloading github.com/klauspost/compress v1.16.7 go: downloading github.com/savsgio/gotils v0.0.0-20230208104028-c358bd845dee go: downloading github.com/valyala/fasthttp v1.50.0 go: downloading github.com/decred/dcrd/dcrec/secp256k1/v4 v4.2.0 go: downloading github.com/btcsuite/btcd/chaincfg/chainhash v1.0.2 go: downloading github.com/cespare/xxhash/v2 v2.2.0 go: downloading github.com/dustin/go-humanize v1.0.1 go: downloading github.com/golang/glog v1.1.2 go: downloading github.com/pkg/errors v0.9.1 go: downloading golang.org/x/sys v0.12.0 go: downloading github.com/gobwas/pool v0.2.1 go: downloading github.com/josharian/intern v1.0.0 go: downloading github.com/tidwall/match v1.1.1 go: downloading github.com/tidwall/pretty v1.2.1 go: downloading github.com/andybalholm/brotli v1.0.5 go: downloading github.com/valyala/bytebufferpool v1.0.0 go: downloading github.com/decred/dcrd/crypto/blake256 v1.0.1 Is anyone else bothered by the presence of Decred in this list?

They tempt me with violence They punish with ideals And an image of myself That is nothing if not unreal -- Snog - Hunter

Easiest way to not see garbage on the internet is to not download images and media. You're welcome.

I'm on a strict bandwidth budget right now and to achieve minimal usage, I'm learning about how to do some old school shit.

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I may get addicted to this because the pages come up way faster. This isn't the olden days of dreamweaver and tables full of fixed sized images. CSS is still coming down and can practically replace images for most stuff. Theoretically they could still be loading SVGs but I think they are not loading either. Feeling some nostalgia rn, really liking it.

Why is it that the Richat Structure is the only such example of its kind on our whole planet?

Richat Structure - Wikipedia

The article tries to say that it's a "highly eroded" geological dome.

Dome (geology) - Wikipedia

There are several other examples of other types of domes, but not one that is formed out of a volcano. Not. Even. One. Other Doesn't that seem a little weird? Consider the scenario. We have a volcano. For some millennia, it spews basalt. Then a bloop of more silicaceous stuff appears, and it spews a bunch of hard orange terracotta stuff. Ok, it's mostly iron, I'm just describing it so you can understand it. Terracotta is iron rich aluminosilicates. Red sand. Then later, it starts spewing some more basalt. (black, this contains a lot of black iron oxides, as opposed to the yellow and red of previous phases). Again, some terracotta. Ok, so what next? Oh yes, this looks like :Cobalt. Ok, it starts spewing a bit of cobalt. Then suddenly it's cobalt and nickel. Looking at the colours, there seems no other logic to how this thing could have formed. I'm seriously wondering how in the hell such a thing could happen at all. It's not just unlikely, it's cracking a 128 bit password by brute force with all the computers in the world for a million years unlikely. Firstly, our planet's core does not contain very much nickel and cobalt. Just look at the geology of almost every volcanic region on the planet, they are everywhere. Most nickel found on earth is associated with meteorites. The metal was first discovered by the Chinese. It, cobalt and iron are the main "ferromagnetic" metals. That is, they can hold a magnetic alignment permanently. . The structure is clearly not natural, at least, not the flattening part. The materials are not uniformly dense or uniformly chemically, or mechanically soft. It may well be that if you took an old volcano, and cut off the entire top of it, you could get something like this. But you couldn't do that with modern technology without an INCREDIBLE amount of energy and worn cutting devices. Or gigatons of TNT, used in thousands and thousands of careful explosions.

There needs to be a new type of Nostr note that signs a nonce with the same key every time but each new note is published with a new key. The current arrangement is bad cryptographic security. Read BIP 340.