People are complaining about farmers market food products being more expensive than imports. Bruh, cost of living in Canada is WAY higher than where most of your food is coming from. Also volume drives costs down hugely.

GM #coffeechain. 3:30am. Yesterday overslept and spent the day blargy, today the opposite. We’ll see how the blargy thing goes once I’ve been up for a while. Being up this early I’m reminded that the days are getting shorter now. Eating breakfast by the light of Level1Techs reviewing NanoKVM. Wendell has way more deep knowledge of this stuff than I’ll ever need, but even just hearing the words helps with sysadmin things. I’ll be working on something and a keyword will trigger a memory, giving me a thread to pull on.

Hot take: Ceilings are the best place for posters.

What are the current favoured video options on nostr? If I have supermegachonker video I want to post but don't want to burden whatever external media host my client has hardcoded, is an unlisted YouTube video the way to go? Test:

I see media hosting in most clients is handled the same way as it was before my break. Clients automagically upload the chosen media file to whatever external hosting is either hardcoded or set in options. But I'd like the option to host my own while maintaining the convenience of uploading directly in the client. Anyone else doing this? Any clients support this?

I've been looking for a...grandmother-friendly...replacement term for "shitposting". Gonna try out "basedposting". In related news, the "based" subdomain on my personal domain now redirects to my nostr profile on njump.

At what point does one abandon old domains? Or is buying one a lifetime commitment? If I had FU money I wouldn't care and would keep them forever, but that is not my current situation... 😅

Hot take: If part of your culture includes rude / disrespectful behaviour, that culture is bad and you should change cultures, or at least stop participating in that aspect of that culture. Culture is no more a valid excuse for rudeness than religion.

My paid nostr relays expired while I was gone. Before I blindly renew them, are there any current / updated lists of high-quality paid relays? Bonus points for Canadian domiciled.

For two days now I've worn ankle socks with my cowboy boots, and no one has tried to stop me. Pretty sure no one has even noticed. Take that, fashion police! #onanotherwatchlist

There are two kinds of people, those who want chickens, and those who don't.

The thing that hits me biggest about this is the plain text bodies. My emails (with other humans) are still mostly plain text (email signatures are a whole 'nother discussion). Modern email interfaces are fine, it's the content that's gotten worse. Make plain text email bodies great again.

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Web Design Museum (@WebDesignMuseum) on X

Gmail Beta in 2004 #InternetHistory

> shitpost > leave out “/s” because it’s pReTtY oBvIoUs that it’s a shitpost > people take it seriously > repeat > definitionofinsanity.mp4

I bought an exercise mat with the best of intentions 2 or 3 years ago. Finally took it out of the packaging yesterday. Woke up this morning wondering why I could feel my abs, and realized I hadn't felt that sensation since college nearly 20 years ago. Oi.

Apple espresso! Highly recommend. 1 part espresso (or mokapot, or french press, whatever you have!), 1 1/2 parts apple juice. For extra points you can smoke the glass with the cinnamon stick before adding it to stir with.

#coffeechain and cast iron.

Short version (maybe long[er] version tomorrow?): I left my day-job and went back to something familiar; freelance I.T. and management consulting. A few months in I decided to do some writing along with it, so my company website now has a blog where I post weekly. You can find it on clearnet at https://scalebright.ca/blog/, or on TOR at http://5axvajgxibxljz3z3np6hqmq4ouqo4vps56d7sihvxvycrmzes6vkgqd.onion. The clearnet version also has audio versions of the posts for those who'd rather listen than read 😉

I've been gone for a bit. Restarting after a burnout crash feels like trying to fire an engine that just...doesn't wanna. So if you see a few posts then nothing again, I'm not gone, just clearing the lines and attempting another restart 😅

Many of us have stories of lost bitcoin. It sucks, and we know the healthy thing to do is move on, but the more "number go up" the harder those memories hit. How much would those sats be worth today? Is there anything I could have done differently? Is there anything I could do now to get them back? My story involves a Samourai wallet on an Android phone in late 2017. I was working a dead-end retail job and killing time playing around with Samourai and Bisq. I had my seed words on paper and I was playing around with a small amount; what could possibly go wrong? One day the phone (mostly) died, and I figured a factory reset would squeeze some extra life out of it. I could restore the wallet from the seed words, so no problem there. One reset and 12 words later, no transactions found 💀 I replaced the phone a few months later, but held onto it in case I had a eureka moment and figured out how to recover my lost bitcoin. Every once in a while I'd go down the research rabbit hole in an effort to find a solution, but the closest I ever got was some forum mentions that Samourai, at the time, used some non-standard witchcraft in their app which made it impossible to restore to any other app or wallet software. Oof, I guess that corn is gone forever. But I just couldn't bring myself to get rid of that phone or the paper with the seed words on it. And those objects continued to taunt me ever time I saw them. And now the story has reached it's end. The phone is going to be recycled, and the paper thrown out. Because this afternoon, while 1/2 way through a bottle of French rosé, I MANAGED TO RESTORE THE WALLET! I had suspected there was a BIP39 passphrase involved, but none of the usual suspects I'd tried had worked. I'd made lists of every password I could think of and tried them all. But today, for whatever reason (maybe French rosé reasons?) a password half-way down my list worked. It's not an earth-shattering amount of bitcoin, but the emotional weight of solving the mystery and un-derping a big derp has been lifted. I think I'll celebrate with some more rosé while I watch the mempool and will the transaction fees to drop below 100 sat/vB 😅

GM #coffeechain, I’m still at the 9-5, but Christmas break is soon(ish). Hopefully the break keeps me from snapping before my end date of April 30th 😬🤞🤞