in the process of trying to explain balkans vegetable preserve technique i finally learned exactly how it works, as i had never tried to do it i never bothered to learn the details. it's pretty simple, mostly you just have to make sure the veg is clean and not already rotting, and anything with air gaps inside it, are opened up so the water will go into them. the solution is basically salt and water, but you can add some spices and vinegar and sugar, the sugar will make the final result more sour but this isn't the critical thing. the two critical things apart from the veg being clean and healthy, and not having air gaps inside them, is that you 1. boil the water you use first, this drives out the oxygen dissolved in the water 2. allow the vegetables to stay fully submerged and not in contact with air for 3 weeks, after which you should then fully seal the container. this process allows the vegetables to last at room temperature and low light, sealed, for 6-12 months, with a level of retained nutrients in it similar to how yoghurt allows milk to be stored for 1-2 weeks without refrigeration before it spoils - but yoghurt is more unstable than vegetables in oxygen-free salty water inside a sealed jar. #foodstr #balkans #sauerkraut #diy

I just tried out iris.to for a little bit, and i hated it. #coracle has a "Web of Trust" filter feature that i have dialed up to 7, which hides all posts from users not with at least 7 follows in common with me. this screens out so much noise it's unbelievable. it also has a really nice integration with alby that is utterly seamless. i can log out, and if my alby is unlocked, log back in, database all refreshed, no muss no fus. i'm not following the dev of the client anymore but that's partly because he piled in on a harassment of my friend colby, who i work with, and whose project to improve the efficiency of nostr note distribution is being suppressed by the people who are riding the trending filters and pretending they are gods, who think that gossip solves everything and don't care that it will exclude small scale relays... he then responds to me explaining why it is a good solution that nostr needs, by asking if we were seeking to get it put in a NIP. meanwhile, his app has a feature that i want to keep, that isn't in a NIP, and really should be. i can't abide this kind of schizophrenia but i like my WoT filter and i hope it isn't going away, or i may not want to use nostr at all.

oof. my 6km there 6km back with 12L of milk was harder than i remember last time i did it. last time (a week ago) i even came back with fully 18L, this time i'm cactus lol. i'm now almost a week not eating cacao, and i think that stuff is really important too... for the fitness as well... the theobromine improves circulation and i can believe that is why i didn't do as well today as i'm used to from the last month. the full fat pure chocolate is the best though, the cacao fat makes the skin so soft and hydrated.

i just got a ponzi scheme message in my Wallet of Satoshi with a 5 sat payment. if they get enough suckers they will continue and they will also use their ill-gotten sats to promote newbies installing WoS and Alby so they can reach more suckers.