There was a bird flying South for the winter who got lost from the flock, and a big storm rolled in and he got chilled and fell down to the ground and landed in a pasture, half-frozen and stiff, unable to fly. He was having a bad day. Not too much long after, a cow wonders past and shits on him. But the shit is warm, and the bird starts thawing out and feeling better. So he pokes his head up out of the cow pattie and starts to sing. The farm cat hears the bird singing, goes to it, and eats it. There are three morals to this story: 1. Not everybody who shits on you is your enemy 2. Not everybody who digs you out of a pile of shit is your friend 3. If you are warm and comfortable, keep your mouth shut

The US is losing aircraft at wartime rates. We just had a crash on approach to DCA airport between AA Flight 5342 (at least 60 dead) when it hit a VH-60 Whitehawk helicopter reportedly used to carry "top brass" that had likely departed from CIA HQ (the last bit is unconfirmed). Yesterday a fighter jet crashed off the coast of Alaska. Might the US be under covert attack?

I have a lot more questions about DVMs and feeds. Nothing about 31990 events indicates it is a DVM that generates a feed in a computer-parsible way. None of the 5000-5999 job request kinds are allocated/defined anywhere. Are they DVM specific? How could I find all feed-generating DVMs if they are? How are Amethyst and Primal doing this? Did they just setup client-specific DVMs and use that a-priori konwlegde about the relay and DVM feeds available, or did they *discover* these feeds out there on the nostr network somewhere? If the former, then we have NIP work to do before gossip is going to get into this game. @Vitor Pamplona @hodlbod View quoted note →

Do we have DVMs generating feeds for users? Who is running these DVMs? Where are they? What are their algorithms? How can they be discovered? Especially... how can they be discovered?

You can destroy their buildings. You can destroy their roads. You can destroy their fields. You can bury families in rubble. Your snipers can put bullets into the skulls of their children. But you can never kill their spirit. And they will never stop fighting for their people, for their country, for their freedom, for their right to live on their ancestral land, in the name of their ancestors, martyrs whose deaths shall not be in vain.

New Zealand also suffers from this silent problem. Nobody notices. People dying from being sick or old is so normal, and it's impossible to see that many of these people could have lived much longer if the medical system worked better.... but you can reason it out. I don't have a major problem with pooling our money (taxes) in order to socialize the cost of medical care. I don't want to force that on others, so doing it by government fiat is IMHO the wrong idea... but it is not my biggest gripe. My biggest problem is that we have a lack of competition, of incentives, and medical staff don't get paid much by the government. So we get sub-par people who keep making the same money and are at no risk of losing their jobs despite how poorly they execute their duties.... a recipe for worse and worse medical care. That being said, often times you get lucky... you get a good doctor or good nurse who is very qualified and does an excellent job, despite the incentives. Also in NZ most well off people have private medical insurance and use private providers when they can (but still have to pay taxes to subsidize the stuff they don't use). View quoted note →

I got my workstation back from the shop today. After swapping NVMe drives and a few boot failure issues (mount failures without "nofail" setting, and root account was locked so no rescue shell either, I had to set kernel command line init=/bin/bash) I got it up and running with all my data mounted. Then I upgraded to Trixie (debian testing). Then I tried a gossip compile. I should mention I have EXPO enabled at 6000 and also 105W TDP enabled with noctua 15 cooler, and an NVMe running on PCIe 5.0 x2 (instead of 4.0 x4) at 7150 MT/s. Wow, this thing is a lot faster. CPU Mark is actually slower than my last system that became unstable (5900X) and it has less cores (8 instead of 12) so I was worried it wouldn't be much faster. But damn it compiles fast.

nvme gpt efi system partition 512 MB /boot ext2 1GB luks THE REST LVM vol group "all" LVM vol "swap" 32 GB LVM vol "btrfs" @rootfs /var /home /snapshots