Hot take: Nostr took all the bitcoin enthusiasts off of the other platforms and isolated them together where their advocacy can't be heard anymore.

New Zealand has no air defense systems. We are just as vulnerable as Palestine and Lebanon are. Any beligerant nation could just fly bombers down here and start bombing the sheep and there is nothing we could do about it.

I believe the USA needs to repeal laws regarding posession of child porn. Not because that stuff is ok... it's sick. Creation of child porn should remain illegal. But because it is being used as blackmail to steer politicians into acting against the interests of the United States. I think this issue is far more important than immigration, the economy or tarriffs. It is only surpassed by issues of war. It has to be driven by the people. Politicians are coerced so they won't drive it. Of course the "moral signalling" is totally backwards... it looks like an issue only perverts would support.... which is why the USA probably cannot be saved and will collapse into a smoldering heap of evil.

For those of you that don't like seed oils... what do you think about yellow mustard? Do you avoid it? I'm just curious because yellow mustard is from the seeds of a Brassica plant, same as canola oil is. But I haven't heard people preaching that mustard is poison.

I made some whole wheat bread, but it was really rough and bitter. Maybe next time I'll leave out the roots.

I'm going to create the world's first AI blockchain. ... what else is big right now? I can throw it in.

Oatly oat milk (or Boring oat milk in NZ) is sweet... but it has no added sugars. I believe they are malting and mashing the oats to create sugars from the starches in the oats. Then they can say "no added sugars" and have no sugar listed in the ingredients. So there are recipes on line that have you blend 1 part rolled oats with 4 parts of water and filter thorugh a "nut mllk bag"' and people add sweeteners. But they still suffer "sliminess" and try to combat it by using ice water and other tricks, but it doesn't work well. Fuck that. I'm going to try mashing. This is totally untested but this is my rough plan: Malt (I could just buy diastatic malt, but I'm making my own): Soak wheat (not oats, I don't have them .. 6 row barley is best but I don't have that either) berries in water until they fully swell, 8 hours. (I'm using a french press, easy to drain through) Keep in the dark, but rinse and drain twice a day for about 3 days unil the sprouts are as long as the grains. Dry them at about 40 C in the fan-bake oven (no higher than 55 C) Grind them into a fine powder. Oat milk: Blend 1 part rolled oats (not whole grain, not quick) with 4 parts water. Cook at 53-59C to gelatinize, 20 minutes Bring to boil and boil for 20 minutes. Cool to 67 C. Add malt (unknown how much I should add), and maintain at 67 C Within 30 minutes it should very much sweeten and lose it's sliminess. Stop when it's nice by raising past 77C to denature the enzymes. Cool, strain and refrigerate.

Trump before being elected wanted to end the bloodshed. Tulsi Gabbard wanted to end all the "regime change" wars. But after getting into office, these people are completely different. Elon Musk was all for free speech until after he bought Twitter, then he started making exception after exception. I can think of (at least) five explanations: 1) They saw classified information that was accurate that changed their minds 2) They saw classified information that was inaccurate but deceptively crafted to change their minds 3) They never had their prior stated opinions, they just lied to get into office 4) They are being blackmailed 5) They aren't even the same people - Israel has a top secret look-alike replacement program that kills the original Trump and the original Tulsi and replaces them with look alikes (5) is the most entertaining explanation.

I just finished and published the first part of a side project, alt-tls, which is making TLS work with ed25519 (and other alternative configurations). It is strange that neither chrome nor firefox support ed25519 TLS. But in our own software we can do whatever we want. Also created the binaries to create the PEM secret key and PEM self-signed certificate (with an alt subject name of "IGNORE THE NAME BASE TRUST ON THE KEY", a cert verifier that allows any self-signed certs (but does verify their signature), and example client and server that talk to each other over this TLS connection using my crypto provider (based on rand_core, ed25519-dalek, x25519-dalek, sha2, chacha20_poly1305 crates). It is very strict: TLS 1.3, chacha20-poly1305, sha256, ed25519, x25519... nothing else is supported. I will try to add blake3 but there is no IANA number for it so I'll just have to pick a reserved for private use number. The same goes for secp256k1 keys which I will try to get working as well (I'm sure you understand why).

GitHub

GitHub - mikedilger/alt-tls: TLS provider for rustls supporting ed25519, plus tools

TLS provider for rustls supporting ed25519, plus tools - mikedilger/alt-tls

Cryptography is 90% format wrangling

#health A large study done on a large dataset including the Nurses Health Study and the Health Professionals Follow-Up study found that eating fast foods and fried foods away from home was POSITIVELY coorelated with surviving to and beyond 70 years of age, being free of chronic disease, intact mental health, intact physical function, and intact cognitive function. Now I'm sure you've always believed that eating fast foods and fried foods was bad for you. So, presuming the study was done correctly, and presuming that fast foods and fried foods are indeed bad for you as we have always believed, can anybody explain the result? I can think of at least two possible explanations (confounders), but I'd like to hear what other people think first.