Nostr 101 with @Derek Ross and @₿en Wehrman great explanation for newcomers/purple pilling

Here goes nothing, an intro to a Nostr-hosted data dump of 40 years of practical painting and decorating experience. Self-employed, widely travelled with assorted online-offline business experience. To make it relevant to a broader audience, I will try to go into the hows and whys and wherefores, as well as practical tips plus nudges for online normies to relocate to Nostr.

#asknostr - I have recorded and crunched 3 mp4 videos between 30 minutes and about an hour 800MB to 1.5GB What are the options to get them online and to release them on Nostr first?

I hope the dialogue and hand wringing about the outage in Spain and Portugal doesn't stop at the current level - phew, it wasn't a cyber attack. For sure, the technicians who got everything back on line probably deserve a medal, but anyone with a brain will be asking how the greatest brains in electrical infrastructure design in 2 nations could have come up with a system that can be completely crippled at the same time. Is it an ideological/political decision to have no decentralisation, to deliberately have a single point of failure? If not what, because the current national grid design is a lesson in zero resilience. How deep does this thinking go? How safe are citizens, really? If you have been skeptical of the quality of leadership and the dodgy intentions of leaders trying to centralise everything in modern society, yesterday was another vindicating moment. What is the point of me having a backup generator on site so I can keep painting for a client who is in the dark and cannot pay me because the bank paymet systems have collapsed and oh, there's no cash any more. Por ejemplo. "That's unthinkable," said the frog as the water heated up a few more degrees.

We're back. If you live off grid in Spain, the recent blackout was a nothing burger. If you depend on a national grid, you should be furiosly re-thinking your position. Talk of electrification as a cureall for the world has to include decentralisation at its core, otherwise the "unintended" consequence of electrifying everything is a doubling down on the trend turning society into a dependent sitting duck. Lessons learnt. Most people are calm in a crisis as long as someone else is working things out. The first reaction seems to be, how do we do exactly what we did yesterday when there was no crisis. Eg desparation for bread. Queueing for butane gas. Baffling. Wáter needs electricity to pump It around. There was a rush for supermarkets and wáter in plastic bottles. To be so unprepared is laughable, except It is not funny. Take a good look at Who you pay taxes to. Did they help you when the modern world was falling apart? The value of taxes tales on a different hue through that lense. Anybody taking the Mickey out of solar as a part of the power mix clearly is talking hypothetically with no experience or appreciation of the value of limited power. Crypto bros, make no mistakes, Cash is King, every other means of payment fails without power. So everybody needs to take that knowledge to the bank and demand cash is restored to the system, or find another way to get outside the financial system independent of national power supplies and financial providers. There is always Talk of mesh networks, but Talk is cheap. Time to swat Up on using papers ledgers. It is no consolation to know that Bitcoin tick tock Next block when nobody can access It. Bog standard radio waves are still the bottomline means of communication. I bet the price of transistors and short waves in Spain Will never be as low as they were the day before the blackout. I dont think anything meaningful Will change though. #Spain #outage #asknostr

The first painting memory I have is helping my father whitewash a Stone wall in the driveway. I was maybe 7, and I remember being handed a Jam jar and topping It Up with wáter till the lime based paint ran like wáter. Probaby a very messy operation and I Dont recall being given gloves. 50 years later I am organising a set of specs for Graphenstone lime based #paints. Still the same basic ingredients as Traditional limewash, but with extra properties. Creating cloudy wall finishes with múltiple coats of limewash I Will be like a wide eyed child again. No limits except my imagination. You can "limewash" with látex paints, but they arent antiseptic, Dont do well with damp, dont absorb CO2 when drying, don,t harden when wet and látex off gases. A place for everything but especially if decorating new build, consider lime based and mineral finishes.

great #paint work

Limed oak can be achieved in a few ways. Wipe surface with a wash of White látex/emulsion and take off excess with a clean lint-free cloth is the simplest. Seal with a clear varnish when dry. #paint effects have no rules, the only limitation is choice of materials to match your expectations. That's a book right there. https://image.nostr.build/ecfbfb8bb65e6614d05d3b8fb3f419a6ae9d5a36bdf366aceec4b5e407c8d3f7.jpgwhite

How to stop resinous knots from staining through the #Paint? Kind of easy but not without its pitfalls. 2 coats of shellac sealer ie Zinsser BIN or clear shellac knotting. Apply a thin coat fast no fuss. It dries by evaporation , fast. Give It 10 minutes then apply second coats. Again, thin and fast with no fuss. Aerosol is good if you have a lot to do Water-based stain sealers are trickier to use and less effective. In both cases, the trick is to lock in the stain into the first coat. Shellac dries really fast so It locks tve stain in fast. Wáter based sealers take longer to cure, day(s) not minutes. If you apply second coats and the first has not cured you literally reactivate the stain. BEST demo of successful wáter based stain sealers was a coat of Zinsser Bullseye 1-2-3 over nicotine. Left for a week it looked horrendous, but tve staining was locked in and the second coats left It super White and problem solved

A question posed by a smart cookie. Is Nostr going to get samey as a few people work out what generates zaps and every creator follows? Or, as I posit, free of centralised control, individuality will prevail. Currently his argument is winning as there is 90% Bitcoin here and Im still the only one posting about #painting and decorating.

Not a bad hearth. But whoever did the #painting didn't quite pull off the old with the new. The surround looks like bad plasterwork rather than a finish in sympathy with old stonework. The never ending journey is trying to understand why we do things

Just been to a Screwfix store in UK, seen endless stream of trades coming in to pick up orders placed online. I don't understand how the #builders can afford to work like that. Surely a delivery to site is the most cost and time-effective option for seller and buyer? It's not like anyone was chit chatting or making it a social event.

A teapot full of gin? No limits option? Only in England.

Seven years in the making, the final collection of an "alternative Nativity" is finished. Welded steel frames, papier maché over reinforced netting and #painted, decorated and varnished to high heaven. Now ready for a worthy cause to take away and show the rest of Spain an open minded interpretation of the traditional #Nativity characters.

If you have stone floor tiles consider sealing them with clear hydrophobic sealer. If it's good enough for patios...goes a long way and easy to apply. #painting #housepainter

Anti graffiti paint is cleverer than the average graffiti artist. But what a pollaver. So many resources going into a solution to remove artistic vandalism or is it freedom of expression?. Whatever stripe it is, it's a lick of paint and under law it is usually all treated as one - a crime - and has to go. Prevention beats cure. When the artist moves in, the invisible anti graffiti coating makes sure paint can't stick permanently. And when you clean off the graffiti the coating also comes away easily. One of many outstanding anti graffiti products can also prevent rain penetrating stone.

An assortment of items painted for an art installation. Torches, arms, tails, it can all be painted. And all different finishes too. Home brew red pigment added to clear latex; acrylic pink paint; gold flake; varnished blackboard paint. It's all in the basecoats. The art of painting is in preparing the foundation. Michelangelo had terrible trouble early on until he worked out how frescos worked best.

Nostr is different and needs to stay that way. We all know that Google are all pervasive online, but I just saw them for the anvil around our neck they are. I removed one short embedded video from my normie website and swapped it for an image linked to YouTube. So nothing has changed in that readers still have the option to click on the "play" button and YouTube still gets a view. But what doesn't happen any more is the insane amount of resources to make an embed video play. And no tracking. Google tube are consuming so much time, energy, money and peace. They need to stay in their lane. And the public need to disentangle from the matrix and grasp the cost of convenience. The cost of convenience has been really downplayed