This ParmAirGap is a little scruffy looking, but in perfect working order. If you want it, and funds are tight, it's 10% off because of the blemishes. Price can be further reduced if you want to tap in to #senselesskindness donations. Https://parmanode.com/parmairgap

New insights for teaching kids Trigonometry, might help some homeschooling champion parents... Sin, Cos, and Tan is unnecessarily taught all together, causing confusion, and difficulty memorising. It's made worse by teaching fractions of triangle sides, "Sine is opposite over hypotenuse", and then mnemonics are taught..SOH CAH TOA. Ridiculous. I had to undo a lot of this crap today teaching my daughter, and the new system was easier and she got it straight away... To begin with, forget Tan. And forget side ratios initially. 1. For any right angle triangle, the two other angles, theta and alpha, add up to 90 deg. 2. Any two right-angle (RA) triangles with the same two other angles are similar triangles. If the hypotenuse is also the same SIZE, then they are identical triangles. (Explain this by discussing zooming in and out, triangle gets bigger and smaller, but it looks like the same triangle. And so these numbers define the "shape of shapes", but not always how big or zoomed in they are). 3. Always work with triangles where the hypotenuse is 1, to begin with. To eliminate complexity of absolute sizes, start with the "shape of the shapes". 4. Sine is the main one to know, and learn to "feel" that it's the most important - it helps memory. It refers to the size of the triangle-side furtherest from an angle (don't call it a ratio yet). Animate the angle changing, and the side's size changing with it (and triangle shape). And of course it always remains a RA triangle. On one extreme where the angle is approaching zero the triangle becomes acute, then almost just a straight line. The hypotenuse is to be considered like a clock hand, fixed in size of 1. As the angle is approaching zero, the sine-side (opposite) is approaching 0 in length, and the other side, the cos side (adjacent), is approaching the same length as the hypotenuse, 1. Show how both sides HAVE to change size, because you're not changing the size of the hypotenuse. On the other extreme, when the angle is opening up towards 90°, the sine side is approaching 1 in length, and the cos (adjacent) side is approaching 0. Another straight line. When the angle is 45 deg, the animation is exactly half way between the two extremes and both angles (theta and alpha) must equal 45 degrees (otherwise it's not a right angle triangle). And the 2 changing sides are equal in length. Demonstrating this, I think, is much more important than memorising opposite over hypotenuse, adjacent over hypotenuse, and opposite over adjacent. Then when you have a something like, sin(37 degrees), one can appreciate this DEFINES a triangle's shape. Then, once they get that, you can explain the vale of sine(T) is actually a COMPARISON to the hypotenuse, which has always been 1 so far, and also is always the longest side of the RA triangle (so the value of a side has always been under one). Comparison means a ratio. 0.5 means half the size compared to the hypotenuse. THEN, show... sine (45) = A/H = 0.7 ... as an example, and demonstrates how with bigger triangles (hypotenuse greater than 1), if the shape of the triangle is the same, defined by angle, then sin(T) stays the same, and always under 1, no matter the larger hypotenuse. Once comfortable, draw sine waves and cos waves (careful not to become the whiteboard meme guy here). Then when comfortable with that, show a clock and the triangles formed in the 4 quadrants. Introduce radians. Only THEN talk about Tan, opposite over hypotenuse, or sineT/cosT. Just my 2 π

I'm not saying you're annoying, I'm just saying I get annoyed by you. And that you're annoying.

People are just walking around not realising the power of "Match exec" in sshd_conf. We are early.

Listen up and read to the end if you have no friends, particular no Bitcoiner friends... Today I added a cool feature to ParmaDrive. When you pair your ParmaDrive home server to another ParmaDrive (A ParmaTwin), each machine can backup data to the other over an encrypted secure "tunnel". That's not new. The new part is the ability to write messages to a desktop text file to each other, eg, "Oi, dickhead, I was doing a backup yesterday and your machine was down, what's the deal?" Obviously there are safety measures so the file can't be executed, just read. If you don't have a friend who can be your ParmaTwin, you can just allow me to pair you up with another waiting client. You don't need to trust each other, you just need to trust that you're both interested in keeping your machines on, so that you can back up data to each other. It's probably a good idea to video meet and get acquainted anyway. You don't need to reveal personal info necessarily, but you might become friends, who knows. Generally, all ParmaDrive/ParmanodL clients are Bitcoiners who tend to have the same core values.

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It's OK to be a complete fucking retard, just don't do that while you're driving near me.

Just feeling warm and fuzzy because it's nice to have Bitcoin. A heartfelt GFYs to the lot of you 🧡

Self sovereign data is as risky as self custody Bitcoin -- doesn't mean you do the normie thing and give up! "Yeah, but what are you gonna do?" Getting free from Google and Apple for your data storage is a massive and difficult job - as designed. Even the phone, it's hard to use a Google/Apple free device if you have your data with them. You can't extract yourself all at once... there is a lot to do, but you can chip away and eventually all the pieces come together. Doing something is better than nothing, then doing something more is better than stopping there. To help, I have ParmaDrive - this is a machine that, besides being a Bitcoin node, is designed to help you store your own data safely. STEP ONE is to put a copy of your data on the 16TB drive, and practice accessing it in preference to "the cloud". STEP TWO is to have a copy on anothet drive in your home STEP THREE is to have a copy offsite (more on that below) STEP FOUR is to delete your data from cloud services now that you have copies and geographical refund. REMOTE BACKUPS - OPTION 1 You can buy a second external hard drive, manually sync it with your first drive and then take it offsite. Periodically you have to take a risk by bringing it back to the original site, syncing, then taking it back offsite. OPTION 2 You can have a second ParmaDrive kept offsite, which maintains a permanent private connection that I will configure. Each night, any changes to the data is backed up automatically. It's kind of like Apple time machine snapshots. You can browse the snapshot and download any files that you might have lost. OPTION 3 Same as option 2 but a friend, ParmaTwim, has the second machine, and you reserve drive space to reciprocate encrypted backups. You don't need to trust each other because neither can see the others' data as it's encrypted. OPTION 4 You can do option 3 but with another customer as a ParmaTwin. Again you don't need to trust them but it is nice to make contact and get to know each other. Just ask to be on a list when you order a machine. OPTION 5 You can ParmaTwin with more than one person if it helps you feel more secure. You can also offer to be a ParmaTwin for more than one person and you can even ask for a fee - be your own mini data centre. OPTION 6 You can sync to ParmaData, a datacentre I haven't yet made available. Later. That's all I got for self sovereign data tips today.

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I am ordering you to do what you want!

Teach a kid to bake...

About Electrs vs Fulcrum servers ... These are both Electrum SERVERS. An electrum server is different to a wallet, and a common cause of confusion because of terrible naming. The purpose of the Electrum Bitcoin is to keep a copy of the Bitcoin blocks in an alternative structure to better serve as a backend to a wallet (Electrum Wallet must have an Electrum server, but Sparrow can use it or not). Your wallet can then EFFICIENTLY ask questions to the server about its balances. The Bitcoin blockchain is not optimised for this, it is optimised for unstoppable, uncensorable, immutable money (and apparently Monkey JPEGs). When not using an Electrum server, as Sparrow Wallet can do, and also Specter and others - the Bitcoin client creates a Bitcoin wallet in clear text of the connecting wallet. So if you open Bitcoin QT, it shows the balance, not good for privacy. Like I said, not optimised to be a wallet. It also communicates to the wallet via TCP, not SSL, so traffic is not encrypted (IDK if this has changed recently) Electrs (Electrum server in Rust, Rust is a nanny programming language) is very stable, and it's rare for the database to be corrupted. Fulcrum is FAST, way faster than Electrs and even Electrum X, but the database FREQUENTLY gets corrupted, necessitating a complete resync -- annoying. For ParmaDrives and ParmanodLs, I ship these with Electrs as the backend, even though Fulcrum is the fastest because of stability. I'm thinking now to ship them with BOTH electrs and Fulcrum synced. Use Fulcrum, and if it craps its pants, sorry, WHEN it craps its pants, the slower and more reliable electrs is there while you resync Fulcrum.

If you're having a bad day, take a moment to feel sorry for the Torres "Straight" Islanders who have this as their flag. Once you see it, you can't unsee it.

Why the Hell would you sell bitcoin for tyranny compliance tokens? You have to work for them, but your master creates them for free.

I watched the Jordon Peterson VS Michael Saylor podcast, and I want to mention a couple of things I found interesting. Jordon was able to get a bit of psychological background on Saylor like no one else has done, and I could tell when he realised he was making it too obvious, bordering on saying, "Now, tell me about your mother". At those moments, instead of pausing to let Saylor answer, he realised it was too much psychoanalysis, and he would continue the question without pausing, merging into his own general analysis about people, sort of back peddling the question by having a conversation - I see what you're doing Jordon, LOL. Another thing I noticed was the power struggle. We all know Michael likes to dominate and set the agenda of what he will be talking about and at what point the conversation would shift, despite him being the guest, not host. Jordon was quite good at reigning him in, and interrupting by pretending to be super interested in something else, and Saylor fell for it. It got subtly awkward at times, but Jordon handled it well. The ending was handled nicely, I won't spoil it.

I can't seem to get things I feel like getting done, because I'm always interrupted by doing things more important to me.

Here's what I'm working on, the ultimate Bitcoiner security setup that I've designed, and build for people ... A laptop with fully synced Bitcoin Knots running (in the background) with Parmanode menu system, connecting with Electrs server (or Electrum X or Fulcrum). It's called ParmanodL... Sparrow wallet pgp verified and installed, auto-connecting to own Bitcoin data (via electrum server). (Electrum wallet and Specter wallet also included) on an internal 2Tb NVME fast SSD - no dangly bits. UDEV rules configured so your HWW works beautifully (I have BitBox02 available, and also recommend ColdCard if you're more tech savvy). The laptop ideally is left plugged in, this allows you to have access to you current wallet balance instantly. You can turn it off, but you'll be waiting for the node to catch up each time you use it. Laptops have batteries, so if the power goes out in your home, you'll have a chance to gracefully shut down the machine so you don't get blockchain data corruption (and have to potentially resync). You can search your own transactions with your own mempool web viewer using your own data - rather than submitting you address/tx and location (IP address) to a public service. And you can keep the machine in stealth mode, over Tor or I2p, if you are paranoid about privacy. They can lottery mine, and use datum, a nice intro to get your toes wet - not to scale up with, but just to experiment. With a few extra sats, you get MUCH more features and a custom build with ParmaDrive - self sovereign data server/cloud to help you get off Google/iCloud. Yes, it has everything a ParmanodL has except it's not a laptop. I suppose it can be, the build can be customised. With two ParmaDrives (ParmaTwins) you get ParmaSync set up - this is something I invented that allows two people to sync encrypted data to each other automatically, preventing single point of failure data loss, part of a 3-2-1 backup system. You could actually own both, just put them in different places to get the redundancy benefits. More info here... parmanode.com parmanode.com/parmadrive Finally, to top it off, you can pair the node with a laptop signing device, the ParmAirGap - quick summary is that it's like a Seedsigner in laptop form, except it's a full isolated operating system, so it does much more than just sign, helping you overcome extreme paranoid with wallet creation, verification, and letter encryption. Details here... parmanode.com/parmairgap

My wife is such a bad driver, that when manoeuvering through a tight spot, she'll judge if she's going to hit or not by watching the expressions on the faces of the other drivers. If they're panicking, she's too close. I still kept her 🤣🤣🤣

There's too much winning, I can't take it anymore.