Mike Dilger ☑️

This land was green and good until the crystal cracked

Iran is starting to set up decoy hospitals.

I'm starting to think Brian Berletic is right. And I think Iran has no good reason to put mines in the strait, because it isn't a reasonable threat of deterrance against a superpower that has plenty of oil (22m barrels a day, second is Saudi Arabia at only 10). And Iran has no good reason to destroy oil infrastructure in the gulf, only to destroy US bases there. If mines show up in the strait, or gulf oil assets are hit, I think that is US forces doing it, perhaps Iraq. The one who benefits from the strait being closed is the US, and the ones who suffer is everybody else and especially China who still gets 20% of their energy from the gulf. Blockading China at the 2nd island chain seems to have not worked out (China too on top of that one) so this strategy of shutting down the gulf and blaming Iran is Plan B. And also, Israel doesn't control the US, it gets attacked by missiles on behalf of the US, same as Ukraine does. Now of course Netanyahu is a homocidal maniac, and there is a greater Israel plan, and this stuff dovetails together, I didn't say otherwise. But I think the US faceless policy people are running the show and Trump is running the distrations.

!!! SECRET PLAN LEAKED !!!

Unnamed official leaks that the true military objective is to widen the Strait of Hormuz

I hereby and officially condemn New Zealand for condemning Iran's missile strikes on [US military assets in] Gulf States. What dumbfucks. Hard to even believe that people of such levels of stupidity can survive to adulthood.

Remember, nobody wins a game of chess. The best you can do is break even, but rarely. Usually you start with 16 pieces and end with far less.

I truly believe IPv6 is an improvement over IPv4. But the only real effect it has ever had for me is to cause timeouts on my computer.

TIL that driving water out of oil is very non-linear. Dangerous sudden eruptions. I learned this the hard way. Yet I persisted (with a lid) to 104C. Because I don't want any water in my tallow. Tallow with water will get mold on the edges.

I've pushed minor updates to gossip and chorus (and their dependencies).

The only thing of note really is that chorus has a Dockerfile now. Builds a 41.4 MB image.

Many people hold to the notion that modern disease is caused by modern eating. When they hear about my quince tree they think "Hey, that's got to be healthy, something not cross-bred to death for supermarket purposes. How do you eat it?" I tell them "you cook it with lots and lots of sugar."

I witnessed a car accident today that is hard to fathom how oblivious a person can be. Like a game of frogger, except trying to get hit in every lane.

We drive on the left in NZ. I was in the far left "slow" lane. There were 2 lanes each way on this road. A car in front of me. A car in the fast lane about a car's length behind me. Oncoming traffic coming in fast in the fast line on the other side. That's the setup.

A car pulls out of a driveway on the left, as though turning right into the lanes across the road (to go opposite way I'm going). Pulled right in front of the car in front of me, who slams on the brakes. The car hesitates very slightly then proceeds into the fast lane on our side whereupon they get slammed by the car to my right who was going full speed. Both cars crush. Horns blaring are now stuck that way. Then they back up their crushed car back way they came off the road back into their driveway, get out, and wander around a bit dazed. The crazy thing is, if they had made it into the other side of the road they would have been hit there too by the oncoming traffic, probably even harder.

Feel free to guess the sex and race of the driver.

I'm back on nostr. BTC can now go up again.

"Trump is the only president who didn't start any new regime-change wars."

"Past performance is no guarantee of future results."

The military industrial complexes of Russia and the United States (and increasingly so European nations) are business partners. They scare each other's populases enough to make their governments fund more military shit. Julian Assange had it right "the goal is an endless war, not a successful war." There is no big WW3 coming.

I have not been paying much attention to nostr for 2 months as things have been busy, but the holiday break is upon us shortly, wherein I'll have a bit of time. Can anybody who still follows me give me a brief update on what has happened over the last few months, especially in the world of clients, relays, and the protocol?

I have 4L of märzen fermenting in my drinks fridge. 4L? Why so small of a batch? For rapid iterations. I need to brew over and over again to get good and to perfect the process. So every 3 weeks it will be another 4L, and every 9 weeks I'll have something to taste to see how badly I did 9 weeks prior. I also had to tweak the process to speed up the waiting period, which will effect the outcome but I won't slow it down until I'm satisfied i've learned and tweaked all I can. Then I can lager for longer.

Also, I don't have a complete 5 gallon (21L) setup. That requires a very large pot, a high output burner to heat it, and a much larger refrigerator with temperature control to ferment and lager it. I can't afford all that jazz right now.

So... this was my first time doing all grain brewing. And a lot of things went right, and then one thing went wrong.... which was really just me thinking something went wrong, then doing the wrong response, and so something did actually go wrong. But if I just followed the recipe it wouldn't have happened. I measured 1.021 SG pre-boil and thought that was too low. Turns out it was actually 1.037 if you correct for the fact that the wart was at 67C when I measured it. So adding 100g of maltodextrin was a bad idea. Anyhow, now I'm going to have an ABV north of 6%. Oh well. I'm happy to drink my mistakes!

The malt and hops smelled so amazing, better even than any beer, I wonder wny we don't just drink hopped wort from time to time.

In about 20 years, the poor will be much more numerous, there will be far fewer rich people, and all of them will be artificial.

Still rocking OMAD. It is still so easy that I feel like I'm cheating somehow.

Want to meet a wide variety of disparate people outside your normal social circle? Rent property.

I think Elon Musk was named after the dik-dik, which has elongated scent glands.

I must say, AI has gotten a lot better. I was highly skeptical a few years ago . Now I'm using one quite a lot at a client site (Microsoft copilot) and it really does a great job of coming up with the right range of possible answers, from which the human (me) can direct it towards the right one for further queries if needed. The human still needs to be in the loop. I don't see it replacing me just yet.

There are plenty of jobs it could replace though. And I've heard there are lots of layoffs happening because of this.

I love niri - a new wayland compositor / window manager. Give it a try.

From experiments I've run on myself, I can safely say:

"If you stop eating junk food, processed food, high sugar foods, you will improve metabolic syndrome." <--- FALSE "You have to eat vegan whole food plant based diet to fix metabolic syndrome." <--- FALSE "You have to avoid carbs and eat a keto diet to fix metabolic syndromne." <--- FALSE "If you have metabolic syndrome, you have insulin resistance and your Hba1c levels will be elevated at least a little bit." <--- FALSE "You need to avoid seed oils to cure metabolic syndrome." <--- FALSE "If you eat less often, but eat anything you like, as much as you like, you can cure metabolic syndrome." <--- APPEARS TO BE TRUE

I think all the diet camps are wrong... except that pro-fasting people.

"I often observe people making decisions if their odds of being right are greater than 50 percent. What they fail to see is how much better off they'd be if they raised their chances even more (you can almost always improve your odds of being right by doing things that will give you more information). The expected value gain from raising the probability of being right from 51 percent to 85 percent (i.e., by 34 percentage points) is seventeen times more than raising the odds of being right from 49 percent (which is probably wrong) to 51 percent (which is only a little more likely to be right). Think of the probability as a measure of how often you're likely to be wrong. Raising the probability of being right by 34 percentage points means that a third of your bets will switch from losses to wins. That's why it pays to stress-test your thinking, even when you're pretty sure you're right." - Ray Dalio, https://x.com/RayDalio/status/1981832067848741049

Iran is threatening our plans to murder more people. We must defend ourselves against this threat. All of our lies depend on it. Lives. I meant 'lives'.

I have to admit to feeling jealousy. I wish my government was shut down.

FYI there is a massive cyberattack on NPM right now, package developers being attacked, nasty commits being added and published, tokens being stolen and used to corrupt more packages. The ecosystem is currently widely corrupted. We just got an advisory from the NZ government about it.

SHA256 length extension attack:

Just for entertainment and education. This isn't a problem in nostr because we use a signature, not a MAC (and nostr messages can't be extended beyond the closing brace).

Wow! I just got raptured! I guess it was real. Maybe it happened to NZ first because of the time zones.

Definately ask Jesus for forgiveness and be good because you have less than 24 hours.

It is SO nice up here.

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