what's the correct thing to do in order to spread the high-signal message far and wide?

signal is relative and normalized by, or against, noise.

if the medium is no longer your message, paper becomes part of the noise, even ink and liquid crystal... frills and frivolities, all is frivolous.

don't print your music; play it, and let only thin air dilute your message as it goes.

SN's ghost town gradually accumulates webpages that will be readable from archives indefinitely; and obviously, tourists can experience it live, before the next good flare turns "touch grass" from mean to simply sad.

NOSTR is only for "one of us". You can't tell someone who doesn't trust computers to look up how they work on wikipedia; that's how futile shilling NOSTR outside of NOSTR is, unless the individual with whom you're discussing it already has a problem and is actively picking your brain for possible solutions.

good! and thank you for taking the time to make this obvious both in and out of context; I usually only review media after text and comments, if at all.

Sorry I didn't provide Amazon links to absolutely every title... That's too crazy tedious, even for me.

so the first good habit I began deliberately acquiring in the days before I found your^[1] saloon, was unifying bookmarkes and looseleaf. sometimes all I had was last night's bill, that's also good enough. you do however need a pen, even if only borrowed for scribbling the ISBN, LCCN, DDS, or, failing all else, mockery of MLA citation, onto the scrap of found paper that you now upcycle.

that is no longer last night's reckoning against liquid capitalism; that is your new reading record. cherish it beyond the library stamps, librarian codes, or even margins you might consider worth ripping out, so full of your wisdom they've grown...

ten years down the road, people will begin caring less what you scribbled in one margin, and more about which houses printed and bound.

1. despite the quote, I'm still mostly talking to any stackers reading long after denlillaapan's post has lost its place on the front page; and I'm unaware of any commonly accepted second person plural possessive, similar to y'all and youse, yet pluralizing your... ↩

let's not forget about dust; a library is a living thing, until respect for Dewey and whatever's dusty outruns idle curiosity and youthful diligence, replaced by the sad silence of libgen's innumerable mirrors.

so you're using the word "shelf" like it's redefined on the goodreads website, as a photo album, or a rolodex of your favorite flavors, if you will; however, the "best shelf in philosophy" is the one that causes the most unexpected pantomime between crowded stacks and heartless mezzanines, not the one where priceless gutenbergs rot in pure dinitrogen behind bulletproof glass.

I think they're much more critical for stackers like me, who fall hard from grace upon birth,^[1] get muted by most hatty zappers, and then actually stand to benefit intangibly, beyond the monetary mundanity, from raising the standards of discourse, rather than merely floating along, compliant, credited, and never losing count.

1. written metaphorically; compared to most of the ghosts in town, I'm still a toddler. ↩

I seem to have disabled desktop notifications somehow, in one of my efforts to reduce distractions; and now after I've disabled "Do not disturb" mode, allowed notifications from the browser app, and allowed notifications from SN in the browser's notification settings... is there any way to deliberately trigger notifications for testing, short of zapping or replying to myself from @anon , short of requesting and waiting for a reply on this comment?

Do you recommend reading this piece for someone^[1] who already has more than enough distrust and skepticism of AI coding, and arguably does not need further dissuasion but rather encouragement to form an honest and unbiased opinion?

1. it's a description of me; however lots of folks might be in a similar situation ↩

I don't remember where exactly I found this advice, although I continually find myself reminded of it anytime I review satistics, and even most of the times when I zap:

If you're simply here for the community, disable zap notifications;

and I emphasize further, the advice was to disable, rather than raising the minimum threshhold for notification.

I've been keeping my notifications for zaps enabled, because I'm still studying my own anecdotal experience in obsessive detail while wondering about the various "user stories" that approximate the typical behaviors; however, by actually disabling all zap notifications, you actually give way for notifications to help you carry on your conversations with the community; and if you're ever curious about the zappy moderation metadata, you can visit satistics or just mouseover the word "sats" in the leading line of the relevant comment.

thinking of vibing up a local variant of Defer

the main reason that I'm not actively seeking a software solution for this problem is that I consider it a subproblem of more general ADHD^[1], and thus deem it more appropriate to attack the more general behavioral issues.

edit: thank you for mentioning and linking Defer; I should at least include it in my brainstormy research towards a more general praxis.

1. at least, that's my judgement for my own case! obviously, some people might only suffer from this when they have 16GB RAM and fifteen notification channels all going off at once; however, my solution should ideally work equally well in the entire space of my distractions, that spans graphical desktop environments, console sessions, smartphone distractions, and books that include musical scores with scribbles on looseleaf... ↩

yay! quote replies work again!

I had told myself a few days ago, "complain in the saloon rather than making a dedicated post or gripe on GH" and it's already been fixed by the day that I remembered.

how do you track the amounts you set aside for them?

I'm guessing the simplest way, if the granularity of amounts you save for them is large enough relative to fees, would be to have one address per kid, and keep the addresses frozen so the wallet doesn't spend from them; then as they age into having their own wallets [or e.g. if they convince you to spend their sats for some request], you can drain all the UTXOs from that kid's address together, making the concerns about address reuse almost irrelevant.

first off, I don't have kids;

... however, I've noticed that Alby Hub^[1] includes Sub-wallets^[2] that seem like they could perfectly fit the case of parents or guardians supervising their dependents.

1. I have tons of gripes about them, however, they do seem to be doing a good job of implementing the "open source code of the freemium product; premium services offered by the company" business model ↩

2. Some folks might be more interested in the FAQ than the setup guide. ↩

I came to the above-linked post when I was reading this one, [...]

Thank you for sharing your context!

I often find that when I'm not disciplined about keeping my heap of browser tabs bounded, the pressure to reduce the number of open tabs leads to me abandoning this retracing of "why/how did I get here". If the tab was only exploration of some topic for general enrichment, that's fine, although often I realize a few minutes or hours later that I had some undocumented reason for ending up on that page... so ending the digestion of one article with determining that context is definitely a good habit.

why does your mask include the high 0xE if you're only tracking bits 3 and 4 ?

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/commit/172f006020965ae8763a0610845c051ed1e3b522

this one is for validation; the other link you posted is for mining.

if you look at the diff on github, just above the context is their best guess at the most relevant enclosing scope; and there you can see that the other commit you linked introduced the limit for the blocks generated by the CPU miner, while this commit enforces them in verification.

you should link this post from your bio, or just include some of the key sentences there.

bios are always editable, unlike regular posts and comments, that can only be edited within ten minutes of posting.

I hope you find good results bringing your perspective to the community, and don't get discouraged by the sharp-tongued critics... ultimately anyone on this site has a fundamental shared incentive, despite their differences.

Please include some abstract or your own opinion of why the linked article is worth reading; otherwise, people either ignore the links, or see the title, say to themselves something like "Tetration is the operation defined by Knuth, extending exponentiation, and I already know how it's defined" and scroll onwards without reading.

I'd think I'd braindump and then rarely go back around to read the dump.

sometimes the process of "talking out" is helpful on its own; similarly to how writing forces you to linearize your ideas, although with a much lower energy barrier.

you might be surprised to discover how many "apps" these days are actually an entire webapp [server + client + renderer] bundled for running locally... this discussion applies equally to them.

tl;dr use precise string matches for sensitive identifiers, rather than regex without start- and end-of-string delimiters