daily reminder: look at my cat. think about my cat.  

his name is bugso.
https://buggo.space

#catsofmastodon #voidkitty

speaking of platforms: i want to hear takes about #nostr

given how sloppy the spec is, i'm kind of shocked how functional it is. but the design pretty much creates discoverability issues from the get-go because the network is partitioned by default, and it's slow as hell

also it's architectured in a way that puts a bonkers amount of load on the client: i scrolled through my feed for 5-10m and my browser made over like 300 connections to scores of different domains

unfortunately it seems like they've fallen into a pay-to-win model where most relay servers are unreliable and full of spam and noise, so people end up paying to publish posts on paid relay servers. it would be one thing for this to be a manner of clout chasing, but the paid relays also tend to be the most functional ones, which encourages non-paying users to still read from paid relays because they're actually working

i also didn't mention... the content there was... lacking. and by that i mean 99% was spam or deluded cryptobros obsessing over the next dip they're gonna buy

i don't remember taking E&M in college but i got a C. idk how electricity works but one time i learned what a flip-flop is

how hard would it be for me to learn enough to put this bad boy together? naively i would think it's not hard because i could assemble things without understanding, but the note about the 555 circuit being "tricky" (and therefore requiring some debug) scares me
https://www.instructables.com/Ultrasonic-Sound-Gun-Parametric-Speaker/