🌸🌹2ck 🌱🐇 @2ck@qoto.org

rolls I baked. I had the dough in the fridge for maybe two days after about an hour proofing at room temp. about 2 parts "bread flour" to one part whole wheat flour. rolled out into a tube over a mixture of dried basil, cut into roughly equal portions and tried to roll into balls (they mostly kept the shapes they were cut into). dipped individually into a mixture of extra virgin olive oil and garlic salt. baked at 400°F (204.4°C) for about 30 minutes on non-stick parchment paper sprinkled with corn meal.

has a slight sour taste, which I like. slight crunch on the bottom.
#bread #breadposting #baking

@Craftplacer that is a good album though.

TIL, I've been using the word "accession" improperly for years

@izaya that's an amusing scenario, but I'd guess it's their education office that's responsible for the AV on their videos

I find it perpetually amusing how it seems like every live NASA broadcast seems a bit amateur. Technical difficulties, mics not being silenced, microphone booms peeking into the shot.
#jwst #nasa

@izaya yeah, something to be said for that. though, of course, they are different works: the actors, directors, and screenwriters all contribute to a different story

@izaya i get why he wanted to capture him initially, but not why he wouldn't let him die... especially given that inaros' credibility was harmed by how he pulled out of Ceres.
🤷‍♂️ again, maybe I need to read the books

@izaya hey maybe this made sense to you: wth did Holden disarm that missile? only thing I could figure is maybe he thought it would hurt Naomi's feelings to know her son was dead, but that would be a stupid reason and I didn't think Holden is *that* stupid

I had a whole-body reaction off of eating one of these. what is wrong with me? 😆

"pretzels"
#baking #bread

I've been passively interested in sodium-based batteries for a little while (I think since someone on fedi posted about them). This is sounds like a cool advance on the tech:
https://cns.utexas.edu/news/sodium-based-material-yields-stable-alternative-to-lithium-ion-batteries
#batteries #electricity #energystorage #engineering

OTOH, since I don't care much about decentralization, an easier path to virtual money is something like @cwebber@octodon.social posted a little while ago about a "virtual mint", where you basically keep a secret token of value signed by the mint as an analogue of physical money. then you share that token over a secure channel to spend it, and the receiver/seller *before forking over the thing you're buying* asks the mint for a new token, using the one you gave as license to receive the new one, thus verifying and invalidating the old token to prevent double-spending.

@yaaps@banana.dog
> only the participants in the transaction participate in signing blocks.

makes some sense. both parties could sign nonsense transactions that would essentially make new money, but since there would be a ledger, the party receiving the money wouldn't want to do that because when they tried to spend more than the ledger permits no other right-behaving clients would accept their fake money.

does Bitcoin not work that way? (never read the specification for Bitcoin) I recall something about needing several clients to check the transaction or block of transactions before they're official. i guess you'd still want something like that though, otherwise every client, for every transaction would need to check virtually the whole log of transactions for every exchange. consensus on past blocks means you can say, "ok, we're good from here back, so I can accept this transaction based on my own verification from here forward". not sure about "blocks" though: seems like you would register your approval of all individual transactions until you found "enough" signatures on the set of transactions leading to the one you participate in directly.
(IDK how you "register approval" though: maybe that's just part of what's exchanged for any transaction. you give to other participants your signatures of all transactions back to that agreeable consensus point and they reciprocate if they're all good.) still there's the problem of whether the ones who sign into the consensus are "good guys" vs some cadre of baddies who all collude to make bad txns for money or lulz: I don't know how you select that quorum or size it because I don't know how you count all of the population... that's a tough one in a "public ledger".

I think the expensive part is in minting the money in the first place because, if you don't want a central entity to say what's money, then you need some way for anyone to generate it, but it can't be too easy or the money won't be worth anything, hence proof-of-work. personally, I guess I don't care much about the other decentralized alternatives: I'd rather have actual central banks backed by governments minting the money and signing it into the system. across currency systems, we can have currency exchanges like we have now with govt backed currency.

@jens @cwebber@octodon.social