If all you care about is the day you die then that is one way to see that data. Regular excercise will improve significant aspects of your life before that date though. If I didn't get measurable daily benefits from being fit I would probably still do it, since some activities are fun anyway. Mountain biking, climbing, swimming, all pretty fun.
Yeah, I was glad to stumble on swimming. I’ve always tried to jog a bit, but I’ve always hated it (and still do). I’d never really properly tried lap swimming (we did it a little in primary school, apart from that I’d only done recreational swimming), but I took to swimming laps very quickly and easily, now I really look forward to hitting the pool for an hour, two or three times a week.
There is a bit of a curve to get over with technique, breathing, etc. where you really can’t swim very far and you feel super slow at the start, but if you work on it it you can build up pretty quickly. You burn far more kilojoules in the pool than doing something like running too which is nice! I’m 32 now, been doing the swimming for three years now, and with a bit of diet improvement I’m definitely in the best shape I’ve been in since high school.
I’d definitely recommend it for people who don’t like the feeling of other aerobic exercise like running or cycling.
How do you get over that initial hump with breathing? I tried for months (maybe a whole year? But anything over 5 laps and I'd get a headache. I even bought this guy's videos: https://youtu.be/R4QQ_YXCMok
For $100 and paid a lifetime fitness swim instructor $180 to help me improve, but to no avail. (The videos helped some, the instructor was garbage).
It mostly just came with practice but perhaps I already had some advantage because I've done a lot of singing and also played wind instruments (trumpet mainly) for many years. Getting headaches doesn't sound great though - perhaps you were pushing too hard? You want to push through discomfort (and there is a lot of that especially at the start) but not into pain. Maybe just start with four or five laps at a slow pace and then try to add another lap every two weeks or so?
In terms of videos I quite like this channel on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@SkillsNT - it's all free content (they make some money with paid intensive camps every now and then at various places around the world but obviously you don't need to do that!). They have a fair bit of stuff about breathing, including exercises to do both in and out of the pool to improve breathing and how your body responds to CO2 in the bloodstream. Those exercises could also potentially help.
Consumers of content don't get to choose the system or protocol of the person they follow.
I want to see a good client that supports many different ways of following content: RSS, Atom, Twitter, Mastodon, nostr, youtube, whatever... with smart ways of dealing with different kinds of content (tweets versus blog posts versus videos).
Agreed, and this is actually my "top level" recommendation for anyone building apps in this space: if you make a reading app, make it read from anything; if you make a publishing app, make it readable anywhere; etc. Don't fixate on implementing a specific protocol. This is what I'm trying to do with Yakread.[1]
I see these RSS-related recommendations as the next step: what can an app developer do to reduce the effort it takes for others to interop with them?
Rotate keys: old key signs an event indicating that it is being rolled into a new key.
Multiple keys: nothing to change. Works like that now.
Recover your identity: Well, if you want a well-known identity use NIP-05/NIP-35 and just change your .well-known/nostr.json file to point to your new identity, the one that hasn't been stolen. Hopefully nostr clients of your followers will respect that (who knows what programmers actually will do).
I think these problems are easier than you think they are.
That is how I think of it. RSS with user-created public key identities. Lots of client fan-out to lots of relays. And a straightforward way for anyone to post (unlike RSS)
Relays have to figure out how not to get smashed with too much data. I predict they will require an account/login at some point. But you can post to multiple relays and drop relays that don't serve you well at any time.
You can look someone up like bob@example.com and if he publishes his nostr information in a well-known file, you'll know where to follow him and what his public key is: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/35.md
Of course this doesn't work for people wishing to remain anonymous.
They may be young and unaware of "solved technical problems," but they are full of energy, and every generation has to relearn the same things.
But as for peer latency issues or easy censorship by killing nodes, I don't see it. Nostr has fan-out, but not as much as RSS does and I don't expect superrelays.
I also don't follow you on the issue of anonymity or privacy. The guy who started it fiatjaf is anonymous. We don't know who he is. And you can be too. Just make up a key, create and sign an event, and push it into whatever relay takes your fancy... through Tor if that's your thing.
Just mute them. Or just follow who you follow with no suggestions of other people. Or relays can have a censorship policy based on the law or community standards or anything else they want... and the people will use whatever relays work for them (typically multiple relays to follow multiple crowds). Some people want censorship, some don't, the protocol is totally agnostic on this point.
I'm sure that already existed. Unless he intends to expand the diversity into the realm of racism or other types of bigotry or conspiracy beliefs. In my observation, Twitter is extremely permissive in what kind of speech it allows, drawing a line only at abject hate speech, threats or deliberate disinformation. None of that suffers from lack of diversity of viewpoints. Musk is either intending to allow a lot more shit flinging or he's really deluding himself that he can solve this problem. I'd honestly be more optimistic if he was bringing OpenAI in to do moderation.
Right, so the game becomes making your viewpoint as extreme as possible to shift the window of the council in your favour. What could possibly go wrong.
Not all viewpoints are equally valid. Just finding the middle of the viewpoints that exist isn't moderate because you can't just pretend that all sides have equal numbers of extremists and that somehow their views automatically "cancel out".
With the context of Elon saying it, yes. Diverse views where the views are all reasonable is one thing, allowing extremists a platform to misinform and radicalise is not. Elon has made it clear he thinks extremist rhetoric such as Trump's should be allowed.
