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Notes

2024/05/14 #

Another totally unprovoked rock attack - Sleep depravation by motorbike gang stalkers for most of the night last night. The world is clearly still on the war path following the sandwich nazis swindleing me a couple of days ago. That was followed by wave after wave of escallating righteous harrassment literally everywhere I went. And the escallation continued all night until a large gang of around 10 youths brandishing sticks and stones materialised at around 4am.

After some verbal harrassment and confrontational behaviour from them, they started throwing the rocks and sticks at me, along with empty crisp cans. None hit me, but it was rather a close call. They eventually dispersed, but same as the last time this happened several months ago, no one around even batted an eye lid. It was almost as if they knew it was going to happen.

Really hoping this is an isolated incident. The last time this happened, it eventually escallated over several weeks to the point where they threw an actual giant stone brick which hit me square in the face. It starts off as a joking not joking sort of thing but eventually it's brick in the face.

One gets the impression that it's one or several of the local mafias, be it the taxi mafia, security guard mafia, butch women mafia, shop keeper mafia, police mafia, that somehow put them up to it.

And of course I'm the one who gets blamed for it, and I'm the one who gets mutilated. #

Why doesn't someone build a blockchain that is optimised for developers?

Maybe call it the view source blockchain. I think it's shit that there isn't an easy way to look at the underlying structure of the chain and transactions, to compare coins at a protocol level. HTTP, SMTP, RSS and even newer protocols like AT and Nostr can all easily be examined using a text editor. That's not the case for blockchains.

I previously wrote a related blog post about this: HTTP Request/Response equivalent for crypto coins.

Blockchains are too difficult to learn at a technical level. #

You learn to receive our rocks - There's been some form of mostly passive aggressive harrasment in every location I have been to today. Just wanted to make a note of that. The world is most definitely still on the warpath even if it is being quiet about it. Make no mistake though, I will likely still be blamed for everything in the universe. An aweful lot of 'you learn'‘s from various strangers earlier today. #

Happy intimidation - I mentioned this on Twitter earlier, a random passer-by on a motorbike stopped and ordered me to be 'happy' while making a reference to last night's rock attack. Pretty clear intimidation imho. #

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