so, i have been feeding #mochi the #catstr char grilled beef loin
and i waved cheesy treats in front of his face
and he just can't find any interest in consuming it
literally, i am feeding him less weight of food now, that he takes about 5x as long to eat, and he doesn't want any more
if you never knew about this, beef fat contains stearic acid, which is a precursor to a hormone that signals satiety
i am seeing it play out right in front of me in another (carnivore) species
oh yeah, and that thing about "obligate carnivore"
yes you can feed cats seed based foods, but usually you have to boost it with yeast extract for them to even want to touch it
they will die in about 5 years, cats, if you feed them a purely seed and yeast based diet, usually of kidney failure
their potential lifespan is about 20 years
so do the math... if humans are similar (we are very similar) then if on average we die about 50 from diabeetus from a grain and yeast extract based diet
then we probably can live about 200 years also, at least
the old average was based on a diet that has more than 50% of the calories coming from starches... that gave you the ~80 year lifespan
don't let anyone pull the wool over your eyes
we are no less carnivores than cats
and like cats we can survive for a while on grains
but it dramatically reduces lifespan
i reverted the implementation of rate limiting on #realy because it just resulted in a massive increase in goroutines... some 700 threads holding maybe that many sockets open and cpu usage was at max likely due to constant need to do garbage collection
the websockets for everything model of #nostr as it stands today is an utterly retarded and broken idea that should never have got this far, it's impossible to maintain this many connections without exhorbitant resources, and it's unnecessary - and the simple fact of the ambiguity about whether a filter without an "until" value means "keep open the subscription" is even worse because every time a new event is submitted, every single thread with an open subscription is checking for a match
it might almost work if there was an optimized matching engine and we switched to HTTP/3 with its multiplexing and QUIC but this isn't what we are looking at here
there is a reason why most of the web runs on RESTful interfaces
subscriptions on websockets is fine, but that is the sole purpose and reason to use websockets, everything else can be done with standard HTTP, without the ridiculous resource consumption
so, as such, and because i need to stack more sats if i'm gonna have any hope of realising the boat ownership dream, with the #catstr #mochi as my first mate and support animal, i'm putting all my nostr work on hold unless i can get funding to focus on it... and i need to finish the current task i am assigned to in my paid gig, so i might as well do this
the other thing is that #realy desperately needs a full code review and refactor... there is things dangling in there like the spider, which needs to be popped out to be its own separate service that is run from a more secure position than inside the relay itself, the rate limiter needs to actually be installed and some kind of resource management scheme to garbage collect stale and long living websockets needs to be done... ideally there would also be an accounting system added and then paying users could be charged for their use instead of the open slather that is the current situation, only mitigated by the limitation of having only a small (ie 11k) whitelisted writers... and then there is the implementation of the simplified HTTP-focused redesign of the protocol, which i have specced up but will take me weeks to build
so, since i don't have the time or resources to do this, for now it's on hold
gotta go spend my 6-8 hours a day in the fiat mines and finish my current assignment
the other thing is that i'm starting to get tired of working with shitcoins... what has really triggered me is remembering kate beckinsale and underworld and penis facial and sony corporation and they are talking about supporting the sony deployment of the ethereum network (their own, called soneium) which makes me vomit in my mouth just a bit when i think about the whole constellation of associations i have with that company, and with ethereum, jp morgan, consensys, me having almost got a job with consensys - and ethereum, before falling homeless
and what really triggered all that was i woke up to a dream this morning, where i lost some important documents, cards, or something, while stuck in a place full of homeless people and filth
and i'm like
yeah, nah
gonna finish the work i have pledged to do, and stack my ass off and then try to find something less vomit inducing to do for my income
a really bizarre thing i have noticed with #mochi the #catstr is that he gets in these dark moods with me sometimes, like he's mad at me - in this case because i closed the shutter on a window he was spying on my landlord's family working on the little garden they made next to my cottage, and after it, he's all dark and grumpy with me
but the weirdest thing is that when he's grumpy, the way he looks at me, it's like, he's looking straight in my eyes, because his reflectors are shining straight back at me
they say that cats only look into the eyes of enemies, and when they stare like this they are pissed off
haha... well, sorry mochi, i can't have you making a spectacle of watching my landlord who i am not sure i have permission to keep you in here lol
anyhow, he'll get over it, i'm sure
it's just funny, because this is the second time he has had the glowing eyes at me and it's uncanny, normally i never see his glowing eyes unless i shine a light at him and stuff... but even then, i guess he was mad at me because he was hiding under a bed or whatever
when you can see a cat's reflectors, it means kitty is grumpy, just sayin
because i decided he's gonna stick in the house until he's fully dry, he wandered upstairs to poke around and look for a place to snooze... looks like this, and whatever it is he is sitting on, i think it's a pillowcase, and he's happy just sitting there like that, looks like he is actually gonna sleep here finally
big step forward, because once he is ok with sleeping in here, outside becomes a lot less important to him and i can leave him in the house when i go to the shop and he will stay dry a lot more, pick up less ticks and start to put on a little weight, he wasn't bony but not exactly well fed, that's all changed for him now
i must go get him some worm and flea treatments, so he is doing even more with what he gets than he is now
#catstr #mochi #madeira #life #story
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so, as i would have expected, sooner or later i saw this out the window of my kitchen
https://images.mleku.dev/9R/IMG_20250121_095239_782.jpg
decided to get a shot of him noticing me noticing him for you all
https://images.mleku.dev/9R/IMG_20250121_095246_086.jpg
so, i decided i was going to warm up the food this time, so the little aluminium foil wrapped tins are sitting in a pot of hot tap water for a bit before i open them up and dish them out
he's sitting in the expected feeding place with the heater trained on him so he gets started with warming up and drying out while he waits, he's behaving himself very nicely
https://images.mleku.dev/9R/IMG_20250121_095919_243.jpg
he calls me when he knows i'm paying attention but he isn't making a noise while he knows i'm deliberately not paying attention because i'm doing stuff
this is something i'm really liking about this cat, he totally has the best manners for a wild cat, and i know he's wild because he's too young to have not been born of one of the local stray females and probably the cute black longhair fluffy of my neighbours, and i'm pretty sure at least 3 or 4 intact males are around here, this one is up and coming, i don't think he's quite reached that point yet
#catstr #mochi #madeira #rain
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