pasnec_salmyr
Ram

>What are your thoughts?
Looks like "they" are preparing to squat on the Bitcoin and claim it for their own purposes. (Bitcoin for me, but not for thee)
>Are you working out a new strategy?
Maybe, who knows. I think it's important to always make yourself less reliant on platforms and self-host as much of your infrastructure as possible.
>Supporting the tools that are still working?
Yes.
>Think everything will just 'blow over'?
No.

2024-05-08 00:52:40 UTC

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What an unfortunate turn of events.

2024-05-06 03:44:58 UTC

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Oh yeah, he's the first one to beat Max in a straight fight since Baku 2023.

2024-05-05 22:15:04 UTC

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Finally, he's done it.

2024-05-05 22:13:26 UTC

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Maybe this is the sign that I should move my game library to GOG instead.

2024-05-05 09:54:51 UTC

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Again? What the heck. 🙄

2024-04-30 03:04:16 UTC

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Hm, I think "adapted" is a more appropriate term. I got a bit confused with the the use of the term "evolved."

2024-04-28 13:52:32 UTC

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That sounds a lot like they're trying to shut the doors now on exit valves. Perhaps to prevent people from moving their liquidity on non-dollarized assets.

2024-04-26 02:54:05 UTC

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Installed it on hardware, that is. I've done it again on a VM and that was much smoother.

2024-04-26 02:52:18 UTC

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I think I've installed GUIX once out of curiousity, it wasn't a good experience.

2024-04-26 00:02:06 UTC

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What the heck, lol. If this is true, I hope he goes to AM. A lot of his former proteges are already there plus Alonso and Newey have always wanted to work with each other.
#nevent1q…4dez

2024-04-25 23:47:59 UTC

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Look, I've read the docs as well. I like Monero for what it does. I use it every now and then, but I'm just not confident on storing my savings on it.

2024-04-24 22:37:31 UTC

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As it stands, buying mining equipment is so opaque to an outsider that he's more likely to get scammed trying to get one. If I haven't read Mining for the Streets by Diverter and Econoalchemist's Mining blog, I wouldn't even have a lick of idea where to start.
There's a clear lack of open and accssible knowledge on this side of Bitcoin. It also doesn't help that there's only a handful of companies that actually produce the equipment.
If you're to ask me why Bitcoin mining got so centralized, it's because of those two factors.

2024-04-24 21:16:26 UTC

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Isn't Whirlpool and Dojo open source and self-hostable? Maybe hope is not all lost. Though that massive Whirlpool liquidity is certainly gone.

2024-04-24 11:47:39 UTC

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It would be nice if mining equipment is more accessible and affordable to a regular person.

2024-04-23 22:58:37 UTC

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So that's why my channels got sucked out of outbound liquidity. Ngl, the explanation on that page is a bit vague but thanks for explaining it here.
It looks like I should've moved them to fedimint instead of letting them sit on channels.

2024-04-23 13:43:16 UTC

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Thanks for trying it out. It also does that for me. That sucks, I hope they sort that out. I would gladly pay for a Fountain.fm premium if they're offering it via Lightning.
Bonus points if they did it via Nostr Wallet Connect similar to how Mutiny does its Mutiny+ subscription.

2024-04-22 10:47:41 UTC

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Will it be possible to swap from Lightning to Fedimint in the future?
At the moment, the only way for me to swap my on-chain balance to Fedimint in Mutiny is to swap that to lightning then pay an external address then pay myself back using my lightning address.

2024-04-22 08:10:14 UTC

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Totally agree. Sucks that Sauber isn't getting a lot of air time this year but pace-wise he seems to be up there with Bottas.

2024-04-21 14:03:46 UTC

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What a sight. Zhou might not be a head turner as an F1 driver but you can definitely feel the emotion right there.
I hope Audi keeps him or that someone else in the grid takes him.

2024-04-21 00:58:40 UTC

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He's properly bottled that one up. What a shame.

2024-04-20 13:14:33 UTC

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Maybe I'm a bit cynical about Mercedes lately. It feels as if they're just going backwards this rules cycle.
I seriously hope they get it right in 2026. But their current form really doesn't inspire confidence. I'd be happy to be proven wrong though.

2024-04-20 13:13:00 UTC

This might be long shot but I figured I might as well try it.
Are there any link repositories that catalog the relevant talks and articles on the latest developments in Bitcoin? Perhaps stuff between early 2023 up to today?
I'm thinking of stuff specifically related to Covenants (it doesn't have to be just about Covenants). I've seen the wiki for it and going through that feels like I've been dropped in the middle of a highly technical textbook and I don't have any context for it.
I appreciate any help on the matter, thanks in advance!
#asknostr #bitcoin

2024-04-20 13:01:28 UTC

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Sadly, Mercedes doesn't look like an attractive option right now. If they can't get a handle of the current regs, who's to say that they can handle 2026?
Admittedly, Audi is also an unknown quantity. But I'm firmly of the belief that the 2026 engine regs are the way they are precisely to entice Audi into F1 (a la Mercedes for the 2014 engine regs).

2024-04-20 12:53:57 UTC

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I did hear that line during the quali as well. Very interesting. If that's true and the ball is in Sainz' court then it becomes a question of whether (a) he's patient enough to see Audi develop into a championship winning team or (b) he's brave enough to fight Verstappen in his team and take a WDC right under his nose just before the regulations change.
I'd personally wager on the safer option. Bank in Audi and hope that they can quickly produce a championship winning car before he gets too old and decline in performance.

2024-04-20 01:39:43 UTC

I guess no transactions for now.
https://image.nostr.build/ab43863825a7497cfc046177635b5c8262aef73b98aa921effa7fee1d198ffc9.jpg

2024-04-20 00:16:54 UTC

Holy moly. 40 BTC in fees!
https://image.nostr.build/3a325fc6e62469bb060483744b89a87f44d7a2b3b64bbd02d7d47ef987d25582.jpg

2024-04-20 00:11:43 UTC

Congratulations to ViaBTC for mining 840000!

2024-04-20 00:07:10 UTC

We're entering a new era for Bitcoin. https://image.nostr.build/6de068e910e8ebac92325537eafb18f6d4864acac15c91b0769579cd9c77d611.jpg

2024-04-19 14:04:14 UTC

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I hope it rains tomorrow.

2024-04-19 13:35:19 UTC

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Hah! It's the only part of the year that the F1 has been kind to me. I kind of like it that they've bunched up all the races on this side of the world. Though Singapore still seems to be out of place.

2024-04-19 13:30:50 UTC

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Very interesting sprint quali. I was lowkey hoping that Alonso nipped that SQ pole. In due time...

2024-04-19 01:17:36 UTC

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Nice to have it in here, makes it easy to send zaps as well. Cheers!

2024-04-18 07:52:13 UTC

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Interesting part of Linux history.

2024-04-16 13:53:42 UTC

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Yikes. That's unfortunate.

2024-04-15 23:46:54 UTC

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> The biggest hurdle would be that you can't spend the sats you preloaded normally. You would have to refund them back into your wallet. And keep reloading as you draw down the balance.
What does this exactly mean? If I have a balance in a lightning that I got while online, that I have to respend it to myself offline use it offline?
It seems a bit convuluted to me. Maybe you can enlighten me a bit on how that's supposed to work.
#nevent1q…d6yl

2024-04-15 23:26:26 UTC

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It's always good to rely less on non-free software. Maybe try something else different, perhaps NixOS or FreeBSD.

2024-04-15 12:50:36 UTC

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It's unfortunate that my entire country doesn't have IPv6 support. Perhaps it deserves to be in this list as well.
#nevent1q…z6t0

2024-04-13 16:02:39 UTC

A very interesting video to watch:
https://youtu.be/ZwMdE-GuW1c

2024-04-13 15:17:12 UTC

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There's a rumour that AM seems to be courting Newey really hard. Do you think that has substance or it's just a massive cope?

2024-04-13 15:15:49 UTC

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Hey, thanks for the invite!
I'll check it out and get my team in just before Chinese GP. 😁

2024-04-13 15:08:54 UTC

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It's a great moment for F1 indeed. Now we just need the cars to be as close to each other as possible.
Come on F1 engineers. Give us a worthy championship fight! 😆

2024-04-13 14:49:07 UTC

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It is what it is. Verstappen is a monster even before he has a championship winning machinery. I just hope that the other teams can give their drivers the same.
Truth be told, Verstappen isn't the only monster in the grid right now.

2024-04-13 14:38:28 UTC

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Let's hope. At least to make the coming seasons more competitive. I'm really glad that the Top 5, bar RB, teams are pretty much within 0.5s of each other.
The closeness of each car's capabilities gives the drivers more space to shine.

2024-04-13 14:32:49 UTC

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Mercedes will be a slight downgrade for Sainz considering the team's current form. Unless anything changes in the coming months, they look like a team that's sliding down the order.

2024-04-13 14:31:26 UTC

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This is a massive cope, but I really want to see Alonso/Sainz in Aston Martin. What a shame, that second seat in AM is permanently locked.

2024-04-13 14:24:47 UTC

Wow. The combination of Primal and Mutiny Wallet/Fedimint is pretty seamless now. I'm very impressed at the work that's been done to make these apps composable against each other.
Bravo!

2024-04-13 13:50:03 UTC

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I see. I guess that's one way to obtain Monero even if they delist it. I hope Haveno releases soon.

2024-04-13 11:30:38 UTC

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What's Bluesky?

2024-04-13 08:08:23 UTC

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It's a great platform with a lot of potential. Very ambitious, I find it a lot similar to Plan 9 with regards to the eccentricity and the desire to redo a lot of the current computing stack.

2024-04-13 02:50:53 UTC

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> Have you tried using any specific tools or techniques for archiving your links?
Not really. I just manually archive my links on archive.md and Web Archive and keep track of them in a number of places. It's a bit primitive but I really prefer having them in plain text since that's easier to handle.
I've also done a bit of self-hosting my own web archive of sorts using Archivebox but maintaining it is a bit of a chore that I'm just not up for just yet.
> And what about Nostr notes - do you find them helpful in keeping track of your online resources?
Not yet. Though I've spun up my own whitelisted Nostr relay just to backup the notes that I've sent over the network. It's not perfect but it'll do for now.
How about you?
Tags: #web #archiving

2024-04-13 01:52:06 UTC

I'm currently archiving a bunch of links that I've saved while browsing the web. I don't think a lot of people realize how fragile web links can be.
There's nothing more annoying than going through your bookmarks only to find out that 70-80% of them are 404s.
Are you archiving your links? How about Nostr notes? I'm curious if anyone in this vast cyberspace has experienced the same issues as I did.
Tags: #web #archiving

2024-04-12 06:50:00 UTC

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I have a set budget for XMR the same way that I have a set budget for BTC. Admittedly, I do spend XMR a bit more compared to BTC but I think that's just because XMR has this really handy Monerica page that makes it easy to find places to spend XMR [1].
[1] https://monerica.com/

2024-04-12 06:45:40 UTC

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Can we use Haveno now?

2024-04-11 10:29:34 UTC

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I concur. I just hope that HAM getting in Ferrari won't disrupt the stability that Vassuer achieved in the team.

2024-04-11 09:30:56 UTC

Lately, I've been hopping around various Nostr clients trying to find the "right one" for me.
I think the one that takes the cake, at least for now, is Lume. It's a desktop microblogging client that just gets the UI/UX for this kind of thing right. Anything else that I've used is either too cluttered, too disjointed or just plain missing some key features.
Lume isn't perfect either. The most recent non-alpha update: 3.0.1 is agonizingly slow on my laptop for some reason and it frequently just dies with an odd error.
That said, I'll probably end up opening an issue on the project's Github page since I care enough that I want it to be developed into a proper and stable Nostr browser.

2024-04-11 07:02:48 UTC

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I like Monero as much as the next guy, but wouldn't delisting make it harder for people to get into it?
As it stands right now, I can only get Monero by getting Bitcoin for fiat and then converting that to Monero.
There's little to no market for Monero in where I live so it's practically impossible to get it even on P2P exchanges like Agoradesk.

2024-04-11 06:37:37 UTC

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Brilliant production. Keep up the good work!

2024-04-11 00:07:04 UTC

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That's one expensive dentist appointment.

2024-04-10 23:06:11 UTC

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I was hoping that this is running for real now. Glad they're making progress though.

2024-04-10 22:55:36 UTC

Are there any websites similar to Monerica for Bitcoin? Just a simple directory of the services and products that I can buy using Bitcoin?

2024-04-10 14:10:08 UTC

Lume is quite a nice client for browsing Nostr stuff. Though there are instance where it just dies.

2024-04-10 13:49:15 UTC

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Yeah. I think the problem is with how the clients are designed, especially with the mobile YouTube app. It's very easy to get sucked into it and waste hours just mindlessly scrolling through videos.

2024-04-10 09:36:54 UTC

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I'd prefer having small blocks and run my own pruned and archival nodes instead of cheaper fees. The fee market will always adjust based on demand but the larger blocks can potentially make it harder for me to run my own node.

2024-04-10 03:14:25 UTC

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Looks like it's working properly. Great.

2024-04-10 01:04:40 UTC

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No.
He's the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit.

2024-04-10 01:02:16 UTC

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Totally agree.

2024-04-10 01:01:01 UTC

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2024-04-10 00:56:49 UTC

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2024-04-09 23:34:11 UTC

I'll just redeploy a local Nostr relay on my humble virtual server and call it a day for this.

2024-04-09 15:50:37 UTC

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OK.

2024-04-09 13:39:26 UTC

It seems that you can do NIP-05 verification using Tailscale Funnel.

2024-04-09 12:21:26 UTC

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If you're inclined, you can check out their overview to see if it's for you.
https://urbit.org/overview

2024-04-09 12:14:24 UTC

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It's not built on Ethereum. They're just using it to associate a Galaxy, Star, and Planet to a unique public key (in this case an Ethereum address). Those aren't just "tiers of cloud hosting," they're uniquely identifiable points that facilitates P2P comms (peer discovery and routing) inside the network.
It's annoying that they've built their PKI on Ethereum. I don't like it as well. If it's possible to move it on Bitcoin I'll be one of the first people to advocate for it.
Urbit is a worthy piece of tech in itself and it's merits shouldn't be understated just because its public key infrastructure is on Ethereum.

2024-04-09 11:58:55 UTC

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Urbit massively simplifies the entire dance of spinning up a VM, installing n+1 packages, and running n+1 Docker containers. It's literally a VM that you can run anywhere that has its entire communications and publishing stack built-in.
You should really read the overview before saying anything about it. It just makes you look massively uninformed.
https://urbit.org/overview

2024-04-09 11:51:11 UTC

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I think it would benefit you if you read a little bit more about it. 🙂
https://urbit.org/overview

2024-04-09 11:05:31 UTC

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Really. I'm not really up to date with Bitcoin community news but I've listened to Saifedean Ammous' podcast where he talked with Saylor and my eyebrows raised when he suggested that "Bitcoin should stop trying to be a currency and that it should just be an asset to be held."
Of course, he's got his interests first before anything else. But man that made me think twice on listening to what he has to say.

2023-04-18 05:49:38 UTC

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Yeah, I think docker has its perks. It makes it easy to deploy stuff and all. It's also great if you are running a VPS with multiple services and you don't want to deal with those services conflicting with each other.
That said, I just think that a relay that's designed for small groups should be as simple and straightforward as possible. Not relying on docker for deployment could reduce the maintenance overhead and headaches while troubleshooting.
There are bunch of relays out there but most of them are in the very early stages of development. I think most relays use either one of the three: nostr-rs-relay, strfry or nostream.

2023-04-18 05:15:07 UTC

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Hey, thanks for the response.
I think one of the biggest points to improve on relay implementations is the ease of deployment. Right now, it's still a bit arcane to manage your own relay and a lot of them still rely on docker magic to make them work.
I'm not sure if this is a controversial take but I always view a project's reliance on docker as a sign that it's gone a bit unwieldy and complex. Aside from that, it's also hard and messy to troubleshoot docker containers when things go wrong.
If I'm to ponder about it, my ideal "small group" nostr relay would just be a plain package that someone with little experience can install using their distro's package manager, with standard config files under /etc and a basic rc/systemd script that starts and manages it.

2023-04-12 18:54:04 UTC

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It is. Quite fun to watch as well.

2023-04-12 18:47:19 UTC

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Still a few weeks before Baku.

2023-04-12 07:44:49 UTC

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That's interesting. I've looked around and it looks like they're still using twitter for user verification. I hope they migrate to nostr soon.

2023-04-11 10:34:35 UTC

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Thanks for looking it up. I wasn't able to find anything on my end either.

2023-04-11 06:03:14 UTC

Are there any online bookstores that sell both old and new books that also accept bitcoin?

2023-04-08 05:56:39 UTC

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Hot takes and drama will always attract eyeballs. That's how tabloids and clickbait sites have worked and will continue to work. What nostr promotes is an open protocol, not a cure for human nature.
If you don't want to see hot takes and drama, you can probably design either a relay or a client that can filter for notes with an "unusually high engagement" numbers.
The same goes with spam and scam bots. It's not the responsibility of the protocol to filter them. Doing that will open the floodgates to what made corporate social media the way it is.
Filtering should be done on an individual level (i.e: client and relay implementations.)
That difference alone makes nostr wildly different than corporate social media.

2023-04-06 23:05:03 UTC

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I've just looked over the Unraid's overview page and it looks promising. I'll see if I can deploy it in my home network.

2023-04-06 16:06:45 UTC

Also, it would be really neat to set up a server that can deploy VMs and host network services on the fly. I'm still not sure how to approach it but I think the simplest way is to use vmm(4) in OpenBSD and host either Alpine Linux or another OpenBSD inside it.
I kind of regret setting my file server up in Debian now. Oh well, I still have an old board lying around. I just need to get that thing in a case and I can try getting OpenBSD inside it. Hopefully, I will be able to write about it once I actually get myself around to getting a case for it.