Last Notes
https://gitworkshop.dev/npub12m5exm2uk3xa674cc5r0hlyvccs5xxn7qv83ezuteefv5972nquq4j4szl/relay.ngit.dev/esp-miner-nerdqaxeplus-tollgate
https://gitworkshop.dev/npub12m5exm2uk3xa674cc5r0hlyvccs5xxn7qv83ezuteefv5972nquq4j4szl/relay.ngit.dev/esp32-tollgate
i think on-chain payouts must come first. there is no suitable aggregator pool to build on yet. i will just have to do it myself
Find TollGate at BitDevs Oslo this afternoon and get it installed on one of the second hand routers someone is going to bring and keep the router to bring back home and to deploy
Thanks for sharing this @nprofile…xgps, my wife was already complaining that it's no wonder we don't get women at @nprofile…0yke if we don't add the Ernest Shackleton context to the posts..
> Gary Snyder
I'm not familiar, thanks. Love his contrasting self-introduction at the end of the movie.
I think it's important to embrace hope in the art of this epoch. Poetry programs us, and if it has the potential for transformations and self-fulfilling prophecies in particular, we'd better care to have a balance of positive and, ideally, truthful, realistic enough kinds of programs.
> I get something more out of it each time.
Yeah, this is how we distinguish something really deep.
Same thing I notice especially from poetry itself, the amateur stuff I do for psychotherapeutic purposes in particular. Reading the same text I've already published almost always unpacks more layers of understanding: not just new meanings but broader meanings, both more connections between parts of a poem and connections with the reality itself. While the first drafts usually seem like very dumb translations of the unconscious; these draft texts may feel almost like total graphomaniac garbage even. I underestimate the complexity of this arational process almost every time.
Links from today's community call highlights:
Wireless Gateway Manager (WGM)
https://github.com/OpenTollGate/tollgate-module-basic-go/pull/109
https://github.com/OpenTollGate/tollgate-module-basic-go/pull/117
https://github.com/OpenTollGate/tollgate-module-basic-go/pull/122
tollgate-rs Rust implementation (design phase)
https://github.com/OpenTollGate/tollgate-rs/pull/2
https://github.com/OpenTollGate/tollgate-rs/pull/3
FIPS integration planning (gateways -> peers)
https://learn.fips.network/
ESP32 + StratumV2 (nonces as bearer instruments)
https://gitworkshop.dev/npub12m5exm2uk3xa674cc5r0hlyvccs5xxn7qv83ezuteefv5972nquq4j4szl/git.orangesync.tech/esp32-tollgate
https://gitworkshop.dev/npub12m5exm2uk3xa674cc5r0hlyvccs5xxn7qv83ezuteefv5972nquq4j4szl/relay.ngit.dev/esp32-balloon-integration
Comprehensive hardware testing
https://github.com/OpenTollGate/physical-router-test-automation
OpenWRT 25.x support + opkg/apk package distribution
https://github.com/OpenTollGate/tollgate-os/pull/21
https://github.com/OpenTollGate/tollgate-os
https://github.com/OpenTollGate/tollgate-module-basic-go/tree/feature/openwrt-feed-compat
conwrt - Router flashing framework with OpenWrt device support
https://github.com/amperstrand/conwrt
Android app (auto-buy internet from TollGate upstreams)
https://github.com/alexxie16/tollgate_app
net4sats (new frontend on top of TollGate)
https://net4sats.com/
SSL management rewritten in Go
https://github.com/OpenTollGate/tollgate-module-basic-go/pull/123
Lightning checkout in captive portal
https://github.com/OpenTollGate/tollgate-module-basic-go/pull/107
https://github.com/OpenTollGate/tollgate-captive-portal-site/pull/9
New repos:
https://github.com/OpenTollGate/awesome-tollgate
https://github.com/OpenTollGate/tollgate-knowledgebase
https://github.com/OpenTollGate/tollgate-infrastructure-kit
TollGate protocol & release explorer:
https://github.com/OpenTollGate/tollgate
https://github.com/OpenTollGate/tollgate-release-explorer-site
Thanks to this month'"'"'s contributors:
https://github.com/alexxie16
https://github.com/Amperstrand
https://github.com/Origami74
https://gitworkshop.dev/npub12m5exm2uk3xa674cc5r0hlyvccs5xxn7qv83ezuteefv5972nquq4j4szl
Main repo: https://github.com/OpenTollGate/tollgate-module-basic-go
Starting in 40 minutes:
https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqst0zdkc9r38a9pqgk65452caz03a6wjt56glqh0puww24gxv36yeqgyue6s
Next Community Call Thursday the 21st!
Join us for our monthly community call to discuss the latest developments in the TollGate project and the future of decentralized internet access.
This is a great opportunity to connect with the core team and other community members, ask questions, and share your ideas.
Date: Thursday, May 21, 2026
Time:
- Eastcoast USA: 8:00 am (08:00)
- Europe CET: 2:00 pm (14:00)
- Cobrador Island (Shanghai): 9:00 pm (21:00)
What we have been up to:
- tollgate-rs Rust implementation entering design phase.
- New Wireless Gateway Manager (WGM) for managing upstream connections + mint reliability.
- ESP32 + StratumV2: nonces as bearer instruments.
- Pico balloon version of TollGate in progress.
- Comprehensive hardware testing for router-to-router payments.
- OpenWRT 25.x support and opkg/apk package distribution.
- Android app for automatic internet purchases from TollGate upstreams.
- net4sats building a new frontend on top of TollGate.
We will be discussing:
- Recent project milestones.
- Upcoming features and roadmap.
- Community contributions and how to get involved.
- Open Q&A session at the end.
The Call:
https://honey.hivetalk.org/meet/TollGate-Community-Call
Thanks. Doing my best to balance hopefulness and fatalism.
I write poetry quite often but not willing to publish very much. It's challenging to make it less dark.
While in a couple of moments in time
We might be discussing unclaimed World War Three
The airports' regime—still just fine
They keep charging a funny money fee
Your bag is a gram overweight
And we want to keep asking questions
Where are you going my friend?
Do you have the existence permission?
Do you work for company A?
Located in the country B?
We'll perform a security play
To ensure you all pay the fees
To ensure that you sponsor them all
The appropriate pedo dictators
So they could keep running the war
New culture will arise from the deserts
Don't be so pessimistic 'bout that
Humanity is a sustainable virus
It will start the cycle again
And consume the new paradises
It will keep confusing again
Illusions, metaphoric ideas
It will fight for the right to complain
Maybe better than previous leaders
While we're here—we still hold a hope
To continue what we've already started
Otherwise what's the point of it all
Stacking sats feels a bit of retarded
#poetry #art #therapy #bitcoin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENfI942SJTY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_gBedsGnwE
Detox from lovers
Detox from haters
For thousands of years
We've been using papers
I might be naive
Don't get whatcha doin'
You want real rest?
The halfway will ruin it
Build your own
Simple facility
You don't need phone
For creative activity
#poetry #art #therapy
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27407502
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Browsing through @nprofile…ax6s webpage which makes reference to Earnest Shackleton and the Endurance mission.
Consider my mind blown.
Do that and you have a brother for life in this guy. Let’s go.
I read Alfred Lansing’s book about the Endurance mission for the 5th time to kick off 2026. It’s an amazing story of adventure and expression of the human will to survive and one of the greatest survival and leadership stories ever.
-28 men stranded in Antarctica as their ship was crushed in the ice flows
-No communication with the outside world
-3 life boats, some guns, some rations, tents, reindeer skin sleeping bags and a group of (mostly) cheerful chaps.
I’ll do my best to not spoil it.
Shackleton’s family motto = Fortitudine vincimus, which is Latin for “Through endurance we conquer.”
A favourite quote from the book talking about how the situation they were put in allowed Shackleton to express his true genius:
“Thus, while Shackleton was undeniably out of place, even inept, in a great many everyday situations, he had a talent—a genius even—that he shared with only a handful of men throughout history—genuine leadership. He was, as one of his men put it, “the greatest leader that ever came on God’s earth, bar none.” For all his blind spots and inadequacies, Shackleton merited this tribute:
For scientific leadership give me Scott; for swift and efficient travel, Amundsen; but when you are in a hopeless situation, and when there seems no way out, get down on your knees and pray for Shackleton.”
May that inspire you to find a situation where you can express your own genius.
Highly recommended read. WGMI.
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I want to use it! When main net @nprofile…22jg ?
@npub148alhgz53wvh3wgtj8fxpdz47fesn78eft2dsmq8xa68eq5uewks0nh5r8 told me there is an end-point for the owner of a mint to mark lightning invoices as paid. Perhaps this could be used as a workaround to get a preview of the e-hash future?
what happened to hashpool
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