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Hodl BTC, train BJJ, eat MEAT. Preferably every single day.

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2024-08-23 19:21:32

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I lie in a dark quiet sauna every night and observe my brain as it tries to scheme, plan, and ponder...
I guess it's a kind of meditation. And also a kind of entertainment.

2024-08-06 00:26:19

2 sats/vB!

2024-08-03 17:50:20

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Several times. It's really good. Se are Neuromancer, Daemon, and Freedom(TM)! Can anyone recommend something similar?

2024-03-19 17:41:36

Let your bank regulate itself, and you'll get poorer if you use their services.
Let pharma test their own products in secret with no accountability ever, and your health will worsen if you use their products.
Let food manufacturers tell you what to eat and you will die young.
There's a part of the Bitcoin ethos that fixes all of this:
"Don't trust. Verify."
When enough people think way, the world will heal. That's just one reason I love saying, "Bitcoin fixes this."

2024-03-17 21:16:30

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Welcome to Nostr.

2024-03-13 00:34:31

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Sounds a lot like "Chain Analysis."

2024-03-11 16:43:25

While killing a few hours at the local mall last week, I thought back to what this experience was like as a kid, seeing hundreds or thousands of things I wanted but couldn't afford.
This time, I could buy anything in the mall. Anything at all. So I set out to find some new stuff.
Maybe I was at the wrong mall, but for hours I couldn't find a single thing I needed.
Until at last I did find something.
I found the contentment of knowing that I already have everything I need.

2024-03-01 18:36:45

Analysis I'd love to see:
When was the last time you could have initiated a $1/week DCA plan that gets you to 1 BTC by today?
Same question, but $10/week, then $100/week, then $1000/week.
Eventually, $10,000 per week won't ever get you to 1 BTC.

2024-02-20 19:45:32

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Not me. I'd worry about what they decide to exterminate next with their new toy...

2024-02-17 18:07:55

How long until the ETFs claim to custody 30 million Bitcoin?
What would it look like if the ETFs were running a fractional reserve?
I'd guess that'd look like big inflows without much price increase.

2024-02-15 22:56:51

@npub1cj8…rz4u I really enjoyed the Devon Eriksen episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast.

2024-02-12 16:28:56

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Some jokes last forever.

2024-02-03 18:33:21

Anyone else seeing weirdness with mempool.space API?
right now:
https://mempool.space/api/v1/fees/recommended
returns:
{"fastestFee":41,"halfHourFee":33,"hourFee":29,"economyFee":29,"minimumFee":24}
But if I go to mempool.space, I see:
22 / 46 / 327 / 375 / 418
So weird.

2024-01-19 17:14:38

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Pretty sure I already saw this story on TV..
So where are all the Mr. Robot memes? The meme lords are asleep at the wheel!

2024-01-18 19:54:25

Seeing an odd Moscow Time on your Orangeclock?
Something is up with the price check (mempool.space/api/v1/prices)
Which just now gave me back:
{"time":1705600800,"USD":-1,"EUR":-1,"GBP":-1,"CAD":-1,"CHF":-1,"AUD":-1,"JPY":-1}
Where can I buy this $-1.00 BTC at?

2024-01-18 17:39:41

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Still ok to trust the expired key, right?
>gpg --verify sparrow-1.8.2-manifest.txt.asc
gpg: assuming signed data in 'sparrow-1.8.2-manifest.txt'
gpg: Signature made 1/18/2024 2:35:34 AM Pacific Standard Time
gpg: using RSA key D4D0D3202FC06849A257B38DE94618334C674B40
gpg: Good signature from "Craig Raw <[email protected]>" [expired]
gpg: Note: This key has expired!
Primary key fingerprint: D4D0 D320 2FC0 6849 A257 B38D E946 1833 4C67 4B40

2024-01-06 22:49:51

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Never used 'em, but I did shuffle my dad's stack once...

2024-01-06 22:27:57

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And double the normal ram (64kB)

2024-01-06 22:27:17

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Oh, and we spring extra for the 80-column-wide display driver.

2024-01-06 22:26:38

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You had TWO disk drives? Lucky! All I got was a stupid cassette tape drive.
But I did have a 300 baud modem, acoustically coupled.

2024-01-06 22:25:18

Is Primal Web just randomly refreshing itself every few minutes for anyone else?
Just now happened halfway through typing a note, now lost to oblivion.

2024-01-06 22:19:51

Hey @npub1a27…a5yp: You ought to Google this list of topics:
1) Bitcoin Lightning
2) Liquid Bitcoin
3) Transaction batching
Because you're asking for $11 in fees right now instead of ~$2.25...
Don't sell me on no fees/low spread and then hit me with 5x miner fees!
Sure, if I want to do $10,000 buys this would be a screaming deal, but if I wanted to buy that much it wouldn't be with you, sorry/not sorry.

2024-01-06 20:56:22

Bitcoin Dad Podcast is great. (In case you hadn't heard.)

2024-01-06 17:28:24

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Cool shirt!

2024-01-06 04:25:13

"Indeed, in deeply corrupt institutions, there is simply no way to make it to the top without participating in the corruption."
https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/how-pervasive-is-academic-corruption-5558217
Besides education and science, this got me thinking about politics, law enforcement, medicine, shit--basically everything?!?

2024-01-05 18:28:30

@npub16cp…edcd https://m.primal.net/HWgT.jpg
Messing around a bit with my clock. (Bottom row of fees is: reject / minimal / low / med / high.)

2024-01-04 23:41:46

https://m.primal.net/HWaw.png

2023-12-30 20:35:31

Aqua, huh? Sounds interesting... Anyone have more info than the basic teasers?

2023-12-25 17:43:36

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https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B079T2FKN1

2023-12-25 17:41:54

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I got mine on Amazon.

2023-12-16 21:37:35

Some bitcoiners want to swim in a lovely river. Others celebrate their use of that river as a toilet and/or dump.
Different strokes, I guess...

2023-12-16 17:38:30

I guess transaction fees alone might just sustain future miners after all...

2023-12-13 17:28:16

Ordinals in the blockchain:
You're fishing in a lovely stream. All of a sudden, a turd floats by. Before long, 10,000 turds float by and the river starts to clog up. Upstream, a whole community of larping retards chant, "It's our stream, too! You have no right to ban our use case!"
Anyway, probably best to have something other than fish for dinner until the retards move on to some other dumb shit.

2023-12-02 20:10:22

"Don't you know, pump it up."
"You got to pump it up."
...
It's a musical morning at my place.

2023-11-28 00:11:50

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Yes. This one worked and is still working:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B083JB5DDT/

2023-11-26 20:29:22

Every once in a while, I try out running my own lightning node. Then I get bored of having to manage the channels and go back to another custodial solution.
As I think about trying again, who would you recommend opening channels to and why? How big should these channels be?

2023-11-24 22:38:56

Hey WoS, I found a bug! Shouldn't it say "1 sat" not "1 sats"?
I know you're probably busy right now with other stuff, but let's get those grammars more betterer!
https://m.primal.net/HRKI.jpg

2023-11-22 18:30:26

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She doesn't know that she *is* the "problem we're trying to solve."

2023-11-12 22:06:17

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Or a butter extruder! (Think: play-dough fun factory...)

2023-11-12 22:04:47

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Do you have a 3D printer? Could print a butter mold...

2023-11-12 20:32:04

A UTXO is like money locked in a virtual box designed to accept a particular key.
A wallet can hold any number of keys, and a key can be held in any number of wallets, but wallets hold keys, not money.
You can spend any UTXO if you have the correct key, even if it's written on a napkin, but a good wallet makes it much easier.
To keep your bitcoin safe, you must secure your keys against both theft and loss. If someone finds a key, they can spend the corresponding UTXO(s). If the only remaining copy of a key is lost, the box will remain locked forever. So, make a few copies of your keys and keep them safe.
tl;dr; Buy two Coldcards and keep them in safe, separate locations.

2023-10-19 17:40:39

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Nice update!

2023-10-19 03:25:16

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If only there was some sort of decentralized protocol we could all use to share videos online...

2023-10-19 03:20:24

Not to be outdone by X's new fee model, YouTube is starting a new crackdown on ad blockers. The message I just got suggests that maybe creators might get paid more (a lie) if i turn off my add blocker, and watch an ad or two every 2-3 minutes. That, or subscribe for ad-free.
-OR-
I'll go with, "Fuck You, YouTube. I'll find my videos elsewhere from now on."
I'll skip the security compromising, time wasting, never relevant bullshit, thanks.

2023-10-16 23:53:51

Persist in any hobby, and eventually people will start paying you to teach them how you do it.

2023-10-16 22:20:34

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Thanks! I was just going to say that feet evolved over millions of years without a weird wedge lifting their instep an preventing it from moving right. And that arch support, lifted/cushioned heels, squashed toes, and inflexible soles are all terrible ideas that can damage your feet, knees, hips, and even back over time. But the @npub180c…agc0 link sums it up well.

2023-10-16 17:26:55

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I love hot showers, at least I used to. Eight years ago I heard about Wim Hof, the Iceman. Since then, all my showers have been cold, and every morning, a shock of cold reminds me that I'm tougher than I thought I was.
I also use less time, energy, and water getting clean. And it's an instant 100% wake-up.
Most people I tell about this in real life think I'm crazy. Like when I tell them about Bitcoin, nostr, refusing to wear shoes with "arch support", or eating only meat.
I wonder how many will read the above think I'm partly crazy, as in some variation of: "Well, sure, cold showers and barefoot shoes are great, but you'll get cancer if you don't eat enough vegetables!"

2023-10-16 05:17:49

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Mel Gibson in Payback

2023-10-16 05:17:11

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Or as I read on a Madex/Spacebull piece, (and sorry, I can't remember it exactly) "Beware the quiet ones who only want to be left alone." [I mentally added: Because they will fuck. your. shit. up.]

2023-10-16 05:11:57

Finally got around to watching this, it's pretty good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqwGt69pDXQ

2023-10-15 23:19:59

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"Am I hungry, or am I bored?" is definitely on my playlist!

2023-10-14 18:15:32

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Do it right for a decade or so, and those cows (perhaps with the help of some chickens and pigs) will turn that marginally arable grassland into fertile forest, orchard, or farmland. Plus lots of delicious, healthy meat.

2023-10-05 19:23:16

Some of my friends are just now looking back and questioning whether they were recently lied to by politicians, academia, media, and the medical establishment. Good, I guess.
But they're still doing and advocating:
-getting flu shots
-eating an FDA-recommended "healthy diet"
-sending their kids to "public" schools
-letting their pediatrician inject whatever they want into their kids
-saving in dollars
-contemplating their pronouns
-working toward a "greener planet" by reducing their "carbon footprint"
-voting as a solution to anything
As if the people that lied to us constantly for years about one thing haven't been lying to us about everything else all along.

2023-09-25 19:19:10

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Also really good advice for jiu jitsu!

2023-09-25 19:17:30

Almost all of them are corrupt. Almost all of us know it. Many of us are simply too comfortable to be bothered to do anything about it. Most people don't want to even think about it. Too uncomfortable.
I could go balls-out, convincing people to get on board. I could stand strong against the onslaught of ridicule so that my tormentors can protect their wealth too. But instead I went with, "Fuck 'em. I told them once, they'll figure it out eventually or they won't."
Am I a bad person if I just shut up and quietly stack more sats?

2023-09-23 01:39:35

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My thoughts exactly. I expect that pushing these things in front of trains is going to be really popular. I'm not endorsing this, but I understand it.

2023-09-23 01:33:27

We all knew China was never going to go along with this ESG shit, right? That they were just saying the things they thought people wanted to hear in order to get paid and avoid pain. Now that they (and others) are calling it unrealistic out loud, that's game over, isn't it?
Rejecting the plan gets you cheaper energy and cheaper stuff. Which is a HUGE economic advantage.
Over time one group grows richer, one poorer. And people will notice.
It doesn't help that none of the dire predictions ever come true. I am not presently frozen in an ice age, dying from heat, underwater, or dead, despite using plastic straws and gasoline daily!

2023-09-07 20:26:56

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Once upon a time Ver and Jihan were stuffing the mempool to try to convince everyone that we needed bigger blocks or else, I simply moved everything to cold storage and went away for a few years.
My pain as a bitcoin believer was from seeing that these guys were delaying the inevitable progress of bitcoin. From not wanting to wait so long for a future I still think is coming. Peace came from accepting reality, and finding patience.
Once I wasn't so angry, I could start to think about how I could help. I'm pretty lazy and have other interests, but I like to think I'm at least a slightly positive force in the space.

2023-09-07 20:18:44

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Eventually, those running this scam will run out of funds. In the meantime, more miners are deployed, more people get burned and learn, and second- and third-layer protocols advance.
I can personally wait, pay a high fee, or use lightning or liquid. The scammers have to pay, and keep paying, to keep the fees high. They can't do it forever though.

2023-09-07 03:42:10

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Careful, that might be a sleeping Ent!

2023-09-06 23:53:02

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Sometimes a "pso-rite" (https://pso-rite.com/products/pso-rite) can help. (These can be 3D printed at home for cheap.) OR sometimes, I'll use a lacrosse ball or softball instead of the roller. (More leaning into the pain spots and waiting, less moving around and smashing.) In the sauna, everything works even better.

2023-09-06 19:50:22

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(Sending sats via lightning from Strike to Phoenix worked just fine.)

2023-09-06 19:47:24

Ugh. Tried sending sats from Strike to Mutiny.
Strike popped an error: "Payment failed. Please contact support."
The sats are gone from Strike, but did not arrive in Mutiny... Has anyone else seen this happen?
Mutiny's receive invoice was a unified format (bitcoin: <addr>...?lightning=<addr>). Does Strike perhaps choke on these?

2023-09-05 22:42:06

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Yes. That and more.

2023-09-05 22:41:39

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Yes, that and more.

2023-09-05 19:56:36

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Someday, maybe they'll stream you sats while you wait on hold...

2023-08-19 21:17:59

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I think it's still rolling out. The easiest way would be to wait a few days and keep an eye on which version the Play Store is offering you. It'll magically go from 1.4.something to 2.0.1 once Google decides you are worthy. (probably a few days at most)
The harder way is to manually upgrade. Check github. I'm patient (lazy) so I didn't try this method.

2023-08-19 19:46:03

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Phoenix said (yesterday?) that they were rolling out the new update over the next week or so. I'm not sure how the play store decides who sees the new version and when, so I usually just check daily until I see the new version.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fr.acinq.phoenix.mainnet
For me, I see v2.0.1 under "About this app"

2023-08-19 19:25:02

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I really liked Phoenix when I played with it a while back. Been waiting for v.2.0.1 to show up so I could try it again. Got the new version installed this morning, and so far I'm very impressed! (Currently playing with Alby, WoS, Mutiny, and Phoenix- anything else worth checking out at the moment?)

2023-08-19 19:09:45

Searched in the Google App store for "Phoenix Wallet" and what came up at the top of my results? "Crypto.com Buy BTC, ETH, Shib" Fuck you, Google. Fuck you, Crypto.com!

2023-08-17 21:30:39

Inflation does much worse than directly devaluing your dollar savings. When you sell non-dollar assets that "appreciate" in dollar price (even if they lose real value) you are taxed on these phantom "gains". It's a sneaky way to separate you from the value of your labor and savings over time. In as little as one lifetime, a family can easily lose everything they worked for to this form of theft. Over several lifetimes, all value usually goes to the state for redistribution. The people who perpetrate this will tell you it is "for the greater good."

2023-08-07 18:25:39

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+1 for no arch "support" and a wide toe box. These shoes are pretty good. Most running shoes are fiat.

2023-08-06 23:03:32

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You convinced me to take a serious look at liquid. Made for a fun afternoon setting up swap after swap! :)

2023-08-06 18:16:04

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Seems like this opens the door to all sorts of configuration options and settings! Also, with this, I can make clocks for less technical friends and family, now that they'll have a setup process they can manage. Can't wait to see what's next!

2023-08-06 00:53:34

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Walmart Vision Center hooked me up. Cheap, super friendly, great service. Last time I got a same-day full exam and new glasses in about 5 days. With VSP the exam was free and my glasses were $25 (copay).

2023-08-01 23:42:52

Softwar has done pretty well on eBay in the past few days! Getting unpublished did wonders for the price...
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=lowery+softwar&_sacat=267&LH_Complete=1&LH_Sold=1

2023-08-01 19:15:18

Anyone else getting heavy Cold Fusion vibes?

2023-07-31 02:57:03

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You can hunt them at night with a blacklight, if you didn't know already.

2023-07-31 02:56:17

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Bark scorpion. I was stung twice by these little motherfuckers in Phoenix. Hurts quite a lot for about 8 hours.

2023-07-30 15:46:25

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Qbert?

2023-07-28 23:31:45

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Coldcard supports the same use model. Advanced Tools -> Danger Zone -> Seed Functions -> Destroy Seed. Then restore any valid seed to use the device. I'd consider it good practice to do this at least occasionally to test your backup procedures.

2023-07-27 19:34:08

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This is the way.

2023-07-23 01:39:12

#boobstr

2023-07-20 17:43:18

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I think I made the same mistake last week installing Ubuntu server. Did I miss an option during install, or was I supposed to manually expand the logical volume after OS install? I manually expanded (lvm lvextend ...) the volume after my first attempt to sync filled all available space and froze.

2023-07-13 20:54:48

Nostr client devs: How about an option to only show reposts if I don't follow the original poster? Scrolling through a dozen reposts of a message I've already seen kinda sucks.

2023-07-13 00:56:04

Helped a friend set this up:
Umbrel node on an old laptop running Ubuntu Server
Cold wallet on second (dedicated) laptop with Coldcard+Sparrow
Watch-only access (for monitoring and deposits) on Android BlueWallet
Both wallets communicate with the node using Tailscale.
Setting this up was a pretty fun project! And that laptop synced up in a day and a half. So much faster then my RPi node (~7d).

2023-07-11 18:51:53

What will it be like when companies and nations that are 'holding' bitcoin at 3rd parties get rugged for hundreds of thousands of BTC? Will we still be assholes for saying 'not your keys, not your coins?' I'm also going on the record now to say, "Your rollback to reclaim your lost coins is just an airdrop for me on your fork. The BTC you thought you had on the actual blockchain (the one my node will remain on) was never really yours at all. So no, you can't get it back."

2023-07-08 18:32:33

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I hope that they all will soon, because it's a really good idea and a great product.

2023-07-08 18:30:04

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I did notice that I have to hold the card still and let it read for longer than I would have thought. It's not a tap like an NFC credit card, more like a prolonged conversation between card and phone. (Sorry if this is too basic and unhelpful.)

2023-07-08 18:27:07

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Just read the full interview you linked, it's really good!

2023-07-08 02:45:36

Hey there 3 sat/vB, nice to see you again!

2023-07-07 18:22:18

I've spent nearly a decade trying to get better at something I'm not really very good at: bjj. This pursuit has improved nearly every aspect of my life. There are physical, emotional, intellectual, social, spiritual, and even financial benefits I never anticipated.
If you're sitting there doom scrolling right now, find a local gym and ask about a free trial (most will give you at least a free week). Don't worry, you don't have to get in shape first, they'll help you with that. Just check your ego at the door- it's likely that a lot of what you think you know is wrong. In fact, that's the first and maybe the best lesson of all.

2023-07-07 17:35:36

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Just tried, and now it's working. As I was hoping, it did eventually fix itself. (I made no changes.)

2023-07-07 17:34:50

Good morning!

2023-07-06 19:10:26

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I'm using Chrome.

2023-07-05 17:42:18

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I'm having the same problem, and haven't figured out a fix other than switching to snort.social and waiting to see if primal fixes itself.

2023-07-04 22:03:10

Hello again, 4 sat/vB, it's been a while!

2023-07-04 16:41:15

In Congress, July 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

2023-07-03 18:50:32

Converted an old laptop to an Ubuntu server today by following these guides:
0) Yanked the internal (small) mechanical HD and plugged in a 1TB USB drive.
1) Followed https://thecryptogarage.com/umbrel-linux-ubuntu-node-build/
2) Couldn't figure out why Umbrel thought it only had 100GB available, until I found and followed https://netshopisp.medium.com/how-to-extend-lvm-disk-on-linux-ubuntu-20-04-35b1c2d5d5e9
3) Taught the laptop to stay awake when the lid was closed: https://askubuntu.com/questions/15520/how-can-i-tell-ubuntu-to-do-nothing-when-i-close-my-laptop-lid/372616#372616
Up and syncing now.
This was a fun project to spend a few hours on, and it gave an old laptop a new life. Noticed this laptop has two interna drive bays, so I *might* try a RAID 1 variation someday soon. Any advice?
I've used Ubuntu before, but never Ubuntu Server. Seems like it trims a lot of excess 'fat' as all I really wanted was an OS to host Umbrel's Docker stuff. So far it's syncing pretty fast. Interested to see how it performs compared to my old Raspberry Pi Umbrel node.

2023-07-02 00:38:00

I'm sitting here just clicking zap, zap, zappity zap.
Spewing out sats in exchange for posts that amuse me.
Really enjoying my weekend so far...