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Warren Togami
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VP Solutions at Blockstream , Founder Fedora Linux, ex-Red Hat Linux OS Engineer.

It's self-sovereign as in independent, having nothing to do with the underlying Bitcoin other than using it for storage.

Another name for that is parasitic.

Perhaps add a delay where they aren't allowed to follow or change relays until after Amethyst had tried to download your follower list from your currently configured relays?

They're using the name Sovereign to distract from the fact that it's the opposite of sovereign.

I'm not sure. I think your signed reports are sent to relays. If multiple friends report the same thing as spam then it shows the post as having been reported by friends but there is a "Show anyway" button to unhide it.

Everyone please report and block this BCH associated bot.

That and his dog coin pumping meant he lost me as a buyer of Tesla car and solar roof.

I haven't changed relays for a few days.

I lost my entire following list today again. This time I was using only Amethyst without a concurrent Iris client. I don't know how this is possible without a race condition.

For downloading yes but posting from Amethyst doesn't appear to work for any nostream relay.

I'm not sure what the UI means, green up arrow means the relay would accept my post but grey arrow means it won't?

Oh I was hoping for behavioral modification via electrical zap. The trouble with that approach is the target won't likely cooperate with wearing the electrodes while nosting.

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This is a good value for a home self-sovereign LN node.

* CPU much faster than RPi.

* 8GB: you should add another 8GB (DDR4 SODIMM 2400 or faster) or replace to max out at 32GB RAM.

* That's a 1TB SATA HD. You could add a nvme 2280 SSD to gain storage redundancy for your critical LN database. SSD's are at an all time low price now. I recommend TLC drives without HMB like Samsung 970 Evo Plus, Teamgroup MP34, or Crucial P2. 2TB is very affordable these days.

* You could also replace the spinning hard drive. Elimination of moving parts improves reliability. For 2.5" SATA I recommend the 2TB Crucial MX500 that's been below $120 recently.

* Most of the cost is your new drives. These drives will outlive the machine. If the machine dies you can simply move the drives into another machine. Linux won't care about the underlying hardware. It should work with zero or minimal reconfiguration.

I've been testing a similar model here. The screen and keyboard are of lower quality and music sounds bad from these speakers. These economy business laptops make excellent servers when you're able to buy them cheap enough which often is possible when fleets of corporate machines are liquidated.

There is risk in buying used. You want to immediately stress test the device including CPU, RAM, and disk after you receive it so you know if it needs to be returned. You want to flash the firmware to get security updates. That however has risk of bricking which would become a complicated discussion with the seller.

Note: Several other models are suitable as dual internal SSD home servers. I don't often post about them though because quantities for sale are not high. In this case the seller seems to have many for sale and the price is good.

Please follow and zap if you want more self-sovereign LN advice like this. I could be convinced to write a guide of what to do after you receive a used Thinkpad. I've lost money buying and testing non-refundable duds so you don't have to.

https://mobile.twitter.com/i/communities/1563029300911058944

Please also follow my Twitter community where small tips are written more frequently.

Here is the eBay listing for this particular machine.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/234693288653

Note: I've not tested the TeamGroup MP34 myself yet. The specs and reviews make it sound good enough.

TeamGroup MP34 sounds good on paper with the very common controller and TLC NAND. For nvme you want DRAM, not HMB (Host Memory Buffer). The reviews described it as not making any compromises and it is seemingly fine except they offer a shorter 3-year warranty than Samsung's 5-year.

I normally would buy the Samsung 970 Evo Plus that's $139.99 for 2TB. The Samsung is a known level of reliability. I'm not too worried about trying the MP34 for my next node.

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This is a good value for a home self-sovereign LN node.

* CPU much faster than RPi.

* 8GB: you should add another 8GB (DDR4 SODIMM 2400 or faster) or replace to max out at 32GB RAM.

* That's a 1TB SATA HD. You could add a nvme 2280 SSD to gain storage redundancy for your critical LN database. SSD's are at an all time low price now. I recommend TLC drives without HMB like Samsung 970 Evo Plus, Teamgroup MP34, or Crucial P2. 2TB is very affordable these days.

* You could also replace the spinning hard drive. Elimination of moving parts improves reliability. For 2.5" SATA I recommend the 2TB Crucial MX500 that's been below $120 recently.

* Most of the cost is your new drives. These drives will outlive the machine. If the machine dies you can simply move the drives into another machine. Linux won't care about the underlying hardware. It should work with zero or minimal reconfiguration.

I've been testing a similar model here. The screen and keyboard are of lower quality and music sounds bad from these speakers. These economy business laptops make excellent servers when you're able to buy them cheap enough which often is possible when fleets of corporate machines are liquidated.

There is risk in buying used. You want to immediately stress test the device including CPU, RAM, and disk after you receive it so you know if it needs to be returned. You want to flash the firmware to get security updates. That however has risk of bricking which would become a complicated discussion with the seller.

Note: Several other models are suitable as dual internal SSD home servers. I don't often post about them though because quantities for sale are not high. In this case the seller seems to have many for sale and the price is good.

Please follow and zap if you want more self-sovereign LN advice like this. I could be convinced to write a guide of what to do after you receive a used Thinkpad. I've lost money buying and testing non-refundable duds so you don't have to.

https://mobile.twitter.com/i/communities/1563029300911058944

Please also follow my Twitter community where small tips are written more frequently.

Dual redundant 2TB TLC SSD's. This is stupid cheap for RAID-1 of this capacity and quality. Become self-sovereign with your LN node with data retention safety and tons of storage to run additional apps.

Below is a cheap yet powerful machine where you can use these two disks internally. Why were people buying RPi!?!?

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Backup doesn't work for the LN state database. You need real-time copies to be stored redundantly or you're screwed.

You want RAID-1 level redundancy but block-level mirroring isn't the modern way to do things anymore for exactly the reason you state. Filesystems like btrfs use checksums so silent corruption doesn't happen anymore. You can specify which underlying partitions to use at RAID-1 level. The disks don't even need to be the same size. You could have one big drive to store everything including the full node while a small disk is specified to provide raid-1 redundancy for only the LN datadir.

I don't personally do it that way because I want both of my disks to be bootable to make it easier to recover from failure. However this big+little disk approach reduce cost of a redundant storage LN node.

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This is a good value for a home self-sovereign LN node.

* CPU much faster than RPi.

* 8GB: you should add another 8GB (DDR4 SODIMM 2400 or faster) or replace to max out at 32GB RAM.

* That's a 1TB SATA HD. You could add a nvme 2280 SSD to gain storage redundancy for your critical LN database. SSD's are at an all time low price now. I recommend TLC drives without HMB like Samsung 970 Evo Plus, Teamgroup MP34, or Crucial P2. 2TB is very affordable these days.

* You could also replace the spinning hard drive. Elimination of moving parts improves reliability. For 2.5" SATA I recommend the 2TB Crucial MX500 that's been below $120 recently.

* Most of the cost is your new drives. These drives will outlive the machine. If the machine dies you can simply move the drives into another machine. Linux won't care about the underlying hardware. It should work with zero or minimal reconfiguration.

I've been testing a similar model here. The screen and keyboard are of lower quality and music sounds bad from these speakers. These economy business laptops make excellent servers when you're able to buy them cheap enough which often is possible when fleets of corporate machines are liquidated.

There is risk in buying used. You want to immediately stress test the device including CPU, RAM, and disk after you receive it so you know if it needs to be returned. You want to flash the firmware to get security updates. That however has risk of bricking which would become a complicated discussion with the seller.

Note: Several other models are suitable as dual internal SSD home servers. I don't often post about them though because quantities for sale are not high. In this case the seller seems to have many for sale and the price is good.

Please follow and zap if you want more self-sovereign LN advice like this. I could be convinced to write a guide of what to do after you receive a used Thinkpad. I've lost money buying and testing non-refundable duds so you don't have to.

https://mobile.twitter.com/i/communities/1563029300911058944

Please also follow my Twitter community where small tips are written more frequently.

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There's an anonymous zap spec but I didn't look which side is anonymous.

I like the paranoid security lockdowns and privacy improvements they hard-coded in Tor Browser like artificial 1800x900 screen size to hide your actual screen resolution. Can I use it with ordinary VPNs instead of Tor's relays so I would have far better speed and reliability?

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This is a good value for a home self-sovereign LN node.

* CPU much faster than RPi.

* 8GB: you should add another 8GB (DDR4 SODIMM 2400 or faster) or replace to max out at 32GB RAM.

* That's a 1TB SATA HD. You could add a nvme 2280 SSD to gain storage redundancy for your critical LN database. SSD's are at an all time low price now. I recommend TLC drives without HMB like Samsung 970 Evo Plus, Teamgroup MP34, or Crucial P2. 2TB is very affordable these days.

* You could also replace the spinning hard drive. Elimination of moving parts improves reliability. For 2.5" SATA I recommend the 2TB Crucial MX500 that's been below $120 recently.

* Most of the cost is your new drives. These drives will outlive the machine. If the machine dies you can simply move the drives into another machine. Linux won't care about the underlying hardware. It should work with zero or minimal reconfiguration.

I've been testing a similar model here. The screen and keyboard are of lower quality and music sounds bad from these speakers. These economy business laptops make excellent servers when you're able to buy them cheap enough which often is possible when fleets of corporate machines are liquidated.

There is risk in buying used. You want to immediately stress test the device including CPU, RAM, and disk after you receive it so you know if it needs to be returned. You want to flash the firmware to get security updates. That however has risk of bricking which would become a complicated discussion with the seller.

Note: Several other models are suitable as dual internal SSD home servers. I don't often post about them though because quantities for sale are not high. In this case the seller seems to have many for sale and the price is good.

Please follow and zap if you want more self-sovereign LN advice like this. I could be convinced to write a guide of what to do after you receive a used Thinkpad. I've lost money buying and testing non-refundable duds so you don't have to.

https://mobile.twitter.com/i/communities/1563029300911058944

Please also follow my Twitter community where small tips are written more frequently.

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RPi was always a terrible idea for LN nodes. They are toy quality hardware. If you're lucky you get one that is reliable. For a lot of people it had not been reliable.

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See here for an example of *much* better value. Especially now with the recession many dead companies are liquidating fleets of powerful used hardware. Much much faster and more reliable than RPi.

You want dual redundant disks to protect the critical LN database. With SSD's at an all time low price now it's affordable to do this properly. You need to pick particular hardware capable of using TWO INTERNAL DISKS. External USB is far less reliable.

https://twitter.com/i/communities/1563029300911058944

Here is a community containing advice on this topic.

Any ideas about what if anything can be done about the UK legal system? The judges seemed to be more concerned about people well outside of their jurisdiction respecting their authority than about the obvious perjury being committed in plain view in front of them.

The second most important way to support Bitcoin Core contributors is to donate to support their work.

The first most important way to support Bitcoin Core contributors is to review and test their work so it has a better chance of getting merged. This part is so much harder.

Ohhhhhhh. I entirely misunderstood the UI. It had a toggle for quite a few releases already. This is embarrassing.

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I apologize I misunderstood what you wrote earlier. I was frustrated because I thought you were dismissing my requests but in reality the UI was just confusing. I would have recognized the toggle a long time ago if it had a symbol like 🔄between the two language names instead of the word "to". I'm sorry I misunderstood this for a long time.

In that case I'm missing only the ability to turn translation on for languages that are disabled. There's two reasons it might be disabled. One is because it is one of your system languages (or installed input method). The other is because you previously selected Never so the UI had disappeared.

Could you please consider adding "Translate" to the note context menu in this case? Or you may have a better idea.

Since I began contributing to Linux 20+ years ago I keep only defaults on everything so I know how bad they are and I'm motivated to do something about it, or at least repeatedly raise awareness about it until it is fixed.