Yeah, everyone I hear complain about forced closures has mentioned LND.

I’ve been aggressively ignoring learning about lightning but am in the process of getting a node set up. Going to start with Core Lightning for this exact reason. Maybe Core is just as bad or worse and it just isn’t as popular so I don’t hear about it, but my naive impression is there might be something about LND that makes it a bigger problem there.

But I will run LND too at some point just to get experience with both.

Do you use LND?

Fees were lower when there was more vBytes/sec in February and March. We’re hungover from the panic a few weekends ago.

If you don’t *need* your transaction to clear for a couple months, make sure you have RBF enabled and bid 3-5 sats/vB. You can always adjust the fee later if the current trend reverses again, but you’ll very likely get your transaction committed at a steep discount relative to current rates if you can be patient.

I loved the Wool book series, which is now part of the Silo series. I read all of his books back then.

I tried to start reading them in preparation for the series Silo. I didn’t get very far.

I fully expect Apple to butcher the story at some point, but so far it is good. I don’t remember the books well enough to remember how close they are though.

It’s hard to even talk about the story without massive spoilers. A big part of me wants to finish rereading it now.

I want a fedimint onion routing service.

Something that lets me pay for the bandwidth I’m using, but routes my traffic through fedis that are globally distributed through adversarial jurisdictions.

#Nostr is full of people building stuff and Twitter is full of people bouncing from one pointless argument to the next. 🤷‍♂️

Lost power for a few seconds this morning and the UPS my node is plugged into has been slowly dying for a while so my node went down.

This finally gave me the kick in the pants I needed to buy a replacement UPS and to automate the restart process for my node.

LLMs helped me automate things in record time. If you haven’t asked an LLM about command line options and config settings yet you are missing out.

When I was teaching myself how to program in new languages at my first office job in 1993 I had to save up to buy a book. Then I had to find a bookstore that had those kinds of books, which meant driving 35 minutes one way. Then I had to save up to buy the software.

I’d read the books at night after work and would think about the software I was going to write the next day in the office (couldn’t afford a computer yet and couldn’t install software on the library computer). I’d take my books into the office and then work on writing the software and testing it during the day.

I say all that to highlight how incredible it is that I can learn entirely new languages and tools by asking an LLM how something works.

The friction between imagining the solution to a problem and building that solution in incrementally useful steps has decreased by so many orders of magnitude over my career I can hardly imagine what life was like 30 years ago.

I thought he had a stroke when he first started spitting this nonsense out. It sounds like they are naming more obscure robots in the Star Wars universe at this point.

Recently came across a 1yo app startup that has a founding team that has never worked in software in any capacity. “CEO” had a construction business with a “7 figure exit” (as if that is impressive). Early investors have backgrounds in mortgages, real estate, and ag retail.

One of the founders, who is now mysteriously no longer involved, had a men’s fashion startup that got scammed out of $200K because they shipped boxes of clothes to people who signed up with a prepaid credit cards that couldn’t be charged when the people didn’t send back the clothes.

They didn’t even outsource the development of the MVP to contractors, they used a newish AI powered app generator platform that created a React based app for them. They are now trying to hire their first developer/future CTO and are offering a whopping $100K salary plus equity for that position.

I’ve spent the last 15 years competing against software companies founded and run by people who have never worked in software before. I can’t tell you how easy that is for a team that has decades of experience developing and supporting complex software.

I heard about this company because someone I care about is interested in getting involved with them. I explained the red flags I saw but they are excited and don’t have software experience themselves so they are ignoring my reservations. Luckily, they’ll only be involved peripherally so it shouldn’t be too bad if it all blows up. And who knows, maybe they’ll defy the odds. 🤣

I hate the fiat VC funding model that drives this kind of insanity.

Yeah, the guilt of complaining without testing the settings first overwhelmed me and I figured out how to get back my preferred behavior right after posting this.

But thanks for the tip.

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Ok, whining forced me to actually check the settings. Turns out I needed to turn off the show wallet chooser option and reset my default wallet again to get back to the experience I was used to.

I’m an idiot and should have looked before complaining. nostr:note14g3ess2fnywe28qqdq4u6gpt9djw5mhwzcuffenukpa6pux6uazsyjjzn3

It’s ironic. One tap zap has made my zapping experience much worse because it reverted the way non one tap zaps work to always show the wallet chooser. I zap way less often. And no, I don’t want to use Alby.

Resist the urge to run nodes in a box out of convenience and learn how to run the software you depend on yourself.

It’s a joke to claim you are “sovereign” if you are just booting up a tangle of docker images on a toy computer and you have know idea how any of it works or what you are even running.

None of it is as hard as you have convinced yourself it is and now you have LLMs available to walk you through every command line option and config setting for anything you might need. nostr:note1jtk6qftj8mtekync8s50crqkd4hmgz0qladcs7v486ru9puttn4q0m36wl

This is just one of a thousand reasons why Jordan Peterson’s position on anonymity is completely idiotic.

https://twitter.com/DanielMicay/status/1662212227561308160?s=21

Agreed, it seems they’ve learned it pays to be patient.

The number of inscriptions has reached near record highs again this week while fees have remained relatively flat.

I don’t have a way to see how much of this is just old low fee rate transactions vs. new transactions, but based on the number of transactions in mempools remaining pretty constant through the last couple weeks, there has to be a certain amount of new activity too. Total transaction volume hasn’t spiked as high as it did earlier this month and that is helping keep fees down, I’m sure.

Either way, it’s good to see that even with multiple days of near record inscription volume, we aren’t seeing the insane fee spikes like we saw earlier in May.

https://inscriptionwatch.com/transactions_by_type.html

https://inscriptionwatch.com/transactions_by_category.html

Instead of free speech, Twitter got paywalls. 🤦‍♂️

What an idiotic interpretation of this fiat “art”. Here’s what I took away from this story:

The dumbass robot should have spent a lot less time dancing and jerking off when it was young and full of energy. Instead, it should have built the floor up around itself to act as a funnel so that it wouldn’t have to waste its entire life doing pointless busy work.

Don’t let communists who can’t even handle the intentional and pointless destruction of a machine without crying tell you how to face life’s challenges. 🤣

https://twitter.com/TaraBull808/status/1661830594333114368?s=21

I’m assuming it isn’t the auto version, but haven’t confirmed. 🤣

I’m definitely not paying my quarterly tax payments this year until December. I’ll take the hit and pay the penalty. Because fuck them.

It ain’t much, but it’s honest work.

Only $25K for the whole John Wick 4 collection 🤣

Holy shit, imagine getting fired via a ChatGPT generated text message.

Guaranteed this has already happened.

I think they’ll be forced to sell more longer duration than they want, but they will resist that as much as they can. That’s my bet anyway.

Pensions and Insurance would love to get their hands on some 10y with reasonable yields, I’m sure.

Yellen will get to dump $1.5T worth of bonds on the market over the next 9 months. I wonder what that will do to bond yields. I also wonder what mix of terms she’ll be trying to sell.

Maybe Yellen will step down and let the next commie - Lael Brainard - take over now.

I want to feed the text of the debt ceiling deal to gpt4all and ask it questions about it.

I read that book around the time I started my business in the middle of the GFC. We’ve lived through fascinating times.

I remember listening to Dave Winer and #[3]​ when they were talking about the birth of podcasting (while recording one of the first podcast episodes). That was happening at another inflection point in my life and in the world around the turn of the millennium.

Adam feels like an old friend or an older brother at this point. He’s had his finger on the pulse of every major tech revolution of my life. People who don’t pay attention to what he is up to are missing out.

We were dealing with the consequences of unlimited free speech in 1993. It took the rest of the world 30 fucking years to catch up. I learned to distrust anyone who had the knee-jerk reaction to censor anything they disagreed with way before then, but the Wild West of Usenet helped me truly internalize the consequences of that.

2009 + 30 years is 2039.

I first got a taste of building web software in 1997 and it was a mind blowing experience. It totally changed my perspective on what was possible and helped me see a new path forward. 10 years later I started a web based SaaS. It felt like a lifetime at the time but feels like a blink of an eye now.

There are a bunch of things bubbling around Bitcoin and Nostr and AI that feel similar to that Cambrian explosion feeling I had throughout the mid ‘90s.

This is a worthwhile read whether you lived through that time like we did or whether you came later. nostr:note10f6jvaj75m5324kn6qmtqcddm0ap30cnwzmhf06g78z7sk4rk29qq05j90

It reminded me what we lost and has fundamentally changed the way I use the internet.

The smartphone accelerated Eternal September ate everything that was good. It will always be important to have spaces that are IQ gated. Complexity and lack of “ease of use” is protective.

Once those walls fall it will be time to move on again. Open spaces where anyone can join but most can’t figure out how to use is a sweet spot.

Nostr’s obscurity is the thing that protects it from the drama queens who are addicted to Twitter and make it such a cesspool. I’m thankful they can’t get their fix here.

I’m sure they restricted private jet flights too, right? 🤣

Anyone who doesn’t see through this nonsense at this point is probably not worth the trouble of trying to convince.

You should also use it to do this and countless other things:

https://armantheparman.com/dicev2/

Feel free to recommend whatever you like.

This is one of the first things I noticed too. His need to appeal to Davos plus whatever drives a man to wear 8 rings is enough to convince me to never trust Ledger as a company regardless of all other factors.

I can’t even comprehend what would be going through the head of a man who wears 8 rings.