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GM nostr β˜• PV πŸ’œ

I put a new circulation pump in my dishwasher yesterday.

When you work on a computer for a living, fixing real physical things is actually so satisfying. I love DIY home repair. πŸ™‚

Good call, didn't notice that the fees were different for different swaps. πŸ‘

Yes, this is a good strategy for privacy, but it's not cheap. I'm your example of 100M sats (1BTC), it's 0.7% fee from boltz in both directions... So 700k sats into liquid and 700k sats out of liquid.

Have you played around with a similar strategy but with fedimint? Fedi pegs out on chain and some mints don't even have a fee, or you can run your own mint.

Thoughts?

Camp champion πŸ’ͺ

Replying to Avatar Gigi

It's at a point now where it's almost impossible for me to use the "regular" internet. I can't access half the sites. The reason? I care about my digital hygiene and thus use a VPN. Sometimes switching to a different VPN or switching the country of the VPN works; other times it does not. Oh well, I guess I'm not going to watch that video, or read that article, or look at that picture. Whatever.

In addition to that, if I'm not blocked completely, I have to prove that I'm human every step of the way. Captchas, re-captchas, Cloudflare checkboxes, the whole shebang. I am human. I promise. And I am very annoyed. Outright angry, even. I doubt that any robot will ever be as annoyed as I am right now about the current state of the internet.

What annoys me most, actually, is that all these measures don't really work. There's bots everywhere. Robots get access to the stuff anyway, using farms of humans, just like in the good old days of WoW gold farming. The centralized "safety" nets of Cloudflare et al brought down large swaths of the internet multiple times in the last couple of weeks alone, and as things centralize more and more these outages will happen more and more.

I'm very close to breaking up with the legacy internet. I'm human, I can cryptographically prove that I'm human, and I have sats to spend. But the legacy internet doesn't care about that. It cares about farming me and my data, while annoying me to no end. I've been nostr only for a while now, but that was only on the "social media" side. 2026 might be the year where I go nostr-only for everything, or to phrase it slightly differently: permissionless for everything.

No more "are you human?"

No more "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."

No more cookie banners, paywalls, and AI slop.

No more being treated like a child.

Even if it means that I'll have to self-host everything.

Even if it means that I'll have to build & maintain stuff myself.

Even if it means that it's a lot of work and pain.

Nothing worth having ever comes easy.

But the easy stuff is not worth having in the first place.

Here's to the year to come, and the new corner of the internet, build on cryptography and webs-of-trust. Real value. Real connections. Real humans.

Here's to nostr.

Amazing to think about how little time we all spent on the Internet like 25 years ago... And back then even if you were on the Internet a lot it wasn't out of some presumed necessity, it was because the Internet was a superpower.

Get yourself some tools from the 90s. Get a flip phone, an atlas and a walkman.

Good luck! πŸ€™

GM nostr β˜• PV πŸ’œ

Up early on a Saturday, everyone else is still sleeping, just chillin with my coffee πŸ™‚

Your's is way better than mine, but same vibes πŸ˜‚

Do any of these use the Bluetooth mesh network? Like I wanted to show them how it works like on airplane mode in a small group... Have people test the distance and create a local mesh. I've got ios and android working, but wanted to show a PWA option if it exists.

Heading home from KC today... Not sure I've ever flown on 9/11 before

Vibe coding, and Shakespeare specifically, gonna increase the number of cypeherpunks who meet this definition πŸ”₯