Hmm? The IDF comments on lots of specific cases. Not everything, certainly, but when things make big news headlines, I’ve generally seen comments.

Anyway, not sure arguing relative percentages is worth it - I’m still really confused why you are talking a *default* stance of “the IDF is right not the UN” rather than a default stance of “I dunno, could go either way, both stances have reasonable motivation”. I fear you are falling into the “all conflicts must have a good guy and because the other side are obviously not it, Israel must be it, and can do no wrong” fallacy that is all too common in conflicts.

Is it? I’m not really aware of much use of testnet to “interact with others”. Testnet lightning has been totally useless for years, and I’m not really sure what else there is?

Not “intentionally”, just some miners got excited when it was still a PR.

Then we fucked up testnet4, should have premined it so that it’s not scarce, and need to have a testnet5 :)

Asking in IRC, generally 🤷‍♂️

I’m a bit puzzled by your claim here. The IDF has had ample opportunity to respond to these events, and has not claimed that they thought Hezbollah was present at the UN positions in this case. If it were the case that they thought that, by now they absolutely would have, yet you keep bringing it up as a likely reason?

More generally, Unfil has never had a mandate of removing Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon (that’s the Lebanese army/government’s job, of which there basically isn’t one of either). Their mandate is only to monitor. Their specific mandate is to “allow” everything and tell the UN about it.

I’m frankly puzzled about your arguments here.

Please don’t buy testnet coins. If they get a price, we get testnet5.

Man how have I still not been on the pod.

Also apparently the IDF isn’t even claiming it was an intelligence error?

Not to mention it follows a week or more of Israel explicitly telling Unfil that they should leave, the idea that commanders may wish to ramp up pressure isn’t unreasonable.

Given the only other observers to the incident are confident it was no accident (and it follows several related incidents), I would not carry a default judgement here. There are absolutely strategic reasons Israel would have to fire on a UN position, even if they’re a bit more tenuous than the reason of “bad intelligence”.

And, yea, I’m sure we’ll never know much more.

Satoshi’s doing well, thanks.

Long live 58K Gang. Bitcoin is the stablecoin now. nostr:note1nvtwhzhc4esyjezrvfds828f7eaq7qx05mawapamsa025ed0v60s3ptzrs

I wasn’t claiming at all there’s a winning strategy here, quite the opposite in fact, there we strongly agree. (Maybe “the only winning strategy is not to play”, but of course that’s a losing strategy for Netenyahu, irrespective of how one might play that strategy to the benefit of the Israeli and other people).

I wasn’t referring to the overall volume of coverage, though, but rather coverage of realities on the ground, which is something we get fairly little of (even war journalists have limits). Embedded journalists generally only see really limited stuff (because no one wants an embedded journalist to die, so you limit where you bring them!), so I generally write them off entirely.

Rather the coverage I was referring to would be non-embedded journalists or UN reporting within its own formal channels. Non-embedded journalists have been hit a lot by Israeli troops, though of course it’s hard to tell whether they’re being hit more or less than the average person in active warzones in Gaza.

I wasn’t claiming any specific motivation here, just noting that you made a very large leap with the “well presumably intelligence said Hezbollah was using that site”, when there are many other reasons to strike a site.

Sadly, “just wait” isn’t a realistic approach in this conflict because basically no past event ever gets “resolved” - there’s what the IDF says and what Al Jazeera says and what Hamas says and I have yet to see any followup on anything. Even the “we’re launching an investigation” line we’ve heard from the IDF a handful of times appears to always result in internal investigations and no public comments (I believe with only one exception that I’ve seen). Sadly, public opinion is very much a battlefield in this conflict, much more so than in most others, so I don’t think that’s gonna change.

And maybe much more importantly here is the desire to reduce press coverage. After all one of Hamas’ key aims (less so for Hezbollah, but also there too) is to make Israel look bad on the global stage (to reduce long-term support for them from western militaries). In a war zone there’s always things that look bad, so Israel has strongly preferred to not have press or reporting of their actions on the battlefield.

You make an assumption that the only strategic goals sought are to eliminate actual Hezzbolah positions. It’s probably true, but I definitely wouldn’t say anything more than “probably” given Netenyahu’s domestic political risks and need for continued escalation if he wants to avoid jail for old corruption charges.

Tradeoff, but with Alby the routing is done on the client side so if you self-host they can’t trivially see where the payment is going. They can do timing correlation with other information but that’s a much more involved attack. Sadly, today, Phoenix does routing on the server side so they see the payment destination in the clear.

As for esplora, yea, it’s not ideal, but if you’re using a fixed LSP it doesn’t matter - the LSP knows all your on-chain info anyway, and ideally your payments are lightning so the on-chain information isn’t “the interesting part” (aside from any on-chain setup deposits).

Yes I, a fed, am working hard to undermine an app that no longer functions.

Everyone with any tech chops always wrote off Samorai as a joke. The only reason people weren’t vocal about it is cause of how toxic all the asshats who loved it were. None of this means they should go to prison, but getting charged doesn’t mean you were the best, just the loudest and stupidest.

Fair, Wasabi built something good too, and certainly succeeded in user adoption in a way JoinMarket never did (sadly, though for many reasons), but if we jump to a theoretical world where they both have an equal user base, I know which one I’m picking.