Don't ascribe to evil what can easily be explained by negligence, impatience, ignorance, or incompetence.
I think my node is starting to wear down. I haven't fully investigated it, but it seems to be lagging behind a day or so with transactions. I use it for Core and electrum, not Lightning.
What is the reasoning behind NOT running this on my main system, or maybe on a VM running on my main system? I don't feel like running another ras-pi, and also don't feel like setting up a secondary laptop.
I'm guessing it is the opsec, in that if agents bust in and take my shit, they may not notice this little black box in the corner - but I'm thinking we're past that. Anyone coming after me would probably be doing so for financial reasons - I won't call them crimes - and would be familiar enough with bitcoin to know to look for a raspberry pi.
Uptime? I just need it to be up enough to keep up with transactions. Space? Not an issue. Data corruption? Doubt this would get any better. Network segregation? That is one reason I would run a VM instead of directly on my main system.
Just thinking out loud here. I'm feeling a debian-based VM might be the nbt.
Just use lightning to mix and join, consolidate, split, etc. Or maybe Liquid, although not sure exactly how that would work. Jeez. It really just takes 2 ln nodes you trust (or own). If you're paranoid, use your own hardware, erase all memory when you're done, and ditch the hardware.
I thought about writing up a guide on how to do this, but don't want the liability of publishing it, or the headache of dealing with people telling me how it won't work.
While everything here seems to be threatening to come unhinged, I spent some time working on the motorcycle. Small things, preparing for bigger things.
This too shall pass. GN. 🌙
Where did you get that we're all one? I think that may be an over-simplification. But I do agree there are many ways to perceive, perhaps as many ways as there are those who perceive.
Our greatest struggle may be control over our emotions.
All actions are actually reactions, based on our perceptions.
Our perceptions are always colored by our emotional state.
All reactions are partially acted out based on our emotions.
Control over emotion is a false struggle, as understanding emotion will show emotion is beyond our control.
Understanding our emotions allows us to best use them to our perceived benefit.
Suppressing emotion will not help us as much as understanding and using our emotions to our perceived benefit.
Mastering our understanding of emotion moves us beyond the struggle of controlling emotions, and allows us to react with intent and discipline.
GN.
I agree with the intent behind these mindsets, but:
I am only responsible for my perception and response to anything I am aware has occurred.
I am capable to perceive and respond to anything I am aware of, using all means I perceive I can access.
Same as anyone else, but often with far different outcomes.
And this tells me your protocol is centralized, where network fees are not determined by math, consensus, or market, but rather by someone ("we") who can decide and act to reduce them. Good luck with that, sir!
Everyone acts to their own perceived benefit, even when serving others or making self-sacrifices. The perceived benefit may not be immediate or short term, some act on much longer time horizons.
And when those interests conflict? And who determines mutual benefit? Easy for one to feel less benefited than the other. Any of these systems work when interests overlap, but all break down when interests are in conflict.
I've noticed that male television advertisement voice-overs (as well as tv channel programming ads) are increasingly sounding like gay men. This includes Home Depot and Dairy Queen. I'm not making a value judgement here, just an observation. Female voice-overs have also gotten deeper in tone - not really a scientific observation, just an impression. I'm sure the intent is inclusion. Again, not a value judgement.
Yesterday was my birthday. Glad everyone had a good halving. I enjoyed the day without really even thinking about my savings. Fun that my wedding was also on a significant block day. In four years, I'll be four years older, and celebrating a decade longer on this rock. It would be too much to ask for exactly 4 years between halvings though, so I'll just remember this one fondly.
I've broken away from Heidegger to read up on Hindu cosmology.
Heidegger was frustrating, as he seemed obsessed with perfecting his ideas, tather than actually explaining them. Any explanation was generally getting lost in translation, made more difficult by his use of invented vocabulary, with little explanation about meaning of the terms he was using.
He also seemed to need to use the most obscure words, long words, etc to say anything, making it rough going for any normal non-academic like myself. It just felt like a huge load of pretention, and someone who got off on being hard to understand.
When I write my book, I promise not to do that. I will try to use the simplest words I can find. I will instruct my editors to find text that needs simplification, and listen to them.
Anyway, GN.
Ok, fucking up my previous GN attempt.
I'm pondering the properties of brake fluid. In both cars and motorcycles, brake operation is the major hydraulic system in play.
Brake fluid in both is glycol based, and glycol is hydrophilous, meaning it attracts water molecules.
In motorcycles, after about two years (depending on local humidity), brake fluid will already be 4% H2O, and need to be flushed out and replaced to maintain its high boiling point and compression qualities. Brake failure is obviously quite dangerous on a motorcycle.
But it would also be dangerous in a car, and how often, if ever, are car brake systems flushed to remove all compromised brake fluid? As a driver of a 30+ year-old automobile, and owner of several autos that are 10+ years old, I doubt any of them have had their brake systems flushed. I'm guessing all are running fluid well above 4% H2O.
Flushing attempts to remove all old fluid and replace it with new fluid. While bleeding brakes removes air in the system and is often done when changing pads, calipers, drums, and shoes (really any brake component that involves breaching the hydraulic system and allowing air to enter), bleeding only introduces a small amount of new fluid into the system.
I assume this is why master cylinders, boosters, and other ferrous brake components are subject to failure over time, due to rust buildup. But long before component failure, I would expect other negative effects (boiling, hydro lock, loss of compression and "spongy" reaction) because of H2O-compromised fluid. Maybe some of these failures are mitigated by having a mechanical (cable-actuated) emergency brake system, which motorcycles do not have. Maybe the relative volume of fluid in an automobile is beneficial - relative to the amount of exposure to air or anything else containing H20.
Could water separators be effective? I'm curious if water separators are part of other glycol-based hydraulic systems, or cooling systems dependent on the high boiling point of glycol. If glycol is hydrophilous, how would those separators even work? Certainly much differently than with a hydrophobic fluid.
Any ideas? Yes, this is a little material science, some chemistry, some physics. Not areas I am an expert in. But I have an appreciation for it all the same.
Not my usual philosophy, anthropology, sociology, psychology bent, but interesting all the same.
Ok, GN.
I just reposted a note by accident. Thumb missed the icon I wanted, clicked on the repost icon, no confirmation, blam!
It was content I would approve of reposting, if I cared to repost anything.
Couldn't find a way (in about 30s of fumbling) to directly reply to my repost without replying to the original, so here we are.
And that's OK. Gn.
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I do not believe I can know how another person is feeling, or thinking. I can make assumptions and guesses, even reasoned ones, but I will still never know.
This is an extremely important foundational assertion, because of how much we tend to credit to other people. We seek validation, community, love - but can never know how authentic any of it is.
All we can do is interpret actions, which I believe are always performed for the perceived benefit of the actor. Any benefit for others is always secondary, no matter how selfless the action may seem.
Yes, I will write a book. Early days. Researching now.
You're only a nigger if you don't own anything. Even owning your pride is a start out of that hole. Owning your family, your community - even better. Owning your bitcoin - that gives you a huge fuck you and a way to opt out. Know your masters. Don't be a blind nigger, because a blind nigger is just grist for the mill.
This could end my use of social media (for fun) altogether. Sorry, shitposting isn't very high on my hierarchy of needs. I only post occasionally, share very few things other than text. I did pay for a couple relays initially, under the assumption it was a one-time payment. Then I ended up preferring a nostr client that doesn't even have relay controls. So I have no idea if any of those services I did pay for even exist.
I get your frustration - but I don't see much of a market around social media outside of advertising and maybe appeasing influencers. Just because you spend time developing an app, or front the costs of media hosting, doesn't mean you have a market that will pay you. The successful companies and paid developers are being paid by companies that already have a market, usually subsidized by advertising or subscription revenue.
Nostr is more of a protocol, sort of like bitcoin. You don't see a lot of smtp or tcp/ip developers, although plenty of service companies have been successful using and extending these protocols, often after already establishing a market presence through other means. Nostr may wind up the same way. What if Google, Microsoft, Meta, or Amazon created a client (or something more multifunctional), its own relays, or backported existing messaging to use the Nostr protocol? Would businesses pay for it, like they do for Google Microsoft web-based services? Could it become part of Amazon Prime, or subsidized through Meta's advertising reach? But Nostr isn't there yet - maybe some day, but not today. I don't remember paying for Netscape or Thunderbird, and Nostr clients are barely even at that point. They aren't AOL, or even Earthlink or GeoCities, which people did pay for. All of those services did more than one thing, and tried to do it fairly seamlessly. We're seeing Nostr trying to do the same by combining wallet services into clients, but again, early days.
The initial protocol is built. Sure, maybe it could use some refining, but so could anything. Now we build, we wait, we extend, we try to become a critical mass worthy of the attention of something bigger that will really accelerate Nostr. The same way Bitcoin is waiting for its next adoption phase. ETFs were big, nation states were big, but it hasn't yet grown to its full potential either.