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Keith Mukai
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SeedSigner lead dev. Bitcoin Core dev (barely). Specter Desktop contributor. python-nostr, rana, NIP-26.

Oof, don't remind me.

Let's see, how do we do this for Damus.... hashtag?

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I'm no expert, but I'd guess almost certainly just you. There are highly connected LN nodes that have channels with tons and tons of people. Some of those connections are to other big nodes in the network. Now they can interconnect lots more people (e.g. you to Blixt, Blixt to Phoenix, Phoenix to Alice).

But you're just a leaf node on that graph (graph theory terminology; there are main trunks, branches, and at the very edges: leaves). Once you get to a leaf there's nowhere left to go. It's a dead end. So then there's no way for someone to try to route a transaction through you.

If you used the same wallet to open more channels, then you'd start to integrate yourself as a small web of routing options for others to possibly use (though, in reality, if you're in a mobile app, that ain't happening. Complex reasons, but basically if you really want to participate in routing payments for the network, you have to run your own bitcoin + LN node at home that's connected 24/7).

Ya, someday. But if a health emergency comes up now, all my sats go poof.

Ha, love it! Just gotta stay healthy until we get to hyperbitcoinization!

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Ha, that's true in a literal sense! That freedom is def worth the ~50%-70% pay cut I'm taking by not going out and trying to get a job at Google or something.

In Lightning, funds can only travel to or through people with direct connections (aka channels). If you have zero connections, you don't exist in the Lightning Network at all.

Freelance contractor + FOSS dev = no such thing as structured 9-5 work hours.

Also no such thing as enjoying a weekend off, either, though! Nor vacation days. Nor sick days. Nor health insurance... 🤔

Less necessary when I'm doing keto, but nostr:npub1kumadawgefxjt2c293whsan5sfmdg5tylm0uk39enc6uxxfy5m4scrz2v7 does demand her couch cuddle time and that usually does end up with me zonked out.

I CANNOT BE CENSORED ON NOSTR!!!

🚫☕️, 🚫💩

✅☕️, ✅🚽

Usually, though has been more erratic the last two weeks.

I'm super-disciplined about zero caffeine after the morning. Any caffeine even around noon and I'll be up until 4am.

Tried cutting out my morning coffee for two days. Holy hell, you'd think the caffeine withdrawal would be the worst part. NOPE!

It was...

(sorry, nostr, you get my TMI posts)

...my colon.

Today in FOSS:

nostr:npub1kumadawgefxjt2c293whsan5sfmdg5tylm0uk39enc6uxxfy5m4scrz2v7 woke me up around 5am, got a few hours of

nostr:npub17tyke9lkgxd98ruyeul6wt3pj3s9uxzgp9hxu5tsenjmweue6sqq4y3mgl coding in, FINALLY submitted a PR to officially bring SettingsQR into a release.

Then got sleepy and had an awesome nap with Kuma lying on me like a living weighted comfort blanket. Solid morning.

Replying to nobody

nostr:npub1tv8gmfhalwnxxquxjzeh6gtdsdz6vg7vx0s3rt7s7uuw6aujh32qn77wn2 you have a scammer/bot. I had to force close twitter smh

If I report them and say that I'm reporting them on behalf of myself (as opposed to reporting a clone of someone else's account), they email me info about how to kyc myself to twitter. Not gonna happen.

Whoa, I am the 2/3 version of you!

Window decoration for one of your buildings.

Put in the 100+ hours to find your way through or else ngmi*.

*(Not Good Minotaur Interaction?)

And then as I said, that combo result as the input plus the original Kuma pic again got me to my final result.

So you can trial-and-error your way to forcing Midjourney to keep referencing irl Milou in one or many actual pics that you specify as part of the input.

Best result from that combo was:

(I had to specify "--no couch, blanket, pillows" to mostly ignore them from Kuma's pic)