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#DevOps Engineer with a heavy focus on #CloudOps with #Kubernetes #k3s #Rancher #Helm. Smithing my own cloud services, for the infrastructure I build, with #Kotlin #PostgreSQL #SpringBoot on #Docker #containerd #Linux #Alpine #Ubuntu. On hobby projects I'm working with #Nim #Rust #Julia #Nu #Ballerina #Nix.

While doing that, set up a #Twitch stream, take off your shirt & get that worthless Fiat Money rolling. :D

I also forgot to emphasise, that saying "adult" whatever is a huge euphemism. It's not "adult".

"Adult" is having a job, getting shit together & knowing, that only oneself has the responsibility for one's actions.

THAT is adult content. :)

Yes, of course we should not.

They get way too much money for ripping people off, anyway. They can just pay an elite crew of devs themselves.

To be honest, #IRC is only still used, because old schoolers are used to it too much & get the occasional newcomer with ideological arguments on board.

There's no point in using #IRC in 2023, considering all the alternatives. #Matrix is one of those well made replacements.

That said, you are correct, that you should spread around, rather than going all-in onto a single technology.

I'm saying, a majority of the internet is already filled with 'NSFW' content, so we don't need #Nostr resources wasted on shit that's already spamming everyone everywhere, anyway.

Its like going into one NPC World, like Twitter & then asking for more NPCs.

Standard #Firefox for convenient synchronisation between devices.

#PrivacyBrowser for the most private browsing experience (excluding Tor & Proxy based browsers) you will ever get on #Android.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.stoutner.privacybrowser.standard/

Should be my go-to picture response, whenever I'm asked "what are you doing right now?"... :D

Just so everyone knows, you've all played your part in helping me encourage adoption and implementation of lightning as a dedicated donation channel for the project.

The following is an official project statement:

"We're in the process of determining the best way for us to host an always-on local Lightning node with a WireGuard tunnel from a cloud server. We also need to figure out hosting lnurl so that people can actually use it.

It's likely we'd get a lot more small Bitcoin donations if we added Lightning to avoid high fees and also for better privacy. We plan to do this, but it's quite difficult to do it properly without a custodial service or complex software that's likely not going to be reliable.

Most people are experiencing Lightning via custodial services or non-custodial wallets using lnd + neutrino with a focus on sending rather than receiving payments. Receiving is harder than sending with Lightning and we need it to be secure, robust and reliable which is also hard.

We need to have proper backups, etc. We could end up in a similar situation to the one we're having with PayPal if we set up Lightning poorly by using a custodial service or use software/hardware which ends up failing and doesn't have proper backups for the money in channels.

We don't see much point in using Lightning unless we're running our own Lightning node on top of a Bitcode full node with local hardware and proper backups. We want to do it but it's not easy to do it the way we want. We aren't simply going to deploy someone's Docker images, etc.

We run Bitcoin and Monero full nodes without pruning for use with our hardware wallet but we don't do it for other cryptocurrencies and it's not a serious deployment usable for anything public. Making a serious Lightning node is something entirely separate from what we have."

Wish you the best! :)

It's astonishing to me, how a rather successful business man would say that.

Isn't it common knowledge, that your product isn't supposed to be able to do everything at once, but a specific feature set, that makes your product "unique" in a sense, which also makes sense in its own structure, should be the focus in a proprietary project for making money the traditional way?

To me, this sounds like he is super desperate & salty.

No truly intelligent & disciplined businessman mixes emotions with business. These are two separate topics, which ought not to be mixed with each other.

The more snippets of his sayings I see, the more I see how childish he actually is.

Not to mention his disastrous & potentially very dangerous business ideas, like for example, Hyperloop, which is an utterly laughable catastrophy.

You are correct, but you shouldn't have stopped at saying "current market situation" & rather expand on that.

The "current market situation" is based on the majority of people issuing a buying behaviour, which is manipulated extremely heavily by false advertisements about products from huge companies.

The majority of people doesn't know anything about electronics. They buy what friends buy & those friends buy whatever some ad showed during shopping & the manipulation victim didn't even notice consciously, because mostly the unconscious part was aware for this ad. It's like this thing, where people tell themselves "I think, I want this, but I don't know why".

So, to complete your correct assessment, I have to emphasise, that the "current market situation" is bullshit in the first place & the "optimised" products are therefore optimised to bullshit.

We need actual optimisation to things, that actually are pro consumer, not anti consumer. I. e. robustness, usability, openness & customisability. Not slim, unrepairable, X as a Service, etc.

These are the actual pro consumer values. Having a couple of millimeters thin "smartphone" which breaks on every fall or in two years for no reason other than "optimisation" to bullshit is simply against the consumer. This is how you design a product, if you hate the consumer & want to milk every single drop of money out of him.