Agreed, atomic updates are a game changer. Another one I'd recommend is https://projectbluefin.io/

Based on Silverblue but also has lot of stuff already configured like GPU support. It just works.

For Linux desktop apps, Flatpak is the way to go 🚀

Some solid functional programming skills right there!

And its not like they didn't know me, I've been a customer previously for over 10 years. Even had a business account with them. I'm honored to enter the club 😂

Hmmm...OK I'll give it a try then. I had issues after switching to Graphene with errors logging in, like my password was wrong. Called CashApp customer service and was told its because of using non-standard Android.

It could get better if CashApp works on GrapheneOS. Last time I checked it did not

Well that was awkward. Nothing says "welcome back" like applying for a bank account and getting rejected...

Reason? "We're not required to give you a reason".

Was it the questions about digital currencies? Or giving a Proton alias instead of real email because I don't like my data being abused by your marketing department?

I'll never know because apparently it's now legal for banks to discriminate for any reason.

BTW there are quite a few companies creating user ratings of all sorts and it's already used by banks so this whole " social credit score" from China is already implemented worldwide. Don't worry, you'll be fine as long as you do what you're told...

I guess we're entering a phase where you have to behave in an approved way to access the financial system.

Given how hopelessly corrupt this system is, I must he doing " something" right 😆

New attack vector to think about, now that OP_RETURN can be used for embedding large amounts of data in default client implementation

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/dprk-adopts-etherhiding

Every accommodation in Europe asks me for ID, date of birth and address. Some go as far as taking photo of both sides of my ID with their phone.

Apparently legal requirement covered by GDPR. Yeah right, like that's going to help when data is leaked unknowingly.

From security point of view this system is designed to enable identity theft.

Also didn't work when ProtonVPN was on. Had to disable it to see anyone which is interesting

Build on protocols, not products. OSS is the way

Vibe 🤖 coding < augmented 🚀 coding < augmented 🔥 vape coding

Qwen3 supports tool calling

Techical debt relates more to ongoing maintenance not initial implementation. It's easy to create a landing page or MVP with AI but that's the easy part of software engineering.

As far as I understand even the core connection in Sparrow requires the wallet functionality to be enabled in the server so wouldn't consider that recommended approach. Electrum is the way to go

You mentioned Knots does not support connecting Sparrow to it. Not really a big deal since the wallet functionality is there more for historical reasons and its best to disable it anyway and use Electrum server to connect wallets.

Time to earn that nostr:nprofile1qqs92543yxrnnkgl93hu9kpmsphakrph7yqttumayelhq5n0tzq2y9gppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qywhwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnzd96xxmmfdejhytnnda3kjctv9urlyzve name! Just added Bitcoin module with support for running Bitcoin full node and Electrum server to connect your wallets privately. You can also switch between Core and Knots implementations at any point while using same underlying storage.

Thanks for nostr:nprofile1qqs22d4tralncqfnh2kmmarjkxk8449hwnk5xtqe3y5yry6hy7ytegqpp4mhxue69uhkyunz9e5k7tcpzemhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejz7wt5kvh for the core/knots docker images and nostr:nprofile1qqsw5t3us9xs3gmclzjm37hvk2yy6pv9t96utjjttsj794hexc5x79qpzemhxw309a6k6cnjv4kzumr0vdskcw358q6rsqgswaen5te0w4kkyun9dsargwp58qrqp3nw for maintaining Electrs image!

Commands:

pulumi config set bitcoin-knots:enabled true

# or

pulumi config set bitcoin-core:enabled= true

pulumi up

# wait for node to sync, then

pulumi config set electrs:enabled true

pulumi up

Wait for Electrs to index the blocks, then use "electrs:50001" to configure your wallet software.

If you also have MinIO (S3 storage) component enabled then daily incremental backups will happen automatically.

https://github.com/QC-Labs/orange-lab

Just published an update to OrangeLab - https://github.com/QC-Labs/orange-lab/releases/tag/v0.4.0

This release adds AMD GPU support, auto-detection of GPU nodes (NVidia and AMD) and lots of improvements to how storage is handled, like attaching existing volumes and automatic daily incremental backups.

So I see how this could be useful for some cases. Would be nice to have some kind of basic structure like protocol:data to let them through. I just don't want to have to buy new 1TB every year so others can store their "I was here" graffiti on my node

Why the link Nostr? Which can't I push an updated note? 😭

Running Knots...and Core every second day. It sure is nice when the underlying storage is compatible. Automate all the things! nostr:nprofile1qqs92543yxrnnkgl93hu9kpmsphakrph7yqttumayelhq5n0tzq2y9gppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qywhwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnzd96xxmmfdejhytnnda3kjctv9urlyzve

There is a difference between censorship and validation. Do I understand it right that rejecting OP_RETURN doesn't reject financial transactions? What are some legitimate uses of this field?

Austin

There are no syntax errors, it's only a vibe misalignment

Vibe-documenting is even better then vibe-coding. AI gets me 90% there on boring tasks like this. To all the reports-loving managers...machines are coming!