I do have an old netbook laying around. Do you think it would be enough? It's Intel architecture though, so it might be hard to find a working Linux distro for it nowadays, at least of a variety that I can use well enough...

I don't have a spare computer that I think is capable of it. Yet. May have one coming within a couple of months though. I also need to do a bit of research on how to set it up, but I see that as the smaller problem. I don't know exactly what's involved, any risks to the BTC I put into it, potential fee revenue, how automated channel balancing has become, etc. If I need to manually balance it several times a day, it won't work, as I don't work from home and can't take breaks from work to do it by remote.

Account on the site, I mean. I used a 10-minute mail.

Looks cool.

Oldschoool-web-looking site for the desktop users: https://lcwo.net/

I'd recommend not using an important email address for it though (use a 10-minute mail), I had an account that I suddenly couldn't log in to. Site might not have the best security.

TIL those exist. I assume they use a low melting point solder, that melts at about the same temperature that the tube shrinks. Seems a lot more convenient than the usual - soldering, finding out that you forgot to put the heat shrink tube on first, desoldering, putting on the tube, soldering, tube shrank prematurely since the heat traveled along the cable, redoing again, finding out that the solder blob is too large to slide the tube over, removing some solder from it, sliding the tube over, heating, and done....

What are those colorful things in the box?

Yeah, one of those technologies is fiat money... We have a solution now, that could solve that problem, but despite owning what I currently consider a moderate but decent amount of said solution since around the first halving (more back then, of course, I was mining and buying stuff with it), and having listened to probably 100-200 hours of podcasts, read one-and-a-half of Saif's books, etc. etc., I'm still not anywhere near convinced that hyperbitcoinization will inevitably come, or that the value won't go to near 0. (Don't worry, I'm hodling an amount I've determined, just in case.) I guess I'm a pessimist - I'll attribute that to, particularly me being very privacy focused, learning in fiat world that change generally is in the negative direction...

Reply to #[1] about the episode mentioned here. Probably an unpopular opinion, since I don't have, and can't have, a solution, except for maybe going 100% isolated off-grid farmer/prepper/survivalist small village, refusing to believe any outside information whatsoever, or to some extent prevention by teaching AI Austrian economics, but:

I believe even your take, and indeed my following take, severely underestimates the damage AI can cause if it goes wrong. What if it's not 1% worse per minute of whatever the AI is used for, but 1% per microsecond, and it also figures out a way to spread the -1% into all adjacent systems? If it's figuratively not turning the frog-boiling stove to maximum, but figures out a way to do thermonuclear fusion of all hydrogen atoms in the water in the pot, in less than the time it takes for the first nerve signal to reach the frog's brain? Exponential developments is something we're not naturally able to intuit. Even less exponential exponents, which I imagine could possibly come into play with AI at some point.

If I recall correctly, public key cryptography is related to the P/NP problem, and there is no way of mathematically proving this. That leads me to believe that there is a far from zero probability that P=NP, and if AI develops exponentially, it will definitely find how. One could argue that AI could also solve this by creating better encryption schemes, but if an attacking AI figures it out one second earlier, the entire Web of Trust is gone, and if it figures it out a number of blocks earlier - which it could possibly solve in fractions of seconds too, thanks to the discovery - all 21 million bitcoin is already in its wallet. Billions of people would probably die within days to weeks, from hunger, thirst or not being able to heat their homes.

I'm not advocating AI bans, that would only mean that it's the governments' or criminals' AI that would kill us, maybe a few years later. Or earlier, given what it might be instructed to do by such organizations. But anyway. As I said, I don't have, and can't have, a solution. Maybe AI is the Great Filter of the Fermi paradox.

Sorry for being so doom-and-gloom, but in my opinion, it's a very real threat.

Not sure if this has already been said, since all replies doesn't load for some reason, but I have to recommend https://www.sigidwiki.com/wiki/Signal_Identification_Guide to everyone interested in SDR and radio stuff in general. I think it's somehow affiliated with https://www.rtl-sdr.com/ , it is at least linked from there, Anyway, there are a lot of different signals with spectrum views, audio samples and text about what they are. It was a great resource when I was playing with an RTL-SDR a while ago.

Reference for English speakers:

If I understood correctly, it sounds like a a CTRL+C CTRL+V of #[2] 's Strike, but with a new centralized shitc.. *HRRM* CBDC, instead of Lightning Bitcoin as the transfer medium.

Iris.to has become near useless. Scrolling through the feed causes it to jump unpredictably. Add to that, it has now started to try to run script from Google, according to NoScript.

Is there a good web Nostr client that works and is Google-free?

Actually it misses A LOT of notes...

Testing Coracle. Seems like it misses a few notes that are replies to people I don't follow. No idea why. Relay list seems identical.

Iris.to has become near useless. Scrolling through the feed causes it to jump unpredictably. Add to that, it has now started to try to run script from Google, according to NoScript.

Is there a good web Nostr client that works and is Google-free?

If there's anything I love, it's things that are made to last. I have a clock that's over 150 years old. Still ticking away and chiming the hours and half-hours. Runs a week on a winding. I have only cleaned and oiled the mechanism, and replaced a couple of strings that hold the weights that power it.

Let's hope that Bitcoin will still be ticking blocks in 150 years!

Listened to it today at work. Really interesting about how different social media shapes not just the discussion, but the people discussing, especially Reddit vs. Twitter. I was thinking about how the culture of quickly blocking/muting people who disagrees, or as you mentioned, just misunderstands, would also be a cause of polarization and slowing down the spread of positive Bitcoin information, and thereby its adoption. Now, granted, I don't know the full story or exactly how and in what order things happened, but if the person who criticized you for what he thought was seriously telling no- and shitcoiners to get out, just got muted, no explanation, he would think of you as even more toxic and probably be even more turned off from Bitcoin because of that.

As I said, I don't know if that's what happened, but I hear a lot of podcasters talking about blocking/muting people for disagreements smaller than that one.

I have never been on Twitter, so I could be missing something (primarily thinking if maybe the culture there is so toxic you "just can't" when it comes to such things, that you have to assume that everyone is a troll until proven otherwise. I've never been on the bird app.)

Anyway, I haven't seen much toxicity on Nostr yet, which could very well be due to its freedom from centralized algorithms. Or that I haven't been here for more than a couple of weeks. Let's hope for the former.

"So if you want to be successful, you should always improve yourself", however, does. "You should always improve yourself" is simply telling me what I should do (just implying that I'm not good enough).

Who is to judge what success is? Ideally the person themself, in my opinion.

Meaning every person has a hard line, conscious or not, between success and failure. And of course a continuum on each side of the line. And the line is not necessarily static over time either, but can move in either direction, depending on many factors, both internal and external. Whether the person is good enough to be, or get, above the line or not, is what defines whether improvement is needed or not. It's even (highly) conceivable that in some cases the reverse is true - reaching above the line requires to not waste time improving yourself, time that should have been used to work, or whatever else that the person needs to do to get/stay above the line.

Found another approx. 10,000 residual sats in a wallet on an old computer. Not much, but still fun to find. I was GPU mining, long ago.

You are contradicting yourself. "So if you want to be successful, you should always improve yourself", is exactly equal to "you are not good enough (to not be a failure)".

There is some miscommunication here of where time and improvement fits in the concept of "you", but I can't exactly put my finger on it or describe it. I suppose formal logic would've been the right tool for the job (I know digital logic, so I kind of half-see what's wrong, with help from that knowledge.)