Ursula K Le Guin - Left Hand of Darkness (different, but great, especially for reading aloud to someone else)

Great collection of short stories: Ted Chiang - Stories of Your Life and Others

Seconding Greg Egan. For the cypherpunk (like calle) I'd particularly recommend Permutation City. Diaspora is also a favourite. Agree on Schild's ladder also.

Is there a bundle without S9? Do you ship to Germany?

Genre?

Election. (comedy)

Momento. (thriller)

Building new channels

Building my new Lightning node (Under Tor with Umbrel this time) took *way* longer than I had hoped. Blockchain download was long, and hard-drive failures were oft. In the end I had to replace hard-drives two times and the entire mini-PC once coz it just wouldn't stop overheating.

But it is finally done, just at exactly the same time as the hard-drive of my old node failed.

I have managed to move the wallet data to the new node, with only a few weeks downtime, and other than apparently one of my peers is offline now I think that's worked.

In the two years or so of the old node running it helped with a total of about 3 transactions.

So the plan is still to shut this node down and build a new one unassimilated with the old IP addresses/IDs.

I'd like to be more useful to the network with the new node than one and a half transactions a year. I don't really care about making any sats profit from it, just wanna contribute to the liquidity flow and keep the channels balanced.

But I have no idea how to open channels which might do that, or about any search systems that could find them.

Anyone got any advice?

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not sure what exactly the one liner is but for me it is definitely about the social graph

nostr is kind 0+3

kind 1 is the first application

How ostriches became the official mascots/logos of nostr?

Just don't remember but might get asked the question soon...

When the Developers are actively for censorship you know that project is a dead end.