Interesting video on the idea of a "library economy".

The author is a self declared anarcho-socialist, very different to me politically, but I think he makes some very valid points. Focusing on groups contributing a small part to a greater need in the community. I think the general idea is too utopian in that I don't think it's possible.

The part of the video that really resonated with me was the idea that information should be freely available. Throughout history we've had libraries that to differing degrees have been available to people to learn from. The internet should have been the ultimate library but tech monopolies have created an artifical scarcity for their own benefit.

The true vision of the internet and information was realised by people like Aaron Schwartz where information that is for the public good should be freely given and freely available.

The internet could (and can) be the first rung on the ladder for people to become self-sufficient.

#nostr absolutely plays into this. Decentralised, censorship-resistant ways of sharing information, not driven by profit (not that having payments is a bad thing though).

At the risk of sounding divisive I worry that knowledge-workers are part of the artifical scarcity machine on the internet.

Would be interested to hear what people's thoughts are.

#solarpunk #politics #internet #plebchain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOYa3YzVtyk

Yeah I’m keeping away from X at the moment

Stuff is kind of falling apart isn’t it?

Hackerman

If you get that convo let me know. Would be interested to hear how that would work

Having fun with npub.pro and creating a site to document our journey to self sufficiency. Any notes with # proofofharvest (deliberately broke the hashtag) get added there.

proofofharvest.npub.pro

I think the original use case was for physical communities. The fedimint is multi-sig and would have 3 keys that are held by 3 different respected people in the community. Would mean that rugging is far less likely to happen.

It allows a community to have their own circular economy while also allowing people to cash in or out.

I don’t really see the point of them for online communities aside from privacy.

Externally, all that gets seen I think is a lightning transaction IN to the fedimint and then the transaction back out is blind? Not 100% but the idea was that it was harder to analyse lightning transactions I think

*two swelled

It’s courgette day!

540g across two courgette plants. Not as many failed to pollinate this last week so slightly better.

Any idea why the one swelled at the base? I think it’s to do with pollination

#proofofharvest #gardening #homestead

No problem 😂

Amazing!

Glad you got it installed. If you need anything else always feel free to drop me a message

Gotcha, that makes sense. So you don't have a dedicated machine you could just put Umbrel on?

That makes sense. Thanks for the explanation. I assumed it would send and receive

Is there an advantage in running your own server? Isn’t there more risk having all your messages routed through it?

GM #nostr it’s another day and another #proofofharvest

Another 1.75kg, not the best tasting potatoes but they’re home grown and organic.

😂 why are you choosing Proxmox? What’s your goal besides getting Umbrel going?

I'm about to hit the hay but if you're still having issues in the morning maybe we can set up some kind of screenshare or chat to get it sorted 👍

So you have a VM created in Proxmox already yes?

The screengrab below is from a random YT video. When you click on your VM on the left you and then go to "Hardware" you should see a CD Drive. Double click that to attach the .iso you've downloaded from Umbrel. Restart the VM and then it should boot with the Umbrel ISO

Yeah can't believe they got rid of the web install!