you should’ve gotten the 60€ 5950X servers from server auction while they were cheap

2x 3.84 TB DC NVMe, 128GB ECC DDR4 too

nice to see more people using Hetzner

if this was an NVMe, you could do secure erase with the nvme command, which maps everything to empty on the firmware + deletes the encryption key of the existing data

(most NVMes are self encrypting already)

spain and portugal have large scale power outage, unknown reasons

BREAKING: Slovenia‘s capital Ljubljana is crowned as the worlds most #Bitcoin friendly city by advisor firm Multipolitan. 🇸🇮

I did not notice it, but now I've read it. I think they are wrong.

They claim that when paying a bolt11 invoice, Acinq "learns the amount and destination of BOLT 11 payments" because they are the ones who calculate the route. But I think they are overestimating what they learn -- bolt11 has built in privacy protections that I don't think they are considering, including these:

- a bolt11 does not tell you the recipient's ip address unless they are a routing node -- it just tells you a random pubkey that is only used for communication and never holds any money

- a bolt11 does not tell you what bitcoin address the money ends up in (i.e. the 2 of 2 channel whose state gets updated. It also doesn't tell you the address of the off-chain htlc that temporarily holds the money until the payment resolves)

- the pubkey listed in a bolt11 might not even belong to the "real" recipient -- invoice wrapping is a thing supported by several services now including voltage, lnproxy, and robosats, and Phoenix cannot know if an invoice is wrapped or not

- the pubkey listed in a bolt11 might simply belong to another routing node and Phoenix would have no clue -- they are just "assuming" the pubkey belongs to the recipient (and thus that they know the destination) but it might belong to a routing node and screw up their assumptions

- so Phoenix might *think* they learn info about the destination from a bolt11, but I don't think they really do

- and btw, that tells them nothing about the sender -- the person who *seems* like the sender might be a routing node too and Phoenix would have no idea

They also claim: "ACINQ doesn't know the origin node [when you receive a payment[. It knows the destination Phoenix node and the amount."

I think they are wrong again. They might *think* they know the destination because they assume they are forwarding it to you and it stops there. But *you* might be a routing node forwarding it to someone else and they would have no idea about this.

> In the case of Phoenix->Phoenix payments, ACINQ will always know the origin and destination node, and the amount, even with BOLT 12

I think they are wrong again. A phoenix->phoenix payment inherits the same uncertainties as every other payment: they don't know if the person who *seems* like the sender is the *real* sender or just another routing node; they don't know if the person who *seems* like the recipient is the *real* recipient or just another routing node; they *think* they learn all this info but I don't think they are considering the privacy protections built into bolt11 and as well as optionally available through invoice wrapping services (some of which are automatic)

Bolt11 is more private than you might realize! I certainly think it's more private than Phoenix realizes.

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In an anarchocapitalist society, entire downtown corridors would not be shut down from marathons. Debate.

Yes, but some data has to be maintained for legal reasons, so that also doesn't get deleted.

Need an archiving and deletion scheme, for all of this, but there's no requirement to mess up your database relationships by removing table keys or something.

NEARLY HALF OF GEN Z AND MILLENNIALS SAY COLLEGE WAS A WASTE OF MONEY—AI HAS ALREADY MADE DEGREES OBSOLETE (Fortune)

College graduates are calling their degrees worthless. According to new data from Indeed, piling student loans and fears of AI reshaping the workplace are to blame. While experts say higher education is still important, Gen Z should constantly prioritize “upgrading their toolkit” to be successful.

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OK, this is probably just me lazy to get dressed properly and want to walk around in joggers, but I remember back in the cr4pt0 conference days, people used to say that the poor-but-wannabe-rich were those in the most expensive suits and the real deals were in T-shirts.

(I don't own a suit, nor a shirt).

So I had to make this. I'm the guy on the right BTW if you did not know. 😅