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If I'm being totally honest, I've though about it, just to interact with more uh, "normies". This is something that @npub1njs…7fqx has talked about often. nostr is and will be my #1 but if I can spread the word to more peeps it might be valuable. I mean I'm heavily invested in the success of nostr, like a lot. But if I'm cross posting I can't give the attention to the platform I'm less interested (bsky) in so what's the point.

2024-11-14 16:51:40

I can't wait for a killer desktop client.
If you're wanting to get it done, you should use our C++ SDK called Aedile from @npub1s3h…75wz because it would make me happy. Even more fun, here's a nostr embed link to the project :)
#naddr1qv…hx7v

2024-11-14 06:23:04

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She gets fucking tossed

2024-11-13 18:49:22

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I'm just an internet goober, but doesn't that make us the majority?

2024-11-13 17:18:45

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I could do that too XD

2024-11-11 04:21:43

While reading some x64 assembly today, I took a moment to be grateful for a sequential and directly addressable text segment (granted it's shared object code) but I spent like 5 years de-compiling early 80s 8-bit MCU binaries with indirect addressing and multi text banks. btw the exact ISA was unknown because the CPU's were application specific, but did closely resemble early x86 before it was established I believe.
Reading
jmp 8fb3
Compared to
jmp %(r82) + $0x1f ; what address is in r82???
then having to re-read the segment register initialization procedure to get the addresses, then keep track in spreadsheet. BLAH it sucked XD I eventually built tools to help, but it was still an painful process

2024-11-11 02:22:52

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Specifically Google's flash tool? Because I've been on the hunt for years for support for US devices that I don't have to give money to Google for.

2024-11-11 02:02:53

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When you say Android smart phone, I think you mean to say Google Pixel.

2024-11-10 21:33:00

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Couldn't tell using nostrudel. Let me checkout another client XD

2024-11-10 21:22:47

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US elections lately have exposed them IMO

2024-11-10 21:22:11

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I think this is usually the case. However I'm consistently surprised by what lengths they will go to, to convince themselves of logical fallacies. They definitely exist, but pretty easily avoided usually.

2024-11-10 21:16:06

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Yes it does, but specific to nip44 at the moment. And yes links to the secp256k1 library
https://git.vaughnnugent.com/cgit/vnuge/noscrypt.git/tree/include/noscrypt.h#n435
This is a higher-level api that handles the nip44 message structure and MAC
https://git.vaughnnugent.com/cgit/vnuge/noscrypt.git/tree/include/noscryptutil.h

2024-11-10 19:24:27

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*Laughs in 100mb+ binaries*

2024-11-08 00:37:30

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"volunteers"

2024-11-05 14:32:16

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Please do! I want to have support for many languages in the future
The issues is that on my most *nix platforms the `memset(ptr, size);` call gets optimized away because there is no read after write. So it's considered insecure. Along with that both the cl.exe and cc compilers treat volatile argument pointers differently and they even disagree heavily about when to use volatile pointers either as arguments or even in the procedure body. Really the only right way is to look at the assembly after you compile your project to see if there are instructions to wipe the buffer correctly.

2024-11-04 23:02:49

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Thank's for the info I'm going to consider it. I don't have any strain now but I'm interested in optimisation lol

2024-11-04 18:25:32

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Yes I remember your keyboard posts, I haven't actually tried using anything other than a "qwerty" setup. How long did it take you to switch? I'm currently on brown keys, i used to be on red which is very light. This dell has very, very heavy keys. I do really like the reds but most of the leds are burn out and it bothers me so I use a cheaper mech with the brows now.

2024-11-04 18:10:08

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Wow, yeah I don't think i've really ever had a keyboard failure, maybe a junky membrane I got in parts boxes

2024-11-04 15:14:18

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How often do people usually purchase keyboards??? I didn't know this was a thing.
I usually have more issues with USB2 devices in USB3 ports than anything. I have to purchase motherboards with at least two USB2 ports.

2024-11-03 15:35:04

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This is killing me. I think I remember, either a kid on a project I worked with once was telling me about it, or I watched an EEV blog and he mentioned it like off hand. It was a high level USB analyzer with a BNC connection and a low level port so you could connect a logic analyzer and/or a scope and it would tell you the high level USB status.
I know I'm never going to find it, but I was very reasonably priced IIRC

2024-11-03 15:21:04

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It doesn't help you tell people you aren't a programmer XD

2024-11-01 15:52:28

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That was exactly what I was going to suggest. However it still sounds like a solution in search of a problem. Can you describe your use-case better maybe?

2024-11-01 15:48:00

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What he said.

2024-10-31 18:07:15

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I started mining in mid 2013 without really any knowledge. Some cheapo ebay asics, bfgminer, Slush pool and an old pentium laptop. Difficulty spiked and we sold of the gear and sold out. I came to nostr last year, poring over the spec and starting work on my software. I still don't _really_ understand bitcoin the way I understand nostr, although I've been holding bitcoin for a while now. I only started running a real node very recently.
I don't know that we do have a higher barrier to entry in nostr, definitly not for development. The only reason bitcoin might be "easier" is bit exchanges exist.
I really want people to come here without any knowledge of bitcoin.

2024-10-31 13:21:38

You don't have to use Google search, it's okay, I promise! There are other working alternatives.

2024-10-30 19:32:03

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Resend is fantastic! dead simple. Good deliver-ability, only a few minutes to configure DNS. So happy I added it to my framework :)

2024-10-29 21:21:15

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Yeah that was kind of a big deal.

2024-10-29 19:57:49

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lmfao yeah I was also describing myself XD

2024-10-29 19:30:56

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Yeah ask any business owner how much work it is handling taxes, AND how much money the company pays in taxes. Who wouldn't leave any high tax country. What am getting in return as a corporation paying loads in taxes?

2024-10-29 16:11:50

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Then it will just be California where you aren't allowed to register old vehicles anymore.

2024-10-29 05:29:27

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Yeah but where is the line. When a majority of your paycheck is handed over to governments. Getting taxed to live is worse than getting taxed to make money imo, which is already retarded. I wonder if anyone would pay their income taxes in the US if the government didn't force withholding.

2024-10-29 02:05:48

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Off topic, but I'm saving your meetup club for next time I'm down that way.

2024-10-28 22:04:06

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Who does? Like suggesting "hey quality is low because were all just a bunch of sissy devs" responses?
Or "Yeah you'll have that on these big jobs" XD
So new users just assume that's the way it "should be " or are we talking about something else?

2024-10-28 16:03:52

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If we can't agree on when life begins this debate will never be settled. No point arguing. I believe this is the root.

2024-10-28 15:35:07

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Same. I think node is still pretty loose, considering we run nodes for more than just "storing or updating" a blockchain.

2024-10-27 18:54:27

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Oh a 6 leaker sale on nostr :) Love to see it.

2024-10-27 00:36:45

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Thank you, but I don't do custodial anything if I can help it. I provision all my own metal :)

2024-10-27 00:31:53

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Thank you, but node is up, channels are a pain, and lightning is kind of silly imo so exploring other options too :/ I have an on-chain donation address for those that are highly interested :)

2024-10-26 22:17:30

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Don't worry there are still lots of us out there!
https://www.vaughnnugent.com/resources/software/modules/noscrypt

2024-10-26 20:03:37

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2024-10-26 20:01:41

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Seems like a lot of effort for someone's dinner.

2024-10-25 18:44:21

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*Half duplex mode for a given duration or signal. Essentially master/slave

2024-10-25 17:21:52

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100%

2024-10-25 17:05:49

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Thanks for being honest, but holy shit.

2024-10-25 15:44:31

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I've enjoyed the entire episodes so far! I hope I can hear one of your talks live one of these days.

2024-10-25 15:42:47

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Exactly. The other important part to me is citing your sources and he mentions the bitstream podcast which I plan to checkout sometime later today

2024-10-25 15:20:59

I didn't know a podcast was made just for me. It's called @npub1f49…zpez
Just finished up episode 4. I rarely listen to podcasts anymore because it's mostly noise to me. I want to learn something, especially technical, I want to feel inspired not despair.
You may have convinced me to get some tape gear. I never really got into cassettes because I dislike the sound quality and noise and tape deterioration. I have a friend that enjoys the novelty of it but I never understood it, but You've presented some good cipherpunk arguments I cannot deny.
Finally there's something about understanding the lowest levels of signals and computing that make computers seem so dumb once you understand it, it's why I enjoyed learning systems programming although I don't do it much anymore.

2024-10-25 15:03:51

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I need a spec first

2024-10-24 17:52:43

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I appreciate it! I had an offer a couple days ago as well for smaller channels so I'm taking offers for sure!

2024-10-24 16:11:35

Where do you get your event/conference happenings? Hacker cons, general technology stuff, meetups, etc. I see you all going to fun things (or getting invited I guess?)
I simply don't know how to find stuff like that. I hear about really big ones but I'm sure there have to be smaller, more local ones I don't know where to look to find them. RSS feeds or email would be ideal. I'm not on other social media and none of my friends care about tech.
Meetup.com blows, doesn't seem like many are using it.
My local convention centers don't have anything techy :/

2024-10-24 13:48:09

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I don't need demo code. I need a white paper and auditing.

2024-10-24 05:00:54

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Say less

2024-10-24 04:10:37

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So recommend?

2024-10-24 02:05:09

I'd bet "-Wall -Werror" stop most nostr apps from building.

2024-10-24 01:20:14

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Doing hardware things?

2024-10-24 00:44:38

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WAAAAAAA????

2024-10-23 23:44:28

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I'm having to add support in noscrypt as backward compat lol
https://www.vaughnnugent.com/Resources/Software/Modules/noscrypt-issues?id=42

2024-10-23 19:52:43

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Damn that's harder than it initially looked
I got, onions, taters, yogurt? beef broth? and I think that's it

2024-10-23 19:34:36

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My PGP is far more available to the general public (internet) when looking for it than my npub

2024-10-23 19:27:40

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It's just the self control portion, don't even need to remove the smartphone, but it helps. Technically mine's still android but it's so stripped down it's basically a dumb phone with poorly working gps and Signal.

2024-10-23 17:16:20

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Yeah I'd like to get there too! Also I'm glad to be one of your 108 follows :)
I should probably go for some pruning, I know I'm missing a lot of dev discussion I should be part of.

2024-10-23 17:05:38

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Completely understand, good luck and I'm sure you'll be fine for now! It's a shame these things have to be such a trap for newbies. Just reach out if you get stuck with anything!

2024-10-23 15:22:24

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All homes in the US
Most of cars on the road
Most mobile smartphones in pockets
Probably most furniture and televisions
Almost all home remodeling
Most people don't own shit, not even their own money. They're not incentivized to,
- 0% initial financing on some vehicles
- discounts for financing smartphones
- easier to pay many big contractors with financing options than figure out where you pull out 30k+ from like retirement or other funds etc.
there's very little reason NOT to borrow money in the current financial situation.

2024-10-23 14:27:10

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For sure! Sorry I've been spelling it wrong it's ICANN XD
This is where you want to check the status. I should say, I think this is only for U.S. domains, idk what happens if you registered outside the U.S. :/
https://lookup.icann.org/en/lookup

2024-10-22 23:25:28

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I'll have to dig it up, but I found an app at some point that let you create widgets from web pages. I have to find that again, because there's a lot you can do with that!

2024-10-22 20:56:17

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I'm speaking to the current situation. Were moving toward a better solution, but out of the box I find it hard to imagine nostr currently, and even in the near future is a more secure solution to PRIVATE messaging than SimpleX and I read the white paper a while ago and don't remember most of it XD

2024-10-22 20:45:24

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> That is why NOSTR is great, has hundreds of volunteer relays that make difficult to track incoming messages and dozens of different clients to retrieve them that are E2EE without cryptographic doubt.
Most public relays sync notes so private messages are extremely easy to track. You could just connect to one of the larger relays and listen for all notes by and npub hoovering all private dms. That's a massive hit to privacy. Gift wrapping helps, but does not guarantee this information won't get leaked when a single npub keeps requesting certain notes. On top of that if a client is using nip46 and possibly connected via relays, that same hoover can see when you attempted to decrypt a given note. Cloudflare proxying is also used for a majority of big relays. Most users will be connecting via clearnet and standard TLS connections leaking traffic and IP addresses.
We are still working on better ways of improving forward secrecy because I believe there is still a possibility of ciphertext attacks with as much data that is available for a given user.
Speaking as the author of the C reference for nip04 and 44 encryption.

2024-10-22 20:25:12

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Yes. If you've been following me and my LN node adventures at all this seems to be the case

2024-10-22 20:10:49

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yeah to be clear, should be 100% public, just out of normie feeds XD

2024-10-22 17:04:43

When you write out a long note and forgot to aggressively ctrl+a ctrl+c and your client reloads for no reason.

2024-10-22 15:32:36

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Oh yeah baby is that a 710 at the bottom? I still have one of those collecting dust as a cold fallback. I just got rid of all my r910 space heaters
Also just setup nodes myself if your in need of some assitance.
I chose the Bitcoin Core, CLN, RTL stack. I went with a container setup I can share my compose file if you are interested!

2024-10-22 15:19:06

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Some of that is true I believe, but I think that's often how we grow and build new things even if we don't agree on everything. Trust me there is plenty I don't agree about, but I'm still here and still building. I think it's a bit of a misnomer that we all have to get along for success to occur. Bitcoin protocol is still highly successful despite it being mostly anarchistic, and we have a much larger scope.
>in the worst of cases, completely closed off to user feedback.
That is a universal software development problem unfortunately, very often (outside of nostr) these people can even be heavily funded or even building highly successful tools we use today. If you look at my notes, I regularly harp on inability to accept user feedback and criticism. To be fair some of the largest development firms (Apple, Microsoft etc) they aren't really open to feedback. Some individual products have corralled feedback mechanisms but it's highly confined to their vision. Point is, it's often too difficult to send feedback so most users don't. Not saying it's morally right or wrong, but this issue is prolific and generally accepted, only in open source are developers highly exposed to their customers directly. Most developers (including product staff, making design decisions), are paid ones, working in corporate settings shielded completely from their users, on purpose. It's just a different world and we have to learn how to work in it.

2024-10-22 05:00:47

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https://taskfile.dev/usage/#watch-tasks

2024-10-21 23:25:56

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So nothings changed really XD

2024-10-21 23:24:41

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> Because nostr doesn't give them enough stimulation high they need from other algo platforms that can be more predictable.
I still stand firm on this however. The term addiction disregards there are social positive interactions that result in more stimulation. Yeah I think twitter probably has plenty of positive real world social capacity and germination. I don't mean to assume it's all unhealthy. I was a Facebook communities person, I made almost exclusively real-world connections personally and professionally.
I'm arguing over the lack of commitment because of convenience, the urge to fall back to old habits when things "calm down".
The people you mention are also likely not the people I'm targeting. Because the same could be said for why I'm here anyway.

2024-10-21 20:56:18

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But you are so good a review most of nostr asks for you by name XD

2024-10-21 18:11:00

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I gotta see if there is a budget friendly way to get there and stay :/ Probably not since the last time I checked

2024-10-21 16:11:19

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I've been running into this problem way more recently it feels new. Every GC powered application uses a greedy allocator so virtual memory only increases and is rarely returned to the OS. That was literally why virtual memory (and swap) was invented. It's dumb as shit.
> i dunno how to even audit a Go program for its allocations... or which code is creating them, a new rabbithole to fall into and further upgrade my Go programming chops
Dunno about GO but dotnet's profiler has an allocation tracker. However, it drastically affects performance to the point where allocation issues can be hidden because most of the CPU time is spent in the profiler, it's too slow to catch any massive leaks.

2024-10-21 01:58:30

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I'm always on the lookout for enterprise solutions to simple problems XD
Yeah thanks again!

2024-10-21 00:05:03

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If most podcasts had .001% the quality of bitpunk.fm I'd listen to way more XD

2024-10-20 18:35:31

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For lighting it's not load balancing, just traffic forwarding from my public IPS. But I assume larger nodes have to be doing something more than a single instance :)

2024-10-20 16:27:55

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Yeah i've been looking at these sites, any listed with a low minimum channel size has pretty crappy connections if any at all.

2024-10-20 16:26:59

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Good to know! That kind of what I was thinking. So I don't have any custodial wallets, because I haven't found any that I can just jump into from a web browser without KYC. It's either mobile, or kyc, both, or broken, so figured my own node was the way.

2024-10-19 17:11:00

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If that's the case then sure, maybe make it clear the size of your company if it's that tiny.
When we were that small (just 1-2 people) of course you have to handle it individually, but you still attempt a support funnel so you can scale the support side of the business. Even when we were over 10 staff, and handled support ourselves we did so as the company and reached out as the company. Unified support image. You don't want to drive support issues to your handle. Because you're the same guy, if you're lazy on the offical support channel, people will funnel their requests to your personal channel. You have the incentive to funnel people away from your personal channel.

2024-10-19 16:01:54

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Sorry, but I don't find the owner stepping in on a support issue to be impressive. Very few founders have the time (and should be expected to) to actually handle individual support issues. It's a false promise that often makes realized customer support worse while achieving the "image" of good customer service. Individuals don't expect the leaders to be stepping into support issues. They expect leaders to be leading because their time is highly valuable. Not saying it doesn't have it's moments, but most of the time just have better support, and or spend your time listening/interacting, then taking that to your support team. Don't forget the support staff IS PAID TO SUPPORT CUSTOMERS and handle individual issues, just make it happen.
If you don't have a good support staff, get one, period. Everyone has bad support, it doesn't take much to be better than the competition. That is an example of reasonable people that still believe in the product for now, and need attention for retention. Don't lose them.
Yes I have a background in managing support and product.

2024-10-19 02:23:34

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See also https://www.vaughnnugent.com/Resources/Software/Modules/noscrypt-issues

2024-10-19 02:22:46

Coming soon to noscrypt #dev
- Fully automated integration testing for Windows and Linux X64 machines
- Fully automated nip44 vector testing
- A full featured C# wrapper library
In the future
- nip04 backward compatibility
- more test coverage
- debian package
https://git.vaughnnugent.com/cgit/vnuge/noscrypt/.git/commit/?h=c-sharp&id=44044eb0fb28b774773e3284fd147c91d59d64e3

2024-10-19 00:38:57

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Well I've never conferenced so I see!

2024-10-18 21:09:05

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So are you we need people to jump ship not integrate? (My opinion btw)

2024-10-18 20:19:34

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Yeah I just don't see this working. If the system is so complex we need a small handful of really smart people to paper over the complexities, the masses will become dependent. I'm not expecting perfect decentralization, but it's just that it's far more convenient and decentralized to send on-chain if I don't want to use a smartphone and someone else's nodes.

2024-10-18 20:16:03

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Probably more receive than send for software donations, although I'd like to be able to make some reasonable purchases here and there. I suppose I can do that when I can afford larger channels.

2024-10-18 16:53:22

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So I'm needed some kind of boostraping then? I was looking into looping because I can send on-chain funds for channel open. Also no KYC or smart phone for me.

2024-10-18 15:34:39

libnoscrypt is getting automated unit testing :)
https://git.vaughnnugent.com/cgit/vnuge/noscrypt/.git/commit/?h=develop&id=dc47d096400e7a4d95dd9516c72876c8ad016dcb

2024-10-18 15:08:04

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So it looks like I need to purchase credits or existing LN funds to open? I currently have no channels so I can't send any LN at the moment. It looks like they're facilitating liquidity advertisements?

2024-10-18 02:37:46

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ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

2024-10-17 16:11:26

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> https://stacker.news/items/379225
Thanks for that
ugh, I feel like those who are riding the copium of LN should provide such a disclaimer, blogs videos and more. I don't know anyone irl with enough liquid they'd want tied up in channels unless more irl purchases used LN. LN only scales with some form of custodial at my current understanding, I can't see another way around it. I also don't think I'd encourage having that much in UTXOs available in a hot wallet, that's my issue. My limit for hot wallet is like 600-700k stats total.
Maybe I'm just paranoid, idk

2024-10-17 05:29:35

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I feel like whatever they're doing I should be able to do too, unless they're doing some sort of magic based on external services, which I believe it does with the chain-state already.

2024-10-16 22:56:05

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To be clear I have a strong sysadmin background, so that's not the issue for me, it's the lightning specific technical stuff, and apparently the financial side that no one has been clear about.
I just need a wallet to send and receive funds, other stuff is just for fun to support the network.
I don't use a smart phone, I haven't found a working desktop wallet, and absolutely no KYC. So my options are severely limited. I also want to keep the scope of my footprint small and understandable, which is why I have been avoiding other alternatives that nostr supports.

2024-10-16 22:29:56

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I appreciate it. I'm using core-lightning at the moment and the cli tool