Ram

>What are your thoughts?
Looks like "they" are preparing to squat on the Bitcoin and claim it for their own purposes. (Bitcoin for me, but not for thee)
>Are you working out a new strategy?
Maybe, who knows. I think it's important to always make yourself less reliant on platforms and self-host as much of your infrastructure as possible.
>Supporting the tools that are still working?
Yes.
>Think everything will just 'blow over'?
No.

2024-05-06 03:44:58

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Oh yeah, he's the first one to beat Max in a straight fight since Baku 2023.

2024-05-05 22:15:04

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Finally, he's done it.

2024-05-05 22:13:26

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Maybe this is the sign that I should move my game library to GOG instead.

2024-05-05 09:54:51

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Again? What the heck. 🙄

2024-05-05 08:52:58

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Indeed. It's not a zero sum game, you can have eggs multiple baskets. If you find utility on both, then you should use both.

2024-05-02 08:13:18

Isn't this the same dude who published that smear piece on David Grusch?
#nevent1q…3v82

2024-04-26 02:52:18

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I think I've installed GUIX once out of curiousity, it wasn't a good experience.

2024-04-25 19:10:18

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Spending sure, but saving no.

2024-04-24 11:47:39

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It would be nice if mining equipment is more accessible and affordable to a regular person.

2024-04-23 13:43:16

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Thanks for trying it out. It also does that for me. That sucks, I hope they sort that out. I would gladly pay for a Fountain.fm premium if they're offering it via Lightning.
Bonus points if they did it via Nostr Wallet Connect similar to how Mutiny does its Mutiny+ subscription.

2024-04-23 10:24:35

Does Fountain.fm accept Bitcoin for its premium service? It would be a bit of a shame if they don't.

2024-04-22 10:47:41

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Will it be possible to swap from Lightning to Fedimint in the future?
At the moment, the only way for me to swap my on-chain balance to Fedimint in Mutiny is to swap that to lightning then pay an external address then pay myself back using my lightning address.

2024-04-22 08:10:14

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Totally agree. Sucks that Sauber isn't getting a lot of air time this year but pace-wise he seems to be up there with Bottas.

2024-04-22 08:07:28

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This is my guess as well. If Stroll Jr. doesn't improve he's going to further drag AM's 2024 campaign to the ground. The lack of performance could be grounds to put Stroll Jr. on the WEC program that AM seems to be developing. But eh, who knows.
I mean, if he can at least match or be a tenth slower than Alonso they'd comfortably outscore Mercedes in points.
Maybe Stroll Sr. won't consider that since it's his son and all. But if he's a true racer, he'll at some point have to put his son on the rock grinder for dragging AM down.

2024-04-20 13:14:33

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Maybe I'm a bit cynical about Mercedes lately. It feels as if they're just going backwards this rules cycle.
I seriously hope they get it right in 2026. But their current form really doesn't inspire confidence. I'd be happy to be proven wrong though.

2024-04-20 13:01:28

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Sadly, Mercedes doesn't look like an attractive option right now. If they can't get a handle of the current regs, who's to say that they can handle 2026?
Admittedly, Audi is also an unknown quantity. But I'm firmly of the belief that the 2026 engine regs are the way they are precisely to entice Audi into F1 (a la Mercedes for the 2014 engine regs).

2024-04-20 12:53:57

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I did hear that line during the quali as well. Very interesting. If that's true and the ball is in Sainz' court then it becomes a question of whether (a) he's patient enough to see Audi develop into a championship winning team or (b) he's brave enough to fight Verstappen in his team and take a WDC right under his nose just before the regulations change.
I'd personally wager on the safer option. Bank in Audi and hope that they can quickly produce a championship winning car before he gets too old and decline in performance.

2024-04-20 04:33:42

Daggummit. What happened there man. Alonso and Sainz tripping over each other. At least there's still the quali later and GP tomorrow.
Tags: #f1 #formula1

2024-04-19 13:35:19

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Hah! It's the only part of the year that the F1 has been kind to me. I kind of like it that they've bunched up all the races on this side of the world. Though Singapore still seems to be out of place.

2024-04-19 13:30:50

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Very interesting sprint quali. I was lowkey hoping that Alonso nipped that SQ pole. In due time...

2024-04-18 07:52:13

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Interesting part of Linux history.

2024-04-17 08:38:17

#nevent1q…cdax
This doesn't necessarily affect me directly but whatever policies get enacted in the US, the rest of the world follows.

2024-04-13 15:15:49

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Hey, thanks for the invite!
I'll check it out and get my team in just before Chinese GP. 😁

2024-04-13 14:49:07

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It is what it is. Verstappen is a monster even before he has a championship winning machinery. I just hope that the other teams can give their drivers the same.
Truth be told, Verstappen isn't the only monster in the grid right now.

2024-04-13 14:38:28

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Let's hope. At least to make the coming seasons more competitive. I'm really glad that the Top 5, bar RB, teams are pretty much within 0.5s of each other.
The closeness of each car's capabilities gives the drivers more space to shine.

2024-04-13 14:32:49

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Mercedes will be a slight downgrade for Sainz considering the team's current form. Unless anything changes in the coming months, they look like a team that's sliding down the order.

2024-04-13 14:31:26

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This is a massive cope, but I really want to see Alonso/Sainz in Aston Martin. What a shame, that second seat in AM is permanently locked.

2024-04-13 01:52:06

I'm currently archiving a bunch of links that I've saved while browsing the web. I don't think a lot of people realize how fragile web links can be.
There's nothing more annoying than going through your bookmarks only to find out that 70-80% of them are 404s.
Are you archiving your links? How about Nostr notes? I'm curious if anyone in this vast cyberspace has experienced the same issues as I did.
Tags: #web #archiving

2024-04-11 07:02:48

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I like Monero as much as the next guy, but wouldn't delisting make it harder for people to get into it?
As it stands right now, I can only get Monero by getting Bitcoin for fiat and then converting that to Monero.
There's little to no market for Monero in where I live so it's practically impossible to get it even on P2P exchanges like Agoradesk.

2024-04-10 09:36:54

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I'd prefer having small blocks and run my own pruned and archival nodes instead of cheaper fees. The fee market will always adjust based on demand but the larger blocks can potentially make it harder for me to run my own node.

2024-04-10 01:02:16

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Totally agree.

2024-04-09 23:34:11

I'll just redeploy a local Nostr relay on my humble virtual server and call it a day for this.

2024-04-09 11:51:11

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I think it would benefit you if you read a little bit more about it. 🙂
https://urbit.org/overview

2024-04-09 11:09:32

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Net negative. I have a crippling YouTube addiction and I'm trying to cut down on consuming those along with any "social media"-like website.
This is probably one of the handful of times this year that I will check Nostr.

2024-04-09 11:05:31

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Really. I'm not really up to date with Bitcoin community news but I've listened to Saifedean Ammous' podcast where he talked with Saylor and my eyebrows raised when he suggested that "Bitcoin should stop trying to be a currency and that it should just be an asset to be held."
Of course, he's got his interests first before anything else. But man that made me think twice on listening to what he has to say.

2023-06-03 15:40:56

I've been dabbling on a lot of RHEL lately. Overall, it's quite nice to use. It's not exactly minimal and compact like OpenBSD but for stuff that needs to run Linux, it's pretty good.

2023-04-13 05:30:10

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I don't think there's a need lol. AM is in a good path. I'd rather see ALO fight hard for his 33rd win rather than be handed out to him because VER and/or PER crashed out.

2023-04-13 00:45:41

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I don't think it has to come to that. It looks like VER and ALO has a ton of respect for each other's racecraft. If the AM gets it right and produces a car with race winning pace I think we'll be treated to a weekend with great and hardline racing.

2023-04-11 10:34:35

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Thanks for looking it up. I wasn't able to find anything on my end either.

2023-04-11 06:03:14

Are there any online bookstores that sell both old and new books that also accept bitcoin?

2023-04-08 05:56:39

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Hot takes and drama will always attract eyeballs. That's how tabloids and clickbait sites have worked and will continue to work. What nostr promotes is an open protocol, not a cure for human nature.
If you don't want to see hot takes and drama, you can probably design either a relay or a client that can filter for notes with an "unusually high engagement" numbers.
The same goes with spam and scam bots. It's not the responsibility of the protocol to filter them. Doing that will open the floodgates to what made corporate social media the way it is.
Filtering should be done on an individual level (i.e: client and relay implementations.)
That difference alone makes nostr wildly different than corporate social media.

2023-04-06 23:05:03

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I've just looked over the Unraid's overview page and it looks promising. I'll see if I can deploy it in my home network.

2023-04-06 16:06:45

Also, it would be really neat to set up a server that can deploy VMs and host network services on the fly. I'm still not sure how to approach it but I think the simplest way is to use vmm(4) in OpenBSD and host either Alpine Linux or another OpenBSD inside it.
I kind of regret setting my file server up in Debian now. Oh well, I still have an old board lying around. I just need to get that thing in a case and I can try getting OpenBSD inside it. Hopefully, I will be able to write about it once I actually get myself around to getting a case for it.