Ryan
Ryan Wilkins

Tech nerd, airplane and drone pilot, dad, Amateur Radio operator, Bitcoin believer

Public Key

npub1ejt4286v3q7f6tcz0k2lwm44q3ygvk6lza9dp3rrdrad03arercsfqyu4g

NIP-05 Address

ryan@deadfrog.net

NIP-57 Address

deadfrog@getalby.com

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npub1ejt4286v3q7f6tcz0k2lwm44q3ygvk6lza9dp3rrdrad03arercsfqyu4g

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2024-11-22 19:51:52

I’m not overly worried about AI taking my job. https://image.nostr.build/384343b075752f71fb21cb904bb742243f49743d8010bd413b3c4dff0be10c2c.jpg

2024-11-19 02:56:27

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If I dressed like that, my lady would laugh at me while being oddly intrigued at the same time.

2024-11-15 13:35:11

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Thank you for sharing. I always find personal stories to be interesting to read.

2024-11-08 20:51:47

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I know all the hype right now is that AI is going to take our jobs, but I’m skeptical and unimpressed.

2024-11-08 20:46:05

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Hey! Don’t knock it. If the price keeps going up those sats will be worth something some day

2024-11-05 19:06:53

What else is there to say about #coffee? https://image.nostr.build/a8cf98163d8993efadd26354f612e5c07f04b128fa52b9aee3233c4471161ebc.jpg

2024-10-26 19:53:49

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Got it. That’s a powerful education campaign anyway. My wife would probably hang me if I did that to our house.

2024-10-26 19:50:31

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That’s really cool, but you’re missing a critical piece. Provide the solution. https://image.nostr.build/48ef8bb58734c692ae4f92a6546c8fc6a05e163fab1c5f2c69bf5f6a2d7aadbc.jpg

2024-10-26 17:11:34

Enjoying a bit of fall walking with my wife. It’s a great day out, and it lets me get away from other life problems that have me down today for a little while. https://image.nostr.build/8ac8b1f52972d92a95906ecdc48a82c04db9a5b60574d1696b0e289a24d44051.jpg https://image.nostr.build/8c3a71626af357184cb4103f70e4dfb44664fdaa41f60b2e8831b40e8da7ad20.jpg

2024-10-24 19:55:04

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Nice coconuts

2024-10-24 19:53:36

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Ok bro

2024-10-13 19:06:38

Interesting take. I don’t disagree. #note15ez…dq25

2024-10-13 00:13:00

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That’s a tough spot to be in. Make a raw block by block backup of the entire drive before you start mucking with it. You can easily make things worse without knowing it. If you somehow figure out a way 6 months from now to get things back but today you did something that screws that, that’ll be even tougher to swallow.

2024-10-12 21:35:12

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No thanks. I’ll pass.

2024-10-12 21:05:32

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This might not be pollution reasons but I encountered a problem with ZFS about six months ago where copying files and running a du command to find the number of blocks that the files use on disk would return the wrong value (low by a lot) if I ran it within a couple seconds of copying the files. Ext4 doesn’t exhibit this issue. This was causing issues with GitLab CI on a particular project that was using the blocks used on disk as a metric for creating a file system large enough to include the copied files. It took a while to figure that out and the eventual workaround was to make the CI runners run on ext4 on top of ZFS. I guess we could have modified the project code being compiled in CI to wait 5 or 10 seconds before getting the block count, but my thought was I shouldn’t have to modify the Makefile to workaround this issue.

2024-10-12 16:05:06

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I think your attitude is the correct one to have.

2024-10-12 14:47:05

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Amen to that

2024-10-12 14:32:11

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This sounds like the CCP playbook

2024-10-12 01:53:30

What an amazing shot! #note1dtx…3slv

2024-10-12 00:43:38

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I get it anytime someone DMs me. If you scroll through the entire list, someone probably sent you a DM.

2024-10-08 01:00:36

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I’ll take the JP-4 or bloody shark scents.

2024-10-02 20:05:33

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You don’t see it, do you? :D

2024-10-02 03:01:07

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I see a fish head with its mouth open at the top just left of center.

2024-10-01 17:20:51

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Ranch is OK, but I can assure you I don’t consume 9 gallons of it in a year. Interesting stat though.

2024-10-01 01:22:59

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We all should buy more bitcoin.

2024-10-01 01:15:04

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He’s following in the footsteps of other large sales recently which seems to imply that they believe a large stock market correction is coming fairly soon. Perhaps this October surprise that Hilary Clinton talked about is going to cause a large drop in the markets in general.
Or maybe I’m just paranoid. I mean, yes, I’m paranoid, but I can also turn that off when I need to. I guess just be on the lookout and have funds lined up to take advantage of the crash.

2024-09-27 20:43:51

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Or ending point. Mentioning #Bitcoin turns some people off because they think you’re a loon. Ha! The joke’s on them. Kind of like the girls who wanted nothing to do with the nerdy kids in school and wanted to be with the popular kids instead. Half the popular kids had their peak life in high-school and are selling cell phones in mall kiosks these days.

2024-09-25 13:33:46

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It’s funny how loopholes exist for those with outsized amounts of wealth but not so much for those of us just trying to make a better life for ourselves.

2024-09-25 13:32:49

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This is a concern of mine that Uncle Sam will want more of my money if I go Bitcoin internally. Was hoping someone would say there was some loophole to allow me to do it without paying taxes on that which I’ve already paid taxes.

2024-09-25 13:28:18

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I like your implementation. I might be able to get my wife on-board with this. Thanks for sharing.

2024-09-24 18:48:39

I’m intrigued by the idea of switching to a #Bitcoin standard, at least in part. I say “in part” because my wife is unlikely to let me switch all our finances over to operating internally in Bitcoin so I’m going to have to do this with my toy money account. She’s coming around to the orange way of doing things, but it’s going to take some time.
Has anyone else done this and what has been your experience with it?
What have you learned from it?
Would you do something different if you had to do it again?
@npub1h8n…rpev if you haven’t done a podcast on this idea yet, it might be interesting to do one.

2024-09-24 18:39:45

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Superglue. I’m mostly kidding, but a small part of me is not.

2024-09-22 23:07:16

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What we need is a standard way to import these that the clients can easily deal with. I went through an earlier list of yours and added the relays and the experience took longer than it should have. Maybe I should write a NIP for that if one doesn’t exist already.

2024-09-21 12:41:55

Amen.
This world we live in.. I didn’t sign up for it. It was forced upon me. Some days it just becomes too much. I have taken my fair share of incoming arrows. Some of those arrows were, and continue to be, unjust. Some of those arrows were of my own causing. I am not perfect.
I don’t want a perfect world. I want a world where I’m not reliant upon the desires of others to control and extort me and where I’m respected enough to be left alone to do my thing so long as it doesn’t harm others unjustly.
The desire to effect this declaration already exists in many of us. No sane person likes to be controlled or have impositions forced upon him or her. At the end of the day, we the people give others the power to do things against us. We sit in relatively quiet outrage, not wanting to rock the boat, not wanting others to perceive us as crazy, and not doing anything about it. Though, in a sense, participating in #Nostr and #Bitcoin is doing something about it. It’s setting a direction toward what we believe is a better and more just society for us to live. For this I am encouraged that the options are available to each of us to participate or not as we see fit in a way that has not been available to us before.
Decentralization may seem like chaos to some, but that’s because they don’t yet understand what it is and means. They don’t understand that these systems are about taking back control from the privileged few. The proof is in the pudding. Our systems seem to be working. Each of us are free to participate or not in these decentralized systems. We know the rules ahead of time and we know that change is truly of consensus, rather than this fake show the ruling class foists upon us without consideration of our input or desires. #note10qp…xy4d

2024-09-21 02:35:59

GN, #Nostr. I’m pretty tired after working and being at our #homeschool co-op today with cross-country practice after.
I did come home to this, though. #Plants are amazing. https://image.nostr.build/b8b60ff5ff149aa4653e5de2d80d7d198c9a657ef883c371504813d50d4427f9.jpg

2024-09-19 22:54:04

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Dang it, you know me too well.

2024-09-19 22:53:28

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Food. Am I wrong?

2024-09-17 23:46:41

I tried doing some long exposure photography at night on my iPhone 14 Pro a couple nights ago. The exposure was much longer than this image indicates so I guess the iPhone had other ideas. I wasn’t even going to post it. I didn’t expect the stars to show up as much as they have here. #photography https://image.nostr.build/0fbdc900bc31d4c6c495b0c56bc253b8ccaf6a6ccbf0135826102cfdbeda0130.jpg

2024-09-16 15:50:55

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That one right over there.

2024-09-16 15:26:27

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Ok so I mentioned this to my wife and kids, we #homeschool, so the next thing I know there’s a competition going on to see who can do the most pushups. I did 11 so I guess I need to work on that a bit. My 8-year-old daughter nearly beat me but she managed to do 10. I guess I’ll have another go for another 10 or so in an hour. You did say 100 a day.. not all at one go. What do you do?

2024-09-15 14:24:13

My morning harvest. Our modern food production system just doesn’t hold a candle to the taste, nutrition, satisfaction of growing your own fruits and vegetables. #gardening #homesteading
https://m.primal.net/Kqoc.jpg

2024-09-08 01:22:38

Hamming it up by the camp fire which is almost out and I’ve no more wood. #hamradio #amateurradio https://image.nostr.build/cf7ba97135180c82966b0da2c113215caca3b61950208aee02b3f37a9439a9b9.jpg

2024-09-07 19:16:59

I’m not this talented. #photography https://image.nostr.build/bcc79c3a9c232273b6db5b8d502376d32de84f4520efe36681ad3c9827f4d9b5.jpg

2024-09-06 01:21:47

Marathon Digital’s Fred Thiel explains how #Bitcoin can be used to offset the $35T US national debt and how nation states will be competing over #BTC power projection as a sovereign reserve asset❗️
Not owning Bitcoin is a threat to National Security. Softwar thesis in play!
This came from Crypto Trading Reports on Telegram. https://video.nostr.build/23d5855f7372856450d286319e4804b3403837540e60e703d664d8e7b1c0e60e.mp4

2024-09-05 20:12:23

He seems very intrigued by the idea of #Bitcoin. https://image.nostr.build/4f3c9d9d2cbddb435118f26ee527a1e09b0fa2218dd86ecf4553f11df3001032.jpg

2024-09-05 16:06:50

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I was working that way.. But I caved and got the tires replaced last week. https://image.nostr.build/563ce3e7c0041944747456047a9e8d12ebbc70943c5d650a8ec0b1faef946bdf.jpg

2024-09-03 18:09:54

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That’s funny. :-)

2024-09-03 18:08:49

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It really is.

2024-09-03 18:05:20

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Good luck prying my #Bitcoin out of my cold, dead hands.

2024-09-03 17:45:33

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I wonder if someone has come up with a #Bitcoin node running over HF yet.

2024-09-03 17:40:14

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For the hospital turn right, for McDonald’s turn left.

2024-09-03 17:36:15

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Sounds like a shill for the big players who basically just want to buy all the #bitcoin for themselves.
When I saw Blackrock, Fidelity and others get involved in #Bitcoin, I would have run from the asset, except that I know it can’t be manipulated like any fiat can. Does it matter if the CIA or Putin or whomever designed it? We have the proof in the protocol that it’s the hardest money out there. Try as they might, if I don’t want to give up my Bitcoin, they can’t get it from me.
Keep stacking sats, people.

2024-09-03 02:57:58

GN #nostr. Sweet dreams of stacking sats. #bitcoin

2024-09-01 22:02:35

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Probably true

2024-09-01 21:07:16

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Thank you for sharing. I have seen many of your picture posts and appreciate looking at the varied pictures you’ve posted.

2024-09-01 20:22:10

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Many things in life help to prepare us for the things yet to come. You’ve obviously had at least one past experience that caused you to write your post. I’ve taken a road similar to you in this regard. Getting emotional never goes away, but what you do with that feeling is what you need to focus on. This can be said for how you react to many situations in life. Can you recognize and arrest that “trigger happy psychopath” feeling?
It’s a battle you can win.

2024-09-01 20:14:02

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I like it. We should be working with what we have rather than against it.

2024-09-01 14:04:42

GM, #nostr. https://image.nostr.build/ec6556f0621b64a34b347ef78d63d036008a53b3dc4f90b2ca28fb9550c33ea1.jpg

2024-09-01 03:51:53

Good night, #nostr.
#photography https://image.nostr.build/f666ada4bd32403815ec590d3ca2d5f4ff850de8e7e96f2a0610ec39acb53a4d.jpg

2024-09-01 01:12:00

Good evening, #nostr.
#outdoor #fire #solostove https://image.nostr.build/e1a13017ea40d95a4af4216d7987ed80ed5fa36c6044643549bdf4bfd03ed166.jpg

2024-09-01 00:07:49

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Probably that’s what happened. Airplanes usually have multiple tanks and there’s a fuel select valve. He probably had it on one tank instead of “both” and just switched it over to the other wing tank. It happens. My training taught me to use “both” but there are sometimes good reasons to feed off of one.

2024-08-31 21:14:28

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It’s family. They’ll still love me even if they think I’m a psychopath.
Just today I was at a Cross Country race talking up Bitcoin to another dad there. We both missed the start and the end of the race. My wife might not have been too happy with me, but I’m pretty sure the other guy didn’t think I was a psychopath.

2024-08-31 11:36:44

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I’ve run into this. Just stay the course and ignore the fact that they all think you’re a bit off or misguided.
I’ve been told it’s a Ponzi scheme and that the government will just outlaw it. However, I did have a reasonable conversation about it a few nights ago. Baby steps.
Any time I find a situation, which is often, where Bitcoin solves the issue being discussed, I say “Bitcoin solves this.” Usually I get some rebuke to that, but then I try to briefly explain how it solves the issue.
Just stay the course. This is a mindset change that we’re working toward here, and it’s not going to be easy for some people.

2024-08-31 11:22:20

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Being a pilot, I can confirm that an engine out does get your attention.
Beautiful picture.

2024-08-31 02:53:00

GN #nostr https://image.nostr.build/4ac8189dc7c2827ea1fe692819003e7ef94e59db808b0f170848954783cbd764.jpg

2024-08-31 01:32:17

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Somehow, I’m both surprised and not surprised at the same time.

2024-08-31 00:12:27

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I am.

2024-08-30 23:57:33

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To add on to this, I’ve run a repeater before on 900 MHz using old Motorola paging gear. The thing put out 225 W forward but I had to dial that back to about 150 W because of desense issues with the receiver.
I approached my repeater coordinator and asked if they’d even coordinate it on a non-standard split (430.15/439.15). Surprisingly they answered saying they’ve never had a request for such a low powered repeater before. The end result was don’t use the 9 MHz split and stick with the standard 5 MHz split. My concern was that using a 5 MHz split with an inexpensive flat pack duplexer would have more insertion loss. Maybe it wouldn’t matter that much.
The big red flag that I’ve had so far is that the hotspots aren’t set up to handle power outages very well. Maybe I can modify the thing so it will survive power outages with minimal issue.

2024-08-30 23:45:24

Been thinking about setting up a low-cost #dmr repeater using a Raspberry Pi and WPSD. Also the power would be low… thinking 1-2 Watts forward. Also thinking making it so it’s powered over Power-over-Ethernet.
Anybody tried such a thing?
#hamradio

2024-08-30 23:33:00

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Great movie

2024-08-30 23:28:20

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Well that didn’t take long. :-)

2024-08-30 23:11:38

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Congrats!

2024-08-30 23:10:12

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That’s awesome! Congrats!
My first HF contact resulted in the oversensitive arc-fault breakers in my house tripping and cutting off the power to my radio mid contact. Oh well. It was still really cool!

2024-08-30 22:40:55

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Hopefully this will push more people toward #nostr

2024-08-30 22:37:53

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That is kind of disturbing.

2024-08-30 22:35:33

The more you learn about #bitcoin the more you realize this is the proper way forward. #note12tl…95wu

2024-08-30 22:34:32

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It might be unbelievable but it’s not going to stop many people IMO.

2024-08-30 22:32:32

I’m looking to get a better understanding of trading cryptos. I’ve been invested in various cryptos, including #bitcoin, for a long time, but I’ve just been a buy and hold kind of guy. Does anyone have good suggestions for content covering the ins and outs of crypto trading, analyzing charts, etc? #crypto #cryptocurrency

2024-08-30 22:24:21

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I somehow don’t really think this will stop people.

2024-08-30 03:57:21

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Looks good.

2023-11-04 23:22:14

I haven’t done the math so I don’t know if these claims are true. What do you think? #meme #memes #memestr https://image.nostr.build/2dd8e8791f36790658f3289040f967cf32930bec38c0dfd1fc63562a6eef1247.jpg

2023-10-24 20:36:50

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What ways are you thinking?

2023-10-12 20:44:44

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That’s kind of what I was thinking.

2023-10-08 04:09:49

I had ~130,000 #sats on a #lightning wallet through #bluewallet before they closed down their #lndhub node. I didn’t realize they were doing this until recently. The balance still shows in BlueWallet but I’m unable to do anything with it. Did I lose these sats?

2023-10-07 22:35:02

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I remember the days of being able to go to the airport just for the fun of it. Now you’re presumed to be a criminal if you don’t have a sanctioned reason to be there.
At Cleveland Hopkins International Airport (KCLE), they used to have an observation deck that people could go outside and watch the goings on while waiting for departing or arriving flights. This was before 9/11 and before the requirement to have a ticket to get down the concourse. It’s still there but it’s long since been closed. It’s too bad, really. I spent a part of my high school days there. That place got me into Amateur Radio from running into a likeminded person who happened to be in Amateur Radio. That place also helped stoke my desire to get my pilot’s license, which I did do. That place also helped keep me thin because I would ride my bike out there. It’s all changed.