iPod gang

Rather randomly, I’ve recently picked up an old #iPod classic 5th gen and am loving it so far. (despite the upgrade to use SD card storage being way harder than it’s supposed to be on this cursed iPod 🤣) iPods are low time preference. Streaming is just somebody else’s music. Listening to a podcast on an iPod is strangely a more engaging experience, and interruption free - you can’t just check Twitter/Nostr/get a call. A related note, I can’t find an existing solution for “buy my whole music library” which is weird because I want to give someone money and they’re making it hard 🤷‍♂️ Also Apple Music is a bit jank with importing MP3s - it works, but 50/50 whether it matches to the streaming version of the album you already had (yay) or creates duplicates (not yay)

$1B ‘valuation’ with 350k paid users and ~$600k revenue is a hilariously high PE ratio of what, 1666x?! And people think Tesla is crazy overpriced at a meagre PE of 80x ish View quoted note →

Checking out https://radicle.xyz, a P2P Git thingy -- I really like what I'm seeing... It's not Nostr but I'm not sure it would actually be better if it was. Supports DIDs so `did:btc:...` (Orange) and `did:key:` for Secp256k1 keys (bitcoin and nostr) would work, they're just not implemented (yet 😏) Nostr-based decentralised git things also progressing (

GitWorkshop.dev

Decentralized github alternative over Nostr

and probably others?), which is great, beacuse IMO there's so much complacency around GitHub as the one big centralised repository for all open-source software just continuing to work fine forever. #git #radicle

Anyone playing with Nostr and Bitcoin on #LORa and #meshtastic ? 👀

Renewed screeching about people using Casey’s envelopes to put data on chain is nauseatingly boring. Stop being Bitcoin redcoats and get over it

Ubuntu is a shitcoin, dunno why everyone uses it as 'default Linux', change my mind; Fedora, Debain or Alpine are the three to go for from shiny-newness to most boring and stable. Honourable mention for FreeBSD as the so-stable-you-turn-it-on-and-it's-still-running-four-years-later option. View quoted note →

The moral of @Jameson Lopp ‘s testnet drama is that it’s probably sensible to support all the test networks as you never know which is going to rug when 😂 (Though wen TBTC flipping BSV? Currently BSV at $64, TBTC at $0.63)

Been thinking about this a bit -- *perhaps*, one of the reasons Lightning has taken so long is that we're only just realising how important the LSP component is. Wallets/nodes that work with a LSP are so much easier to run and use for non-dev and non-in-it-as-a-business people. Even as a dev, I'm fairly hesitant to sign myself up for the maintenance effort of running a normal Lightning node. Things like Phoenix, @ZEUS, Phoenixd and @OpenSecret (mutiny server soon! 👀) are just so much easier to work with than "just" run LND/Eclair/C-Lightning/LDK-Node etc. Is the logical conclusion that for Lightning node-running to become prolific, LSPs (or more accurately, a way for nodes to 'buy' inbound from and get channels with others) have to become an inherent part of the Lightning protocol? Feels like it to me. View quoted note →

Simultaneously the most and lest based pool View quoted note →