MindlinerTre PSA: "Fail fast", they say. Check. Yesterday, I added a second Proxmox node to my setup and created a high-availability cluster, so that in the event one node failed, the other could take over and spin up the critical VMs. During the reboot, node2 was faster, and the VM with MindlinerTre, which was usually on node1, switched over. I need to dig into what happened exactly, but it must have picked up an old state. The result is a forced closure of 39 channels. I am very sorry for the trouble. Please DM me if you lost sats due to this. Take-home: Don't naïvely put a lightning node into an automatic failover setup.

GN

I can wholeheartedly recommend purchasing from the friends here on nostr. The art and products I purchased here were genuine, inspiring, and of very high quality. Plus, it feels great to be furthering a global circular economy, even if only by a tiny bit. Thank you @Lina Seiche, @Lucho Poletti , @M A D E X, @🟠 isolabellart, @Mapletrade, @Gabi, @StackSats.IO, @Bitcoin Infinity Media, @Saifedean Ammous, @Rune Østgård, and the artists I forgot to mention 🫂. View quoted note →

Watch a thunderstorm, take a walk, enjoy the sun, or expand your Bitcoin node. Whatever - just be happy 😊

LocalAI models come with cool annotations 😂 such as "Great at reasoning, but woke as fuck! This is a fine-tune over the Gemma-2-27B-it, since the base model fine-tuning is not generating coherent content."

My Bitcoin node infrastructure upgrade for 2025 is nearing completion. I know I promised a write-up on the particulars of the design. However, this would be such poor operational security that I would have to pass it up.

“In all proper relationships there is no sacrifice of anyone to anyone. An architect needs clients, but he does not subordinate his work to their wishes. They need him, but they do not order a house just to give him a commission. Men exchange their work by free, mutual consent to mutual advantage when their personal interests agree and they both desire the exchange. If they do not desire it, they are not forced to deal with each other. They seek further. This is the only possible form of relationship between equals. Anything else is a relation of slave to master, or victim to executioner." - The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

Finding a block is difficult, but as luck has it, some miners overshoot the requirements by 100x or more (898243). It is a bit like a hole-in-one without a reward.

I used to be a passionate coder. These days, I dedicate my time on building infrastructure to reliably run the brilliant code you guys write 🫡

I have been a diligent and passionate notetaker, and I believe this has been a success factor at some stages. In the 90s, I worked with a genius IT friend who would not take notes because, as he saw it, crucial elements would have been outdated the next time he needed them, and his notes would be inaccurate. Today, I also don't take notes anymore. It is faster to ask AI the same questions again if I forget the answers.

The saying "Dress For The Job You Want, Not The Job You Have?" applies to everything else. Build out the compute infrastructure for where you want to go not for what you need today. Hone your skills for what is needed at your destination. It is more fun to then go apply those new skills instead of constantly having to patch up deficits under time pressure.

I have maged to choose my relais so that each nostr client has a different view on the reality called life; or Earth or nostr feed 😅.

What is your programming style: (type a) throwing the baby into the pool's deep end, or (type b) studying error handling and testing for weeks before writing the first line of production code?

PV

With every strong book I read and every insightful podcast I listen to, I have even less to say than before. Firstly, for every topic, someone dug deeper (way deeper), and secondly, it is all rather obvious and will reveal itself to whoever wants to hear it when the time is right. This is a cool episode of the @Bitcoin Infinity Media with @_Checkɱate 🔑⚡🌋☢️🛢️ where you can verify or update your stance wrt mempool spam filtering and what you'd want to do with Satorhi's coins before quantum computers are here.

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Here is an idea to facilitate the build-up of circular economies: We would need a new feature in @BTC Map where I can advertise myself as a potential customer, willing to drive up to say 20 miles for groceries if I can pay with lightning. Shop owners would then be able to see the opportunity more clearly.

PV

Ayn Rand: "It is the kind of play that depends upon what the members of the audience are capable of bringing with them into the theater." Satoshi Nakamoto: "If you don’t believe it or don’t get it, I don’t have the time to try to convince you, sorry."

Being silent because so busy with assembling the hardware that takes on the next ten years of freedom (and a vacation in Italy). We should enjoy the quiet situation here before we get overrun by social media refugees from all over the planet.

nostr.band says I zapped 14M sats total. My goal is to make Bitcoin succeed and see myself as custodian rather than owner of some of the sats stacked in 2014ff. did I miss cool and important "sat routes" to success?