Anyone else getting heavy Cold Fusion vibes?

#boobstr

Nostr client devs: How about an option to only show reposts if I don't follow the original poster? Scrolling through a dozen reposts of a message I've already seen kinda sucks.

Helped a friend set this up: Umbrel node on an old laptop running Ubuntu Server Cold wallet on second (dedicated) laptop with Coldcard+Sparrow Watch-only access (for monitoring and deposits) on Android BlueWallet Both wallets communicate with the node using Tailscale. Setting this up was a pretty fun project! And that laptop synced up in a day and a half. So much faster then my RPi node (~7d).

What will it be like when companies and nations that are 'holding' bitcoin at 3rd parties get rugged for hundreds of thousands of BTC? Will we still be assholes for saying 'not your keys, not your coins?' I'm also going on the record now to say, "Your rollback to reclaim your lost coins is just an airdrop for me on your fork. The BTC you thought you had on the actual blockchain (the one my node will remain on) was never really yours at all. So no, you can't get it back."

Hey there 3 sat/vB, nice to see you again!

I've spent nearly a decade trying to get better at something I'm not really very good at: bjj. This pursuit has improved nearly every aspect of my life. There are physical, emotional, intellectual, social, spiritual, and even financial benefits I never anticipated. If you're sitting there doom scrolling right now, find a local gym and ask about a free trial (most will give you at least a free week). Don't worry, you don't have to get in shape first, they'll help you with that. Just check your ego at the door- it's likely that a lot of what you think you know is wrong. In fact, that's the first and maybe the best lesson of all.

Good morning!

Hello again, 4 sat/vB, it's been a while!

In Congress, July 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. 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He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions. In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends. We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

Converted an old laptop to an Ubuntu server today by following these guides: 0) Yanked the internal (small) mechanical HD and plugged in a 1TB USB drive. 1) Followed

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2) Couldn't figure out why Umbrel thought it only had 100GB available, until I found and followed https://netshopisp.medium.com/how-to-extend-lvm-disk-on-linux-ubuntu-20-04-35b1c2d5d5e9 3) Taught the laptop to stay awake when the lid was closed:

Ask Ubuntu

How can I tell Ubuntu to do nothing when I close my laptop lid?

I would like closing the laptop lid to be a no-op. How can I do that?

Up and syncing now. This was a fun project to spend a few hours on, and it gave an old laptop a new life. Noticed this laptop has two interna drive bays, so I *might* try a RAID 1 variation someday soon. Any advice? I've used Ubuntu before, but never Ubuntu Server. Seems like it trims a lot of excess 'fat' as all I really wanted was an OS to host Umbrel's Docker stuff. So far it's syncing pretty fast. Interested to see how it performs compared to my old Raspberry Pi Umbrel node.

At least the AI doom porn is distracting the geriatric rulemakers from Bitcoin.

Satoshi didn't lecture people much about what they ought to do. He built something and said, "Here, use this, it's better." Next time I tell someone they are 'doing bitcoin wrong,' I hope I can remember this.

I set up Sparrow on my PC and Nunchuk on my phone, using the same seed and Tapsigner for both. I can track balances or spend from either PC or Mobile, but can't sign anything w/o the Tapsigner. Not exactly hot, not exactly cold; is this a warm wallet?

Anyone else hearing, "100%! 100%. Bro. 100%" ALL THE TIME? I must be getting old for this to annoy me. 100%!

New game: Drink every time someone says "people don't understand ____" in the Spaces you're listening to. But first make a liquor run, you're going to need a lot of booze.

There's this giant domino, wobbling back and forth, back and forth... Nearby dominoes look pretty worried. I dunno, it might still settle back into place. Maybe.

When people tell me the "rails" aren't ready for Bitcoin adoption, I look at Nostr. How fast did a relatively small group of independent developers build a metric shit-ton of "rails" for us? Pretty fucking fast...

Seems like the world has lost interest in the whole SBF/FTX "incident". They're going to do a "mistakes were made" thing and move on, aren't they?

I was not prepared for 28k again so soon.