I'm not saying you're annoying, I'm just saying I get annoyed by you. And that you're annoying.

People are just walking around not realising the power of "Match exec" in sshd_conf. We are early.

Nothing stops this moped

Self sovereign data is as risky as self custody Bitcoin -- doesn't mean you do the normie thing and give up! "Yeah, but what are you gonna do?" Getting free from Google and Apple for your data storage is a massive and difficult job - as designed. Even the phone, it's hard to use a Google/Apple free device if you have your data with them. You can't extract yourself all at once... there is a lot to do, but you can chip away and eventually all the pieces come together. Doing something is better than nothing, then doing something more is better than stopping there. To help, I have ParmaDrive - this is a machine that, besides being a Bitcoin node, is designed to help you store your own data safely. STEP ONE is to put a copy of your data on the 16TB drive, and practice accessing it in preference to "the cloud". STEP TWO is to have a copy on anothet drive in your home STEP THREE is to have a copy offsite (more on that below) STEP FOUR is to delete your data from cloud services now that you have copies and geographical refund. REMOTE BACKUPS - OPTION 1 You can buy a second external hard drive, manually sync it with your first drive and then take it offsite. Periodically you have to take a risk by bringing it back to the original site, syncing, then taking it back offsite. OPTION 2 You can have a second ParmaDrive kept offsite, which maintains a permanent private connection that I will configure. Each night, any changes to the data is backed up automatically. It's kind of like Apple time machine snapshots. You can browse the snapshot and download any files that you might have lost. OPTION 3 Same as option 2 but a friend, ParmaTwim, has the second machine, and you reserve drive space to reciprocate encrypted backups. You don't need to trust each other because neither can see the others' data as it's encrypted. OPTION 4 You can do option 3 but with another customer as a ParmaTwin. Again you don't need to trust them but it is nice to make contact and get to know each other. Just ask to be on a list when you order a machine. OPTION 5 You can ParmaTwin with more than one person if it helps you feel more secure. You can also offer to be a ParmaTwin for more than one person and you can even ask for a fee - be your own mini data centre. OPTION 6 You can sync to ParmaData, a datacentre I haven't yet made available. Later. That's all I got for self sovereign data tips today.

ParmaDrive™

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I am ordering you to do what you want!

Teach a kid to bake...

About Electrs vs Fulcrum servers ... These are both Electrum SERVERS. An electrum server is different to a wallet, and a common cause of confusion because of terrible naming. The purpose of the Electrum Bitcoin is to keep a copy of the Bitcoin blocks in an alternative structure to better serve as a backend to a wallet (Electrum Wallet must have an Electrum server, but Sparrow can use it or not). Your wallet can then EFFICIENTLY ask questions to the server about its balances. The Bitcoin blockchain is not optimised for this, it is optimised for unstoppable, uncensorable, immutable money (and apparently Monkey JPEGs). When not using an Electrum server, as Sparrow Wallet can do, and also Specter and others - the Bitcoin client creates a Bitcoin wallet in clear text of the connecting wallet. So if you open Bitcoin QT, it shows the balance, not good for privacy. Like I said, not optimised to be a wallet. It also communicates to the wallet via TCP, not SSL, so traffic is not encrypted (IDK if this has changed recently) Electrs (Electrum server in Rust, Rust is a nanny programming language) is very stable, and it's rare for the database to be corrupted. Fulcrum is FAST, way faster than Electrs and even Electrum X, but the database FREQUENTLY gets corrupted, necessitating a complete resync -- annoying. For ParmaDrives and ParmanodLs, I ship these with Electrs as the backend, even though Fulcrum is the fastest because of stability. I'm thinking now to ship them with BOTH electrs and Fulcrum synced. Use Fulcrum, and if it craps its pants, sorry, WHEN it craps its pants, the slower and more reliable electrs is there while you resync Fulcrum.

If you're having a bad day, take a moment to feel sorry for the Torres "Straight" Islanders who have this as their flag. Once you see it, you can't unsee it.

I watched the Jordon Peterson VS Michael Saylor podcast, and I want to mention a couple of things I found interesting. Jordon was able to get a bit of psychological background on Saylor like no one else has done, and I could tell when he realised he was making it too obvious, bordering on saying, "Now, tell me about your mother". At those moments, instead of pausing to let Saylor answer, he realised it was too much psychoanalysis, and he would continue the question without pausing, merging into his own general analysis about people, sort of back peddling the question by having a conversation - I see what you're doing Jordon, LOL. Another thing I noticed was the power struggle. We all know Michael likes to dominate and set the agenda of what he will be talking about and at what point the conversation would shift, despite him being the guest, not host. Jordon was quite good at reigning him in, and interrupting by pretending to be super interested in something else, and Saylor fell for it. It got subtly awkward at times, but Jordon handled it well. The ending was handled nicely, I won't spoil it.

I can't seem to get things I feel like getting done, because I'm always interrupted by doing things more important to me.

My wife is such a bad driver, that when manoeuvering through a tight spot, she'll judge if she's going to hit or not by watching the expressions on the faces of the other drivers. If they're panicking, she's too close. I still kept her 🤣🤣🤣

There's too much winning, I can't take it anymore.

I have ParmanodL Bitcoin Knots laptops ready for you. Fully synced, and purring like a tiger. Bitcoin node and wallet in one.

Parman Home

Bitcoin Core is not Bitcoin, you are Bitcoin.

Why Monero cannnot be money... 1) By definition, money is the most salable good within an economy and only one money exists in an economic community. All other traded goods are barter trades. 2) and currently for the world economy dollars are the closest thing we have to money (more saleable than gold, yes), and each country has their own fiat as money in that community - maintaining one money per economic community. 3) and if bitcoin fails to become money or becomes money and then fails, no digital token can replace bitcoin as world money because nothing else can achieve digital scarcity (including Monero), we'd be back to barter, and then back to fiat of some sort for each county. For the world, we'll probably be back to bartering fiat monies of each countries, and countless competing ßhitcoîns. 4) and in the presence of Bitcoin, which will become world money, Monero needs to compete with and defeat Bitcoin (excluding Bitcoin dying because that cause kills all digital tokens)... Another way of saying this is that Monero needs to actively outshine Bitcoin (and everything else), not hope for Bitcoin to fail. 5) The natural force that propels a token to become money is the accumulation of the token because of the confidence that others want to accumulate it (read that again slowly). This force starts small, and is strongest the more the token is leading in the race amongst all the other tokens/objects. Bitcoin had a massive head start and now nothing comes close, it's too late. Nothing can overtake it. It can only fail. More on point #3 (failure of Bitcoin)... If we fuck it up, say by tinkering with it to try to achieve some lower objective (besides trying to end central banking, the #1 goal), eg falling for the narrative that everyone needs to be their own retail bank, thinking Bitcoin's purpose is to end the very useful function of banking, then Bitcoin theoretically could fail. In that super unlikely scenario, all tokens will compete, and Monero's supposed privacy is not giving it any special advantage, especially given the 15 or so previous hard forks, and the existence of other privacy coins. In conclusion, you could enjoy bartering Monero like a hot potato (MoE) to resist the state, one of many tools, not a silver bullet, but not accumulate it (thinking it's going to become money), because that will lead you straight to poverty like every other shitcoiner is going to experience. You will just use it like any other tool, say VPN (No need to save in VPN subscriptions!). And don't promote it, because that slows bitcoin adoption, and makes you a ßhitcoin scammer.

May you all reach your stacking goals 🧡

I don't always buy art, but when I do... (@Purple Painter)

The Bitcoin price is gay

So I like databases now