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I’m getting about the same value and utility out of the time I spend on nostr as I did from Twitter at the end of my 3 month foray into it, before I deleted my profile.
Goodbye and thanks for the laughs.
Going Dark 🤙🏽
GN 🤙🏽
Can someone please zap me a couple sats as a test? Thx
Fresh pair of 5.11 tacticals. What adventures will we see this year? My last pair saw me through two winters, two hunting seasons, 450 field estimates, and two dog attacks. Steel toes ftw
I can’t wait to be completely unreachable except by face to face conversation.
I’m going to see if I can get a couple of store bought, likely sprouting-inhibited Sweet Potatoes to throw off a couple slips. It’s kind of suspect that one of the best survival foods is the most difficult to source growing stock for. 
We need to build a parallel internet.
First stab at making beef broth. I’ll likely keep a couple quarts in the fridge and pressure can the rest for shelf storage. I bought a huge bag of beef bones (with sats no less) at the farmers market a few weeks ago, along with some killer ribeyes and ground beef. 
SSH key importation is unforgiving
#linux
My employer came to me today and asked me if I could square him away on “Bitcoin stuff”.
He was pretty blown away that I already had a Bitcoin educational website built that I linked him to, and a full curriculum developed for teaching people about BTC acquisition, custody, transaction and security.
In five minutes I gave him enough material to easily keep him going for a couple of weeks, while he waits for his first signing devices and key storage hardware to show up.
I’m stressing the need to really understand the asset. And the need to stay current on best practices for the technical side of self custody. It’s not for everybody. Especially for people conditioned to using custodians for all of their investing and finance. So many people can’t even manage their passwords without relying on 2FA means of regularly recovering them.
I hope he knows what he’s in for, becoming his own bank…..manager, teller, head of IT, and head of security. I shudder to think. I hope he doesn’t rug himself by taking this responsibility lightly.
In a few weeks I’ll test his knowledge and whether or not he’s taking things seriously or not by offering to punch his seed phrases for 100k sats per set lol. Maybe make him number 3 on a two-of-three. Just because I care. Lol 😂
#bitcoin #grownostr
You don’t have to be a math savant or a supercoder to make a huge difference in the fight against a pending dystopian technocracy.
#bitcoin #hodl #anarchism #cryptography #agorism
I was a preparedness maximalist (“prepper”) long before I was a Bitcoiner.
I was thinking today about the benefits of that. Especially when it comes to surviving, thriving, and transacting value if SHTF.
Day to day survival, private communications, data security, sovereign computing and off-grid-capable transacting of value could one day not be as easy as they are today.
Here are the pillars that I think such an approach sits on:
Immediate defensibility of your family and property. Shelter, heat, and guns….lots of guns.
Bugging in vs bugging out planning
Proximity to- and plans to safely/conveniently access viable water sources.
Establishing a couple weeks or months of rations, and practicing producing/preserving food at home.
Building your team and your within-walking-distance network of friends, patriots and trade partners
Filling in the gaps in your supply chain via creative means
Acquisition, storage and protection of tradeable hard goods in advance of SHTF
Cultivating skills you can trade
Uninterruptible Power
EMP protection
Backup Power (long term)
Computer, operating system, mobile device and Bitcoin hardware selection for SHTF. Including considerations for any device battery dependencies.
Options for fixed, portable satellite, radio, and Mesh network solutions for internet connectivity and personal comms
Strategies and team building for re-establishment of order
Does anyone have any others?
I am optimistic that we may see a restoration of the promise that was the American dream, but if we don’t, let’s not get caught with our pants down. 🤙🏽
Other than the Cold Card MK4, is there a good compact open source Bitcoin only signing device with an SD card for air-gapped signing that does not have (or rely on) an internal, sealed in, proprietary battery that is subject to degradation? No battery at all is my preference.
Looking for something that works with Sparrow multisig. And ideally I’d like to get two of them that I can set up as exact clones of one another and store in separate locations.
I don’t understand this trend lately toward making expensive signing devices that are more like smart phones in their design than simple signers. All of the bells and whistles and onboard accessories are just points of failure IMO.
With the exception of routine firmware upgrades, I don’t even want to look at it. It doesn’t have to look like it has beautiful Apple inspired design.
So far the Jade Classic looks about right. Except for the existence of a battery. Pretty simple. And likely pretty easy to hoop in hurry. They could have made the edges rounder though.
#asknostr
Today’s soup project finally done. Just have to cut these in half once they are fully frozen flat, vacuum seal them and tops them in the deep freeze. 
Ubuntu 24.04.1 install complete on an encrypted volume with long term support till 2034 🤙🏽
Wish me luck connecting to my node and my Start9 file server. I shudder every time I see the acronym SSH or have to import a root cert.
Goodbye Windows
#linux #ubuntu #sovereigncomputing #windowssucks 
GM 🤙🏽 
Man I am so impressed with Ubuntu so far, in my journey to ditch Microsoft. I ran it briefly on my miniPC back before I ran my first full node using Umbrel, but have since switched that miniPC to a dedicated Start9 box with a full time node and a Electrs instance for wallet connectivity to the node.
Now that I have a standalone Ubuntu installation on a separate bootable external hard drive connected to my main Windows PC, I am so impressed with how smooth it is and how seamlessly it is working with files on all of my backup drives. I’m also impressed at how easy it has been so far to replicate the functionality, app availability and user experience I’ve grown accustomed to with Windows, going all the way back to the mid 90’s. I’ve got a VPN and Tor access figured out, SSL terminal access to my node that just works using the same certificate, and Sparrow in Ubuntu even recognizes my USB ports for air gapped signing, with no messing around.
I will say a few things for those considering ditching Windows or doing a Linux install alongside your regular Windows OS. Image your whole system prior to starting, set a Windows restore point, and have a couple of external drives to save critical stuff on during the transition.
The install process is easy on a standalone machine, but the current documentation on how to create and manage partitions on a parallel Ubuntu install on an external drive is not necessarily what you’ll see in real life. For some reason I ended up with the bootloader on a separate drive that had a lot of important stuff on it. And it rendered that drive unrecognizable by Windows and Ubuntu for a handful of heart stopping hours till I realized I had the most critical stuff saved elsewhere.
The biggest panic was when I realized that 650GB my image files for my primary system were on that drive. Usually I have two full sets of those images, but the drive I was using for tertiary back has since been deployed as a backup to the Start9. So there was a time when I had to fall back to Windows Restore to rescue my ass. Not a good feeling. I pictured spending the next two weeks reinstalling Windows and everything on that box, including restoring SSL connection to my nodes.
Once I got that drive talking to Windows again and had knocked 25 years and 650GB of stored files I had accumulated down to about 5GB, my last step was to re-image the whole primary system…..chkdsk error while creating image. All of the forced stops to get past stalled Ubuntu installation attempts had corrupted something on my main Windows drive. Three hours to run a chkdsk, biting my nails. Then everything imaged properly.
TLDR:
- Ubuntu is a capable replacement for Microsoft products with better options for privacy and security
- storage is cheap. Back up your stuff before you attempt a parallel dual boot installation alongside Windows. The documentation sucks and skips a few key details.
- if budget permits, just get a dedicated laptop for Linux and start your journey there. Then transition your main machine over time if you feel like it.
#ubuntu #windowssucks #linuxmasterrace #linux