Anyone on here still have an X account? I'm trying tonget ahold of Matt or Jay, but the only contact info I have is Twitter. I want to email them about my Meshtastic Solar node project.

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The parts for the #solar #meshtastic node came out to $224.78 to build one unit. My node covers at least 7 square miles in a urban/rural area with lots of trees and the antenna is not above said trees (or buildings for that matter). A better antenna position would greatly increase this range. Now that I have the spreadsheet, I'm going to reach out to the person at hackspace.io who said they'd host my writeup.

Well that's disappointing. I reported that the LNBits error message that says "server is still in the process of starting" doesn't say which server is still in the process of starting. No, it's not the LNBits server that they're taking about there. A LNBits dev closed it as "not in scope"

GitHub

Improve error message for non-developers / new node runners · Issue #3120 · lnbits/lnbits

When I try to connect to a peer using lnbits, I get an popup in the UI informing me that an error 500 has occurred. The log had the following error...

They're not even willing to add 4 characters to a log message to help new node runners troubleshoot problems. 🙁💔

Nostr client feature request: Mute and post with more than N hashtags, where the user gets to define N.

If you want to go DEEP down the rabbit hole and escape the Communism vs Capitalism tropes, I'd got the video for you. Strap in!

Good news #FOSS friends: there will be an abundance of cheap or free hardware available this year as Microsoft drops support of it. This means you can scarf up those machines, put #Linux on there and give them away to friends and family. Some of them might never touch it, but most will try it out and some might like it. There's lots to like: - Don't have to sign up with a website to log into your local computer - No invasive telemetry watching everything you do - No trying to sell you stuff - Much less expensive than buying a new computer - Probably faster than a new computer with Windows 11 - Can come with LibreOffice, CAD modeling software, Steam, whatever web browser you want (even Microsoft Edge!), music and video players, an email client so you don't even need to open a browser to check your mail

Oops, I forgot to order more battery discharge protection circuits. I have most of what I need lying around, but I am going to run out at some point.

This is going to be an unpopular take, but I think @buzzbot is a great idea. It's easily muted People who boost those posts are easily unfollowed (or muted, or those posts filteted) It's not a centralized entity (e.g. company) who decides what gets a lot of boosts, it's regular ol' users. For those users who do engage, they're putting their reputation on the line. Most people will put up with some shenanigans but at some point it becomes annoying and people start ignoring the boosters. Combine this with a web of trust to avoid random bots from boosting things into your feed. The bots can boost all they want to game the system, take the "influnecer's" money, and plebs don't ever even know it's happening. The person paying will quickly realize they aren't getting what they want (people to buy their 💩 or whatever) and they'll stop paying. So that is yet another way this spam problem works itself out naturally. It's basically the free market doing its thing. No centralization, no algorithms being foisted upon people without them being able to do anything about it. It's all transparent. If you don't like it, take action. Mute 'em. Filter 'em. Ask for better tools to craft your feed (like "hide buzzbot unless the author is Ross", which is a rule I don't think any nostr client can handle right now).

Anyone willing to let me open a small (50K sats) outbound chanel to them? I'm still trying to do this self-hosted lightning node thing. Still not keen on putting a lot of money on the line. Want to mesh with other plebs instead of just routing to a big player like a reasonable person would. 😝

I'm more than a little skeptical about the quality of software that uses the lightning network. - I've already hit a bug in LND and added into to the existing ticket about it - Offered suggestion on lnbits for a confusing error message - Tried sending using Bluewallet -> LNDHub, failed - Tied adding a specific amount in the invoice, failed with a different error message "API error: undefined (undefined code)" - Tried doing the same with Zeus, claimed it was successful despite no money being transferred - Found LND mysteriously shut down again (no reason cited in the logs) - Tried sending money from LNBits, no error, no money transferred - Seeing messages in the lnbits logs that "This backend does nothing" but doesn't say which backend it thinks it's using. The web UI shows it's using LndRestWallet, not VoidWallet - Eventually I was able to get LNBits to give me an error saying I have insufficient funds to pay (I have 30K and was trying to pay 1K) And on top of all this NWC with Amethyst/CoinOS has been broken for weeks (yes, I reconnected and it's still broken). This is why people use custodial wallets instead of running their own node! It's almost as bad as having Zeus fail and force close Olympus channels that I paid for because they're "too old". It's not quite that bad, but close. Follow me for more random ranta about technology not working the way I want it to, or at all.

I took these pics just for you @Fern. Enjoy

Mulch sure does make things look amazing in short order. I feel a little bad for covering the blue violets, but fortunately we have several beds with them sprinkled about.

Does anyone make podcasts just because they like to? No sponsors. No trying to sell you something. Just "I find this topic interesting and want to share it with others" vibes.

Proof of work #gardening #SelfReliance #exercise

The sun is trying to kill me