Crypto means cryptography Crapto means alt-coins #shitposting

I spent a few hours reading the #Matrix specifications last night (I still have much more to read). Overall, they seem good. There's a lot there, but it's laid out in a way that makes it work reasonable well as reference material. I can jump to what I'm interested in at the moment, and there are links to the other sections that I might want/need to read about in order to understand the task at hand. My current focus is cross-signing and the trust between accounts and devices.

I only recommend things that are high quality, a good value, and that I've personally tried. It's hard to hit those both of those first two points. Sure, you can get less expensive coffee, and if it's as good as this, please LMK because I'm always interested in better options. And, sure, you can pay 10x the price to show everyone how rich you are. It's probably as good as what I drink and hopefully the farmers are making more money than the middlemen. But I'm not buying coffee to make a statement. And I don't get paid anything to share my awesome finds. My incentive isn't money, it's trying to make sure the companies I like don't go out of business, and helping the cool people on nostr live better & save some loot at the same time. So if you want me to hype your product, I'm down... so long as it's solid quality, a good deal, and something I actually want. And if you are a person who buys the most expensive thing on the market and are getting mad that I'm trashing overpriced status symbols... sorry, not sorry. 🤷‍♂️ View quoted note →

I just recommended Virgina Freedom Tech to someone in NoVA. He already has 3 or 4 mesh nodes, but I told him that if he wants more, or if other people ask him where to get them, that's the spot. If I start selling Meshtastic nodes, I might just skip the Heltec v3 and just point people there who want that make & model. Why compete when we can compliment, right?

If you're looking for a good deal on some excellent coffee, I can personally recommend this:

Equal Exchange

Organic Peruvian Medium Roast Coffee, 5lb whole bean

This Peruvian medium roast is juicy and bright with tasting notes of maple, grape, and floral. No added flavoring. 2 Pack contains two 5lb bags of ...

Under $13/lb when bought in bulk. Grown and sold via worker co-op. They also have Colombian, Ethiopian, Mexican, and many others.

I've become pretty OK with my inherient nature to just STFU and just build stuff. I makes me terrible at being social, and even worse at social media, but I've come to accept that. The trade off is that my friends, family & I will have some nice things. I'd be okay with partnering with someone who wants to help people do self-hosting, or self-host for others, but social media is too much effort for me and just not enough reward.

I finally moved the last of the mulch off the driveway. We finally managed to get enough places weeded and ready for mulch, that we could put it where it goes and the remainer fit into buckets. 17 buckets to be exact, but we've got that capacity. Transplanted some ferns while I was at it too. And filled the remaining empty buckets with rice hulls. That's exciting because it was enough to allow us to move the remaining rice hulls without a forklift (which we don't own) nor a pallet jack (which we also don't own). They have been in the driveway for months because they were just too heavy to move. Haha It feels good to make progress that is so clearly visible. Follow me if you want more yard chore reports, brutally honest reports on lightning software, 3d printing reports, talk about meshtastic, and occassional mentions of @npub1nzep...num9. That pretty much covers everything I talk about on here. If you only want a subset of that... 🤷‍♂️ I guess mute some words to filter those topics out.

@EVAN KALOUDIS said I should give Zeus Wallet another try. I did and here's what happened. There were some rough spots with broken links when I tried to find documentation for the initial setup. Evan helped me out and said he'd fix the broken link. I was able to find documentation on how to open a channel from my server's lightning node to my Zeus lightning node and that worked. Donation to my local makerspace worked on the first try, and accurately reported that is succeeded (which is not the case with LNBits+LNDHub+BlueWallet which frequently reports failure when the payment went through). Big point in Zeus's favor here. The problem I had with Zeus previously is losing sync with graph/chain data and not being any to use it anymore. I had to close all my channels and recover funds on-chain, and I couldn't even do it with Zeus; I had to use Sparrow. I've seen multiple people I follow state that they had this same problem. My conclusion is that the jury is still out on this one. The new type of node is too limited in functionality for me, but if the embedded LND node really can stay in sync with the graph/chain data, then Zeus will have earned it's reputation as a reliable wallet. For me, reliability is by far the most important feature. If I ever go to make a payment and it fails, there better be a damned good reason (e.g. no internet connection, no path to recipient). If I get wedged into a situation where I have to close all channels and recover my funds via a desktop wallet, I don't expect I'll give Zeus a third try. God, don't let me down! PS if the new Rust-based embedded node reaches feature parity with the embedded LND, I'd like to switch to that. Sending backups to some server somewhere is 100% a deal breaker for me. Maybe I'll be able to switch to that before the embedded LND node gets wedged. 🤣😅😶‍🌫️

The Wio Tracker L1 Pro case was clearly designed to be injection molded, not 3D-printed. It's a nice case, and I say that as someone very familiar with it, as I just recreated it from scratch in #FreeCAD I have three main goals with my remodel: 1. Modify it to be easily 3D printable 2. Keep compatibility with stock parts (e.g. buttons, faceplate, etc) 3. Make it modifiable to fit a 3Ah battery The 3Ah battery version will only lose backward compatibility with the faceplate/shell. #meshtastic

"Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price." ~ Victor Hugo

OK, didn't expect to get any offers on this one, but I figured it was worth a try. View quoted note →

I'm eyeing a pair of 64GB ECC DDR4 sticks for $610. Before I pull the trigger on this, is there anyone out there on Nostr who can match that? Or even come close? They need to be 64GB in a single stick. That's non-negotiable.

At the past 2600 meeting it occurred to me that I'm almost exclusively using decentralized communications now. I still have a limited number of people I know that haven't upgraded from Signal to Matrix, but other than that it's Nostr, ActivityPub, Jitsi, Meshtastic, and self-hosted email. No more Discord, Twitter/X, Zoom, GDrive. I never got into the Zuck platforms (Facebook, Insta, etc.), nor TikTok. It honestly feels really refreshing to be free of these corporations. #freedom

Today I want to give a shoutout to @kidwarp, a fellow gardener, open source fan, and lover of freedom. We have a lot in common, and at the same time, we also *very* different opinions about some things. But that doesn't get in the way of us hanging out online together. And that's a rare quality these days, to be able to still respect people with whom you disagree. I feel like the world needs more of that. So if you also think that a difference of opinion doesn't warrant an ad hominem attack, check out his profile and see if you agree that he's worth following. This is how you find out about interesting people on decentralized social networks. When you see someone being excellent to one another, you share it with others, be that by a boost or a post.

These are legit concerns, but banning pseudonyms is not the answer. View quoted note →

@npub1manl...n9tn You need to solve this discoverability problem pronto, mate. I want to recommend Nostr to people I know, but if they don't see the content they want, and they only see the trolls and propaganda, they likely will not come back for years, if at all. IMO, this is an even bigger problem with Nostr than the lack of privacy, which is really saying something. Related: I'm considering doing another meshtastic class, this time leaning into the cypherpunk culture aspect to expose people to those ideas.

My 2026 bingo card: "People abandon social media" NBC News headline: "Discomfort with modern technology shapes Gen Z's desire to live in the past" Me: posting this fact on social media :-3

It's refreshing to see real pictures of people putting in real work. True craftanship can't be replicated by a computer, there's skill involved, and always a risk of ruining the work by making mistake. A CNC or an AI created project may be less expensive, but put another way: it's less valuable. In any case, it lacks the character of something that's hand crafted. I like that people have choices of whether they want something cheap or something that's high quality. That choice only exists if there are true craftsmen out there. Keep up the good work, leathermint. 💪 View quoted note →

56 seeds started indoors so far 44 more to go, but not until next month

The crypto dynamic with week: funds can be frozen rather easily in supposedly decentralized systems.