Nextcloud running on crashes with every app update. Guess it's ossification for me now.

I first bumped into at TABConf2024 when I volunteered to help out at the event. He wasn't there. Or if he was, we wasnt introduced. The posters and banner artwork immediately caught my attention. Comic books are always something I've enjoyed, fat as far back as I can remember. And it's almost always the visuals that gets me. I've been away from comics for a while but walking into that room brought it all back to me. It's also not just the style I love about NG, it's the subject matter too. My dad bought a ZX Spectrum 16k machine in the early 80's. You needed to plug in a tube TV and tape deck (software was a cassette tape back then). Growing up with computers, watching them evolve (along side myself) but struggling to get other people to share my fascination was just how it was. My best friend could even switch it on. Building PC's from ordered parts, adding in sound cards and video cards, watching Commodore and Amiga do amazing things that pc's couldn't do (back then), has been a huge part of my childhood and teenage memories. In my adult years it was setting up a raspberry pi to my my first bitcoin node, and btcpayserver, and all the wallet & nostr stuff. No Good brings all that wonder back into one book. (The stickers are a wicked bonus too). Thanks man, the wait was worth it.

We weigh up BIP 110 and Bitcoin spam without pretending anger is a strategy, then zoom out to how narratives shape both protocol fights and geopolitics. We end on hands-on freedom tech, from Start9 and Nostr to self-hosted AI, plus a reminder that most Bitcoin “disasters” start with a basic node check. • why BIP 110 is framed as a fix by some and a protest by others • the uncomfortable idea that fees may be the only neutral filter • how knee-jerk reactions and online behaviour distort technical debates • Iran, the Strait of Hormuz, and the economic knock-on effects of escalation • propaganda incentives and “good guy” branding in foreign policy • South African elections, legitimacy, and the case for smaller governance units • the Freedom Stack framing: Bitcoin, Nostr, and AI as practical tools • Start9 experiences: remote access, services, hardware constraints, and experimentation • privacy trade-offs when using hosted AI versus local models • troubleshooting a “missing payment” by checking node sync and connectivity Get yourself a little bit of Bitcoin, get off zero, buy something, move it around from your phone wallet onto somebody else. Just mess around, just get comfortable with it. Take five bucks, ten bucks, something, fifty bucks, something that you're not afraid to lose, and just try something. https://fountain.fm/episode/SKEc9swfpnQW0Cu9wbDR