have you been getting my DMs? Xan you see this post. Amethest seems to be u reliable when it comes to DMs ever since they added 20 different types of relays for inbox, outbox, shoebox, drafts, and all the other complicated stuff. DMs wormed fine 100% of the time for me prior to those updates. I'm sure it still works fine if you're a nostr developer, but not for the average user.

This is the type of thing I was referring to with my previous post about home security cameras and cloud problems.

Thanks for the info. The powder is a pretty tasty byproduct, so now I'm curious to try the paste. Is the paste made entirely of mashed cacao beans?

I wanted to share my thoughts with and the rest of the world on my household's chocolate powder purchasing decisions. All dollar prices here are in USD. We pay $5.60/lb for 100% cocoa powder and have no idea about the heavy metal content. The brand that got good marks with their chocolate bars in terms of heavy metals is Ghirardelli, and their cocoa powder goes for $10.59/lb on sale ($14.12/lb for people who pay regular price). We don't actually know the heavy metal levels on this product, but we're making an educated guess that they use their own cocoa powder to make their chocolate bars. So that's what you're up against. Sell for under $5.60/lb and dominate the market. Price it over $14.12/lb and see if it sells. Personally, we ain't rich, and we consume far more cocoa than average. That's why we get the cheap stuff. But if you can do like 10 lbs shipped to the USA for 100K sats, I'll commit to it right now (as long as this year's heavy metal tests look good). What I'm saying here is that I'm willing to double my costs in order to directly support a small farmer who actually tests their crops. 🤙

Is it true that both the number of #lightning channels and the total amount of coins held in channels has been going down for years? https://mempool.space/lightning

Is there any place I can register a domain and pay in BTC without having a "verified account" with BitPay? I stopped shopping at NewEgg for this reason and now I found that Gandi is doing this same thing. #AskNostr

Can you use any libraries to abstract this problem away?

Are you suggesting that miners leave empty space in blocks and give up the fees that they could have gained by including them? If enough miners did so, that'd send a message: "pay more to move money (on-chain) or have your transactions delayed"

I accidentially found the ghee last night in the grocery store and HOLY SMOKES, it's expensive. $12.49 for about $3 worth of butter! Ghee is super easy to make: simmer butter in a pot on the stove, strain out the solids. That's it. There's literally one ingredient. Like, who buys this? Obviously it's people who know how to cook, since that's the only reason to have ghee in the first place. This is absolutely perplexing.

Bent a rim yesterday. It was bad enough that I had to immediately disconnect the rear brake to continue onward. Took it to the bike repair project and got a used rim, but didn't have time to fix the broken spoke or replace the bearings. Will do that on my next trip.

Have you ever wondered what a #solar powered #meshtastic node would look like if way too much time and effort were put into it, but it was made entirely with things lying around the house? #decentralize everything!

I use djbdns (aka tinydns) for serving authoratative DNS and bind for resolving DNS. I can link to the ansible role that I use for bind if you're interested.

24km ride today. It might be child's play for a cyclist, but it's an accomplishment for a pleb like me.

Open source version of the great firewall of China. https://gfw.dev "Bring the thrill of cyber-sovereignty right into your home router and start filtering like a pro - you too can play Big Brother." Uses cases include "Help you fulfill your dictatorial ambitions" Not quite #FreedomTech 😅 but it's #sovereign for sure. #sovereignty

Are you suggesting that this wouldn't have happened if a tiny number of privacy nuts hadn't opted out at TSA checkpoints? Because if not, then the only difference is that their data isn't in as many government databases. Still seems like they're winning on the data security front.

Is it just me or is this a hilarious topic to put in... a book?

I always find it peculiar that highly technical people complain about DNS not working instead of running their own. I don't know if they don't know how to run reliable DNS servers, or what but at this point I'm afraid to ask. I've had more problems from faulty UPS taking down the network than DNS.

This is why we can't have nice things. An article supposedly last updated in Feb 2024, whose title and content talks about 2025. Talk about proof of NOT doing the work. Pure garbage.

I got the URL format from someone on the internet posted it on a forum somewhere for my make and model. As for docker, I feel like it's very much the the kind of dependency that big tech companies love to get you into. "It sure would be nice if I could install the software myself without relying on someone else building a docker image for me..." or get updates without overwritingmy customizations, or any number of other things.

Huge shout out to Félix and anyone else involved in the latest GitLab Patch Release for specifying on every vulnerability whether it could be exploited by unauthenticated attackers or if the attacker had to be authenticated. This is the level of quality I expect in a disclosure, and I'm glad to see you're delivering. Thank you. 🙏 https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2025/10/22/patch-release-gitlab-18-5-1-released/

I hope to see the day when paying for a burger and fries over lightning is as unremarkable as paying with a credit card.

I recently switch from ZM to Frigate and it's way better (and this is coming from someone who despises the complexity of Docker). No more dropped feeds, no more errors that I can't figure out within an hour of research. I don't even have the fancy stuff set up yet (object detection, lightning detection, etc.)