Remember: it's not aboit how many lines of code you can add in anday, it's about how many lines you can REMOVE. Smaller, leaner, more maintainable software. This is the way.

Oh, and acknowledge when others have a point. If they say something lile "the world can't just run on solar and nothing else" acknowledge that it's true. Talk about grid stability, peak demand, and then figure out together how to handle the base load in places whrere thibgs like hydroelectric isn't an option (e.g. flatlands, deserts).

I can't speak for others, but I promote consent.

If you want to get people on boarded to environmentalism, as in, really taking action, not just posting memes about it on social media, you need to put in the work. First: practice what you preach Second: Lead with things you have in common. Some people think environmentalists are all nuts. Don't start with "I'm an environmentalists and let me tell you why you are wrong..." Stop & think for a moment. Do you really think that is the most effective approach? Maybe start with gas prices and using a bicycle to stick it to the oil companies making obscene profits off of us. Show them bikes are pretty easy to maintain. Help them do it. Spend the time & effort. Third: Meet people where they are. If getting them to give you aluminum cans that you recycle for scrap money is as far as they're willing to go. That's fine. It's more than they were doing previously. In fewer words: Be nice to people, have some empathy, and don't ask others to do something you are not willing to do yourself. Don't expect to get results without putting in dome real time & effort Pro tip: This doesn't just apply to environmentalism.

Stoked to see you spending more time on the education side of things. I hope you'll be able to find ways to reach people who don't listen to bitcoin podcasts, but who do care about activism, environmentalism, or other things Bitcoin can help with.

I'm alright Nobody worry 'bout me Why you got to gimme a fight? Can't you just let it be? #IYKYK

"Invaders Must Die" --The Prodigy This album rocks so fsckin hard. 🤘🫨🤘

Sundays are my day off, in the sense that I don't have anything scheduled and I don't feel obligated to do anything boyond taking care of the loving things that depend on me. Today, I kept moving forward with IT tasks. Unglamorious work, bit things that feel good when they're done. A bugfix to get backups on two machines working again. Completely deleting a couple VMs and re-building them from scratch (the process is automated). Making the off-site, secondary DNS server handle an additional domain Those kinds of things. I don't have anything to show for it. No new features or capabilities. No cool videos, screenshots or demos. But I gotta say, it feels good. And now it's time to relax. You know what that means. A glass of scotch, my favorite easy chair, and of course, a compact disc playing on my home stereo. I'm going endulge myself. Kick off my shoes, put my feet up. Lean back and just enjoy the melodies. After all, music soothes even the savage beast.

Heart to heart

Troed uaing 's NFC feature with Square. It failed saying something like invalid card. Is was the new model register with a customer-facing screen. Different establishment, but same model as I mentioned previously that people said it worked for them. There was a line behind me, so I just switched to cash. No sense in being that annoying person holding up the line to play with weord tech stuff. Not going to win any hearts & minds that way, that's for sure.

"People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do." --Isaac Asimov

Briar is a much older and more battle tested messaging app that works without the internet. But nobody world famous is talling about it, so it's gone unnoticed for many many years.

You have three so far...

This is great news, as I'm pretty sure that's what they have. Combined with the answer from Bullish Bitcoiner, it sounds like the problem was my expectations (a QR code). And it looks like Zeus might be able to do the NFC thingy if I give it permission. This is looking optimistic. Adversarial integration. 😈

Anyone know how A CUSTOMER can pay with the lightning network with square? The UI just had a pointer of where to tap (NFC) and there to enter a credit card (chip). Tapping all over the screen did not have any effect. I just paid cash to not cause a scene. Does this mean they explicitly disabled lightning payments? If not, is there anything that *I* can press on the screen to pay via ln? Please don't reply suggesting that I "just have the shopkeep do xyz". They are not going to cooperate.

They grow up so fast

2 full size racks is some serious space, my man! I have 40+ VMs running on my cluster of 4 servers (4U each) and I have about half a rack free.

It's already too hot 😅

In your latest newsletter, you mentioned that "Casa dos Ventos studied batteries, concluded it was cheaper to waste the power than to store it" and cited the article below. I wanted to highlight this to my social network, but don't see that in the article. Is there maybe an archive of an older version of the article that had that in there? https://www.bnamericas.com/en/features/brazils-casa-dos-ventos-mulls-investing-in-batteries

That was embarassingly easy. 🤦‍♂️ Ty.