wtogami
Warren Togami

VP Solutions at Blockstream , Founder Fedora Linux, ex-Red Hat Linux OS Engineer.

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2024-02-19 05:20:22 UTC

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It's a 500 yen certificate good for anything at KFC Japan. Expires in 2 years.

2024-02-19 05:05:39 UTC

Innovative Japanese mobile data plans
* 500 yen: 1GB for 24h plus you get chicken
* 100 yen: Random amount of data for 24h
* 630 yen: 1GB expires in 180 days
* 20k yen: 1 year of data plus 3 months Amazon Prime
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2023-11-16 04:59:15 UTC

BSV is the real ßitcoin.
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2023-11-05 13:36:20 UTC

"A person has been detected by your camera"
AI image recognition.
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2023-10-31 05:29:07 UTC

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Prices look good for Japan. Will try this out next year.

2023-10-31 02:42:55 UTC

Bitcoin Only circular economy? After successfully selling other used stuff I wonder if this works for bigger things.
I'm considering selling my 2011 Toyota Corolla LE. Low mileage less than 60k miles. White. Excellent mechanical condition of a super reliable basic car. You must pick it up in Austin, Texas between December 10th-17th of this year.
https://image.nostr.build/2e13e8d2133f2d5a2d806f2037c7ca7155b772f810d80481bbefef5776ffcf5e.jpg
Stock photo
DM if you want to discuss details.

2023-10-23 04:44:47 UTC

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What is your goal?
I like the older E490/E495 because it can use two common (thus cheap) full sized SSD's internally. Two disks is essential for lightning node database safety.
The newer E14 similarly allows for two internal SSD's but there is a major drawback. It has a nvme 2280 slot (common) but the second nvme is the short 2242 size. Those smaller drives are more rare and far more expensive if you want larger storage capacities.
If you don't care about two drives then I highly recommend the E14 Gen 3 or later Ryzen 5 or 7. You can often find them used for very cheap. Ryzen 5500U or higher are stupid powerful for the price. It even has a half decent integrated GPU.

2023-10-16 03:23:19 UTC

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Done

2023-10-10 03:50:57 UTC

This eBay US listing is a very good deal if you're looking for a powerful ultraportable 13". Ryzen 6850U integrated graphics is surprisingly powerful for games (lookup benchmarks of Radeon 680M).
I have available the same Ryzen with 32GB RAM but with 14" screen (T14s Gen 3 AMD). My T14s also has 23 months of warranty.
Selling for BTC onchain or LN. DM me if interested. Can ship to US only.
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2023-10-06 14:39:05 UTC

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The complication begins with it multiplexes digital signals over existing two copper wires to talk to the other devices: compressor, heat exchanger, thermostat. The wires do a lot more than just on/off. The compressor has multiple power levels and is reversible to operate in heating mode. It can also use a gas furnace as backup.

2023-10-06 04:52:40 UTC

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I regret buying a proprietary inverter HVAC from Carrier. The controls are buggy and closed source.

2023-09-16 19:24:10 UTC

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SOLD. That was fast.

2023-09-16 16:34:24 UTC

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Notes:
* Pixel 6 Pro gets official security updates from Google until October 2026.
* GrapheneOS does support it but I don't recommend it unless you are a power user.
* This model is particularly good for the 4x zoom camera lens and low-light camera performance.

2023-09-16 15:03:56 UTC

BTC circular economy?
For Sale: Google Pixel 6 Pro 512GB
US model Unlocked
Case included.
Condition: Very Good
https://image.nostr.build/e7331e6ac068153601c63b34b9f042579d8eb832c809951c774e3fbf8cfe4a95.jpg
I used it mainly as a camcorder for family photos. It was previously activated on Google Fi.
$300 includes USPS Priority Mail shipping (US only). $30 off if you pay via Lightning instead of onchain.
DM me
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2023-08-25 00:18:31 UTC

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To clarify I don't want to modify "Not your keys, not your coins". I want a better ending to "Not your iron,"

2023-05-15 16:07:51 UTC

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If you earn that interest how much do you pay back in taxes?

2023-05-03 13:35:28 UTC

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I wish I had a local friend to learn it from.

2023-04-30 04:26:00 UTC

I have been occupied and missed stuff. What is blue sky? Does it have Nostr compatibility?

2023-04-17 02:57:30 UTC

The maxis are now tree huggers while Greenpeace wants nuclear shuttered in favor of more coal.
Weird timeline.

2023-04-17 01:40:00 UTC

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January 2010 I discovered Bitcoin. Mining caused my laptop to overheat and die. Thought to myself, "Intriguing design but it isn't worth this hassle. The government won't let this survive." Uninstalled.

2023-03-29 06:18:06 UTC

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Are they selling a separate currency while claiming to be about Bitcoin?

2023-03-19 19:15:47 UTC

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If you have Pixel 6 and can't wait for the rumored patch tomorrow you can instead opt-in to QPR3 Beta also with the March 2023 patch level. Read the release notes and "top open issues" to decide for yourself if it is worth being stuck in beta until June.
"March 20th" is rumored from a screenshot of a customer service rep. Even if it is made available to the public tomorrow, there there is no guarantee you'll get it immediately from OTA as providers also need to approve of updates.
The beta known bugs don't look too bad to me.
My primary concern about being stuck in the beta stream until June would be it is time consuming to apply patches multiple times per month. Otherwise I'm not too concerned about running the beta and seeing new features months before other people.
https://developer.android.com/about/versions/13/release-notes

2023-03-19 18:45:24 UTC

Bitcoiners should ignore the attention seeker acting out of ulterior motives.
He's been mostly an unhelpful antagonist of Bitcoin over the past decade. Bitcoin worked just fine despite his best efforts. Being rich doesn't make him better at predicting the future. Ignore.

2023-03-17 04:27:13 UTC

According to Google Project Zero they discovered 0-day "Internet-to-baseband remote code execution" affecting many millions of Samsung and Pixel 6+ modems.
Read it for yourself. It sounds very bad. If you have an affected phone you may want to turn off your SIM card because the recommended "turn off VoLTE and WiFi calling" is impossible for many of these phones after they removed the VoLTE option back in 2021.
Only thing you can do is turn it off and put pressure on the vendors to fix it.
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2023/03/multiple-internet-to-baseband-remote-rce.html
The writer claims it's already patched by Google in the March 2023 patch level. Unfortunately that patch had been withheld from Pixel 6* due to bugs so the blog is incorrect about this already being fixed for Pixel owners.
It sounds like Samsung has a much bigger mess due to the wider variety of phones, firmwares, and providers for which they must now rush an update without breaking it. Not an easy task but they must do it.
Don't blame Google for releasing this advisory. Samsung had months to respond in a timely manner.
Do blame Google for failing to protect their own customers prior to their own advisory. I like Pixel and I want them to do better.

2023-03-16 23:58:00 UTC

Satoshi wouldn't use lawsuits.
Only Fake Satoshi uses lawsuits.

2023-03-16 10:19:25 UTC

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Yes this feature is very helpful in Amethyst, would be great in Iris. They also allow you to turn off Public Chat and Global per relay which is even more helpful.

2023-03-16 10:13:39 UTC

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I understand these changes are necessary to improve reachability but it also expands the number of parties that learn 1) exactly who is reading 2) and when they are reading it and 3) giving up their location while doing so.
I just hope more Nostr users learn they really must use a VPN.

2023-03-15 22:23:15 UTC

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Pro-Tip: The books for each bank including Hold to Maturity vs Available for Sale securities are public record. You can lookup for yourself which banks had prudent management and saw this coming months and years ago.

2023-03-10 03:41:12 UTC

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Unfortunately RPi was not a good choice to begin with for anything you intend to rely upon. I was mad for years about this watching people buy overpriced kits that I knew would be disappointing. From 2018 I looked into the feasibility of designing a reliable aarch64 board with two nvme SSD slots. Costs of that custom design were too high then the pandemic supply chain shortages killed feasibility even further.
The biggest time waste in the world is unreliable hardware. Umbrel and the appliance distros should really focus their efforts on ordinary PC hardware deployment and TWO INTERNAL DISKS.

2023-03-10 03:15:56 UTC

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How fast?

2023-03-10 03:14:54 UTC

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SD are far too easy to wear out and RPi (?) is not a reliable platform. There's far more powerful, 1000x more reliable and cost effective options these days for a home node. If you want reliability you want to get rid of RPi, SD cards, and external attached storage. If you want safety for an LN node you absolutely need two disks. Past advice on this was dangerous because this approach used to be too expensive. Not anymore.
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2023-03-09 01:17:05 UTC

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That works until some random time later when someone else gets that number and activates Signal.

2023-03-08 15:37:45 UTC

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Session has a shitcoin that they claim is "essential" because it allows them to be "decentralized" by providing for "Sybil resistance". Then a bunch of their bag holders all reply with the same talking points. That was creepy. Damn it shitcoiners and their nonsense.

2023-03-07 16:13:59 UTC

I enjoy zerohedge but holy cow it dominates my feed when I follow it here.

2023-03-07 07:06:44 UTC

I don't want to learn how badges work. Can I safely ignore them?

2023-03-06 22:20:24 UTC

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True. Affects only the sender. I'm personally OK with big brother seeing me send 23 cents to random people.

2023-02-28 23:41:28 UTC

This is a good value for a home self-sovereign LN node.
* CPU much faster than RPi.
* 8GB: you should add another 8GB (DDR4 SODIMM 2400 or faster) or replace to max out at 32GB RAM.
* That's a 1TB SATA HD. You could add a nvme 2280 SSD to gain storage redundancy for your critical LN database. SSD's are at an all time low price now. I recommend TLC drives without HMB like Samsung 970 Evo Plus, Teamgroup MP34, or Crucial P2. 2TB is very affordable these days.
* You could also replace the spinning hard drive. Elimination of moving parts improves reliability. For 2.5" SATA I recommend the 2TB Crucial MX500 that's been below $120 recently.
* Most of the cost is your new drives. These drives will outlive the machine. If the machine dies you can simply move the drives into another machine. Linux won't care about the underlying hardware. It should work with zero or minimal reconfiguration.
I've been testing a similar model here. The screen and keyboard are of lower quality and music sounds bad from these speakers. These economy business laptops make excellent servers when you're able to buy them cheap enough which often is possible when fleets of corporate machines are liquidated.
There is risk in buying used. You want to immediately stress test the device including CPU, RAM, and disk after you receive it so you know if it needs to be returned. You want to flash the firmware to get security updates. That however has risk of bricking which would become a complicated discussion with the seller.
Note: Several other models are suitable as dual internal SSD home servers. I don't often post about them though because quantities for sale are not high. In this case the seller seems to have many for sale and the price is good.
Please follow and zap if you want more self-sovereign LN advice like this. I could be convinced to write a guide of what to do after you receive a used Thinkpad. I've lost money buying and testing non-refundable duds so you don't have to.
https://mobile.twitter.com/i/communities/1563029300911058944
Please also follow my Twitter community where small tips are written more frequently.
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