Nice work, now just enable Device Sync here: https://stacker.news/settings/passphrase

The gun should appear, see https://stacker.news/faq#how-do-i-get-a-gun-or-a-horse

POV: me walking into Dunkin Donuts to pay with Lightning

Yes I agree with your analysis: mass adoption lowers the average quality of offerings on a platform. There's even a name for this: Eternal September. Personally I've seen this happen on AirBNB, Uber, Groupon, and Facebook - yes i was on facebook when it was college emails only.

I'd like to take your thoughts one step on the "blame probably also lies with the type of customers it started to attract after becoming mainstream". I see this as a variant on Goodhart's Law which states when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.

For an example: high schoolers doing community service were seen more positively in the selective U.S. college application process. Makes sense if a teenager is willing to help out for free, they are probably pretty mature, ambtiious and organized, which are good things for your student body. But when the benenfits of listing your community service became known to the general population, suddenly every student was "doing" community service, but of course not of their own drive, but for the boost of their application which made it a useless selection metric.

Back to enshittification of platforms: I think the early adopters are usually selling slack that appears by happenstance. AirBNB is a great example because many people had built a guest house for visiting relatives and friends without knowing they could make extra money by renting it out online, so they built it for quality and for character, not profit maximization. But now that concept of airbnb is known, many real estate investments and remodelling plans occur with the rental opportunity in mind. In which case the incentive is to produce the minimal viable unit which can get booked at the highest price.

So in the early days you sell slack on boutique offerings: AirBNB's rented slack guest houses, Uber was renting slack for a designated driver who had no plans that night, Groupon was putting butts in seats during the off season. But then at mass adoption the platforms create a baseline of demand which exceeds the available slack and becomes fulfilled by a commodity service built for profit maximization.

To wrap up, yes this is where the profit motive drives the enshittifcation but it's not at the platform level (as you correctly identified) but at the participant level once the exploit becomes well known.

Well deserved, a great team. They won this year's MIT Bitcoin hackathon: https://devpost.com/software/payjoin-integrations

Looks like cake wallet (v4.28.0) is the first (?) wallet to support PayJoin, although I haven't been able to figure it out yet.

Little eerie seeing this post...

I also dusted off an umbrel install I had last running in 2022, plugged it in and started re-syncing. Same specs: RPi4 with 2TB spinning hard disk. Has bitcoin v22.0 installed. Also at 78% of the full height as of this morning.

In top noticed that beyond bitcoind the elctr (?) contianer was taking a third of the CPU being utilized. When I get home I verify this and check out some of these diagnositic commands.

Just added you. It says you can't be messaged. If you add me back it might allow, or you can hit me first, my DM's should be open.

@Cje95 hit me up on nostr (in my profile) ?

Alright folks, that was a lot of fun and thank you for the great answers. H/t to the SN hivemind ⚡

Looks like secret tunnels wins the bounty 🙌

Maybe I'll go sailing with Saylor. With our wallets safely aboard of course.

Is that the same as "Air & Space"?

She's right down the street from me at present. But I'm still waiting for my house-warming gift ;)

Working in a factory is really about taking the highest paying offer on the table.

Total comp maxing. Like a programmer choosing a boring but high paying big tech job over a more interesting low paying startup.

Yes, there is a drudge factor to working in a factory which is why many people who do manual labor find working outdoors or driving trucks or working a restaurant are worth getting paid less to what they could at a standard factory.

And just like big tech jobs, factory jobs can be more comfy, stable, and have better worker safety than the average farm hand.

Alright it's been two days, we have a winner :)

I love meta, but not a combo, doesnt qualify

Since people don't understand the prompt... Obviously the below is two separate photos the AI has combined into one. (In this case both photos are well known. But to win the bounty only one needs to be a well known picture)

^ This guy gets it

Is this Heaven's Gate before ascending to Hale Bop?