Kind of interesting, it doesn't make the service trustless, because you still have to trust the configuration is as advertised...

But, it's more secure from the operators perspective, less chance of an exploit from user space impacting other users in a multi-tenant hosting environment.. which would ofc look bad for the provider who would inevitably be accused of an inside job

Shame that it's LDK though, would like to study an equivalent LND config.

I haven't even tried to argue any of your points, your both bot/retards because you can't even read what I write.

I never denied China's economic success, literally the exact opposite, you illiterate muppet.

He's either a retard or Chinese propaganda AI bot, same picture

I don't outsource my thinking to Globalists and UFW like you seem to

I just said I didn't blame China, it was Japan before that...

Doesn't change the fact that the industrial base has been hollowed out.

We've never spent more and gotten less, I'd expect you to say that since you can't read what I literally just wrote.

Economically illiterate too I see.

That's the industrial base, jfc.

Council on Foreign Relations, literally the group that pushed most of it.

Yes less people should have to work on a given widget as technology increases efficiency, but it wasn't efficiency that got us from producing thousands of ship hulls per year to less than a dozen, and left us exporting less and importing more.

Efficiency doesn't make people underemployed either, it gives them MORE productive things to do.

I don't blame China, they're rational actors that found an exploit and we simply allowed it to go unpatched, fiat.

Yea sure, everyone in the rust belt, entirely offshored industries, shipyards, trade deficits, people working 3 part-time service jobs living below the poverty line, and the people deploying trillions in capex to stop the bleeding must have forgotten to consult with you first.

Indeed, high ranking Chinese military have a book on this unrestricted warfare, and I understand there to be cultural strings pulled about the century of humilation. Our own NatSec apparatus is unambiguous that we're already in WW3, it's just not fully kinetic.

Not to victim blame, but there's an element of the west's sins coming back to haunt. Things the founders explicitly warned us against.

This isn't to blackpill, it's clear that western nationalists and the Chinese share a common enemy, the globalist deep state that's infiltrated the governments/banking systems of both... and that factions within each are well-aware of this and working together behind the scenes on a detente that will break both free.

No worries, I know as well as anyone this shits hard to make stable. Site's looking good these days, keep up the good work.

It's not just simply a matter of suicidal empathy or that regressives are naturally bat-shit insane, well there's a bit of that but not to these extremes, it's that their virtues are systematically weaponized against them and their country...

In a relatively free society, foreign powers through their proxies and frontwork get a say in our domestic affairs, in the form of military-grade psychological operations. These goal of these operations is to exploit human weakness for statecraft.

Who benefits from US cities looking like a zombie apocalypse? Domestic greed plays a part in an acute way, but on the whole it's competing totalitarian regimes that can point to the failures of these free societies and say that such models have failed to deliver prosperity for their people, giving the hostile power a lever to keep their own citizens content with their iron-fisted one-party rule.

Hollowing out our industrial base, social propaganda, political infiltration, drug distribution... these are all tactics of unrestricted warfare by rival powers. The US as a relatively free society is not inoculated against these 5GW attacks.

Nationalists who see this can only fight back against it by becoming more like the enemy, fascist, which foments even more domestic divide since it goes against cultural principles.

"He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster."

Nothing is random, EVERYTHING has meaning.

Looks like its still stuck at the htlc level so I think it'll be a matter of the timelock before I get it back, no worries...

I think your backend is borked, stuck payment now this:

Good subject, my theory is that with sound money we'll fulfill our innate human desire to return to eden, we're wired to just putter around our gardens with our families but fiat keeps us on a treadmill instead.

Since the last thing I talked about has been merged I've been bouncing between a few things

SN is integrating CLINK so there's been a few tweaks to that and the Lightning.Pub implementation. Marinading now on an addition to the spec given SN's hybrid model of being a centralized service with its own identity but also having it's wallet connections all client-side and not service initiated... Since it's foregoing using it's service identity in the wallet it will only get some of the benefits/UX of ndebit, but I think it's solvable. h/t to @ek for forging through integration and providing feedback.

The other thing most time has gone into is something that should have been a quick POC but now I'm on week 2 and it feels barely started. Been working with Straycat's graperank from a neo4j graph to power a namespace-by-consensus system.

Decentralized name systems get talked about a lot, and there are countless attempts to solve it (including past efforts of my own). #462059

This approach isn't name to IP but name to pubkey, is non-authoritative, and names are occupied only through social consensus based on the social graph. The goal is that you predictably have a name/slug on nostr that works across most Nostr apps.

The incentives of such a system are so simple in hindsight, if an app goes against social consensus of who occupies a name then their own reputation in the graph declines... everyone has incentive to speak the same language of names. It solves squatting, censorship, and pretty much any proplem with namespace systems you can think of. Disparate algorithms that power indexers should generally get the same results just by nature of the graph.

The "product" side of this is we can help new users pick a name or slug that isn't going to collide with someone who's reputation they are unlikely to over-come, also makes AI suggestions possible. I want this for myself to help us issue Lightning Address and Lightning.Video channels.

Biggest blocker has been ingestion of the graph data into SQL via attestations, the number is large and Nostr relays suck at transferring that... been debugging pagination methods off and on for weeks... grr...

Lightning.Pub, LND dashboard that connects over Nostr... the dashboard is in ShockWallet but in a very barebones state

Lightning.Pub is the CLINK reference server

DoE Q clearance gets natsec levels because of nukes, follow the uranium

Because Bolt12 is trash, ill-conceived, slow, unreliable, horribly engineered slop by the minor implementations.

Tor-based arbitrary data over a payment protocol... completely retarded.

Use CLINK offers instead (over nostr)

Long popcorn.

Has nothing to do with the economy cracking...

Markets are efficient, gatekeeping your product in your own brick-and-mortar is inefficient

The fact that they expended unnecessary overhead in the form of their own stores, in a natural state of consolidation, is just fighting an unwinnable battle against entropy.

Cheap debt and distorted price signaling allowed inefficient business practices to carry on for too long, this is just nature healing.

Certainly anything is possible, but this is still very reach-y. I don't consider myself a firearms expert but I know my way around them and people that know more then me have not casted any doubt on it being a rifle caliber or taken from the front.

No doubt either that there is magic and trickery to these ops, but that's also why I don't care much about who pulled the trigger... that's just a pawn... the story is bigger than who was there that day.

As Bannon says, I want who killed him, not just who pulled the trigger.

Getting mired into what may or may not have happened on scene ignores the bigger questions of who set it up, why, and why now.

Watching the video you linked above and i'm even more skeptical on that gun, the "shooter" doesn't even sight the "weapon", tantamount to a hip shot out of range.

Certainly possible he was a backup shooter, like Kennedy's driver was, but that's the best steelman for that case I can come up with