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It’s a very interesting article, and I didn’t even notice “Show HN” in the title until seeing your comment, but you’re correct there’s no project that we can try.

I was wondering how they were able to add a description, which isn’t usually possible for link submissions.

> No problem if it's the book I want, but the preview is just not enough

Manning has a decent solution to this. You can browse the entire book, but only a small section of it at a time is “descrambled” in the live view.

On more than one occasion I’ve used this to look up some specific topic, which was immediately viewable (and unblocked me on that problem), then gone on to purchase the book because I know it’s high quality and I’m likely to refer to it in the future for other reasons.

https://www.manning.com/

Upon re-reading this I think I identified the gap in your mental model: There’s no such thing as “LN transaction chains.”

Every LN transaction is literally a bitcoin transaction. Usually these are not broadcast to peers for settlement on the base layer, but the latest transaction always can be broadcast, just like any other Bitcoin transaction.

I don’t follow other L2s closely, so maybe this differs from Ethereum and its derivatives. But the Bitcoin Lightning Network is 100% Bitcoin.

The main chain is not abandoned, it’s used as a settlement layer.

If I hand you a paper bitcoin wallet worth a certain amount of satoshis, that’s still bitcoin. You rightly shouldn’t accept it because I know the private key and could rugpull those funds from your control. If there were cryptographic assurance to prevent that rugpull, owning that key becomes as valuable as the underlying asset.

Your flawed explanation is like saying the dollars spent on a Visa card aren’t using US currency because the transaction isn’t immediately settled in the eyes of central banks.

Edit: To be clear, there’s no credit involved in the LN transaction. I only used the analogy as a layman’s example. All LN transactions are fully collateralized and can be settled to the base layer at any time by either participant.

Use a Peltier device and it should be just as easy to reverse it for cooling!

When you say LN transactions “don’t provoke any of the benefits of bitcoin’s public ledger” what does that even mean? What benefits do you perceive are being lost?

Your initial description seems accurate, but then you erroneously claim this has nothing to do with bitcoin.

You are also mistaken.

Please explain how the Lightning Network loses most of the benefits of Bitcoin.

The protocol consists of passing signed multisig transactions back and forth through a network of payment channels. Every single one is a first class bitcoin transaction than can be redeemed by broadcasting to the base layer, enforced by consensus.

You have misunderstood since the beginning, because this is how it’s worked since the initial spec was proposed in 2015, years before it was actually implemented.

Here’s a book you may find informative: https://github.com/lnbook/lnbook

You are mistaken.

The Lightning Network literally consists of Bitcoin transactions.

There are custodial solutions that serve each layer, but that’s orthogonal to the network itself.

Custodia Bank is trying to do this in Wyoming.

The Fed is trying to stop them at all costs.

How about composing a digital currency stack in layers, similar to the OSI model for networking?

Bitcoin already has second layers: the Lightning Network, Stacks, and bridges to other blockchain systems.

Retrocomputing continues to increase in popularity. In addition to the Heatkit, you might be interested in kits from RC2014, SmartyKit, Ben Eater, Foenix C256, etc. There’s many more that are based around an RPi or microcontroller if you’re less concerned about authenticity.

Have you considered Skydio instead?

I hear ya, but to your point about “some creep buzzing you,” at least you’re aware of it for now.

A silent drone could be much creepier...

Are those stable coins actually cryptocurrencies?

Fedora w/tiling window manager (sway) and rpm-ostree, sounds very promising.

I’ve been using i3 (w/gnome integration) on Silverblue, so I’m wondering how this will compare.

For those who are confused about the acronym, as I was:

BFR was the code-name for Starship, short for Big Falcon Rocket

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship_development#...

Good point. I thought there was a way to validate authenticity by involving the TLS cert, but I’m unsure how that would actually work.

Yes, there’s one called Mostr

It can be archived by something like the Wayback Machine.

For the strongest guarantee of non-repudiation, there’s OpenTimestamps:

https://opentimestamps.org/

Yes, you delete by appending a delete event:

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/7d792055372ce1af...

Then clients and relays SHOULD act as if the referenced event is deleted. This is different than MUST, probably because there’s no way to guarantee it happens. It’s also possible the delete event doesn’t make it to everywhere that received the initial event.

If the phone is unlocked, a badUSB-type device can do anything a keyboard can do, so it’s far from completely harmless.

Thousands of O.MG cables are out in the wild… https://shop.hak5.org/products/omg-cable

Have you tried Audiveris?

https://audiveris.github.io/audiveris/_pages/handbook/

I haven’t tried it but my first thought was to use something like tesseract OCR, and I found this optical music recognition (OMR) project from there.

I should have mentioned their approach to user apps too…

Flatpak is the preferred app packaging format, and Endless maintains its own collection of curated apps in the App Center.

I think it’s straightforward to install anything from Flathub as well, but it’s been a while since I last checked.

These types of distros are currently suitable for users who are either very advanced OR non-technical (who’s needs are completely filled by an app store).

EndlessOS (started in 2017) is a distro based on debian that uses OSTree for an immutable root partition. It’s targeted at non-technical users and particularly suitable for not-always-online environments.

https://endlessos.com/

Here’s the discussion, “Roadmap: As-code,” that I’ve been tracking: https://github.com/grafana/grafana/discussions/39593

Thema is mentioned there, as “the presumed successor to grafonnet,” but that hasn’t officially been confirmed and it sounds like bigger changes might be underway. Discussions are also happening elsewhere, like their Slack, but that link is the most complete overview I’ve found.

Grafana have been working on a replacement for grafonnet but unfortunately haven’t shared much detail. It sounds like they completely rewrote the dashboard spec using CUE, but there will be converters available at release.

In some of the discussions where the community is trying to figure out how to future-proof current dashboard definitions, Grafana Labs has also recommended this Python tool (unofficially I suppose) by Weaveworks, called grafanalib: https://github.com/weaveworks/grafanalib

It inherited the name of another machine, from where its primary storage was pulled (despite an OS replacement).

You make such a great point that I’m going to rename it: paradox

Thank you, Lithium!