131: The Value of Community
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Exploring Video Output Devices and Innovative Solutions
This chapter explores a device by SiSpeed designed for video monitoring, highlighting its key features such as output options, pricing, and potential HDMI enhancements. The speakers discuss practical workarounds, showcasing adaptability in hardware design for various resolutions and usage scenarios.
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We celebrate five years of the show, chat about self-hosted Lightning, and why Alex loves his NanoKVM. Plus, it is a self-hosted replacement for Amazon Wishlists and more.
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- ⚡ Grab Sats with Strike Around the World — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 100 countries.
- ⚡ Bitcoin Well — Empowering sovereign ownership with free automatic self-custody 🔒
- 🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.1 with Nostr support, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts. You can also Boost from the Web via their site.
- Deplatformed by PayPal, Antiwar Journalists Speak Out — According to the two organizations, the PayPal ban remains in effect. PayPal had also frozen the outlets’ funds, including $9,348.14 in Consortium’s account, and threatened to seize the money as “damages.”
- Patreon Policy Updates — The Community Guidelines have been rewritten to be clearer and more uniform in terminology, tense, and tone. Trust & Safety moderators have also been equipped with new support language to ensure that their interactions with creators are more educational.
- New Patreon policy updated on tuesday
- 30% fee on Patreon payments through iOS is cause for concern
- Patreon issues are causing paused payouts and canceled subscriptions — Some Patreon creators have noticed a dip in subscribers, and fans have gotten notices that their payments are being flagged.
- 🚨🚨PAYPAL HAS ALL MY MONEY AND BANNED ME!!!! 🚨🚨
- Bitcoin Mining Council Survey Confirms Year on Year Improvements in Sustainable Power and Technological Efficiency — The results of this survey show that the members of the BMC and participants in the survey are currently utilizing electricity with a 63.1% sustainable power mix. Based on this data, the global bitcoin mining industry’s sustainable electricity mix has improved marginally to 59.9% and remains one of the most sustainable industries globally.
- What is the Lightning Network? — Essentially, the Lightning Network is a way to transact bitcoin faster, cheaper, and more privately than on the Bitcoin blockchain.
- ZEUS — Controlling and managing your Lightning node channels has never been easier.
- Onboarding to lightning | ZEUS Documentation — ZEUS' embedded node has many different ways to get onboarded onto lightning with payment channels. This doc details all of the different ways and tradeoffs.
- Start9 | Opening Your First Channel
- Umbrel - Personal home cloud and OS for self-hosting — Store your files, run your own VPN, download and stream media, run a Bitcoin node, and more — all in your home.
- Alby Hub Introduction — Alby Hub is more than a lightning wallet. It's your Hub for instant bitcoin payments across a growing ecosystem of apps and flexible enough to serve your very own use case.
- Alby Hub v1.7.2: Friends & Family App — Friends & Family app let's you quickly onboard your friends and family to Bitcoin and Lightning via your personal Alby Hub instance. They get a wallet without having to understand lightning or have their own channels, and not rely on large custodial services. They can also get their own Lightning address with an Alby Account, or connect their new wallet via the Alby extension. Soon, they will also be able to connect to Alby's new mobile app, Alby Go.
- Lightning liquidity
- How do i get incoming liquidity and start routing payments?
- Racking and stacking an off-site backup server for Jupiter Broadcasting - YouTube — Join me, Chris, and Brent from JB as we fly to Toronto to deploy our shiny new colo server in Canada. We'll be deploying the 45homelab HL15 server.
- Everyone should have a PiKVM in their desk area — A few weeks ago I had an epiphany. The kind that once you have it, is so stinkin' obvious you wonder what on earth you were thinking all this time by not seeing it!
- Sipeed NanoKVM Review - Affordable RISC-V IP-KVM - StorageReview.com
- NanoKVM — Affordable, Powerful, RISC-V Nano KVM over IP
- wishthis — wishthis is a simple, intuitive and modern wishlist platform to create, manage and view your wishes for any kind of occasion.
- Microsoft to host CrowdStrike and others to discuss Windows security changes — Microsoft, CrowdStrike and key partners who deliver endpoint security technologies will come together for discussions about improving resiliency and protecting mutual customers’ critical infrastructure,
- Team Toronto Matrix Chat room
- Untrusted Source Store
- AutoPi: Telematics IoT Infrastructure for Fleets and developers - Built on Raspberry Pi — Get the most out of your vehicle or fleet. AutoPi provides the tools you need to extract and visualize the data that matters most to you or your business.
- SSH 131 BOOOOST BAAARN
- Jupiter Broadcasting Garage Sale — Find some Self-Hosted swag in the Jupiter Garage.
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