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59 comments \ @saloon 26 Aug \ yesterday

Howdy there, partner! Welcome on into the Stacker Saloon.

Saddle on up to a stool and spill the beans about your day, fire away with them questions, or let loose and give us the lowdown on your wild and woolly life. We're all ears, so don't hold back!

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44 sats \ 0 replies \ @nullama 15h

ThinkPads are such nice laptops

I used to like the XPS line of Dell as well, but for some reason they're gone now.

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scoresby 17h

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Kontext 17h

Web developers / Wordpress experts / Code wizards! I need help with the following issue: WooCommerce referral links only trigger on 2nd visit, details #1195603

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84 sats \ 3 replies \ @south_korea_ln 18h

@mega_dreamer, getting this error when trying to pay using internal Predyx wallet.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Coinsreporter 4h

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nitter 4h bot

https://xcancel.com/predyx_markets/status/1960736339697263035

84 sats \ 0 replies \ @mega_dreamer 13h

#1195738

We're working on it.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby 19h

The shitcoiners are making gaming consoles now...

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nitter 19h bot

https://xcancel.com/Cointelegraph/status/1960417225879298238

130 sats \ 0 replies \ @south_korea_ln 19h

From XKCD.

33 sats \ 4 replies \ @siggy47 20h

Curious if anyone is using LNbits to attach a wallet? I'm wondering about performance so far.

36 sats \ 3 replies \ @ek 15h

In my experience, LNbits and Phoenixd (both use very simple HTTP APIs) settle payments a lot faster and more reliable than any wallet that communicates over nostr.

The main downside is just that you need to have a domain or static public IP address.

55 sats \ 2 replies \ @siggy47 11h

Thanks. I'm going to start playing around with LN bits just for the hell of it. Its the only way I can think of sending and receiving on SN with a CLN node.

36 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 11h

I’ll add CLN send this week if you want to wait for it

33 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 11h

Definitely! My set up is fine as is. I just want to use my CLN node more.

36 sats \ 0 replies \ @Kontext 20h

“What we now call education is not education at all. Your teachers prepare you to pass examinations, but they do not talk to you about living, which is most important; because very few know how to live. Most of us merely survive, we somehow drag along, and therefore life becomes a dreadful thing. Really to live requires a great deal of love, a great feeling for silence, a great simplicity with an abundance of experience; it requires a mind that is capable of thinking very clearly, that is not bound by prejudice or superstition, by hope or fear. All this is life, and if you are not being educated to live, then education has no meaning. You may learn to be very tidy, have good manners, and you may pass all your examinations; but, to give primary importance to these superficial things when the whole structure of society is crumbling, is like cleaning and polishing your fingernails while the house is burning down. You see, nobody talks to you about all this, nobody goes into it with you. As you spend day after day studying certain subjects - mathematics, history, geography - so also you should spend a great deal of time talking about these deeper matters, because this makes for richness of life.” — Jiddu Krishnamurti

238 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b 20h

new transaction views (replaces invoice/withdrawal pages and exists for custodial things too) are ugly and (not very) complete

one of my hopes is to be able to express all transactions on SN in this way - obscuring PII but exposing what action paid/cost what and where the money went.

69 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 20h

Ah, it's my good friend @AlejandroBranchDH3

36 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 20h

one of my hopes is to be able to express all transactions on SN in this way - obscuring PII but exposing what action paid/cost what and where the money went.

overkill tho

108 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 21h

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138 sats \ 0 replies \ @billytheked 23h

cant do fiction month -- why not creative non-fiction

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66 sats \ 0 replies \ @Msd0457890 26 Aug

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @AG 26 Aug

NOW OPEN

Welcome stacker and cowboys to the second edition of the 🤝 SN Sellers & Business Club series!

This week: Traditional Models vs V4V

Thoughts? #1195017

36 sats \ 18 replies \ @Scoresby 26 Aug

Is all alphabetic writing digital?

102 sats \ 5 replies \ @ek 26 Aug

what do you mean by that?

100 sats \ 4 replies \ @Scoresby 23h

Alphabetic letters are a way of turning speech (which is a kind of fuzzy set of modulating audio waves) into a set of discrete digits. This was a surprising thought to me because "digital" feels like such a modern invention.

And really, alphabets aren't just digitizing speech, they're digitizing language, and since language plays such a big role in how we think these days, alphabetic letters become a way of digitizing meaning.

But humans may not have digital minds in the way that a computer does -- if what a computer is can be said to be a mind.

Another interesting place to take this is that non-alphabetic languages (like Chinese) might be better suited to human thinking? (this is now me wading way out into pure speculation without really thinking any of it through). Also, apparently numbers are considered ideograms.

123 sats \ 0 replies \ @nullama 15h

This made me think of oral languages.

These languages don't have a written form, so they might pose a challenge to AI. In theory a system could be trained to pick up the audio cues, but maybe it would miss the subtleties of the speaker.

142 sats \ 2 replies \ @adlai 23h

I think the word that more accurately conveys what you probably mean when you write "digitizing", is "discretizing". The example of tonal languages is great, because musical signals are definitely decomposable (both by wetware brains and by electric circuitry) into discrete syntactic elements, regardless of any digitisation of the signal.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby 23h

But can I say that alphabetic writing is discrete while ideographic writing is not? I wanted to get at the distinction that alphabets take our language and turn it into a series of digits.

162 sats \ 0 replies \ @adlai 23h

I suspect that if you follow this distinction out all the way, you'll find that ideographic writing is also a collection of symbols that can be considered digits, although the base is much higher... while English might have an effective base around thirty (if you allow for some punctuation), Kanji has an accepted common base of a few thousand and if you held some professor's feet to the proverbial fire, you could probably establish some mathematical bound for this base.

Check out syllabaries. Some writing systems are really quite close to an extremely compressed trace of the analog signal, while still being a linear sequence of symbols.

102 sats \ 11 replies \ @SimpleStacker 26 Aug

probably everything is digital. We know energy is digital. Probably time and space are as well.

132 sats \ 0 replies \ @nullama 15h

I think that even though reality might be "continuous", to use it as an information system then we would need to measure it, and that would collapse the wave-function, effectively making it "discrete".

102 sats \ 2 replies \ @adlai 22h

Statistically speaking, most photons that are just photing through space are getting redshifted; and I don't think that is quantized.... or if it is, then the resolution is much finer than anything familiar from atomic spectra.

444 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby 22h

photing is a word that I'm going to start using. also, a brief google search says you get credit for coining it.

142 sats \ 0 replies \ @adlai 22h

It's much easier to coin words if you set aside semantic propriety and just shuffle around the syntactic elements. Any actual physicists would probably be horrified by this most improper of personifications; photons can't possibly be agents, performing some action! They don't even experience time, as once you actually quantize some photon away from the arbitrary noise of the electromagnetic field, the photon's entire trajectory is all one spacetime interval.

Semantic propriety can be fun, although it takes an effort: the photing is photed by the fabric of spacetime itself, and individual photons are illusory, a notational convenience for drawing signals out of the noise.

1 sat \ 4 replies \ @ek 26 Aug

quantum would like to have a word with your 1s and 0s

137 sats \ 3 replies \ @SimpleStacker 23h

what if probabilities are digital

30 sats \ 2 replies \ @ek 23h

will you find the door?

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 23h

What does this mean?

30 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 23h

just a funnier way to say "there's the door"

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby 26 Aug

Maybe speech/thought isn't?

Words are so mushy and hard to pin down. Strings of them aren't much better.

Also what about languages that use ideograms?

102 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 26 Aug

30 sats \ 0 replies \ @Akg10s3 26 Aug

33 sats \ 0 replies \ @Kontext 26 Aug

Relai sunsets Lightning Network integration: #1194772

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @suraz 26 Aug

21 sats \ 2 replies \ @guerratotal 26 Aug

Today is one of those shitty days where everything goes wrong... hahaha

I went to cut some meat this morning and ended up cutting part of my hand. Now I'm going to cut a piece of bread and end up cutting the tip of my finger. I almost think I'm going to throw myself down, but I'm afraid I'll end up falling off, hahaha.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @suraz 26 Aug

Ouch! sounds painful.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @guerratotal 26 Aug

It's not that it hurts so much, but how uncomfortable it is.

2 sats \ 0 replies \ @Akg10s3 26 Aug

Happy Tuesday ☕⚡

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @RideandSmile 26 Aug

The advocates of public control cannot do without inflation. They need it in order to finance their policy of reckless spending and of lavishly subsidizing and bribing the voters.

Ludwig von Mises

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinsreporter 26 Aug

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0 sats \ 4 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 26 Aug bot

Day 609 of posting mining earnings from the day before: 499 sats on 25Aug2025! Running total: 405,423 sats!

Yesterday's comment

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 9h bot

Day 610's comment

50 sats \ 2 replies \ @rootmachine 26 Aug

why is your SATs gain per day decreasing in the last period?

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 26 Aug

Oh I scaled down one of my machines to run at a lower hash rate due to the noise where it’s located. I’ll likely scale it back up once it’s cooler outside and therefore the fans don’t need to run as fast to keep it cool

50 sats \ 0 replies \ @rootmachine 26 Aug

OH! I see. Good thinking. Keep it up!

281 sats \ 1 reply \ @sox 26 Aug

Safari cached the new comments favicon, I really can't with this fucking browser 😭

69 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scoresby 26 Aug

I haven't used safari in years. i'm sorry for your pain.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @AG0RA 26 Aug

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