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55 comments \ @saloon 21 Aug 2023 \ yesterday

This is a thread for random discussions that gets posted everyday at 5am central.

Tell us what you're doing today, ask questions, or vent about your life. Whatever you want, let it rip!

131 sats \ 2 replies \ @nkmg1c_ventures 22 Aug 2023

Had a very pleasant day outdoors, it was a supremely nice day weather wise. Had one of those weird "a ha everything is fine I'm surrounded by trees and the air smells perfect and everything is right with the world" moment. In modern terms, go "touch grass" everyone

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @nkmg1c_ventures 22 Aug 2023

This is a big deal because the world is terrifying and makes me pessimistic more often than not lately

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @m00ninite 22 Aug 2023

The world isn't nearly as terrifying as social media and news media would have you believe. Unplug from that shit and the world gets a lot smaller and kinder.

71 sats \ 4 replies \ @edulopesf 21 Aug 2023

Look what I've found...

https://imgprxy.stacker.news/IWUiNqgWEGuFdpqdcUcXhDLicj_7XEwe9KqvETSVA3M/rs:fit:600:500:0/g:no/aHR0cHM6Ly9paWxpLmlvL0hwd0dPMnAubWQuanBn

What I do with it? =D

50 sats \ 1 reply \ @nullama 21 Aug 2023

Did you take a photograph of a screen?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @edulopesf 22 Aug 2023

yep, it was faster than print screen and crop

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @nemo 21 Aug 2023

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @edulopesf 22 Aug 2023

https://imgprxy.stacker.news/KxMKLfAbDz4XK-6nMnJIRMlucUD6Ex7KL5WE4ptfgC8/rs:fit:600:500:0/g:no/aHR0cHM6Ly9tZWRpYS50ZW5vci5jb20vSG91Ml90YzB0WUlBQUFBQy93b29keS1jaGVla3kuZ2lm

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @orthzar 21 Aug 2023

Everyone said ChatGPT would kill us all. But all I've seen is a bunch of journalists spouting nonsense about AI and ChatGPT-written spam, but I repeat myself.

106 sats \ 3 replies \ @nullama 21 Aug 2023

Just wanted to share a really cool program for Linux.

ncdu

It's perfect to delete large files that are using all your space. It's incredibly fast (reads terabytes in seconds), and it's super simple to use.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 22 Aug 2023

Thanks, will try out since docker images always seem to take up all the space on my small server

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @nkmg1c_ventures 22 Aug 2023

Cool!

I have an alias for the base 'du' command with some sorting and human readability logic, very useful on small hosted boxes with limited space. Lots of npm projects and SSH'ing via VSCode will create large folders without you realizing.

du ~ -h -d 5 | sort -r --human-numeric-sort | head -n 15

Gives you the 15 largest files / folders with human readable filesize outputs. From there I usually just rm -rf it.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nullama 22 Aug 2023

Yeah, I actually found ncdu while searching for a command like that one.

To be honest, ncdu is a game changer. And it even works on servers or local machines because it's all terminal based, but also very intuitive.

I literally recovered 500GB in a few seconds with it. Great to find those temp files, and many other things that just keep increasing.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BitcoinIsTheFuture 21 Aug 2023

Unfortunately back to work, lol. Stacking sats to cold storage daily for my future self!

126 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 21 Aug 2023

Have you ever seen a pigeon sitting down in the middle of the road? it kind of looks like a boat to me:

https://imgprxy.stacker.news/3rwSfIvTGneRDEp_HiX7MswZGoEqtGW1d2qECnasi1k/rs:fit:600:500:0/g:no/aHR0cHM6Ly9pLnBvc3RpbWcuY2MvMTNDRkozS3gvc2lnbmFsLTIwMjMtMDgtMjEtMTM0MzUzLmpwZw

42 sats \ 1 reply \ @locomancell 21 Aug 2023

How do you keep your cowboy hats here?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nemo 21 Aug 2023

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @scottathan 21 Aug 2023

After many attempts that have resulted in some possibly but hopefully not burned sats, I finally got smart and started setting up a testnet node for lightning. Gonna open some channels with it today and screw around so that I actually know what I'm doing when on mainnet.

102 sats \ 2 replies \ @bitcointerest 21 Aug 2023

Keeping my longest cowboy streak going until __@_'-' reaches its destination: 2

5 sats \ 1 reply \ @scottathan 21 Aug 2023

Bold, bold. I salute you

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @bitcointerest 21 Aug 2023

Lol. I know it's doable.

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @Tjacten 21 Aug 2023

Ugh it's Monday. I'm going back to sleep.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @scottathan 21 Aug 2023

But Monday is the best day to leap out of bed with dreams and aspirations that won't be fully crushed until Tuesday!

71 sats \ 0 replies \ @RealCoachAndy 21 Aug 2023

Hello everyone!!! Monday is here and it's time to get cracking, hope you recharged during the weekend, all relaxed and ready to give it a go, I wish you a phenomenal week, may it be filled with profit and success in everything you do, remember that you matter, you are important and you are appreciated in all you do. Have a wonderful Monday and let's give this week our absolute best. Be well and stay frosty my friend!!

142 sats \ 2 replies \ @deepologic 21 Aug 2023

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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @orthwyrm 21 Aug 2023

Are you making these yourself? I like 'em.

50 sats \ 0 replies \ @deepologic 22 Aug 2023

Some yes, some I found and liked :)

2 sats \ 0 replies \ @softglitter2d 21 Aug 2023

This is my first visit to Stacker News since..my last post.

80 sats \ 0 replies \ @premitive1 21 Aug 2023

Brought in an old laptop to work to use as my work station. They gave me a work email, and there's no way I'm putting it on my personal phone.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @bitcointerest 21 Aug 2023

I'm hard at work. Taking a minute break every 30 minutes to scan SN.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @sahil 21 Aug 2023

I lost my cowboy hat after a 5 days streak! I feel confident that I will find one soon to wear.

14 sats \ 0 replies \ @AllCatsAreEvil 21 Aug 2023

Fiat mining today then working tonight on things that matter.

92 sats \ 5 replies \ @kenn_b 21 Aug 2023

I keep my orange pill tally. +4 so far. (that I know of of course) What is your number?

10 sats \ 2 replies \ @scottathan 21 Aug 2023

What counts for you as a successful orange pill?

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @kenn_b 21 Aug 2023

that is a good question. For me, it is getting someone who does not own bitcoin to own it. (whatever reason they might have is up to them). So, I guess a very light orange pill or dietary orange pill hehe.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @scottathan 21 Aug 2023

Fair enough. I feel like understanding might be an even better gauge of success though. I had a friend once who was semi-orange pilled and I gifted them ~20k sats that I think they ended up burning bc they deleted the wallet without a backup. They did later learn more and understand it better, but it was a rough situation regardless

5 sats \ 0 replies \ @orthwyrm 21 Aug 2023

Ever so slowly planting the seed among a few promising candidates, but as of yet none have come to fruition.

5 sats \ 0 replies \ @carlosfandango 21 Aug 2023

Good job… I have no idea on number. It’s those who vehemently objected I worry about most…. fiat system addicts.

50 sats \ 7 replies \ @faithandcredit 21 Aug 2023

The price to run a website is going to increase exponentially going forward due to war and inflation (which has deeper causes). So the free and open internet as we know it is basically breaking down. Part of the infrastructure that powered the internet will be maintained for "essential businesses" only. Like how the lock downs "essential businesses" was allowed to stay open. What is the solution? It just needs to play out at this point. Maybe in 100 years a free and open civilization will flourish again!