31: The Mayor of Milk Town

One day, I will make it to LNFW. One day....

Hey yo! I just realized that last time only a portion of the boost got to all of you, hopefully this time all goes out. Live boooooost!

I'm also rethinking my cold storage situation. I wrote a little rust program to roll a virtual dice using the rand crate, then used that running on my desktop which at that time had been online and doing a bunch of things in the background for a while to get some random dice rolls. Going to check out Bitkey and also maybe an ESP32 based seedsigner

Regarding fed reserve... All our govt does is jibber jabber unless it affects their own wealth or life or agenda. They don't care about the middle class and as long as there isn't a revolution, which they're confident there won't be, they can continue just jibber jabbering

Episode 100 idea: Bitcoin Dad's guest appearance (if he is up for it of course)

+1 to expanding the updates section discussing the implications of changes Also +1 to what bitcoin.conf settings you run and why

Thank you for this episode

I've taken the plunge into nixos. I set up a full lightning stack on nix-bitcoin and a side effect of that was to install nixos on my main server at home. Chris, I blame you

Thank you for this episode!!!

Stop suggesting awesome projects! I'm running out of resources 😂 NetAlertX seems promising, I've seen it mentioned in a youtube video but didn't bother deploying it. I now have to try it!

I have a lot of similar ability for monitoring with the Unifi dream machine, but I might still set this up... Good find Mr Fisher!

Chris, I will buy you a bitaxe. Tell me which one and where to ship it. I'm almost done setting up a pool server so we can have a JB Pool

Catching up, regarding the poverty line, I spend over 23k on housing and I'm in the Midwest in a rural area. What gets me is that all these "experts" never update their formulas even though everything is constantly changing around them. Why do you think that is?

Chris, can you do an section on your core config options and rationale behind them?

In regards to entropy and offline generation, I think people are missing the point. You want more entropy data points and to get such things, most operating systems get that from network, disk, memory, all kinds of different things that are changing. If you have a tails system that's completely air-gapped, you're not going to have all the network data points that you can pull from to add to the entropy pool. To get the most randomness, you want a very high entropy pool and the Linux entropy pool is taking all sorts of different inputs, so the more inputs you can add, the higher your entropy, the better your random number generator is. So when I generated more dice rolls, I was using my main online system with browser open as much entropy as you can possibly get based off of network activity, and all that. Yes, sure, if somebody pwned that computer already, they could see the numbers that were generated, but that still is much higher entropy than if you have an offline system that you just booted up and you're already generating numbers off of.

Community Mining pool update. The upstream project P2PoolV2 is still working on mining share payouts. The software is not yet a minimum product. At the same time, I have been working in a NixOS flake to run the project as a service module.

Reverse Linux process is restoring a backup. Go in depth about backups

The backwards show idea sounds so fun. All you gotta do is read everything backwards then have Drew reverse the track :P

Thank you for covering all the kernel stuff. I know it's a lot of work, but I love hearing it. That AMD regression in 7.2 would affect me since that's what my desktop runs, so I'll keep an ear open for the fix

I choose to run the Zen kernel on my stuff. Performance babyyyyyy

Huge update on JB mining pool coming soon. Chris, please contact me to discuss some details

Thanks for the boost question in the show notes, great addition to the notes

I am an IT sysadmin that also enjoys coding. LLMs have changed by job a little bit in that I don't have to spend as much time sorting through search results to find solutions to my problems. I'm able to find things sooner and have answers that are more catered to the problem that I am having. For coding, I enjoy doing it and I don't have a pressure to release anything faster than normal so agentic coding hasn't really been a huge part of it yet. If there was a pressure to ship mostly functional programs sooner, I might be using it more but at the moment it is just a fabulous search tool

This was a great episode. I know you were going to try changing the format. I'm excited to see what way that goes. Just wanted to give you some signal on the current format as I get lots of value in each episode. When you choose what to cut, please don't cut the state of the network section. I like hearing that each week

Thanks for the wake up call! I deployed Prometheus and Grafana and now I'm hooking up everything 😅 My TrueNAS, Proxmox, Unifi (there's a nice video by TechnoTim in yt), and Home Assistant. I have no idea what to make with all those data, the next step is to set up alerts I guess. Great episode as always.

I stumbled upon this declarative Home Assistant installation on reddit, you might be interested 😀 https://gitlab.com/selorahomes/products/selorabox-nix/

Hey, it's been a while, I wanted to boost so many times, but didn't have the time 😅 1. For the stage 4 BSD challenge I say you test how gaming works. You pick a game that's supposedly supported in BSD, and you get points for managing to install and play. I'll try to participate, I have a dell xps and an x260 lying around 2. For what is worth ai like the AI content 😀

Thanks for having my rack featured! It was a great episode! Also, I didn't think I'd win the boosties 😅 Since I'm already a member, I'll pass the gift to someone else. I'm talking with HybridSarcasm and will let you know probably next week. Happy 2026!

Unifi makes a great wifi analyzer app called Wifiman. Does not require Unifi gear to work, it uses your phones radios

The split to drew failed in my last boost

Congratulations Alex for figuring out why in the business datacenter we have a few separate SANs, compute hosts and NAS boxes instead of one. All because the department of redundancy department exists. In my homelab, I have found that added complexity can make more headaches down the road when one box gets updated and that breaks a thing or you have to shut everything down because your NAS with all the data needs an update or whatever the case may be

Happy belated birthday!

Extra bonus sats for the baby Chris clip. Loved it

Something small to fund Brent's adventures 🙂

Never used an agent locally, the first I want to try is the home assistant mcp. I've always used the web based versions of chatgpt, claud, gemini. I'm feeling I'm left behind 😅 Here's a little something for the trip!

Chris, I think you probably would end up spending more BTC if there weren't taxes on it either since all these boosts are essentially a locked up cash flow for you. You'd be able to dip into the boost income and pay the monthly bills with less cost

Edit last boost I WOULD NOT have to do all these calculations

I would spend more sats if there wasn't a capital gains tax on every single transaction. My self hosted lightning would then just become my checking account and I would have to do all these calculations on how much fiat I need to save to pay the bills and put the rest into BTC cold storage. Could take my whole pay in BTC

I love the idea of audits like this. Great idea

Clip 5. Meant self custody, not self sovereignty

Clip 5. Eh, not really important to me. I don't coinbase or care much about clarity act. Self sovereignty over here

Clip 4. Cut, not helpful to the topic or discussion

Clip 3. Helpful to see where he is coming from and the lense he sees through. I would have liked it to be included since I don't know his background at all

Clip 2 misses out on the whole point of why bitcoin is a good investment, being scarcity. Mathematics proves only 21million. CUT

Clip 1,agreed on cutting

I wanted to note that I appreciate your takes on the latest AI news 🙂 I deployed hermes to a VM in my proxmox node and started playing with it. I'm currently using the opencode go subscription ( I picked Qwen3.6-Plus) which was $5 for the first month just to get the hang of it. I set it up with telegram, it's kinda surreal to ask your bot questions and see the reply 😅 I'm curious what models/subscriptions you use. And also how much "power" you give them to perform tasks on your behalf. Cheers!

I think the four year cycle still exists because our political system in the United States is also a four year cycle to an extent. We get at least lately a different president every four years and it just goes back and forth between the two major parties and the four-year cycle is indicative of market during those policy changes that the different parties make and their ethos of how to run the country

Would the bip110 situation be somewhat solved by having additional node implementations?

Awesome deep dive. Keep those coming I really like them

I absolutely agree with you Brent. Why do I compromise experience and use Firefox? Because it is not chromium and I strongly dislike the mono browser culture we have. At first I was disgruntled with the changes Mozilla was making but I value rallying behind a different browser engine than chromium and if my anonymized data is what it takes to help offset the cost of making one, then I guess I will just have to live with it. Which is why I am watching Ladybird very closely and have seen decided to support them financially. Have fun at SCALE!

If I were Linus, I would change the version of the kernel to 7.0 and all subsequent kernels would be 7.X forever. Why? Because why not, I'm Linus. In all seriousness, I do not know enough to make a good decision regarding the direction the kernel should take or what adjustments to make. That is why I'm not Linus...

I'm a few weeks behind on podcasts, but great episode once again Chris! As for do i trust my mobile as my cold stash? Absolutely not. Too connected, too visible as a target for theft or even getting lost or damaged. But I'm also an old man in that I prefer using a computer over my mobile for as much as possible

For those asking: Mining pool update I have a proof of concept set up. However it is based on the project called P2PoolV2. The payout system doesn't work yet so there's no point for me to share the link and for us to burn energy without a reward. The pool by default uses PPLNS shares but there are other payout methods being implemented. I will update again when there is a minimum viable product of P2PoolV2 available

Name for us listeners: Jupiteers. We are pioneers in the FOSS space