615: 25.05 Reasons to NixOS

Happy episode 100! I hope the show keeps being worth you making it, because I sure appreciate listening to it. Banger of an episode 99 too 👍

Awesome song!

Just had a random thought it would be cool if instead of discontinuing the podcast, it could just be a merger of sorts with LUP just did a self hosted section as part of that podcast. Obviously, I may not understand some of the things going on in the background that would keep this from being a thing.

Sad to hear the show is coming to an end I am so thankful for the content and energy you have all invested into Selfhosted. In reply to Hybrid Sarcasms boost, OpenWebUI actually has a partial solution to a searchable obsidian vault of documentation with their Knowledge implementation. It's really easy to set up and works okay. Setting up a knowledge base in OpenWebUI can be done in the workspace. You can upload your entire obsidian vault directly through the WebUI and attach that Knowledge to a custom model based on whichever LLM you would like, ollama or API based. I only wish there was an implementation that allows syncing this from obsidian.

Just food for thought. I do wonder what the eventual effects might be for bitcoin, hopefully positive!

Welcome back for the new year! Whilst I prefer the shows not focused on US-internal politics, I know there'll be some of that, it's only natural for a US based show. If we're talking about the US Fed, though ... what do you think about the NY Fed holding 7000 tonnes of gold on behalf of foreign governments ? After invading Venezuela, the US might be able to steal its bitcoin reserves, or maybe not. The gold in NY is much easier to steal. If I wanted a sovereign reserve, I know where I'd look!

Love the track! Nice pick, Chris. Filoxera: love it

This seems a very accurate description of btc to me, and also one which depends on two things: btc being hard money, and btc being usable as money for trade.

Trying to keep it short: Money used for Money-Commodity-Money trades is capital. This is how an industrialist uses money. Contrast this to the Commodity-Money-Commodity use of money by say a poor farmer.

It's interesting that you ask if Saylor is downplaying btc as an asset, when the clip you played has him describing it as capital. In classical political economy, capital is a specific role played by hard money.

First time boosting in to TwiB! I am a total bitcoin newbie and really enjoy your breakdown of the macro news. You've convinced me to start stacking those SATs, thanks for that! I am considering noding up, and was about to go Knots to balance out the network. But all this BIP 444 business has convinced me to go core 30 with tweaked settings. Will report back once I get it up and running!

I'd bet Saylor's selling btc is because of whatever Galaxy Brain thing I don't understand that separates what he's doing from a Ponzi scheme. But if it's not that, maybe it's simple? Buy low sell high, and he's betting against a hot bitcoin summer?

Thanks for the good coverage of what's going on in btc core. This is the sort of episode I appreciate with the show

Like many, I’ve accumulated numerous Docker containers. I want to ensure some stateless containers remain available if my primary server goes offline. Considering NixOS, Kubernetes, and Proxmox HA, which would best achieve high availability while using code as documentation? Open to other solutions I am unaware of as well. What are your thoughts? Keep up the good work. Tebby

Following up on last weeks boost, it was a typo and it's called cheat. Double checked for typos this time. Thanks for the great work from JB!

Conversation regarding Snippety reminded me of a MacOS app I use called Clips, it provides historical clipboard using command+c and command+shift+v. I have found it extremely useful when copying and pasting commands usernames and passwords. I can't really speak regarding the security of having something with a complete history of your clipboard but it's great to be able to select anything in your clipboard history from a context menu that appears upon pressing the combination of keys.

I don't see any reason why btc couldn't stay under the cost of mining a coin for quite a while. The miners with reserves would keep going, and the small ones wouldn't make it. But my prediction is that it doesn't stay below $60k for long, exactly because this idea is widespread and people will start buying again if it does

I'm with Brent's brother for naming the van. How great would it be when it crossing the border for its name to change from something gratuitously rude, to confusingly French ? Allez Jean-Claude !

I've been enjoying the balance of the show recently, keep up the good work!

Not really enjoying the extended US politics arc of the show. I'll be tuning out for the near future, and will check in again after the US has calmed down a bit. Thanks for the first year of the show, which got me back into bitcoin.

Nice song!