Notices by Râu Cao ⚡ (raucao@kosmos.social)

Best hangover of my life.

A lot of men kind of think that the emotions portrayed in wedding movies are somewhat unrealistic, until they get married themselves I assume. At least I thought so, too, until today.

The ceremony is tomorrow, and I'll have to keep it together for the vows, because writing mine brought tears to my eyes.

@dcc @yukiame @cjd It literally takes me less than 10 seconds to pay for something online with Lightning, including opening the wallet and confirming the payment. If you want to send cash, first you need an envelope, then a stamp, then write the address, bring the envelope to a post box, ideally not directly where you live, then wait until it arrives and hope the receiver acknowledges the anonymous payment.

How on Earth is that not more expensive and time-consuming than pressing 2 buttons?

@dcc @yukiame @cjd The envelope would be stamped with a rough location, it would take days to arrive, it costs much more money and time, etc.. It's objectively terrible for buying something online.

@dcc @yukiame @cjd You should learn how Lightning works before making statements like that. And yes, I also regularly buy things in the physical world with it using my phone. You put up an example where cash is great, and I put up an example where cash is terrible. It's not black and white.

@dcc @yukiame @cjd I can buy a VPN service via #LightningNetwork instantly right now, and not be tracked by digital payments.

@cjd @dcc @yukiame People have been experimenting with similar ideas for a while. Here's one example: https://offline.cash/

@cjd @dcc @yukiame The criticism of digital-only is rather misguided IMO. All fiat currencies right now are almost entirely digital. Physical bearer notes make up a very small amount compared to overall currency units, and issuance information is all digital anyway. The question is if you want that information to only be stored on central and private bank servers, or if you want that information distributed all across the globe.

@feld Imagine journalists were required to ask for permission every time they quote someone who wrote something on social media or any other public medium.

@xot The EU Commission is not "Europe". Please call them what they are. Europe doesn't need them.

@lain

One of the most German things I can remember from my childhood: fresh bread rolls from the fridge, because even the bakery was closed on Sundays.

@lain Na zdraví!

@magdelenehall I'm on Sicily right now, and the summer is considerably cooler than usual this year. Our house would normally be uncomfortably hot inside now, but the outside temperatures are so much lower than usual that it's still nice to live in.

The "red heat alerts" in Italy are just issued for normal summer temperatures now. It's rather silly really.

Similarly, in Germany, July was incredibly cold and some of my relatives were even considering turning on the heating at some point.

@cjd @lain Their economy is still growing faster than Germany's (oh wait, that one's in recession) and France's, but obviously not anywhere close to a rate that would make up for this decade's *BRRR*.

Shout-out to @mullvadnet for introducing #LightningNetwork payments this year (and keeping the 10% discount for privacy-preserving, fully FOSS payments).

And now you can also open a channel directly to their new Lightning node:

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/lightning-payments

@cjd @lain Yeah, the alternative is a joke.

Rosemary envy.

@lain Reincarnation tax when?

@feld Just leapfrog to Tor only. 😅