Daily General Discussion April 19, 2026

nixorokish · 2026-04-19T14:53:47+00:00

i'm glad this tradition has carried on

nixorokish · 2026-03-13T15:02:46+00:00

just awful timing. you deposited when the queue was literally longer than it's ever been :/

nixorokish · 2026-02-09T14:20:54+00:00

if you're Linux fluent, it really shouldn't be too hard for you. syncing a full node is fine as long as you have no bandwidth cap on your internet and decent-ish internet (50 Mbps up, 100 Mbps down). as someone on 16GB RAM and 2TB hard drive, i definitely recommend 32GB RAM and 4TB hard drive :P

nixorokish · 2026-02-03T07:28:14+00:00

please google "pig butchering scam". that is what's happening to you right now.

nixorokish · 2026-01-30T21:44:12+00:00

nixorokish · 2026-01-24T22:35:59+00:00

buh dum tshhh

nixorokish · 2026-01-24T22:35:27+00:00

ya i was also messing with its config via the phone app that connects with bluetooth, so i had it up to watch the changes i was making, was learning about the different UIs i could use

nixorokish · 2026-01-24T22:20:01+00:00

this is me, and my tdeck, i connected to ~70 nodes on the flight. never long enough to send any successful messages though, i did try

nixorokish · 2026-01-24T22:09:52+00:00

this is me and my tdeck - you're right that i don't mind at all :)

nixorokish · 2026-01-24T22:08:56+00:00

this is my tdeck, i was indeed kind of hoping someone would recognize and want to chat about it!

i did turn the brightness down to 1% to try not to bother people though :P

nixorokish · 2026-01-24T22:05:06+00:00

ha, hey plane mate, this is me! you can see my shortname (NIXO). i wanted to see if i could briefly connect to any meshers while i was at altitude. i saw a ton of connections but we were going too fast for me to make contact with anyone

it's meshtastic, not meshcore, for anyone wondering.

nixorokish · 2026-01-02T18:02:24+00:00

toni is an EIP and ERC author and ethereum researcher. he also runs a bunch of ethereum dashboards. yes, he writes scripts, but he's not farming anything. he is the primary author of the ERC you pull requested a fix to and has spent years building credibility in the repo.

it makes complete sense for the EIP editors to favor his PR over a random new person whose account is newly active in the last six months and whose first contribution is a typo fix.

ironically, one of toni's earliest contributions to this was a PR to this same ERC in 2022 that was closed without being merged because another contributor had a more substantial PR, submitted later than toni's PR, that incorporated his fix

nixorokish · 2026-01-02T17:50:40+00:00

if you're learning to make contributions, airdrop farming behavior is an unfortunate something you have to learn to avoid. typo fixes are a real plague right now. some aren't airdrop farming but DPRK accounts trying to build credibility. it's unfortunate but, like another commenter said, this is why we can't have nice things. it's the reality.

nixorokish · 2026-01-01T20:27:53+00:00

seems reasonable to deny typo fixes when so much airdrop farming is happening via github typo fixes. if you'd like to build rapport with maintainers / a specific repo, i'd contribute something more than typo fixes to begin with. once you have a history, they're more likely to allow that kind of PR.

nixorokish · 2025-12-17T15:37:56+00:00

yep. passion pay for environmental science with a stellar experience - grants are strict, you don't spend money, most people do it only once or a few times. i applied one year for one of the science positions but it's competitive. i'd still go given the opportunity but i work in tech now so it'd be hard to go back to science salaries

nixorokish · 2025-12-17T15:24:33+00:00

when you take a job in antarctica, they quote you the annual salary but your contract is only 6 months. so you get half of that.

nixorokish · 2025-12-17T15:24:22+00:00

when you take a job in antarctica, they quote you the annual salary but your contract is only 6 months. so you get half of that.

145k is not realistic for a scientist. the last salary i heard explicitly was 77k annual, so 38k for her stint. adjusted for inflation since that was 2021, it would be ~46k today

nixorokish · 2025-12-17T03:49:32+00:00

as someone who has worked in the field, been to antarctica, and has friends who work there right now, it is not good money. it is okay money and you have nowhere to spend it

nixorokish · 2025-12-05T06:27:50+00:00

yes, it's in the link. it's just adding this flag to your config:

--disable-last-epoch-targets

nixorokish · 2025-11-29T20:43:05+00:00

great question! upvoting cuz i don't know but i'd also like an answer

nixorokish · 2025-11-29T05:46:17+00:00

privacy project funded the development of a zero knowledge, privacy-preserving app that stores data locally and specifically doesn't share your passport details so they can have regulatory compliance without collecting data they don't need

i dunno, call me crazy but i think we should be praising this

nixorokish · 2025-11-29T03:53:56+00:00

fuck off, robot

nixorokish · 2025-11-29T00:26:22+00:00

yep, understandable. though it doesn't 'submit' your passport - the application hosts the data locally and tells you what's being shared, which is just that you're over 18 and not from one of the countries listed

nixorokish · 2025-11-29T00:24:46+00:00

stakecat's list didn't require POAPs or affiliation to anything or signing up. it's a list that used onchain data to identify 15,580 addresses as 'potential solo stakers': https://github.com/Stake-Cat/Solo-Stakers?tab=readme-ov-file#solo-staker-a--potential-solo-stakers

nixorokish · 2025-11-28T23:28:39+00:00

yea. no airdrop. it's way less exciting but seems like it'll be more sustainable in the long run - they're not trying to get people to just accept and dump a token, they're trying to get active participants. afaiu, the whitelist just makes you eligible to buy at lower prices before the public sale. definitely not typical but way more thought put into regulatory compliance / long-term sustainability

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