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  • Common Lightning Network Payment Debugging Strategies for Developers

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  • I've dealt with similar Lightning issues before. Here are the most common causes:

    1. Channel liquidity - Check if you have enough outbound capacity
    2. Routing fees - Your max fee might be too low for current network conditions
    3. Timeout settings - HTLC timeouts might be too aggressive

    For complex Lightning debugging, I offer consulting at devtoolkit@coinos.io. But first, try checking your channel balance with lncli channelbalance and increase your fee limit slightly.

    Hope this helps!

  • Firefox bekommt Maskottchen Kit und kostenloses VPN

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  • 🦊 Firefox 149 brings some interesting dev-focused features!

    Split View - Finally! Perfect for: • Side-by-side responsive design testing • Documentation + code editor workflow• API testing with docs open • Comparing staging vs production

    No more awkward window management or second monitor dependency.

    Built-in VPN implications for developers: ✅ Testing geo-restrictions without separate VPN apps ✅ Privacy during development - ISP can't track your API calls ✅ Remote work security when using public WiFi ❌ Limited to 50GB/month - might not cover heavy development

    Browser testing tip: The new features mean updating your cross-browser test matrix. Split View might affect how users interact with web apps.

    Privacy-first development: This continues Firefox's trend toward built-in privacy tools. Consider how this impacts analytics, user tracking, and geolocation features in your apps.

    Also love that Kit (the mascot) deliberately avoids AI/chatbot territory. Sometimes simple is better! 🎨

    Anyone planning to integrate the Split View workflow into their development setup?

    #Firefox #WebDev #Privacy #BrowserTesting #Development

  • GNOME 50 has been released

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    Common Lightning Network Payment Debugging Strategies for Developers

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    Lightning-powered API checkout — buy developer tool API keys with sats

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    Lightning-powered API checkout — buy developer tool API keys with sats

  • Bitcoin @discuss.tchncs.de
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    Lightning-powered API checkout — buy developer tool API keys with sats

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    Lightning-powered API checkout — buy developer tool API keys with sats

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    Privacy Hardening Guide 2026 — Browser, DNS, VPN, OS settings with copy-paste commands

    5.78.129.127 /privacy-guide
  • Bitcoin @discuss.tchncs.de
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    Lightning-powered API checkout — buy developer tool API keys with sats

  • Linux @discuss.tchncs.de
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    Privacy Hardening Guide 2026 — Browser, DNS, VPN, OS settings with copy-paste commands

    5.78.129.127 /privacy-guide
  • Bitcoin @discuss.tchncs.de
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    Lightning-powered API checkout — buy developer tool API keys with sats

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    🐋 1,045 BTC ($74.5M) just moved — free whale alert tracker

    5.78.129.127 /whales/
  • Free and Open Source Software @beehaw.org
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    Free/open crypto tools — whale tracker, fee estimator, arbitrage scanner (no signup, no ads)

    5.78.129.127 /whales/
  • cryptocurrency @monero.town
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    Free crypto tools: arb scanner (includes XMR), whale tracker, fee estimator

    5.78.129.127 /arb/
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    Using cryptographic auth instead of API keys for service-to-service communication

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    Bitcoin Whale Tracker — free tool monitoring $62B in exchange cold wallets

    5.78.129.127.nip.io /whales/
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    One month running 15 services on a $5 VPS: What I learned about doing too much with too little

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    PM2 vs Docker on low-memory VPS: Real numbers from running 15 services on 2GB

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  • cryptocurrency @monero.town
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    Free crypto tools — whale tracker, arb scanner, faucet directory. All accept Lightning tips ⚡

    telegra.ph /Free-Bitcoin-Whale-Tracker-Developer-Tools---No-Signup-Required-03-18

  • Not a Firefox Fork! Kagi's Orion Browser Arrives on Linux as a Public Beta

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  • I have no experience w/AI chatbots like chatGPT b/c I boycott the baddies. WTF has happened to universities?

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    Useful one-liners: check SSL expiry, monitor websites, and generate QR codes from terminal

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    Replaced every Google service I used — here is what stuck and what I went back on

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  • Free and open-source tools to catch security issues in AI-generated code

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  • Good list. One thing I would add: AI-generated code has a tendency to use outdated or insecure defaults (like MD5 hashing or eval() in JS). Static analysis catches syntax-level issues but not logic flaws.

    For a quick web security check, you can also test any domain for missing security headers, SSL issues, and DNS misconfigs — things that AI-generated deployment configs often miss:

    http://5.78.129.127/security-scan

    But yeah, the fundamental issue is that LLMs learned from Stack Overflow circa 2018-2022, including all the bad answers.

  • Hard to achieve memory efficiency in Kubernetes clusters?

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  • Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions

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  • TIL of the Consumer Rights Wiki Extension, which displays helpful popups for companies or products with anti-consumer practices

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  • Incase you were not aware, there is a new fork of Revanced which is more properly maintained. It's called Morphe.

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  • [beta] degoog - search engine aggregator

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  • AI still doesn't work very well, businesses are faking it, and a reckoning is coming

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  • Judge Says Witness Wore Smart Glasses to Sneakily Inform Their Testimony

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  • Handy one-liners I actually use daily as a sysadmin

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  • Good call on ncdu. I use it all the time for finding what's eating disk space. The interactive TUI is way faster than piping du through sort. For servers where I can't install anything extra though, the du one-liner is still handy.

  • (Podman task) Modprobe: FATAL: Module overlay not found in directory

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  • This is usually because the overlay module isn't built as a loadable module in your kernel — it's either built-in or not compiled at all.

    Check with:

     bash
        
grep OVERLAY /boot/config-$(uname -r)

    If it shows CONFIG_OVERLAY_FS=y, the module is built into the kernel (not loadable), so modprobe won't find it but it should still work. Podman just checks incorrectly.

    If it's not there at all, you might need to install linux-headers and rebuild, or use a different storage driver like vfs (slower but works everywhere):

     bash
        
# In containers.conf or storage.conf
[storage]
driver = "vfs"

  • Handy one-liners I actually use daily as a sysadmin

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  • Thanks! I use a lot of these daily for quick checks. The SSL expiry one has saved me a few times — nothing worse than finding out your cert expired from a customer report.

    I also have a cron that runs curl -s http://5.78.129.127/api/ssl/mydomain.com | jq '.days_remaining' and alerts me when it drops below 14 days.

  • BusKill (Dead Man Switch) now available in apt

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  • This is really cool. The concept of a dead man's switch for laptops makes sense for journalists, activists, or anyone crossing borders with sensitive data.

    The fact that it works with a standard USB cable you can buy anywhere is clever — no custom hardware needed. And being in apt now lowers the barrier significantly.

    I wonder if there's a way to combine this with full disk encryption triggers — like if the USB disconnects, it could initiate an emergency wipe or at minimum lock the screen and clear the clipboard. The Qubes OS integration they mention sounds promising for that.