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This post resonated with me. I have tried self hosting multiple times over the years and always gave up cause it is so hard to manage and there was always an online service that was good enough.

This weekend I vibe coded (dont shoot me) a homelab platform that hosts a bunch of useful services on a MacMini and lets me deploy my own apps on top of. Using tailscale I can access the apps from my phone. I have multiple users with their own SSO to control access. I even have a pi as part of the network that hosts public facing content. All done with Claude Code and OpenClaw (as a kind of devops tool)... hardly any code written by me. Its been a seriously fun experiment that I will try to progress some how.... if only because I love the dream "Digital sovereignty" even if the reality is its unlikely to happen again. It got me thinking though if I could get inference hardware and a good enough open LLM to work with my setup it might just be possible. The OP advocates a form of basic computing that is understandable but when we are able to host our own LLM's we could end up in a very different but more capable paradigm.

The repo for homelab anyone who has an interest: https://github.com/briancunningham6/homelab

I got it working on an M1 with 16gb. Quite slow but it trains and returns responses.

Can anyone explain to me the mindset that allows you to go so far as to burn through a ton of investors money and actually ship a "Free" energy device to the public? It is baffling to me that someone could continue to bluff all the way until the inevitable public humiliation. Still I'm going to enjoy watching it play out, provided they actually do ship these boxes and dont magically have a last minute hitch (even that would be interesting to hear what excuse could be made up).

Possibly best twist in the story yet :P http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1z3gom/conspiracy_t...

I think the theory is that he no longer has access to the keys... the implication being that the authorities are in control and he has to obey a gagging order.

Cool, thanks for the clarification. So I guess its only a matter of time there are electronics stores accepting BTC online

Does this mean I will be able to buy a macbook with BTC some day soon? Something tells me Amazon will put a stop to this but it is an awesome feature

Hummm. Does Amazon know about this? Are they likely to revoke access to anyone availing of this service?

I honestly think facebook is really well designed, shock horror but its true

This looks awesome. Could anybody tell me how to render a angularjs-ui calendar using the jade rendering engine? I am a noob with node but I would like to know how I can use these components in a basic node app.

Thanks to everyone who responded. It is invaluable to have people to have people to bounce and idea off... it really helps to open your eyes.

Agreed, or perhaps something that they would like to try out while on holiday. Thanks for your response I think you make a good point.

Yep. Seems unlikely that someone would rent this type of equipment from a kiosk at the airport too.

Is there any product that this would work for.. that is the question I'm asking myself.

Good points. I think you are correct with the business user: also vpn/security would likely mean that it would be unusable for their needs.

Perhaps people would like to rent the latest tech products and use them while on holiday. They would get to try out the latest Ipad/nexus in the real road.

Ok, so I'm not the first person to think of this :) Although I have not seen these kiosks yet I havent been in the states in a few years so it makes sense.

Im interested to know what is their target market though. I understand that people want entrainment while in the airport but I'm thinking about items that can be used during the course of a stay in a country: - Macbooks/Ipads(with 3g data access) - Bulky items like tents/sleeping bags. - Perhaps niche items like Binoculars,cameras etc..

I would like to know if there are items that people would be willing to pay to rent if they had a convenient method to do so... but perhaps there is not.

Thanks for your response by the way

How do flattr get around this problem? They use paypal and it looks like they could be used for money laundering

Cool... Im looking forward to reading it already, great work.

On a similar vain we are thinking of incorporating in the US but we will also need a bank account there. Anyone know what the procedure/requirements would be for this?

"This is going to be the biggest story ever" ...hearing this made me smile and realize that in the larger scale of things there are probably worse things that could happen.

You make it sound like a bad thing...But yes thats exactly what we have :-). Except with us there are no fees: no deposit fees, no withdraw fees, no fees to tip. If you can get over the fact that it is bitcoin based, its probably the cheapest way to reward someone online. This would not be possible without bitcoin. In fact we built the system to use USD and EUR initially but eventually realized that financial/legal costs were making the project totally unviable. Changing to bitcoin allowed us to continue and play with this idea of the 'Online street performer' and develop it somewhat.

I think what we do shows that there are some positive applications for bitcoin and it does open opportunities for online business. Unfortunately most of the press dwells on 'bitcoin for drugs' stories, why cant they to story about Youtipit!

... probably because there are far more people interested in buying drugs than tipping online :-0

I think on a very low scale this is what Youtipit does(http://www.youtipit.org). People deposit their coins, tip them internally and this is handled by our bookkeeping system. If someone wants their coins out they simply withdraw them and the transaction goes out to the block chain. This has many of the advantages that you have stated (also tips are instantaneous, no need for confirmations)

If you give it a look I would like to hear your opinions on it.

OK cool. I just posted a comment on what we are trying to do on your submission. Thanks for posting that...

Hi all,

My name is Brian and I am one of the founders of this site. Youtipit is our attempt to create the 'Online Busker': People submit their work and if members see something they want to reward they can tip it. Just like you tip a street performer, with Youtipit you can tip a blogger/programmer/musician online.

There is a long story behind Youtipit that I wont go into too much detail about. Basically we started out a year ago trying to create a community where by a person could buy credit and tip small amounts of money directly to other members with very low fees. Looking back, we were incredibly naive about KYC rules, banking restrictions, similar competitors (eg Flattr) and all sorts of other issues that would normally make this project unviable. For a long time we struggled to get to grips with these numerous problems... until we discovered Bitcoin.

Bitcoin allows us to do exactly what we set out to: enable people to reward good content in a tangible, affordable and convenient way. Since Bitcoin currently exists in a legally gray area we are able to provide a very direct way to reward someone online. We charge no fees so when you tip someone and there are no deposit/withdrawal fees. Presently we make money through selling of Bitcoins to members though we do have plans to add additional revenue generating features.

Since we have relaunched the Bitcoin based site our membership has grown quite rapidly. One of Bitcoins largest obstacles is that the Bitcon client/jargon are prohibitive to new users. Youtipit helps here by acting like an online wallet for you coins. We make it easy to sign up (using OpenId) and start using Bitcoins through a web interface. Bitcoin has been getting a lot of press lately we have been benefiting with an impressive upsurge in registrations.

If anyone is interested please feel free to have a look and let us know of any suggestions you might have that could make our service better. I would really appreciate some honest and constructive feedback from you guys. Keep in mind that we are running on a shoe string budget but we are improving the site continually.

Cheers,

Brian

PS: Thanks to instakill for posting our site.

Hi,

I dont know if this counts as interesting but I said I would post it anyway. We (http://www.youtipit.org) have a feature that allows people to tip Facebook members with bitcoins and the recipient can claim them at any time by registering with their Facebook account. Its just basic OpenAuth/Graph code but it works well all the same. The cool thing here is that you can reward someone (eg a friend, a band etc) without them even knowing about you or bitcoin. Unfortunately it does not work for Facebook pages... only profiles.

I too would be interested so see other interesting FB Graph uses, I bet there are some pretty cool ones out there.

(This is my first post to HN, take it easy on me :-)