@prologic@twtxt.net I use LocalMonero (onion) to buy Monero with cash sent by mail. You can sell on there if you want to convert back to fiat. People also like Bisq, which is peer-to-peer software for buying and selling cryptocurrency.
To accept Monero, all you need is a wallet program. I recommend Feather Wallet. Create your wallet in there, then youâll copy the wallet files into monero-wallet-rpc for use with MoneroPay, see docker-compose.yaml.
@prologic@twtxt.net Is it really banned? I thought the regulators just pressured the centralized exchanges to delist privacy coins without actually banning them outright.
@prologic@twtxt.net I concur. This little community of ours is here because of you, and Iâm very grateful for that. :)
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Itâs very useful. I always start my music player in a tmux session so I can SSH in, attach it, and control the music from another computer. Itâs also handy for letting long-running tasks on a remote machine continue in the background even if the SSH connection is broken.
@prologic@twtxt.net Monero has stayed a little more stable than Bitcoin but itâs still a cryptocurrency and itâs still going to fluctuate quite a bit. It also uses proof-of-work algorithm so it still consumes quite a bit of electricity. I think the value of being able to send any amount of money, any time of the day, to anyone on the planet in 20 minutes (appears in 2 minutes, spendable in 20) completely privately with near-zero transaction fees exceeds the drawbacks.
Unfortunately, the characteristics that make it useful as a global currency for day-to-day transactions also make it useful for people doing illicit things. Many exchanges, fearing regulatory action, wonât accept Monero for the same reason they wonât accept Bitcoin from a mixer.
Monero shouldnât be banned just because people use it for bad things. Itâs just a tool and it can be used for good or evil. Itâs the same reason countries use when they ban or restrict Tor usage.
@prologic@twtxt.net Iâm in if you accept XMR
Actually, kyun.host might offer container hosting at some point.
On-demand Linux containers.
Run almost anything, without having to touch the command line.
Coming Soon
@prologic@twtxt.net That sounds great. The only other container-level hosting service Iâve heard of is PikaPods which seems much more managed than cas.run would be. It has customizable tier-based pricing and the minimum specs are ÂŒ of a CPU core, 256 MB of memory, and âabout 100 MBâ of storage for $1/mo which seems awfully steep compared to a low-cost VPS. I donât know if PikaPods offers an IPv4 reverse proxy or not.
Monero uses cryptography to make transactions anonymous and the coins completely fungible. With most cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, the transactions associated with an address are public and you can trace those coins all the way back to their origin. This means that not all coins are the same. For example, some exchanges wonât accept Bitcoin that comes from a mixer because they assume youâre doing something untoward.
With Monero, itâs not possible to trace any transactions with just an address. People canât see what youâre spending your money on or where your coins came from. Transaction fees using Monero are also very small. Itâs less than the equivalent of 1 cent in USD.
Minuscule transaction fees and anonymity make it the best choice in my opinion for buying goods and services online. Monero is much more like âdigital cashâ than Bitcoin, which I think is better described as âdigital goldâ.
@prologic@twtxt.net I might have mentioned this already but you might want to look into MoneroPay for payment processing when you get to that point with cas.run. Itâs a completely self-hosted backend service for receiving and tracking Monero payments and itâs written in Go.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de You could always keep it running in a detached tmux session and attach it when you see the spike. Processes that were recently using the netwotk stay in the list for 10 or 15 seconds after theyâre finished so you donât have to catch it in the act.
@prologic@twtxt.net $0.15 sounds great but you need to make money doing this. Is it still going to be use-based pricing or will there be tiers like conventional VPS providers?
You could get better value for money with a super cheap VPS without IPv4 connectivity but it wouldnât be worth it if you didnât need the extra resources as a VPS wouldnât be practical with such low specs. It would also require significantly more effort on the part of the operator.
I would understand paying a small premium for using the lowest-cost tier, convenience, and especially if you operated a reverse proxy with IPv4 connectivity.
@prologic@twtxt.net $0.50/month seems reasonable. Is this for cas.run?
@movq@www.uninformativ.de I use nethogs for this sort of thing: https://github.com/raboof/nethogs
@prologic@twtxt.net What is an mCore? 1/1000th of a core?
@prologic@twtxt.net Plexamp has some really cool features. Itâs a shame itâs proprietary and dependent on central services.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Interesting. mpd + ncmpcpp seems to be a common setup among our type but I really like cmus. Whipper is my CD ripper of choice and it is excellent. It queries AccurateRip for checksums and MusicBrainz for metadata, and can encode to any format you want. It also creates a nice log file like EAC does (it can even create EAC-compatible logs with a plugin) so you can verify that it was ripped properly.
QOTD: How do you listen to your music?
Iâll start. I have a meticulously organized FLAC library stored locally on my laptop and played with cmus. Everything is manual but I have a collection of home-grown shell scripts that help me maintain folder structure, manage metadata, calculate information about the recording like dynamic range and spectrograms, and do transformations like cue splitting. Once an album has been processed, it goes into the music folder on my laptop with a duplicate copy stored on my server.
I have been thinking about letting beets do all of that boring stuff, but Iâm not sure I can trust it to do it right. I also really want some kind of (self hosted) algorithm to pick songs for me. As it is, I canât just shuffle my library or even genres because there are a lot of songs that donât go well together as well as songs I just donât like. I havenât found anything that can do that.
Anyway, Iâm curious to see how you guys do it.
@prologic@twtxt.net He didnât like LibreOffice Writer? Is he used to Microsoft Word or Apple Pages? Iâve had success getting non-technical Office refugees on LibreOffice, specifically Writer. Most people donât need any fancy features and most things are located close enough to their counterparts on Word.
I show them how to export their documents as PDF before they share them with others and I use the (somewhat) immutability of PDFs and their portability (bundled fonts, rigid formatting, etc) to sell it. Those are two real benefits, but the main reason is that I donât trust other software to handle ODTs and I donât trust LibreOffice to write DOCXes. Although, I donât know if I really need to be worried about either of them with basic documents. Itâs probably worth investigating.
@prologic@twtxt.net Nice. I hope he likes it.
@prologic@twtxt.net What does he use now?
@sorenpeter@darch.dk Done
@bender@anthony.buc.ci Check out https://darch.dk/timeline/, itâs an honest-to-goodness Yarn-like Web UI. Very impressive, @darch@neotxt.dk. Do you want it listed on groovy-twtxt?
@prologic@twtxt.net Youâre right, but theyâre not going to stop until people vote with their wallets.
@bender@twtxt.net Iâm not suggesting that people should use an old Windows version to avoid this. Iâm saying that Windows in general should be considered a legacy operating system, and continued usage will only make you subject to more of this tracking and unnecessary garbage.
In other words, the situation will never improve. It will only get worse from here, so you might as well get out now while there are still plenty of life boats. Otherwise, when they do something thatâs really over the line, you either have to go along with it or dive right into the cold ocean.
Windows is only kept alive at this point by a lack of knowledge about the alternatives, apathy, fear, and some enterprise software and games with support in Wine improving by the day.
@prologic@twtxt.net Only if you stick with legacy operating systems
Cutting edge server monitoring from McKinley Labs: Detect when the heavy compute task on my server is done and play a sound on my laptop
ssh server 'while true; do test $(</proc/loadavg cut -d . -f 1) -lt 10 && break; sleep 10; done' && qmpv sound.opus
@bender@twtxt.net I also use the Discover tab and I do wish I could mute some of them that only post in Portugese. I just didnât know they were on Mastodon.
Ah, the Ciberlandia people are on a Mastodon bridge. I thought we got rid of that.
@@villares@ciberlandia.pt Sounds like a great use for Monero: https://www.getmonero.org/
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Paper shopping lists are much better than phones. They donât turn off every 30 seconds so you have to push a button and type in a code.
@xuu Nice. Iâve been thinking of doing something similar for my website so I can host more services at mckinley.cc.
@prologic@twtxt.net Usable? Impressive. You can fit a lot of ISOs in 22 TB. Are you doing ZFS?
@prologic@twtxt.net I looked up BurmillaOS and this is definitely one for my thread about unique Linux distributions. Very interesting.
Everything in BurmillaOS is a Docker container. We accomplish this by launching two instances of Docker. One is what we call System Docker and is the first process on the system. All other system services, like ntpd, syslog, and console, are running in Docker containers. System Docker replaces traditional init systems like systemd and is used to launch additional system services.
@eapl.me@eapl.me @movq@www.uninformativ.de I have an E1505 in my box of laptops and its keyboard is pretty great, especially by modern standards. Iâd say itâs almost on par with that of a contemporary ThinkPad (T43).
@xuu Wow. txt.sour.is has IPv6, so are you hosting it on one of those VMs or is it a reverse proxy back home?
curl | sh
. It's easy to miss the problem if you're still in the mindset of Windows software distribution, but these people are writing software on GNU/Linux, for GNU/Linux. You would think they'd realize that this is never a good idea.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Maybe itâs just a cargo cult thing (pun intended) because itâs somehow an accepted way to install a piece of software.
@quark@ferengi.one Maybe 1.8 is a bit excessive. Iâll give 1.5 a try. Thanks!
Thank you @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org, that means a lot. :)
curl | sh
. It's easy to miss the problem if you're still in the mindset of Windows software distribution, but these people are writing software on GNU/Linux, for GNU/Linux. You would think they'd realize that this is never a good idea.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Itâs possible for a Web server to detect whether or not youâre piping the output into a shell and change its output based on that, which makes curl | sh
so much worse in my opinion.
@bender@twtxt.net Thatâs fair and I understand if you donât want to click through to another website just to get my thoughts on WYSIWYG website builders. However, my website is much better than a WYSIWYG one. It has absolutely no JavaScript or tracking (not even Web server access logs) and it will work on just about any browser that wonât die the moment it sees XHTML.
If Iâm putting a lot of effort into a piece of writing, Iâd rather have it on my website that I control rather than someone elseâs. No offense @prologic@twtxt.net :)
@prologic@twtxt.net Wow. I didnât know the Mills DC was that serious. How much storage do you have and how is it set up?
@stigatle@yarn.stigatle.no What kind of hashrate are you getting on that thing?
QOTD: What do you host on your home server? How do you host it? Are you using containers? VMs? Did you install any management interface or do you just SSH in? What OS does it run?
Mine runs Arch (btw) and hosts a handful of things using Docker. Adguard Home, http://mckinley2nxomherwpsff5w37zrl6fqetvlfayk2qjnenifxmw5i4wyd.onion/, a Monero node, and some others. NFS, Flexo, and Wireguard (peer and bounce server in my personal network) are outside Docker. I have a hotkey in my window manager that spawns a terminal on my server using SSH. It makes things very easy and I highly recommend it.
I am thinking about replacing Docker with Podman because the Common Wisdom seems to say itâs better. I donât really know if it is or isnât.
Also, how much of your personal infrastructure is on IPv6? I think all the software I use supports both, but Iâve mostly been using IPv4 because itâs easier to remember the addresses. Iâve been working for the last couple days on making it IPv6-only.
@bender@twtxt.net I donât mind the character limit. If I hit it and I still have more to say, itâs a good reminder that I should probably write a note instead. I like to POSSE anything that might have value outside of the current conversation.
I canât believe software developers are still trying to get people to do curl | sh
. Itâs easy to miss the problem if youâre still in the mindset of Windows software distribution, but these people are writing software on GNU/Linux, for GNU/Linux. You would think theyâd realize that this is never a good idea.
@bender@twtxt.net Solo mining at 450 Gh/s, itâs a 1 in 8,765,713 chance per day of mining a block, so it would take roughly 24,000 years on average. Think of it like playing the lottery. It sounds kind of fun to me.
@stigatle@yarn.stigatle.no Neat. Are you going to try your luck solo mining?
@movq@www.uninformativ.de I think Browsh is fairly new but it doesnât really count as itâs just a frontend for Firefox. I havenât heard of any new, real, text-based browsers.
@shreyan@twtxt.net Yes. It uses the FreeBSD core tools. https://chimera-linux.org/about/#alternative-userland