k4r4b3y

joined 1 year ago
[–] k4r4b3y@monero.town 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

AppImage is absolutely necessary for users of TailsOS and Qubes-Whonix.

[–] k4r4b3y@monero.town 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Full membership proofs will solve the issues, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. It can't arrive soon enough (provided that the maths and the code implementation are sound and secure, of course).

[–] k4r4b3y@monero.town 4 points 2 months ago (6 children)

I think the rift between haveno devs and the haveno-reto devs is causing some project management issues. One such example that I get direct exposure is around adding a flatpak and AppImage packaging for Haveno(-Reto) and another is around how (or should?) should the users be able to switch between mainnet providers.

For the example of the first one read down from this message: https://github.com/haveno-dex/haveno/issues/270#issuecomment-2294807880

And for the example of the second one, read down this issue: https://github.com/haveno-dex/haveno/issues/931

There is a friction in trying to coordinate and contribute to the developers working on different (albeit quite similar) repos (in the case of the original Haveno repo and the -Reto repo). This friction in comms and contribution is causing delays in introducing software distribution packages such as AppImage and Flatpaks, which hinders (especially for TailsOS and Qubes-Whonix users) the onboarding of the new users, and decentralizing Monero's liquidity.

[–] k4r4b3y@monero.town 1 points 3 months ago

What's your point?

[–] k4r4b3y@monero.town 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Last week's Skepticism thread was here: https://monero.town/post/3884733

[–] k4r4b3y@monero.town 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I am indeed salty about INVOLUNTARY taxation.

[–] k4r4b3y@monero.town 2 points 3 months ago

I am not in the business of rescuing the world.

Aight. Good for you.

[–] k4r4b3y@monero.town 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

first you are wrong.

wrong about what?

Excluding smartphone slaves would be a big plus.

Depending on your goal. If your goal is to have an exclusive club of monero users, yeah, be my guest. But if you want to reach some critical mass with your monero-related discussion community, some level of ease of access to the discussion medium helps.

[–] k4r4b3y@monero.town 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Without user login, just to read.

That's not the issue here. The issue is: a new monero community member cannot create a new reddit account and partake in the discussions there. You absolutely cannot create new threads on reddit as a new user (ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE REGISTERED VIA THE ONION URL OF REDDIT). You will 1) get filtered by reddit's auto-filters 2) get filtered by monero subreddit mods' autofilters.

If someone wants to discuss a Reddit post, they can link that post here on Monero.Town. Then, if the posts here are better than the posts on Reddit, users will start linking to them here. This will eventually bring users here.

That sounds like a good transition strategy to the Town.

[–] k4r4b3y@monero.town 3 points 3 months ago

Looks cool, I might drop by in the coming days.

[–] k4r4b3y@monero.town 2 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Yes, no mobile device access is a big hurdle.

[–] k4r4b3y@monero.town 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Andre Saltz

He left Manyverse development 2 months ago. Someone else hopefully will take up the mantle.

Matrix

I don't think matrix is censorship resistant at all. It relies on DNS, which is centralized. Also, these criticisms of matrix are valid reasons to not pick it imo: https://telegra.ph/why-not-matrix-08-07

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by k4r4b3y@monero.town to c/monero@monero.town
 

If this place going to be a larger Town hall (and eventually supercede the one on the user-hostile reddit servers) we need traditions that foster discussion in here.

Look, I also hate reddit, and it would be better if the Monero subreddit there was stale and inconsequential (see: https://monero.town/post/3725287 ), but the truth is its reverse: the Town is a near-ghost Town; which is a shame! Lemmy has a lot of potential for replacing reddit for long form written, indexed, searchable and structured (all as opposed to irc/matrix discussions) discussion medium. But we need to get people have sticking, lasting reasons to post here.

In order to make posters in here get into the habit, here are my suggestions:

  1. Adopt "skepticism sundays," threads from /r/Monero. The Town should be the place to air out skeptic discussions on monero, we shouldn't need to br put up with reddit's automated filtering of posts and millionth captchas, just to post there.

  2. Adopt "weekly discussion" threads from /r/Monero. Again, the /c/monero should foster posters to post more frequently in here, with threads like this.


We hate reddit. Reddit is simply unusable. New monero community members are unable to get their opinions heard and take part in the convo. It is up to us to have a haalthier discourse environment in the community.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by k4r4b3y@monero.town to c/monero@monero.town
 

A few days ago I created a reddit account just for "taking part in the discussion." However, here are the absolutely frustrating experiences I had:

  1. You can create an account if you give reddit your email, but you CANNOT login via reddit's onion URL. Reddit will keep having "we had a problem," and "an error with the server occurred", after you have solved your 5th captcha with a screenful of bicycles to click on. No way to login anonymously.

  2. You will have to login to your account via the clearnet URL of reddit. Damn.. But OK, everything for " contributing to the community, we are a diverse one, after all right? Make your voice heard". Alright. I login on clearnet. Reddit still gives me a red banner with some error message, like a sack of shit splashing on my desk, but lets me in this time. Good, finally "be a part of the conversation!". Start my first thread announcing my Turkish translation of monero.garden (see MoneroBahce.com). Hit send. Instantly reddit filters my post. My post and voice are not visible whatsoever.


Seriously, why are we taking reddit seriously as a discussion platform; and moreover, why are we making it the centrepiece of written, long-form Monero discussion? Why is that place have such a large role in taking a pulse of the Monero users?

 

Downloaded the release 6.0.0-beta1 pre-release version of AppImage to my Qubes-Whonix. Then, created an encrypted archive (18 MB) of my android simplex using simplex app, and got my download link for migration to the desktop app. On the desktop appimage, I pasted this link, and it has been "DOWNLOADING LINK DETAILS" for 15 minutes now. Is this feature working yet, or am I waiting in vain?

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