Rikj000

joined 2 years ago
[–] Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago

Ahhh sad to hear, but thanks for your reply,
now I know that I can stop searching,
and start hoping for quick implementation of Wireguard config support for Netbird :)

[–] Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 month ago

Thanks for your suggestion, but after going through the Github issues,
I'm afraid that it's not possible yet to connect to Netbird using a Wireguard config file:

[–] Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I believe Briar currently is one of the best options out there, together with SimpleX.

However I lack usage experience with both.
Since no one I know makes use of them..

It was already hard enough to convince only a handful of my friends to start using Session and Matrix/Element (which are not the best options anymore), but I'm kinda doubtful about my success rate of making them switch once again..

My success with convincing people to use Telegram has been better though, since that's the most commonly known, but nearly no one wants to install an app they never heard off before, just to chat with only me :P

Also "convincing people" lately goes smth like this for me:

  • Do you have WhatsApp or Messenger so I can send you some pictures?
  • No I don't use apps that do not respect my privacy, but you can send em to me through SimpleX, Briar, Session, Matrix/Element, Telegram, Discord or email :P
  • Upon which most choose Telegram or Discord as their means to contact me, sadly no one had Briar/SimpleX yet.
[–] Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 1 month ago (5 children)

*Don't Use Session,
if your threat profile includes government's spending +-100k to crack your encryption, since their encryption is not the best out there.

Which they likely won't for an average privacy conscious user, but they might for high ranking criminals.

It was a good read though,
I won't invite new people to Session due to it.

But the title is a little click-baity,
"Session's encryption is not the best",
would be a more honest title.

[–] Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 1 month ago

Lately these lyrics come to mind ever more often:

White Americans, what?
Nothing better to do.
Why don't you kick yourself out?
You're an immigrant too.

Song: The White Stripes - Icky Thump

[–] Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 1 month ago
[–] Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 48 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Yes we need them to survive,
yes they're better than Google.

But no we're not being too negative/hard on them!

Lately Mozilla has been pulling a lot of anti-consumer yet pro shareholder shit.

AI is a perfect example of that,
unwanted by the majority of their community, yet still forced upon us by shareholders, for now through an optional addon, which appears to be a foot in the door, which can quickly grow into a baked in addon which ships with FireFox by default.

Sources:

They blatantly ignore their community,
and for that we're allowed to be angry with them.

[–] Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 month ago

Set up post filters,
block all posts with the words Elon and Trump in em.

Here's a guide for Eternity which I've written:
https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/6091026

Won't get rid of all the Elon/Musk spam,
but I'd say about 90% which is already a huge improvement.

Also blocking the news communities does wonders for mental health.
They benefit financially from feeding negative content, since research pointed out that those articles generate more ad clicks, while they don't give a damn about what it does to your mental health.

[–] Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago

Thank you, those are some interesting/good use cases indeed!

[–] Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 month ago (5 children)

What do you use it for?
I've had it for a while,
but ended up uninstalling it,
since I could not think of a good use case.

[–] Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh did not know that, sad to hear.

They did remove traffic to the old Yuzu domains though, which now are in the hands of Nintendo, used to monitor which users use emulators.

Do you have other suggestions for promising successor forks?

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PSMD in Citra looking neat! (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de to c/pokemon@lemmy.ml
 

Playing some Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon,
through Citra Canary v2798 with:

And I gotta say,
I'm happily impressed by how good it looks!
Apart from the low resolution font/texts,
I'd forget that I'm playing a mobile title from 2015 😄

Edit:
I disabled the High Resolution Textures,
because they cause:

  • Random game freezes in connection orb screens
  • Slowdowns while in villages / dungeons / connection orb screens
  • Incorrect black / white rendering of clouds / earth during cut scenes
 

I figured out a way to "easily" get them in single-player.

Recommended prerequisites (Not so easy):

  • Reach level 44, for Legendary sphere's
  • Upgrade your Capture Power to level 10 at the statue of power with Lifmunk Effigy's

Cheese method for Alpha Frostallion:

  • Install one of following mods:

    They both will show you the passive skills a pal has,
    allowing you to check em out before catching the pals,
    so you don't waste sphere's

  • Travel to Frostallion,
    check his passive skills without battling,
    if they're not as desired, exit / re-enter your world,
    that will re-spawn / re-roll in a new one with new passive skills, repeat till you find a desired one.

  • Start battling as soon as you find a desired one,
    took me 20-30 minutes for mine.

  • There will be a large / tall ice rock in the area
    (Coordinates X: -349, Y: 519),
    just start circling around it,
    always keep the large / tall ice rock between you and Frostallion

  • Eventually he'll climb up the ice rock,
    and will fall down from it eventually as well,
    which will hurt him through fall damage for about 300 - 3000 HP!

  • Rinse and repeat until his HP is low,
    then start throwing your legendary sphere's 😄

 

Am I the only one getting agitated by the word AI (Artificial Intelligence)?

Real AI does not exist yet,
atm we only have LLMs (Large Language Models),
which do not think on their own,
but pass turing tests
(fool humans into thinking that they can think).

Imo AI is just a marketing buzzword,
created by rich capitalistic a-holes,
who already invested in LLM stocks,
and now are looking for a profit.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de to c/moneromining@monero.town
 

⛏️ Fair CPU pool mining introduction
Monero (XMR) is one of the only projects
which offer a way of mining in a pool as it should be implemented,
with P2Pool:

  • Fair - Instant payouts according to your share.
  • Decentralized - No pool owners - No centralized party handling the P2Pool.
  • Decentralized - Pool participants - Due to the RandomX algorithm being used, no specialized Antic miners can be built for XMR. Meaning that an average Joe can still participate and earn shares with their CPU.
  • Private - XMR itself continuously aims for the best possible privacy cryptography can offer.

Source Code / Links:

⛏️ Fair CPU pool mining guide
This guide will help you setting up a fair Monero miner,
please note, that you still will have to create your own config files for:
Gupax, P2Pool and XMRig

  1. Use Monero GUI to create a wallet
  2. Use Monero GUI to run your own monerod instance (Monero Node daemon),
    configure following startup flags under:
    Monero GUI => Settings => Node => Daemon startup flags:
    --zmq-pub=tcp://127.0.0.1:18083 
    --out-peers 32 
    --in-peers 64 
    --add-priority-node=p2pmd.xmrvsbeast.com:18081 
    --add-priority-node=nodes.hashvault.pro:18081 
    --disable-dns-checkpoints 
    --enable-dns-blocklist 
    --prune-blockchain 
    --sync-pruned-blocks 
    --db-sync-mode=safe
    --log-level 1
    

These startup flags will help with:

  • Blocking malicious nodes
  • Keeping your copy of the blockchain as small as possible
  • Provide logging incase a priority-node goes down
    (Use Monero Fail for replacements)
  1. Configure the P2Pool + XMRig binary paths in Gupax under:
    Gupax => Gupax => P2Pool/XMRig PATHs
  2. Use Gupax to run P2Pool,
    connect to your local monerod instance by configuring P2Pool as following:
    Gupax => P2Pool => P2Pool Mini => Fill in the following:
    Name = Local Monero Node
    IP = 127.0.0.1
    RPC = 18081
    ZMQ = 18083
    Out-peers = 32
    In-peers = 64
    
  3. Use Gupax to run XMRig,
    connect to your local P2Pool as following:
    Gupax => XMRig => Command arguments (configure --threads as desired):
    -c config.json 
    -o 127.0.0.1:3333 
    --http-host 127.0.0.1 
    --http-port 18088 
    --threads 30
    

This will make it possible to load a config.json file from the same directory as the XMRig binary

Notes

  • If you're gonna run on normal end-user hardware (e.g. Desktop/Laptop/Smartphone), then I'd recommend to mine on P2Pool Mini instead of the main P2Pool
  • Your P2Pool wallet adress is public, periodically move mined funds to a new, truly private XMR wallet
  • My use-case? I mine to support the cause and to earn a little back from heating my room during winter times 😄
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