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[–] admin@monero.town 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The DDoS comes from exit nodes via clearnet so Tor PoW doesn't work, most likely there will be a total server migration at some point that adds tor support with pow and a tor friendly frontend.

[–] admin@monero.town 2 points 7 months ago

I'll have a look, thank you!

[–] admin@monero.town 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Is this on by default after v1.5.0?

[–] admin@monero.town 3 points 7 months ago

I've looked into alexandrite and photon before but to be honest, the install is quite messy since I didn't really know what I was doing back then. Makes it pretty hard to figure out how to properly set these up and I'd rather start over on a new server.

[–] admin@monero.town 10 points 8 months ago (10 children)

The site is still being attacked. Biggest issue is the lemmy-ui crashing under the load, the server itself could just about handle it. I've talked to Digilol who I'll likely hire to move town to a new server and set up proper .onion support but the current server is still pre-paid for 200 more days and even after the move it's still possible that the lemmy-ui would go down anyways :/

[–] admin@monero.town 4 points 8 months ago

You can also do this with featherwallet, just get the download link from getmonero.org so you don't click on the phishing site.

[–] admin@monero.town 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Town currently still blocks Tor exit nodes (because it is getting ddosed by them) and rucknium understandably doesn't want to connect without it.

[–] admin@monero.town 4 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Reply by rucknium:

If I understand your question right, I think you're looking for the inverse cumulative distribution function (a.k.a. quantile function) of the Erlang distribution.

The random length of time to mine the next block has an exponential distribution with rate parameter 1/t. The length of time to mine n blocks has an Erlang distribution with shape parameter n and rate parameter 1/t.

The Erlang distribution is a special case of the Gamma distribution. The Erlang distribution's shape parameter must be an integer, but the Gamma distribution's shape parameter can be any positive real number. We can use the Gamma distribution if Erlang isn't given to us by our calculator.

You would compute T in the R language with:

qgamma(p = p, shape = n, rate = 1/t)/n

The results of this simulation match the closed-form computation:

t <- 120
n <- 15
p <- 0.4

set.seed(314)

mining.times <- matrix(rexp(n * 100000, rate = 1/t), ncol = n)

mining.times <- rowSums(mining.times)

quantile(mining.times/n, probs = p)

qgamma(p = p, shape = n, rate = 1/t)/n
# Divide by n to get the mean instead of the total
[–] admin@monero.town 6 points 9 months ago

Sometimes Trocador when I need to pay for something that doesn't accept Monero. If you use the ref-link in the monero.town sidebar it also helps fund the site without swaps costing any extra!

[–] admin@monero.town 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Haveno-reto.com has plenty of links to different guides and most bisq documentation and principles carry over to haveno.

[–] admin@monero.town 1 points 9 months ago

Decentralized reputation is not a thing. Every single approach can easily be gamed by scammers. Bisq2 requires people to buy thousands of $bsq for reputation.

 

I hope everyone here is having a great time on Lemmy!

 

As some of you may have noticed, monero.town was only available for people signed into a Lemmy mobile app for the past few days.

It looks like the Lemmy software had a bug that was exploited to DoS instances which of course happened on evening #1 of Monerokon. In an attempt to fix this DoS issue, I upgraded to Lemmy version 18 which required additional, badly documented changes to the config. Since I didn't have a laptop with me, there wasn't all that much I could do besides the initial analysis. That is why it took until today for me to fix the issue. I hope this wasn't too big of an inconvenience to anyone 😅

Lemmy is still very new software and these are some of the growing pains. Please be reassured that I won't randomly abandon monero.town and will do my very best to never have to do another migration like house->town again.

 

The default theme now fills more of the screen on desktop and makes it easier to follow comment chains.

If you are logged in, you can now select from three new Monero-colored themes:

  • Lemmy_Orange
  • Lemmy_Orange_dark
  • Monero-Town_dark

In case you didn't know, Lemmy let's you use all kinds of custom themes via browser-exertions if you don't like the current selection. You can check out some pre-made ones here :)

 

Storage is one of the biggest concerns in regards to instance resource usage, the new config should significantly improve storage efficiency via the following:

  • Uploads are now limited to a maximum of 1 MB
  • All uploads will now automatically be converted to the webp format and original file is discarded
 

This new theme makes posts more readable and leaves less empty room. It is also orange colored!

To enable, go to the top right, to settings and select Lemmy_orange!

Improved darkmode theme is the next goal.

This post was edited, the orange theme didnt work well with mobile and thus isn't the default anymore :)

 

Thanks to your anonymous Monero donations we are now running on a server powerfull enough to properly support the Monero community and have a domain that isn't blocked on half the internet <3

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by admin@monero.town to c/meta@monero.town
 

Please create a new account on monero.town and post your old (or new) monero.town username with your monero.house account in this thread.

I am sorry for the hassle, Lemmy completely breaks down if the domain name changes, which was sadly necessary because the old .house domain was creating huge trouble (it was used by a russian crypto scam in 2018 and is thus on many, many blocklists).

monero.house will start redirecting to monero.town by the end of the month.

By this point you wont be able to use your monero.house account anymore so please act quickly!

Of course you don't need to pay the XMR registration fee again if you have already done so on house.

If you come to this thread after monero.house has started redirecting to monero.town either do the usual social media verification again or if you have paid with XMR and still have the tx_id, provide that again. If you paid with XMR and don't have the tx_id anymore, contact @monerobull:matrix.org on matrix.

This is a one-time thing, I don't expect that we will ever have to do something like this again.

I plan for Monero.Town to stick around for a long time.

Edit 27.06.2023:

Monero.House is now offline.

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