How to mine Monero Updated 2025-07-16
Ubuntu 20.10 as per xmrig.com/docs/miner/build/ubuntu:At minexmr.com/#getting_started we see that all you then need is a single CLI command:Seems simple, well done devs!
sudo apt install git build-essential cmake libuv1-dev libssl-dev libhwloc-dev
git clone https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig.git
mkdir xmrig/build && cd xmrig/build
cmake ..
make -j$(nproc)xmrig -o pool.minexmr.com:4444 -u <your-monero-address>Benchmark on Lenovo ThinkPad P51 (2017) as per xmrig.com/docs/miner/benchmark:gives:which according to the minexmr.com mining pool would generate 0.0005 XMR/day, which at the February 2021 rate of 140 USD/XMR is 0.07 USD/day. The minimum payout in that pool is 0.004 XMR so it would take 8 days to reach that.
./xmrig --bench=1M948.1 h/sSo clearly, application-specific integrated circuit mining is the only viable way of doing this.
www.makeuseof.com/cryptos-you-can-mine-at-home/ is a completely full of bullshit article that says otherwise. How can someone publish that!
Infrastructure as a service Updated 2025-07-16
Inkscape Updated 2025-07-16
Its functionality is fundamental for as a software for drawing geometry diagrams, as it is a good middle ground between algorithmic generation, and raster graphics.
What would be really amazing is if they had constraints: gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/-/issues/1465 like proper CAD software, it would make it possible to not have to redo entire diagrams when you want to change a small part of them.
JAVA_HOME Updated 2025-07-16 Kdenlive Updated 2025-07-16
This seems like a decent option, although it has bugs coming in and out all the time! Also it is quite hard to learn to use.
Shortucts:
- Shift + R: cut tracks at current point. You can then select fragments to move around or delete.
- Shift mouse click drag: select multiple clips: video.stackexchange.com/questions/21598/select-range-of-clips-in-kdenlive
Add subtitles:then drag on top of the video track. To add only to part of the video, cut it up first.
- Effects
- Dynamic text
= = SET EFFECT PARAM: "rect" = 0=1188 0 732 242
MUTEX LOCK!!!!!!!!!!!! slotactivateeffect: 1
// // // RESULTING REQUIRED SCENE: 1
Object 0x557293592da0 destroyed while one of its QML signal handlers is in progress.
Most likely the object was deleted synchronously (use QObject::deleteLater() instead), or the application is running a nested event loop.
This behavior is NOT supported!
qrc:/qml/EffectToolBar.qml:80: function() { [native code] }
Killed Laucnh Amazin EC2 with existing EBS volume Updated 2025-07-16
LIGO 2025-10-14
- youtu.be/dX4vCNi544w?t=1866 this section about numerical simulation is quite interesting. They don't know how to solve the inverse problem, so they just simulated a bunch of different mass combinations
- youtu.be/dX4vCNi544w?t=2290 they use Ubuntu everywhere, default purple desktop. God bless. It's good enough for gravitational wave detection, just not good enough for some shitty enterprise application. Lol.
Linux distribution buildable from source Updated 2025-07-16
As of 2020, no one knows how to build the major desktop distros fully from source into the ISO, and especially so in a reproducible build way. Everything is done in build servers somewhere with complicated layers of prebuilds. It's crap.
llama.cpp Created 2025-07-16 Updated 2025-07-16
askubuntu.com/questions/1461564/install-llama-cpp-locally has some tutorials for Ubuntu. There was no nicely pre-packaged one for Ubuntu 25.04, but build worked on 79e0b68c178656bb0632cb8602d2940b755077f8 In particular it exposed Vulkan support before Ollama did: github.com/ollama/ollama/pull/5059 and it did seem to work, using up my AMD GPU.
lujakob/nestjs-realworld-example-app Updated 2025-07-16
Nest.js entry for gothinkster/realworld.
Didn't manage to get it to work perfectly on Ubuntu 20.10: github.com/lujakob/nestjs-realworld-example-app/issues/57
MySQL Updated 2025-07-16
Login without password: askubuntu.com/questions/915585/how-to-login-mysql-shell-when-mysql-have-no-passwordworks on Ubuntu 20.10.
sudo mysqlCreate user for further logins without
sudo askubuntu.com/questions/915585/how-to-login-mysql-shell-when-mysql-have-no-password/1325689#1325689:sudo mysql -e "CREATE USER $USER"Run command from CLI stackoverflow.com/questions/1602904/how-do-you-run-a-single-query-through-mysql-from-the-command-line
mysql -e 'SHOW DATABASES'Create test user with password:and login as that user:Login with password given on the command line:The
sudo mysql -e 'CREATE USER user0 IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY "a"'
sudo mysql -e 'GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON database_name.* TO "user0"'mysql -u user0 -pmysql -u user0 -pmypasswordIDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password part is to overcome "Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server" when connecting from Node.js.List users:
sudo mysql -e 'SELECT * FROM mysql.user'View permissions for each user on each DB: serverfault.com/questions/263868/how-to-know-all-the-users-that-can-access-a-database-mysql
sudo mysql -e 'SELECT * FROM mysql.db'List databases:
sudo mysql -e 'SHOW DATABASES'Create database:
sudo mysql -e 'CREATE DATABASE mydb0'Destroy database:
sudo mysql -e 'DROP DATABASE mydb0' Nvidia Updated 2025-07-16
Open source driver/hardware interface specification??? E.g. on Ubuntu, a large part of the nastiest UI breaking bugs Ciro Santilli encountered over the years have been GPU related. Do you think that is a coincidence??? E.g. ubuntu 21.10 does not wake up from suspend.
How Nvidia Won Graphics Cards by Asianometry (2021)
Source. - Doom was the first killer app of personal computer 3D graphics! As opposed to professional rendering e.g. for CAD as was supported by Silicon Graphics
- youtu.be/TRZqE6H-dww?t=694 they bet on Direct3D
- youtu.be/TRZqE6H-dww?t=749 they wrote their own drivers. At the time, most drivers were written by the computer manufacturers. That's insane!
Okular Updated 2025-07-16
OpenShot Updated 2025-07-16
Ubuntu 20.10 crash...:
exceptions:ERROR Unhandled Exception
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/openshot-qt", line 11, in <module>
load_entry_point('openshot-qt==2.5.1', 'gui_scripts', 'openshot-qt')()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/openshot_qt/launch.py", line 97, in main
app = OpenShotApp(argv)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/openshot_qt/classes/app.py", line 218, in __init__
from windows.main_window import MainWindow
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/openshot_qt/windows/main_window.py", line 45, in <module>
from windows.views.timeline_webview import TimelineWebView
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/openshot_qt/windows/views/timeline_webview.py", line 42, in <module>
from PyQt5.QtWebKitWidgets import QWebView
ImportError: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Quick.so.5: undefined symbol: _ZN4QRhi10newSamplerEN11QRhiSampler6FilterES1_S1_NS0_11AddressModeES2_, version Qt_5_PRIVATE_API Phoronix Test Suite Created 2025-07-11 Updated 2025-07-16
randyscotsmithey/feathers-realworld-example-app Updated 2025-07-16
FeathersJS entry for gothinkster/realworld.
MongoDB-based.
So once you install MongoDB, run with:
MONGODB_FEATHERS_REALWORLD=mongodb://localhost:27017/mydb npm startGot it working on Ubuntu 20.10 with both React and Vue.js front-ends at github.com/randyscotsmithey/feathers-realworld-example-app/commit/8bc3a09242285de624c75bb8345630df499a7d07 as mentioned at github.com/randyscotsmithey/feathers-realworld-example-app/issues/2 except for bad error reporting on UI.
Tests can be run with:but there were 10 failures and 55 passes: github.com/randyscotsmithey/feathers-realworld-example-app/issues/3
MONGODB_FEATHERS_REALWORLD=mongodb://localhost:27017/mydb npm run test Rosegarden Updated 2025-07-16
shakacode/react_on_rails Updated 2025-07-16
Lots of focus on Heroku deployability, which is fantastic: shakacode.gitbooks.io/react-on-rails/content/docs/additional-reading/heroku-deployment.html
Live instance: www.reactrails.com/ with source at: github.com/shakacode/react-webpack-rails-tutorial Not the most advanced web-app (a gothinkster/realworld-level would be ideal). Also has clear dependency description, which is nice.
Trying at github.com/shakacode/react-webpack-rails-tutorial/tree/8e656f97d7a311bbe999ceceb9463b8479fef9e2 on Ubuntu 20.10. Got some failures: github.com/shakacode/react-webpack-rails-tutorial/issues/488 Finally got a version of it working at: github.com/shakacode/react-webpack-rails-tutorial/issues/488#issuecomment-812506821
Oh, and the guy behind that project lives in Hawaii (Ciro Santilli's ideal city to live in), has an Asian-mixed son, and two Kinesis Advantage 2 keyboards as seen at twitter.com/railsonmaui/status/1377515748910755851, Ciro Santilli was jealous of him.
ShotCut Updated 2025-07-16
How to unsplit, can't find on shotcut 21.05.01: forum.shotcut.org/t/is-it-possible-to-unsplit/1466/2
Background noise reduction: couldn't easily find out how, especially with automatic profile detected based on a selected region as mentioned at audacity profile-based background noise removal:
Silk Road (marketplace) Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro Santilli has become slightly obsessed with this story, and the main mastermind Ross Ulbricht.
The best article available so far is: www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/29/how_i_caught_silk_road_mastermind (archive) which summarizes what one of the investigators said in a 2019 French computer security conference.
The key living posts are:
- stackoverflow.com/questions/15445285/how-can-i-connect-to-a-tor-hidden-service-using-curl-in-php (archive) which was originally asked under the real name, and then the username was changed to "Frosty", which matches one of the server's logins after the laptop was captured
- altoid early Silk Road mention: bitcointalk.org/?topic=175.70;wap2 (archive)
The big question is of course how libertarian free market ideologically motivated the website was, and how purely criminal greed it was.
The magnitude of the early operational security mistakes does make Ciro think that Ross did it "because he could" and "for the lolz" in a real world Breaking Bad way.
The entry in Ross' diary does resonate a lot with Ciro and any entrepreneur, full diary at: www.wired.com/2015/01/heres-secret-silk-road-journal-laptop-ross-ulbricht/ (archive).
[i]n 2011," [I believe I will be] "creating a year of prosperity and power beyond what I have ever experienced before,Silk Road is going to become a phenomenon and at least one person will tell me about it, unknowing that I was its creator."
Having this kind of feeling, is the greatest thing any human can have, and what motivates all great things.
Capitalizing in illegal things though is a cheat, big things take longer than a few years to reach, but reaching them is that much more satisfying as well.
Other interesting quotes:which Ciro also feels, see don't be a pussy, and:
Everyone knows I am working on a bitcoin exchange. I always thought honesty was the best policy and now I didn't know what to do. I should have just told everyone I am a freelance programmer or something, but I had to tell half truths. It felt wrong to lie completely so I tried to tell the truth without revealing the bad part, but now I am in a jam. Everyone knows too much. Dammit.
Also very worth reading is the San Francisco flat mate account: www.vice.com/en_us/article/ae3q8g/my-roommate-the-darknet-drug-lord (archive).
The murder for hire allegations are also interesting: mashable.com/2013/10/03/silk-road-hits, he paid 80k dollars to undercover DEA agents!
Except for the fact that Ross was an 80 million Dollar drug lord, those accounts sound exactly like what you would expect from any other nerdy startup founder! The:
- "just do it" strategy effectively going to a minimal viable product (manual transaction management!), while making many mistakes along the way, including hiring mistakes and successes when scaling is needed
- the hardship of self bootstrapping your own social network (here with some kilos of mushrooms)
- the variety of periods, from relatively calm, to hair pulling stress during big changes
It is also amusing to see very concretely the obvious fact that the FBI can get a subpoena for all accounts you ever had, e.g. they knew his laptop model from Amazon and brought a corresponding power cable to the arrest! If you are going to be a cyber criminal, don't use your real name, ever!
Should justice be blind? Maybe. But it does hurt for mere non-blind men to see it sometimes. Especially when drug liberalization is involved.
