01:11:22 <sneurlax> working on monero_c/impls/monero.rs, making transfer &sweep_all and i'm wondering what docs-, unit, and integration tests are appropriate.  in pure rust i might try to mock daemon responses and feed it committed blocks from which to scan outputs and build txs, but using wallet2 ultimately i'm not sure what all i can do
01:11:36 <sneurlax> might just have to test those live with a wallet example.
11:23:28 <m-relay> <t​heelevated:matrix.org> Can anyone recommended a yt vid on how xmr works, its encryption and how it's implemented in a technical but understandable way
14:21:41 <m-relay> <s​yntheticbird:monero.social> Sorry bro. There are no such resources in video format. I would gladly do one in english if it wouldn't imply doxxing myself. Right now there are only flat books and white paper with borrriiiiiiing letters to read.
15:54:38 <Guest11> Hey guys i talked about some error i was encountering last week with "Failed to derive public key", i found out the reason was somehow the server i hosted the node monero on. On DigitalOcean it is working perfectly fine but on other Hosters it does not - does anyone have an idea what the reason behind this could be ? I also tested it on Ubuntu
15:54:39 <Guest11> 24.04 and on Debian 12, on both it is working perfectly fine on DigitalOcean but on other providers  it simply does not work - could this be some disk permission issue but i doubt it since i run it all as root ? Just curious and happy it does work on Digitalocean just fine
19:45:12 <Rift> Heyy guys
19:45:28 <Rift> How hard is the barrier to entry to contributing to the monero project?
19:45:52 <Rift> I have a lot of experience writing C++ and a little bit writing Rust
19:46:28 <Rift> I'd love to contribute to it cause it's awesome
19:47:40 <Rift> I've only used it to buy a lot of ketamine and a little meth, but overall I appreciate the philosophy behind it
19:47:41 <moneromooo> It is a large codebase. Best is to start making small changes to stuff you're interested in. Bugs or improvements. This will let you learn what's where.
19:47:57 <Rift> tbh I'm not even sure where to start
19:48:28 <moneromooo> Use it. See something small you want to improve. git grep around.
19:49:08 <Rift> In practice I appreciate the anonymity behind it since I use it for buying drugs (though I haven't learned how ringct works)
19:49:27 <Rift> but technically, the coolest aspect of it for me is that it's hard to mine in parallel, making it more decentralized
19:50:20 <Rift> I've never contributed to open source before, I might just start with some bug fixes
19:52:25 <m-relay> <d​etherminal:monero.social> Monero's codebase is one of the most complex codebases. I recommend you to start with learning fundamentals of the protocol.
20:08:28 <Rift> Would it be best to write my own crypto currency first?
20:08:40 <Rift> or to contribute to a different foss projectt?
20:20:11 <moneromooo> Writing your own is much harder, unless a toy insecure thing to learn.
20:21:14 <moneromooo> I'd say contribute to software you use and like yourself. It gives you purpose and makes it less likely you'll drop off before you get good at it.
20:34:17 <Rift> it'd be a very basic insecure crypto just to learn
20:36:17 <Rift> the other project I wanted to contribute to is dolphin emu, but it's very compliocated
20:39:58 <geonic> here’s a hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy: https://web.getmonero.org/library/Zero-to-Monero-2-0-0.pdf
20:40:53 <Rift> oh damn
20:40:54 <Rift> thanks man
20:41:27 <Rift> you think that'll be enough to get me started contributing
20:41:45 <Juliu> NoHi
20:42:15 <Juliu> What's Monero backed by again?
20:45:57 <moneromooo> FWIW you do *not* need to know crypto to contribute. There are plenty of regular code things that don't get anywhere near crypto in monero.
20:46:57 <Rift> like what?
20:47:04 <Rift> would def rather do crypto cause that's the fun part
20:48:04 <moneromooo> Networking, concurency, db usage, ui...
20:48:21 <moneromooo> Sure, if it's your thing, go for it :)
20:48:42 <Rift> I'm most knowledgeable about writing optimized code
20:49:03 <Rift> which is admittedly not that knowledgeable lol
20:49:56 <moneromooo> Then it does likely put you near crypto, yes...
22:03:51 <Juliu> What does it mean to "know crypto" ?
22:04:14 <Juliu> If you knew crypto, you'd know that you can't know crypto since it doesn't exist
23:12:20 <m-relay> <s​yntheticbird:monero.social> why is the sealion unmuted already?
23:13:03 <Juliu> Why are you not muted?