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17 Mar 2022

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• 08:23
  makkiato
  Hello. Is the site sideshift.ai considered trustworthy by the community? Unfortunately it does not load with the TOR browser (gives a JS React error) Are you aware of other (good) alternatives?
• 08:27
  moneromooo
  I hear "Sideshift" is legit, though no idea of that domain is the correct one.
• 08:31
  makkiato
  I found out about it/them in the homepage of Monerujo, so I guess it's legit. But I just contacted them and they say they do not support TOR.
• 08:31
  moneromooo
  That sounds like a lie. You don't need to do anything to support tor. You have to do extra work to prevent tor from working though.
• 08:32
  moneromooo
  Unless they mean a hidden service.
• 08:32
  makkiato
  In this case, it is a JS error, so I guess it's possible (at least in principle) that their code breaks with the TOR JS limitations.
• 08:32
  moneromooo
  Evil assholes like cloudflare make it easy to block tor though.
• 08:32
  makkiato
  it's not a IP ban.
• 08:33
  makkiato
  but I am disappointed by the way the answered: "we do not suppor TOR." lol
• 08:33
  moneromooo
  Well, possibly they load JS or other from other sites which block tor themselves.
• 08:34
  makkiato
  right. In any case I am looking for the most privacy-preserving way of converting some (small amount of) eth to xmr. If you have any suggestions, please share
• 08:34
  selsta
  makkiato: as far as I know, they delisted monero ages ago
• 08:34
  selsta
  maybe I'm mixing them up with a different website
• 08:35
  moneromooo
  shapeshift ?
• 08:35
  selsta
  oh right
• 08:35
  selsta
  that was shapeshift
• 10:48
  ErCiccione
  In case people missed it. Haveno's CCS to fund the user interface: repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/295
• 10:49
  ErCiccione
  on reddit: old.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/tg…6y5i/ccs_proposal_haveno_ui_funding
• 14:59
  JoBbZ_
  Hm, so the Monero GUI app is unfortunately not usable on my windows system. It gets to about 70% of the block chain sync'd and then corrupts, twice now
• 15:29
  hyc
  is it actually corrupting, or just running out of disk space
• 16:07
  JoBbZ_
  hyc: It has approximately 6.8 TB of free space, it's not running out
• 16:17
  selsta
  JoBbZ_: what happens exactly at 70%?
• 16:17
  selsta
  daemon crash?
• 16:27
  JoBbZ
  That's an excellent question. It causes my system to reboot
• 16:53
  coxring
  revuo-xmr.com/issue-112.html
• 17:18
  selsta
  JoBbZ: could be broken computer hardware?
• 17:19
  selsta
  monero has no code that causes your computer to restart, that shouldn't happen
• 17:28
  cornfeedhobo
  could it be memory pressure?
• 17:34
  JoBbZ
  shouldn't be, only using 30% of my 32GB of RAM. Both times I've let it sync, it has ended up rebooting at approximately 70%.
• 17:34
  JoBbZ
  unless monero eats up the other 70% of RAM while running
• 17:34
  JoBbZ
  I still wouldn't expect it to cause the system to reboot uncleanly
• 17:35
  JoBbZ
  I don't have this issue with MyMonero, either
• 17:56
  bertvvvs
  Event Viewer shows nothing?
• 18:00
  JoBbZ
  not for what I originally filtered on, but I see one from bugcheck, putting the dmp file into windbg now
• 18:03
  JoBbZ
  double fault abort
• 18:04
  JoBbZ
  I wonder if it made my CPU overheat :P
• 18:05
  selsta
  JoBbZ: mymonero doesn't do any syncing / scanning
• 18:05
  selsta
  so it's not CPU intensive
• 18:06
  selsta
  there are stress tests you can run to check your hardware health
• 18:08
  selsta
  some can correct me if I'm wrong but rebooting means either a bug in windows or some hardware issue, a bug in an application shouldn't completely shut down the whole OS
• 18:09
  bertvvvs
  JoBbZ: bitlocker enabled?
• 18:10
  JoBbZ
  bertvvvs: no, I have bitlocker turned off
• 18:11
  JoBbZ
  selsta: yeah, the article I'm reading indicates potentially a damaged CPU or not a current microcode version. I'll have to see if this happens w/o monero running.
• 18:14
  bertvvvs
  try downloading the raw blockchain: monero.how/tutorial-how-to-speed-up-initial-blockchain-sync
• 18:14
  JoBbZ
  thanks!
• 18:21
  selsta
  that will still require verification, which is CPU intensive
• 18:30
  JoBbZ
  yeah, I'm going to run the intel cpu diagnostic tool see if it finds anything
• 18:44
  gingeropolous
  selsta, yeah the IPs that were showing up on those logs look... familiar
• 18:45
  selsta
  gingeropolous: as far as I know the first person tried with ban list and it didn't help
• 18:45
  gingeropolous
  hrm
• 18:45
  selsta
  but maybe it's other IPs
• 18:45
  selsta
  so still worth a try
• 18:45
  gingeropolous
  but isn't it odd that it would sync up to a certain height?
• 18:46
  gingeropolous
  well, i guess an attacker would want it to look normal for a bit
• 18:47
  selsta
  I tried syncing up with a fresh VPS and no ban list and didn't have any issues
• 18:48
  JoBbZ
  no issues found by the diagnostic tool
• 18:51
  gingeropolous
  i wonder if seed nodes are borkt
• 18:51
  gingeropolous
  well, that wouldn't explain y u can syn with no issue. did u try syncing with a new ..... yeah fresh VPS. hrm
• 18:52
  gingeropolous
  my one seed node is blowing these everywhere: 2022-03-17 18:51:54.225 [P2P0] ERROR net contrib/epee/include/net/abstract_tcp_server2.inl:777 Setting timer on a shut down object
• 18:53
  gingeropolous
  eh ill just run master
• 19:11
  selsta
  gingeropolous: seed nodes are unrelated
• 19:11
  selsta
  they are able to sync to a specific height, at this point seed nodes aren't used anymore
• 19:12
  selsta
  also the message you posted is harmless IIRC