TWrecks: the mentor wrote a robot that you were being paid by your job to write?

smathy[m]: No I wrote it, he gave me direction about architecture and such.

The point is, if you want to code for a job first you need a good mentor.

Yeah. I've hired many early/first-time devs, but we've always had internal mentoring culture/programs.

Yeah there's no other way to go about it honestly. Like I'm still not very good at coding, but I wouldn't be employable without his help.

Yeah, I mean mentors come in many different shapes, but I agree.

DanIsnotthemanBr: porting an iOS app to a Mac app is easier than writing a complete Linux desktop app from scratch

I have not opened my GUI for a while but I am going back now to add some XMR and I get the following problem which I never had before. When logging in it says: "Couldn't open wallet: Internal error: 'my XMR file' is open by another wallet program" Can anyone help?

I am using a Mac and a Trezor to log into my existing wallet.

As it says. You're likely running another wallet program with that wallet file loaded. Exit it.

I have nothing else running and have restarted my computer just to make sure. Besides, I only have on XMR wallet. I don't know what else could be using it... Hmmm

s/on/one/

What filesystem is this wallet file on ?

It's on a removable Micro SD

So.. ext3 maybe ? Nothing uncommon ?

Or default windows whatever ?

The problem is solved. I deleted a file that the GUI created on my computer that I was unaware of. It was essentially a duplicate of the login on my SD card and it automatically connected to it when I updated the GUI I assume. When I entered through my SD card, the error occurred.

Am I missing anything in this guide? guides.cakewallet.com/docs/tutorials/mobile-hardening

Fyi apple vpn does leak

Not everything is routed through it

And maybe “orbot ( android only)”

Invizible > Orbot for android

Handles tor and dns

Dns quad9

U can use wiry invizible while also using tor

Orbot is all or nothing vpn mode, or special integrations. Cant use dns over https system setting + orbot

Orbot vpn overrides

Invisible is a dns app, that sends either all or specific apps to tor, the rest to the chosen dns (dnscrypt or DOH).

Because its a dns app, it also intercepts all onion and I2p addresses automagically. So you can install inviz and just add an onion node to cake, and the onion node will work.

Or set the it manually (same as orbot in vpn mode but only for selected apps)

But has the added plus of being able to use the dns of your choose for clearnet stuff

The full / pro version is available in fdroid

So dns splits

Inviz is basically a dns proxy

* So it dns splits

That intercepts requests and forwards to the tor daemon that it runs, I2p, or the dns you've chosen

For dns i just use nextdns, cause ios has fck all for tor

Inviz has quad, next, adguard a bunch

And you can set multiple, and it will select the fastest ping from your choices.

Personally I use Google dns (jk).

It has 11 or 12 quad9 dns entries for examolem

<DanIsnotthemanBr> "And maybe “orbot ( android only)..." <- Orbot is no longer android only :)

Its all or nothing

Cant select app

Creates a vpn

Which leaks

In this example that's fine, no? You're using the phone just for cake, not a bunch of other rando crap simultaneously

Maybe disclaimer

> Internet connections established after you connect to VPN are not affected. But connections that are already running when you connect to VPN may continue outside the VPN tunnel indefinitely.

Should I add on iOS to force close Cake before activating Orbot? Does that address these issues?

Id probably not recommend ios as a hardened device, since it seems it cant be?

> certain DNS queries from Apple services can still be sent from outside the VPN connection.

Those aren't cake-initiated queries though right?

Right

Just the os ignoring your vpn

Could be apple telemetry who knows

Walled garden:/

I don't want to go too deep into the "iOS is always unsafe" idea, this isn't really the blog post for that imo. It's about making sure the Cake-related interactions are hardened

It goes pretty deep on the dedicated device thing though

And id argue only certain android devices for that bill

You would have activate vpn or orbot and then open cake

Ie, rooted devices running graphene etc

I recommend people sync over clearnet then activate orbot after, so I'll add a note about force closing to be safe

Honestly gos or divestos

On android, if you use invizible.. you done have to turn things on and off

Dont*

Onions just work, clearnet just works

This is where wireshark app would help see what data is leaked :/

Pcapdroid

And pcapdroid MITM

ofrnxmr[m]: that would force monero syncing over Tor for cake though, right?

Nope. It allows clearnet, and intercepts onions and sends them to tor

So if you run it with everything clearnet, it works. If you switch to onions, they work too

ofrnxmr[m]: So set fiat and exchange to tor only and use clearnet own node, and that works for best of both worlds?

And it ignores local addresses, so that also works

Yes sir

Is this targeted at basic knowledge level?

The guide

Generally basic, yes

How much is InviZible Pro on Google Play

Its free on fdroid

In app purchases and stuff on Google play

that's not what I asked haha

Apk it

The apk is downloadable from fdroid website directly

Im not sure the limitations of lite version, which is free.

But nobody should be using the google play version

Of your using gos they wont use google playstore for it

s/Of/If/

Don’t want to tell google your using xmr

Google playvversion, for example, lilely has license checks

And ios is linked to account. Might have to put disclaimers

ofrnxmr: what do you think of the changes: guides.cakewallet.com/docs/tutorials/mobile-hardening

DanIsnotthemanBr: Telling people that Apple learns when you download Cake Wallet from their own store is out of scope of this article, and should be obvious

Well if you suggest fdriod over google store then your at that level of disclosure

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* ^ this is why you dont use google play versions of anything when possible

Of Ffs. I edit that by accident

Gplay doesnt allow adblockers, so the dns stuff is crippled in gplay version