Monero Dev Activity Report - Week 40 2024: 28 PRs, 11 Issues
This weekly report aims to provide a big picture view of Monero development activity, increase community support for existing devs and, hopefully, encourage new contributions.

Opened (13)

monero-project/monero:

• #94981 src: dynamic span, to calculate span limit dynamically RELEASE
  
• #94942 src: dynamic block sync size (0xFFFC0000)
  
• #94973 src: dynamic block … ⌘ Read more

[WTS] [EU/US] Famous Dutch Cheese
Link: https://xmrbazaar.com/listing/Pmfc/

TheDutchCheeseBoy (XMRBazaar) ⌘ Read more

Gupaxx v1.5.0 released with monerod integration
Cyrix1261 has released Gupaxx 2 version 1.5.03 with monerod integration4, multiple other UI changes, bug fixes and updates:

UI:
-new big feature: integration of Monerod
-new button on p2pool simple tab to use the local node (default)
Internals:
-new big feature: integration of Monerod process
-put p2pool to synchronizing status if a node doesn't respond
Fixes:
-xmrig-proxy tab sim ... ⌘ [Read more](https://monero.observer/cyrix126-releases-gupaxx-v1.5.0-monerod-integration/)

RINO platform to close down on October 31 2024: ‘we have to cut our losses’
The RINO1 team has announced2 plans to shut down their enterprise-grade Monero multisig browser wallet3 project on October 31st 2024, due to failed attempts to monetize the product, after 2+ years of operation4:

[..] our attempts to monetize the product never bore fruit to a point where the product could sustain itself, and at some point we have to cut our losses. As a consequence, … ⌘ Read more

ki9 starts work on XMR price API with data from Bisq, Haveno-reto
Keith Irwin (ki91) has apparently started working on XMR Price F.Y.I. 2 - a new Monero price API with unbiased street price data from multiple sources, including Haveno-reto 3 and Bisq 4:

[X] Domain name service
[X] TLS certs
[X] Nginx proxy
[X] Basic 11ty site
[ ] Basic http API
[ ] Haveno-reto data
[ ] Bisq data
[ ] Coingecko data
[ ] Forex data
[ ] API
[ ]  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://monero.observer/ki9-starts-work-xmr-price-api-data-haveno-bisq/)

[ANN] Please help test calc.revuo-xmr.com and share with friends! Couple updates recently deployed
Links:

• https://calc.revuo-xmr.com/
  
• https://farside.link/nitter/revuoxmr/status/1842451852157223089
  

rottenwheel.com ⌘ Read more

Monero Observer Artistic Saturday Top 5 - Week 40, 2024
Previous Artistic Saturday weekly reports can be found in the [art] 1 section.

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[ANN] Anyone notice more newborn Monero nodes recently?

I’ve perceived an increase in the number of newborn nodes syncing the blockchain from my nodes. Maybe after the Chainalysis video showed the privacy risks of using remote nodes over clearnet, more people are setting up their own nodes.

Link: https://lemmy.cafe/post/8489209

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SNeedlewoods submits CCS proposal for 1 month of part-time Monero dev work
SNeedlewoods1 has submitted their first CCS proposal2 to work part-time on Monero development for 1 month:

For this proposal the focus of work will be on the new wallet API [..] The work is already ongoing since May 2024 [..] This is a “pilot” proposal to see how things work out. [..] Hopefully I will become a long term contributor for general development.

Funding proposed: 2.15 XMR (10-15 hour ... ⌘ [Read more](https://monero.observer/sneedlewoods-submits-monero-dev-work-ccs-proposal/)

[ANN] Monero Meetup in Mexico City with Doug of MoneroTalk/Monerotopia on Sun, Oct 13th at 11AM!

Date/Time: Sun, Oct 13th at 11AM
Location: Cardinal Casa de Café (Córdoba 132, Roma Nte., Cuauhtémoc, 06100 Ciudad de México)

Link: https://farside.link/libreddit/r/Monerotopia/comments/1fw6q8t/

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rottenwheel publishes ‘Revuo Monero’ Issue href=”https://we.loveprivacy.club/search?q=%23212”>#212**
rottenwheel1 has published Issue #2122’3 of the weekly Revuo Monero audience-funded newsletter, which covers September 26-3 October 2024 news:

Recent News
Upcoming Events
CCS Proposals
Price & Blockchain Stats
Volunteer Opportunities
Support

To support Revuo Monero, you can contribute XMR to the address listed in the footer of each issue and on the Support 4 page.

Join the Revuo XMPP MUC5 an … ⌘ Read more

[AFH] [€20/hr] Data processing services by Python dev with 6 yrs of experience
Link: https://farside.link/libreddit/r/forhire/comments/1fv9qe2/

u/ILOTEbunny (Reddit) ⌘ Read more

pluja launches experimental ‘AI-driven’ weekly Monero podcast
pluja1 has announced2 the launch of XMR.FAN 3, an AI-driven experimental weekly podcast that aims to deliver the latest insights and news from the world of Monero and privacy:

I’ve been experimenting with Google’s NotebookLM, voice generation (elevenlabs/piper), and other AI tools (SD, flux…). I discovered that these are really useful to produce very decent weekly news overviews, so I made this websi … ⌘ Read more

Reducing MTTD and increasing observability with Linkerd at loveholidays
End user post by Dan Williams, Senior Infrastructure Engineer at loveholidays In this blog post, we’ll share how loveholidays was able to utilise Linkerd to provide uniform metrics across all services, leading to a decrease in incident Mean… ⌘ Read more

HardenedSteel, spirobel CCS proposals ready for funding
Two CCS proposals have been moved to the funding stage and are now looking for community support:

• HardenedSteel’s!502 1: Part-time Work on getmonero.org (2 Month) 2
  
• spirobel’s!501 3: Robust and modular wallet-rpc library 4
  

To support the above proposals you can donate to the XMR addresses listed on the Funding Required 5 page.

_This is an ongoing story and the report will … ⌘ Read more

Cuprate Meeting scheduled for 8 October 2024 1800 UTC
The next Cuprate Meeting is scheduled1 to take place on Tuesday, October 8 2024 at 18:00 UTC on IRC-Libera/Matrix2 in the #cuprate channels.

Cuprate is an effort to create an alternative Monero node implementation.

Greetings
Updates: What is everyone working on?
Project: What is next for Cuprate?
Any other business

The meeting’s moderator should be Boog9003. Consult the Cuprate code rep … ⌘ Read more

Monero Research Lab meeting scheduled for 9 October 2024 1700 UTC
The next Monero Research Lab1 meeting is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, October 9th 2024 at 17:00 UTC on IRC-Libera/Matrix2 in the #monero-research-lab channels.

• Updates. What is everyone working on?
  
• Stress testing monerod3
  
• Research Pre-Seraphis Full-Chain Membership Proofs4. Reviews for Carrot.5
  
• 10 block lock discussion6
  

This meet … ⌘ Read more

Achieving collaboration and impact for end users: introducing the CNCF’s End User Technical Advisory Board (TAB), its mission and initiatives
End user post by Alolita Sharma, Engineering Leader at Apple, CNCF Board & EndUser TAB, OpenTelemetry GC, CNCF Observability TAG Co-Chair The CNCF End User Technical Advisory Group (TAB) was formally announced at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America… ⌘ Read more

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024 co-located event deep dive: Observability Day
Co-chairs: Eduardo Silva, Chronosphere, Austin Parker, Honeycomb, Anna Kapuscinska, Isovalent at CiscoNovember 12, 2024Salt Lake City, Utah Observability is a journey, and in a diverse ecosystem like ours, it’s easy to get confused or use the wrong tools… ⌘ Read more

Interesting.. QUIC isn’t very quick over fast internet.

QUIC is expected to be a game-changer in improving web application performance. In this paper, we conduct a systematic examination of QUIC’s performance over high-speed networks. We find that over fast Internet, the UDP+QUIC+HTTP/3 stack suffers a data rate reduction of up to 45.2% compared to the TCP+TLS+HTTP/2 counterpart. Moreover, the performance gap between QUIC and HTTP/2 grows as the underlying bandwidth increases. We observe this issue on lightweight data transfer clients and major web browsers (Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera), on different hosts (desktop, mobile), and over diverse networks (wired broadband, cellular). It affects not only file transfers, but also various applications such as video streaming (up to 9.8% video bitrate reduction) and web browsing. Through rigorous packet trace analysis and kernel- and user-space profiling, we identify the root cause to be high receiver-side processing overhead, in particular, excessive data packets and QUIC’s user-space ACKs. We make concrete recommendations for mitigating the observed performance issues.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3589334.3645323

Observability and my love for motorcycles: a comparison
Member post by Abhijeet Kakade, Senior Marketing Expert at MSys Technologies Motorcycle riding is my passion, and as an avid motorcycle enthusiast, I really know the importance of regular inspection to keep my bike in top shape. From… ⌘ Read more

the observable universe is made up of how many galaxies?? 😏 ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Developer Diary, Emancipation Day (observed) https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/07/08/emancipation.html #programming #project #devjournal

Your guide to observability engineering in 2024
Member post originally published on the Logz.io blog by Jake O’Donnell It may sound complicated and daunting, but so much of observability is about discovering the unknown unknowns in your critical systems. The capabilities of observability engineering can… ⌘ Read more

Why Embrace created span snapshots for mobile observability with OpenTelemetry
Member post by Fredric Newberg, CTO and Co-Founder of Embrace OTel spans are very powerful for gaining an understanding of the performance of mobile applications. However, given the restriction placed on spans in the OTel specification that spans… ⌘ Read more

Comment les élites sont devenues de plus en plus bêtes
L’Occident a maintenant un grave problème avec ses élites. Le bon sens permettait déjà de s’en douter, les observations s’accumulant dans le sens d’une déconnexion de plus en plus importante et aux conséquences de plus en plus graves des élites du reste du peuple. Une étude récemment menée par Scott Rasmussen (fondateur de l’institut Rasmussen […] ⌘ Read more

Does your observability practice lack maturity? Here’s what to do
Member blog post originally published on the Logz.io blog by Jake O’Donnell Observability isn’t new. But organizations are struggling to adopt mature observability practices, and the impact on business is palpable. Organizations are seeing the value of observability for… ⌘ Read more

Youpi, Macron veut faire le Mozart de la finance avec votre épargne !
Décidément, ce n’est pas simple à comprendre, la Macronie ! Plus on étudie ce qui se dit, ce qui se prépare, ce qui se promet et ce qui se discute, plus on observe en face ce qui se passe réellement, et moins les paroles se rapprochent des actes. Que c’est compliqué ! Ainsi, alors que la France […] ⌘ Read more

Charting new territory: OpenTelemetry embraces profiling
Ambassador post originally published on Logz.io’s blog by Dotan Horovits The topic of continuous profiling has been an ongoing discussion in the observability world for some time. I said back in 2021 that profiling was set to be the… ⌘ Read more

Can You Stop Mirroring Camera on MacBook? Yes… Sometimes
You may have noticed while on a video call or teleconference that your video is mirrored, or flipped, by default on the Mac. Mirrored video means the image on screen is what you see when looking in a mirror, not your regular orientation from an observers perspective, thus the name. This is the case with … Read More ⌘ Read more

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Why you may be dropping key mobile data from your observability solution
Member post by Fredric Newberg, CTO and Co-Founder of Embrace If you have a business-critical mobile app, you might be surprised to learn that your observability solution is dropping a large percentage of your mobile app observability data…. ⌘ Read more

GitHub’s Engineering Fundamentals program: How we deliver on availability, security, and accessibility
The Fundamentals program has helped us address tech debt, improve reliability, and enhance observability of our engineering systems.

The post [GitHub’s Engineering Fundamentals program: How we deliver on availability, security, and accessibility](https://github.blog/2024-02-08-githubs-engineering-fundamentals-program-how-we-delive … ⌘ Read more

How to Add Sauna to Workouts on Apple Watch
Ever wished your Apple Watch had a Sauna setting for workouts? Me too, so I found a way to add one. And yea, Apple says we shouldn’t use Apple Watch in the sauna, but I am interested in observing my heart rate and associated stats from sauna sessions, so I am doing it anyway. Something … Read More ⌘ Read more

L’État s’occupe des emplois de demain ! Catastrophe !
Les statistiques en provenance de Paul Travail pardon France Emploi, d’ailleurs recoupées avec celle de LinkedIn, sont assez claires : la France et l’Europe observent actuellement une percée des emplois verts, ainsi que ceux dédiés à l’intelligence artificielle et à la cybersécurité. Responsable de l’efficacité énergétique, de l’hygiène, de la sécurité et de l’environnement ou de […] ⌘ Read more

I’ve made the sad observation that numerous people started to blog during the pandemic, but stopped in 2021 or 2022. Today, I cleaned up my feed subscriptions in Miniflux and removed many feeds that saw no activity for a long time. At least, I can’t remember of a site I subscribed to that completely disappeared. ⌘ Read more

2024 : le retour des promoteurs d’actions et d’immobilier
Un article de Henry Bonner Le marché observe actuellement une hausse des actifs, avec la fin du resserrement par les banques centrales. Après une hausse de 15 % du CAC 40 pour l’année, les conseillers en actions en Bourse ou en investissement dans l’immobilier promettent plus de gains à l’avenir. Le gros du gain a […] ⌘ Read more

Announcing Docker Compose Watch GA Release
Docker Compose Watch, a tool to improve the inner loop of application development, is now generally available. We built Docker Compose Watch to smooth away these workflow papercuts. We have learned from many people using our open source Docker Compose project for local development. Now we are natively addressing common workflow friction we observe, like the use case of hot reload for frontend development. ⌘ Read more

More data contradicting the existence of “echo chambers”. As I’ve argued many times before, the concept of an echo chamber or information bubble is not real. The podcast below is an interview of an author of a study where they actually intervened and changed the information diet of 20,000 people (with consent!), then surveyed them after three months. They observed essentially no changes to the study subjects’ beliefs and attitudes. They also observed that the typical person, while they tend to gravitate towards people with similar political leanings, only get about 50% of their content from such like-minded people. They get the rest from neutral sources and maybe 20% from non-like-minded people.

Varied information diet + No change in attitudes when information diet is forced to be different = no echo chamber.

Listen to the podcast episode here

Exoplanet Observation
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GitHub Enterprise Server 3.9 is now generally available
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.9 is now generally available. Organizations can now take advantage of more features that enable deeper collaboration, greater observability and faster workflows. ⌘ Read more

Unlock Docker Desktop Real-Time Insights with the Grafana Docker Extension
Explore the benefits of using the Grafana Cloud Docker Extension with Docker Desktop for enhanced observability. ⌘ Read more

an interesting observation in a post twitter reality is how services that are sprouting up to claim some of the refugees are setting themselves up as closed gardens. without the option to federate with other services. like spoutable, counter.social, post, clubhouse and such.

Did something chchange with how the discover feed is generated? My pods logout mode now only shows my twts. It used to be all twts from watcher observation like my logged on discover tab. @prologic@twtxt.net

Configure, Manage, and Simplify Your Observability Data Pipelines with the Calyptia Core Docker Extension
Find out how to use the Calyptia Core Docker Extension to build and manage observability pipelines in Docker Desktop. ⌘ Read more

November Extensions Roundup: Kubernetes Observability, API Testing, and More
Find out what’s new this month in the Docker Extension Marketplace! ⌘ Read more

Enable Cloud-Native Log Observability With Parseable
Traditionally, logs are text heavy and relatively difficult to visualize or observe. Learn how Parseable displays rich, clear log data within Docker Desktop — helping you manage data more easily. ⌘ Read more

i think in practice people were most convinced by timelines, if not arguments, then observations abt progress.

No-fly zone above high-speed rail terminus part of area lockdown, as Hong Kong rolls out security blanket for Xi Jinping’s visit to mark 25th anniversary of handover
Other measures include multiple patrol posts lining perimeter of railway station, high-rise observation spots nearby and restricted area at Victoria Harbour. ⌘ Read more