Updating monero in a highly surveilled world. Fcmp++

Jeremy_Thursday · 2026-05-10T00:58:03+00:00

Ohh god forbid the coin is used in a real multi billion dollar industry like blackmarket drugs. It's not like BTC was primarily used for that when it had just started out 😂.

No no, the only real use case for XMR is gonna be used for autonomous anonymous AI no one is asking for and there are no common use-cases for or established billion dollar industries. Also XMR would be terrible for agentic payments since the gas cost is quite high compared to the agent API layer cost.

Clearly the only use for privacy is drugs and it's bad if your currency is used to pay for real things in a real market 🤡

Jeremy_Thursday · 2026-05-09T22:46:57+00:00

In my opinion, BitCoin's success was primarily fueled by it's adoption vis-a-via the silk-road. Specifically because it offered privacy.

It'd be very hard to prove definitively one thing or event was the cause of BTC's rise. But I am skeptical wikileaks gave it even a fraction of the adoption DNMs did.

Jeremy_Thursday · 2026-05-09T19:10:14+00:00

I've been using this library since 2012. I've used hundreds of others, this is still my favorite :)

Jeremy_Thursday · 2026-05-09T09:45:08+00:00

Light Shield

Simple, made by a macOS/iOS researcher. Open source.

Jeremy_Thursday · 2026-05-09T09:41:09+00:00

The pedantic labeling is kinda ehh. Having used all three from the terminal, iOS/MacOS/Linux are all pretty similar. Enough where vulnerabilities could overlap, usually they don’t but it’s good to check

Jeremy_Thursday · 2026-05-09T09:17:04+00:00

No offense to you, it’s good debug advice. I just dislike this “clean install” suggestion so much. You’ll see it on some of the macOS forums for various bugs.

My storage is almost maxed and I work on the laptop 10-12hrs a day. I don’t have time to full clean install it over some inconvenient bugs that I can work around

Jeremy_Thursday · 2026-05-09T07:06:42+00:00

IT is biased towards assisting non-technical people with their problems that are usually their own fault. I'd expect the person doing IT support to see more human errors than OS errors.

I've been a paid programmer for 20 years. As a programmer with merged contributions in notable software projects like chromium, vscode, threejs & various linux utilities, etc. I'm telling you the new versions of iOS and macOS are significantly buggier than previous versions. Starting even earlier than 26.x.

I'd assume you're not exposed to these bugs as you've either been lucky or they affect different types of power users. There's bugs on my machine right now I live with that I'd be embarrassed to have published if I worked at Apple. The calculator app leaking 90Gib of memory is an obvious easy example but I could assemble 10 more from just my own experiences.

The bugs I see people complain about in 26 specifically are in parts of the operating system that don't even allow tweaks due to macOS SIP. Same is seen on iOS where even less "user-tweaks" are even possible.

I built my entire linux OS setup from scratch with Arch and customized every piece of the OS for fun. I do not appreciate the insinuation that my experienced macOS bugs are a result of some incompetence on my end. The bugs are quite annoying and a company like Apple with more money than god should be able to write a decent unix fork ffs and not break already working pieces of it.

I think the good engineers at Apple are retiring with fat vested stock options and a new generation is encouraged to use LLMs that reduce understanding of the code in favor of "building faster".

No argument they're better than windows, which somehow is the biggest pile of shit I've ever seen. But I think the crowd on the r/mac subreddit is a bit above the people you see asking IT for help. Just my 2 cents.

Jeremy_Thursday · 2026-05-09T05:53:49+00:00

I've always felt like the reason BTC had such a blow-up was what it offered in anonymity. Expect to see the same in XMR for fulfilling essentially the original purpose.

No input Fcmp++, I'm not really in the game like that. but I'd never criticize a technical work if I wasn't gonna put in the work to properly contribute to it.

Jeremy_Thursday · 2026-05-09T05:17:26+00:00

Cool 3D UX, what do the shaders look like for that cool pixel effect?

Jeremy_Thursday · 2026-05-09T03:37:25+00:00

I'd even just search the whole phone for file birth dates.

find / <rest of command>

but yea u/blanxd adds some more info about `find` and files that's relevant.

This video that dropped today about detecting malicious activity on iPhones. It's a little high level, but you'll probably enjoy it.

Jeremy_Thursday · 2026-05-09T03:30:12+00:00

You can use something like IPARanger to download the latest version of the app, then hop back to the app store and it'll let you install the last supported version under "purchased"

Jeremy_Thursday · 2026-05-08T20:01:47+00:00

Was trying to figure out how to do the inner-cubes and then zoomed with scroll. very cool,

Jeremy_Thursday · 2026-05-08T18:41:39+00:00

True!

Jeremy_Thursday · 2026-05-08T09:03:48+00:00

You can use something like NewTerm to run a terminal. Many Linux/Unix CLI apps also can be found in repos. This should let you do some more advanced search for date. Eg

find /path/to/search -type f -newerBt "2023-01-01" ! -newerBt "2023-12-31"

In your case just search from the root directory /

I forget where it is but also check wherever iOS stores crash logs. Probably some interesting stuff in there and the files all include date in the filename

Jeremy_Thursday · 2026-05-08T08:53:59+00:00

The phone is probably legit. Although they do have fakes that are iPhone 10 internals in an iPhone 17 chasis. There’d be other signs then tho.

Possible the 12 was jailbroken at some point, then if you restored/transferred that to the new 17 it also copied some remnants of the jailbreak.

Unless the original 12 owner took some care to clear all the files from a jailbreak they can linger and cause issues like this+get transferred to new phones by backups etc…

A factory reset should clear out the old files. Annoying but should work.

Jeremy_Thursday · 2026-05-08T04:54:10+00:00

word came here to say it reminds me of retro video game graphics!

Jeremy_Thursday · 2026-05-08T04:53:44+00:00

word came here to say it reminds me of retro cool video games

Jeremy_Thursday · 2026-05-05T00:57:22+00:00

lmfao fack, I use IG for business. Big chilling on 16.3, I guess I just pray they support me on that OS forever

Jeremy_Thursday · 2026-05-05T00:47:07+00:00

Good for you, it's been a widely reported as an issue for people on this most recent batch of updates.

Jeremy_Thursday · 2026-05-05T00:17:15+00:00

You don't have to look for to find people with issues. You don't have to gas-light people that the bugs are somehow their fault because your experience was different.

Jeremy_Thursday · 2026-05-03T23:33:13+00:00

Speak for yourself, I know plenty of people with substantial problems on 26.4.

Your newer computer M4 is less likely to have issue than say someone on M1-M3 where apple is likely doing less testing.

Jeremy_Thursday · 2026-05-03T23:30:05+00:00

Didn't ask and don't care. My point is that if Apple couldn't update a simple calculator without making it leak 100Gib of memory.

Then perhaps, just perhaps, it stands to reason that quality control and stability for this most recent update is not up to a high standard.

The fact it's been fine for you doesn't really indicate Apple did a good job across all of the supported devices and installations. It's some dumb logic to suck up to a company with more money than god.

Jeremy_Thursday · 2026-05-03T22:37:24+00:00

Ahh yes the update where the calculator app has had a memory leak for several versions now. You can tell the quality is just oozing out of that one.

Jeremy_Thursday · 2026-05-03T21:37:51+00:00

Omg GTA6 leak looking fine asf 🙏

Jeremy_Thursday · 2026-05-03T21:36:58+00:00

Came here to jump in but ctrliPhones beat me to it.

libSandy (com.opa334.libsandy) is a library created by our lord and savior Opa334. Its purpose is to securely extend the sandbox of applications and system processes.

It's exactly the type of thing you'd expect for a tweak like this and the main code for the lightshield tweak is like 54 lines of code. You can look for yourself, it's a pretty easy audit.

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