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Re: CAPTCHA service not working
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theymos
on 18/07/2025, 17:08:55 UTC
⭐ Merited by _act_ (2) ,The Cryptovator (1)
I've never been able to figure out what causes that. It's not very common, though: it seems to happen to somebody 1-4 times per month. (Whenever that error happens, it's logged.) Z_MBFM and _act_ may be right that it's some sort of IP blacklist, connectivity issue, or browser issue.
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Re: Squishing the squashed-column bug (SMF patch)
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theymos
on 12/07/2025, 20:49:03 UTC
⭐ Merited by joker_josue (5) ,Cyrus (2) ,vapourminer (1)
I didn't test it that much, but it seems to work without any side-effects AFAICT, so I added it. I used your fix C, applying to posts only after about now.

I had originally thought that it should use the last-edited time/ID instead of the message ID, so that editing a post would upgrade it, but after thinking about it more, I decided that this would probably be more likely to confuse people than help them. If anybody really wants this fixed on an existing post, specific older message IDs could be whitelisted in the code.

Thanks!
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Re: Musk calls for the creation of a truly American party
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theymos
on 08/07/2025, 19:14:29 UTC
I like Elon's proposed party platform of a pro-tech, pro-free-speech, and anti-regulation centrist party. It sounds more libertarian than either of the two major parties, at least. But I don't think that most Americans care enough about these policies for it to really catch on unless he can find several ultra-skilled politicians to spread his message. Elon himself is a terrible politician, as well as a nutcase who I definitely wouldn't trust to stick to any particular platform.

I think that the best way to try to create a third party would be to focus on having an unusual and attractive style, more than on any particular policy, and I'd particularly focus on the rare style of being reasonable and nice. Today, there's no point in ever listening to 99% of politicians: when you see a politician from either side, you know that they're going to make big speeches with zero substance, be intellectually dishonest, and trash/dehumanize everyone with any connection to the other side. A party full of politicians who don't do all that would really stand out and succeed, I think. So if I was designing a new party with the main goal of actually being competitive, I'd create the "Compassion Party":
 - All member politicians have to go out of their way to always be nice, respectful, and intellectually honest, even in the face of massive liars/assholes like Elizabeth Warren or Steve Bannon.
 - It'd be especially effective if many of the leading politicians were moderate religious leaders (such as pastors from mainline Christian churches), since they'd have experience and credibility on compassion, and I think that religious messaging is underused except among the minority of religious Americans who are evangelicals.
 - Focus on a few exciting headline policies, such as UBI or major infrastructure projects (eg. building some popular high-speed rail lines). You want to make people pay attention, viewing you as different and likely to actually shift the status quo.
 - On controversial issues, take positions which come off as reasonable, practical, and not ideological. You want to appear "above it all".
 - Once you're actually in power, to ensure that the economy performs well, make hundreds of small technocratic tweaks which are all pro-growth, but are each too small to annoy any special interests too much.
 
That's not my ideal party, to be clear: just what I think would be most effective. I'd rather the Libertarian Party win overwhelmingly and then rapidly shrink the state. Though I do think that the hypothetical party I described would probably be an improvement over the two major parties.
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Re: DT update log
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on 01/07/2025, 22:02:58 UTC
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Re: Access denied
by
theymos
on 21/06/2025, 20:29:09 UTC
⭐ Merited by Mitchell (1) ,vapourminer (1) ,DireWolfM14 (1) ,hosemary (1) ,EFS (1)
Quote from: LoyceMobile on Today at 06:43:09 PM
That huge number of requests made me think it includes Bitcointalk's image proxy.

That was in fact the problem. ip.bitcointalk.org was supposed to be ignored for this sort of ban, but after looking into it more, I realized that it wasn't. (For Cloudflare rate-limiting rules, it turns out that the activation expression and the counting expression are totally independent, so I had to exclude ip.bitcointalk.org in two different places.)

Thanks!
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Re: Access denied
by
theymos
on 21/06/2025, 18:24:43 UTC
⭐ Merited by philipma1957 (2) ,LoyceMobile (1) ,vapourminer (1)
That happens only if your IP is traffic-flooding at an especially high rate. In your case, I see that your IP attempted to make 1340 requests in a 120-second period starting at 08:25 UTC. This is far above the general limit of 1 request per second. Maybe someone else is using your IP to flood, or maybe you have some background process running which is making requests way too quickly.
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Re: DT update log
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on 01/06/2025, 21:57:46 UTC
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Re: Negative Sendable Merits. A bug?
by
theymos
on 31/05/2025, 17:43:02 UTC
⭐ Merited by hosemary (4) ,fillippone (3) ,Xal0lex (3) ,LoyceV (2) ,dkbit98 (2) ,EFS (1) ,joker_josue (1) ,vapourminer (1) ,Cyrus (1)
Quote from: fillippone on Today at 02:10:55 PM
At this point, as the hours pass and my curiosity grows, I am waiting for Theymos to explain in layman terms what happened.

The changes which precipitated this were pretty boring: I'm making tweaks to the backend infrastructure which will make things a bit faster and more reliable. (But don't expect huge improvements.) As part of this, in order to ensure fast and reliable database replication, over the past ~week I've been modifying all of the database tables to have primary keys. In the case of the merit_ledger table, I did this by adding a new "ledger ID" column. Adding this column is what broke the sMerit calculation. That's a big hint, so if you still want to try finding the bug, go back and give it a try now, because I'm going to give the answer in the next paragraph.

The bug was in this query:
select time, amount from merit_ledger where ID_MEMBER_FROM=$user and time>={$sourceAmtLog[0][0]}

The code after goes through each send from oldest to newest, and "replays" it to see whether it was using the sender's source-merit or sMerit. But critically, the query doesn't actually specify an ORDER BY, so the order in which rows are returned is undefined. Previously, it was just by chance that rows were being returned in the intended order. But adding any key, and especially a primary key, is likely to change the order in which rows are returned when there is no ORDER BY. As a result, code which was working 100% correctly all of a sudden started working 100% incorrectly: the section of code after the query was just producing complete nonsense.

I thought that it was an interesting bug, since one change far away broke something which seemed largely unrelated, and even though the code is self-evidently wrong, it's still fairly difficult to find the bug if you don't have some hints.
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Re: Negative Sendable Merits. A bug?
by
theymos
on 30/05/2025, 17:21:57 UTC
⭐ Merited by Findingnemo (1)
Quote from: TryNinja on Today at 04:52:15 PM
Could you tell us what did you change?

That'd probably make it too obvious to be fun. Wink There is definitely a self-evident bug in the code I posted.

Quote from: Mia Chloe on Today at 05:00:46 PM
So I thought the easiest fix is to cap `$sendableUserMerit` at 0 after subtracting `$excessSent` in the source branch. I may be wrong though and I don't mind an hint.

That would prevent it from giving negative numbers, but it still wouldn't give correct numbers.
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Re: Negative Sendable Merits. A bug?
by
theymos
on 30/05/2025, 16:21:21 UTC
⭐ Merited by fillippone (3) ,dkbit98 (3) ,pooya87 (3) ,TryNinja (2) ,LoyceV (2) ,vapourminer (1) ,NotATether (1) ,notocactus (1) ,Cyrus (1)
It should be fixed now, sorry about that! I've been making a number of little tweaks over the past few days which could cause hard-to-predict bugs, so let me know if you see any other buggy behavior.

Can anyone find the bug? This function worked for years, but then I did something very far away (i.e. I didn't change this function at all) which broke it.

function calculate_smerit($user){
        $sendableUserMerit = db_query("select sum(amount) from merit_ledger where ID_MEMBER_TO=$user", __FILE__, __LINE__);
        if(mysql_num_rows($sendableUserMerit))
                $sendableUserMerit = (int)(mysql_fetch_array($sendableUserMerit)[0]/2);
        else
                $sendableUserMerit = 0;
        
        // merit_sources is a log of when users' source merit was changed: "source merit becomes 'amount' at timestamp 'time'"
        $q = db_query("select time, amount from merit_sources where ID_MEMBER=$user order by time asc", __FILE__, __LINE__);
        if(!mysql_num_rows($q)) {
                $sent = db_query("select sum(amount) from merit_ledger where ID_MEMBER_FROM=$user", __FILE__, __LINE__);
                if(mysql_num_rows($sent))
                        $sent = (int)mysql_fetch_array($sent)[0];
                else
                        $sent = 0;
                return array($sendableUserMerit - $sent, 0);
        }
        
        // this user is/was a source, so the calculation is more complex
        $sourceAmtLog = array();
        while($row=mysql_fetch_array($q))
                $sourceAmtLog[] = $row;
        mysql_free_result($q);

        $timeWindow = 60*60*24*30;
        list($excessSent) = mysql_fetch_array(db_query("select sum(amount) from merit_ledger where ID_MEMBER_FROM=$user and time<{$sourceAmtLog[0][0]}", __FILE__, __LINE__));
        if(empty($excessSent))
                $excessSent = 0;

        $sourceMeritSendsRange = array();
        $sourceMeritSendsRangeSum = 0;
        $sourcePos = 0;

        $q = db_query("select time, amount from merit_ledger where ID_MEMBER_FROM=$user and time>={$sourceAmtLog[0][0]}", __FILE__, __LINE__);
        $sends = array();
        while($row = mysql_fetch_array($q))
                $sends[] = $row;
        mysql_free_result($q);

        foreach($sends as $send) {
                if($sourcePos < count($sourceAmtLog)-1 && $send[0] >= $sourceAmtLog[$sourcePos+1][0]) {
                        $sourcePos++;
                        $sourceMeritSendsRangeSum=0;
                        $sourceMeritSendsRange = array();
                }
                while(count($sourceMeritSendsRange)>0 && ($send[0] - $sourceMeritSendsRange[0][0] > $timeWindow)) {
                        $sourceMeritSendsRangeSum -= array_shift($sourceMeritSendsRange)[1];
                }
                $remainingSource = max($sourceAmtLog[$sourcePos][1]-$sourceMeritSendsRangeSum, 0);
                $excessSent += max($send[1]-$remainingSource, 0);
                $sourceMeritSendAmount = min($remainingSource, $send[1]);
                if($sourceMeritSendAmount>0) {
                        $sourceMeritSendsRange[] = array($send[0], $sourceMeritSendAmount);
                        $sourceMeritSendsRangeSum += $sourceMeritSendAmount;
                }
        }

        $sendableUserMerit -= $excessSent;
        if($sourcePos != count($sourceAmtLog)-1) {
                $sourcePos = count($sourceAmtLog)-1;
                $sourceMeritSendsRangeSum=0;
                $sourceMeritSendsRange = array();
        }
        while(count($sourceMeritSendsRange) > 0 && (time() - $sourceMeritSendsRange[0][0] > $timeWindow)) {
                $sourceMeritSendsRangeSum -= array_shift($sourceMeritSendsRange)[1];
        }

        $sendableSourceMerit = max($sourceAmtLog[$sourcePos][1] - $sourceMeritSendsRangeSum, 0);
        return array($sendableUserMerit, $sendableSourceMerit);
}
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Re: How can we add a Portuguese version?
by
theymos
on 13/05/2025, 19:04:05 UTC
⭐ Merited by sabotag3x (1)
Due to inactivity, all of the non-English versions were deprecated, and are now in read-only mode. There'd have to be a very significant amount of interest to reactive any of them or add new ones. Inactive wikis are a potential hazard, since nobody's around to remove spam links or update dangerously-outdated info.
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Re: Unable to Blcok a username from private message
by
theymos
on 10/05/2025, 19:44:20 UTC
⭐ Merited by LoyceV (2) ,hosemary (1) ,vapourminer (1) ,PowerGlove (1)
Quote from: hosemary on Today at 10:09:52 AM
You have successfully blocked the user from sending you message, even if you see a different username in "ignore" feild.
Some users in the forum have different username and display name. You entered the display name of the user and after you clicked on the display name, the forum added the username in ignore feild.

I think you should be able to add the display name of the user, if you type it manually.

Right.

This is confusing, though, so I changed it to insert the display name now. Forum-wide, the display name is always supposed to be the name shown, though the username can be used as an alias in certain places.
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Re: Trust flags
by
theymos
on 01/05/2025, 22:10:01 UTC
⭐ Merited by LoyceV (2) ,JayJuanGee (1)
Quote from: LoyceV on April 30, 2025, 03:19:44 PM
I have a question about the Type 3 Flag:
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This user violated a written contract with me, resulting in damages.
What if a service makes contradicting claims on their website, and only one of those claims would mean a written contract was violated, while the other claim supports what they did? Would that still qualify as breaking a written contract?
For context, see this post.

These sorts of things are all open to interpretation by the flag creator and voters.

My personal opinion: I lean toward thinking that a type-2 is more appropriate because advertising which contradicts the ToS is in my eyes more of an informal/implied agreement than a contract. But I wouldn't say that a type-3 would be egregiously wrong or anything.
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Re: [April Fools] Replacing the merit system
by
theymos
on 01/05/2025, 21:47:41 UTC
⭐ Merited by ibminer (2) ,EFS (1) ,tread93 (1) ,Hatchy (1)
Thanks for playing, everyone! I was excited to be able to see an o_e_l_e_o with ESG and PowerGlove yesterday.

Below are the final scores. A day or two after the end of the main event, all pMerit balances were cleared, but after that, there were no other pMerit adjustments. Since all of the bugs were also worked out by this point, these scores are probably more representative of actual skill than the scores after the main event.
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| ESG               |  17855 |
| PowerGlove        |  11371 |
| ibminer           |   5119 |
| Cyrus             |   2366 |
| d57heinz          |   1709 |
| BlTCOINPostage    |   1651 |
| Avox              |   1600 |
| KosmoKisa         |   1504 |
| XICO              |   1474 |
| hopenotlate       |   1411 |
| theymos           |   1168 |
| infinitesimal     |   1146 |
| mirtotanota       |   1108 |
| Jewan420          |   1093 |
| Mitchell          |   1055 |
| iv4n              |   1045 |
| joker_josue       |   1036 |
| pdneves           |   1022 |
| Youngrebel        |   1016 |
| kingbj21          |   1015 |
| jackielove4u      |   1012 |
| hisslyness        |   1009 |
| mocacinno         |   1007 |
| garlonicon        |   1007 |
| Thamizhan         |   1006 |
| Findingnemo       |   1006 |
| GIF-JOBS          |   1006 |
| ranochigo         |   1004 |
| JohnGalt          |   1003 |
| vd309             |   1003 |
| Behat1981         |   1003 |
| just4kicks        |   1003 |
| daverick_cgn      |   1003 |
| Joca97            |   1002 |
| Sledge0001        |   1002 |
| rohang            |   1002 |
| Tazzy4050         |   1002 |
| bitrsanch         |   1002 |
| farou9            |   1002 |
| eminent1          |   1002 |
| Normalize         |   1002 |
| MaxAlphax         |   1001 |
| khaled0111        |   1001 |
| Ulven             |   1001 |
| Tebe654           |   1001 |
| Koceila           |   1001 |
| Rhema_Artz        |   1001 |
| AlphaBoy          |   1001 |
| Papablo1708       |   1001 |
| xOrpian           |   1001 |
| July_Alaska       |   1001 |
| Hueristic         |   1000 |
| bubbaj            |   1000 |
| JollyGood         |   1000 |
| Steamtyme         |   1000 |
| famososMuertos    |   1000 |
| Unsoldier         |   1000 |
| CR_Anders         |   1000 |
| Frankolala        |   1000 |
| smwangi           |   1000 |
| KFC786            |   1000 |
| Suzume            |   1000 |
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Re: Second chance for mixers?
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on 30/04/2025, 21:10:28 UTC
⭐ Merited by bitmover (2) ,LoyceV (2) ,xLays (1) ,dkbit98 (1) ,vapourminer (1) ,JayJuanGee (1)
Quote from: xLays on Today at 08:34:50 PM
My main question is: Is it allowed to run a contest or prediction here on Bitcointalk about when mixers will be allowed again? (The contest will not mention any website of mixer)

A policy prediction market, I like it! That's fine.

Note however that I may soften the ban over time, in two or more phases. For example, I may remove the wordfilter much sooner than the other aspects of the ban.
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on 30/04/2025, 20:48:53 UTC
Quote from: ESG on Today at 07:39:55 PM

I'm glad you enjoyed it! But I will be taking it down in roughly 12 hours.
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Re: Why is this report marked bad?
by
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on 25/04/2025, 15:35:54 UTC
⭐ Merited by Charles-Tim (1) ,Lafu (1) ,hosemary (1)
Probably it was marked as bad because it wasn't clear that a Stake account could be a KYC-verified account. I had to Google it to find out that "Stake level 2 verified" requires a photo ID and should therefore should be considered a disallowed KYC-verified account. So you're right: it should be deleted.

Thanks!
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Re: Dormant moderator; What do you guys think!
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on 25/04/2025, 15:23:23 UTC
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Good point. I went through and removed several inactive moderators from various boards. Thanks!
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Re: Bitcointalk vs 4chan
by
theymos
on 17/04/2025, 15:34:29 UTC
⭐ Merited by EFS (5) ,dkbit98 (5) ,NotATether (5) ,LoyceV (2) ,ABCbits (2) ,hosemary (2) ,_BlackStar (1) ,Cyrus (1) ,m2017 (1)
If the reports regarding 4chan's operations are true, then bitcointalk.org's security is much better than that. Other than SMF 1.x, which we maintain directly, I believe that all of the software we're using is maintained and kept up-to-date. We also offer security bounties.

But security can't be guaranteed. The last forum hack was apparently caused by a vulnerability in helpdesk software used by our Web host, not even any failure on our end. It's very difficult to protect against that sort of thing. And zero-day exploits in our custom code, SMF, or any of the software we rely on are certainly possible, even if we try our best to protect against them.

The best thing you can do to reduce the damage in case of another bitcointalk.org hack is to delete your old PMs. If a PM is in an active user's inbox, then we can't encrypt it, since otherwise the PM-search feature would be way too slow. (One of the top new features on my to-do list is to allow for exporting PMs into a format that eg. Thunderbird can open. The code is 90% done for this. Then it'll be easier for users to purge PMs from their forum inboxes.) You can also enable limited retention in your settings if you consider your IP logs to be very sensitive, though note that this will make it very difficult for you to ever recover your account, since IP logs are a very important piece of data for the recovery team.


I'm really sad that 4chan is down. Hopefully it comes back soon. Even though I haven't been very active there recently, I consider myself a 4channer more than I consider myself an American: it's one of my cultural bedrocks. Honestly, I'd probably personally contribute quite a bit of money to some project to revive it, if necessary.

(Though long-term, we really all need to be moving to decentralized forums. The world is getting more and more anti-free-speech, and in the not-too-distant future there aren't going to be many "territories of freedom" where free centralized forums can operate.)