Hello, random Internet person. Hope you're having a good day.
If you are interested in alternatives to centralized social networks like Facebook and Twitter, check out the latest episode of the Small Tech Foundation podcast about #decentralized social networks with Paul Frazee, cofounder of CTZN, hosted by @aral and @laura: https://small-tech.org/videos/small-is-beautiful-06/
Here's a preview of what I've been working on over the past several months. Still nowhere near finished, but we're getting there. It is (going to be) a real-time graph-based video compositor for broadcasting and creative coding. What you can see in the preview is the UI rendering of basic nodes and graph validation errors highlighted in red, with some debug information below.
Onion service URLS are not easy for humans to remember, which makes it hard for users to discover or return to an onion site. In this release, we're bringing you a proof-of-concept for human-memorable names for SecureDrop
, developed with Freedom of Press
& HTTPSEverywhere.
This is probably the first time when I looked up a public figure and instead of finding a Twitter profile, I found a Mastodon profile: @aral
Aral Balkan — Internet as Commons. Great talk about the importance of decentralization of services. https://player.vimeo.com/external/141562808.hd.mp4?s=fa5aaa255046c63300b420aba12ed91a&profile_id=113
Cache-Poisoned Denial-of-Service (CPDoS) is a new class of web cache poisoning attacks aimed at disabling web resources and websites.
My most recent open source project: https://unshort.link/
Prevent short link services from tracking you and remove tracking parameters from the underlying urls.
You can 100% host it yourself and its #GPLv3
Orca on the pi zero, and on the hyper keyboard.
https://inajob.hatenablog.jp/entry/orca-on-raspberry-pi-zero
Bit451 is an open source decentralized / distributed anonymous p2p media network. It has been characterized as “YouTube meets BitTorrent meets Bitcoin”.
ColdFusion made a great video explaining the roots of the opioid epidemic in the US.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGcKURD_osM
Does anyone know of a good alternative to #Maple for creating approximations of functions? Would be nice if it was a complete toolkit so I wouldn't have to implement the approximation algorithms myself. Maybe something in python, or something that doesn't feel like a huge proprietary binary blob like Maple does?
Ive just published my next blog in the Slicing onion series. This one is about how Tor relates to vpns and other tech. And its called: Onion recipes; VPN not required.
I hope you all enjoy it, and be sure to give feedback if you have any :)
We've got big news.
After months of work, Tor Browser is now stable on Android.
Tor Browser 8.5 brings the highest degree of privacy and censorship-circumvention available to Android users. https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-85
A great introduction to technologies for graphics programming in Rust written by Simon Heath: https://wiki.alopex.li/AGuideToRustGraphicsLibraries2019 #rust #gamedev
A sentient being doing their best to explore the universe.