Distributed web not ready for Runet cutoff from the Internet
Russia is preparing a nation-wide experiment where the whole country temporarily disconnects from the global Internet to see if the country can rely on Runet alone.…
Well-Known URI vs DNS-SD for routing distributed web service discovery around internet censorship
In this article, I want to discuss the use of Well-Known URIs and DNS based service discovery (DNS-SD) methods for mapping domain names to resources on…
Enabling both .onion and .i2p routing with Proxy Auto-Configuration
You can browse Tor hidden services (example.onion) and I2P services (example.i2p) by configuring your operating system and web browser’s proxy configuration to point to the local…
Android apps time out connections after setting up a PAC proxy configuration
Android added support for adding Proxy Auto-Configuration (PAC) configuration profiles to Wi-Fi network in Android 6 “Marshmallow”. Android 7 “Nougat” introduced a bug that causes almost…
Chrome is right to remove the webRequest extension API
…but the proposed declarativeNetRequest API isn’t a good replacement. So where does that leave us?
Tranco: An improved free top websites ranking list
Comparing secondary authoritative DNS service providers
A secondary authoritative DNS (sometimes called “slave DNS”) service provider is a DNS name server that clones and hosts your primary DNS server over the DNS…
Reporting emails to SpamCop actually stop spammers
A persistent spammer led me to explore options for taking action against their obnoxious bulk emailer. SpamCop proved to be an effective solution to disrupt the…
IPFS pinning services overcharge for duplicated objects
Pinning services for the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) are commercial hosting services that offer to ‘pin’ (meaning ‘permanently distribute’ in IPFS jargon) your IPFS file objects…
A look at IPFS’ garbage collector and how long resources remains cached
Nodes on the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) cache resources that are downloaded through them and make those resources available for upload to other nodes; creating a…
