Ctrl blog is now available as an Onion site
You can now read Ctrl blog through a censorship-resilient mirror powered by the Tor Project’s Onion Network. The mirror is ad-free and uses no third-parties.
Censorship
Online censorship.
Email politics, security, and why you got an empty newsletter
Feb 2020 was full of email vows, both in the larger world and for the Ctrl blog newsletter. What happened and why you got an empty blog newsletter this week.
The distributed web isn’t ready for Runet cutoff from the Internet
Russia to test disconnecting from the global Internet. Peer-to-peer distributed internet alternatives won’t survive after the Runet cutoff.
Well-Known URI vs DNS-SD for distributed web service-discovery
I compare the resilience of DNS Service-Discovery vs HTTPS Well-Known URIs when routing distributed internet traffic around censorship.
Turkey blocks BunnyCDN; Ctrl blog and 14 000 websites inaccessible
Ctrl blog was inaccessible in Turkey for five days as the country inadvertently blocked the BunnyCDN content delivery network.