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May 2021 Tor DEMO Day
by Gaba 25 May '21

25 May '21

Hi! We will have a Tor DEMO day this Wednesday May 26t! When ---- During Tor All Hands meeting on Wednesday May 26th at 1600 UTC Where ------ BBB in https://tor.meet.coop/gus-tvm-llm-bem How ---- 3 to 5 minutes length presentations. Agenda ----- - Anti-censorship alerts with prometheus (anarcat and cohosh) - Book "How the Internet Really Works: An Illustrated Guide to Protocols, Privacy, Censorship, and Governance" (ulrike) - LEAP VPN (meskio) cheers, gaba

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Tor Localization Monthly Hangout
by emma peel 21 May '21

21 May '21

Today we are hosting our very first Localization Hangout! You are all invited to come and share your doubts, interests, tricks for translating apps. (favorite translation music, funny anecdotes, long held questions...) More information: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/l10n/-/wikis/Monthly-Tor-Locali… emmapeel Localization Coordinator Tor Project

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Anti-censorship meeting notes, 20 May 2021
by Cecylia Bocovich 20 May '21

20 May '21

Hey everyone, Here are our meeting logs: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-05-20-16.00.html and our meeting pad: Anti-censorship work meeting pad -------------------------------- Next meeting: Thursday May 20th 16:00 UTC Weekly meetings, every Thursday at 16:00 UTC, in #tor-meeting at OFTC (channel is logged while meetings are in progress) == Goal of this meeting == Weekly checkin about the status of anti-censorship work at Tor. Coordinate collaboration between people/teams on anti-censorship at Tor. == Links to Useful documents == Our anti-censorship roadmap: Roadmap: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/anti-censorship/-/boards The anti-censorship team's wiki page: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/wikis/home Past meeting notes can be found at: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/ Tickets that need reviews: from sponsors we are working on: All needs review tickets: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/anti-censorship/-/merge_requests?s… Sponsor 30 https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/4 https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/7 https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/5 https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/6 Sponsor 28 must-do tickets: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/10 possible tickets: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&… Public bug-reporting pad: https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-anti-censorship-bugs-keep <-- we have anonymous tickets handling now. Let's see which anti-censorship repos to include. == Announcements == == Discussion == ok to merge snowflake!38 with attribution to dcf? yes, it's ok many clients need NAT-unrestricted proxies, but there aren't enough of them to go around likely the cause of e.g. https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… 'Esp. on iOS, I always seem to get only the "unrestricted" types.' thinking of doing a community push for people to install the standalone go proxy on VPS to get more unrestricted snowflakes we could also increase the default capacity of the standalone bridges (currently is 10) docker image for snowflake proxy? we have already at https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/thetorproject/snowflake-proxy recent discussion at https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… == Actions == == Interesting links == https://www.jacobo.org/ansible-snowflake/ == Reading group == We will discuss "" on Questions to ask and goals to have: What aspects of the paper are questionable? Are there immediate actions we can take based on this work? Are there long-term actions we can take based on this work? Is there future work that we want to call out, in hopes that others will pick it up? == Updates == Name: This week: - What you worked on this week. Next week: - What you are planning to work on next week. Help with: - Something you need help with. cecylia (cohosh): last updated 2020-05-20 Last week: - added community pages for setting up snowflake proxies (snowflake#40031) - added a cronjob on polyanthum to restart bridgestrap dail to avoid the bug where tor's PT process exits and can't restart - met to talk about snowflake refactors - preparation for and attending the s28 PI meeting - reviews - helped with a BridgeDB deployment and updated the survival guide This week: - revise snowflake!36 - more performance investigations for snowflake#40026 - read up on arlo's work on snowflake#26092 arlolra: 2021-05-20 Last week: - Next week: - Maybe more !39 Help with: - !37 - !39 dcf: 2021-05-20 Last week: - reviewed prometheus metrics refactoring https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… Next week: - main branch name change in goptlib https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/6 - rebase and merge resource leak fix https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… Help with: Antonela: 2020-08-27 This week: agix:2021-05-13 Last week: -Busy with university stuff Next week: -Work on bridgebox for rdsys -More research on httpt #4 Help with: - hanneloresx: 2021-3-4 Last week: - Submitted MR for bridgestrap issue #14 Next week: - Finish bridgestrap #14 - Find new issue to work on Help with: - maxb: 2021-04-29 Last week: - Busy w/ life and new job, but been looking at https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… and working on a Docker-based network testbed POC Next week: - Really want to have a POC to show/get feedback on meskio: 2021-05-20 Last week: - release bridgedb - CPU issue with snowflake/probetest (snowflake#40039) Next week: - packaging snowflake (snowflake#19409) Help with: - HashikD: 2021-01-22 This week: - Next week: - Help with: -

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Anti-censorship meeting notes, 06 May 2021
by Cecylia Bocovich 13 May '21

13 May '21

Hi, Looks like I forgot to send out last week's meeting notes. Here are our logs: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-05-06-15.59.html and here is our pad from last week: Anti-censorship work meeting pad -------------------------------- Next meeting: Thursday May 6th 16:00 UTC Weekly meetings, every Thursday at 16:00 UTC, in #tor-meeting at OFTC (channel is logged while meetings are in progress) == Goal of this meeting == Weekly checkin about the status of anti-censorship work at Tor. Coordinate collaboration between people/teams on anti-censorship at Tor. == Links to Useful documents == Our anti-censorship roadmap: Roadmap: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/anti-censorship/-/boards The anti-censorship team's wiki page: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/wikis/home Past meeting notes can be found at: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/ Tickets that need reviews: from sponsors we are working on: All needs review tickets: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/anti-censorship/-/merge_requests?s… Sponsor 30 https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/4 https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/7 https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/5 https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/6 Sponsor 28 must-do tickets: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/10 possible tickets: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&… Public bug-reporting pad: https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-anti-censorship-bugs-keep <-- we have anonymous tickets handling now. Let's see which anti-censorship repos to include. == Announcements == Welcome meskio \o/ == Discussion == == Actions == Comment with any last feedback on switching the default branch: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/6 == Interesting links == == Reading group == We will discuss "" on Questions to ask and goals to have: What aspects of the paper are questionable? Are there immediate actions we can take based on this work? Are there long-term actions we can take based on this work? Is there future work that we want to call out, in hopes that others will pick it up? == Updates == Name: This week: - What you worked on this week. Next week: - What you are planning to work on next week. Help with: - Something you need help with. cecylia (cohosh): last updated 2020-05-06 Last week: - s28 prep - posted report on Belarus - finished snowflake!31 revision - wrote a patch to fix goroutine leaks in snowflake server (snowflake#40033) - reviewed emma#4 - more preparation for branch rename (anti-censorship/team#6) - reviewed bridgedb gitlab-ci (bridgedb#40012) - implemented changes to client-broker messages (snowflake#29293) - commented with more background info on snowflake#25592 This week: - congestion logging patches for snowflake#40026 - install our snowflake app on android and try it out for a few days - more work in snowflake standalone proxy documentation (snowflake#40031) Needs help with: - review of snowflake!31 (PT v2 Go API) - review of snowflake!35 (fix goroutine leak) - review of snowflake!36 (update to client-broker messages) - review of bridgedb#32276 (moat shim based off goptlib) arlolra: 2020-10-29 Last week: - Next week: - getting back up to speed - follow ups to #33365 - start on #31201 Help with: - dcf: 2021-05-06 Last week: - snowflake CDN bookkeeping https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/wikis/Snowflake-co… - commented on resource leaks in snowflake server https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… Next week: - review switching broker messages to JSON https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… - more review of PT v2 patch https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… Help with: Antonela: 2020-08-27 This week: agix:2021-05-06 Last week: -Busy with university stuff Next week: -Work on bridgebox for rdsys -More research on httpt #4 Help with: - hanneloresx: 2021-3-4 Last week: - Submitted MR for bridgestrap issue #14 Next week: - Finish bridgestrap #14 - Find new issue to work on Help with: - maxb: 2021-04-29 Last week: - Busy w/ life and new job, but been looking at https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… and working on a Docker-based network testbed POC Next week: - Really want to have a POC to show/get feedback on meskio: 2021-05-06 Last week: - Getting to know the anti censorship team - gitlab CI for bridgedb - reading about decoy routing (bridgedb#40012) Next week: - bridgedb distribute obfs4 by default (bridgedb#40011) - bridgedb send qr codes over email (bridgedb#40008) Help with: - HashikD: 2021-01-22 This week: - Next week: - Help with: -

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Anti-censorship meeting notes, 13 May 2021
by Cecylia Bocovich 13 May '21

13 May '21

Hey everyone, Here are our meeting logs: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-05-13-16.00.html and our meeting pad: Anti-censorship work meeting pad -------------------------------- Next meeting: Thursday May 13th 16:00 UTC Weekly meetings, every Thursday at 16:00 UTC, in #tor-meeting at OFTC (channel is logged while meetings are in progress) == Goal of this meeting == Weekly checkin about the status of anti-censorship work at Tor. Coordinate collaboration between people/teams on anti-censorship at Tor. == Links to Useful documents == Our anti-censorship roadmap: Roadmap: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/anti-censorship/-/boards The anti-censorship team's wiki page: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/wikis/home Past meeting notes can be found at: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/ Tickets that need reviews: from sponsors we are working on: All needs review tickets: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/anti-censorship/-/merge_requests?s… Sponsor 30 https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/4 https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/7 https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/5 https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/6 Sponsor 28 must-do tickets: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/10 possible tickets: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&… Public bug-reporting pad: https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-anti-censorship-bugs-keep <-- we have anonymous tickets handling now. Let's see which anti-censorship repos to include. == Announcements == == Discussion == gitweb <--> gitlab mirrors: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/7 live discussion desired re snowflake rendezvous message redesign?yeah! https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… == Actions == == Interesting links == == Reading group == We will discuss "" on Questions to ask and goals to have: What aspects of the paper are questionable? Are there immediate actions we can take based on this work? Are there long-term actions we can take based on this work? Is there future work that we want to call out, in hopes that others will pick it up? == Updates == Name: This week: - What you worked on this week. Next week: - What you are planning to work on next week. Help with: - Something you need help with. cecylia (cohosh): last updated 2020-05-13 Last week: - default branch changes on anti-censorship team repos (team#6) - opened a ticket for setting up gitolite and gitlab mirrors (team#7) - opened a ticket for documenting our workflow (team#8) - reviewed bridgedb!16 - wrote up instructions for running a snowflake proxy for community web pages (web/community#203) - s28 integration work - revised and merged snowflake PT v2 Go API work (snowflake#40036) - merged and deployed fix for goroutine leaks in snowflake server (snowflake#40033) - fixed a CI issue in snowflake - reviewed bridgedb!17 - starting estimating and mapping out work needed to make a Conjure PT This week: - revise snowflake!36 - more performance investigations for snowflake#40026 - rdsys + bridgedb integration (rdsys#12) - install our snowflake app on android and try it out for a few days - more work in snowflake standalone proxy documentation (snowflake#40031) Needs help with: - review of bridgedb#32276 (moat shim based off goptlib) arlolra: 2020-10-29 Last week: - Next week: - getting back up to speed - follow ups to #33365 - start on #31201 Help with: - dcf: 2021-05-13 Last week: - snowflake CDN bookkeeping https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/wikis/Snowflake-co… - more review of PT v2 patch https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… - reviewed switching broker messages to JSON https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… Next week: - main branch name change in goptlib https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/6 Help with: Antonela: 2020-08-27 This week: agix:2021-05-13 Last week: -Busy with university stuff Next week: -Work on bridgebox for rdsys -More research on httpt #4 Help with: - hanneloresx: 2021-3-4 Last week: - Submitted MR for bridgestrap issue #14 Next week: - Finish bridgestrap #14 - Find new issue to work on Help with: - maxb: 2021-04-29 Last week: - Busy w/ life and new job, but been looking at https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… and working on a Docker-based network testbed POC Next week: - Really want to have a POC to show/get feedback on meskio: 2021-05-13 Last week: - Getting access to ssh and first pushes to bridgedb - reading about salmon/rBridge - bridgedb distribute obfs4 by default (bridgedb#40011) - bridgedb send qr codes over email (bridgedb#40008) Next week: - release bridgedb - CPU issue with snowflake/probetest (snowflake#40039) - start work with conjure Help with: - HashikD: 2021-01-22 This week: - Next week: - Help with: -

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CollecTor 1.17.0 released
by Iain R. Learmonth 13 May '21

13 May '21

Hi, I have released CollecTor 1.17.0. CollecTor fetches data from various nodes and services in the public Tor network and makes it available to the world. This release is the sum of over 11 years of development, with the latest changes: Medium changes * Clean up descriptors written to the out/ directory by deleting files that are older than seven weeks. * Correctly index files that are moved away and back. * Include microdescriptors, certs, and OnionPerf analysis files when syncing from another CollecTor instance. * Update to metrics-lib 2.16.0. You can find the release at: https://dist.torproject.org/collector/1.17.0/ You can find the sources at: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/metrics/collector/-/tree/collector-1.17.0/ Thanks, Iain. P.S. the dates on the changelog and signatures will not be today, as the release was ready to go before my access was in place to upload the release, this is now fixed and future releases will be uploaded once they are available.

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UX team monthly meeting notes, May 11th
by Duncan Larsen-Russell 11 May '21

11 May '21

Hello, Thanks everyone who made it to today's UX team monthly meeting! We're looking forward to seeing you all again in June. Here are the minutes: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-05-11-14.00.log… <http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-05-11-14.00.log…> Today we briefly discussed the scheduled deprecation of V2 Onion Services in Tor Browser & the updates that will be deployed in the next alpha to inform users of this change, shared a quick update on our progress on both the Snowflake and Tor Browser user surveys, discussed how we’re going to solicit and collect feedback for the TB 10.5 Alpha (featuring the updated bootstrapping experience), announced our weekly user research coordination meetings which are happening in #tor-ux at 13:00utc on Thursdays, and lastly, received an update on Nah & Josernitos’ respective fellowships and exciting work – which are both coming to a conclusion soon. *** Open IRC meetings happen monthly on the first Tuesday of the month at 1400 UTC in #tor-meeting on OFTC. The next meeting will be held on Tuesday 1st June at 1400 UTC in #tor-meeting on OFTC. Here are the minutes for the meeting of April 6th: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-05-11-14.00.log… <http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-05-11-14.00.log…> Here are the minutes for the meeting of April 6th: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-04-06-13.58.log… <http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-04-06-13.58.log…> Here are the minutes for the meeting of March 2nd: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-03-02-13.58.log… <http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-03-02-13.58.log…> Here are the minutes for the meeting of February 9th: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-02-09-13.58.log… <http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-02-09-13.58.log…> -------------------------- Tuesday May 11th 14:00 UTC -------------------------- == What projects are we working on? == S9 - Usability and Community Intervention on Support for Democracy and Human Rights https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&… <https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&…> S28 – Survey reporting for "Get more alpha users of Snowflake" https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow…> S30 - Empowering Communities in the Global South to Bypass Censorship https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&… <https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&…> S103 – Collaborative ResistancE to Web Surveillance (CREWS) https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&… <https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&…> == Announcements == * Tor Browser 10.0.16 Release: https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-10016 <https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-10016> * Tor Browser Alpha 10.5.a15 for Release: https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-105a15 <https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-105a15> * V2 Onion Services deprecation: https://twitter.com/torproject/status/1388905624847757315 <https://twitter.com/torproject/status/1388905624847757315> == Agenda == 1. User survey reporting status report 2. TB 10.5 Alpha release on May 18th, call for testing: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/41 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/41> 3. Tor User Research sync - weekly meetings Next Meeting: Thursday May 12th @ 13UTC in #tor-ux https://pad.riseup.net/p/soLeeOOJ3sODLsrT0Uhq-ux-research-keep <https://pad.riseup.net/p/soLeeOOJ3sODLsrT0Uhq-ux-research-keep> 4. Nah/Thurayya fellowship updates + Josernitos grants updates For anyone else who'd like to get involved: the UX team meets monthly on IRC in the #tor-meeting channel on the OFTC network. If you’re not familiar with IRC here are some instructions to get started: https://support.torproject.org/get-in-touch/#irc-help <https://support.torproject.org/get-in-touch/#irc-help> Thanks everyone! *** Duncan Larsen-Russell UX Designer duncan(a)torproject.org <mailto:duncan@torproject.org>

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Tor Localization April report
by emma peel 06 May '21

06 May '21

Fellow translators! I hope you enjoyed MayDay, and also Ramadan Kareem to our Muslim translators! Here some information about the l10n efforts in the Tor Project Tor Browser in Burmese ---------------------- This month's more important achievement, as usual with the help of Localization Lab, was to release Tor Browser in Burmese. We send a big shout out for our contributors that under dire circumstances and risks took the time to translate the browser and are still translating the Manual and other important documents. Keep strong! We had some problems[1] that were undetected before we published the stable release, so along with the Tor Browser team, we have refined a bit the process, to allow more time between the alpha releases and the stable releases, so the information can get back to the team and be fixed before the definitive stable release. We have also released Snowflake and its website in Burmese. Check out the beautiful Burmese letters! https://snowflake.torproject.org/?lang=my Checks and tests ---------------- We love our translators and we are happy to help them learn how to translate software in exchange of their work. But the lack of experience makes some errors happen (well, even experienced translators may overlook errors!) On the l10n repository I am adding some scripts that check our translations for errors. Tests are run once per day with the gitlabCI infrastructure. The code lives at https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/l10n/-/tree/main/ and it generates the pages at https://tpo.pages.torproject.net/community/l10n/ I plan to add more tests to find out errors, and hopefully we will be able to catch them before they reach our websites. Thanks to all translators that reacted to our announcement, it was a very big list and is reducing fast! Stats ----- For our translation efforts to scale, we need better stats, and arthuredelstein (our stats genius) is working on this. We have new stats for the Community portal: https://torpat.ch/communitytpo-contentspot and we are working on even more: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/l10n/-/issues/40031 is the ticket and we are currently working on the specs. Please comment on the ticket if you have any ideas! Documentation ------------- I am still improving the documentation for translators at: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/l10n/-/wikis/Localization-for-t… and I will move some of the things currently at: https://wiki.localizationlab.org/index.php/Tor to our wiki, to have a centralized documentation section. I also plan to update the localization section on the community portal: https://community.torproject.org/localization/ . I will remove some duplicated sections, and move stuff to the wiki,as it is easier to update and uses less resources (for example, no translation is needed) Let me know if you have any ideas about this, or information you are missing in the docs. Proposal: l10n sessions ----------------------- After a suggestion from Erinm, we want to start hosting localization sessions, maybe once a month. Do you have any preferred day of the week to do this? Will the third Friday of the month be OK? I plan to host them on our oftc irc channel: #tor-l10n [2] Regarding timezones, being open minded, I could join them at 10:00am UTC, and the idea is to hang out while translating, comment on strings or new resources, and hopefully help each other while translating. I am scared to commit to more days of the month, but we could also decide to do them every week if my presence is not required. What do you think? Plans for May ------------- Keep working on more gitlabCI checks and the stats. Put the donation page up for translation. Have a look to the comments in transifex. Plant the veggie garden. Thanks for your attention, and see you around! emmapeel Localization Coordinator Tor Project [1] The Tor Browser Windows installer has no Burmese language option, although you get Burmese if you select English. More information: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-build/-/issues/4… [2] https://support.torproject.org/get-in-touch/irc-help/ (join channel #tor-l10n instead of #tor)

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Anti-censorship team monthly report: April 2021
by Cecylia Bocovich 06 May '21

06 May '21

Hi everyone! This is what we've been up to in April! Snowflake ========= * Added Burmese (my) locale to the Snowflake webextension and https://snowflake.torproject.org * Implemented prometheus metrics for alerts and monitoring of the Snowflake broker - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… * Started implementing a PT v2 Go API for Snowflake - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… GetTor ====== * Fixed rl languages on https://gettor.torproject.org Moat ==== * New documentation and survival guides https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/wikis/Survival-Gui… https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/bridgedb/-/wikis/Moat * Implemented a shim to get per-country usage metrics from Moat users https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/bridgedb/-/issues/32276 Other ===== * Added the ability to define arbitrary torrc options in our obfs4 bridge docker image * We have a report on Tor blocking events in Belarus - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/censorship-analysis/-/blo… * Our prometheus alert manager now sends out more readable emails to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/anti-censorship-alerts * Adapted infrastructure configurations to deal with Azure's plan to stop supporting domain fronting * Web-based Tor censorship test https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/emma/-/issues/4#note_2733…

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metrics-lib 2.16.0 released
by Iain Learmonth 04 May '21

04 May '21

Hi, I have released metrics-lib 2.16.0. metrics-lib, which also goes by the name DescripTor, is a Java API that fetches Tor descriptors from a variety of sources like cached descriptors and directory authorities/mirrors. The DescripTor API is useful to support statistical analysis of the Tor network data and for building services and applications. This release is the sum of over 9 years of development, with the latest changes: Medium changes * Parse new NAT-based Snowflake lines. * Added a new parser for the IP Fire GeoIP database files used in core Tor. * Tests now depend on objenesis 2.2 (previously 2.1). Minor changes * A lib folder is now included in the source distribution and does not need to be created prior to using the ant resolve task. You can find the release at: https://dist.torproject.org/metrics-lib/2.16.0/ You can find the sources at: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/metrics/library/-/tree/metrics-lib-2.16.0 Thanks, Iain. P.S. the dates on the changelog and signatures will not be today, as the release was ready to go before my access was in place to upload the release, this is now fixed and future releases will be uploaded once they are available.

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