Hi,
October was an average month in terms of workload. I worked mostly on Tails to compensate for the extra time spent on Tor VPN in Q3.
Tails =====
## Documentation
We finally published with Tails 6.8 the long documentation on recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors:
https://tails.net/doc/persistent_storage/fsck/
Kudos to Sleuth Kit's Autopsy, which provides cross-platform and relatively easy to use data forensics. It even works from Tails!
Try it next time you recover deleted files or a broken file system.
## UX Design
I did bits of UX design on 2 important use cases:
- Preventing data loss from the Persistent Storage through:
* Report earlier errors about the partition table and resizing https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/20531
* Warn about the danger of unplugging the USB stick before shutdown https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/20524
- Providing better pluggable transports and circumvention automation:
* Snowflake and WebTunnel https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/5494
* Circumvention API https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/15331
## User research
- Conducted an interview with environmental activists in France who heavily rely on Tails. I'm waiting for their review before publishing.
https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/20602
- Had a call with a technologist who started introducing Tails to a collective who helps Polish women travel to Germany and get a safe abortion. I'll interview them more in depth in some months.
https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/20649
## Website
I started working on reflecting the merge with Tor on the Tails website.
https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/20600