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 -- sajolida