[tor-reports] Damian's Status Report - May 2016

[Damian Johnson]

Hmmm, think I'll start providing blog links. Between images and links
they're a lot nicer than plaintext reports...

  http://blog.atagar.com/may2016/

None the less if ya just want text here ya go!

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Eeek I'm late! Wanted to get the PyCon trip report out first but...
ok, maybe I went a tad overboard there. Oh well, better late than
never. Between summer festivals and health issues tor took the back
seat again this month but still some neat stuff...

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PyCon
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Probably wrote way too much on this already so I'll spare ya. If
you haven't skimmed the report yet then check it out - PyCon was
a neat event!

  http://blog.atagar.com/pycon2016/

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Nyx Event Selection Dialog
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Remember arm's bizarre and clumsy event selection dialog [1]?
Remember how confusing it was?

  https://www.atagar.com/transfer/tmp/event_selection.png

Yeah, it sucked. Sambuddha and I have been tossing pull requests
back and forth all month as part of his GSoC project. This is
requiring a lot of my direct involvement but oh well, the new
dialog has turned out nicely!

  https://www.atagar.com/transfer/nyx/event_dialog.png

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Few other noteworthy things...

  * Thanks to Peter DocTor moved to an IPv6 host this month [2],
    allowing me to expand it to check DirAuth ORPort reachability [3].

  * DocTor now monitors the reachability of tor's fallback directories. [4]

  * Stem's tutorials now show how to reuse the *.onion address for
    an ephemeral hidden service. [5]

That's all. Happy hacking! -Damian

[1] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18499
[2] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/17298
[3] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18176
[4] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18177
[5] https://stem.torproject.org/tutorials/over_the_river.html#ephemeral-hidden-services