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Hi everyone! I wanted to share a small project I’ve been working on lately. The premise is simple: every time we share a photo or a document, we inadvertently leak a massive amount of personal data — from home GPS coordinates to camera serial numbers and even the edit history of a PDF. Using "online privacy services" to clean your files always felt like a paradox to me (sending private data to a s
We Cut Compliance Costs by 40% Using Pulumi 3.140 and Chef 18 for Multi-Cloud AWS and GCP Modern multi-cloud environments offer unmatched flexibility, but they also introduce complex compliance challenges. For our team managing hybrid infrastructure across AWS and GCP, manual policy enforcement and fragmented tooling were driving up compliance costs by 22% year-over-year. By integrating Pulumi 3
TL;DR: I built a P2P file transfer tool that runs entirely in the browser. No install, no server relay, no account. Here's what I learned about WebRTC data channels, resumable transfers, and the browser storage mess along the way. Most file transfer tools follow the same pattern: upload to a server, get a link, the recipient downloads from that server. Your file sits on someone else's infrastructu
On March 29, 2024, Andres Freund — a Microsoft engineer and PostgreSQL contributor — noticed something odd while investigating unexplained CPU usage in SSH on a Debian testing build. liblzma, the compression library bundled with XZ Utils, was performing extra work it had no business doing. After careful analysis, Freund had found one of the most sophisticated software supply chain attacks ever dis
Building a News Aggregator Without an Engagement Algorithm I have been building a project called WeSearch: https://wesearch.press It is a free news aggregator that pulls from hundreds of sources, keeps discovery mostly chronological, adds source/bias context where available, preserves permanent daily archives, and allows anonymous discussion on stories. The project started from a simple frustrat
🚀 The Idea We live in a world where everything is tracked—profiles, likes, identities. But one thing I kept noticing: That’s why I built WhisprrChat — a platform where you can talk freely without revealing who you are. 💡 What is WhisprrChat? WhisprrChat is a simple anonymous chat platform where you can: 💬 Chat with strangers 👉 Try it here: https://whisprrchat.com 🔥 Why Anonymous Apps Still Wo
The Counter Galois Onion (CGO) Migration: Tor's Cryptographic Engine Swap If you've ever dug into Tor's internals, you know the network is a masterpiece of practical anonymity. But like any long-running system, its crypto stack was starting to show its age. Enter the Counter Galois Onion (CGO) Migration - one of the most significant under-the-hood upgrades Tor has seen in years. It's a fundament