Tags: Tor

This blog has no Onion Service anymore

Published on 2024-05-11 in 💬 Micro

I had Tor support in GoBlog for over three years now, but I decided to disable it on my blog (and the GoBlog blog) for now. Several times, Tor randomly started using a lot of memory on my VPS and even crashed my block one or two times. It could have been the Go library used to integrate Tor, or something else in the Tor code itself, I don’t know.

I think I’ll leave the Tor support in the code for people who want to use GoBlog with it, but I, personally, won’t use it anymore. It was a nice experiment, but I don’t think it adds any real value.

More memory for my new GoToSocial instance. 😄 (which isn’t using a lot of memory, though)

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OnionShare

Published on 2021-05-11 in 🔗 Links

I currently have two technical topics that interest me a lot. One is SQLite, of which I am always surprised by its functionality and ease, and the other is Tor, which I find quite interesting because of its encryption and because I recently listened to Edward Snowden’s book “Permanent Record” as an audio book.

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Promoting the use of Tor

Published on 2021-05-09 in ✍️ Posts

You might have discovered two new links in the footer of my blog or homepage. “🔓 Connect via Tor.” and “What is Tor?”. I now try to promote the use of Tor with GoBlog.

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“How do onion services work?”

Published on 2021-03-19 in 🔗 Links

I found this description that explains quite well how Onion Services (also called Hidden Services) work. I have to admit that Tor is an exciting thing.

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Tor support in GoBlog

Published on 2021-03-19 in 👨‍💻 Dev

I don’t know of any other blogging software that supports this: Serve a blog directly as a Tor hidden service.

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Tor support for this blog

Published on 2020-12-03 in 💬 Micro

Updated on 2021-03-19

I just spent a few hours trying to setup Tor for this blog. You can now access this website using a hidden service at http://dvvbogg3cytomyhjf6jfzuaj4vuhjfvttn3wqdy25hpzgykstk5hjnqd.onion/. I don’t want to guarantee that I won’t shut down Tor support again, but it was interesting to set everything up and I learned a lot.

Once I am sure that everything works, I should write a more detailed article about it…

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