22 posts
Brought the six-hop chain up. WireGuard handshakes were green on every container; pcaps proved every container was still talking to the real WAN through the Docker bridge, never the tunnels. Three config bugs, all in the routing layer. Diagnosis from pcaps and a one-shot patch.
Build-log series on a multi-hop WireGuard pinball machine — six Docker containers on one box, each NAT'd to a real country-AS prefix, designed to confuse local-segment observers doing IP-or-AS attribution.
I'm building a little computer spinner that sits next to my router and makes traffic look like it's pinballing through Russia, Canada, Taiwan, and Australia before hitting the internet. It's not a Mullvad replacement. Here's what it actually is, what the research turned up, and the five footguns I've hit or am about to.
Research notes on the VLESS / Xray-core project — who maintains it, what the fork history actually was, and what the community knows vs. what it speculates. Companion to the deployment guide on the wiki.
Who actually maintains the Xray-core project? A look at the overlap between V2Ray's Victoria Raymond, Xray's RPRX, and the still-active mmmray — coding-style signals, timezone clusters, project-graph overlap, and where the evidence runs out.
Why was V2Ray forked into Xray-core in 2021? The license argument, the attribution fight, the AGPL question, and what's left of the original team five years later.
What if we could give downtown Fayetteville a useful heads-up before the train crossings get blocked? Not a perfect system. Not a city-funded ITS platform. Not a proprietary railroad feed. Just a...
The Ballad of the Broken Pi Gather ‘round, friends, and bear witness to the tragic saga of the Raspberry Pi, which can crash harder than a toddler on a sugar high. This song chronicles: its epic...
running into a limitation with Cloudflare Tunnels—they only support TCP, and I need UDP to host my service. I’d like to expose an IP/port combo without: A static public IP (I’m behind NAT/CGNAT)...
Let’s Try Matrix! Start Chatting! If you are ready to jump in here’s the quick steps: 1. Download and install “Classic” Element - NOT the “element x” app (doesn’t support our login yet) Mobile...
Let’s Talk About DeleteMe — Hidden Tiers, Asterisks, and False Promises? Staying on top of data brokers and opt-out services is kind of my thing — I’ve been following Techlore for a long time, and...
Secure Comms & Signal Reality: Building for the Way It Works The recent story from The Atlantic is a wild one. A journalist was accidentally added to a Signal group chat where senior U.S....