Tested on two browsers, one chromium based and the other firefox.

(update) works again. I think I’ve seen this before.. it’s flakey.

the onion svc for altaddress.org is:

tp7mtouwvggdlm73vimqkuq7727a4ebrv4vf4cnk6lfg4fatxa6p2ryd.onion

The temp address generator and account registration forms are both broken on the onion service. Works on the clearnet service.

(edit) I should add that i have never seen the onion svc worked.. perhaps it was always broken.

cross-posted from: https://linkage.ds8.zone/post/848773

Past couple days connection attempts to snickket hosts give “login failed” instantly w/out further details. Just me?

This is the one and only web service that tracks relationships between FOSS program versions and OS versions. Very disappointing to see it down because I think the dataset is not shared (correct me if I’m wrong).

It impacts other websites that refer to repology.org, like this:

https://www.kaidan.im/2023/05/05/kaidan-0.9.0/

(update) A month ago they had domain registrar issues:

https://github.com/repology/repology-rs/issues/560

They overcame that, so it’s unclear what the problem has been the past couple days. In any case, would someone with MS Github access please create some bug reports? Three reports would be useful:

1. (bug) site is down (see update below)
2. (feature request) ask them to consider deploying an onion site
3. (feature request) ask them to consider sharing their dataset so the world is not dependent on the continuous availability of their website

Update

After trial-and-error, it turns out repology.org is online, but they have started blocking Chrome-based browsers. They do in fact offer an API and database dump. So the only remaining problem is the lack of onion service.

Breezy Weather has silently quit updating the weather from Open-Meteo, without announcement. The app /claims/ to have updated “1 min ago”, but there is no new data. I’m not sure if this is because I am using the gratis weather data that the app is preconfigured to use, or if they quietly abandoned the API of my version of the app (“6.0.12_freenet”).

FWIW, I am trapped on the last Breezy Weather version for AOS 5. Had to fetch it from Izzy’s archives. Would be interesting to know if newer versions can still get open gratis weather data.

Steps to reproduce:

1. login to riseup.net webmail.
2. select multiple messages (either control-click each or shift-click on a range)
3. right-click » more » download » Mbox format (.zip)
4. on the CLI, do zcat -cd $zipfile | dos2unix > my.mbox

Open my.mbox in a text editor or mail client and notice that the last two characters are missing from most messages in that file, except perhaps the last message.

Anonaddy.com was an email forwarding service which uniquely featured PGP support. That is, users could upload their public key to Anonaddy and the forwarding server would encrypt all traffic to the recipient’s normal (protected) email address. This ensured that the last email provider in the chain (such as shitty surveillance advertisers like Google) could not read the payload.

Seems dead now. It now redirects to addy.io which just times out. Either they are dead or they are blocking Tor.

The server software is FOSS and apparently still maintained:

https://github.com/anonaddy/anonaddy

Apparently the website has a repo also:

https://github.com/anonaddy/addy.io

update

addy.io is online now. Sometimes the login page times out. Seems to have some latency fussiness.

Cool new feature: it strips out tracking pixels from emails before forwarding.

It’s very useful that Internet Archive Wayback Machine (IAWB) captures the same page multiple times in archives spanning years, and gives users access to a calendar. It’s great but it needs to evolve because history shows that some pages are garbage at various moments. Sometimes it’s incidental (e.g. temporary web server problems). Sometimes it’s intentional, as more and more services become deliberately hostile toward IAWB and resist scraping.

Here is an example:

https://web.archive.org/web/20221101000000*/https://www.magic-systech.com/doc/M6.pdf

Many of the PDFs are damaged. But one is good. The calendar should give more info. It should tell us how big each capture is. Some captures have a bigger circle around them and a bigger bar in the bar chart. That seems to just indicate number of attempted fetches. We need size indicators. And it would be useful if we could hide or color the captures that are just 403 errors as red.

(update) An anti-Cloudflare group (deCloudflare) once published a browser extension that not only auto-redirected to archive.org pages of Cloudflare-jailed webpages, but it was also smart enough to select the most recent functional version, IIRC. That team did a lot of very useful thankless work. It’s a shame they seem to be gone now.

(update 2) From the FaQ:

Why are some of the dots on the calendar page different colors?

We color the dots, and links, associated with individual web captures, or multiple web captures, for a given day. Blue means the web server result code the crawler got for the related capture was a 2nn (good); Green means the crawlers got a status code 3nn (redirect); Orange means the crawler got a status code 4nn (client error), and Red means the crawler saw a 5nn (server error). Most of the time you will probably want to select the blue dots or links.

I think the colors are broken. I have only ever seen blue. But kudos to them for trying, at least.

Ran the Libre Weather app for the 1st time. I simply get:

Error loading page
Domain: undefined
Error Code: -1
Description: net::ERR_SSL_UNRECOGNIZED_NAME_ALERT

The app is rightfully named because you can tap a gear and choose a server other than the default https://weather.pd-dev.xyz/ service. But this server seems to be the only public server, so I cannot try another -- unless I am ambitious enough to self-host a weather server (which is not really feasible for me ATM).

I get the same error when visiting the server with a normal browser. Hence why this is posted to !bugs_in_services@sopuli.xyz.

No route to host on Miami and I don’t recall the problem with NY but I have been unable to connect to both VPN servers for months now.

The “RightToPrivacy” onion gitea instance is down. There is no clearnet version of this service.

It will be sad if it’s permanent because gitea onions are in very short supply. The only other onion gitea-like onion instance is from disroot.org, and theirs is in a rough state.

I normally run this to get a slick and fast weather forecast for Amsterdam (over Tor) in a terminal:

curl -s --socks4a 127.0.0.1:9050 -A '' 'https://wttr.in/Amsterdam,Netherlands?lang=en&A='

It has been down for days now. I hope it’s temporary.

There is a list of bank apps that work on GrapheneOS. The Belgian list includes “itsme”, which is not a bank. It’s an authentication portal used by many different kinds of services. It’s also untrustworthy because it’s in Cloudflare.

2fa.directory catalogs services that use multifactor authentication. Of course the idea is to inform consumers of which services satisfy a basic standard of security. Services that are centralised on Cloudflare appear with a green checkmark, as if there is nothing wrong with sharing all your login details with a privacy abusing fiefdom in a country without privacy safeguards through a MitM arrangement.

If one of the auth factors has a MitM, that’s effectively 1 factor less. 2fa becomes like 1fa.

It’s a gross oversight and the bug tracker is limited to MS Github users. A Github user should raise an issue to point this out.

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/41252781

12ft.io was a clever service that exploited the fact that paywalls allowed Google to crawl their articles. By licking the boots of Google’s crawler, paywalls pollute the search index with their exclusive/closed content. Enshitification culminates by getting paywalls in our search results.

12ft.io gave people direct access to Google’s caches, so we could read the text that feeds Google’s index.

☠ 12ft.io is apparently dead now. wtf. We just lost an important disenshification mechanism. The linked news hit ~½ a year ago, but seems to have taken some time to actually play out.

The fosdem.org website has a rich history of FOSS tech presentations. It’s a good youtube-free place to find videos. But searches only reach the last event. Kinda sucks that we have to use a general search service to look through the archives.

This is barely fitting for this channel, but perhaps this is the most relevant community.

WTF happened to onionmail.info?

So disturbing.

It was such a great resource for email. It was a quite unique infrastructure that gave a bit of freedom and privacy unlike any other email provider.

update

It’s back up.

At approximately 16:27 UTC on August, 21, 2025, a customer started sending many requests from AWS us-east-1 to Cloudflare for objects in Cloudflare’s cache. These requests generated a volume of response traffic that saturated all available direct peering connections between Cloudflare and AWS

Over-centralized internet infrastructure?