Kovri and the curious case of code rot (part 1)

I'd like to preface this going in as being clear that I like monero project and think they make a damn fine coin. Yes, they have a rather elitist community but such comes with the territory. I have interfaced with the kovri codebase in the past and I can say …

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nntpchan 0.5.0 released

After over a year I am proud to release nntpchan version 0.5.0.

The daemon has gone through a lot as well as the build system, we have many many new things added.

  • smart varnish caching
  • ed25519-blake2b signatures
  • no longer use cgo, libsodium not used at all, we are …

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Exploring snappy package manager. Why it is awesome and how to get started.

For those who don't already know, Snappy is a distribution agnostic package manager for Linux developed by Canonical.

Snap packages are self-contained archives with all required dependencies included. Applications run in a secure sandbox environment isolated from the main system, using such technology as Linux namespaces, seccomp and AppArmor.

I've …

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