I am currently working as a part time student ICT support engineer for a financial company. In said company we obviousely use a firewall. Before working there ‘firewall’ was kind off a fancy IT buzzword to me – Something I didn’t know nor cared about. Now at the time I had just started my masters thesis in the field of privacy preserving data publishing (PPDP). That really sparked my interest in online privacy, leading me deep into the rabit hole of privacy centered blogs, books and youtube channels (yes…Google, sadly these content creators have to reach an audience somehow).

The news recently broke that Skiff is joining Notion and that their email services will come to a halt in 6 months. This practically means that every online account using skiff has to have its email updated in 6 months time. This is mildly annoying to do for one or two websites, but people usually have hundreds of accounts and changing email for every one of them is a very time consuming task.

I just came across a blog post that is just so well written. It puts into words exactly how I think about writing! I aspire to one day be able to write like that. It puts into words why I wan’t to have a blog. I don’t write for the reader… I write for myself. So I can put my thoughts on paper. So I can delve deeper into the subjects that I’m really interested in.

Context Recently I was learning about the bittorrent protocol from this excellent video series on youtube. The creator of the series Arpit Bhayani explaines all about the protocol, the seeders, the leechers, decentralized (the usual). Then he explained what a .torrent file was. A .torrent file has a bunch of fields to get the file names, file lenghts, the url to find the tracker where your torrent is listed. These files are bencoded (or the files are bencoded encoded?