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Since I'm a fan of self-hosting, I have a home infrastructure:

Orange Pi - a media server;

Synology - a file dump;

Neptune 4 - a 3D printer with a web interface and a camera feed. And I'd like to have secure access to it externally via my phone and PC, while also having internet access outside the RF. I used to use OpenVPN for these needs, but it's no longer reliable. So I started studying the documentation for an excellent tool from our Chinese comrades - Xray!

What you'll need:

A server with an external IP for the infrastructure. In my case, it's an Orange Pi, hereinafter - Bridge

The server you want to access - Server

A server outside the RF for internet access. Hereinafter - Proxy

A client of your choice. Hereinafter - Client

Client and server on Linux - Xray-core, which can be installed via the official Xray installation script

Client for Android - v2rayNG

More clients can be found in the Xray-core repository

Let's take the VLESS-TCP-XTLS-Vision-REALITY configuration file as a base and start reading the Xray documentation

Routing is done on the client. For example, if the client accesses the xray.com domain, we route the traffic to the Bridge, and for all other connections - to the Proxy. Then the Bridge routes the traffic to the Server if the client accessed server.xray.com.
It looks like this:

My second article—an analysis of MAX's network requests and why this analysis is my biggest disappointment! I certainly didn't expect this, but I described everything as it is.

Under the cut: my story of how I decided not to pay for a VPN, but to deploy my own instead. Then I thought: why not make a full-fledged service? And then... well, the rest is business as usual.

I set up servers, hired a designer, launched ads, and tried not to get disappointed. Spoiler: I haven't gotten what I wanted yet. But the hope for ships sailing the vast expanses still warms my heart.

Programmers, sysadmins, DevOps engineers, and testers are often united by the use of some common technologies. For example, the ability to have remote access to a server would be useful to anyone in the aforementioned anecdotal company. Therefore, in this article, we will cover the basics of working with the SSH protocol at a fundamental level (without generating keys, signatures, moms, dads, and credits). We'll look at 'advanced' usage separately next time. This material was prepared by Max, the author of the YouTube channel PyLounge. Let's go!

This weekend was all about 'Connection Reset.' While news channels vaguely reported that 'users are complaining about outages,' we were in chats and on test servers trying to understand the physics of the process.

On November 18, 2025, Google introduced a new combination: the Gemini 3 Pro model and the Google Antigravity IDE. The first is about controlled reasoning, long context, and multimodality. The second is about multi-agent development with artifacts and "transparent" steps. Headlines immediately flooded the feeds: "Cursor is dead.".

In this article, we break down what exactly Google has launched, why the words "the smartest model" are an exaggeration, how Antigravity differs from Cursor, which development scenarios are already changing, and where it's still too early to abandon your familiar stack.

Now you won't have to blush in front of your employer or teacher because an AI wrote the text for you. Just make the detectors believe that the author is a human. In this article, we'll tell you how to do it and what the trick is.

Lately, articles have been coming out about how to watch torrents on a TV. I read them and realize that the topic is not fully covered; people suggest putting in maximum effort for the bare minimum.

What do you need for watching movies at home, and how does it work for me...

Jokes, memes, AI-generated images—even large companies have jumped on the Dolina bandwagon.

But here's a detail no one has mentioned yet: the name 'Larisa Dolina' is actually an officially registered trademark with Rospatent.

By law, you can claim compensation of up to 5,000,000 rubles for each trademark infringement. And from January 3, 2026, this limit will increase to 10,000,000 rubles.

It seems absurd to sue for money over internet jokes. But what do you think of the apartment ruling itself?

I am an intellectual property lawyer. Trademarks, patents, and copyrights are my profession.

How many more apartments do you think Dolina will be able to buy with the compensation money?

Let me show you what Dolina has registered with Rospatent, and using the best jokes as examples, we'll analyze the risks for everyone who has jumped on this topic.

A couple of weeks ago, I launched "Reverse VPN" – a VPN with a Russian IP for accessing websites that are unavailable from abroad. I've already been contacted by more than 1,000 people. I was able to help most of them. A huge thank you to everyone for the donations and kind words!

I'll tell you about the ways you can install the Chinese model locally and use it without the internet. And do it in a way that you work not through the console, but through a user-friendly chatbot interface.

Friends, today I want to share a story that made me believe in miracles for half an hour. And at the same time, I'll break down a new scam scheme that showed me that criminals are evolving too.

Welcome back, dear readers! We are continuing our 'SHKH' series of articles, and today our main course is Telegram. In earlier articles, we looked at ways to find a target user's accounts by their nickname, after which we conducted reconnaissance on their account on the VKontakte social network. At this stage, our important goal is to find out the user's phone number, as the number can be a good starting point for reconnaissance and can reveal even more details about its owner. In the last article we tried to find out the number using a VKontakte page, and in this one, as you might have guessed from the title, we will try to find out as much information as possible about a Telegram account. This material has been edited and republished due to the blocking of the previous material by the RKN (Roskomnadzor) in the Russian Federation.

Disclaimer: All data provided in this article is taken from open sources. It does not call for action and is published solely for familiarization and study of the mechanisms of the technologies used.

The most interesting finance and tech news from Russia and the world for the week: RKN blocked FaceTime, Snapchat, and Roblox, visa-free travel with China and Saudi Arabia, Russia was added to the EU's money laundering blacklist, home surveillance cameras were hacked in South Korea, Musk's Twitter was fined in Europe, and rumors of a 'garlic' model from OpenAI.

For the past couple of months, the real estate market has been in an uproar: everyone is afraid of demonic granny-owners who seize apartments through the courts from unsuspecting buyers. In this comprehensive guide, we will break down all aspects of this problem with a professional litigation lawyer: from chilling court stories to the most reliable ways to protect yourself from such risks. In short, it's going to be fun!

We were asked to talk about the protocol technology XHTTP in the context of XRay, VLESS, and others. You asked for it, so here it is!

First, a bit of history. The classic use of VLESS and similar proxy protocols (including with XTLS-Reality) involves the client connecting directly to a proxy server running on some VPS. However, in many countries (including Russia), entire subnets of popular hosting providers have started to be blocked (or throttled), and in other countries, censors have begun to monitor connections to 'single' addresses with high traffic volumes. Therefore, for a long time, ideas of connecting to proxy servers through CDNs (Content Delivery Networks) have been considered and tested. Most often, the websocket transport was used for this, but this option has two major drawbacks: it has one characteristic feature (I won't specify it here to not make the RKN's job easier), and secondly, the number of CDNs that support websocket proxying is not that large, and it would be desirable to be able to proxy through those that do not.

Therefore, first in the well-known Tor project for bridges, the meek transport was invented, which allowed data to be transmitted using numerous HTTP request-response pairs, thus allowing connections to bridges (proxies) through any CDN. A little later, the same transport was implemented in the briefly resurrected V2Ray. But meek has two very significant drawbacks that stem from its operating principle: the speed is very low (in fact, we have half-duplex transmission and huge overhead from constant requests-responses), and due to the huge number of GET/POST requests every second, free CDNs can quickly kick us out, and paid ones can present a hefty bill.

Hello everyone, in this article I will explain how many people manage to bypass whitelists, and what the root of the problem is. If you are a 'newbie' and don't want to bother with all the setup, at the <a href="#services"> end of the article</a> I've listed services that are mentioned in discussions.

Direct connect VLESS + Reality to Europe (Amsterdam, Germany, Finland) is being shaped for almost everyone. TSPU has mastered a new tactic: they don't terminate the session via RST, but simply 'freeze' it. As soon as the data volume in a single TCP session exceeds 15-20 KB, packets stop arriving. The connection hangs until the client times out.

In 2025, sexting has become a real trend thanks to sexting neural networks and convenient platforms that make online intimate messaging safe and exciting. With the development of artificial intelligence, online sexting has turned into an art where everyone can enjoy virtual flirting without risk. I tested dozens of services and selected the TOP 10 bots and apps for sexting in Russian, evaluating them based on convenience, anonymity, and the quality of sexual correspondence. These sexting services offer everything: from anonymous sexting to virtual sex chat with self-destructing photos. Let's figure out which sexting chatbots and platforms are worthy of your attention and how they work.