16:00:04 <cohosh> #startmeeting anti-censorship meeting 16:00:04 <MeetBot> Meeting started Thu Jun 24 16:00:04 2021 UTC. The chair is cohosh. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 16:00:04 <MeetBot> Useful Commands: #action #agreed #help #info #idea #link #topic. 16:00:18 <cohosh> here is our meeting pad: https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-anti-censorship-keep 16:00:37 <cohosh> feel free to add things to the agenda and update it with what you've been working on :) 16:00:54 <meskio> hello 16:01:46 <cohosh> it's a short agenda today so i'll wait a few minutes to let people add stuff 16:01:58 <cohosh> or feel free to just start a discussion 16:02:26 <meskio> I see you added Jacobo's email to the interesting links 16:02:50 <meskio> do we have previous info on the requirements to run a snowflake proxy? 16:03:22 * meskio not sure if the 'interesting links' is acutally a point in the agenda and should wait for it to discuss it 16:03:44 <cohosh> nope, the most info we have is probably here: https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/snowflake/standalone/ 16:04:23 <cohosh> our docs could really use some updating and we have an open ticket for that 16:05:15 <cohosh> snowflake#40031 16:05:56 <meskio> it will be interesting to see if actually the bandwidth depends so much on the memory available, in his report it looks like 1GB of RAM is the ideal settup 16:06:06 <dcf1> meskio: by requirements, are you referring to number of cores, bandwidth capacity, etc.? 16:06:40 <dcf1> and you are suggesting we should add such information to the documentation page? (just checking if I understand) 16:07:05 <meskio> dcf1: I guess any of those, jacobo's report seems to indicate that having more than 1 core didn't help neither having more than 1GB of ram, but less ram did affect 16:08:04 <meskio> yes, will be good to have this information in the documentation, I'm just wondering how much we want to validate that jacobo's numbers are generic for everybody or just specific for him 16:09:42 <meskio> I could be drawing conclutions from something unrelated to the server specs 16:10:10 <cohosh> i think this is pretty low priority 16:10:19 <meskio> I agree 16:10:39 <cohosh> those specs are also so low that i don't *think* anyone would try running the proxy on something less 16:11:01 <cohosh> can you get a VPS with less than 1/2 GiB or RAM? 16:11:11 <cohosh> s/or/of 16:11:51 <cohosh> i'm glad he shared though, it's interesting to see what kind of bandwidth the proxies are providing 16:13:11 <meskio> +1 16:14:41 <cohosh> should we choose a reading? we haven't done a reading group in a while 16:14:56 <cohosh> https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/snowflake/standalone/ 16:15:05 <cohosh> our last one was april 29th 16:15:11 <cohosh> ah one sec 16:15:17 <cohosh> https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/wikis/Anti-censorship-reading-group 16:16:07 <dcf1> I won't have time for extracurricular reading in the next couple of weeks. 16:16:40 <cohosh> ok, i am also very swamped lately 16:16:49 <meskio> is there a queue of papers for the reading group somewhere? where do you get them to decide wich should be next? 16:17:11 <cohosh> meskio: we don't have a queue but we usually pull papers from https://censorbib.nymity.ch/ 16:17:19 <cohosh> or https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues 16:17:25 <cohosh> they also don't have to be academic papers 16:17:29 <dcf1> I have a queue of papers to summarize at https://github.com/net4people/bbs/wiki/Reading-list 16:18:03 <meskio> nice 16:19:15 <cohosh> let's aim to do a reading group some time in july 16:19:32 <cohosh> just to keep it going 16:19:46 <cohosh> but we don't need to decide the paper or time right now 16:20:12 <cohosh> alright anyone need reviews that aren't already assigned? 16:21:28 <cohosh> seems like no 16:22:47 <cohosh> cool, well i'll leave the meeting open for a few minutes before ending the meeting :) 16:25:22 <cohosh> #endmeeting