[tor-project] sajolida's report, October 2024

[sajolida <sajolida@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

October was an average month in terms of workload. I worked mostly on 
Tails to compensate for the extra time spent on Tor VPN in Q3.

Tails
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## Documentation

We finally published with Tails 6.8 the long documentation on recovering 
data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors:

https://tails.net/doc/persistent_storage/fsck/

Kudos to Sleuth Kit's Autopsy, which provides cross-platform and 
relatively easy to use data forensics. It even works from Tails!

Try it next time you recover deleted files or a broken file system.

## UX Design

I did bits of UX design on 2 important use cases:

- Preventing data loss from the Persistent Storage through:

  * Report earlier errors about the partition table and resizing
    https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/20531

  * Warn about the danger of unplugging the USB stick before shutdown
    https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/20524

- Providing better pluggable transports and circumvention automation:

  * Snowflake and WebTunnel
    https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/5494

  * Circumvention API
    https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/15331

## User research

- Conducted an interview with environmental activists in France who
  heavily rely on Tails. I'm waiting for their review before publishing.

  https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/20602

- Had a call with a technologist who started introducing Tails to a
  collective who helps Polish women travel to Germany and get a safe
  abortion. I'll interview them more in depth in some months.

  https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/20649

## Website

I started working on reflecting the merge with Tor on the Tails website.

https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/20600

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sajolida
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