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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 28-Aug-2026 19:31:19 JST Aral Balkan

   in reply to

   @EUCommission Right, well, I’ve registered small-web.eu and small-tech.eu as backups for now.

   Thankfully, as of what I’ve been building this year, the Small Web doesn’t need TLDs to work (see https://ar.al/2025/06/25/web-numbers/) but still, here’s hoping it doesn’t come to that because it will be a right hassle to move stuff over.

   Buy, hey, better safe than sorry.

   And I’m definitely reconsidering my choices when it comes to payment services/merchant of record for Catalyst (the free/open Small Web hosting app I’m building).

   #US #fascism #ICAAN #TLDs #internet #web #BigTech #BigWeb #EU #SmallWeb #SmallTech #webNumbers

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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Aug-2026 01:58:46 JST Aral Balkan

   🥳 Auto Encrypt: 5.1.1 released

   • Fixed: Issue #26¹: Regression: AutoEncrypt HTTPS server does not start using new certificates upon renewal

   https://codeberg.org/small-tech/auto-encrypt

   Many thanks to zanecodes² for catching this rather fundamental bug.

   Here’s a quick post-mortem:

   Implementing support for IP Address certificates³ (see Web Numbers⁴) meant that we had to stop using `SNICallback`. This necessitated two changes:

   1. Provisioning the TLS certificates before starting the server instead of on first hit.

   2. Manually setting a new secure context for the running server so that newly-provisioned certificates are used on future connection attempts without having to restart the server.

   While I had implemented the first, I hadn’t implemented the second.

   This update fixes that.

   (In case you’re wondering how I didn’t notice this before, given that Auto Encrypt is used in @small-tech/https⁵, which is used in Kitten⁶, which all our sites at Small Technology Foundation⁷ run on, the change coincided with the implementation of daily scheduled restarts on Kitten production servers⁸ to give their JSDB databases⁹ a chance to compact their data (e.g., actually delete deletes and prune stale updates from the append-only log.)

   ¹ https://codeberg.org/small-tech/auto-encrypt/issues/26
   ² https://codeberg.org/zanecodes
   ³ https://codeberg.org/small-tech/auto-encrypt/commit/116cb9cbf7d2059a578248796886c504963f740f#diff-a77b15c0d64cf6111e025645e562faf8ccabb9d7
   ⁴ https://ar.al/2025/06/25/web-numbers/
   ⁵ https://codeberg.org/small-tech/https
   ⁶ https://kitten.small-web.org
   ⁷ https://small-tech.org
   ⁸ https://codeberg.org/kitten/app/commit/a4a11839faf0091dd65040f2be5b85910f5a1849
   ⁹ https://codeberg.org/small-tech/jsdb

   #AutoEncrypt #https #TLS #LetsEncrypt #IPAddresses #WebNumbers #SmallTech #SmallWeb

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   Magical Cat (koteisaev@mastodon.online)'s status on Friday, 15-May-2026 08:01:26 JST Magical Cat

   I accidentally found that Let's Encrypt certificates for IP address are generally available: https://letsencrypt.org/2026/01/15/6day-and-ip-general-availability
   Have anyone tried to use them?
   I remember about these ideas to avoid centralized DNS and use kind of phonebook instead, like:
   1.2.3.4 latest news
   199.100.100.211 tasty meals
   12.13.14.15 Jane blog

   Such idea described @aral in this https://ar.al/2025/06/25/web-numbers/ (Web Numbers) article and now seems to be more doable.

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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Feb-2026 23:15:22 JST Aral Balkan

   🥳 New Kitten release

   The release I pushed a few minutes ago bring preliminary Web Numbers¹ support to Kitten.

   What are Web Numbers? Well, they’re just a friendlier name for IP Addresses, now that we can deploy secure sites at them. They’re also a cornerstone of how I’m implementing the Small Web.

   Web Numbers support isn’t documented yet and isn’t implemented for the `kitten deploy` command but you can play with it, if you like, by passing the --ipv4 or --ipv6 flags to the `kitten` command. The IPv4/stable IPv6 address detection is automatic and uses https://ip.small-web.org for the former (and, of course, no data is collected or stored because it’s us).

   https://kitten.small-web.org

   Enjoy!

   :kitten: 💕

   ¹ https://ar.al/2025/06/25/web-numbers/

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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 24-Jan-2026 08:58:46 JST Aral Balkan

   in reply to

   Huh… just noticed something interesting that looks like it’s going to be another advantage to Web Numbers¹… look at these Kitten² screenshots and tell me if you can spot something unexpected.

   Hint: it’s what’s missing.

   There are no 404 errors for common hack attempts trying to exploit WordPress vulnerabilities, etc. In fact, it’s entirely quiet. Because those folks watch DNS :)

   ¹ https://ar.al/2025/06/25/web-numbers/
   ² https://kitten.small-web.org/

   #WebNumbers #SmallWeb #peerToPeerWeb #personalWeb #Kitten #SmallTech

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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jan-2026 02:56:34 JST Aral Balkan

   🥳 Multiple major releases today

   • @small-tech/auto-encrypt v5.0.0 (https://codeberg.org/small-tech/auto-encrypt#readme)
   • @small-tech/auto-encrypt-localhost v10.0.0 (https://codeberg.org/small-tech/auto-encrypt-localhost/#readme)
   • @small-tech/https v6.0.0 (https://codeberg.org/small-tech/https/#readme)

   These releases bring short-lived certificates, IP Address (IPv4 and IPv6) support, and ACME Renewal Information (ARI) support to Auto Encrypt and @small-tech/https, implement a consistent asynchronous API across all three packages, and include loads of little fixes and code quality improvements.

   This brings us very close to getting Web Numbers¹ support implemented natively in Kitten².

   OCSP support is removed from Auto Encrypt and Windows support is dropped from all three packages as Microsoft is complicit in Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people³ and Small Technology Foundation⁴ stands in solidarity with the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. Furthermore, Windows is an ad-infested and surveillance-ridden dumpster fire of an operating system and, alongside supporting genocide, you are putting both yourself and others at risk by using it.

   Enjoy!

   💕

   🇵🇸 To support families facing genocide in Gaza, consider donating to them via Gaza Verified: https://gaza-verified.org/donate/

   ¹ https://ar.al/2025/06/25/web-numbers/
   ² https://kitten.small-web.org/
   ³ https://www.bdsmovement.net/microsoft
   ⁴ https://small-tech.org/

   #SmallWeb #SmallTech #AutoEncrypt #AutoEncryptLocalhost #https #TLS #NodeJS #web #dev #ACME #LetsEncrypt #WebNumbers #Kitten #BDS #Palestine #Gaza #FreePalestine