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< li > < a href = "#we-have-funding" > We have funding!< / a > < / li >
< li > < a href = "#infrastructure-outage-15-january-2023-to-february-6-2023" > Infrastructure outage: 15 January, 2023 to February 6, 2023< / a > < / li >
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< h1 > February, 2023: Monthly Report< / h1 >
< p > < small > Posted March 8, 2023 by < a class = "stretched-link position-relative" href = "/contributors/aravinth-manivannan/" > Aravinth Manivannan< / a > ‐ < strong > 2 min read< / strong > < / small > < p >
< p > < small > Last Edited March 9, 2023< / small > < p >
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< p class = "lead" > We are mCaptcha. We build kickass CAPTCHA systems that give (DDoS) attackers a run for their money. And we do all of this without tracking your users. Oh and did I mention our UX is great?< / p >
< p > Hello and welcome to the (August 2022 to) February, 2023 monthly report!< / p >
< h2 id = "tldr" > TL;DR< / h2 >
< p > < em > < a href = "https://gusted.xyz" > Gusted< / a > and I secured funding from NLnet to work
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on mCaptcha in 2023, we suffered an outage from 15 January to February
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6, polyfill benchmarking support in mCaptcha< / em > < / p >
< h2 id = "we-have-funding" > We have funding!< / h2 >
< p > < a href = "https://gusted.xyz" > Gusted< / a > and I applied and secured funding through
2023 development is funded through the < a href = "https://nlnet.nl/entrust" > NGI0
Entrust< / a > Fund, via < a href = "https://nlnet.nl" > NLnet< / a > .< / p >
< p > The full list of tasks that we’ ll be working on in the period is is
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available
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< a href = "https://git.batsense.net/mCaptcha/2023-NLnet/projects/6" > here< / a > .< / p >
< h2 id = "infrastructure-outage-15-january-2023-to-february-6-2023" > Infrastructure outage: 15 January, 2023 to February 6, 2023< / h2 >
< p > A hard disk on of the servers hosting mCaptcha infrastructure failed,
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which caused the outage. Fixing the hard disk lead to additional
problems, the fan on that server was failing and we couldn’ t get spares
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sooner.< / p >
< p > We had current backups, so there was no data loss.< / p >
< p > Going forward, we are planning to create Infrastructure-as-Code to fully
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restore all mCaptcha infrastructure, so that in the even of an outage,
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we could restore our infrastructure in much shorter duration.< / p >
< h2 id = "mcaptchasurvey-now-includes-polyfill-benchmarking" > mCaptcha/survey now includes polyfill benchmarking< / h2 >
< p > mCaptcha/survey runs benchmarks with mCaptcha’ s PoW algorithm to collect
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statistics on how mCaptcha performs on various browsers and devices. So
far, we’ ve only been running benchmarks with the WebAssembly
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implementation. This < a href = "https://github.com/mCaptcha/survey/pull/14" > pull request< / a > added support for running benchmarks
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with the JavaScript polyfill implementation on browsers without
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WebAssembly support.< / p >
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