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writing — july 2026

Research notes from july 2026. The current month, and the essays, live on the writing page.

Schrems III Is Loading

On June 29, the US Supreme Court ruled in Trump v. Slaughter that the FTC is not independent of the President. The EU-US Data Privacy Framework relies on...

Control Is the Question. Sovereignty Is the Answer.

ITIF published a paper arguing that "control, not sovereignty" is the right frame for cloud policy — that server location and domestic ownership are weak...

Octelium: Zero-Trust Access Without Cloudflare or ngrok

Octelium is a FOSS zero-trust access platform that replaces Cloudflare Tunnels, ngrok, and commercial ZTNA with a self-hosted Go binary. AGPL-3.0....

The Matrix Homeserver Landscape Shifted. Here's What to Run.

Synapse is in maintenance mode. Dendrite is in maintenance mode. Conduit is archived. Continuwuity — the community fork of conduwuit — shipped v26.6.0 on...

Canada Is Making the Case for Sovereign Infrastructure

Bill C-22 passed the House of Commons in June. Its definition of "electronic service provider" is broad enough to capture community infrastructure...

Sovereignty Is Now Policy. Policy Isn't Infrastructure.

The EU's Tech Sovereignty Package puts "autonomy across the cloud stack" into policy. The tools to actually build that autonomy shipped the same quarter....