Заблокировали суки
That is how OxPulse was born. So I could hear my mother’s voice.
Instagram, WhatsApp, Telegram, Facebook blocked. VKontakte barely works. OxPulse runs through partner-edge nodes. To Russia’s packet inspection, the traffic just looks like someone visiting Samsung.com.
Law firms. Clinics. Family offices. Investigative collectives. HIPAA, FISMA, SOC 2 alignment on the roadmap. The partner-edge bundle is fully open-source — your security team reads every line.
Text validated end-to-end at 1 KB/s — the throttle Iran applies to non-allowlisted IPs. Six tc-netem scenarios (clean channel, 1 KB/s, 1 KB/s with 5% loss, 1 KB/s with 10% loss, 500 ms RTT, bursty loss). All six SLO PASS as of 6 May 2026.
Voice on Codec2 at ~1.4 kbps is in active development. Encoder and decoder already in production; the SFU voice-DC relay ships in stages.
A 1 KB/s throttle breaks even Signal text. Ours holds.
Russia had been blocking messengers one by one, at different times, for years. Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook — each blocked separately, each in its own moment. Every time, it felt like nothing worse could still happen.
In the winter of 2026, Russia blocked voice and video calls across every remaining messenger. Text messages still went through. Voices did not.
My mother lives in Russia. I live in America.
On 16 February 2026, she tried to call me several times. The calls would not connect. So she wrote — by text, through Telegram, which at that point still worked — one message. My mother, who had never cursed in front of me in her entire life, not once, sent:
Заблокировали суки
In that moment I understood two things at once. First, I would not hear my mother’s voice again through any of those channels. Second, they had pushed my mother to a word she had never said in front of me in forty years. I was not willing to accept that.
I took two servers — one in Russia, one in America. I connected them through a VLESS tunnel. To Russia’s deep-packet-inspection systems, the traffic looks like a request to Samsung’s website. On top of that, I put end-to-end encrypted video.
So I could hear my mother’s voice.
A month later, on 17 March 2026, Russia blocked Telegram entirely — text and all. But by that point, my mother and I were already talking. Through OxPulse.
When I told my friends, they all said the same thing: send me the link. Every one of them in America has parents in Russia they want to talk to. This is not a choice. This is a necessity.
That is how OxPulse was born.