Digital surveillance is omnipresent in the west. Apparently nobody cares.

Because universal surveillance is more profitable than consumer privacy, and surveilling consumers aligns really well with the interests of the billionaires that control telecommunications.

Just… No.

The switch to Forgejo is super easy, if you don’t mind everything being called “Gitea” you can just switch out the Docker image and carry on.

I just switched recently, maybe around version 1.19.

Forgejo is also working on federation which will give the system an advantage moving forwards. They’re also sticking with Gitea as an upstream source so reasonable changes Gitea makes should make their way to Forgejo pretty quickly.

Without more info it’ll be hard to help.

I got it working in principle, but the Raspberry Pi I wanted to host it on isn’t powerful enough to handle the necessary computing.

The forces being applied to tyres are orders of magnitude higher than the forces being applied to your clothes. Tyre plastic compounds are also designed to wear a certain amount, or in other words they must be relatively soft and therefore subject to wear, in order to provide friction sufficient to keep hundreds of kilograms safely connected to the road surface at high speed.

It’s time to bring back the corporate death penalty.

Edit: IIRC Standard Oil, the predecessor of Exxon, was instrumental in abolishing the US corporate death penalty.

Hetzner may have the thing for you. IIRC their VPS options don’t have that much storage, but their storage plans are super cheap and easily connect to the VPS.

I set up my instance with a Docker image and tutorial and it was pretty easy. I’ve just testing so far, no other users, so I can’t comment on performance. I don’t think I’ll federate either because that can be resource intensive.

I’ll link the tutorials I used in a bit.

Edit: Tutorial Links and notes

https://linuxhandbook.com/install-matrix-synapse-docker/

https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-matrix-synapse-docker/

I read through both of these and referred to the official documentation to set up my instance. It is exposed to the internet through a Cloudflare Zero Trust tunnel - I am not the biggest fan of Cloudflare, but I prefer the tunnel to directly exposing my personal network to the internet. I am also using a Postgres DB on the backend rather than the integrated SQLite engine as I am comfortable with Postgres and it’s plug-and-play with my existing DB admin and backup solution.

If compromising the privacy of millions of people is an acceptable alternative to an incredibly infrequent act which can already be perpetrated by other more anonymous means and can be easily mitigated by various socio-economic policies, have at it I guess.

I set it up using a docker image based on the older Firefox sync repo. It’s outdated but it works. What I don’t self host is authentication as it is way more involved than I prefer my self hosting projects to be and I’d probably end up frustrated by some little thing not working.

Precisely this. The fuss about Chinese telecom hardware spying on you is made up by US intelligence because they want to be the ones who get to spy on you and keep their back doors in your products

I’ve had a Huawei for years and I love it. The only telemetry I’ve noticed is from Google services and other third party apps I’ve installed. I use a firewall to block network access to apps that don’t need it.

The French had a pretty good way of shutting up insufferable rich asshats.

Yeah, I got called an idiot for pointing out that connection here a few weeks ago.

Even if it’s as simple as choosing which Root CA’s we want to trust, how many people will know to do that and be able to do that? A couple percent at most.

Of course we need full ownership of our devices, and trusted computing has always referred to the trust of for-profit corporations, but this in itself doesn’t help the vast majority of people who either don’t know that they’re compromised, think they have nothing to hide, are unable to do anything about it, or a mix of all three.

Privacy and security are already a privilege. Proposals like eIDAS only make it even more unaccessible.

Watch the opposite happen.

Nah, they’re dropping chat control for something bigger: breaking SSL.

https://last-chance-for-eidas.org/

Just the simple fact that Tor was started with a bunch of US intelligence money is cause for concern.

The EU was never designed to be a democratic body.

They tried chat control and got pushed back on, so they gave up on that track and quickly switched to a sneaky effort to break SSL.

Just as previous initiatives were voted down by the people, but forced through the parliament anyway.

The EU exists to protect private property and capital, not to benefit the people.