Privacy
A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
Some Rules
- Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
- Don't promote proprietary software
- Try to keep things on topic
- If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
- Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
- Be nice :)
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codeberg
If something is controlled by a giant corporation and keeping your data and privacy are offered for free, the price is your personel data.🔏
What a great ad for codeberg.
Also a great ad for GitLab.
I use codeberg.org for my stuff.
I've wanted to for a while, but this post gave me the final nudge I needed to just buckle down and try selfhosting my own. Forgejo was incredibly easy to set up and my buddies and I are already successfully collaborating on a project that I've moved over from Github. So thanks for making your rant post, you made a difference
*looks at the picture
Heh enshittification
Alternatively, a huge load of horseshit.
A shitpost, if you will
If you want a cloud alternative to GitHub run by a non-profit and hosted outside of the U.S.
If you want to get your data out of the cloud entirely, or at least under a VPS you control, self host your own git repo (Using the same software as Codeberg)
Playing devil's advocate, it's probably more about blocking bots from creating accounts than it is about blocking privacy minded users. You just end up being collateral damage.
Obviously that still sucks, I'm just saying it's not that simple
Gitlab.com has similar problems, sadly. Meanwhile, I haven't ever heard of Codeberg doing somethign similar, but who knows I guess.
I’m wondering if you could have any version of this—assuming best intentions and smartest people—which did not demand very similar countermeasures past a certain equivalent growth threshold.
I unfortunately have to imagine Codeberg is like Lemmy and flies under the radar from spammers.
…for now.
LLMs all but guarantee a future of oppressive noise to signal ratios. I imagine IRL connections, or at least numbers saved in your phone, will become pretty important there. So then I think up in-person local-community-vibe verification schemes but they all end with dirty marketers or operators inducing members of the public to astroturf or lease their accounts…
Use Librewolf with a mobile data connection on a PAYG SIM, then go to Settings > Librewolf and turn off IPV6 to ensure you are behind CGNAT then turn off resistFingerprinting and enable WebGL.
Then install Jshelter and create a profile with the following settings:
Time precision: High
Locally rendered images: Little lies
Locally generated audio: Little lies
Graphic card information: Unprotected for highest chance of success or Little lies for best privacy
WebAssembley speed-up: enabled
Then make sure that all other options in Jshelter are turned off including Fingerprint Detector as Cloudflare Turnstile fails with it on.
turn off IPV6
This is not a fix for anything.
Mobile data uses CGNAT for IPV4 which means that your activity is mixed with others. IPV6 is usually just static.
Selfhosted git doesn't require anything
Sure it does. Like mitigating constant DDoS attacks / AI scrapers. (To be clear, I'm not advocating using GitHub instead. I'm just saying freedom ain't free.)
Sure but that's about 8 years too late https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub#Acquisition_by_Microsoft
Tell me how you really feel 😅
They also own Visual Studio Code, control VSCode, and effectively control the VSCodium soft fork.
They decided they wanted to own software development and here we are ;/
Fuck ms
a coworker invited me to his company GitHub team or something recently, and I tried to join several times. each time, I got stuck with a 10 question test to "verify I was human". it was not quick. eventually, I had time to actually complete it without timing out.
after completing it correctly twice without success, I gave up
It's the same story for basically anything MS touches.
I'm still holding my breath waiting for IBM to do something atrocious to Fedora.
Bro literallly posted a photo of a pile of shit, lmaoo
I can't figure out if Free software projects don't know or don't care that GitHub is run by Microslop.
It was bought by Microsoft after becoming established. Most free software projects don't care enough to move if they don't self host.