Okay, I hath returned. Here is what I am doing with FLuxCD and it’s method of installing helm charts:

https://github.com/moonpiedumplings/flux-config/blob/fe71453facc4f5eaf70738430ca7f38f098171b2/apps/apps/authentik/helmrelease.yaml

Okay, I’m cheating. :/ . I’m using Flux’s method where you can have a secret that has values, and then I’m just including those.

But yeah, using an ENV var that pulls from a secret is probably better.

I would say the big thing that might give you trouble is not the init system, but NetworkManager. NetworkManager is the… network management software (wow who woulda guessed?) used on desktop linux distros.

People have many criticisms of it, that are similar to criticisms applied to systemd (it’s also Red Hat software), so I see my friends switching to iwd, wpa_supplicant, or other alternatives when trying something other than systemd as well.

It gives them a lot of pain. None of the other alternatives are as reliable as NetworkManager when it comes to connecting to Wifi. Switching away from Systemd shouldn’t be too hard, but NetworkManager is much tougher to give up. Thankfully, you can run NetworkManager on non-systemd setups.

This is a message to remind myself to share my config later.

I will state that I a, using cloudnativepg for postgres.

The way forgejo actions works, is that it is not a universal thing for every repo. Each repo, can have it’s own forgejo actions instance connected to it, running stuff.

The big benefit of that, is that you can make users bring their own actions servers, and not bother to deploy your own.

It has newer packages than Debian.

This is not quite true. They have overlapping release cycles. A new Debian release will ship frozen versions of the latest packages, causing it to have newer packages than most ubuntu releases. Then the new ubuntu release comes out, with and it has newer packages. Ubuntu doesn’t universally newer packages than debian. The difference is that Debian ONLY does security updates, and doesn’t do feature updates or even bugfixes over it’s lifespan. Ubuntu, on the other hand, does ship feature updates and bug fixes, incrementing the package version as they go over the lifespan of an Ubuntu release.

Comparing the bash versions of the latest ubuntu stable version versus the current debian stable, and you’ll notice that Debian has a newer bash:

[moonpie@osiris moonpiedumplings.github.io]$ podman run -it --rm debian
root@980ac170ddb4:/# bash --version
GNU bash, version 5.2.37(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>

This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
root@980ac170ddb4:/# exit
exit
[moonpie@osiris moonpiedumplings.github.io]$ podman run -it --rm ubuntu
Resolved "ubuntu" as an alias (/etc/containers/registries.conf.d/00-shortnames.conf)
Trying to pull docker.io/library/ubuntu:latest...
Getting image source signatures
Copying blob 817807f3c64e done   | 
Copying config f794f40ddf done   | 
Writing manifest to image destination
root@1486a1c38699:/# bash --version
GNU bash, version 5.2.21(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>

This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

This is Ubuntu 24, the current stable release. 25/questing, the rolling version does have newer/same package versions of debian. But people don’t base distros off of the rolling version of ubuntu, only the stable releases.

No, they’re dual licensed. Canonical has users contributing signing a Contributor License agreement, in which they agree to allow Canonical to distribute alternatively licesed, or proprietary versions.

This change was somewhat controversial, and partially why Incus was forked from LXD.

Companies at onferences give 4/8gb out sometimes. They buy branded ones in bulk.

• oauth, and control sign ups via there. Don’t let people sign up via forgejo itself.
• anubis, yeah. Or similar.
• forgejo actions is an optional component… and forgejo users can bring their own actions server. Of course, it’s a risk to them since the server owner could execute code in actions. But yeah.

Void auth, or kanidm look like easier alternatives.

I have installed an OS onto just the btrfs root subvolume, leaving the home directory intact. This is how I originally swapped from Manjaro to Arch. The arch manual install instructions helped.

But this should be a feature of the graphical installers imo.

Transparent fileystem compression and deduplication (btrfs feature not in ext4) compresses data while still having it be accessible normally. This leads to big space savings.

You can use the tool compsize to check it out.

Journalists communicating with sources in censored regions

Whistleblowers sharing information securely

You and your peer agree on an encryption key (any string).

This is unacceptably unsecure for the usecases you mention. There is a reason why the most secure messaging apps don’t use symetric encryption, don’t use passphrases, and they also possess forward secrecy.

It’s pointless to push this as a censhorship circumvention method when many other methods exist that already do so 10x better, in a secure way, over decentralized, hidden and unblockable infrastructure. (Tor’s meek-azure bridges use microsoft’s infrastructure, which nobody is able to block because everybody depends on it, even China).

I appreciate the project, and I am always happy to see people learning, progressing, and publishing their results, but you need to be honest about the weaknesses of your software compared to established solutions. It’s not impossible for you to one day produce a secure messaging app, but today is not the day. Right now, using this is just a fast way to get killed.

somewhat relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_IT

Also try wireguard over port 53. Often (udp) traffic to port 53 is unblocked because it’s needed for DNS.

What is special about this setup is that it can sometimes get around captive portal wifi.

If you use kde, you can search for “profile manager”, and it will show up, and can be launched from the app menu.

At least works for me. Before this was added, the KDE search/app menu also lets you run commands directly, so I would just run firefox -p in there. No need for a terminal.

Database performance on btrfs is miserable compared to zfs, whereas bcachefs was doing much better.

I say was because… see the other comment in the thread. :/

hides as regular HTTPS traffic so it’s not blockable by Firewalls

From OP’s post, of course. If OP does not need to evade firewalls that are that aggressive, then they should have settled for a less stealthy VPN solution, as many of these HTTPS proxy solutions have performance and usability (can often only proxy TCP traffic) tradeoffs.

Perhaps they have already tried the wireguard on port 443 solution, and it didn’t work for them. My high school would auto detect and block wireguard to any port. Perhaps they are in a similar situation.

Many of the prominent https VPN protocols are for evading the great firewall of China. OP had that as a requirement, so it is not an unreasonable assumption.

If you are evading less locked down firewalls, then you don’t need as stealthy VPNs.

Yes because they are all designed to evade the great firewall of China, which automatically catches almost all other VPN’s and proxies.

Github is blocked in China. The fact that these repos are on Github and Chinese is proof of their effectiveness.

If you are not a Gitea customer, you are not being informed of security updates in a timely manner:

Gitea repeatedly makes choices that leave Gitea admins exposed to known vulnerabilities during extended periods of time. For instance Gitea spent resources to undergo a SOC2 security audit for its SaaS offering while critical vulnerabilities demanded a new release. Advance notice of security releases is for customers only.

https://forgejo.org/compare-to-gitea/#security

Also, ForgeJo was promising federation which is still a WIP several years later.

Oh no, it doesn’t do the big feature™. I guess it’s unusable now.

I wish people would realize that software still works and is excellent even without the various flagship features. I use Kubernetes on a single node. I know there are people who use matrix without federation and e2ee because it’s actually a really good chat app, it just struggles with the performance demands of federation, and the e2ee ux isn’t quite there yet.