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.

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.

• 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.

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.

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.

It’s codeberg pages… It is generated directly from codeberg, which has doesn’t allow private repos.

Source code: https://codeberg.org/purpleweb/Riddles_0-385_App

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.

Seems to be the case:

https://github.com/anyproto/anytype-ts?tab=License-1-ov-file#readme

https://github.com/anyproto/anytype-kotlin?tab=License-1-ov-file#readme

The sync server is MIT though: https://github.com/anyproto/any-sync?tab=MIT-1-ov-file#readme

Interesting.

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.

I spun up a test, and it doesn’t let you edit encrypted notes :(. It’s so nice though, I might be willing to give it up e2ee for less sensitive data.

Yes. But this is a lot. It may be easier to use Forgejo’s built in migration tools, to copy over repositories along with their issues and other info. You would have to rebuild the admin parts of the site, like “organizations” and user privileges. (Well if you are using oauth and mapping users from oautb groups then you don’t…). And I don’t know if it’s automated for a many, many repos. But it’s just a click click click in the gui.

I remember there was a tool, I think it was related to forgefed, that could do batch repo migrations via the cli. I can’t find it anymore though.

It’s not quite a VPN, but it is very resistant against blocking:

https://programming.dev/comment/22662028

https://github.com/pgautoupgrade/docker-pgautoupgrade

Or if you are on k8s, you can use cloudnativepg.

https://infosecmap.com/

https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/List_of_Hacker_Spaces

Also check out meetup.com for linux user groups and other events.

Also check out meshcentral. Important thing aboout meshcentral is that it lets you hijack the users screen, show you can show them step by step through things. RDP doesn’t do that, it kicks the other user out.

By the way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_IT