Re: Schneier, Data and Goliath: no hope for privacy

In comp.misc, Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote:

Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote:

Doesn't stop people from posting about you on FB. (Or worse, posting
photos of you on there.)

What I don't tell, they can't post, and the same with what they
don't photograph. Although I guess that does leave a bit of an
information vacuum there which some nutcase could exploit to make
up missing personal info/photos on me if they so desired.

$WORK is the worst offender in my experience for photographing and
posting.

Lately I've been seeing people advocating for a switch to
Codeberg.

 
I don't know about Codeberg, but there have been lots of
alternatives all along. Tons of projects switched from SourceForge
to GitHub. Many projects have their own websites too, so why not
self-host? GitHub do offer a lot of extra features for free, but
that's dealing with the devil IMHO.

Codeberg is a German non-profit with a lot a github features. Self
hosting is always an option, but not one I necessarily like for a lot of
projects. I've found it not entirely obvious how to download source
(as opposed to just view one version) from some self-hosted projects
and having a issues tracker with an easy sign-up is useful, if only
to see how issue response works. For some things I'm entirely okay
with zero response to bugs, but for other things I'd like to see more.

If you are still curious about Codeberg:

https://docs.codeberg.org/getting-started/faq/

Elijah
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won't begrudge anyone who chooses some other path