Small step for #DigitalSovereignty . Migrated #QWAN 's 152 git repositories to a self-hosted #gitea (after #bitbucket demainded money. we don't need issue trackers etc, so even gitea is overkill. I rarely use the web ui of these things, only to search a repository and clone it). h/t #dokku for making the first steps easy and @berthub.eu.articles for raising awareness.

#kompot #selfhosting collective finally made a move to switch over from #gitea to #forgejo

sysadmins @g1smo and @shtumf described a process as very smooth with a sole problem of a wrong last updated date on all of the projects.

We had this planned since the fork, we were following the process closely and stood firmly on forgejo side. We're still a few versions behind the latest. A big server update is planed for May, if we will manage to summon up the community

GitHub & GitLab sind dir zu groß, zu closed oder zu teuer?
Dann schau dir Gitea an – eine schlanke, self-hosted Open-Source-Alternative, die alles mitbringt, was du brauchst: Repos, Issues, CI/CD, und das komplett unter deiner Kontrolle.

In meinem neuen Blog zeige ich, warum ich Gitea nutze & wie mein Setup aussieht

https://www.marcogriep.de/posts/gitea-die-open-source-self-hosting-alternative-zu-github-und-gitlab/

Woke up this morning to yet more Linode alerts and another failed server as a result of AI bots relentlessly scraping my #Gitea instance.

I heard about #Anubis (https://anubis.techaro.lol) when Xe Iaso (https://xeiaso.net) was on a recent episode of the #SelfHostedShow podcast and so it seemed like a great opportunity to give it a try. I don't really need "SEO" or any discoverability on Gitea, so hopefully the only downside is that new visitors need to wait a few secs before things load

Gitea v1.23.7 Released: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v1.23.7
#linux #linuxgaming #update #foss #release #gitea #git #selfhosted

Show HN: memEx, a personal knowledge base inspired by zettlekasten and org-mode
https://gitea.bubbletea.dev/shibao/memex
#ycombinator #git #self_hosted #gitea

Gitea 1.23.7 is out now!

This important update includes essential fixes and improvements—upgrading ASAP is highly recommended for all users!

More details: https://blog.gitea.com/release-of-1.23.7/

Wochenrückblick, Ausgabe 86 (2025-14)

Themen:

Dachbodenfund: iMac aus 2006

Bikerouter-Kleinigkeiten und Wechsel des Domain-Registrars

Gekündigt: mein bezahltes GitHub-Abo

Awesome Gitea: Liste mit allerlei interessantem Zeug

Brandenburg Odyssee: Die Route wurde gefixt

Old CSS, new CSS

In dieser Woche gehört: SHA, Karlo vom Dach, Patrik Pagan, Rachel Raw, Markus Schulz

#Wochenrückblick #iMac #Apple #SnowLeopard #iFixIt #Ebay #Bikerouter #Hetzner #DNS #API #GitHub #Gitea #Brandenburg #BrandenburgOdyssee #ActivityPub #CSS #WebDevelopment #Techno

https://www.marcusjaschen.de/blog/2025/2025-14/

Doing some research on #LLM #bot protection for our selfhosted services. We had multiple downtimes per week for last few months mostly due to crawlers DDOSing our #gitea service which brought the whole server to its knees (running more than 15 web services). It would be nice to hand out invoices for our devops work...

Anyways #askFedi what kind of protection would you recommend? We're opting for solution that's quick and easy to implement and lightweight.

Hm... so this new AI thing from @gitea ... it's definitely interesting, and many people aren't reading, again.

So, what did they do?

They basically created an API client that is usable for LLMs - meaning that LLMs can now directly interact with Gitea. It's not integrated into the server by itself, and nobody is required to use it. Basically, it's HTTP MCP. It's like an API client for a programming language. So it's not a bad thing in itself.

Also, this client by itself doesn't crawl other sites / uses data that was crawled from other sites, since it's literally just an API client.

BUT (!) you have to use an existing LLM model using a client (e.g. Cursor) to be able to use this API client. Now that's the interesting part... I don't know if there's actually a good LLM that only learned from data that it was allowed to use. This means, that Gitea kind of promotes using LLMs that crawled people's sites without their permission.

Sadly, the screenshots shown in the blog post by Gitea don't show what model they are using, so we can't tell if they are using a good or a bad model. (Though, I'm not sure if we specifically need to know that in this case.)

Anyway, I'm always happy to see people switch to @forgejo. I, personally, used it almost since I started moving away from GitHub / -Lab and I love it. Sadly, I know a few people who can't yet move to Forgejo since they're using architectures that Forgejo doesn't build for docker yet.

For those people who are still angry and "need to" be aggressive towards the devs: Calm down, maybe read my blog post that I made in collaboration with Finnley about outrage (https://steffo.blog/outrage-warps-reality/) and have a great day. Maybe go for a walk outside?

Anyway, have a lovely day!

From last week's ADMIN Update newsletter: Thomas Reuß shows you how to migrate your Git repositories to Gitea
https://www.admin-magazine.com/Archive/2024/84/Migrate-your-Git-repositories-to-Gitea?utm_source=SM
#Gitea #GitHub #repository #VersionControl #Gogs #fork

Wochenrückblick, Ausgabe 85 (2025-13)

Themen:

Neues Feature für bikerouter.de: Kurzlinks und verbesserte QR Codes

Automatisch bei Blog-Updates den Uberblogr-Webring pingen

Neuer Schlauch für die Absaugung in der Werkstatt

Unbekannte Holzart entdeckt

snips.sh: SSH-basiertes Pastebin, Opengist als weitere Alternative für GitHub Gists

CLI-Tool der Woche: xsv

In dieser Woche gehört: SOS U-Ground B2B Tobias Sommer, Taberia

#Wochenrückblick #Bikerouter #QRCode #UberBlogr #Webring #Absaugschlauch #Werkstatt #Woodworking #Holz #Drechseln #snips.sh #Gist #Gitea #GitHub #Opengist #CLI #Shell #xsv #CSV #TSV #Techno

https://www.marcusjaschen.de/blog/2025/2025-13/

If you, like me, are incredibly excited by this wonderful news, know that —at least for now— you can disable all this #Copilot crap by visiting https://github.com/settings/copilot and switching all the options to Disabled/Blocked. Perhaps especially the on-by-default "Allow GitHub to use my data for product improvements" one.
Thanks to #GitHub for reminding me how glad I am for #SelfHosting my own #Gitea #Git #Forge. If you're not already, maybe consider it or a (partial) move to #Codeberg too. It's great!

among other thing #gitea does give something unique , armored #ssh sig , when they need not map to a #gpg key
https://www.techaddressed.com/tutorials/add-verify-ssh-keys-gitea/

Anyone done a #Gitea to #Forgejo migration? Is the guide on the Forgejo site sufficient documentation?

ETA: I was one version too far to do the database compatible switchover, but it was easy enough to install, configure, and reimport my repos.

Il futuro è decentralizzato, passo dopo passo

Anche Organic Maps, l'app #opensource per navigare senza tracciamento, abbandona #GitHub di Microsoft e sceglie piattaforme self-hosted. Un segnale forte: sempre più progetti scelgono autonomia dai #BigTech.

Per chi vuole seguire questa via, su https://gitea.it è ora disponibile una guida aggiornata con tutti i client e le app per usare Gitea al 100%:

Scopri la guida qui: https://gitea.it/Gitea/Gitea-Italia

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