Comment on 700+ self-hosted Git instances battered in 0-day attacks

1984@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• quick_snail@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Well that kinda kills collaboration

  source

  • 1984@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah. If I needed collaboration, I would just whitelist their ips or require everyone involved to use Wireguard vpn, Tailscale or other solutions that allows access without being publically exposed.

    source

    • quick_snail@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That kills collaboration from new people who just, like, discovered your project on some Lemmy thread

      source

      • Natanael@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        They can still collaborate old school way. You can publish static mirrors of git, then take email patches lol

        source
  • greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I do the same thing. Anything I put on there isn’t something that I would share with the Internet anyway. If it was a serious project, sure. It’s just nice to have a personal git you can access over a VPN sometimes.

    source

    • quick_snail@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I can’t understand why anyone would waste time writing code that won’t be shared

      source

      • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Personal projects. Not everything has to be FOSS. My tiny little script to automate my lights turning green and my smart speaker playing All-Star by Smash Mouth at full volume, so I can jork it in peace? That shit doesn’t need to be public.

        source

        • -> View More Comments
      • communism@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        For personal use? To automate tasks you do or solve a problem you have?

        source
      • mko@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        For personal use. As someone you has all my non-trivial creations, including dot-files and scripts I replicate between machines, in repos since CVS has a thing it’s a habit. Version control. This stuff is mostly private but not secret, why should I have it public?

        source
      • uncouple9831@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Don’t kink shame,.man

        source
      • greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Dunno, I just don’t believe my NixOS config files are particularly valuable. What is the benefit of sharing garbage code from a novice? I’d rather share things worth sharing, that could be useful to someone else.

        source
  • Jason2357@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You can git pull a repo to your machine, make your changes and then use git to submit a patch via email. Its not pretty, but it works. Hopefully federation is built soon and you will be able to submit a pull request from your own forge.

    source
• Lightfire228@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I wonder if it’d be feasible to make a fediverse github

  source

  • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Git is already a distributed version control system.

    source

    • Lightfire228@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But it doesn’t have any built-in concept of users, write permissions, or authentication (except for commit signing)

      Hosting an unauthenticated git repo would be the equivalent to an open ssh port with no password

      Not to mention collaborative things like issue tracking, PRs, forums, etc

      source

      • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Forgejo has all that, and then you can achieve “federation” by virtue of pushing to whatever remote. I wasn’t suggesting people use git itself (which is possible). I just meant that it’s distributed as opposed to centralized like Subverison is.

        source

        • -> View More Comments
  • Jason2357@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Its coming: codeberg.org/…/FederationRoadmap.md

    source
  • eutampieri@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There was a discussion on Forgejo and ActivityPub IIRC

    source
  • dariusj18@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    An interesting similar idea is github.com/gitsocial-org/gitsocial

    “Decentralized open-source Git-native social network”

    source
• ITGuyLevi@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I keep mine accessible from the internet, its just more useful to me like that. I do have registration disabled though and SSO is handled by Authentik so it could be worse (my personal goal has just been to not be the easiest target, perfect security is a myth in my mind).

  source

  • Jason2357@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Theres a HUGE difference between hosting it essentially read-only to the world, vs allowing account creation, uploading, and processing unknown files by the server.

    I have thought of blocking access to the commit history pages at the reverse proxy to cut off 99% of the traffic from bots. If anyone wants to look at the history, its just a git clone away.

    source
  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You could also throw it behind mTLD

    source

    • ITGuyLevi@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I could, but then I would have issues getting to it from work; from the bit I’ve read about mTLS, it’s not really indended for my use case, I think I’ll just stick with TLS.

      source
• irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  My motto is ‘Users cause complexities and complexities cause problems’.

  source
• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It is because it is the default

  source