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> On Android: Most phones nowadays should have DoT support built-in nowadays.
I don't know what "DoH" or "DoT" are.
DNS over TLS and DNS over HTTPS.
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> On Android: Most phones nowadays should have DoT support built-in nowadays.
I don't know what "DoH" or "DoT" are.
I'm not a big fan of jargon either, but if you clicked on one of those links, you'd see that it stands for DNS over HTTP or DNS over Tor.
Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India
#33A great time to consider self-hosting your Git repositories then? Like all the inflated hype in the news with the federation 'goobledegook' and 'technobabble' with Mastodon and alternatives with techies spinning up instances, perhaps it is about time that techies use Git properly and consider self-hosting your repositories just like how many techies do with self-hosting Mastodon instances? I don't think there is an e…
Except moving your repo is a matter of changing the origin, pushing and notifying your co workers. It's not like moving social network identity, and it saves some admin burden.
If you use just the repo feature, that is. If you fall into the trap of using GitHub's other services you have vendor lock in and you're more screwed than when considering moving from Twitter to Mastodon.
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There's probably quite a lot of them. Modi-style authoritarianism is extremely popular in India.
And it will continue to be if people ignore things like this. In a democracy the voters are responsible for the actions of the leaders
>In a democracy the voters are responsible for the actions of the leaders
The corollary being that citizens of democratic countries have the leaders they deserve.
Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India
#36A great time to consider self-hosting your Git repositories then? Like all the inflated hype in the news with the federation 'goobledegook' and 'technobabble' with Mastodon and alternatives with techies spinning up instances, perhaps it is about time that techies use Git properly and consider self-hosting your repositories just like how many techies do with self-hosting Mastodon instances? I don't think there is an e…
> when developers of GNOME, Wireguard, Redox, etc are already able to self-host their own code on their websites
Yeah, but most of us are not developers of them. It often takes less than an hour to self-host Git/Mastodon/Email/DNS or anything else (most of which have ready to use Docker images anyway) that we tend to centralize, but they come with huge maintenance cost (time, money, backups, security, etc).
I self-host my web sites because that's something I actually want to maintain and have more control over. I will leave the rest to the experts because even us "(technies)" easily mess things up.
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#38Hasn't GitHub been de jure, if not de facto, banned in India since 2014? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_GitHub#India
No. The ban was lifted in a matter of days.
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Technical workarounds and social activism aren't mutually exclusive; given how long the latter can take to achieve results, it's often useful to have the former in the meantime.
By bypassing the block you lessen the need for social activism
This doesn't add up. Should the `work around` not be used because it lessens the need for social activism ?
One does not negate the other.
Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India
#40The insane irony of this given the sheer number of Indians working in software/IT and using GitHub and contributing to India’s GDP. You’d think that the Gov/ISP/Courts, somebody would put GitHub on a Do-Not-Block list and stop this madness.
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