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.
Surely everyone not using cloud hosting sticks some sort of router/firewall at the edge and runs the VPS inside with port forwarding?
I would really like to see a setup guide for this. Because if you are throwing a VPS up, they usually just give you a public ip address. I don't really know how you would put a router/firewall in front.
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://github.com/pgautoupgrade/docker-pgautoupgrade
Or if you are on k8s, you can use cloudnativepg.
https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/List_of_Hacker_Spaces
Also check out meetup.com for linux user groups and other events.
Mindustry (open source)
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.
https://sprocketfox.io/xssfox/2021/12/02/xrandr/
Edit: someone already posted it somewhere is in the thread lmao
Sample with fibonacci:
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.