Re: [Libre-silicon-devel] Fwd: GitHub and Trade Controls
G'Day contributors of the Libre-silicon project, Thank you so much for supporting Dr./Mr. Mohammad Amin Nili, and others, who can have their access to GitHub (not just the Libre-silicon project repository) or another source-code-hosting facility restricted. We greatly appreciate it. Regards, Zhiyang On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 10:08 PM David Lanzendörfer <leviathan@libresilicon.com> wrote:
Hi
Perhaps you can mirror the libre* related projects on that server ? Lots of them are already there: https://redmine.libresilicon.com/projects
It might also be a good idea to get in touch with EFF, to at least point out this issue. Be my guest ;-)
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Dear Zhiyang
G'Day contributors of the Libre-silicon project, Thank you so much for supporting Dr./Mr. Mohammad Amin Nili, and others, who can have their access to GitHub (not just the Libre-silicon project repository) or another source-code-hosting facility restricted. The main motivator, where we had to start relocating our infrastructure is, that it always was a pain during meetings with partners in 深圳 to present the project on the projector, because the website libresilicon.com was originally hosted on GitHub, so I had enough and moved it. And every time I wanna hack around a bit in the StarBucks in Moko center until my friends come (Shopping park station close to 福田) I encountered the problem, that I could not reliably git pull/git push (especially when pulling bigger changes), so I always had to do a git pull, before I crossed the check point.
Very inconvenient. Now we've got git.libresilicon.com which is not blocked. Much better.
We greatly appreciate it. 不用谢 ;-)
-lev
COCO center. Sorry. MOKO center is in 香港, they sound so similar. But I mean the shopping mall with the 30 inch Pizzas and the Buffalo wild wings store ^_^' On Sunday, 28 July 2019 12:38:27 PM HKT David Lanzendörfer wrote:
And every time I wanna hack around a bit in the StarBucks in Moko center until my friends come (Shopping park station close to 福田) I encountered the problem, that I could not reliably git pull/git push (especially when pulling bigger changes), so I always had to do a git pull, before I crossed the check point.
Thank you all for helping the open source community to be free. As Luke mentioned, I’m looking for a decentralized git one day, which could also get rid of single point of failure. Best regards, Manili
On Jul 28, 2019, at 9:08 AM, David Lanzendörfer <leviathan@libresilicon.com> wrote:
Dear Zhiyang
G'Day contributors of the Libre-silicon project, Thank you so much for supporting Dr./Mr. Mohammad Amin Nili, and others, who can have their access to GitHub (not just the Libre-silicon project repository) or another source-code-hosting facility restricted. The main motivator, where we had to start relocating our infrastructure is, that it always was a pain during meetings with partners in 深圳 to present the project on the projector, because the website libresilicon.com was originally hosted on GitHub, so I had enough and moved it. And every time I wanna hack around a bit in the StarBucks in Moko center until my friends come (Shopping park station close to 福田) I encountered the problem, that I could not reliably git pull/git push (especially when pulling bigger changes), so I always had to do a git pull, before I crossed the check point.
Very inconvenient.
Now we've got git.libresilicon.com which is not blocked. Much better.
We greatly appreciate it. 不用谢 ;-)
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Hi As I mentioned: We could implement a git hook in the repository which pushes the changes to all the other known git server nodes. Something like a file .gitmirrors Then you would essentially cause a chain reaction through all the mirrors, when you push your changes, where all the server push to each other, until they're all updated. -lev On Sunday, 28 July 2019 12:43:48 PM HKT Mohammad Amin Nili wrote:
Thank you all for helping the open source community to be free. As Luke mentioned, I’m looking for a decentralized git one day, which could also get rid of single point of failure.
Another idea would be to combine this with IPv6. You could setup an embedded server in your home, where you either have a native IPv6 address assigned to, or you can use an IPv6 tunnel. Then you can enter the IP of your server in the mirrors list and push the file, so that your server gets updated every time, a new commit is being pushed. -lev
As I mentioned: We could implement a git hook in the repository which pushes the changes to all the other known git server nodes. Something like a file .gitmirrors Then you would essentially cause a chain reaction through all the mirrors, when you push your changes, where all the server push to each other, until they're all updated.
The problem is, that TOR would be a nice thing as a layer below, for interconnecting all the GIT repos. Unfortunately, all the TOR bridges are being blocked in China as well, which would again prevent Chinese developers from joining in such a distributed web. On the other side, we could actually use TOR and just expose the GIT repo through a public IP which isn't disabled. -lev On Sunday, 28 July 2019 2:17:50 PM HKT David Lanzendörfer wrote:
Another idea would be to combine this with IPv6. You could setup an embedded server in your home, where you either have a native IPv6 address assigned to, or you can use an IPv6 tunnel. Then you can enter the IP of your server in the mirrors list and push the file, so that your server gets updated every time, a new commit is being pushed.
On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 5:38 AM David Lanzendörfer <leviathan@libresilicon.com> wrote:
Dear Zhiyang
G'Day contributors of the Libre-silicon project, Thank you so much for supporting Dr./Mr. Mohammad Amin Nili, and others, who can have their access to GitHub (not just the Libre-silicon project repository) or another source-code-hosting facility restricted. The main motivator, where we had to start relocating our infrastructure is, that it always was a pain during meetings with partners in 深圳 to present the project on the projector, because the website libresilicon.com was originally hosted on GitHub, so I had enough and moved it. And every time I wanna hack around a bit in the StarBucks in Moko center until my friends come (Shopping park station close to 福田) I encountered the problem, that I could not reliably git pull/git push (especially when pulling bigger changes), so I always had to do a git pull, before I crossed the check point.
david: if you get a Pokefi, and you always remain within the Huaqiang Bay Special Economic Zone, it connects directly at ISO Layer 2 to Hong Kong based cell tower infrastructure... *not* to China-based 3G/4G infrastructure. consequently it is... "unrestricted".... :) even here in Shenkeng (near New Taipei City) the ISP is a bit... shit (no censorship: just... shit), ports get blocked accidentally, including ssh and OpenVPN. mosh, interestingly, being low-traffic, tends to get left alone. so, *sigh*, i have had to set up a special single link openvpn config and change the port number on a regular basis. it would be really helpful if openvpn included the XOR patch that is used in china a lot (it gets rid of the deep packet inspection detection). l.
Hehe Well. I'm usually the first to say "I'm all ears" when someone comes up with a plan from the category "Best way to get shot", but in this case I have to pass on setting up our own cell tower, for now ;-) Considering that, when you set up your own cell tower for bridging the firewall, the last thing you wanna do is test the connectivity over there :-) I kindof can't afford pissing those folks off? You know? Besides having a Buffalo wild wings, also the cigarettes and the alcohol is way much cheaper over there, and we need their fabs to cooperate with for LibreSilicon and other projects. -lev
david: if you get a Pokefi, and you always remain within the Huaqiang Bay Special Economic Zone, it connects directly at ISO Layer 2 to Hong Kong based cell tower infrastructure... *not* to China-based 3G/4G infrastructure.
consequently it is... "unrestricted"....
even here in Shenkeng (near New Taipei City) the ISP is a bit... shit (no censorship: just... shit), ports get blocked accidentally, including ssh and OpenVPN. mosh, interestingly, being low-traffic, tends to get left alone.
so, *sigh*, i have had to set up a special single link openvpn config and change the port number on a regular basis.
it would be really helpful if openvpn included the XOR patch that is used in china a lot (it gets rid of the deep packet inspection detection).
On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 11:33 AM David Lanzendörfer <leviathan@libresilicon.com> wrote:
Hehe Well. I'm usually the first to say "I'm all ears" when someone comes up with a plan from the category "Best way to get shot", but in this case I have to pass on setting up our own cell tower, for now ;-)
:) nono, you misunderstand: the HK-based celltowers in the Huaqiang Bay area are *already there*, and do *not* go via China censors. so there's absolutely no need to even have a VPN installed, so if you get stopped by the Chinese Authorities and electronic devices "searched", they'll find absolutely nothing suspicious. pokefi got bought up recently: the price went up from $99 to (gosh, shock, $150). prices are USD $3 per gigabyte, HOWEVER, unlike many of the f*****rs who do devices like this, if you don't use it, the money STAYS ON THE DEVICE (for 2 years). oh, and it's international roaming at a FLAT RATE. so that's USD $3 per gigabyte, confirmed (so far), in the UK, France, Spain, Holland, Belgium, Thailand, Japan, Huaqiang Bay, Singapore, Taiwan... most companies providing 3G/4G-WIFI portable gateways: * steal your money after a month, * require a 2-3 year contract (and steal your money each month) * do NOT have flat-rate international roaming * charge several hundred dollars for the actual device l.
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David Lanzendörfer -
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton -
Mohammad Amin Nili -
Zhiyang Ong