Nobody that we know of is doing this to any computers but their own. This is researchers demonstrating a possible side-channel attack, but there’s no sign anyone is doing this in the wild. What the researchers demonstrated also has some pretty significant shortcomings, so I don’t see this being viable for real tracking, at least without changes.

It’s a forgejo instance. I don’t know why they don’t just say that.

They do say that. Has the article changed since you read it?

That’s why the Open Source Program Office (OSPO), a division within the Ministry of the Interior, has chosen to opt for Forgejo.

They don’t say it up front because it’s not too relevant to the article. The key fact is that the government is getting off of Github, not the technology they’re switching to, so that’s what goes in the headline.

Remember the leadership “vote” he recently passed was based on the votes of people who paid ~$1500 to be there

Also worth noting it was held in Calgary and all voters had to physically be there. So voters were Calgarians with enough money to get in, and people from the rest of Canada with enough money to get in and enough money/time to travel there.