wiki: add alternatives section with SearXNG, FreshRSS, and Gitea

Add three new articles to 03-opensource/alternatives/:
- SearXNG: private metasearch, Open WebUI integration
- FreshRSS: self-hosted RSS, mobile app sync, OPML portability
- Gitea: lightweight GitHub alternative, webhook pipeline

Article count: 33 → 36. Open source section: 6 → 9.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# SearXNG — Private Self-Hosted Search
## Problem
Every search query sent to Google, Bing, or DuckDuckGo is logged, profiled, and used to build an advertising model of you. Even "private" search engines are still third-party services with their own data retention policies.
## Solution
[SearXNG](https://github.com/searxng/searxng) is a self-hosted metasearch engine. It queries multiple search engines simultaneously on your behalf — without sending any identifying information — and aggregates the results. The search engines see a request from your server, not from you.
Your queries stay on your infrastructure.
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## Deployment (Docker)
```yaml
services:
searxng:
image: searxng/searxng:latest
container_name: searxng
restart: unless-stopped
ports:
- "8090:8080"
volumes:
- ./searxng:/etc/searxng
environment:
- SEARXNG_BASE_URL=https://search.yourdomain.com/
```
SearXNG requires a `settings.yml` in the mounted config directory. Generate one from the default:
```bash
docker run --rm searxng/searxng cat /etc/searxng/settings.yml > ./searxng/settings.yml
```
Key settings to configure in `settings.yml`:
```yaml
server:
secret_key: "generate-a-random-string-here"
bind_address: "0.0.0.0"
search:
safe_search: 0
default_lang: "en"
engines:
# Enable/disable specific engines here
```
### Caddy reverse proxy
```
search.yourdomain.com {
reverse_proxy localhost:8090
}
```
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## Using SearXNG as an AI Search Backend
SearXNG integrates directly with Open WebUI as a web search provider, giving your local AI access to current web results without any third-party API keys:
**Open WebUI → Settings → Web Search:**
- Enable web search
- Set provider to `searxng`
- Set URL to `http://searxng:8080` (internal Docker network) or your Tailscale/local address
This is how MajorTwin gets current web context — queries go through SearXNG, not Google.
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## Why Not DuckDuckGo?
DDG is better than Google for privacy, but it's still a centralized third-party service. SearXNG:
- Runs on your own hardware
- Has no account, no cookies, no session tracking
- Lets you choose which upstream engines to use and weight
- Can be kept entirely off the public internet (Tailscale-only)
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## Tags
#searxng #search #privacy #self-hosting #docker #linux #alternatives