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@neil I'll chime in here and say that if one is looking for something very fully-featured and is gonna sysadmin it themselves, Phorge (the currently-maintained community phork of Phabricator) is pretty swell.

A buncha years back at my work we were looking to finally ditch the proprietary bugtracker we used which supported up to Ubuntu 12.04 (!!!) and I did a survey of the options out there and it was the only one that didn't seem to majorly suck. And despite having a ton of features, frankly more than most people could possibly need, it runs fine on a toaster . . . barring LLM scraping doing DDoS attacks all the time, at least.

So yeah, for a single user self-hosting only Git repos Phorge is probably overkill, but if one finds oneself with any particular requirements or really wants All The Features (bugtracker! stackoverflow-style Q&A! code review! a hierarchical wiki! blogging! meme storage! countdowns! calendar! time tracking!) it gets ya *a lot* with rather little overhead.

Some sort of fire along 109th street just north of #Parkallen here in #YEG, saw some firetrucks and then checking my PM2.5 and 10 readings there was a huge spike just a few minutes ago, and I can smell smoke.

@smitten_ @croissant What people don't understand about public health policy is, the most important thing is you have to believe really hard that no drastic interventions or systemic changes are necessary, this is priority and step number 1

@glyph @petrillic @ryanc It's been in operation a few years at work and It's Fine for our purposes but we're certainly not dynamically provisioning services or any such thing, it's *purely* for "make this host trusted for HTTPS purposes" and those hosts are few and static. And I definitely landed on just doing it with a few manual `openssl` calls and a convenience script or two after surveying the more fully-featured run-your-own-CA software options out there, laughing nervously, and then quickly shutting the door.

@glyph @ryanc @petrillic I find running our own CA at my work easy enough, but the scale is verrrry small and frankly I'm probably skipping a lot of steps that "real" CAs wouldn't

@isaackuo @MichaelTBacon @MartinEscardo As corporate tech enshittifies, I hope the smallscale hacker tech that is increasingly and delightfully able to take its functional place really embraces bringing back physical buttons and knobs, and I have some genuine optimism it will.

@theogrin @cstross @kevinteljeur Finally, We Have Invented Memetic COVID From The Classic Scifi Novel "Don't Invent Memetic COVID"

@mpjgregoire Alberta Separatism has long been a popular idea with *exactly* a certain sort of person who's most likely to vote Tory here and be energetic about it---as that recent CBC study showed, folks who are well above average in terms of income and yet struggling to meet their financial obligations. It's the sort of people, and grievances, that fueled the creation of the Wild Rose party in the first place. So it's the grift in hand, worth two in the bush . . .

@mpjgregoire (I would be surprised if the independence referendum passes in Alberta though. The set of folks who are for it, by all measures I've seen, has held steady despite all the pushing for it.)

@mpjgregoire Because a few can often profit personally from misdirecting the anger and fears of their constituents . . .

@touk RIP Richard Dawkins and Margaret Atwood, fittingly dying for their actual beliefs after years of coasting on what people wanted to believe they believed

@giflian @dyckron Yeah whatever savings are made will make their way into the pockets of some set of private corporations, that's The Liberal Guarantee

But don't worry, not all of it will be spent on LLMs! Much of it will be on privatized formerly-public services and infrastructure, and a lot on useless hardware from (mostly American) military equipment manufacturers

@algernon Appreciated, and boy howdy do I know that spoonless feeling

@algernon@come-from.mad-scientist.club The outright pageload failures look to have been Very User Error on my part, but I can further report for example x-request-id: NLCTLT-0WB7P2fWsXx1bH from my trying to load https://iocaine.madhouse-project.org/documentation/3/reverse-proxies/ with Falkon here still on Kubuntu 24.04 (and thus Falkon 24.01.75 using QtWebEngine 5.15.16, which is admittedly all pretty outdated in our fast-paced world).

@algernon@come-from.mad-scientist.club At present for my own personal purposes I haven't yet set up iocaine, despite getting somewhat exasperated with outages caused by LLM scraping, due to

1. I'm kinda lacklustre with proxy config stuff and there's no guide you have up for Apache2 (I'm sure I could muddle through some setup eventually though if I put actual effort into it)
2. Though it's better about this not happening than Anubis, I still seem to get my main current browser of choice (Falkon) caught by Iocaine, enough so that in fact currently I cannot read the documentation as pages like just https://iocaine.madhouse-project.org/documentation/ sit loading forever even when I begrudgingly switch back to Chrome (so I assume either I've now been blocked, or your server has been hammered coincidentally). From https://chronicles.mad-scientist.club/tales/surviving-the-crawlers/#three-ifs-in-a-trenchcoat I got for example x-request-id: 0ia4BzigBrtETmjH0S2nd so, as per the text there at the bottom after the AI-aimed gobbleygook, I am telling you

@davidgerard @mgorny I keep teetering on the edge of setting up iocaine for my own code/issues/etc self-hosting using Phorge, which keeps getting hammered into OOM-death by LLM scrapers, and I really *should*, but it just feels so darned depressing

@icing There's some real upsides to this push, for example my "migrate my personal and professional server usage from Ubuntu to Debian" process has gained a sense of urgency

@swetland @jacqueline Yeah, as mainstream devices get more locked-down and disposable by the year it's a huge relief and source of optimism for the future that open hardware designs are also becoming dramatically more real and capable; blossoming with DIY-fed gusto and variety even as corporate commercial offerings lose any remaining heterogeneity or flexibility