Want to wade into the sandy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youāll near-instantly regret.
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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
New site looks good! I think LetāsEncrypt is still the easiest and cheapest way to set up a decent cert but Iāve been away from IT for over a year now and someone else here can probably help point you in the right direction. At least for now the site probably doesnāt actually have security concerns it would address, but it pops up a browser alert on first hit so itās probably a good idea?
Also I just started listening to the latest episode while writing this up and had forgotten how great that opening medley is.
+1 to letsencrypt for https. certbot can even auto-configure your webserver for you, taking it from http base to https-with-redirect, no terrible advice from shitty exist-for-volume blogs required
superquick tldr:
certbotand the applicable plugin package for your webserver; if you donāt know the name use p.d.o (or your distroās own) to find the package namecertbot; thereās extra flags you can pass if you want to automate, but ootb itāll ask you questions and start the process for cert + config (iirc - I mostly run it automated and non-interactive)itās probably better for my development as a human being to learn this properly, but it turns out github pages hosting does the letsencrypt process if you check a box in the page settings
The eternal debate over whether the veggies you had to eat contained moral fiber.