æʃliŋ, medical grab-bag @aescling@cat.family

@wallhackio @vaporeon_ a more traditional model of software development conceives of software as a purroduct developed in stages; in purrticular, development and opurrations (that is, maintanence, suppurrt, the shit IT handles really) are completely sepurrate stages. the entire point of a DevOps culture is to integrate development and opurrations; the development lifecycle is generally much shorter; purrocesses are automated (especially testing and deployment); the hope is to find and fix purroblems faster, and deploy new changes more quickly and correctly

had a bad case of “need to Do Something to my websites at all times” lately

i’m gonna slot this as a long-term TODO; i’ve already caused myself enough issues tweaking on my servers as it is

@vaporeon_ i literally just did not have any source of income fur a long time, not even an allowance, and i did not have any real control of the networking in the house, so a lot of my time in college and several years afterwards was doing things i didn’t have to pay money fur and didn’t have to open ports in the router fur. Tor happens to satisfy both those needs. it’s actually very easy to set up a hidden service—imo, much more so than a “normal” website. you don’t have to worry about DNS or TLS or NAT at all. just set up a server, reverse proxy Tor to it, and it’s accessible globally, in minutes, with end to end encryption to all clients. you can do this behind 300 layers of NAT between you and the Internet and it would work. neat stuff

@amy @vaporeon_ here’s the raw markdown source of the tutorial, which is available only on GitHub because fuck you

@amy @vaporeon_ * HardenedBSD