I started hosting my own Git server on git.legoktm.com in 2015 using Gogs, and in 2018, I opened it up to the world. Only a few friends and many, many spambots took me up on that offer. I never got around to migrating the Gogs setup to Gitea, and then…
I like Simon Willison's framing of using large language models (aka LLMs, aka "AI") to enable side quests of things you wouldn't normally do. Could I have done this without LLM assistance? Yes, but not nearly as quickly. And this was not a task on my critical path for the…
As the SecureDrop team previously announced, we’re shifting our focus in order to graduate SecureDrop Workstation from its pilot phase. One of the first steps we’ve taken in this direction is to reorganize and consolidate the project's Git repositories to make development and releases easier and faster. In summary: The…
git.legoktm.com is now open for hosting free software projects, providing git hosting, issue trackers, and basic wiki functionality. It runs the free software Gogs: "a painless self-hosted Git service". You're welcome to host any freely licensed projects on git.legoktm.com. I've been running git.legoktm.com for two years now, mainly using it…
Over the weekend I migrated legoktm.com and associated services over to a new server. It's powered by Debian Jessie instead of the slowly aging Ubuntu Trusty. Most services were migrated with no downtime by rsync'ing content over and the updating DNS. Only git.legoktm.com had some downtime due to needing to…
As part of using only free software, I also started thinking about the various non-free services I am dependent upon. One of those I had already started working on replacing was Github. Github is currently the canonical source location for a lot of my various projects, including some that aren't…
