I went down a very similar path with my constantly bombarded Gitea server… iterating from IP blocking to Traefik rate limiting to finally settling on the nuclear option of Anubis. It’s so worth it.

Why does a worker-owned coop need to grow? Are you presuming they take outside investment / capital?

Yeah, pretty neat!

Not entirely true. You lose tickets and PRs in that scenario.

Close… I’ll download the HTML for an eBay search results page, and then a script splits it up into separate entries and feeds each listing’s HTML chunk to the LLM. I don’t bother with individual listing pages. (This falls down on some edge cases like listings that include multiple variants via a pull-down selection only found on the individual listing page. Maybe a future area of improvement.)

Self host. Just Ollama running on a machine without a GPU! I never said it was fast. :D

Made a product search script that sorts eBay listings based on total per unit price (including shipping). Good for finding the cheapest multi-pack, lot, bundle, etc. by unit. Using Qwen 3 4B and feeding it a single listing at a time to parse.

Yeah, the word “think” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in my statement there…

If you want that to happen, then you’ll need to start work on SpaceX after Tesla is gone.

And the board is made up of his toadies.

That was the last era. Now we’re in a masks-off gilded age where the ultrarich think they can do it all out in the open.

The vast majority of Musk’s wealth is in the form of Tesla stock.

So you’re saying a price-to-earnings ratio of ~90x over the last five years is a reasonable valuation… when their competitors are historically closer to… 6x?

I went down this very same twisty road a while back with rootless Podman. I tried several of the solutions you mentioned. None of them worked. The actual working solution I finally settled on was using Proxy Protocol to pass the original client IP from the host into a container. In my particular case, I’m running a very basic HAProxy config on the host that’s talking Proxy Protocol to Traefik running in a container. And it works great; actual client IPs show up in the logs as expected.

In your particular case, you could probably run HAProxy on the host and have that talk Proxy Protocol to Caddy running in a container.

Because the initial startup push is a time-limited effort. Once the company is more established and the risk is lower, why should a founder get to continue reaping outsize rewards off the backs of others’ labor… indefinitely? Surely there comes a point when their initial risk and effort becomes fully repaid and the founder has been made whole.

You can do calendar and contacts separate from email. Try Radicale. I’ve been using it for years.

Another container-based alternative in that space is Mailu.

Dude, do you even email?

This guy Overton windows.

People are also expected to understand the concept of manually picking a brand of toothpaste. My point is that if we can’t even expect a little consumer choice (the same consumer choice we have in the real world), then we deserve all the monopolization and centralization we get.

Also, selecting a Mastodon server isn’t like some scary technical choice. It’s like a vibe check and a signup form.