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this post was submitted on 10 Nov 2025
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Third episode of Odium Symposium is out (that’s the podcast I cohost). We talk about Cato the Elder and his struggle against militant feminist action in the roman republic. You can listen to the episode at https://www.patreon.com/posts/crack-sucking-143019155 or through any of the sources on our website, www.odiumsymposium.com
further things: one, that’s the first website I’ve made where I wasn’t just plugging into a template, and I’m a little proud of it even though it’s almost nothing. I would appreciate feedback and suggestions
two, a future episode idea I have is to examine what I’m thinking of as “the trustless society.” it’s about the replacing of social relations with legal or financial intermediaries. Those of you who are long time buttcoiners will be familiar with this process. if any of you have specific readings to recommend I would love to hear it. I’ll probably mostly focus on balaji but anyone or anything will help
New site looks good! I think Let'sEncrypt is still the easiest and cheapest way to set up a decent cert but I've 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 doesn't actually have security concerns it would address, but it pops up a browser alert on first hit so it's 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 don't know the name use p.d.o (or your distro's own) to find the package namecertbot; there's extra flags you can pass if you want to automate, but ootb it'll ask you questions and start the process for cert + config (iirc - I mostly run it automated and non-interactive)it's 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
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