Computer Surgery

Computer Surgery is a community and a collection of services provided to that community to enable them to build and share their projects.

Our community is comprised of aspiring and practiced makers in domains like programming, electronics, and fabricration, as well as users of the makers' projects and friends of the first two groups. Each member understands the importance of community, and in order to protect this one, they are committed to providing a comfortable space for each other regardless of such characteristics as gender, sexual orientation, race, and neurodivergence, especially since many current members are minorities in one or more of these categories.

If you fit this description and would like to join our community (including just to report a bug, make a feature request, or participate in a specific discussion), you can request an account.

Notable community members

• Charles: Co-creator and operator of Computer Surgery.
• Maya: Just here for a good time.
• Olivia: Co-creator and operator of Computer Surgery.

Notable projects

• Derail: An alternate error trait for Rust with support for multiple causes and strongly-typed attached details.
• Engage: A task runner and service manager with ordering and parallelism based on directed acyclic graphs.
• Grapevine: A Matrix homeserver forked from Conduit 0.7.0. Development has largely halted due to maintainer burnout.

Notable services

Note that not all services are open to access by all community members; see each section for details.

GitLab

• URL: https://gitlab.computer.surgery
• Description: Our digital operating room.
• Authentication method: SSO.
• Access: Access is typically granted upon request for contributing to existing projects (e.g. opening issues and merge requests). Creating new projects without prior approval is discouraged. (It would be disabled if GitLab allowed for that.)
• Vendor site: https://about.gitlab.com

Grafana

• URL: https://grafana.computer.surgery
• Description: Detailed operational information.
• Authentication method: SSO.
• Access: Dashboards can be viewed without signing in. Admin access is limited to Charles and Olivia.
• Vendor site: https://grafana.com

HedgeDoc

• URL: https://hedgedoc.computer.surgery
• Description: Collaborative note editor with markdown support.
• Authentication method: SSO.
• Access: Requests for access may or may not be granted. Odds of access being granted are higher the more familiar the operators are with you.
• Vendor site: https://hedgedoc.org

Jellyfin

• URL: https://jellyfin.computer.surgery
• Description: Media streaming system.
• Authentication method: Service-specific credentials.
• Access: Access is limited to Charles' household.
• Vendor site: https://jellyfin.org

Kanidm

• URL: https://kanidm.computer.surgery
• Description: SSO provider for Computer Surgery services.
• Authentication method: Service-specific credentials.
• Access: Open to access by all community members. Access is granted by default.
• Vendor site: https://kanidm.com

LaSuite Meet

• URL: https://meet.computer.surgery
• Description: Audio and video calls with screen sharing and chat.
• Authentication method: SSO.
• Access: Access is granted on an as-needed basis. New requests for access will almost always be rejected.
• Vendor site: https://github.com/suitenumerique/meet

Matrix

• Homeserver: computer.surgery
• Space: #space:computer.surgery
• Description: Federated, optionally-E2EE chat rooms; good for private spaces.
• Authentication method: Service-specific credentials.
• Access: Access is granted on an as-needed basis. New requests for access will almost always be rejected.
• Vendor site: https://matrix.org

Roundcube

• URL: https://webmail.computer.surgery
• Description: Web-based email client for computer.surgery addresses.
• Authentication method: Service-specific credentials.
• Access: Access is granted on an as-needed basis. New requests for access will almost always be rejected.
• Vendor site: https://roundcube.net

Vaultwarden

• URL: https://vaultwarden.computer.surgery
• Description: Manage and share passwords across devices and users.
• Authentication method: Service-specific credentials.
• Access: Access is granted on an as-needed basis. New requests for access will almost always be rejected.
• Vendor site: https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden

Xonotic

• Address: xonotic.computer.surgery
• Port: 26000 (default)
• Description: Old-school arena FPS. You might want to resolve the IP by hand and connect to it that way to work around an ancient issue.
• Authentication method: None.
• Access: Accessible by anyone, including non-members.
• Vendor site: https://xonotic.org

Zulip

• URL: https://zulip.computer.surgery
• Description: Structured, asynchronous chat rooms; good for public spaces.
• Authentication method: SSO.
• Access: Open to access by all community members. Access is granted by default. Some channels are readable without signing in.
• Vendor site: https://zulip.com/

Definitions

Computer, noun: The thing that isn't doing what you want.

Surgery, noun: The practice of methodically and precisely getting a thing to do what you want.