In a previous news article we announced the availability of a local LLM with no connection to big tech. We haven’t really advertised it further, but we can say it has proven popular. Part of the reason to launch was to discover bottlenecks, well, we’ve discovered bottlenecks. Currently there are ~200 registrations and ~10 people online concurrently. Heavy users may have noticed that the service can be slow at times. Plans In order to make more efficient use of our server, we will: ...

For years now Gitlab has bundled Mattermost as an integrated component for online chats, however this situation is changing, and Mattermost has announced that it is dropping support for single-sign-on (SSO). This is turn makes the integration with Gitlab unusable, thus Gitlab is now pondering dropping support altogether. This is unfortunate timing as we are working on tighter integration between science groups and Mattermost channels. Provisional Plan So what are we going to do about this? For chat, we have been looking at Zulip for a while now. This a stand alone, 100% open source chat server that works just like Mattermost. It’s supports OpenID, so we can hook up to diy for SSO. ...