strip ansi escapes from systemd-managed daemon logs

hive-forge-notify/src/lib.rs

@@ -55,6 +55,10 @@ pub fn init_tracing() {
             tracing_subscriber::EnvFilter::try_from_env("RUST_LOG")
                 .unwrap_or_else(|_| tracing_subscriber::EnvFilter::new("info")),
         )
+        // This is a systemd-managed daemon — stdout always goes to journald,
+        // never a human terminal, and journald doesn't strip ANSI escapes:
+        // they land in victorialogs as raw byte-array spam otherwise.
+        .with_ansi(false)
         .init();
 }