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 Yesterdays link to the Let‘s Encrypt blog dragged in some people who seem to think that CAs are unnecessary or even evil. LE is s very small group who set out to improve the terrible CA situation and the fucking middle box corruptions. They did that successfully with a budget that a medium sized city spends on its department for car license plates. So, my advice: don‘t yell at people who made the world somewhat better or you‘ll soon run out of ones who try.💁🏻♂️ A FOSS project like OpenSSL should be able to explain their choices without resorting to unverified, wishy-washy statements. This has gone on long enough. Debian sid is now shipping curl with gnutls to enable HTTP/3. Gentoo is considering its options. Talk to your distro of choice, if you want access to modern internet protocols. The alternatives are there. @icing We need a programming language where the merge conflict markers are valid syntax, and means that one of the options will be picked at random. Alternatively, the compiler may try permutations of the combined code until it becomes a valid program, the final version only existing in the resulting binary. Javascript sizes for landing pages; Slack: 55 MB Pornhub: 1.4 MB Fast Unix Commands: https://alexsaveau.dev/blog/projects/performance/files/fuc/fast-unix-commands (via HN) „Tar Class assignment: explain why🤓 @icing my preferred way of copying a directory for ages has been (cd source; tar cf - .) | (cd dest; tar xf -) I can never remember how cp -r works.  @icing cp is slow in general in most cases. with tar, file accesses are buffered, inodes are preloaded, etc. somewhat related: https://ariadne.space/2022/07/17/how-efficient-can-cat1-be/ @icing I'm afraid I always use rsync. Which probably tells you I only copy small directories (or always have another task I can be doing…) |
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@icing there are people who complain about LE? It's made my life so much easier I can't fathom someone yelling at them. I guess I just lack imagination…
@icing Well, the browsers created the problem, that LetsEncrypt is trying to solve… 🥴
… nothing wrong with the encryption provided by a self signed certificate. 🤔