Actually, being special is sometimes just boring and annoying.
Do we really want an internet where the use of encryption requires authorization?
No, it doesn't require, it provides identification and that's a huge benefit. We are all far better by having it as a standard. Just configure Let's Encrypt and stop annoying your readers.
For a while, every article from his site on Lobste.rs had someone complaining about that. It got old. I eventually came up with a theory about what the prankster was really up to:
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It was probably for testing, but that platform supports partitioning up the hardware through LDOMs, which OpenBSD supports as both a host and guest.
https://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/OpenBSD-on-a-Sun-T5120 (Not expired, Ted runs his own CA)
http://man.openbsd.org/man8/sparc64/ldomctl.8
unrelated, but I found his post about running his own CA quite interesting: https://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/moving-to-https
Actually, being special is sometimes just boring and annoying.
No, it doesn't require, it provides identification and that's a huge benefit. We are all far better by having it as a standard. Just configure Let's Encrypt and stop annoying your readers.
For a while, every article from his site on Lobste.rs had someone complaining about that. It got old. I eventually came up with a theory about what the prankster was really up to:
https://lobste.rs/s/rboyfz/books_chapter_nine#c_p7mv5p