Comment on Trump cuts funding to FOSS projects.

grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Let’s Encrypt has done so much for encouraging the spread of HTTPS and good certificate practices. If they went away, I honestly think a good chunk of the internet would start breaking after ~6 months.

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  • gray@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Less HTTPS = easier government & advertiser data collection

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    • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I’m pretty sure browsers don’t even load http sites anymore.

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      • AbidanYre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        When I spin up a new self hosted service it’s easier to add caddy to the stack than to convince Firefox to load http.

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      • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        HTTP works fine in Firefox unless you set it to HTTPS only. Even then, you only have to click off a warning to open an HTTP site.

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      • StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        They load. I have to specify http:// to get it to work though.

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      • gray@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I’m sure google will fix that in chrome, like killing adblocker functionality.

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  • dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    At least there’s some competitors now, which could be used as drop-in replacements if Let’s Encrypt were to disappear.

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• kibiz0r@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It’s okay, Let’s Encrypt only provides SSL certs for… 63.7% of the market?

  Okay okay, that is a lot. But what does a CA need funding for anyway? It doesn’t take much bandwidth to send out new certs.

  The only thing that could be expensive is if they had to rapidly invalidate thousands of certs to protect the security of the entire internet.

  But haha, that’s a pretty outlandish scenario that would never happen.

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• InvertedParallax@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I’m gonna have to donate then.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Same. I’ve been thinking about who to donate to this year, and it looks like they’re making the cut. I’ll probably also throw some money at my Lemmy instance and a handful of projects I use, including Tor, because apparently they got caught in the dragnet too.

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    • Auli@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Well donating is good it’s not going to replace the government funding.

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    • marauding_gibberish142@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Which other projects caught your attention? I was going to donate to Graphene, EFF and some TOR operators

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Far more than I can reasonably support:

        • self hosted things I use - caddy, the document foundation, Jellyfin, Forgejo, etc
        • Android apps - F-Droid, NewPipe, Signal, RethinkDNS, etc
        • desktop apps - flatpak, For, Godot, etc
        • infrastructure stuff - let’s encrypt, openssh, Linux distros (mine doesn’t accept donations unfortunately), etc

        But the short list for now is:

        • Let’s Encrypt
        • Signal
        • F-Droid

        And I’ll probably run a Tor relay or something as well.

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• Cantaloupe877@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Every day just gets worse doesn’t it.

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