Let's Encrypt is 10 years old now

It feels like just yesterday I was paying for certs, or worst, just running without.

Can't believe its been ten years.

Can’t believe there are still anti TLS weirdos.

The digital equivalent of a local kebab shop menu does not need encryption.

The lack of understanding from us as technologists for people who would have had a working site and are now forced into either: an oligopoly of site hosting companies, or, for their site to break consistently as TLS standards rotate is one thing that brings me shame about our community.

You can come up with all kinds of reasons to gatekeep website hosting, “they have to update anyway” even when updating means reinstallion of an OS, “its not that hard to rotate” say people with deep knowledge of computers, “just get someone else to do it” say people who have a financial interest in it being that way.

Framing people with legitimate issues as weirdo’s is not as charming as you think it is.

I'm really curious as to what you see as the disadvantages of TLS. Sure, the advantages are minor for some services and critical for other services.

However, if you already have bought a domain name, the cost of setting up TLS is basically 0. You just run certbot and give it the domains you want to license. It will set up auto-renew and even edit your Apache/NGINX configs to enable TLS.

Sure, TLS standards rotate. But that just means you have to update Apache/NGINX every like 5 years. Hardly a barrier for most people imo.