Because you have to manage it on your server and all your own machines, and it doesn’t provide any value if your server is hacked. It actually makes you less safe if your server is hacked, because then you can consider every machine that has that CA as compromised. There’s no reason to use HTTPS if you’re running your own CA. If you don’t trust your router, you shouldn’t trust anything you do on your network. Just use HTTP or use a port forward to localhost through ssh if you don’t trust your own network.

You don’t have to pay anyone to use HTTPS at home. Just use a free subdomain and HTTP validation for certbot.

I’m getting back to work on my company, Port87. I’m working on some database improvements that will let me onboard a lot more users than I currently can, and hopefully even make my current waitlist system automated.

After that, I’ll be working on getting custom domain support done (it’s an email service), so that users with their own domains can use it.

Hopefully my patent will be issued soon too. It got approved, I’m just waiting for it to be issued now.

My wife bought me the book “Wool”. I just started reading it and it’s really good.

For development, I just run node on my system. I use a library called Nymph.js (that I developed) that runs on SQLite in development, then either MySQL or Postgres in production. It’s nice because I can sync my dev db with rsync when I need to test on a cloud machine, and db backups are really small and easy to manage (literally just copying a few files).

FUCK THE POSDUOF

Here’s an article on open source identity management solutions.

https://solutionsreview.com/identity-management/the-best-free-and-open-source-identity-management-tools/

Grad school? Pff. It’s basically the same as inventing the field of study.

A reverse proxy makes setup a lot easier and more versatile, and can manage SSL certs for you.

Correct.

So let’s go with the convicted felon doctor who only saves the patients who donate millions of dollars to him. The hospital fired him but he refused to leave his office.

The easiest way to do it is to do it the right way with LetsEncrypt. The hardest way to do it is the wrong way, where you create your own CA, import it as a root CA into all of the machines you’ll be accessing your servers from, then create and sign your own certs using your CA to use in your servers.

“That’s just my ADHD.” -Someone without ADHD

Needs some guns.

To each their own.

A giant douche who’s a convicted felon and tried to stop the peaceful transfer of power for the first time in American history.

This is great news. Shipping X11 on a system that doesn’t need it is a big waste.

Mr. Torvalds is a communist.

It’s because the same people who wrote the code usually write the docs, and people who are really good at writing code usually aren’t good at writing docs. It’s two different skill sets that usually don’t coincide.

Case in point: my own documentation for https://nymph.io

I know it’s bad, but I don’t know how to make it good. The code, however, is pretty good. It runs my email service.

Open source projects also aren’t very good at attracting people who both want to volunteer their time writing technical documentation and can.

I’m really sorry that whoever tried to educate you failed so miserably.

So your “friend’s” unethical business hired unethical workers and now you’ve come here to ask for advice on running your unethical business without paying anyone. Got it.