I haven’t been out to scripting.com for a long time, and was surprised to find Dave is not using https. Of course, the page I tried to access (on rebooting weblogging) triggered a warning in my browser. It triggers a warning in any browser, but some are more severe than others.
There were issues with https and having to pay fees for SSL certs, but that all changed with LetsEncrypt. And the load on the server is nothing nowadays. Is it necessary to use https? Not always. But is it worth the pain in the butt people have to go through trying to access my page without it? Nope. I want people here. I like people here.
Hi, you.
(I wrote about my transition from http to https.)
Dave sent me a link on why he doesn’t support https, but I don’t know that Google Is Evil is really justification. You scratch anything and you’ll find someone or something somewhere acting evil from one perspective or another.
I went from http to https and I didn’t break the web with 404s. What broke the web is my determination to use as many domains as I possibly could for one person before I finally wised up and stuck with burningbird.net.
There are not enough redirects in the world to ‘fix’ all the 404s my domain experimentation has wrought. I think I made the folks at the Wayback Machine cry.
The thing for me is, it’s more important to write than get caught up on the tech. Today, there is no tech hill I’m willing to die on, because I’m more focused on not getting discouraged, not giving up on the weblog, continuing to write. That’s why I duplicate my weblog posts on Substack: it’s an easy way of offering email notifications and good comment control.
Yeah, yeah, it’s evil, too.
You know what’s really evil? The fact that I can’t get a covid vaccination right now because RFK Jr has mucked everything up. That trans people are having to cower in fear. That hard working migrants are running screaming from hooded thugs and being sent to gulags in other countries. That we have a President bent on destroying the country.
Google’s push for https doesn’t reach pebble-size on this mountain.
The medium isn’t the goal, it’s just a means. I paid my tech dues in the past, and I want to do other things now.
Anyway, here’s Dave’s reasoning on not using https. Note, this is served using https.