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Re: Our First Certificate Is Now Live

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Post by LeoNatan25 »

nailer wrote: post #189
LeoNatan25 wrote: post #134

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The weight works great on a high DPI display, but on older displays, it just doesn't work. Open on a rMBP or iPad, and it's beautiful. I'm guessing the designers are working on a high DPI Mac.

Edit: should be sorted. Original: working on a standard DPI Mac, but it still looks fine - see http://imgur.com/WRWYzBx . Trying to figure it out now...

I'm guessing OS X's font smoothing is more aggressive and makes it look better than Windows'. It also depends on how the font was hinted for Windows, whereas on OS X, the system "knows best" and has its own font smoothing technique.

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Post by profinger »

kuschku wrote: post #158
chrissnell wrote: post #151

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Back in the day, running a massive library of fonts slowed down many apps. Is this still the case? I'm running Mac OS X 10.10.

I’m on linux, and yes, it does. Opening the font selection menu can take for me, with 7000 installed fonts, about half an hour sometimes. I just don’t do that, instead select fonts by name (I know most of them now). But you don’t notice it until you open a font selection menu.

That's insane! Guessing you don't use Photoshop. At least, the last version I used (I think CS5), the font selection was weird and, no matter what, required that you open the drop down. Bleh. Haha

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Post by kolev »

dang wrote: post #210
kolev wrote: post #197

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I am civil, but those who can't help the sick urge to downvote every single comment of mine although they all represent the same points are not civilized.

No, cpach is right. You can't post comments like "it shows your subpar human material" to Hacker News. Personal attacks are not allowed here, regardless of whether someone downvoted unfairly. There's also the guideline specifically asking you not to go on about being downvoted. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Most are just suggestions, not law. I stand by what I said. Being vindictive is not civilized. I didn't make personal attacks - I have no idea who downvoted me.

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Post by dang »

kolev wrote: post #234
dang wrote: post #210

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, cpach is right. You can't post comments like "it shows your subpar human material" to Hacker News. Personal attacks are not allowed here, regardless of whether someone downvoted unfairly. There's also the guideline specifically asking you not to go on about being downvoted. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Most are just suggestions, not law. I stand by what I said. Being vindictive is not civilized. I didn't make personal attacks - I have no idea who downvoted me.

Personal attacks can be anonymous, so that's a red herring. And HN's guidelines may not be laws, but neither are they optional—we ban accounts that violate them repeatedly.

It's not hard to see what kind of discourse we're going for here. What's hard is to stick to it when you're feeling that someone is subpar. On the internet, human biases yield a strong tendency to feel that way about others, and we all need to be disciplined about counteracting it. If you can't or won't take up the task, you're not welcome to comment here.

That doesn't mean you have to abide by it perfectly. I can't, and doubt anyone can. It means that when we slip we need to recognize our error and correct it, not defensively dismiss the information.

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Post by collinmanderson »

skorecky wrote: post #6
Someone1234 wrote: post #2

This is a tiny bit odd. So they have issued their first certificate, but they don't have cross-signing in place yet? So between now and november 16th they'll be issuing a whole bunch of effectively broken certificates unless people manually install their root CA? Why even push this today if you don't have cross-signing available? Without that Let's Encrypt is effectively broken out of the box. PS - I actually like Le…

> A cross-signature will be in place before general availability. https://letsencrypt.org/2015/08/07/updated-lets-encrypt-laun...

What about after general availability?

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Post by goldman60 »

XorNot wrote: post #181
chetanahuja wrote: post #177

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"This comment is the exact perception about HTTPS that we need to change. It's not the job of HTTPS to say whether a website is safe or unsafe." Too late. The web industry has spent about 20 years training regular people to look for that green lock sign in the address bar and feel all warm and fuzzy about how safe the site is. You can post on hacker news all you want about what perceptions need to be changed. It's no…

Actually what's really broken is the way we've approached implementations. Recently I was trying to get a self-signed certificate for myself trusted by Python urllib3...I still don't know how to do it. It uses a completely separate trust-store. As does half a dozen other things on my system.

Java is literally the worst as well. The Java truststore doesn't even have all the certs that every major browser supports. I'm looking at you StartSSL.

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Post by goldman60 »

MertsA wrote: post #159

What's the target audience of the beta program? I'd love to play around with this on a personal domain but I doubt that there will be more than 2 or 3 unique visitors between now and general availability. Do they want signups for the beta program irrespective of the traffic volume of the site or would toy site signups just be more of a hassle for someone to approve? The verbiage on that page isn't very clear on if th…

I only have personal sites and I signed up. It probably can't hurt.

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Post by goldman60 »

MertsA wrote: post #159

What's the target audience of the beta program? I'd love to play around with this on a personal domain but I doubt that there will be more than 2 or 3 unique visitors between now and general availability. Do they want signups for the beta program irrespective of the traffic volume of the site or would toy site signups just be more of a hassle for someone to approve? The verbiage on that page isn't very clear on if th…

I only have personal sites and I signed up. It probably can't hurt.

Re: Our First Certificate Is Now Live

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Post by bluesmoon »

eric_bullington wrote: post #139
bluesmoon wrote: post #99

Quick question, apart from having a prettier website, what's the differentiator with StartSSL which is also free, automated, and open?

StartSSL is not free for any commercial sites, even tiny businesses or personal sites advertising freelance services.

We used StartSSL for free when we started LogNormal. We were definitely commercial.
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