Source: Hacker News
Article note: I discuss variations on this situation with some computer colleagues pretty regularly, I'm weirdly in the middle. Several of them are in the "We shouldn't close/encrypt/complicate/opacify anything that doesn't absolutely require it; the ideal webpage is straight HTML over HTTP" camp, and are offended that browsers complain about non-https anything now. There are some security people who are in the "everything on new secure protocols, deprecate all the dangerous old stuff from when we didn't know better, buy a computer from this decade asshole" camp. My mix of retrocomputing, accessibility (more in the "empowered to make your own stuff" sense than the "disability" sense), and privacy interests have me in a middle "opportunistically upgrade" position that makes me periodically be on either side of the argument.
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