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tokyobreakfasttoday at 1:35 AM3 repliesview on HN

It's a good thing we have ever-shrinking certificate lifetimes and automation never breaks. That's what I've been told, anyway.


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bigbuppotoday at 1:43 AM

Yeah, this could end up as the actual root cause of The Great Oops that I've been raving about for years. And Google probably would be the right company to fuck it up in the worst way possible since Google Knows Best In All Situations.

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jsheardtoday at 1:59 AM

There's at least five free ACME CAs, with failover it doesn't matter all that much if one of them falls over. If all of them fall over at once there's probably a more pressing issue like nuclear holocaust or alien invasion going on.

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msietoday at 1:55 AM

I was thinking about the time some software influencer said that if you are afraid to deploy on Friday then there's something wrong with you. Eff that! Murphy's Law! (allen holub - https://x.com/allenholub/status/1637111242610610182)

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