Comment by 🚀 stack
@roughnecks, certificate changes are a commonplace thing here. With self-signed certificates you can make them expire in 100 years, but the defaults are often very short, so you will see it a lot...
2025-11-22 · 6 months ago
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My idea about dealing with expired and compromised certificates is to not use the self-signed certificate directly, but instead use that to sign another certificate and use that one. The certificate may contain an extension to indicate this (I wrote a way to do this), and this can also be used in case you need to change things in the certificate (including the public key, common name, extensions, etc) while still being clear it is your certificate. Another advantage is if some service allows certificate extensions to restrict permissions, it can be helpful for doing that too. There are many other benefits as well.
🌲 Half_Elf_Monk · Nov 23 at 02:51:
Does SDF ask you to pay money to get features? I was hoping to put a gemini capsule on there, but it won't let me use scp to sync files. Maybe I did it wrong...
🐦 roughnecks · Nov 23 at 03:15:
@stack I am re-using the key when generating a new cert with let's encrypt. reuse_key=true, or something like that.. am in bed right now
You know you can do it on a Linux command line with a simple command, at least for Gemini
I can't remember why I paid $1... Maybe just to be an 'ARPA' member or whatever...
@stack @Half_Elf_Monk
I checked my mail inside the SDF system using elf, and I found the following message:
So it looks like my account was validated only a few hours after I paid the $6.
To be honest, the $6 payment wasn’t actually mandatory for me either, but I didn’t like the idea that my account would expire in two years, and I also wanted to try out the VoIP(?) services. Since $6 didn’t feel like a big burden, I went ahead and paid it without much thought. Looking back, maybe it was a bit impulsive, but I don’t really regret it.
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tildes!! — registered for a new account on two tilde communities and i'm super excited about it, but knowing past experiences with neocities failing to send my registration email on two email services im using (proton and yahoo), im kind of afraid the mail with all my credentials and account info might not reach me at all... :°< to be fair, both say registration could take weeks and i'm definitely not used to that!!! it's already been two whole weeks since i tried registering for tilde.town and...