Yeah. This was what finally got me to bite the bullet and cancel prime.now my impulse shopping is way down too, since I get to think “do I want to wait 4 days for this”? So win win in my book.

Why bother with years, it’s day 1,456,7834

I mean, it’s not like it’s a big conspiracy. LLM’s are just GIANT and expensive text predictors. They don’t “understand” or “know” anything. They just grabbed some off the shelf model that had a millions piece of training data that looked vaguely like “be polite, don’t pin blame” and then that was mushed with a bunch or Anne frank books. The resulting bastard child is this clueless, generic nothing burger that’s slightly predisposed to plagiarizing Anne Frank’s words if the stuff it was asked vaguely looks like something in its training data.

My concern is basically that this forces people to use very expensive cert providers, since it is infeasible to setup and connect and secure an HSM that can do this yourself. And Microsoft and Amazon have tricked the browser forums that their online ones are good enough.

It essentially puts yet another monopoly into the “open” Web. The CA browser forum is a joke at this point and I don’t respect any of the decision in the last 10 years. They all serve to further centralize and close off the web.

People keep bringing up LetsEncrypt, but it very much cannot issue EV carts. It costs THOUSANDS of dollars to use a service that can auto renew “trusted certs”.