What if I mixed coffeine with acetic anhydride?

Coffeine cannot be acetylated, therefore there is no effect. No wait, your coffee will be tasting like vinegar.

😪

👀, @lavaeolus

The above are only a few excerpts from a longer Facebook post which can be read in its entirety here (in Danish):

facebook.com/share/14y95uvGBR/…

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Bravo!

I hate that these actions may hurt my city’s convention and tourism industries, but this is for what the majority of Texans voted.

🤷🏼‍♂️

@letsencrypt These folks? They seem very commercial. What’s to stop them offering the free certs tomorrow? There’s value in having a noncommercial EU alternative funded with taxpayer money.

buypass.com/products/tls-ssl-c…

Buy Norwegian SSL certificates

Choose Buypass to protect your websites with TLS/SSL certificates. Norwegian issuer.

^Buypass.com

@letsencrypt
EU really needs to take charge here. Let's Encrypt is essential.

Achim provides a bit more context about this move and the dubious legalities of cutting off OTF here:

eupolicy.social/@achimkla/1142…

Unfortunately it seems a number of Small Web/FOSS projects are affected by this.

Achim Klabunde

2025-03-23 13:24:53

OpenTechFund operated on budget committed by the US Congress. The US President cannot stop funding that the parliament has decided on. However, what he claims to be allowed to do is to reduce the staff of the agency in charge of administration of these funds so that it no longer can do its work.
What do you expect when government is handed over to BigTech?
Source (in German): netzpolitik.org/2025/projekte-…

Projekte für Internetfreiheit: Open Technology Fund steht vor dem Aus

Nun hat der Trumpsche Kahlschlag auch den Open Technology Fund erreicht. Das US-Projekt finanziert Projekte mit, die sich weltweit für die Internetfreiheit einsetzen. Damit ist vorerst Schluss, gab die OTF-Präsidentin Laura Cunningham bekannt.

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We already have multiple European alternatives to @letsencrypt

We have ZeroSSL (Austria) and Buypass Go SSL (Norway).

So no problem here.
#LetsEncrypt

ZeroSSL is also around (Austrian company).

But yes, indeed: They’re Both commercial, so not complete replacements. Still better than a monoculture under US jurisdiction.

@EUCommission @letsencrypt @nlnet

Of course. And with commercial, I envy rather things like Cooperatives, a Model that I believe we all should be looking into when it comes to European Clouds.
(Not without tech examples; the German NIC is for example organized like that.)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperat…

@EUCommission @letsencrypt @nlnet

autonomous association of persons or organizations

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We need CACert more than ever now

cacert.org/

@opalfrost @letsencrypt The thread’s broken. This was meant to be a reply to the four freedoms post?

Let’s Encrypr runs Boulder, released under MPL: github.com/letsencrypt/boulder

Afaik, everything they do is released under an open source license.

GitHub - letsencrypt/boulder: An ACME-based certificate authority, written in Go.

An ACME-based certificate authority, written in Go. - GitHub - letsencrypt/boulder: An ACME-based certificate authority, written in Go.

^GitHub

Why move? They publish their tools, and the legal framework needs to be done again anyway. Let's set up a parallel one here.

There are 13 DNS root servers, I think we should have at least two free public certificate authorities. (Or, dun'no, maybe one per continent if the others want to do it too).

"But what about funding IA-based innovation" (technofascism)…

EU probably doesn't give a flying fuck about small web…

@EUCommission @letsencrypt @nlnet