[HN Gopher] Let's Encrypt swag is here and I love it
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Let's Encrypt swag is here and I love it
Author : dfern
Score : 90 points
Date : 2022-07-06 16:26 UTC (6 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (letsencrypt.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (letsencrypt.org)
| dane-pgp wrote:
| ajkjk wrote:
| These actually look good, what a pleasant surprise.
| pfisherman wrote:
| Eh, my aesthetic sensibilities are kind of offended by 3 of the
| 4 apparel options. But maybe I am not the target audience.
|
| Will probably buy one anyway just to support such a great
| organization.
| stjohnswarts wrote:
| If you don't think you'll wear it just donate $30 instead or
| something.
| enobrev wrote:
| I so wish I could get XLT swag. It's impossible to find tall
| sizes in free nerd gear and that makes me sad.
|
| `n`XL is for width. I need length, and without it, it's a belly
| shirt within two washes. My wife loves it though as she gets all
| my nerd swag.
| stevenicr wrote:
| recently stumbled across some new tshirts at academy (sports
| store), their BCG brand new t-shirts are nice, price is great,
| and found that the XL and 2XL are longer (much better!) than
| the Hanes XLTs I've been getting, and just as good as the hanes
| black label ones that I've found to be a decent length.
|
| I can only guess these are subsidized by the gov/bus investment
| initiatives in central Americas..
|
| Id be happy donating cash and having rights to print the
| radiant on of these tees, and some of the WP designs actually -
| not sure what small run printing runs these days.
| modoc wrote:
| Same! UnderArmor XLT shirts are so nice....
| mrmattyboy wrote:
| Debatable whether it's worth posting this comment (but maybe
| it'll sway like-minded people)..
|
| I went to the page and my 21st century brain ignored everything
| apart from immediately looking for swag photos and price tag...
|
| Of course, I saw it and was blown away (I only spend PS15/$25 on
| a t-shirt max) and in a split second ruled it out...
|
| But a second went by and I actually realised saw donate button
| and then the big header about contributions to letsencrypt
| etc....
|
| If I look back at the (I guess) 6 years of using them.. across
| maybe 60-80 personal domains across 8-10ish TLDs worth of
| certs... If letsencrypt hadn't been a thing, I'd have still been
| paying PS50/domain or PS150/wildcard root domain cert per year.
| Realistically, for my own personal projects, they've saved me
| close to $10K. Ignoring the fact that I don't need to renew
| tens/multiple-tens of certs a year and the hassle involved with
| that.
|
| I definitely think I owe this to them and will definitely be
| buying something and hope others in the same boat do too :)
|
| It's sort of wild to thing of a time now without being able to
| get a new project up-and-running by just sticking up a DNS entry
| and 3 seconds later having a valid SSL cert attached :)
|
| Edit: Bought something :D
| dinkleberg wrote:
| Thanks for posting this comment, you've encouraged me to do the
| same.
| mrmattyboy wrote:
| <3
| eastbound wrote:
| They've saved you even more by making the web secure. We used
| to type our credit card info into HTTP websites.
| beardbound wrote:
| For what it's worth your comment changed my mind and made me
| re-evaluate it. I also bought a couple of things.
|
| I've been hosting my families websites for years and shudder to
| think of how much money LE has saved me between those sites and
| every project site I've used in that same time. I don't miss
| buying SSL certs for every site.
| mrmattyboy wrote:
| <3
| poweredger640 wrote:
| wish they still had the radiant thongs
| attack-surface wrote:
| Once brought a laptop adorned with loads of techie stickers to a
| conference, and all people could ask me was the background story
| behind those stickers, aswell as asking specifically about the
| tech in question. 'Oh you have an EFF sticker, do you care about
| digital rights and freedom?'.
|
| Turned me off adding stickers after that. Not that I don't like
| discussing them, it just perks people's interest at the worst
| moments, when I'm focused on preparing my next talk for example.
| (Or maybe I don't want to school people on digital rights)
| kiawe_fire wrote:
| As per usual, fat asses like myself are left out. Was all set to
| buy one to support them.
|
| I know, I know... "lose some damn weight, fatty". I will, I'm
| trying, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't like to rock one of
| these in the meanwhile.
| stjohnswarts wrote:
| buy one and use it as a goal to fit into by X date?
| aaaaaaaaata wrote:
| Put it in a plastic case and wear it like a medallion.
| vollmond wrote:
| You prompted me to go look - interesting that there are
| different sizes available per item (even between the tshirts).
| Wonder if some are sold out and they're just not showing?
| closewith wrote:
| Yes, some are available up to 2XL and 3XL, which tends to be
| enormous sizes in the US.
| InCityDreams wrote:
| I would snark that 2xl and 3xl would be considered regular
| sizes in the US, and enormous sizes in the rest of the
| world.
| 7839284023 wrote:
| Oh man I thought this post would be about
| https://docs.linuxserver.io/general/swag since it also lets you
| choose Let's Encrypt as a cert provider.
| Sodman wrote:
| I love on the checkout page that they explicitly tell you _not_
| to check the "please remember my information for next time" box,
| "for the sake of your own privacy" - very on brand :)
| timeq wrote:
| Got the yellow hoodie last year and could not be happier. I wear
| it proudly even though 90% have no idea what it's about. I guess
| that makes it even more special
| arcticfox wrote:
| Investment in networking if nothing else... If I see someone in
| Let's Encrypt swag on the street I'm probably going to give
| them a compliment!
| bombcar wrote:
| I wish they'd add some books or something that I could more
| easily "justify" the company buying, since they get so much value
| from Let's Encrypt.
| mrmattyboy wrote:
| Maybe something like o'reilly's 'SSL Complete Guide 2021: HTTP
| to HTTPS' could bump up their price by $/PS5-10 and give the
| difference to letsencrypt? :)
| ghostpepper wrote:
| Or nostarch Serious Cryptography!
| bombcar wrote:
| Either of those would be great for LE to just resell on
| their store.
| [deleted]
| closewith wrote:
| This is a bit of a tangent, but shouldn't this be retitled as
| "Let's Encrypt merch", since it's for sale/donation. Swag is
| always free.
| metadat wrote:
| Perhaps, but this is a pretty pedantic observation. I wasn't
| expecting to get _even more_ for free from LetsEncrypt,
| considering their enormously useful core service is already
| provided free of charge!
| closewith wrote:
| > Perhaps, but this is a pretty pedantic observation.
|
| Yeah, agreed, it was very pedantic. It just seems fitting as
| Let's Encrypt don't use the term swag anywhere on the page.
|
| > I wasn't expecting to get even more for free from them,
| considering their enormously useful core service is already
| provided free of charge!
|
| Also agreed. It swung me to donate (not for a shirt).
| layer8 wrote:
| So this is like reverse swag?
| [deleted]
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