I regret to inform you (again) that Dave Winer is still wrong.

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The discourse about WordPress

Dave Winer, OG blogger, podcaster, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It's even worse than it appears.

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@ianbetteridge Who doesn't use HTTPS in 2026?
@jautero I mean, even I, a n00b, use https.

@ianbetteridge @jautero

I have an HTTP server. It's sitting just over the other side of the room at the moment, having recently been moved away from pride of place next to my left elbow.

Mind you, I don't put the massive attack surface of bloody WordPress on it.

It does GOPHER, too.

It's #djbwares httpd, and gopherd, and geminid come to that. All static. All readonly. Running on NetBSD.

Just for kicks, I made the WWW pages downloadable over the FINGER and NICNAME protocols too.

And I usually edit its pages in #NeoVIM. (-: