Microsoft had a very fair shot at redeeming themselves, but with how Teams, GitHub and all the AI crap they push into GitHub and Windows, it's clear they have not changed one bit.
They did change a lot. Previously Microsoft actually cared about its main product lines. They did lots of anticompetitive things to get people onboarded. Being anticompetitive and making products that deeply bundled stuff was their evil badge not hypetrain rugpulls. However, they were adding features developers and sysadmins wanted. That's how so many businesses got Active Directory. There is still no equivalent alternative to AD. There are subsets but no equivalent set of the complete featureset. After Ballmer the company changed.
Microsoft of Nadella is different. It looks more like a boring Silicon Valley monopoly. They had good products years ago and it got people hooked and now its a game of endless rugpulls. Microsoft of now doesn't care about the featureset. They just jump from one hype train to another. People keep paying them for the stuff they did in early 2000s. Nobody cares about newer stuff including Microsoft themselves.
Local meetups are very easy to get selected into, and they often have two or three speakers lined up, with a balance of speakers they know and are experienced, and new speakers.
Most of the time, the organizers are squeezed to find a speaker, so you are pretty much guaranteed to be offered a slot if you just ask the host.
I imagine it'll go against your talk getting into the shortlist.
But there are some conferences that ask and respect your preference whether you'd like the video recording to have your face or just the audio. But I have yet to see a conference that go as far as asking the audience to not take photos of the presenter, so it's pretty much moot if you do not want your photos published at all.
To prove a very important point, that EV certificates are broken, someone obtained a "Stripe Inc." EV certificate by registering a company in a different state.
Considering how many ACME clients are available today with all sorts of convenient features, and that many web servers nowadays have ACME support built in (Caddy, Apache mod_md, and recent Nginx), I believe that people who don't automate ACME certificates are the people who get paid hourly and want to keep doing the same boring tasks to get paid.
You can find a docker-compose.yml file to get some idea.
Appears to be using MariaDB.
They shut down OCSP responders and expiry email reminders, so there really is no need to have a database apart from rate limits, auth data, and caching.
For Certificate Transparency, they are submitted to Google and CloudFlare run trees but I don't think LetsEncrypt run their own logs.
As someone else mentioned, it's a non-profit, so I guess it's not technically possible to get acquired.
But I personally believe that the people behind LetsEncrypt genuinely care about the mission and will never sell out for their personal benefit.
If there was a list of organizations that bring the most impactful things to tech per each dollar received in donations and per each employee, ISRG will be up there at the top.
It's been a long time so this is my fading memory, but CAs used to generate a private key on their end and let you download both private key and the certificate containing the public key. The non-technical person who paid big money for the certificate then emails the zip file to the developer. That's when StartTLS wasn't that big back then either.
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