This author actually sells his time for $275 per hour for career advice and I can tell you thats the absolute waste of both your time and money. I did the mistake and he is cargo culting PM stuff. Anyways not surprised at his take on AI
Andrew misunderstands the purpose of including CloudFlare in the cert. He thinks its to easily identify the CA. The ICA is not used that way. In this case, Cloudflare is the one managing all of the certificates issued off this change. If you have an issue with the certs, you know Cloudflare is the one managing it.
He says “its completely useless for human consumption”, but that’s just more of the same misunderstanding. Afterall, would you rather know that all the sites are being operated by Cloudflare or know that DigiCert issued the cert? The average person doesn’t care who issued the cert – they care about who is managing the certs.
The name of the root is to indicate ubiquity, not to provide identification of the CA who is operating it. If you need to know whether a cert will work on an older platform, you look at the name of the cert embedded, not the serial number. Its faster and easier to do so. You also want to know when things will expire and when you might need to migrate CAs. That’s best done with the name of the root. Plus – this is how browsers track which roots are trusted. Browsers could tie to the serial number, but they use the subject info of the cert for identification purposes on what roots are included and what roots are audited.
In summary, he has misguided notion about why these values are in the certs and the value they provide. He sees no value in them because he assumes people will be looking at the ICA and root purely to contact the CA, when that is rarely the case. I dont think there is a security or real issue with the information.
“Life is nothing but an electron looking for a place to rest.” Although life is more complex than a single electron, Szent-Györgyi's quote emphasizes the importance of energy and metabolism in all living systems and he got a Nobel for isolating Vitamin C among other cool experiments. In this memoir he summarizes his research career and also the times from the viewpoint of a Hungarian Jew (WW2 era)
"Autobiography of a Yogi" by Paramahamsa Yogananda as its a book thats on one level about a chockful of miracles in India and weird bugs about reality (like what you see if not what you get) but on a deeper level about reality in the way that steve jobs felt compelled to hand it as his parting gift at his funeral
That was not my takeaway at all. It was mostly about a delusional, albeit charming charlatan. A testament to the power of one's conviction in crafting an identity and a sense of self.
The issue though is that for the same identical cache content wouldnt you prefer it to be on your local laptop than a cloud somewhere purely for the expediency aspect much less the offline experiences that it may provide?
