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bombcartoday at 1:11 AM1 replyview on HN

If these apps were entirely local nobody'd care.

The insistence they go through a server is why they suck


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saratogacxtoday at 5:36 PM

So many things rely on date bound certificates now that local doesn't assure continued operation, see the recent Mac Office 2019 stories. I feel like there are so many of these ticking time bombs that expired cert based software failures are going to become a much more common issue.