Is there a contingency plan for if Net Neutrality is repealed and ISPs don’t want to spend bandwith on a small site like this?
We build our own internet.
You jest but setting up decentralized networks has been a pet topic/hobby of mine for the last few years.
I was thinking in the event of like a protest where internet has been disabled but theoretically it could work all the way up the us east coast.
I was only half joking; physical/link layer of wireless networks is exactly the career path I’m looking to get into so I’m doing a lot of reading about it these days.
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I mean, I have read about some towns and even small cities setting up city owned ISPs as a public utility and charging very little for blazing speeds for everyone in town. $40 a month for 100gbps up and down. Apparently it took a lot of wrangling and work to get around all the red tape ISP lobbyists got the government put in the way but it can be done.
As soon as you start doing this, the existing ISPs show up and start harassing the local government big time. It can only work if you have a mayor and city council who will go hard into the paint.
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Oh I know I’m just saying it can be fought in other ways if necessary. I just wonder if more municipalities will rise to the challenge.
Don’t forget that some ISPs have managed to convince state governments to ban local governments setting up municipal ISPs as well.
Yes, this is the kind of thing I was talking about.
True, but in this case you either need the local government to take the state government to court and hope they manage to win, or you need the governor and state legislatures to be willing to tell the ISPs to go pound sand.
I’ll try to find a setting to get rid of that.
EDIT: Found and disabled.
Is this something you can turn on @Apreche? It looks like it was implemented but it doesn’t appear to work on our forum.
The setting was on when I went to check it.
I get http status code 400 when I go to http://community.frontrowcrew.com/user-api-key/new. I see there’s some kind of trust level that could factor into it?
Not working for me either. The settings are correct. Discourse itself must be broken.
Now that the SSL/TLS has been working for quite some time I have enabled a setting such that it is REQUIRED. No more http on this forum.
Are you sure it’s working? Chrome says my connection “isn’t fully secure” even tho it’s got the HTTPS.
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Hmm looking at the cert it seems like Scott used a free cert from Let’s Encrypt
Which as far as I know is legit and fine but it seems like firefox takes this to mean that they didn’t supply ownership info. Seems fine to me. SSL is definitely being used, the browser is just not a fan of free certs.
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My firefox is showing the green lock and everything. “Secure connection”.