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Might be an absurd proposition, but according to their website, the publisher is a non-profit called NautilusThink, meaning it's eligible for the Pineapple Fund
by napoleoncomplex 9y ago
Might be an absurd proposition, but according to their website, the publisher is a non-profit called NautilusThink, meaning it's eligible for the Pineapple Fund (https://pineapplefund.org/ https://pineapplefund.org/).
Now I don't know what the odds are, but considering there's about $79m left, I'd say they aren't too far from the odds of the potential acquisition talks coming through.
It won't solve the underlying issue, but it will make possible to at least think about better ways of solving it.
- zanedb 9y agoWow, that's very interesting. I hadn't heard of it before. As a minor technical note: If the site is truly hosted by GitHub Pages as it proclaims, how does it have HTTPS support on a custom domain?
- SanderMak 9y agoI've done that by putting Cloudflare in front, as discussed here: https://blog.cloudflare.com/secure-and-fast-github-pages-with-cloudflare/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/secure-and-fast-github-pages-wit...
- tgragnato 9y agoThe domain resolves to IPs in AWS. If they’re using Pages, there’s a caching layer with TLS.
- OisinMoran 9y agoThere are workarounds for this, but as I understand it GitHub won't validate an SSL cert for a custom domain. I found this tutorial [1] very helpful when setting up my own site [2] (which you can see is HTTPS and served by GitHub Pages [3]). [1] https://www.jonathan-petitcolas.com/2017/01/13/using-https-with-custom-domain-name-on-github-pages.html https://www.jonathan-petitcolas.com/2017/01/13/using-https-w... [2] https://oisinmoran.com/ https://oisinmoran.com/ [3] https://github.com/OisinMoran/OisinMoran.github.io https://github.com/OisinMoran/OisinMoran.github.io
- delinka 9y agotl;dr: content on GitHub Pages, fronted by CloudFlare with SSL Takes the traffic burden off Pages.
- stfwn 9y agoAlso: > Using flexible SSL, all communications between CloudFlare servers and GitHub ones are not encrypted. Not really secured, even if your domain would be served in HTTPs. [1] [1]: https://www.jonathan-petitcolas.com/2017/01/13/using-https-with-custom-domain-name-on-github-pages.html https://www.jonathan-petitcolas.com/2017/01/13/using-https-w...
- tokenizerrr 9y agoCertificate is issued by cloudflare