The main practical solution seems to be to use a http-to-https proxy. Inspired by nostalgia and stuff retrocomputing people were doing on the fediverse, I recen

The main practical solution seems to be to use a http-to-https proxy. Inspired by nostalgia and stuff retrocomputing people were doing on the fediverse, I recently spun up a MacOS 8.1 VM. Getting online basically took installing such a proxy on the host, since there's no browser with modern TLS that will run on a 68040 Mac.