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		imtringued on March 20, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companie... Certificate authorities will be delighted to sell overpriced client certificates as a result of this.

pratik661 on March 20, 2025 [–]

My thoughts exactly.

In physical environments where people are bombarded with low-information “noise”, gatekeeping (ie credentialism) emerges as a natural mechanism.

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