ADadiabatichottub·Mar 25, 2026
I'm a fan of uACME:
https://github.com/ndilieto/uacme
Tiny, simple, reliable. What more can you ask?
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uacme
ACMEv2 client written in plain C with minimal dependencies
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5 sourcesOr uacme [0] - litle bit of C that's been running perfectly since endless battery failures with the LE python client made us look for something that would last longer.
[0] https://github.com/ndilieto/uacme
In Why I no longer have an old-school cert on my HTTPS siteI prefer this acme client written in pure C : https://github.com/ndilieto/uacme
In Dehydrated: Letsencrypt/acme client implemented as a shell-scriptUacme: ACMEv2 client written in plain C with minimal dependencies
121 points · Open discussion> So you're saying telemetry should be handled as a separate process that has nothing to do with the rest of the browser, and treated like a hostile service? [... T]his was a dumb bug and it is completely unreasonable to expect some kind of adversarial design "just in case a freak bug triggers on telemetry network requests".
I absolutely agree that this a dumb bug having little to nothing to do with telemetry. It is not even the first case-sensitivity HTTP/3 bug I’m personally encountering in the course of completely casual use[1]. Probably not the last, either, those joints ain’t gonna oil themselves.
At the same time, you know what? I’m glad you suggested this, because I certainly didn’t think of it. Yes, in an ideal world, telemetry absolutely should be a separate process (or thread, or at least not share an event loop—a separate “hang
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domain”, a vat[2] if you want). And so should everything else off the critical path.
I’m not saying Firefox is bad for doing it differently. I’m saying it’s silly that Firefox is forced to play OS to such an extent because the actual one isn’t up to its demands.
[1] https://github.com/ndilieto/uacme/pull/11
[2] http://www.erights.org/elib/concurrency/vat.html