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Safety is a blocking issue last I heard - something powerful enough to zap a bug can also permanently blind a retina.
https://www.lazard.com/perspective/levelized-cost-of-energy-...
https://rameznaam.com/2020/05/14/solars-future-is-insanely-c...
There is no absolute protection against compromise, but it would be polite for every web site to implement https and hsts to at least make it harder for visitors to be compromised. It costs them very little.
Maybe the analogy is soap in the bathroom at a coffee shop - most customers will not get cholera if the soap is missing, but is it moral for the shop owners to take the risk when the cost is so low and the downside is so high?
A site without a cert is basically telling its users "I don't care about you."
If the goal is to foster adoption these tells scream "disorganized and unprofessional".
FWIW my impressions is hatred of Slack is more a hatred of "I can't control by impulse to read everything so it's a tremendous time waster." Slack's not the problem, it's the person's self-control that's the problem in these situations.
-produced the world's first commercially available gallium arsenide supercomputer, the Convex C3
-owned the minisupercomputer market from ~1986 through its end in 1995
-built the first commercially successful flat address space, cache coherent massively parallel processor the SPP1000 series in '94