If not for your comment, I probably would not have noticed the favicon.
I Google'd Nokia Bell Labs and found that Nokia Bell Labs is now the name of Bell Labs. Apparently, according to the Wikipedia article on Bell Labs [0], Bell Labs was acquired by Nokia some time in 2016. This is news to me.
It is clearly a violation of the TLS RFC 5246 [1], page 47, Server Certificate -> certificate_list. You may only omit the root, but otherwise must supply all parts of the certificate chain.
What makes it different from reading a book by a dead author?
I ask this question genuinely because neither case seems particularly weird to me, but watching a film and realizing that "everyone in this frame is dead" or "everyone who worked on this film in any way is dead" is somewhat creepy to me.
The difference is weird. Which is why I ask about what seems creepy to you. Could it be that a web page feels like a dialogue?
Because if you go the the main page, it IS a conversation: He's saying, "I'm DMR, this is where I work, and these are some of the things I've done." The only difference from another personal webpage is sign at the top that tells you that the person who's talking to you is dead.
It's a piece that, unlike a book, or the essay proper, wasn't designed to outlive it's author.
Once mighty ruling company, setting standards for the world now has problems following. Also: Nokia. Sorry for the meta.