Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

I have a friend who prefers to stay anonymous who gives this amazing talk in non US (but allied) countries about how long their internet will -really- function if they lose all comms with American data centers and it’s… phew. It’s a thing. Some resilient ones will last a few weeks before certificates expire. But CF is a wrench.

You circular reference. You denormalized database. You sparse-ass matrix. You fragmented fucking disk. You absolute BUBBLE sort. I can keep going because, you see, I actually have a real computer science degree

I had the displeasure of reading an article in the Harvard student paper by an economics major who said in apparent seriousness that comp sci majors are wasting time on theory classes like “Introduction to Algorithms and their Limitations” when they could be learning REAL skills like prompt engineering.

Algorithms are not useless theory, you unbalanced red-red tree. They’re the entire fucking point of the degree, you empty hash bucket. Go gamble daddy’s money on a startup your buddies thought up last night, you quadratic insert operation

I first ran into Cloudflare's "policy" about passing through abuse reports to the entity performing the abuse using their service when I tried to report a booter service to Cloudflare, some years ago.

I did not enjoy receiving death threats from LizardSquad for having reported them, and was very glad I had obscured my information when I did the reporting.

Cloudflare's pretense to neutrality is - and always has been - horseshit, and demonstrates the catastrophic weakness of centralized infrastructure generally.

https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/115571242590694772

Fun factor, if you google booter services (DDoS services), almost every major one is a Cloudflare customer. So currently, by anti-DDoS provider Cloudflare being offline, the world is a safer place.

@soatok@furry.engineer
"How do I remove that button?"
Uninstall chrome to get rid of the button and the shitty ass garbage browser in one hit.

https://old.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/1p0cp2w/how_to_remove_gemini_button/

I fucking hate you, Google.

I thought *solar* flares were the biggest threat to our digital infrastructure, but it turns out it’s cloud flares

hacker group known only as "CloudFlare" has once again defaced several major internet sites

2015: "Not using AWS or CloudFlare is an availability risk, because DDoS"

2025: "Using AWS or CloudFlare is an availability risk, because surprise outages"

RE: https://facts.computer/@computer/115567282849485159

"Premium users can also converse with Satan."

No, really: https://www.today.com/news/religious-chatbot-apps-rcna243671

they killed god and replaced her with an autocomplete and a subscription model and the devil does not haunt this world anymore because our souls are no longer worth taking

Pink - emi
https://macthemes.garden/themes/9e22479e79fb-Pink

Once upon a time I called a restaurant and asked if they were wheelchair accessible. I specifically asked about stairs. They said yes they were wheelchair accessible, there were no stairs at all. We arrived, excited to try their food, to find there were steps to get into the restaurant. I asked why they said it was accessible when I couldn't even get in the door. They said the restaurant is accessible once you get inside.

I think about this a lot. It's accessible once you get inside, but they don't offer you any way to get in there.

This is common. That restaurant wasn't the first place to be inaccessible while saying it is accessible, it's just the one that stuck with me most because the host was so sure they were accessible and could accommodate me. They were even happy about being able to have me there.

So how does this go so wrong? Can you tell me, because I don't know. How did they get so close and still fail?

Here's a funny one for you: There is a restaurant on Staten Island that has a really great ramp. It's obviously up to spec. The only problem is to use the door at the top of the ramp you have to go up the stairs, inside the restaurant, and ask someone to open the door at the top of the ramp. So close, right? Disabled people would never be out without a nondisabled person, so this is a smart decision. (This is not a smart decision. Disabled people do in fact go out alone or with other disabled people.)

Nondisabled people do not understand disability or disabled people. Not at all. They think they do, but they view everything through their own biases and fail to truly know us as separate human beings. That's a problem, not that they realize it.

Dudebros discovering my furry cryptography blog be like, "Don't shitpost too close to the Sun."

I will not stop until future generations studying the history of science and technology have to learn about hard problems in different fields named after people's fursonas.