@dangoodin As I.T. professionals, we have been training users to not click random shit since the internet became accessible to everyone.

Microsoft training copilot: CLICK ALL THE THINGS

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

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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

* 28 days ago, AWS went down for 15 hours, taking 32% of the cloud with it.

* 20 days ago, Azure went down for 8 hours, taking 23% of the cloud with it.

* 0 days ago, Cloudflare went down for 6 hours, taking 20% of the cloud with it.

75% of the cloud, owned by 3 huge corporations with redundant global infrastructure, has a 30-day availability of two-nines or worse.

It really was a mistake for us to put 3/4 of the entire World Wide Web on exactly three of somebody else's computers.

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.

cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog

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.

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Get Firefox dot com.

It isn't the best browser; it's oh so far from being the best. However, it's the _least_ bad of the major browsers capable of accessing supercomputer-needing websites, and it's the last major browser standing that hasn't surrendered its page rendering engine to Apple or Google.

@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.

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"

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

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