Massive internet outage reported: Google services, Cloudflare, Character.AI among dozens of services impacted
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Google Cloud status page:
Holy shit, goddamn near everything is down, nearly everywhere.
Fucking Tracer Tong ending from Deus Ex, hope somebody has a save file they can reload from soon, otherwise... yeah...
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... What's ERP? Or don't I want to know?
My front-line guess is "Erotic Role Play" but I am not familiar with character.ai
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Oh no, not Cloudflare!
Oh right I use NextDNS, so anyway...
Oh, its also Google, Twitch, Discord and Etsy... and some AI girlfriend generator... and Spotify?
... People still use those? Aren't they worried about all the security and privacy concerns, the exploitative business models?
No?
Huh. Well, dang, sucks for those users I guess.
Ahem, annnyyyywaaaayyyy...
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Ok, serious mode / tinfoil hat:
... Did maybe someone in the Trump admin just try to do a US internet blackout, given all the insane shit happening, and pulled a few wrong cords out?
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Either way... and I cannot believe I am citing Ready Player One as a positive example of anything, but such is the nature of our collective degeneracy:
Tuesdays and Thursdays are now no internet days.
Go outside, touch grass, realize you're addicted to social media like a drug, and begin detoxing.
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EDIT: Holy shit, Israel just struck Iran at multiple locations, presumably all or many related to their nuclear program... including Tehran.
Iran fires missiles at Israel in escalating conflict over nuclear site attacks
Follow the latest news after Israel launched strikes at Iran, a dramatic escalation in long-running tensions between the two countries.
NBC News (www.nbcnews.com)
info blackout tinfoilhattery intensifies
realize you're addicted to social media like a drug
Lemmy included.
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... What's ERP? Or don't I want to know?
Enterprise resource planning
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realize you're addicted to social media like a drug
Lemmy included.
Speaking as someone who managed to quit smoking, but still uses a vape, who is focusing on doing daily PT after being maimed a while back...
A step in the right direction is a step in the right direction, and taking one step at a time is better than none.
Lemmy ain't corporate like Reddit, it ain't parasocial, only a very small number of users actually directly link their real identity to their psuedonym, and it doesn't have a worldclass datamining/profiling algo perfecting what content to feed to specifically you, to make you angry or insecure enough to keep you engaged.
Perfect?
No.
Leagues better than every alternative?
Far as I can tell, yes.
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tell me more
It blocks anyone not using one of its preferred browsers, among other things. It's become the gatekeeper for a large fraction of the Internet.
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Speaking as someone who managed to quit smoking, but still uses a vape, who is focusing on doing daily PT after being maimed a while back...
A step in the right direction is a step in the right direction, and taking one step at a time is better than none.
Lemmy ain't corporate like Reddit, it ain't parasocial, only a very small number of users actually directly link their real identity to their psuedonym, and it doesn't have a worldclass datamining/profiling algo perfecting what content to feed to specifically you, to make you angry or insecure enough to keep you engaged.
Perfect?
No.
Leagues better than every alternative?
Far as I can tell, yes.
Fundamentally, the brain still receives "bite-size-chocolate" dopamine hits from Lemmy by receiving positive affirmations from upvotes, cortisol from downvotes, and lends to dark behavior patterns like any forum. Adrenaline dumps when engaged in "online arguments".
The nature of both anonymous or personally identifiable online forums' neurochemical stimulation of our over-sized and over-active (but evolutionarily necessary for our ancestors' survival) amygdala fosters social media addiction.
People like Lemmy for many reasons. Some of them are good. However, let's not pretend that it's "all of the good with none of the bad." It's healthy to be skeptical of Lemmy instances too. Screen time is the enemy.
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This is why I call scrum masters scrumlords.
Thankfully my boss is hands off so I took a walk and then worked on an internal tooling side project that really only I will appreciate.
Scrumlords I love it
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Massive internet outage reported:
Google, Cloudflare, Twitch all downIt even swapped in Twitch when I read it at the time. Headlines be changing.
And when I went there, it said Google, Cloudflare, and Frank's Dildo Emporium all down, like of all the random sites, why pick FDE?
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Enterprise resource planning
Erotic resource planning
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I remember the day I went why are we all selfhosting and still relying on a site like Cloudflare?.
I'm glad I agreed with me on it.
I've migrated about half of my services off of cloudflare DNS proxy. Guess which half still worked this afternoon. (Self hosting pangolin with CrowdSec as replacement). I wasn't even using the cloudflare tunnel. Just their proxy for some bot mitigation.
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Another reason to self host
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Oh no, not Cloudflare!
Oh right I use NextDNS, so anyway...
Oh, its also Google, Twitch, Discord and Etsy... and some AI girlfriend generator... and Spotify?
... People still use those? Aren't they worried about all the security and privacy concerns, the exploitative business models?
No?
Huh. Well, dang, sucks for those users I guess.
Ahem, annnyyyywaaaayyyy...
...
Ok, serious mode / tinfoil hat:
... Did maybe someone in the Trump admin just try to do a US internet blackout, given all the insane shit happening, and pulled a few wrong cords out?
...
Either way... and I cannot believe I am citing Ready Player One as a positive example of anything, but such is the nature of our collective degeneracy:
Tuesdays and Thursdays are now no internet days.
Go outside, touch grass, realize you're addicted to social media like a drug, and begin detoxing.
...
EDIT: Holy shit, Israel just struck Iran at multiple locations, presumably all or many related to their nuclear program... including Tehran.
Iran fires missiles at Israel in escalating conflict over nuclear site attacks
Follow the latest news after Israel launched strikes at Iran, a dramatic escalation in long-running tensions between the two countries.
NBC News (www.nbcnews.com)
info blackout tinfoilhattery intensifies
Owhooo your virtual girl friend is offline!
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I think https://pkg.go.dev/ is down too
The whole internet is down. Unless you self host
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We just should not use cloudflare. Why is everybody still trying to use cloudflare.
It drives me nuts. The default answer on all network problems: why don't you just use cloudflare? No! No no.
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Well, the actual headline is:
Massive internet outage: Google services, Cloudflare, Spotify all down, users report
Character.ai is only mentioned in the lengthy list of services that are down.
Still a very important service for many people who are alone.
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And when I went there, it said Google, Cloudflare, and Frank's Dildo Emporium all down, like of all the random sites, why pick FDE?
Ai? Or a catch headline
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We just should not use cloudflare. Why is everybody still trying to use cloudflare.
It drives me nuts. The default answer on all network problems: why don't you just use cloudflare? No! No no.
We just should not use cloudflare. Why is everybody still trying to use cloudflare.
Counterpoint: I find networking challenging, and I'm not particularly accountable for the natural consequences of not knowing how stuff works.
This could end fine for everyone? Maybe an AI will understand it for me. (This is sarcasm. I agree with you.)
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Cloudflare once again comes under pressure for enabling abusive sites
Cloudflare masks the origin of roughly 10% of abusive domains, watchdog says.
Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
great article, and I had no idea that happened to Brian Krebs, of all people! o.O
I do think the EFF makes a good point though, and I think personally I tend to be biased towards content neutrality over moderation (at least, more strongly the larger the platform is, and Cloudflare is very large). Not to the point of Xitter, obviously, but I think there's at least a reasonable argument for Cloudflare in this case.
that said, after some searching, I did find the following two articles, and I find their arguments against Cloudflare very compelling:
- https://www.devever.net/~hl/cloudflare
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/blog/2016/07/14/cloudflare-we-have-a-problem/
Fortunately I'm already using end-to-end SSL certs via Caddy, but now I'm considering just moving off Cloudflare entirely and instead providing regular backups to Internet Archive--most of the stuff I host is entirely static and very lightweight.
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I remember the day I went why are we all selfhosting and still relying on a site like Cloudflare?.
I'm glad I agreed with me on it.
still hard. most projects still CDN online instead of packaging into a single application.
it's one of the most infuriating things about self-hosting. so I made my own self-hosted CDN and have rewrite rules that replace most public cdb domains and reroute them to my own local.
it would be great if I could just have something in the middle that would download once and cache locally on request, but it's effort that would be taken from my time afk.
