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[–] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 48 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 1 points 2 days ago

That's incredible

[–] musicpostingonly@hexbear.net 53 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Who knew that the vast majority of internet services depending upon one thing en masse was a bad idea.

[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 25 points 3 days ago

Yeah, it's terrible. I'm so glad that Nadeko uses a self-hosted anti-bot solution.

It's terrible that app.element.io and mini.p2pool.observer are broken because of Cloudflare, when they're associated with self-hosted independent open source software.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 44 points 3 days ago

Second mass outage in less than a month. this-is-fine

[–] Elysia@hexbear.net 40 points 3 days ago

ohnoes Sorry, I should have given them a heads up before launching my new site with thousands of dprk-soldier today

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 40 points 3 days ago

I love the decentralized internet! So resilient!

[–] SupFBI@hexbear.net 37 points 3 days ago
[–] plinky@hexbear.net 38 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

more like clownflare

fedcobin and mr are both behind cloudflare, while counterpunch isn't, really makes you think.

[–] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 40 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Critical support to Cloudflare for stopping me from doomscrolling o7

[–] whatdoiputhere12@hexbear.net 21 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

twitter is down so the world is perfect for now

honestly idk what to expect from muskrat but i'm shocked he relies on cloudflare

[–] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

honestly idk what to expect from muskrat but i’m shocked he relies on cloudflare

cloudflare is way bigger than twitter itself

[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 12 points 3 days ago

Cloudflare is ginormous, and when it works they provide some of the best stuff at really competitive prices.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 3 days ago

Keeping me from looking at slop posts cause the instance linked too are behind cloudflare lol

[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 41 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Way too much of the internet depends on Cloudflare, companies should really diversify the bot protection game.

[–] Gorillatactics@hexbear.net 31 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I feel like programmers have just gotten bad. Everything works worse than it used to even with better hardware.

[–] Frigg@hexbear.net 73 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This might be controversial, but personally I blame capitalism.

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 3 days ago (2 children)

There’s no business reason to improve X. It runs on the customer’s device so we don’t really stand to benefit from making it more efficient.

Etc.

Shareholders-first thinking is an absolute cancer in our economy.
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-rot-economy/

[–] DylanMc6@hexbear.net 11 points 3 days ago

we need to seize the means of production under a market economy. seriously!

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[–] PoY@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 days ago

I got shitlisted by cloudflare because I had a browser tab misbehaving that was infinitely reloading twitter once for god knows how long before I realized it.

I was blocked from like 99% of the internet for like 2 weeks. I couldn't order food, I couldn't visit any goddamn website pretty much, anything that required "human verification" blocked me instantly. it was a fucking nightmare.

and there is NO ONE you can reach out to either. they simply do not offer any path to speak to someone or submit a ticket or anything. you're just insta-banned from the internet.

[–] Tabitha@hexbear.net 5 points 3 days ago

You already can pick a competitor.

[–] into_highest_invite@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

cloudflare offers more things for free than anyone else can because they're feds lol

Matthew: Back in 2003, Lee Holloway and I started Project Honey Pot as an open-source project to track online fraud and abuse. The Project allowed anyone with a website to install a piece of code and track hackers and spammers.

We ran it as a hobby and didn't think much about it until, in 2008, the Department of Homeland Security called and said, "Do you have any idea how valuable the data you have is?" That started us thinking about how we could effectively deploy the data from Project Honey Pot, as well as other sources, in order to protect websites online. That turned into the initial impetus for CloudFlare.

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[–] 9to5@hexbear.net 31 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Haha internet users. My books dont need cloudflare

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 31 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Cloudflare currently operating like an infantry squad engaging in bounding overwatch.

[–] juniper@hexbear.net 15 points 3 days ago

bounding overwatch

i will add this to the list of wikipedia pages i read while i poo at work today thank you

[–] segfault11@hexbear.net 26 points 3 days ago (2 children)

i almost paid for a game because i couldn't get on 1337x 😔

[–] SwitchyandWitchy@hexbear.net 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Stay strong sister.

Can you find it on knabben or another torrent search engine?

[–] segfault11@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago

1337x came back right before i was really thinking of buying it lol

[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I kinda want to pay for EU5 but fuck i don't have 85 dollars right now for their stupid dlc pass shit but the piracy site i use doesn't have v1.05

[–] kleeon@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

but the piracy site i use doesn't have v1.05

Good. That patch completely broke a bunch of shit. There is now a 1.0.6 hotfix which addressed some of these issues

[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah but it added tin RGOs to mesoamerica and I'm really sick of trying to fine tune my stone extraction and stone tool economy as Cocom

[–] kleeon@hexbear.net 3 points 3 days ago

They made a lot of good changes but broke trade in the process. Wait for 1.0.6 to come out on torrents

[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 29 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So much stuff is down. Basically all of the piracy streaming sites use Cloudflare and as a result are completely broken. The Cloudflare dashboards and API's are broken, so I can't access or do anything with my domains on Cloudflare, or with the Cloudflare workers or Storage.

[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 26 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Very thankful that many of the most important things use their own anti-bot systems, instead of depending on Cloudflare. Invidious and Google stuff works just fine, a lot of the privacy-focused open-source software still works. So glad for the people that don't like Cloudflare for worry of exactly this kind of thing happening.

[–] TrashGoblin@hexbear.net 13 points 3 days ago

Anna's Archive just recently moved from Cloudflare to something else, good choice on their part.

[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 28 points 3 days ago

Lol fuck the internet

Wait a minute WAIT WAIT AAA-oooaaaaaaauhhh

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 15 points 3 days ago

Another thing that should be nationalised, in this case by an international governing body though.

[–] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 18 points 3 days ago

I knew something was up. This just stopped me from playing Niota, a game installed on MY COMPUTER, because I was using the itch launcher.

This is probably another case of code being written by AI. We thought AI would ruin the internet by filling it with slop. Instead it's killing itself with shitty code deployments like a toddler left unattended with the bottles under the sink.

[–] Lerios@hexbear.net 14 points 3 days ago

squidward-chill cloudfare is down

NOOOOO AO3 is down

[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 16 points 3 days ago
[–] whatdoiputhere12@hexbear.net 14 points 3 days ago

it's currently a yo-yo, website back up, and then down

[–] gramxi@hexbear.net 12 points 3 days ago
[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 13 points 3 days ago

World of Warcraft somehow still going while League of Legends goes down is amusing to me.

[–] Mousy@hexbear.net 11 points 3 days ago

Huh i guess that's why sponsorblock isn't working.

[–] whatdoiputhere12@hexbear.net 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

According to status, the issue has been identified and a fix is coming

nevermind it was about warp access

[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 10 points 3 days ago

It took quite a while to get to that point, like more than an hour and a half from the start of the issues

[–] PoY@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 days ago

warp is a piece of shit in a league of its own

[–] PoY@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 days ago

fucking good.. maybe this will wake some people up to realize this isn't how the internet is supposed to work. everyone being behind 1 host is just stupid