On occasion, I feel some trepidation about no longer putting Cloudflare in front of most of my services for protection. Then today happens and it all just goes away.
I guess the internet needs another Cloudflare so Cloudflare has somewhere to host its status page.
Re Last Boost: from @miki: Its good to hear perspective from the other side of the coin. We all ingest, and a lot of us do (myself included) the complaining, but perspective also should include all angles of a situation, and he covered the less exposed and talked about side quite well. While I am not a CF user myself, unfortunately for the reasons of downtime being magnified, and my not wishing to be swept up in that, it does no less validate the points he made and touched on. The DDOS problem is so very very real, and my 40Gbps DDOS protection on a relatively low-traffic server I operate has actually not been enough on ocasion.
I am thrilled to share the news that I joined @Mastodon's leadership team as Community Director alongside @mellifluousbox, our new Executive Director, and @renchap, our Technical Director.
Cloudflare seems to be having some kind of oopsie (it's probably DNS. It's always DNS) right now.
When you click on the link on their error page, it takes you to a page that says “Do you have a website? Anybody that runs a website should be on the Cloudflare network.”
Uh, read the room, #cloudflare. When people are trying to find out why your product has shit the bed, that's not really the time to make with the marketing copy about how they really really should be using it.
Adwaita apps are calm, focused, consistent. Tasks can often be done offline. Even badges for unread notifications are tinted blue and not red.
Non core apps are maintained by indie developers scratching their own itch. With GNOME Circle, a community of more experienced people help review and polish them.
GNOME is the village of Gauls peacefully resisting the Big Tech Empire with its sole existence.
I went to check if cloudflare was down so I went to downdetector.com, but that site uses a clooudflare-based CAPTCHA that wouldn't load, answering my question
I can't believe I have to say this once again, but not using AWS or Cloudflare doesn't mean your service won't go down as often.
It's just that nobody cares if the website of some little shoe manufacturer in Wyoming goes down, but everybody cares if all the websites go down *at once*. This is true even if, statistically speaking, CF / AWS go down less often than some little server located in a basement.
The old internet wasn't more resilient, your downtime on the old internet was just less corelated with everybody else's downtime, which made it less visible, and hence psychologically less of a problem.
Without CF (or somebody like them), there's no freedom of speech on the internet. If you say the wrong thing, your critics can just DeDoS you until you go away, and there's very little you can do about it. If you aren't rich enough to afford DeDoS protection, you have to be very careful when working against people who have more money than you do. This was a somewhat common occurrence back in the day, and the emergence of big social on one hand and CF on the other eliminated that problem entirely.
We should be really thankful for everything CF has done for the internet. Not every private company is as evil as people want you to think.
true and not true. CF will often allow websites to refuse access if they detect you're on a VPN, as its uniquely aware of many VPN commercial endpoints. So ironically if you're trying to escape sensorship through the use of a VPN CLoudflare may prevent access for that same reason. Its not as clear cut as you make it out to be
90+% of people who need their traffic to be anonymous are... exactly who you eexpect them to be. It's a shame that this affects everybody else in the way it does, but there's not much we can do about it.
Unless we want the internet to drown in ransom demands and Viagra ads (remember those?), that is.
well I'm in a jurisdiction where the web is getting more restricted and geoblocked, at the moment due to online safety act. so frankly no, bring back the early 2000s at this point.
Thank you. There are some people right now who clearly cannot see this from any other angle but, "oh yeah using Cloudflare is the issue," "using AWS is the issue," "using it sucks," etc.
Besides that, CF gives our server a certain level of protection. Sure, if someone is really determined, a free Cloudflare plan won’t stop them, but it will stop plenty of script kiddies — and in most cases that’s honestly enough. In my monthly CF report I see information about more than half a thousand attacks they managed to block. Combined with regular backups, it makes me much less worried that I’ll suddenly have to bring a broken server back to life, especially since server administration isn’t my day-to-day job. Setting everything up on your own teaches you a lot and can be fun, but only if you actually have the time for it.
@midzi Which is honestly why most people are much better off with a SaaS, even if they're technically competent and perfectly capable of managing their own server.
I know why this isn't the right approach for you (storage space, a different point on the time vs. money tradeoff than most commercial organizations), but that's an exception that proves the rule.
When I read downdetector and Cloudflare's own status page went down due to the CF outage my mind immediately went to this youtube.com/watch?v=1KEHSOPSvh…
@matt For now, Nearly Free Speech, because at least they allow NSFW writing, so I can eventually put my Disability erotica on there, but am fully open to suggestions. Their dashboard is simple enough and even though I do everything via SFTP and Github actions, still, I am always on the hunt for other suggestions. I use Eleventy as a static site generator.
Parts of the Réseau express métropolitain (REM) network are down on Tuesday morning after a truck struck a viaduct near the Bois-Franc station in Montreal.
It's been a while since I've used my Mastodon instance's web interface for posting. Cloudflare is busted, which seems to also mess up my preferred Windows client, but, go figure, all the stuff it connects to is still working fine.
Does Tweesecake just casually lock you out of your client if it can't phone home? I know it has an account system, but I didn't think it tried to get a token every single time it's run.
@simon If it's still running at the time, I think it will continue to. Mine wasn't running.
On two PC's, I get two different versions of broken. On one PC, all sessions are "unknown user". On the other PC, it just kind of sits there and hangs for a while, then eventually closes.
Still works on mine, I guess I'll find out whether it's borked if I restart in time. This seems like a good reminder to try out whatever the latest incarnation of that web interface is.
Yeah, if you're refering to Tweesecake, then yeah, that's bad design, as to be able to access Mastodon servers, the client should not need to connect to some other service, and if that service is not working it renders the client useless, that's bad Tweesecake, bad bad bad bad bad!
Mine is still in a crashing mood. I just tried a minute ago. This whole cloudflare thing is insane though. It would be like all the major ISP's going out in the 2000s. Yet more proof that the wild west internet was better than the echo chamber bee hive.
Why would anyone, at this point, use Firefox over Chrome?
Diehards like me are absolutely disgusted with the AI BS Mozilla is pushing down everyone's throats, to just mention one thing. We will find a fork, or eventually hopefully a new independent browser.
Anybody else doesn't give a fsck so why would they use a cheap Chrome knock-off Mozilla made Firefox into, if they can get the real deal for free?
PSA for my US trans friends: there's a Telehealth HRT clinic called QMed (QueerMed) that serves adults and minors in 47 states (excluding DC, unfortunately). They accept lots of private insurance (but not medicare/medicaid), and also offer a payment plan that covers appointments and lab tests for people without good insurance.
Their program is great for people going stealth or living in unsafe environments, as they don't need referrals or anything else from your primary doctor. They send all lab orders to a LabCorp location of your choice, and prescriptions are sent to any pharmacy. (including mail-order pharmacies and chains like Walgreens and CVS that will ship your meds for a small fee.) If necessary, the entire process can be private and zero-contact except for the labs.
They work with transfem, transmasc, and non-binary people, and many of their staff are themselves trans! They follow WPATH SOC-8 and target modern (cis-equivalent) hormone levels, while still being flexible enough to work with whatever your personal goals are. In my experience, their target seems to be "whatever makes you feel best within safe limits". With me, they've been willing to explore non-standard doses, injection schedules, and hybrid approaches as long as I can provide research showing it's effective or at least safe.
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I can't speak to the transmasc experience, but I first started seeing them as a fem-aligned non-binary person who was already on oral Estradiol, Progesterone, and Spironolactone at mild doses. They had no issue with that, and later helped me increase those doses as I explored whether more "female" hormone balance would feel better. (still as part of a "non-binary" hormone plan!)
When I eventually realized I was binary transfem, they were just as understanding and helpful. They suggested changing Estrodiol forms to stabilize my levels at higher doses, and later helped me transition to injections when Spiro stopped working and other T blockers weren't an option for health reasons. (side note: they were actually willing to prescribe puberty blockers as an anti-androgen, but insurance wouldn't cover them and I couldn't afford the cost. I still think it's cool that they were forward-thinking enough to even offer that option, though!) I want to emphasize that I was not an easy patient for injections. I had severe needle-phobia, was clueless about the process, and proceeded to freak out many times over non-issues as I slowly learned how to inject. Through all that, they were patient, supportive, and never made me feel bad for panicking. Eventually I figured it out and even cured my needle phobia, for which they celebrated with me.
Now that I've finally achieved stable levels at the dose that feels best to me, they've let me transition to long-term HRT maintenance. This means 12-month prescriptions, infrequent tests, and minimal appointment requirements. This is something I was rather worried about, as my last provided never allowed long-term maintenance for various reasons. But with that, I'm now fully onboarded into the program and can speak to the whole experience. My overall opinion: QMed is the best HRT provider I've used, and the entire process has been smooth, flexible, and affirming. #HRT #Transgender #Trans #PSA #Advice #Transition #Gender #GenderAffirmingCare #QMed #QueerMed
Lol downdetector is down how ironic how will we know what's actually up or down now, oh no, guess the internet is moving into the Upside down then instead. It'll become good friends with demogorgon there.
Cloudflare outage under investigation as widespread internet outages spread — Twitter, Downdetector go down, company confirms Global Network issue: tomshardware.com/news/live/clo…
Cloud Flare goes down! But it goes up again! Brought Downdetector to the ground! So we go down! But we go up again! We're giving you the run-around Let's just stay down! #tubthumberButForRear-endedWebsitesEverywhere
@matt @jackf723 ahaha loved this. Also that it's not AI but true Karaoke, well done :D. what's funny is that for me, the mention of yours came through before Jack's original post. So like, it sent it backwards through the API, how odd.
Und mal wieder möchte ich zur schulischen Barrierefreiheit sagen: Das Problem ist meiner Meinung nach nicht, dass wir keine Hilfsmittel oder Optionen zur Verfügung hätten. Ich beobachte meinen Unterricht und kenne inzwischen selbst Produkte, die so eine tolle Ergänzung wären, und es enttäuscht mich, dass ich diese nie verwenden konnte. Es setzt einfach nur ein bisschen Willenskraft, Planung, Kommunikation und Kompetenz voraus. Alles Dinge, die deutsche Schulen nicht haben. Schade. \#Barrierefreiheit \#Schule
audiovault.net | 500: Internal server error. Whoops. Watch on the official streaming service if you can folks. Of course with AD that's sometimes a crapshoot, especially on international content.
@luiscarlosgonzalez oh weird Suno does work here. Udio nope. Suno I know uses AWS for their storage and EC2 hosting, not sure on Udio though. Wow I wonder what other sites are weirdly down then, hmm. Already starting out well as a day :D
Friends, we're all here on fedi, so many of us have no fondness for AI and its nonsense, nor for the very rich who are using the bubble to get richer, nor for the buffoons who are devoted to it. I understand that.
But please remember, when the bubble bursts, it won't be those billionaires who suffer. It won't really be the buffoons. It'll be ordinary working class folk who happen to be employed by an organisation that will be hit. Doesn't even have to be an employer that works directly with AI. Could be a caterer whose biggest client is involved with the business. Could be a cleaning company that cleans offices for a business that supplies components that are used in data centres that host AI stuff. And so on.
Remember 2008, 2009. We all know whose fault that crash was, and we all know who suffered most as a result, and those two groups were quite separate.
While #cloudflare US-east1 is busy fixing a good part of the Internet, parts of Matrix/Element, X etc down, good old decentralized #chatmail continues unimpeded and without degradation :)
In other news, there is a new #freebsd community maintained ❤️ #deltachat desktop install:
Generative AI is literally changing the whole process of online search and discovery, curating a new experience that experts are calling generative search. In
Half the internet is down. Many Lemmy instances are down, and many FOSS services. I guess that is an awakening that internet is as not decentralized as people thought.
Imagine running a trillion dollar company that bundles various open source components into your products, making billions of dollars of profit annually.
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