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Cloudflare regularly treats me as a bot, making it difficult or sometimes impossible to access certain websites, so I'm not all that inclined to believe them here.
This is interesting too, because in theory it would be in the best interest of cloudflare for that to be the general narrative. i.e "Look how many bots there are on the internet, you really need cloud flare" or however they'd advertise that.
Yeah this kinda fits into "CEO said a thing" journalism. Even if he's correct
and intuitively it seems like he might be
people should ask for evidence. But our corporate press is useless and/or complicit and almost never asks a follow-up question.
Em dashes. Bot comment.
Nope dude, I actually know how to type em dashes. It isn't very difficult on lemmy (which is markdown formatted). It's done by three regular dashes in a row: ---. But I can do it on Macbook (opt+shift+dash) as well as on Linux (u+2014). I like em dashes and the bots can take them from my cold, dead hands. In this case, I used the markdown formatting because I was replying on my phone.
Sure, clanker.
Get bent