Did someone google Google again?
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Aren't spikes in unusual traffic the exact thing Cloudflare is supposed to protect you from?
Traffic spikes, on the Internet? One in a million chance! Now tow cloudflare outside the environment and call it a day.
They protected the endpoints. They just weren't able to route traffic to them. Id bet it takes a MUCH larger ddos to bring cloudflare to its knees vs your average website.
Yeah, but just one "unusual spike in traffic" - so it seems. /s
From a Cloudflare customer's point of view, I don't care if my site is down from a DDOS or a Cloudflare outage, but the latter seems to happen more often.
From another cloudflare customer, if our sites still work internally it's marginally better than them being broken both inside and outside the org as they would be if they were ddosed directly. I guess it depends on what kind of services you're running.
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ostensibly sure. But it's like car insurance. People pay them no matter what so why bother doing what they promised?
Did I miss something? Is everyone downloading the Epstein files today?
My bad, I started downloading The Lord of the Rings movies - Extended Edition. Sorry!
How many times have I told you not to download movies or games in the middle of the day? You'll tie up the phone lines.
Ok mum I stopped torrenting. You can use the phone again.
No longer relevant pro tip - an extra pair was typically left at the incoming service, which was used for testing. It worked as a second line and didn't interupt the main pair, allowing for a functionally free second phone line (that didnt have incoming service).
Perfect for modem use!
You can tell we're all old as fuck Millennials, because nobody else would make this joke. Lol.
I can't even explain dial up modems to my son because I'd have to start by explaining what phone lines are.
Indeed.
"...you must first invent the universe".
I had a Gen Z person ask me how I got a "3D printer save button" when I had a floppy disk for some reason.
I think that's a big part of why I like lemmy.
There are plenty of tech-savvy critical thinkers in the younger generations, but the naïveté, tech illiteracy, and lack of critical thinking ability of the average internet commenter / poster is appalling.
I've seen it just get worse and worse.
The internalized self censorship, the laissez faire attitude towards digital privacy, just pure fucking idiocy.
Wake me up when September ends.
Sorry friend, it is Eternal.
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I had fully forgotten the phrase "you'll tie up the phone line!" And I just had a nam style flashback of sneaking internet time during the day when my mom was at work, and praying that no one tried to call
Ten movies streaming across that, that Internet, and what happens to your own personal Internet? I just the other day got... an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday. I got it yesterday. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the Internet commercially. They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.
Lies, the internet isn't tubes, it's a small box
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Which AI scraper went rogue this time?
Gemini 3 was released today 👀
Mabe the new bezos Prometheus?
I hope more websites will move away from cloudflare. I could not access 90% of the web anymore. This is insane if just 1 company goes down, the whole internet is dead. The internet is broken!
and it's fucking annoying to check the box to "prove you're a human" when trying to access almost any site. some days it will make me do it three times before letting me through
He still doesn't know, guys 😅
It isn't just annoying, it often breaks for people on less-popular browsers. Plus, it requires you to run Cloudflare's Javascript. You think this outage was bad—what do you think would happen if someone slipped them a bit of malware?
I understand the need for anti-bot or DDoS protection, but there are better and free options today. Like Anubis. So please, in the love of The Internet, move away from cloudflare. Ideally yesterday already.
Edit: or run your own decent firewall with geo blocks. FireHOL block lists. Intrusion detection.
Setting up fail2ban. . Etc. Etc.
Anubis isn't even comparable to cloudflare. The reason cloudflare is so effective is that they can oversee which IPs are spamming or being abusive to certain websites, and can throw up protections quickly. There are a number of negative implications that come with this, but it's quite good at its primary job.
Anubis is just a prompt that wastes CPU cycles and tries to make it more expensive for AI crawlers to do so (since they care a lot about compute costs, of course). There is no bot protection or anything happening. The "making sure you're not a bot" is quite misleading imo
Anubis is to protect against scraping from LLMs, it has nothing to do with DDoS protection. Not only that, but the Anubis Github repo recommends most people to use Cloudflare instead, since Anubis is the "nuclear" option.
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Anubis never worked for me on mobile. I'm afraid of mass adoption if that won't be fixed.
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It's almost like the internet is a public good that everyone should have access to
It's very normal for countries to DDOS each other to test their limits, and if it could be incorporated in an attack.
And yes, of course the US is also testing this against other nations.
It could also just be a malfunction or someone acting independently. Who knows.
Every DDoS that hits Cloudflare is bigger than the previous one. There's bound to be one that they couldn't instantly mitigate.
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Soviets?
Capitalists: "All lines must go up!" ... (Traffic line goes up a little bit) Capitalists: "Not like that!"
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