rcrypt can handle encryption transparently: https://rclone.org/crypt/. You can use rclone mount to mount storage from practically any provider.
dan
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This is going to happen with every large centralized service, especially if they let you use it for free. These services end up being expensive to run.
The only real solution is to use something decentralized. You're already on Lemmy so I assume you already know this. Matrix is decent (not perfect, but it's pretty good) and it's easily self-hostable using Tuwunel.
There's places that still use Styrofoam for food? I haven't seen it in a long time.
Stuff that's out of copyright isn't an issue though.
The reason AI companies are destroying books is because current US copyright caselaw (most recently the Anthropic lawsuit) doesn't allow books to be copied, but considers it fair use if you transform the format of a legally purchased book (like from print to digital) without creating a new copy. By destroying the original book, they haven't made a copy of it, and so they operate within US law.
This doesn't apply to public domain books (books that are no longer copyrighted) as you can do whatever you want with public domain content.
At work, I use AI for some things. Right now I'm rewriting some legacy spaghetti code that's had a bunch of things hacked into it over the years. I spoke to the person most familiar with the expected behaviour and used AI to combine his info plus the existing code and unit/integration tests into a list of requirements.
I wrote the new code and tests based on the requirements rather than based on the old code. After each commit, I used AI to check for parity between the old and new code, and it keeps a Google Sheet up to date with the progress (which features were fully implemented, and which ones were missing or had gaps). I had AI write some tests cases too - given the list of requirements, write integration tests for them based on the style of a few tests I wrote by hand.
It has some quirks (eg for tests it loves over-mocking even though our skills tell it to mock as little as possible) but it definitely speeds things up.
I use AI for small side projects at work too. Tweaking and adding features I want to shared libraries, internal tools to help our team debug stuff and automate triaging of bug reports (they're all still reviewed by a human), etc.
The entire reason I can trust its code is because I can read it and tweak it myself. I sometimes need to go through a few iterations to get AI code into an acceptable state. AI writing machine code directly, like what's been talked about recently and what this post is referencing, is such a dumb idea.
There's other people at work that use AI for absolutely everything. Writing code, reading code, writing posts in our internal groups, etc. That's something I don't understand. Some people that are all-in on AI produce so much low-quality AI slop.
Infinite scroll is used in so many UIs that I can't imagine it being wholly banned.
"You're absolutely right!"
I'd like to see that too, but R&D costs for a product like this are enormous so I doubt it'd happen any time soon.
The title of the page I linked to is "Websites using Cloudflare in the Top 100k Sites by Traffic" so I think my interpretation was correct.
Also, one domain can use multiple CDNs (eg one subdomain uses Cloudflare while another uses Bunny) so I'm not sure how their percentages work.
I'm also not sure how they count sites that use Cloudflare but not the CDN product (for example, if they disable caching and only use the WAF). That looks identical from a client side so there's probably no way to tell.
Maybe I shouldn't trust their data.
AWS(just 8% seems sus),
The chart wouldn't be showing all of AWS, just Cloudfront (their CDN). There's plenty of services that use AWS EC2 or Lightsail but front it with Cloudflare.
If you're considering hosting Github Enterprise on-prem then it might be worth considering Forgejo too. It's the system that powers Codeberg.
Codeberg doesn't allow proprietary code, only open-source. You'd have to self-host Forgejo if you want to use it for private projects.
Something like 40% of the top 100k sites use Cloudflare. Builtwith says 44%: https://trends.builtwith.com/websitelist/Cloudflare/High-Traffic-Volume
The pricing on their paid plans is very competitive. For small to medium sites, it's orders of magnitude cheaper than Akamai. The WAF and DDoS protection is pretty good too.
The largest sites like Google, Facebook, Netflix, etc have their own CDNs, including servers they provide to large ISPs for free since it significantly reduces upstream bandwidth usage (Netflix call this Open Connect; Meta's is Facebook/Meta Network Appliance). Outside of the largest sites, you'd be surprised how many companies rely on Cloudflare. It's kinda scary.
Do you disable SMS too? It's far, far less secure than RCS so I'm not sure why you'd avoid RCS but not SMS.