https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/
Many websites are down, so much for decentralised internet.
Oh, let me check down detector to see what's impacted.
Well, shit...
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Man what's not impacted?
I host my own shit and I couldn't access it from my own house
Is there a reason you're tunneling through Cloudflare?
Use a tailscale tunnel instead, or at least as backup.
I have wireguard, but I don't expose most services locally, so it wouldn't save me in this case.
Thanks though
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Even my fediverse instance (lemmy.world) was down. The internet was invented so shit like this would NOT happen. Fuck the corporate internet.
First Amazon, then Cloudflare. I'm glad this shit only goes down when I'm asleep.
It's almost as if having two companies control half the web is a bad idea...
Azure was also down recently too lol
Funny when downdetector is down because they use cloudflare
Crowdstrike broke down the airports last year, AWS failed a few weeks ago, and now this. Seems like someone might be probing for vulnerabilities. One morning we'll wake up to the entire Internet down, for a while.
Yes please.
I have been actively playing my guitar as a distraction from my phone. I take it almost everywhere, and instead of scrolling my phone mindlessly, I play instead.
I work a lot of events, so I show up early, set up, and then while I'm waiting for the event to start, I play the guitar instead of play with my phone. I'm getting to be known for it now.
Just one more merger bro. I promise bro just one more merger and it'll fix everything bro. Bro... just one more merger. Please just one more. One more merger and we can fix this whole problem bro. Bro c'mon just give me one more merger i promise bro. Bro bro please i just need one more
I still don't understand how that shit is possible to do so willy-nilly. Do these lawmakers and MBAs not see the endgame on this one? Has it not been clear where this leads?
Ugh, I speak as if they care.
Ah.
That... would explain why I have been confused by / screaming at the internet today.
... wonderful.
Rolling internet brownouts untill the Tracer Tong ending it is then.
That was my ending of choice as well.
... When I originally played the game, and still to this day, I consider it the worst ending.
Simply because it causes the most suffering and death.
Illuminati ending is ... essentially status quo, nothing really changes, beyond your personal story.
Helios ending... well, terrifying, but frankly, I trust JC.
Play through DX IW and you'll see he... makes very persuasive arguments.
Uh, anyway, canonically, they blended all three endings together, to set up DX IW.
I'd say the JC/Helios ending is... fairly clearly the most optimistic ending of IW.
Also, fun little uh, spoiler, I guess... one of the endings of DX IW features a panning/dollying shot from the vantage point of an orbital space station.
Its looking at the Eastern US and Western Atlantic.
... Florida isn't present. It's almost entirely underwater, by ~2080.
DX IW
DirectX Infinity War? I have no context for this, and of course I could look it up, but not doing so is more fun.
Deus Ex Invisible War.
Deus Ex did have a direct sequel, made by the same studio, came out a couple of years after the original Deus Ex.
Problem was, it was basically designed for the Xbox, so, levels had to get broken into smaller chunks with lots of load screens, a good deal of gameplay mechanics got simplified / dumbed down.
But... the overall storyline, from a world building perspective at least, was fairly interesting.
The game is very much the red headed step child of the Deus Ex franchise, as the overall impression (which is correct imo) is that it was basically a dumbed down console version of a DX sequel, a significant disappointment.
TFW Cloudflare is down but I can't tell Lemmy about it because... Cloudflare is down (and Lemmy.world uses Cloudflare).
Try a different instance. Might be nice to be off something related to cloudflare anyway.
"Further details will be made available when we've worked out how the AI screwed us this time"
Is AI the new DNS?
DNS is necessary
Touché
switches over to stored media
…again
CloudFlare went from the muscle of the internet to a liability.
I wonder if it's even worth it now.
Might be better to try and wing it on your own if you want reliability.
Gov and corpos will keep using it since it absolves them of responsibility.
DDOS protection in 2025:
God, screw this stupid roadblock of a nuisance. I have to go through this piece of shit everytime I need to log-in to my bank account's app. Sometimes it'd even fail and I won't go through. Even if I did go through, I have to double-verify anyways! I'm so over this stupid era of verifying yourself multiple times.
Good thing that the dezentralized internet has a centralized arbiter that..if down, effectivly, gives the entire internet a single point of failure. As cloudflare seems to have a use, especially in modern times were everyone and their mother got an ai crawler sucking small servers dry, I wonder if there is anything left to have interconnected networks without some big shot buffering against accidently ddos
Today, we remind you that AWS isn't the only single point of failure on the Internet.
.*.*?
DNS? DNS.
Pork rinds? Pork rinds.
Porkchop Sandwiches!
State actors: Let’s take down . . Ohhh . . Howabout cloudflare today.
I’m guessing it was actually something internal. If you look at their status page you’ll notice the outage occurred smack in between some sort of maintenance work they seem to be rolling out to most/all of their edge locations. As soon as they resolved the outage they continued with the regional maintenance updates.
Of course known maintenance windows are the perfect time for the ol’ cyberattackeroo.
let me update my notes... one second
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Paranoid people: State actors! Technical people, engineers, programmers, normal people: shit happens, people built this.
Multiple customers.
Yeah, 8 billion is multiple customers
Potentially
Oh, I thought my eduroam was just being shit today, that's good to know
Laughs in tor, nostr, and monero. What outage?
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