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Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues
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Re: Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues
#922How did we get to a place where either Cloudflare or AWS having an outage means a large part of the web going down? This centralization is very worrying.
Because they are great services, are generally pretty easy to get started with, and usually work as expected, which has led to broad adoption.
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#923How did we get to a place where either Cloudflare or AWS having an outage means a large part of the web going down? This centralization is very worrying.
How many more of these until governments step in and take over "critical infrastructure"?
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#924My theory is that people's skills are getting worse. Attention spans are diminishing, memory is shrinking. People age and retire, new less skilled generations are replacing them. There are studies about declining IQ in the last decades. Probably mobile phones and social media are to blame. We see the signs with Amazon and Cloudflare going down, Windows Update breaking stuff. But the worse is yet to come, and I am thi…
> There are studies about declining IQ in the last decades. Probably mobile phones and social media are to blame.
It is much more nuanced than that.
The long-term rise (Flynn Effect) of IQs in the 20th century is widely believed to be driven by environmental factors more than genetics.
Plateau / decline is context-dependent: The reversal or slowdown isn’t universal, like you suggest. It seems more pronounced in certain countries or cohorts.
Cognitive abilities are diversifying: As people specialize more (education, careers, lifestyles), the structure of intelligence (how different cognitive skills relate) might be changing.
Re: Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues
#925How did we get to a place where either Cloudflare or AWS having an outage means a large part of the web going down? This centralization is very worrying.
Another one that worries me is Let's Encrypt.
It is not as bad as Cloudflare or AWS because certificates will not expire the instant there is an outage, but considers that:
- It serves about 2/3 of all websites
- TLS is becoming more and more critical over time. If certificates fail, the web may as well be down
- Certificate lifetimes are becoming shorter and shorter, now 90 days, but Let's Encrypt is now considering 6 days, with 47 days being planned as a minimum
- An outage is one thing, but should a compromise happen, that would be even more catastrophic
Let's Encrypt is a good guy now, but remember that Google used to be a good guy in the 2000s too!
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#926This seems to corroborate the recent controversial claims that American workers do not possess the aptitudes needed to succeed in the 21st century. If only we could have gotten more children to learn to code. Sigh.
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#927Can't wait to read their post-mortem report
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#928This seems to corroborate the recent controversial claims that American workers do not possess the aptitudes needed to succeed in the 21st century. If only we could have gotten more children to learn to code. Sigh.
Very true, clearly all these issues that started cropping up after fortune 500 companies started offshoring indicates they didn't offshore fast enough
Re: Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues
#929A colleague of mine just came bursting through my office door in a panic, thinking he brought our site down since this happened just as he made some changes to our Cloudflare config. He was pretty relieved to see this post.
Is there a word for that feeling of relief when someone else fucked up after initially thinking it was you?
Schadenfriend?
You gain relief, but you don't exactly derive pleasure as it's someone you know that's getting the ass end of the deal
Re: Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues
#930How did we get to a place where either Cloudflare or AWS having an outage means a large part of the web going down? This centralization is very worrying.
Because DDoS is a fact of life (and even if you aren't targeted by DDoS, the bot traffic probing you to see if you can be made part of the botnet is enough to take down a cheap $5 VPS). So we have to ask - why? Personally, I don't accept the hand-wavy explanation that botnets are "just a bunch of hacked IoT devices". No, your smart lightbulb isn't taking down Reddit. I slightly believe the secondary explanation that it's a bunch of hacked home routers. We know that home routers are full of things like suspicious oopsie definitely-not-government backdoors.