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  • Lemmy today

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  • Do they strip off HTTPS somehow?

    Well yes, how else they can provide their services such as page caching, image optimizing, email address obfuscation, js minifications, ddos mitigation, etc unless they can see all data flowing between your server and your visitors in the clear?

    Cloudflare is basically an MITM proxy. This blog post might be helpful if you want to know how mitm proxy works in general: https://vinodpattanshetti49.medium.com/how-the-mitm-proxy-works-8a329cc53fb

  • Lemmy today

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  • Remember when google was beloved by everyone back then when they're still have "don't be evil" motto? Cloudflare right now is like google back then: super useful, provides a lot of free services that would be expensive on other providers. But unlike google, if cloudflare go full evil in the future, the impact will be much larger because they're an mitm proxy capable of seeing unencrypted traffics across all websites under their wing. Right now they're serving ~30% of top 10,000 websites and growing.

  • The Internet Archive is under a DDoS attack

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  • Due to how federation works, downvotes are actually somewhat public because instance owners can query them in lemmy database, though instance owners probably won't tell you if you ask due to privacy reason. If you're interested in something like this, you can run your own instance.

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    Cloudflare took down our website after trying to force us to pay 120k$ within 24h

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  • They don't say unlimited, but they also won't say the limit of their reverse proxy service. It's intentionally vague.

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    Cloudflare took down our website after trying to force us to pay 120k$ within 24h

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  • Regardless of who's right or wrong in this dispute, it's just another example of why getting deep into cloud vendor lock in is not great for your company. If you went balls deep into cloudflare's offering, e.g. using cloudflare workers, kv, cloudflare access, etc, you can't afford to get kicked out of cloudflare for any reason. What are you gonna do when their sales rep tells you to pay more this year? Refusing is not an option because it'll screw your company hard.

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    Cloudflare took down our website after trying to force us to pay 120k$ within 24h

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  • I always knew my English teacher was impolite.

  • Cloudflare took down our website after trying to force us to pay $120000 within 24h

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  • Lemmy is getting bigger now, and you can see the quality of discussions in large Lemmy communities take a hit lately. If you want quality discussion, go to smaller communities.

  • Released: NVIDIA 555.42.02 Linux Beta Brings Wayland Explicit Sync, GSP Firmware

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  • Ah sorry, I got it backward. Nvidia is dragging their asses on implementing "implicit" sync, so Wayland devs and nvidia ended up with a compromise and implemented the explicit sync protocol. IMO it's just another example of Nvidia doing whatever they please and forcing everyone to do it their way or highway.

  • Released: NVIDIA 555.42.02 Linux Beta Brings Wayland Explicit Sync, GSP Firmware

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  • Unlike AMD and Intel, they don't get along with the open source community well and generally do whatever they please, which is why they earned the ire of many linux developers. For example, they're really dragging their asses with implementing explicit sync.

  • Linux Inventor Says He Doesn’t Believe in Crypto

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  • Scams are not much affected by cryptocurrency existence, but ransomware existence specifically relies on crypto for scaling reason. They infect millions of computers, the ransoms are being handled automatically because it's way too much to be handled manually with gift cards.

  • Linux Inventor Says He Doesn’t Believe in Crypto

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  • The internet has far more beneficial uses than malicious uses. We currently can't say the same with cryptocurrency due to its diminishing utility.

    E-commerce platforms were never the target anyway

    What's the use of money if not for paying stuff? In the early days, a lot more shops (online and offline) accept crypto payments. These days it's mostly vpn companies that accept them.

  • Linux Inventor Says He Doesn’t Believe in Crypto

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  • Let's not forget that crypto also enable wide deployment of ransomwares (which was not possible due to the lack of untraceable online payment at scale), while less and less ecommerce platform allow crypto payment. If this trend continues, eventually no one would use crypto except for speculation and paying off ransom.

  • Self-balancing commuter pods ride old railway lines on demand

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  • They're probably marketing this as requiring zero infrastructure changes to attract buyers and investors. Just put the pod lifter at the end of the track and it's done.

  • Pro Tip: Putting spaghetti in your ammo makes for a great emergency snack

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  • US to impose tariffs on Chinese EVs next week

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  • A car as cheap as a moped. Amazing!

  • got him

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  • He wouldn't make that statement unless he experienced the horror himself.

    Now, if he still does it these days...

  • How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas

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  • It's sad that you can't replace the infotainment unit in a new car with an aftermarket unit anymore. I imagine 10 years from now we'll have a fleet of cars with outdated infotainment systems that can't connect with whatever future version of bluetooth/carplay/android auto anymore. Imagine driving cars with giant but useless infotainment screens that can't do anything but playing mp3 off a USB stick because its outdated system can't connect to your new phone.

  • Here’s How That Disney 360° Treadmill Works

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  • Speedrunners must be able to speedrunning irl.

  • Kagi silently removed all references to Google's index from their website

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  • Just for some perspective, if you want to know how little reach the fedi post with the link to this blog post got: the first post in this thread already has more likes and boosts after less than a hour since posting it than my blog post ever did that he felt the need to confront me over.

    The author probably wasn't aware that their blog post has a huge engagement in hacker news just the day before and the CEO got roasted there, so the CEO probably felt the need to contact the author to "correct" their post.