A Cloudflare spokesperson told Ars that the cloud services provider saw “a spike in unusual traffic to one of Cloudflare’s services,” which “caused some traffic passing through Cloudflare’s network to experience errors.”
“We do not yet know the cause of the spike in unusual traffic,” the spokesperson said. “We are all hands on deck to make sure all traffic is served without errors. After that, we will turn our attention to investigating the cause of the unusual spike in traffic.”
Did I miss something? Is everyone downloading the Epstein files today?
Buying a car is pretty capitalist.
I’m not envious and I like the thought of some places on the planet having it normal for one family to have few cars, but - in certain places where capitalism has already been disrupted a few times in history, like Moscow, Russia where I, eh, reside, am headquartered, dwell, roam, … - and those places are richer than much of the world, - people would think the guy from the screenshot doesn’t have many reasons to try disrupting it.
Wooooosssshhhhh
Aren’t spikes in unusual traffic the exact thing Cloudflare is supposed to protect you from?
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.
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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?
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.
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
Ok mum I stopped torrenting. You can use the phone again.
You tell we’re all old as fuck Millennials, because nobody else would make this joke. Lol.
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.
I am 26 and this is my childhood too.
I can’t even explain dial up modems to my son because I’d have to start by explaining what phone lines are.
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
Hey me too!
Which AI scraper went rogue this time?
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!
It’s almost like the internet is a public good that everyone should have access to
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
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.
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.
Anubis never worked for me on mobile. I’m afraid of mass adoption if that won’t be fixed.
next time you’re at bat against one of these, you may try moving less diligently / efficiently to the checkbox. overall, a slowed and less exact approach. I’ve not tested this enough to REALLY say it makes a difference, but in cases where I continually fail, going slower does seem to be the time I finally get through.
I find the same for the picture puzzles where you select images that match or apply to the posted context or whatever else the mission may be.
Capitalists: “All lines must go up!” … (Traffic line goes up a little bit) Capitalists: “Not like that!”
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.
Did Akamai, their competitor, ever blinked? (I don’t remember).
Even if they did, the importance of decentralising the internet away from a few big providers is no joke.
Not mysterious they fucking know
Got ICE blackbagging people and we got the resistance trying to fight back
Knocking out communications in war time is classic strategy
why is it whenever I see you post, it’s something batshit crazy with a bunch of downvotes?
I’m assuming it’s because they’re batshit crazy
Absolute bonkers speculation and it’s wild that it got as many upvotes as downvotes.
There’s not even a hint of a suggestion that these two things would be related and it’d be a pretty stupid move to pull. This doesn’t hinder ICE that much and massively hinders many people all around the globe. Want to hinder communications? You’d jam ICE radios, not my muffin recipe website, (some) fediverse instances, and thousands of other websites.
Go outside, breath some air, recalibrate. This level of obsession is not good for you and won’t help the good causes you want to help either.
Was there a specific event that coincided with the blackout? I don’t know the details of current US events, just that they’re crazy and depressing.
We probably won’t know for a while.
Why DDoS Cloudflare when they could just pressure them directly like they did with BBC or Paramount? I know this administration isn’t exactly the brightest but that doesn’t seem like something they’d do.
I thought OP was saying people are resisting ICE by DDoSing CloudFlare while you might be thinking ICE (therefore the administration) is attacking CloudFlare. Either way, it doesn’t make much sense lol
They suspended access to WARP from London during the outage, so I guess the traffic was originating/hitting that location
This is a much more positive view than mine, which is that AI corps are trying to make the rest of the internet less reliable to drive traffic to themselves but it failed/backfired
chatgpt and claude were both down
Local LLM was up the whole time.
Better privacy, better uptime.
not the point. the point was that “conspiracy of ai corporations to drive traffic to themselves” doesn’t make much sense.
