PlotCitizen (u/PlotCitizen)

PlotCitizen commented on Cloudflare was down cloudflare.com/... · Posted by u/mektrik

pm90 · 2 months ago

This is not good. One major outage? Something exceptional. Several outages in a short time? As someone thats worked in operations, I have empathy; there are so many “temp havks” that are put in place for incidents. but the rest of the world won’t… they’re gonna suffer a massive reputation loss if this goes on as long as the last one.

PlotCitizen · 2 months ago

This is a good reminder for everyone to reconsider making all of their websites depend on a single centralized point of failure. There are many alternatives to the different services which Cloudflare offers.

PlotCitizen commented on Internet's biggest annoyance: Cookie laws should target browsers, not websites nednex.com/en/the-interne... · Posted by u/SweetSoftPillow

ryukoposting · 4 months ago

Legally compel websites to respect the DNT header. Bam, done. This is a simple problem, and should be solved in a simple way.

PlotCitizen · 4 months ago

This is the best suggestion here with the least friction in my opinion

PlotCitizen commented on My game's server is blocked in Spain whenever there's a football match on old.reddit.com/r/gamedev/... · Posted by u/greazy

array_key_first · 5 months ago

I think moving away from cloudflare is not a solution because:

1. You need CDNs for reasonable web performance, especially on mobile. Hitting your dedicated server for every static asset like images is going to bring latency through the roof.

2. Many companies don't have a physical presence in Europe, but are still able to achieve adequate performance because of CDNs.

3. If everyone just moves off of cloudflare, the blocking would just increase. Nothing would be solved if even bigger ranges are blocked, and probably even more stuff would break.

PlotCitizen · 5 months ago

I totally agree with point number 2. Even point number 1 is reasonable. But there are many CDNs you could use, perhaps smaller ones, perhaps some that do not offer their services to streaming websites, which is arguably the reason for the blocking.

Ultimately point number 3 is a prediction. I could see that happening, but I am not convinced it's set in stone that the blocking would just increase. And even if that happens, and even bigger ranges are blocked, and even more stuff breaks, perhaps more people will start to notice and put an end to this, to CloudFlare's delight.

PlotCitizen commented on My game's server is blocked in Spain whenever there's a football match on old.reddit.com/r/gamedev/... · Posted by u/greazy

pmontra · 5 months ago

Yes, we know. Internet does not work in Spain when there are football matches.

It would be more interesting to know if something is getting done about this. Other businesses must work, people must communicate, the very same Spanish state must keep working. Is there any protest with at least a slight amount of hope?

PlotCitizen · 5 months ago

> Internet does not work in Spain when there are football matches.

There's a distinction between the above statement and the truth, which is that CloudFlare and other large CDNs do not work in Spain when there are football matches.

Yes, it's not CloudFlare's fault in this instance, since I believe CloudFlare is not being notified to take action in real time. The blocking needs to happen quickly to block access to illegal streams of a live event. My understanding is that CloudFlare is largely out of the picture when this decision is happening, and CloudFlare is only taking the blame since that's what Twitch uses, which also can't react as quickly as La Liga wants.

That being said there is a solution to this that helps protect from collateral as well as the decentralized open nature of the internet: moving away from those large CDNs

PlotCitizen commented on Ask HN: Does anyone else notice YouTube causing 100% CPU usage and stattering? · Posted by u/NooneAtAll3

jjallen · 5 months ago

I have not and don’t run an adblocker fwiw.

PlotCitizen · 5 months ago

And do you notice high CPU usage or stuttering?

PlotCitizen commented on Kien, the most-delayed video game in history, released after 22 years theguardian.com/games/art... · Posted by u/isaacfrond

PlotCitizen · 2 years ago

Hopefully miegakure doesn't beat the record

PlotCitizen commented on Cloudflare DNS Must Block Pirate Sites, Italian Court Confirms torrentfreak.com/cloudfla... · Posted by u/rc00

PlotCitizen · 3 years ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29047754

PlotCitizen commented on Xanax and Adderall Access Is Being Blocked by Secret Drug Limits bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

PlotCitizen · 3 years ago

Unpaywalled http://archive.today/Fdtyx

PlotCitizen commented on Ask HN: Can I download GPT / ChatGPT to my desktop? · Posted by u/AHappyCamper

PlotCitizen · 3 years ago

It’s not possible currently but there’s another story on the HN front page with an open source alternative which I haven’t tried