Comment on Widespread Cloudflare outage blamed on mysterious traffic spike

verdantbanana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• breakingcups@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  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.

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• Acamon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  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.

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  • db2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    We probably won’t know for a while.

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• tonytins@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  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.

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  • k0e3@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    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

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• _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  why is it whenever I see you post, it’s something batshit crazy with a bunch of downvotes?

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• ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You always have the most bizarre stupid takes. The creativity is fascinating.

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• floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  They suspended access to WARP from London during the outage, so I guess the traffic was originating/hitting that location

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• optissima@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  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

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  • 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    chatgpt and claude were both down

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    • MagicShel@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Local LLM was up the whole time.

      Better privacy, better uptime.

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      • 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        not the point. the point was that “conspiracy of ai corporations to drive traffic to themselves” doesn’t make much sense.

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