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[-] [email protected] 278 points 3 weeks ago

Character.ai being mentioned in the same line is a sign of the times.

[-] [email protected] 119 points 3 weeks ago

The people yearn for the digital anime waifus

[-] [email protected] 118 points 3 weeks ago

If you're not running your waifu on a local machine she's just a digital prostitute.

[-] [email protected] 64 points 3 weeks ago

The one downvote on this comment makes it like 20x funnier

[-] [email protected] 35 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

When you stop using a search engine and use AI-generated responses for everything, I guess having your LLM backends go down could qualify as having a disruptive functional impact.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago

A disruption to disfunctional search engines does not sound bad.

[-] [email protected] 51 points 3 weeks ago

Well, the actual headline is:

Massive internet outage: Google services, Cloudflare, Spotify all down, users report

Character.ai is only mentioned in the lengthy list of services that are down.

[-] [email protected] 36 points 3 weeks ago

Massive internet outage reported: Google, Cloudflare, Twitch all down

It even swapped in Twitch when I read it at the time. Headlines be changing.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago

And when I went there, it said Google, Cloudflare, and Frank's Dildo Emporium all down, like of all the random sites, why pick FDE?

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[-] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago

What is character.ai? Have I been living under a stone? When I visit the page I have to log in just to learn what it is?

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[-] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago

... What's ERP? Or don't I want to know?

[-] [email protected] 44 points 3 weeks ago

I put on my robe and wizard hat

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[-] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago

Enterprise resource planning

[-] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago

Erotic resource planning

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago

My front-line guess is "Erotic Role Play" but I am not familiar with character.ai

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[-] Mwa 132 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Ohh that's why everything is slow and this is my sanity check.

But its scary how if Cloudflare went down most popular websites will go down with it

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[-] [email protected] 39 points 3 weeks ago

It blocks anyone not using one of its preferred browsers, among other things. It's become the gatekeeper for a large fraction of the Internet.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago

It also flags my DNS filter and nearly every site I go to has to "check if I'm human"

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago

Most people who dislike cloudflare do so for their centralization of the internet, rightly so.

Me? I HATE THE STUPID "VERIFYING YOUR REQUEST" PROMPTS. THEY TAKE WAYYY TOO LONG AND DONT WORK WITH MY USER AGENT SWITCHER. STUPID WEBSITES WITH 3 MONTHLY USERS ARE TURNING ON ADVANCED "DDOS PROTECTION" JUST TO MAKE EVERY FUNCTION OF THEIR APP TAKE 18 MONTHS

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[-] [email protected] 94 points 3 weeks ago

Lemmy is working though. What else do we need?

[-] [email protected] 39 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I think that at least some instances use Cloudflare for various things, so depending upon what and how much stuff at Cloudflare is broken, some lemmy instances may be impacted.

[-] [email protected] 91 points 3 weeks ago

I remember the day I went why are we all selfhosting and still relying on a site like Cloudflare?.

I'm glad I agreed with me on it.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago

this “me” character is so smart, aren’t they

[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

Oh, he's the best. Keeps me out of trouble, that one.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago

I've migrated about half of my services off of cloudflare DNS proxy. Guess which half still worked this afternoon. (Self hosting pangolin with CrowdSec as replacement). I wasn't even using the cloudflare tunnel. Just their proxy for some bot mitigation.

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Nowadays they will tell you to work on something else in the meantime.

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[-] [email protected] 59 points 3 weeks ago

I actually enjoy when this happens. All this centralized shit will not end well.

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[-] [email protected] 57 points 3 weeks ago

*Laughs in self-hosting services.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago

I wish I had that luxury with work.

All my personal stuff is 100% unaffected though!

[-] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

You're not wrong. The gangly stacks of orchestrated black-box containers at a pubcloud beholden to shareholder whim is going to be a huge factor. Sorry grandma can't get her pills, but - phew - the number will still go up.

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[-] [email protected] 40 points 3 weeks ago

At work just about all major services are super slow or down. It's like cloud strike again.

Oh well I still get paid. But it's crazy how much centralization affects the world wide web.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It’s like cloud strike again

When The Cloud goes on Strike. Damn it they're just asking for more power, Scotty! Don't let those scabs cross the picket line!

[-] [email protected] 38 points 3 weeks ago

Honestly, I didn't even notice.

[-] [email protected] 32 points 3 weeks ago

Dafuq is a character.ai and why is it in the same list as google and cloudflare? Like yea my local grocery store had some issues should that be on the list too?

[-] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

An AI chatbot that pretends to be a character and you roleplay with it.

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[-] [email protected] 31 points 3 weeks ago

c/selfhosted having a field day rn

[-] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago

The answer always seems to be: Cloudflare is fucking up again. This isn't the first time.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago
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[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

Was trying to order food online and that was apparently affected.

Gotta love having all our eggs in one basket, eh? We learned something from the big ass east coast AWS outage!

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

Uh huh, just before a major democracy attacked an evil, evil country. Must be coincidence.

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