Character.ai being mentioned in the same line is a sign of the times.
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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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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.
It also flags my DNS filter and nearly every site I go to has to "check if I'm human"
Lemmy is working though. What else do we need?
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.
this “me” character is so smart, aren’t they
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.
This is my workday now
Nowadays they will tell you to work on something else in the meantime.
The problem was actually caused by Google Google Cloud went down hard on Thursday, and took Cloudflare and some of its customers with it.
I actually enjoy when this happens. All this centralized shit will not end well.
*Laughs in self-hosting services.
I wish I had that luxury with work.
All my personal stuff is 100% unaffected though!
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.
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.
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?
An AI chatbot that pretends to be a character and you roleplay with it.
c/selfhosted having a field day rn
The answer always seems to be: Cloudflare is fucking up again. This isn't the first time.
Google Cloud status page:
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!
Uh huh, just before a major democracy attacked an evil, evil country. Must be coincidence.

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