Keep in mind that those LLMs are one of the bigger reasons why we see more and more anti bot behaviour on sites like SO.

That aggressive crawling to train those on everything is insane.

Based on this:

> Simon gave my backpack back to me intact.

I'd say yes.

That reading skill you have is really impressive.

I can't even imagine a world in which everybody could do it!

(sarcasm intended for the grand-poster, not you)

OK, perhaps there are regional differences in language, or perhaps I'm just a moron, to me the "backpack being intact" does not obviously say anything about the contents of the backpack, to me it's a synonym for "undamaged", and neither are phrases I would use to describe the original contents of the backpack all still being present.

Either it's an American English thing, or if other Americans did not share my confusion then I guess it's just a me thing, and the appropriate response is for you to make fun of me and tell me I don't know how to read, so nice work.

If you consume a service that's free of charge, it's at least not reasonable to complain if there's an outage.

Like mentioned by other comments, do it on your own if you are not happy with the stability. Or just pay someone to provide it - like your ISP..

And TBH I trust my local ISP more than Google or CF. Not in availability, but it's covered by my local legislature. That's a huge difference - in a positive way.

> it's covered by my local legislature

which might not be a good thing in some jurisdictions - see the porn block in the UK (it's done via dns iirc, and trivially bypassed with a third party dns like cloudflare's).

Yeah it has its pros and cons, sadly.

So far I'm lucky and the only ban I'm aware of is on gambling. Which is fine for me personally.

But in a UK case I'd using a non local one as well.

> it's at least not reasonable to complain if there's an outage.

I don't think this is fair when discussing infrastructure. It's reasonable to complain about potholes, undrinkable tap water, long lines at the DMV, cracked (or nonexistent) sidewalks, etc. The internet is infrastructure and DNS resolution is a critical part of it. That it hasn't been nationalized doesn't change the fact that it's infrastructure (and access absolutely should be free) and therefore everyone should feel free to complain about it not working correctly.

"But you pay taxes for drinkable tap water," yes, and we paid taxes to make the internet work too. For some reason, some governments like the USA feel it to be a good idea to add a middle man to spend that tax money on, but, fine, we'll complain about the middle man then as well.

But you can just run a recursive resolver. Plenty of packages to install. The root DNS servers were not affected, so you would have been just fine.

DNS is infrastructure. But "Cloudflare Public Free DNS Resolver" is not, it's just a convenience and a product to collect data.

One can even run a private root content DNS server, and not be affected by root problems either.

(This isn't a major concern, of course; and I mention it just to extend your argument yet further. The major gain of a private root content DNS server is the fraction of really stupid nonsense DNS traffic that comes about because of various things gets filtered out either on-machine or at least without crossing a border router. The gains are in security and privacy more than uptime.)

>That it hasn't been nationalized doesn't change the fact that it's infrastructure (and access absolutely should be free) and therefore everyone should feel free to complain about it not working correctly.

>"But you pay taxes for drinkable tap water," yes, and we paid taxes to make the internet work too. For some reason, some governments like the USA feel it to be a good idea to add a middle man to spend that tax money on, but, fine, we'll complain about the middle man then as well.

You don't want DNS to be nationalized. Even the US would have half the internet banned by now.

You are right infrastructure is important.

But opposite to tap water there are a lot of different free DNS resolvers that can be used.

And I don't see how my taxes funded CFs DNS service. But my ISP fee covers their DNS resolving setup. That's the reason why I wrote

> a service that's free of charge

Which CF is.

DNS shouldn't be privatized at all since it's a critical part of internet infrastructure, however at the same time the idea that somehow it's something a corporation should be allowed to sell to you at all (or "give you for free") is silly given that the service is meaningless without the infrastructure of the internet, which is built by governments (through taxes). I can't even think of an equivalent it's so ridiculous that it's allowed at all, my best guess would be maybe, if your landlord was allowed to charge you for walking on the sidewalk in front of the apartment or something.

DNS is not privatized. This is not about the root DNS servers, it's just about one of many free resolvers out there - in this case one of the bigger and popular ones.

Wasn't that the case since ever?

I see it like you.

I can't even imagine how hard it must be to grow up in such a society.

We still have eMail in place. If they don't want to spend money on an SMS they can send an eMail.

If browser notification permissions would have a TTL, I'd might considering it. But until this happens I won't allow anyone to send me browser notifications. And even then I'd be very picky.

Emails have essentially become notifications anyway. All my emails are things like "your booking has been confirmed", "your package has been shipped", "your invoice is ready for download", "a login from a new device happened", "your flight is delayed", etc.

Emails have a mature ecosystem. We've been getting spam and scam emails since 1994, we have tools for dealing with it.

I hate newsletters, but in this case: Can i subscribe something to get an update when you've more languages available?

E.g. I'd love to use it for Norwegian -> German

I don't have a mailing list at the moment, but I will create one and send product updates to the people that have accounts, so if you create an account with your email I will send updates that way.

It's probably a specific policy of Samsung which doesn't allow the word samsung in recipient addresses. I had the same issue, but with samsung@private-domain.tld

gnusmas@private-domain.tld worked just fine..

I've learned that Akamai has a service that deals with this specific problem, maybe this might interest you as well: https://www.akamai.com/products/content-protector

Sadly I'm not able to enter any command. Even after disabling the ad blocker

Same here, tried clicking near the prompt, nothing. Maybe I'm bad at git, can't even perform a simple commit.

edit: right after typing this, I clicked the title of the MacOS styled window to the left and somehow it worked, even though clicking everywhere inside it didn't.

I had this issue, a page refresh helped