So this "article" "source" is Cloudflare, claiming Cloudflare blocked some super duper mega attack, but gives zero verifiable detail about any of it.
Now I hate Cloudflare with a passion, but even setting that aside, this is journalistic malpractice - it's basically a sponsored post. I was going to say I expected better from Ars Technica, but their glory days are long gone.
There are many reasons Cloudflare should be hated. The main one is that their goal is to centralize the Internet. A secondary one is all those bloody captchas. A tertiary one is that they often block Tor, even if you pass a captcha. Yes, it's configurable, but their recommended settings are the ones that help break the internet. A fourth one is that many DDoS-for-hire sites are protected behind Cloudflare, which allows them because they are good for its business model. Need I go on?
However in this case I think we can rely on them to tell us what they did. If they say they got a 7.3 Tbps UDP DDoS, chances are good they actually did.
tbh i get you ; but one has to realize this has nothing to do with that company and everything to do with the current nature of technological business where "everyone wins it all
What I say is that instead of hating on cloudflare one can look up how a DNS server works and start getting into DDOS mitigation ; but even after a couple of month anybody would still just have scratched the surface of it.
I don't think it's Cloudflare "goal" to centralize the internet, neither it is to set up captcha everywhere ; but it's definitely frustrating
It's every internet company's goal to centralize the part of the internet that aligns with what they so; cloudflare's part happens to be most of the internet, since they provide low-level infrastructure services.
I had a OnePlus whatever as a work phone in my last job. Every time I used adb to purge the OnePlus crap, it would somehow find its way back. Eventually I settled on disabling autoupdates from the play store, so it was stuck at whatever outdated, and hopefully broken, version the phone shipped with.
>banks and the like have a say in how I choose to access their more convenient services
I disagree. I don't understand how it's fine that I can access my banking services with my Gentoo machine, with everything compiled from source by myself, but it's somehow a problem when I'm not using either Apple or Google certified OS on my phone.
I'm sure they want to prevent the first scenario, like various streaming cartels already do, but I hope something like EU throws a fit if they do.
What kind of actions can gentoo do with your financial accounts, and what levels of user authentication does it use to do it? My phone can effectively act as a bank card with contactless payment or I can transfer up to a daily allowance (that would be painful to me if it was misused) of thousands with biometric auth. Similar to the OS if you're doing that with any browser with a web login you could potentially compile it to behave how you like or lie about what it's doing
Because it's a bank there's going to be insurance behind the scenes to cover them if something goes wrong, and I assume part of that is ticking off enough points to be confident a transaction is secure or different payment limits on confidence levels.
Well that obviously didn't work. I got rid of my Iphone, but I remember the app store as being an absolute wasteland of garbage, and discoverability was awful. I don't know if it was a slogan, or an ad campaign once, but there was this thing with "there's an app for that". Yea I guess maybe there is, but good luck finding it, and finding one that isn't riddled with ads and scammy in-app purchases, and then further good luck that the developer of it keeps paying apple 99$ dollars every year so the app isn't delisted.
I'm not saying Google is any better. I've pretty much given up on apps and app stores at this point. If I find something new, it's something I'm made aware of via other channels (or unavoidable bullshit like mandatory app based car parking etc.).
I mean you're right and you've said it yourself already, but in comparison to try Play Store there apps from the App Store are like double the quality on average. Because most of the extremely low effort bs is kept out. I still hate the fee though, dont get me wrong.
Good point. Yes - exactly that. I wish there was more nitpick in life; it is the best way of improvement; observation and comment of detail. Thank you.
FrameWork is not openly hostile towards right-to-repair, and do not actively sabotage repair efforts. Try calling Apple and ask for spare parts or circuit diagrams. Anything you find is either leaked, cloned/copied or trash-picked. It barely qualifies as spare parts.
I registered as britneyspears, but dang got mad and made me change it. :(
I thought the absurdity of Britney being on HN was amusing.
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