A lot of people here seem to be forgetting [Hanlon's Razor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor)

> Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

You seem to forget that Hanlon's Razor isn't a proven concept, in fact the opposite is more likely to be true, given that pesky thing called recorded history.

Hanlons razor is true because it’s more entertaining, and our simulation runs on stories as they’re cheaper to compute than honest physics.

Except for when it's actual malice vOv

It could be both. And in many situations malice and stupidity are the same thing.

How can {deliberately doing harmful things for a desired harmful outcome} and {doing whatever things with lack of judgment and disregard to consequences at all} be the same thing? In what situations?

All fun and games until Google bans your account for ToS violation.

Seriously, if you actually have important stuff in your Google account I would warn against doing this. You’ll lose all of it more than likely.

You can use steganography, at the cost of (much?) lower bandwidth. You can apply it to one of those “10 hours of x” videos. And of course, use a dedicated Google account.

I wonder if there'd be a stenographic way of hiding the data in a normal looking video so you wouldn't get banned for beach of TOS

Of course there is but the people doing this likely aren’t going to advertise their methods as that’ll get them undue attention.

In this case it is not. A power outage in a critical data-center is the root cause here: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/hm7491k53ppg

I am in this DC, and we lost power to all of our racks but one. Power was restored about 2 hours later. I would assume Cloudflare had some significant failures in equipment due to the power drop. We lost a couple of servers that didn't come back up, which is not uncommon problem with hardware that has been running without a power-off for 4-5 years.

What I'm confused by is we had "power partially restored" 22 hours ago, and no news from PDX02 since.

I assume both Clouflare and Flexential are on DEFCON 1 right now, but I'm wondering if it might be more than just the building going dark.

There's something about a failover than was attempted and crashed halfway through, but unclear if that's what's causing the 24h+ situation.

if it was a state sponsored attack, various 3 letter agencies may want to investigate which could slow down restoration of service

If you can't cope with the loss of a data centre you're not really running a resilient system.

On yesterday's post someone that used to work at CF mentioned that PDX is "the brain" and if it goes down data stops propagating and starts getting stale. It's crazy to me that a company that is so critical to SO MUCH of the traffic on the internet doesn't even have a failover strategy for "the brain" of their operation.

Not great to know an aspiring hyperscaler is one tornado away from insolvency.

I dont think PDX would get many tornados BUT the PNW has the joys of earthquakes that are overdue.

It's amusing, I have plans on how much service degradation I can accept and what I need to keep working in the UK if the Thames Barrier is breached (which would flood most of the UK's internet connectivity in places like Telehouse, Sovereign House, etc)

To have 30% of the internet relying on a single building in a single city is hilarious.

Especially 15 hours after the DC comes back up and you're still offline.

Looks like they already snagged it for themselves.

Just noted on HN and already incident upgrade. Much faster "response" than most other companies:-)

All the best to the people fixing!

Works for me: https://blog.sapico.me/

Seems to be 30 minutes. According to status page.

Fix is fast. Curious what it was.

> Dried arterial blood red

... Horrifying

I got 3/20, because I've never used AWS professionally.

I got 3/20 and use AWS professionally

I'm getting _very_ slow requests. Getting the down message too:

> Our systems are a bit busy at the moment, please take a break and try again soon.

"Is the US trying to enforce pre-existing financial regulation on Crypto in the US?"

fixed that crappy title for you! and no need to read, the answer is "Yes."

Which basically means the same thing, as the main use of crypto right now is to avoid financial regulation.

FreshRSS is pretty robust. Been running it on my own server for almost a year with zero issues.

FreshRSS is brilliant. Its ability to fetch full pages, filter CSS elements and utilise session cookies from my browser make it very easy to get a full-text article from most websites I'm interested in. If you're able to spend a little time fine-tuning after you set it up, it can be a very rewarding installation.