> is basically hacking around a load of text files telling their trillion dollar wonder machine it absolutely must stop talking to customers about goblins, gremlins and ogres?

I wonder how the developer(s) felt, who had to push that PR.

My theory is a state-sponsored actor targeting some of these services, but maybe that's just too 'tinfoil hat' of me, who knows.

There are usually very comprehensive post mortems for these events, and none have suggested that at all

This only amplifies the often-repeated propaganda about the "very powerful" enemies of democracy, who in fact are very fragile dictatorships. There's enough incompetence at tech companies to f up their own stuff.

My theory is DNS.

I assume you're joking, but as an FYI, Rebecca Heineman died:

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/legendary-game-desig...

ChatGPT and Claude are down as a result, too.

Y'know, along with most other SAAS services.

Yes exactly - and they still have aging hardware, only 1Gb Ethernet and have recently nerfed H.265 support.

Too little, too late. I finished my 48TB Unraid build a couple of weeks ago :)

If Synology want me back as a customer, they also need to get modern CPUs, 2.5Gb or 10Gb Ethernet and reverse course on H.265 too.

Hi Matthew, Cloudflare just charged my card $235 with no prior warning (for a service I intended to cancel when I received the renewal reminder). I did not receive any renewal reminders, no advance notice of payment, no invoice. Nothing.

Is this normal operating behaviour for Cloudflare? This seems like very very bad anti-consumer behaviour?

Do you have a support ticket number about this? You can email me (email in profile) and I'll make sure support sees it.

A great essay, and it explains exactly why I left software development (as a career working for someone else).

Too much of what I call emergency-led management.

Their own summary is here: https://youtu.be/yGXaAWbzl5A

Paul Hibbert (a UK tech YouTuber) was also hacked in a similar way, and he dived into info on that here: https://youtu.be/0NdZrrzp7UE

Interesting for sure. The first time I done it, I had a beauty score of 5. I then put glasses on and got better lighting, and got up to a 7.

It kept saying my age was 18-20, but I'm 32.

Finally it kept predicting my BMI as 30+, even though it's 22.5.

So it was interesting, and a pretty cool tech demonstration, but it wasn't too accurate for me.

How far is it from 'beauty score' to 'aryan score' ?

I am far from white, with black hair, black beard and brown eyes and got a 9.5 on attractiveness...

I think it's wrong though, judging by my "success" (lack of) with women.