It's occasional mass outages for a short time, vs more frequent small outages and security issues.

Don't forget that Cloudflare handles a lot of the security for sites that use it. Not just DDOS protection, but things like user authentication and HTTPS.

I mean it matters, not that there is good competition. Cloudflare is rather dominant.

I think I saw someone swimming in some sewage en route from scraping a bear carcass off the road, let me go check.

1. I got asked once if I played world of warcraft since they say a guy with the name "thegarbz" playing. I said no. By the way I know exactly who that person is because he impersonated me as a joke. I found that flattering and funny, but it has no impact on my life beyond that.

Reminds me of my first email account ;) One of my professors said we all had to register for an email account (this was in the mid-90s) so we could submit our homework to him, so I registered his name at hotmail.com to mess with him ;)

I don't trust single points of failure.

Yeah, this. If I have to sign up to some site that I don't care at all if it gets hacked, I use a throwaway password. Oh noez, someone might compromise my WidgetGenerator.foo.bar account and generate some widgets in my name, heavens to betsy!

In this case centralization isn't a bad idea. Okay, occasionally there is a problem, but when there is a massive amount of resources are thrown at it, and it gets fixed quickly. Meanwhile their software is updated and constantly tested, so it's more secure and stable than most in-house efforts. It's their full time job, where as it's usually just the IT guy's background task when the company manages it themselves.

What matters is that there is still competition, to keep the market working properly, and that such services are properly regulated.

The only laptops I'd consider to have even half decent security are Lenovo ones, and of course Lenovo is a Chinese company.

> The software had a built-in limit of 200 bot detection features. The enlarged file contained more than 200 entries. The software crashed when it encountered the unexpected file size.

A built in limit is:

if ( rule_count > 200 )
    log_urgent('rule count exceeded')
    break
else
    rule_count++
    process_rule

This sounds like it did not have a built-in limit but rather walked off the end of an array or something when the count went over 200.

Plus Larry Ellison is cheeto's buddy. They made plans for snatching up TikTok back in 2020. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/1...

100% projection.

The US government (ICE) tramples on peoples rights daily. Yet they never shut up about what China is supposedly doing. I fear my government much more than one on the other side of the planet. If the rights of undesirables can be violated then they certainly have no qualms about violating yours.

They also never shut up about religion but I can't find any bible passages relating to rounding people up into camps.

Reread prior comment as necessary.

This is still something Slashdot needs to fix because it doesn't just crop up for people confused by multiple mouse buttons, it's also a thing for anyone copying and pasting portions of articles with quotations in them.

Siri has been one of the weakest assistants for many years now, and given that they usually just ship half finished software (Apple Maps comes to mind), I'm surprised they were able to resist. Maybe there is another reason, like it kills the battery.

It's interesting that there seems to be more paranoia over fears that the Chinese government may possibly have backdoors in network gear, than there is over US companies that we know for a fact have NSA backdoors in their network gear.