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Not sure why, but this page is _grindingly slow_ on Firefox. Initial load, etc.

EDIT: TLS setup took 15s. Not sure whats up with that. Honeypot / content hack puzzle?

EDIT^2: It took some time to load, but after watching two, my thoughts are that the deep fakes are okay -- B on a grade scale. The mouth movement has some uncanny valley but the audio is spot on. Well done.

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getting linked on HN is not dissimilar from a DDOS

Remember, folks: host your static content on CDN

The reason we self hosted the videos is for fear of takedowns. Even though it was posted on April Fool's Day and they are obviously satire, some of the people targeted have very thin skin and are fond of lawsuits.

Of course that was before it made the front page of hacker news :)

I'm sort of new to web content, networking, and front end. New as in I can grok dev tools but not root causes. What do you reckon was causing the TLS to take 15s?

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