Using Cloudflare on your website could be blocking Safari users, Chrome users, or just any users. It’s totally broken. They have no way of measuring the false positives. Website owners are paying for it in lost revenue. And poor users who lose access for no fault of their own. Until some C-level exec at a BigTech randomly gets blocked and makes noise. But even then, Cloudflare will probably just whitelist that specific domain/IP. It is very interesting how I have never been blocked when trying to access Cloudflare itself, only blocked on their customer’s sites.
There is just one “little” problem which remains unsolved: how to make money while “not selling” calories? It’s easy to make money by selling more calories: you add sugars, artificial compounds leading to mental addiction, you invest in heavy marketing and expansive distribution channels. All of this makes your product available and desirable, a money printing machine, at the cost of society’s health and wellbeing. So until someone can answer the question of how to do the same without the side effect to society, unfortunately the majority will continue to suffer for the benefit of the very few.
It would be an utter failure. WP Engine is just a hosting provider. Their entire business model is based on the name recognition of Wordpress. And Wordpress itself is built on ancient technology. So you are saying leave the brand and take the ancient technology then try to make it successful under a completely new brand? It’s a nonsense.
It is Open Source, right? It means everyone is free to change the source. Oh wait, but that’s hard. Much easier to just point your control panel at the original distribution and start the money printing machine while someone else is footing the bill.
I am an outsider to WordPress ecosystem but what really annoys me is that even here on HN people can’t tell the difference between OpenSource software and using another’s services without authorization. They can’t tell the difference between “free as in speech” and “free as in beer”. I am utterly disappointed by that and wish the community will educate itself. Surely releasing the software under open source license does not give commercial entities the right to leach off of the foundation’s infrastructure in perpetuity. That being said, certainly Matt could have taken a different approach. Just that he sounds like a nice guy and didn’t do it. The right thing to do would be to put a statement in the terms of service saying “by accessing Wordpress.org for commercial purposes through automated means you agree to the charge of $1000/MB downloaded using your IP address”. Then sends multi-billion dollar invoices to WPEngine like Oracle would do. File lawsuits. Replace the updates and plugins when requested through WPEngine IPs with ones showing a “Cease and Desist” notice and notifying end users that access to their site is denied due to outstanding invoice of their hosting provider. Boom. Checkmate.
Thanks for explaining and I am sure you have more experience with this type of scale but wouldn’t you say that ChatGPT is an example of “hand crafted artisanal page”, where not only every person sees a different answer but every interaction with the page results a different response. Of course they have a ton of VC money to burn but could it be that technology optimization (especially on the backend and hosting provider) could be the solution to this cost issue as opposed to blaming product features?
Can you please elaborate more on this? Price they will pay for changes? Not getting it, is it that the target market is slow forcing owners to lower the price? Doesn’t explain “costs more to run” part.
Marked where? With the assigning authority of the IP address which has been granted the legal right to manage the IP space (a common good)? Or in the database of some arbitrary company?
It should be illegal for providers to override the location information provided by the owner of the IP. Hopefully the FTC will look into this abuse.
In the real world this would be the equivalent of me putting my shipping address on an order but the store deciding to ship it to some random place because they “believe” that’s my actual address.
Just another spin on communism and central planning. Why don’t we let the market decide? Why don’t we let people decide what is best for them instead of forcing one technology or another? Inflation is ultra high yet we are ignoring the root cause: increasing cost of inputs due to new taxes and tariffs, and instead hoping that by also increasing the cost of capital all will be good again.
Still using docker so you can upgrade most of it on every deployment. As far as the host, modern Linux distros handle security updates automatically and unattended. I do recommend having a backup replica server in standby. If you need to upgrade the kernel on the host you just change the DNS to point to your backup, wait for some time for connections to finish on your primary then restart the primary, ensure it is stable, change DNS back. It’s standard A/B deployment. Nothing special about it.
Try again. More like comparing Excel with VB macros (cloud) to a programming language. Artificial proprietary restrictions and inexplicable intricacies.
Article is totally spot on! However, people have been so brainwashed by cloud marketing that they don’t even know what dedicated hardware means anymore. Even the comments here are talking about VPS. Almost everybody has accepted underperforming and unpredictable infra for double the cost of dedicated. OP is spot on, I do exactly the same.
In today’s world there are choices but the choice is made by those in power “for us”, so we don’t even need to worry about making a choice. They say you want windows, huge lawns, low rise buildings and planty of parking space. If you can’t afford it you go homeless.
I don’t know about that but what I can tell you was a very common practice in all earlier generations was drinking hard liquor. What does it do to bacteria?
No, the article is about you connecting to your home from the corporate network over OpenVPN. The case you are describing, while possible, is highly unlikely to be detected unless you are using a public VPN. Most of the time your employer just cares to check a box saying employees are working from the US and has no incentive to go the extra mile to active traffic monitoring and deep packet inspection. Hell, some are so incompetent, a CTO once said employees can work offshore as long as they are using Remote Desktop to a VM in the US because then they are “telecommuting”, but they can’t connect over the corporate VPN.
we don't know how much each factor contributed to the sh*tstorm but it all came at once: Covid over-hiring, high hopes for LLM efficiency gains, S174, interest rate hikes, mass layoffs (do you really want to go against the crowd and hire when everyone is laying off?).
Market is the worst it has ever been, at least in the last 10 years but even before because now supply significantly outnumbers demand. Most people on LinkedIn have a green badge. The economy is doomed. Keep rising interest rates to the sky.
This is the best explanation so far. If you want to store value in non-inflationary asset you can purchase gold. But there is no guarantee that the value of gold against the fruit of other people’s labor will remain constant or increase over time. It doesn’t matter that the total amount of gold remains constant. If the world consists of gold hoarders who want to buy food but all they can offer is gold and one farmer who has food for sale then that one farmer can demand as much gold as the market is willing to pay for the scarce good food.
You can always SSH from Machine B to Machine A and expose any local Machine B port to the internet as a port on Machine A. The feature is called GatewayPorts and is a standard SSH feature (at least in OpenSSH). It does not require installing anything other than SSH on Machine A (or even Machine B, unless you want a script to re-establish the tunnel upon disconnect).
Cyclists are just dangerous and until we look at statistics we can’t assume that AI does worse than humans in protecting cyclists. As a driver, it took me many years to get into the habit of shoulder checking when turning right from the right lane. I always have my turning signal but to cyclists it doesn’t mean much, they will always try to pass me on the right on the intersection. Cyclists sometimes behave as though they are pedestrians and other times they behave as vehicles, depending on what is convenient. Or that may just be me trying to rationalize their erratic behavior. There are no traffic lights or signs for cyclists.
These infinite verification prompts are the reason I no longer consider Cloudflare as an option for business use and would not recommend it to anyone. I know that they are configurable by the admins but they give bad PR to Cloudflare. I am not sure what this company was thinking associating itself with such a terrible user experience.