itzjacki

> CF is probably the largest entity serving pirated content internationally while hiding the identities of actual perpetrators for privacy.

I'm already on board, you don't need to sell it to me!

Finally that time of year again! I've been looking forward to this for a long time. I usually drop off about halfway anyways (finished day 13, 14 and 13 the previous 3 years), as that's when December gets too busy for me to enjoy it properly, so I personally don't mind the reduction in problems at all, really. I'm just happy we still have great puzzles to look forward to.

Exactly. The only way this could happen in the first place was _because_ they failed at so many levels. And as a result, more layers of Swiss cheese will be added, and holes in existing ones will be patched. This process is the reason flying is so safe, and the reason why Cloudflare will be a little bit more resilient tomorrow than it was yesterday.

Good point. We should probably assume they did, until proven otherwise.

Oh don't you worry. We are very much talking about the global outage as if he was the root cause. Like good colleagues :)

A colleague of mine just came bursting through my office door in a panic, thinking he brought our site down since this happened just as he made some changes to our Cloudflare config. He was pretty relieved to see this post.

> They have nothing to do with AI.

Not inherently, but I think LLM services (and maybe other AI based stuff) are corruptible in a much more dangerous way than the things our socioeconomic system has corrupted so far.

Having companies pay to end up on the top of the search engine pile is one thing, but being able to weave commerciality into what are effectively conversations between vulnerable users and an entity they trust is a whole other level of terrible.