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For some reason this reminded me of chiptunes ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf_p3-8fTo0 [Pretty sure some of you will recognize some of these tunes] )
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There's more here if anyone's interested.
Seriously dislike this attitude some folks on HN has about crypto, yes there's massive fraudsters and there's lots of technical issues in this space. But so is most other spaces, fraudsters and criminals didn't happen to suddenly pop up after 2009 you know, they have been here always, everywhere. There's valid uses for crypto and the blockchain, I personally know several folks who were able to move away from war zones with some of their wealth intact thanks to crypto. I know people who send money to their parents back home thanks to crypto, minus the ridiculous fees predatory companies were charging them to send fiat before. Its not all roses sunshine and butterflies, but there's real people who are benefiting from this tech.
[1]https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/canadas-major...
[2]https://www.google.com/search?q=Bank+system+outage&source=ln...
I mainly use it for Plex and my Xbox, everything works really well for those purposes, so I appreciate LG at-least giving me the option to not use all of its "smart" features.
--edit-- I am using this TV in B.C Canada.
With kagi, I almost never have to go back to google. Its really good for programming related searches as well. One of my favourite features about them is I can block certain sites from appearing on my search results and see more of certain sites.
>I also find that nothing is being served from the domain mnf90.com after it's reinstated, not sure if this has been the case in the last few months.
https://web.archive.org/web/*/mnf90.com
lol there was nothing else running here. Now that you mention it, maybe I should start blogging here.
Lets hope cf would tell us what exactly happened and why they were so aggressive and why there was no warning to let their customers prepare before they decided to do this.
This line pretty much echos my attitude to cf going forward. Come to think of it, not just CF guess its going to apply to every company I deal with going forward. Although it sounds good in theory, wonder how hard it is going to be to apply this on every situation I rely on a 3rd party company.
For the websites you own, you registered your domain with someone right? What happens when that company decides to have some AI decide if you are doing something illegal?
Until today I "never had" any of these issues as well, the main issue here is we have to rely on large companies (or small companies for that matter tbh) to do "the right thing", and we don't have many options to solve it. I got super lucky some folks browsing HN decided to get my post some attention.
What is the alternative though?
The web has turned in to this massive mess where most of us don't have the ability to do anything without having to rely on some ban happy mega corp.
Even something that was built to be decentralized like email has turned in to a (sort of) centralized architecture, try hosting your own email, everything goes in to spam.
Host a website and piss off some kid with $5 to spare, you get ddosed.
The web is owned by the big corps, as long as everyone of us come together and fix this it will be a very long time (if ever) before we have a truly decentralized internet.
So yeh, the only option I have is to take this lightheartedly and move on.
I too am really interested in figuring out why I(free) and my clients(paid subscriptions) will trust cloudflare. Mistakes happen, but I can't even imagine my situation if HN didn't come to my aid.
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Helo,
To clarify the issue, this account was identified in a recent fraud review, however it appears to have been a false positive. We have left a note in this account for future reference.
Kind Regards, Cloudflare Trust & Safety
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Hello,
With regard to your inquiry, we have restored the domain names in your account to active status. Please allow for normal propagation. You will need to re-add mnf90.com to your account in order to manage it. Our apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused.
Kind Regards, Cloudflare Trust & Safety
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Not much info lol, but guess its fixed now?
Thanks HN for up-voting my post and helping me get the attention of CF. Time to go figure-out how not to get in to this situation again, and a way to mitigate this incase the AI gets angry again. Funniest thing about this is, I wanted my own email because I was afraid of this scenario, getting locked out of everything, what happens if big G or M decide to close my account down?
Again, thanks HN. Really appreciate you folks for helping me get the attention.
I know @eastdakota mentioned he has a script that gets triggered when someone mentions cloudflare on HN, hopefully this will help resolve this issue.
So I opened a support ticket and someone from their support team closed the ticket and said their safety team will respond to me.
Few mins later I got an email from them with the content in the original post.
How exactly though?
Wish there was some kind of link on the message where you can submit feedback.
Well by that reasoning, all legal agreements should just say, "we are not responsible for anything, we take what we want don't, you can't sue us".
The mining process is what makes bitcoin valuable, the energy is what's used to secure btc, there is "USE" to the energy used.
If fb did meta as a separate company/project and not directly linked to zukerburg and maybe had fb as a partner company they would have made this whole thing feel less silly and less creepy.
Whenever I hear about tech helping save lives it always fills me with joy to think about all the effort that went in to building this tech, to all the people who involuntarily helped make that tech become a reality.
One of our projects used to get ddosed and as a small company the only reason we managed to survive was thanks to OVH. When the attackers kept changing their attacks, we were direct to talk to their engineers and they helped fix the issue, all we had to do was send a bunch of packet captures to them.
Over the years since then we had a few issues and every single time their customer support was really helpful.
I have used paid support from google, azure and amazon, but I have had a better customer service experience with OVH overall.