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Hung by a thread 6 months ago

Meh, I enjoyed reading it. I could be LLM-assisted but also I have a bunch of younger devs on my team who do actually write like this

You’re welcome to not like the article, and it can even be LLM-assisted, but that doesn’t mean it’s slop

Cloudflare isn't one of the good guys here

Came here to say the same thing, post was interesting until I got to that point.

nuisance captchas

Try using the internet outside of the western world and major hubs. Cloudflare make it so painful with captchas and browser integrity checks

This is a great project! I like and use Wayland but the portal protocols and extension mechanism does leave a lot to be desired. Wayland is still quite a way behind Windows and macOS in terms of what productivity users need

An X11 rewrite with some security baked in is an awesome approach. Will be watching!

If an individual site took on the infra challenges themselves, would they achieve better? I don’t think so.

The point is that it doesn’t matter. A single site going down has a very small chance of impacting a large number of users. Cloudflare going down breaks an appreciable portion of the internet.

If Jim’s Big Blog only maintains 95% uptime, most people won’t care. If BofA were at 95%.. actually same. Most of the world aren’t BofA customers.

If Cloudflare is at 99.95% then the world suffers

Definitely fair but for the candidate considering this, it's a numbers game. They're just looking to get their foot in the door for a new career path. You care, and you're right to care, but there will be others who don't.

Then next time, it's no longer a lie and they can (in theory) get by on merit

If you're a normal person in a country that Cloudflare considers "scammy" - your internet experience is very different from someone based in the US. Your personal online behaviour is irrelevant

I kind of think this is correct but not for the reason you think. To most engineers, users are the annoying thing on the other end of a ticket. They “don’t know how to use the product properly”.

I’ve also had great success dropping engineers directly in front of customers. I think it’s just because it humanizes the person behind the ticket