> A change made to how Cloudflare's Web Application Firewall parses requests caused Cloudflare's network to be unavailable for several minutes this morning. This was not an attack; the change was deployed by our team to help mitigate the industry-wide vulnerability disclosed this week in React Server Components. We will share more information as we have it today.
Edinburgh Airport is also down, suspending all flights after an "IT issue with our air traffic control provider". Not sure if this is coincidental, but the timing is rather suspicious!
Instead of figuring out a novel way of distributing content a stateful way with security and redundancy in mind we have created the current centralised monstrosity that we call the modern web. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The old guard has left as they we too much of an expense in this cost-cutting age... without mentors, crap creeps in and now we are seeing what happens when people don't know how things work, are in charge...
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No cloudflare no problem
https://github.com/docker/model-runner
If this is unwrap() again, we need to have a talk about Rust panic safety.
Some interesting DNS data https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46159249