that's 4 outages

-KynloStephen66515 (August 06, 2024, 05:44 PM)

Could be continued, but I'll leave this as an exercise to the readers.

-Tuxman (August 06, 2024, 07:57 AM)

 :P

Only a single one of those posts has anything to do with Cloudflare being the issue.  The rest are just informative posts about widespread internet outages across the world.

-KynloStephen66515 (August 05, 2024, 02:41 PM)

The single outage that has anything to do with Cloudflare (1):
https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-outage

The single outage that has anything to do with Cloudflare (2):
https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-outage-on-july-17-2020

The single outage that has anything to do with Cloudflare (3):
https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-outage-on-june-21-2022/

The single outage that has anything to do with Cloudflare (4):
https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-incident-on-june-20-2024

(Could be continued, but I'll leave this as an exercise to the readers.)

In all of these cases, sites without Clownflare "protection" had no problems being available everywhere in the world. These problems with their network "services" are multiplied by occasional failures of their DNS "service" (= those who use it cannot resolve domains), their CDN "service" (= those who use it, their image files are not available), their status "service" (= those who use Clownflare cannot even check why their image files are currently not available), ...

Well, after all, yes, those are very informative posts indeed.  ;)

Two of the main problems with "AI coding assistants" - whether they claim to be able to write a complete application or simply complete variable names based on what they boozed up on the internet last night - are these:

• They violate licences. There are many examples (and probably a large number of unreported cases) of parts of code copied verbatim that were under a clear licence, but that clear licence is not part of what was copied.
• They are writing rubbish. A work colleague likes to have work supposedly done by ChatGPT. I would need the time he needs to iron out the worst mistakes in the result to simply write what he wanted to achieve myself. Incidentally, this does not seem to be a ChatGPT-specific problem.

And I'm not even taking into account the mental embarrassment I would personally experience were I to be degraded from a developer to a supplicant to the computer...