We’re talking about a government sponsored surveillance operation. I promise you they already know which license plates belong to you. I’m not sure I understand the risk here.

Fuck Musk, but fuck this bullshit even more.

No, they’re losers because the C is missing.

I think you might be overlooking human error in configuration.

It’s more a list of warnings signs.

• blurred/virtual background (we make them turn it off during interviewing)
• refusal to do gestures or follow specific instructions (wave your hand in front of your face)
• not familiar with local knowledge like weather
• appearing to read from the screen or phone

There’s more than that, but those are the highlights.

It not practical at a remote first company to fly people out to where we happen to have offices when they could be working from anywhere.

It’s cheap-ish for a flight, but at scale, the starts to become an expensive hiring pipeline.

It’s not that, it’s that they are incredibly sophisticated in their techniques. I just had to sit through 90 minutes of training about how to spot fake applicants.

I wish Waterfox worked on mobile.

My first move would be emailing Tim himself. It will almost certainly get some attention from his executive team. Be kind and make a clear ask for what you’re wanting.

If that doesn’t work, I’d go to the media.

1,800 comments and counting! One of them might even be valuable to the conversation.

For standard Klondike, ~82%

https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.12314

Gold and diamonds can really back ya up.

GPT-5.1: so our CEO said he was just gonna ask us to make him profitable and I’m too busy drawing furry versions of people so…nah.

Cost and risk.

Edge networking services can be expensive and Cloudflare offers a free tier which is decent. Additionally, I’m sure down detector has a method of making money, but I sure don’t pay them. I can’t imagine I’m the weird one. So they are almost certainly operating on a tight budget.

It’s fresh in our minds today, but these big providers are way more reliable than not. It makes sense to use them because they are generally not down.

It just doesn’t make sense to do anything different. I doubt they change even after this outage. I certainly wouldn’t.

Cloudflare is a standard piece of kit for any moderately popular website. It handles things like strict SSL enforcement, anti ddos (this is a big reason), and other edge networking functions that modern websites need.

You really get robbed on the salted variety. You get 9 extra peanuts worth in the unsalted package.

Are you speculating or is there another source that says that? The article linked here didn’t specify.

I wanna know what possesses someone to eat 80 magnets. Not 70 or 60 or even 2. 80.

I’m right there with ya.