Same, I used Sonnet 4.6 with the prompt, "Write a simple program that displays a fleur-de-lis. Python is a good language for this." Took five or six minutes, but it wrong a nice Python TK app that did exactly what it was supposed to.
Then I log in to Linode or whatever and open a hole up in the firewall. That's easy. But Cloudflare rarely goes down, not really something I worry about.
Security. I host personal sites on Linodes and other external servers. There are no inbound ports open to the world. Everything is accessed via Cloudflare Tunnels and locked down via their Zero Trust services. I find this useful and good, as I don't really want to have to develop my personal services to the point where I'd consider them hardened for public internet access.
I feel like every week there's a new doomsday article about coming recession, and yet one has not appeared. Of course, if you print it weekly, people start to believe it and eventually you'll be right for one reason or another.
Something I feel like these conversations seem to miss is that it is not binary; you don't have to host hardware on-prem if you don't want to be in AWS. There are other clouds. There are Sungards of the world were you can pay for racks of managed hardware. There are a lot of options between buying and managing your own hardware and AWS.
Seems like the way to know for sure is to test it. Wouldn't seem like it'd be hard to do that, especially if you have access to Catchpoint or something similar.
I 100% think this is the long term play. Once we figure out how to really have "remote only" companies, the "remote" part won't be "remote in the USA" but "remote in some cheap part of the world". We tried this with outsourcing but it failed because we didn't have the "remote" part down... now we do...
Ding ding... schools here are filled with kids wearing masks. One can argue it is not useful, but that is not the point at all. The point is, they wear them without complaint, every day. Hell, my kid has her mask on before we walk out the door. I tell her she doesn't need it, but it's just easier for her to put it on and forget about it than remember to put it on when we get where we're going. She's a picky kid with sensory issues, so...
Hey, that's me. I returned a few books a day late due to flooding and racked up an $0.80 charge. I can't pay it online because the minimum allowed online is a dollar. I'd pay the dollar if it allowed me, but it doesn't. I don't care enough to figure out how else to pay the fine, so I just don't go to the library anymore.
Cloudflare doesn't make any attempt to hide the fact it's serving requests; the "server" header says "cloudflare".
The firewall logs show you exactly what rule triggers this behavior:
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Ruleset ID: 48ba18287c544bd7bdbe842a294f1ae2
Ruleset Name: Bot Fight Mode for Definite Bots
Rule ID: 874a3e315c344b1281ad4f00046aab6f
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Users are generally free to disable rulees, the WAF, etc.