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Senior cybersecurity engineer & based Omni-liberal.

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Cloudflare Outage Disrupts X, ChatGPT and Thousands of Sites Cloudflare experienced a major global outage on Tuesday morning, disrupting access to major websites including X, ChatGPT, and thousands of other services that depend on its internet infrastructure.

Thanks ground.news

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18.11.2025 14:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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18.11.2025 14:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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ChatGPT ChatGPT helps you get answers, find inspiration, and be more productive.

chatgpt.com

18.11.2025 14:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Newest Questions Stack Overflow | The Worldโ€™s Largest Online Community for Developers

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18.11.2025 14:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee in front of a fire with the words this is fine . ALT: a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee in front of a fire with the words this is fine .

Thread of all companies affected by the #Cloudflare #Outage
God be with the engineers troubleshooting

18.11.2025 14:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Cloudflare Status Welcome to Cloudflare's home for real-time and historical data on system performance.

#Cloudflare is down. The internet has ground to a halt!
www.cloudflarestatus.com

18.11.2025 13:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Docker Just Isn't Cutting It A developer shares their journey migrating from Docker to Kubernetes using K3s, covering why Docker fell short, how K3s simplifies multi-node setups, lessons from running Plex on Kubernetes, and why J...

Finally made the jump from Docker to Kubernetes, specifically K3s. Also swapped Plex for Jellyfin because it actually plays nice with containers.
My reasoningโ€™s in the latest post; Full technical breakdown coming next!
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#Kubernetes #Homelab #Containers #DevOps

03.11.2025 22:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Nigel Farage says Reform UK could cut minimum wage for young people - and defends U-turn on tax pledges Mr Farage gave a wide-ranging news conference setting out Reform UK's economic plans, and defending claims of U-turning on 2024 election manifesto pledges.

Ahhh yes the answer to the cost of living crisis, lowering the minimum wage. It's so obvious #UKReform
news.sky.com/story/nigel-...

03.11.2025 21:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Blue total traffic 
Orange China specific traffic

Blue total traffic Orange China specific traffic

Shout out to all my loyal readers in China. Yes all 400 of you! Really impressed with your 3 second read times ๐Ÿค–
#BotLife #InfosecHumor

31.10.2025 10:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

New season of the Witcher. Don't do it to yourself, it outperformed even my low expectations
#witcher

30.10.2025 20:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

We live in a post truth world who need facts. Its all vibes bro!!!

29.10.2025 17:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

When even Venmo is like "wow mate you have some tough choices to make"

29.10.2025 13:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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a close up of a robot 's head with a bald head . ALT: a close up of a robot 's head with a bald head .

Can we appreciate the irony of this post being written by AI as well

17.10.2025 11:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

One problem AI can solve. Before you sign up, get an AI-generated T&Cs summary. Now thats a useful chatbot!

#AI
#DataPrivacy
#InfoSec

17.10.2025 08:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Looks to be Vodafone centric with providers using their network getting knocked as well

13.10.2025 14:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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a cartoon of a man drinking water from a cup ALT: a cartoon of a man drinking water from a cup

You got to love users!

13.10.2025 14:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I thought so as well but reports for other providers seem to be coming in

13.10.2025 14:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Status overview

Looking like broadband and mobile providers are having a little trouble in the UK Vodafone, BT, onestream, Virgin Media, Voxi, CityFibre, TalkTalk, EE, Sky, Three, O2 affected.
downdetector.co.uk

13.10.2025 14:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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28.09.2025 15:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

We live in a day and age where Microsoft Teams takes more then a minute to just load the calendar. HOW
#enshittification

17.09.2025 14:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

There are two types of people.
1) 4:59 = Closed for business
2) 4:59 = Open

23.08.2025 20:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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a man in a white suit and sunglasses is walking down a hallway . ALT: a man in a white suit and sunglasses is walking down a hallway .

"Socrates walked with swagger" - Marcus Aurelius

23.08.2025 12:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

RCE. CVSS 10.0. In prod.
One-line fix.
Lead dev goes on leave.
Follow up later.
โ€œDid you raise a ticket?โ€
No, but I raised my expectations too high.

#AppSec #Agile

19.08.2025 11:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is a yearly reminder that Christmas is right around the corner

18.08.2025 22:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Paying for the privilege of being detained

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jack sparrow from pirates of the caribbean is waving his hand and saying at your service ALT: jack sparrow from pirates of the caribbean is waving his hand and saying at your service
10.08.2025 08:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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a group of stuffed animals are sitting at a table with cups and saucers ALT: a group of stuffed animals are sitting at a table with cups and saucers

Watching vibe coders hail the death of coding while their agent writes raw SQL in code

08.08.2025 12:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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a close up of a man 's face with his eyes closed and his mouth open . ALT: a close up of a man 's face with his eyes closed and his mouth open .

CHINA!

03.08.2025 22:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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a cartoon character says " and i for one welcome our new insect overlords " on a television screen ALT: a cartoon character says " and i for one welcome our new insect overlords " on a television screen
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