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> There was a time Cloudflare just made the internet better This is the kind of naive thinking that enabled what's going on today. Sadly, the decentralized Int
by sssilver 2mo ago
> There was a time Cloudflare just made the internet better
This is the kind of naive thinking that enabled what's going on today. Sadly, the decentralized Internet is now destroyed and will never exist again.
- SpicyLemonZest 2mo agoWhat decentralized solution ever existed for preventing DDoS attacks while allowing a spike of traffic when, say, your blog post gets a highly upvoted HN submission? I am not really convinced this is a problem that can be solved without centralization. It'd be like trying to decentralize airports or communications cables.
- esseph 2mo ago> What decentralized solution ever existed for preventing DDoS attacks while allowing a spike of traffic when, say, your blog post gets a highly upvoted HN submission? BGP FlowSpec https://github.com/exa-networks/exabgp/wiki/FlowSpec-Overview https://github.com/exa-networks/exabgp/wiki/FlowSpec-Overvie...
- orliesaurus 2mo agoYeah but you can't blame 1 company for destroying the whole thing