Cloudflare feels like yet another tech company living too long and becoming the villain.
Early Cloudflare days I moved all the infrastructure I was responsible for over to them for being so developer friendly. Now they are both developer unfriendly (eg. horror stories around pricing and plan swaps) and consumer unfriendly with way more frequent intersitals than I remember from ~5 years ago.
I think every time I log in to GitLab I get a Cloudflare check. Doesn’t matter if I’m on a residential connection, starbucks, airport or VPN.
> I think every time I log in to GitLab I get a Cloudflare check.
This is almost certainly GitLab’s doing (though you can ultimately blame irresponsible AI scrapers). Site owners can control how often you see CF captchas.
Seems about 5x as many pedestrians die on the roads than cyclists, so by that logic pedestrians are banned from roads too? No more pedestrian accessible roadside shops?
The loophole is to classify them as “light” commercial vehicles.
I’m fine with that if US regulation was consistent with that commercial classification and they required a CDL to drive (and all the associated annual medical checks and zero BAC etc.)
If that consistency was there every manufacturer would immediately drop the commercial classification and figure out how to make their trucks satisfy the passenger classification in FMVSS.
>The loophole is to classify them as “light” commercial vehicles.
Not a loophole. There are (broadly) eight different FMCSA classifications; and a CDL is usually required only when the GVWR is at or over ...26,000lbs. Everything below that is medium or light duty. Heavy-duty is the upper end of class 6 (think school busses), class 7 ( garbage trucks & cement mixers ) and class 8 (18-wheel semis).
I know all that (I have a class A). That’s why I am calling out the inconsistency as a loophole.
One part of the regulatory/legislative system allows a vehicle to be classified as commercial (to get the benefits of looser regulation) but another part does not consider it a commercial vehicle (and it benefits from the looser regulations of a passenger vehicle).
Well, just from today, I had to have two trucks just to haul debris away from a job site (which we were both fuller that I'd like). Also something to consider, is that a lot of our work trucks double as snow plows in the winter, which is something a van absolutely can't do.
The XPS build quality (from what I remember) was pretty good and the new one looks like it has a massive trackpad. Maybe a macbook won't be my default next laptop.
Hopefully this is just the start of x86 laptops responding Macbooks. They've been pretty much unchallenged for most use cases (even more now with the Neo) for the past few years.
I would rather more manufacturers started releasing ARM laptops instead! I'd love to run Linux on a decent ARM laptop. Unfortunately given the lukewarm reception to Windows 11 on ARM (likely due to the lukewarm reception in tech circles to Windows 11 itself), it seems manufacturers aren't in a rush to make them.
iOS 26 adoption is that bad? (I am one of the people refusing to update; the nagging is quite annoying and you basically have to refuse to enter your pin now to snooze it)
In a fully staffed metro department (or even one with volunteer auxiliaries/volunteers staffing 3rd/4th seats from the station when available) the extra calls aren’t much of a problem and I think give everyone extra reps training & thinking about what to do if there was an incident at that location.
If you have volunteers responding from home/work, then yeah, it’s a huge drain and morale drain.
Its attrition of a finite ressource by a system that has basically infinite ressources to cry wulf and dissallows for any defusal by human intervention. Its a attack on something working with good intentions.
Early Cloudflare days I moved all the infrastructure I was responsible for over to them for being so developer friendly. Now they are both developer unfriendly (eg. horror stories around pricing and plan swaps) and consumer unfriendly with way more frequent intersitals than I remember from ~5 years ago.
I think every time I log in to GitLab I get a Cloudflare check. Doesn’t matter if I’m on a residential connection, starbucks, airport or VPN.
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