Used to be, but they're very complicated to operate compared to more modern alternatives and have just gotten more and more bloated over the years. Also require a bunch of different applications for different parts of the stack in order to do the same basic stuff as e.g. Meilisearch, Manticore or Typesense.
Fascinating, but the dataset is obviously incomplete – there's barely any traffic in Europe until mid april. January-march looks as if there's been a zombie apocalypse.
Agreed 100 %, but the snow kept me from reading the whole article. Would've thought the snow icon turned it off, but instead it changed the background color… Liquid Glass is bad, but not _that_ bad.
It provides no security by itself. There have been (and still are) countless vulnerable Internet reachable NAT routers which can easily be exploited to provide access to the whole private network behind it. NAT by itself can't be relied on to provide any security – you need correctly configured firewalls for that. An ISP provider might provide a sensibly configured firewall with the home router, but they may also be operating an easily exploitable backdoor into your private network.
Practically speaking, even without any firewall, NAT provides some level of security. If I can't route to your network, I can't access it. Yes, theoretically someone may establish a route to an RFC-1918 address block across the Internet or within your ISP, but doing so without ISP cooperation is unlikely. To say it is "easily" exploitable is an over-exaggeration.
If your dishwasher has a 5G antenna + modem built-in and connects to the manufacturer’s own wireless account then your router doesn’t enter the picture. The dishwasher can happily serve you ads and conduct routine surveillance all day long and the only thing you can do is cut power to the device (until they start including a battery backup for that stuff).
True, but the dishwasher should have its own firewall regardless, and assuming it'll be on IPv4 behind a firewalled NAT is by itself an implementation error.
My point is that you don't control what network the dishwasher is on, the manufacturer does. The dishwasher connects to its own cellular network so that you cannot block any of its ads or prevent it from spying on you.
Unless the downtime was caused by something Cloudflare would've prevented, this downtime would've happened regardless of being behind Cloudflare. Cloudflare adds another single point of failure.
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