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When did CF do this?


How much of internet can Cloudflare turn off in italy? They picked a fight with the cloud gorilla.

About 20% of sites, and there’s some big services behind Cloudflare so that percentage doesn’t even tell the full story.

When Spain blocks CF (it does this regularly), it breaks all CF sites. Of course, the actual problem here is organised crime. Spain and Italy do this because the mafia owns them.

> When Spain blocks CF (it does this regularly), it breaks all CF sites. Of course, the actual problem here is organised crime. Spain and Italy do this because the mafia owns them.

Mafia has a vested interest in broadcast rights of football matches in Spain?

Spain blocks Cloudflare because the football league La Liga has a court order that allows them to point to IP ranges that are hosting/fronting live streams of football matches, and get ISPs to block access to those ranges.


If the sports league is influential enough to have a standing court order to be able to unilaterally block IP ranges for the entire country, I'd imagine that organized crime might take an interest. I have no idea if it's the case but when something already seems to have an outsized influence it wouldn't be crazy to imagine that others interested in that power would also take an interest.

Moreover, I think the point of the parent comment is that they're blocking quite a bit more than just football games. It sounds like the claim is that the blocking is willfully broad because of other influences, not necessarily the the purported more narrow intent is necessarily from those influences.


Which directly contravenes the Digital Services Act. And is only in place because LaLiga has strong ties to the mafia.

More than mafia, ex-francoists oligarchs. And these could be stomped down tomorrow from CF by cancelling all the tangent services for those, even for Spanish banks and related industries (tourist and construction avoiding both attacks and serious disbalancing harms). The Ibex 35 would near collapse overnight and Tebas being kicked out from their own people.

In case of Spain, not the Mafia but ex-Francoist idiots. And if you want to know, our (ex?)-Fascists even bribed European mafias. Literally.

It is more about government tax warfare. They fined CF because it didn’t censor what the italian government wanted them to censor, so they fined CF.

So far they proved to do the opposite.

It would be nice to have something like this with a privacy OS


Raising awareness is not a bad call. I would not know about this, if it would surface in a random US paper


Even if it appeared on Guardian or NYT I'd not have heard of it unless it trended on HN lol


Thank you for sharing your story. Cannot wait for the next part


Take my condolences, Sunday outages are rough


This will age badly


That’s why we make concrete measurable predictions.


Agreed, but "vibe coding will be better at security" is not one of them. Better by which metric, against which threat model, with which stakes? What security even means for greenfield projects is inherently different than for hardened systems. Vibe coding is sufficient for security today because it's not used for anything that matters.


This is a bit misguided. If you lose weight too fast, you will have tons of side effects no matter how safe the medication is. Your heart, kidney, pancreas can be stressed with too fast weight loss even without meds. Also you might end up with a lot of loose skin...

Also a new medication will have unknown long term side effects for sure that will surface over time, similar to the current ones.

In my case mounjaro was life changing (for the better). I would say 42kg over 15 months was fast enough already.


Oil still flowing


Yup.

China, Turkey, and India are main buyers of Russian oil at the moment: https://energyandcleanair.org/october-2025-monthly-analysis-...


So money? And oil is down a lot. They even have fuel shortages in Russia. They have to import fuel.


I wonder if the abuse bots could be somehow made to mine some crypto to give back to the bills they cause


You could try to get them to run JavaScript, but I'm sure many is them have countermeasures.


Bots have had to up their compute budget to solve Anubis challenges, so perhaps it's possible if you trick the bot into thinking you're using Anubis to filter bots out.


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