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Re:Cloudflare mitigates record-breaking 71M request-per-seco... by throwaway67743 on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @06:50AM (#34788097)
"Letting russia and china on the internet was a massive security mistake we should rectify. The world spends literally BILLIONS because chinarussia are frankly assholes online." - what a dumb comment, ignorance combined with indoctrination is a hell of a thing it seems
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Re:Cloudflare mitigates record-breaking 71M request-per-seco... by scared333 on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @07:34AM (#34788425)
Indoctrination is real, just see below. This is not to say this is not a problem elsewhere, but we are now talking about russian:

https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2022/09/05/kids-with-guns

Statistics seem to back up the fact that russians (and e.g. some other apac countries) are not the best netizens: https://time.com/3087768/the-worlds-5-cybercrime-hotspots/

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Re:Cloudflare mitigates record-breaking 71M request-per-seco... by throwaway67743 on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @07:41AM (#34788487)
Indoctrination is indeed real, but it isn't limited to "the other side"
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Re:Cloudflare mitigates record-breaking 71M request-per-seco... by aliqot on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @07:56AM (#34788620)
one of yalls using a throwaway, ones not.
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Re:Cloudflare mitigates record-breaking 71M request-per-seco... by throwaway67743 on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @08:07AM (#34788727)
One has history, the other was created a couple of hours ago, but nice try!
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Re:Cloudflare mitigates record-breaking 71M request-per-seco... by aliqot on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @08:13AM (#34788791)
what are you talking about? do you know where you are right now?
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Re:Cloudflare mitigates record-breaking 71M request-per-seco... by quenix on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @08:59AM (#34789327)
The account dubbed "throwaway" is twice as old as the other account.
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Re:Cloudflare mitigates record-breaking 71M request-per-seco... by aliqot on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @09:17AM (#34789588)
the exchange rate on throwaway years to IRL years is 10:1, your calculations fail to account for this.
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Re:Cloudflare mitigates record-breaking 71M request-per-seco... by realistik1 on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @06:58AM (#34788161)
The reality is the world is filled with bad guys. “Bad” is subjective. From the western point of view, it is crystal clear who our enemies are.
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Re:Cloudflare mitigates record-breaking 71M request-per-seco... by fredoliveira on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @07:41AM (#34788493)
> From the western point of view, it is crystal clear who our enemies are.

Myopic, no? I'm in the western world and see that as gross generalization.

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