Some people hate Cloudflare. Our hosting company uses it, and for the most part, it is transparent, working quickly in the background to do what it does. We also have firewalls at multiple levels to protect the digital assets. GraniteGrok “experiences something like seven million attacks a day or more. Some days you can double that. Larger targets will have more of that. It’s just part of the business of being an online presence most of us never see.
When we do see it, it can be aggravating.
We’ve gotten used to it all being (mostly) fast, seamless, invisible. We click, tap, and it happens. When it doesn’t, we might as well be staring at the red glow surrounding our toast as we wait for that machine to pop it up, perfect, though the slot. It rarely is.
Way back in the day, I was working at a computer company. The 486 had just dropped to replace the 386, and I was at a client’s home office. He was impressed at how much faster it ran his “spreadsheet.” The 386 took about 30 minutes to chew through all the data; the 486, only 7. It used to take longer, but now it doesn’t. When milliseconds count, sometimes seconds drag by like the line at the DMV.
Cloudflare is useful and welcome when it is invisible. The AI search assistant says,
Cloudflare provides a range of internet services designed to improve the speed, security, and reliability of websites and applications. It acts as a content delivery network (CDN), protects against cyber threats like DDoS attacks, and offers DNS management and SSL encryption services.
Sometimes it throws one of these at you.
Right before or after you get one of these.
Sometimes the machine decides you are human, and you don’t have to click the box to get from the first image to your destination. It all just struck me as amusing—a machine deciding that I’m human and, once in a while, deciding I’m not.
I know a few Dems out there who work diligently to dehumanize anyone who disagrees with them, especially anyone like us who refuses to lie down and shut up when they are doing their “democracy” thing. Some of them are responsible for creating the large language models doing business as Artificial Intelligence. I imagine there are more than a few working at Cloudflare. And we know their political agents are responsible for the majority of actual book banning and censorship, which is why they try to project it on us.
It got me wondering. Community notes are nice (on social media), but how about a version of “Cloudflare” that outs the Left’s army of Bots, both the digital and fleshy varieties. It could verify the entity in question is projecting, and expose them on the spot.
We’ve been doing that at a much slower pace for 20 years, joined by a growing army of those who do it faster, sometimes on larger platforms. It’s yeoman’s work aided by an even larger army of citizen journalists or activists who are just reporting what they see or sharing it with sites like this.
Elon’s almost a trillionaire. Perhaps he can anti-up some couch cushion money for a liberal projection project. Something that takes Democrat claims and responds with links and evidence that their side has or is doing this or the likelihood it is or will be soon.
Just for fun.
I mean, if the machine is going to make us wait, even just a bit, and truth be told, a lot of that slowdown is user side (browser updates, slower connectivity, older hardware), anticipation that some loudmouth, lying leftist was about be taken to the information woodshed thanks to the Liberal Projection Project, it might be worth the extra seconds watching something spin on our devices.
And then, of course, given the speed at which AI is growing, sucking up resources, and the rest of it, maybe, not long from now, I’ll want the machine to take too long. Give me time to escape.
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