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  • That’s a great insight. I’ll look up some more of his stuff

    A brief paraphrasing if someone is curious but doesn’t want to watch a video:

    People are damaged by the molds that society forces themselves into.

    The ones most able to suppress their own individuality and fit into the mold are considered ‘healthy members of society’ while anyone who chafes at the mold is labeled as ‘mentally unwell’. Even the people who fit into the molds have to make an effort to behave ‘correctly’ and this constant effort and struggle drives a lot of unhappiness (which most people just mask over, further amplifying the damage).














  • I’m not sure about Cloudflare but it might be as well.

    Cloudflare was a chain of unfortunate events.

    The TLDR is, a permission change caused a poorly written SQL query (without a properly filtering ‘where’ clause) to return a lot more data than normal. That data is used by an automated script to generate configuration files for the proxy services, because of the large return the configuration files were larger than normal (roughly 2x the size).

    The service that uses these configuration files has pre-allocated memory to hold the configuration files and the larger config file exceeded that size. This case, of having a file too large for the memory space, was improperly handled (ironically but not literally ironically, it was written in Rust) resulting in a thread panic which terminated the service and resulted in the 5xx errors.

    So, it’s more similar to the Crowdstrike crash (bad config file and poor error handling in a critical component).