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Whats going on with cloudflare's software team?

I have seen similar bugs in cloudflare API recently as well.

There is an endpoint for a feature that is available only to enterprise users, but the check for whether the user is on an enterprise plan is done at the last step.


I recently ran into an issue with the Cloudflare API feature that if you want to roll back requires contacting the support team because there's no way to roll it back with the API or GUI. Even when the exact issue was pointed out, it took multiple days to change the setting and to my knowledge there's still no API fix available.

https://www.answeroverflow.com/m/1234405297787764816


Can you elaborate? I'm not sure what you mean by "at the last step"

I'm not sure which endpoint gp meant, but as I understood it, as an example, imagine a three-way handshake that's only available to enterprise users. Instead of failing a regular user on the first step, they allow steps one and two, but then do the check on step three and fail there.

The API endpoint I am talking about needs a external verification. they allow to do the external verification before checking if the user is on the enterprise plan or not.

The feature is only available to enterprise plans, it should not even allow external verification.


My guess? Code written by AI

TBF they are still hiring a lot of eng people from US/UK/EU:

https://www.cloudflare.com/careers/jobs/?department=Engineer...


No, the original author left long time ago. And nobody understands some uncovered parts anymore.

100%. Upper managements try to cut costs and hire remote bullshitters.

Agreed in re cost cutting, but there's no need to disparage those of us who don't want to be traffic for two hours every day.

I work remotely 100% too. I don't go to any office. That doesn't change the fact that most remote people are just using AI and bullshitting. Yes they are bullshitters. Don't need to be super soft about it, it is not like an LGBTQ+ subject. Many remote workers are shitty. There, I said it again. Most remote workers are shitty.

I am using cloudflare because the origin servers are IPv6 only.

> What specifically do you mean by ipv6 support?

This question does not make sense. This is equivalent to asking "What specifically do you mean by ipv4 support"

These days both protocols must be supported, and if there is a blocker it should be clearly mentioned.


How do you want to allocate ipv6 addresses to containers? Turns out there are lots of answers. Some people even want to do ipv6 NAT.

A really cool way to do it is how Yggdrasil project does it (https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/implementation.html#how-...). They basically use public keys as identities and they deterministically create an IPv6 address from the public key. This is beautiful and works for private networks, as well as for their global overlay IPv6 network.

What do you think about the general approach in Uncloud? It almost feels like a cousin of Swarm. Would love to get your take on it.


Like docker? --fixed-cidr-v6=2001:db8:1::/64

1. Adding a Geo feed [0]

2. Updating the description of the prefix to signal home use

3. Adding PTR for IPs

might help

[0] https://openconnect.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/3850784329...


AWS CloudFront is free up to 1TB bandwidth and 10 million HTTP/HTTPS requests per month.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-free-tier-data-transfer...


That's old info. They free tier is now 100GB and 1M requests

https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/



Ahh clear as mud haha. Thanks

I’ve come past way beyond the 1st year honeymoon with AWS.

Edit:

I’m sorry but I’m today years old learning that AWS indeed is free-ish, “Data Transfer from AWS Regions to the Internet is now free for up to 100 GB of data per month (up from 1 GB per region).”

“Data Transfer from Amazon CloudFront is now free for up to 1 TB of data per month (up from 50 GB), and is no longer limited to the first 12 months after signup.”

Now, I need to figure out why am I being billed each month for some of the files I use AWS for!


The CloudFront free tier runs indefinitely.

this is Airbus, not Boeing

> Hardware-accelerated video playback of H.264 (AVC), H.265 (HEVC) and VP9 video streams

> Hardware-accelerated video recording into H.264 (AVC) and H.265 (HEVC) formats

no mention of AV1? Surprised since most websites including YT uses it heavily.


The Qualcomm marketing spec sheet mentions AV1 decoding: https://www.qualcomm.com/content/dam/qcomm-martech/dm-assets...

Maybe that part of the driver isn't finished yet?


Yes. It is on the mailing list: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251001-av1_irisdecoder-v1-0-9f...

It actually introduces new things into the UAPI because no one else did fully-stateful AV1 decode before.


Or licensed.

Isn't the whole point of AV1 that it's royalty free, as opposed to H264/265/etc?

For the codec, sure. But there can always be more restrictions on the IP block, driver code, etc.

Yeah, and the main problem with HEVC/H265 is the patent encumbrance. Very odd, but hopefully it's just coming a bit later.

It started like that. But now there are at least 2 different patent pools that want rent.

Have they successfully gotten any?

AV1 is designed to be license free, so unless they outsourced their driver development to another company I don't think there's anything to license.

Funny enough, I recently stumbled upon an Australian comedy show called Utopia that looks more and more like a documentary now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_otJbx-PVOw


The least realistic thing is how many Aussies are employed in that government department.

How did you access HN? is it by typing its IPv4 address?


This is a chicken and egg problem.

Internet have become super large(the irony) and doing a upgrade to it is hard as we need support of all stakeholders.

The problem is some of them are not supporting IPv6 deployment. There will be a time when they will be forced to upgrade.


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