jesterson

> It's funny that Cloudfare presents themselves as the protector of the web when they are the gateway to it

Well, how else they can sell their crappy service?

> I never thought about this but I really believe it to be true and would love to know why is that

Would suggest possible explanation by adding Orwell's quote: If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.

Your observations can largely be applied to pretty much forum out there. Every single one was hijacked with either ignorant/stupid people without intelligence and/or bots pushing particular topic. Oh and the SEO managers, how could i forgot those.

And now when the knowledge is a golden mine for all sorts of openai/claude/other IA, the situation will likely exacerbate further.

I really miss a place where intelligent people can talk and exchange ideas with mutual respect. It seems like all these places are largely gone by now.

I doubt this can win elections.

They will frame it as "child porn trafficking patriot saving act" and majority will vote in favour without reading fineprint.

You don't think anyone in EU bureaucracy has any concerns regarding Digital Sovereignty, do you?

Can you mention a single decent product that came out "because of EU regulation"?

I totally agree. This "tech" has been out there for decades, at least for Benz. Perhaps even long enough not to be called the tech :)

> I'm curious: what is the sensible choice for technical people with a reasonable amount of money?

I am probably the extreme minority, but I prefer cars with as little "tech" as possible. I don't need "drive assist" and sorts.

All my cars are 10+ old benzes, Nissans, Toyotas. All under good maintenance routine so giving me very little headache.

I had all sorts of stupid issues with modern cars while renting. One toyota scared the crap out of me while it imagined some pedestrian and yelled with all signs while I was going 100+ km/h on highway. Horrible crap

> Buying a used Pixel is economical, environmental, and likely doesn't support Google

Interesting. What do you think are reasons for google to run Pixel then?

Not being sarcastic here, but what links you shared (thank you) say imply there are almost no benefits for Google to run Pixels and as we all know, Google is not a company doing charities.

Perhaps screenshots and sleek UI is not their selling point (and it isn't).

I'd say you are a great optimist.

If you'd ask me, I would put chances or learning somewhere between 0.001 and 0.01

There is no harm to suspend something twice. Especially is the something doesn't exist :)

Thank you for sharing it.

> GreyNoise tells you whether an IP is internet-background scanning noise.

My somewhat poorly expressed point was that to make a decision whether IP is or isn't a "internet-background scanning noise" (btw how would you define that?) you need to have access to substantial volume of data. And also how the decision is made remains unclear. If some sysadmin on legitimate node does network scan to investiage something and you catch it - will it become positive "internet-background scanning noise"?

Thank you for your work and insights. I am a very satisfied paid user for many years. Keep up the good work!

Appreciate the balanced view as well.

Reputation scoring is useless metrics IMHO exactly for reasons you stated - risk appetite and risk model are generally different for everyone. We actually do have IP scoring build on datapoints we have + what ipinfo API gives us. This is tuned to specific projects and practically useless for anyone else.

One of practical point for OP is perhaps to consider an PoV that providing this sort of service will require a lot of intelligence collected from many sources, which OP may not have at this point. Even 1400 servers probably cover limited scope.

Quite interesting, but what is your selling point vs say ipinfo.io?

To maintain this sort of service you need access to vast scale of intelligence. Do you have it?

Well in a way you do. They send you a fine bill every month and you do credit some of your allegedly hard earned bucks.

Just one slop would be sufficient.

If we wanna know ai opinion we all can get it.

I wish there would be a mark on YouTube AI slop or a way to mark AI generated garbage.

Its is likely coming, but needed yesterday.

Do you believe people currently possessing best models act/will act in your best interest?

Middle? We are way past the point

There certainly will be influx of low quality tools from vibecoders. With their limited understanding how things work, they would think they can create anything compatible to Excel (or any other tool with thousands of man/hours to make).

Once they realise they can't make anything remotely like Excel, and - more importantly - like you have said, world doesn't need another Excel, we will likely get back to decent products

This. Plenty of moments "Oh shit those people have really lost all ability to think for themselves" and not a single moment of "Oh shit" yet.

> Now average folk can solve problems and avoid dealing with Microsoft for a spreadsheet program.

You seriously believe some vibecoder can write anything remotely similar to MS Excel, which took probably thousands man-hours to create?

Glad you have found your favorite scapegoat.

Ok, i see the way you think and “facts” you are bringing up.

Just one thing i wonder - are you seriously trying to say Berlin is safer (in terms of crime) after Germany started to import 3rd world criminals in droves?

Just simple yes or no would do. Would say tons about logical thinking without using massaged police statistics.

> It’s by far one of the safest countries in the world.

It seriously puzzles me how one can carry the ridiculous thought. The only thing to advise here is perhaps to travel more - to countries like Singapore, Japan, Korea, Thailand and many other places where homelessness, rape, "refugee" with a knife on a street are not a part of everyday's life.

Germany was the safe country. When Germans lived there.

> I think the way you phrase you reply makes it pretty clear where you stand emotionally and politically, so I won’t pretend that facts will change your mind, but alas.

Instead of making emotional statements, would be great if you can actually bring facts you talking much of, but instead talking about your emotions. I would be extremely interested in "facts" explaining how importing criminals and uneducated 3rd world "refugees" actually made Germany (and rest of EU) safer.

And if you actually believe Berlin now is safer compared to Berlin in 90s, you can't be intellectually honest.

It's well known fact how Germany massages statistics to avoid any reference to "refugee" crime. Likely no other country in EU does so much shenanigans to hide the statistics

For what it worth, your comment have just feeling and xenophobia. No facts whatsoever.

I am not sure tech approach is a right way to go if we project it at wider scale on a society or a country.

Society moves at way slower pace, and wrong turns may takes decades to rectify. Needless to say wrong turns may have horrible ramifications lasting decades as well.

If you'd ask me, I would certainly be against tech approach here. Lets leave it where it does play well.

I am not going to debate on manipulation of one cherry picked number.

If your point is that crime hasn't risen up since EU started to receive "refugees" in droves, you are either not living in EU or prefer to ignore wider evidence dismissing it as "far-right talking point" (whatever that is)