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The Cloudflare Outage and its effects on ChatGPT and the weakness of the modern internet

It seems that the internet cannot get a break these days. We have had so many outages in the past month that it almost seems that someone is doing it on purpose. While outages have occurred before, these outages were affecting a single service or only a small cluster of services. Now, it’s affecting so many websites that we use for our self-expression.

In the past, the internet was important, but it hadn’t weaved its way into our society so deeply. Now it’s even more important than meat space. The Cloudflare outage shows how important cloud services have become. We are not owning our own servers anymore but relying on Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Amazon AWS among many others. This is a time where these companies are owning the internet on these massive palaces of information here.

What should companies prepare for in the next cyberattacks or outages?

Simply put, resilience is what is important.

With everything being so centralized in here, resilience is what is important. Companies need to be prepared and assure their customers that they are attempting to strengthen their networks and websites.

However, this is still not going to help with the issue that the modern internet is centralized into the hands of a couple companies.

At this moment, people are going to put effort into making their own server communities. Most people in this age are willing to go along with the flow out of the convenience rather than having to put effort into working with computer equipment which they can exile to the nerds in their communities.

These outages are going to keep happening and what is important that people learn what the internet is really about and not just treat it as a sideway to meat space. We need to remember what rules our age as it is becoming more important here.

The Rise of the Virtual Mall: Celebrating eBay 30 years of ecommerce

September 3rd, 2025, is the 30th anniversary of Ebay and I say I am impressed with the site. It is has been the place that has been in the shadow of Amazon but it still manages to survive.

Ebay was one of the few internet companies from Web 1.0 that were actually successful and still has an influence.

As a seller, I raise my glass to praise it. There is something unique about eBay. It is not like other sites. While the bidding is no longer the main aspect of the site, the community is still on top and we should celebrate their accomplishments for keeping this part of Web 1.0 still here and kicking to remind of the older ethos of the internet age.

Nvidia’s GeForce Now is the future of mainstream gaming

There will always be room for tinkers working on their gaming pcs; the age however of everyone having to shell money on them is going to give way to cloud streaming games.

I have talked about Nvidia’s GeForce Now many times on here. I think that the service is great for those who have great internet connections and lots of bandwidth. With an internet connection, you do not have worry about the system requirements only the strength of your internet connection and to a lesser extent, the location of your router and bandwidth usage. Such requirements are easier to deal with than the arcane internal structure of computers.

The Strength of Nvidia GeForce Now

The main strength is the ability to play any device you have. This is a major change which will bring more opportunities for different kinds of gamers. One of the issues we have with our gaming industry right now is that there is genre orthodoxy. You simply cannot be syncretic like in the past; your game has to be certain way or have a certain style.

This is where the RTS genre began to stumble after the release of Empire Earth. There was no sense of how the genre could move on with Starcraft breathing down its neck. Starcraft II, while a great game, would ossify the genre and prevent it from growing here. There were many experiments and crossovers such as Activision’s Battlezone series. Such experimentation is rare now.

This is what Nvidia GeForce Now can bring to the table.

What we need in the gaming space is an opening up of the player base. Sometimes we are too arcane in the way we talk about our games. Sometimes we need new perspectives to help innovate. This isn’t to say that our traditions are not important, but we need to take our time to invite newcomers.

This is the only way that the industry can truly start being healthy again. New perspectives will beget risk but no great artform was able to change without someone taking the first step in an uneven river.