Cloudflare has gone offline for a couple hours today after reporting a huge traffic spike.
Source: Cloudflarestatus.com
Yesterday the news was Microsoft revealed a nearly 16 terabit/second attack from the Aisuru (Mirai-based) botnet flooding a single target in Australia with UDP packets from over a half-million systems.
Azure was hit by the “largest-ever” cloud-based distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, originating from the Aisuru botnet and measuring 15.72 terabits per second (Tbps), according to Microsoft. On October 24, the Windows giant’s cloud DDoS protection service auto-detected and mitigated the traffic tsunami – nearly 3.64 billion packets per second – so no customer workloads experienced any service interruptions, Microsoft’s Sean Whalen said in a Monday blog.
This was a notable event not least because the news at the start of the month was Cloudflare announcing that they were giving Aisuru the boot.
For the past week, domains associated with the massive Aisuru botnet have repeatedly usurped Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft in Cloudflare’s public ranking of the most frequently requested websites. Cloudflare responded by redacting Aisuru domain names from their top websites list. The chief executive at Cloudflare says Aisuru’s overlords are using the botnet to boost their malicious domain rankings, while simultaneously attacking the company’s domain name system (DNS) service.
No word yet from Cloudflare on the causes of their massive outages.
File this news under the inevitable failure of doing business with white supremacists.
Far-right Christian nationalist and white nationalist accounts flooded [the FBI Director’s Diwali] post with bigoted memes and rhetoric. “Go back home and worship your sand demons,” a far-right pastor wrote. “Get the f**k out of my country,” read another reply. Said another, “This is America. We don’t do this.” These responses, some of which were seen millions of times, were on the tamer end of the spectrum.
Similar hostility followed Diwali greetings on X from former UN ambassador Nikki Haley, former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy and Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon, as well as posts about the holiday from the White House, the State Department, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
Some Indian American conservatives seem shocked that segments of the political right are now taking aim at them.
Shocked by hate speech on the site literally rebranded with swastikas? The X rebrand was a form of overt Nazism, and thus hate speech by definition can not be a surprise there.This artist’s rendering of the X brand was deleted from the platform by the self-promoting “free speech extremist” Elon Musk. Source: Ai Wei Wei
Indians in America apparently thought the Swastika-posting MAGA hate machinery meant that someone else, not them, would suffer from all that racism. The FBI Director is getting racist (arguably domestic terrorist) messages sent direct to his social media profile. If he isn’t protected by being “inside” the Trump cabal, nobody is. These Indians foolishly believed they could get a copy of the infamous get out of jail cards of white nationalism, while being non-Christian let alone non-white?
American “white privilege” as characterized by a card in the Monopoly game
I’m reminded of the many in Nazi Germany who foolishly said Hitler wouldn’t flip and shoot them in the head on a moment’s notice because… reasons.
If history means anything at all then MAGA means a return to constant improvisation, undermining law and order
But wait, it gets worse, as the Indians trying to put white nationalists into power were engaging in the exact form of “non-white” racism they now are allegedly surprised targets them as non-whites.
…Dinesh D’Souza, the right-wing commentator who has peddled racism against Black Americans for decades, mused: “In a career spanning 40 years, I have never encountered this type of rhetoric. The Right never used to talk like this. So who on our side has legitimized this type of vile degradation?”
This type of degrading rhetoric is not new, but it’s increasingly prominent from the political right. With the rise of once-fringe figures, and with President Donald Trump aggressively cracking down on nearly every type of immigration, some members of the MAGA coalition are openly suggesting that only white Christians belong in America.
Peddled racism for decades, and yet we are supposed to believe this guy is surprised by the racism he himself peddled?
Pardon my French but WTAF? The Right always used to talk like this! Nixon, Ford, Reagan… huge racists, and there’s no secret about it.
History rhymes even when it doesn’t repeat.
Monkeys. That’s what the white Right calls people with skin darker than their own.
That’s the guy with a long history of racism that the Right chose to be their President, not that long after Gerald Ford had literally created the white-supremacist America First college hate group that was aligned with Hitler, until if course it became banned after declaration of war.
That supported… Hitler. Source: Gerald Ford Presidential Library
Imagine having that giant seditious period of promoting Hitler on your resume, right next to being the American President who was never elected. That’s the kind of politician who defines the Right these days, pining for an unelected unitary executive who keeps the non-whites out of power.
Gerald Ford’s America First Committee worked to spread and defend Nazism before, during and even after WWII. It modernized and globalized the hate-filled racist rhetoric of early 1900s nativist “America First” into being a platform to spread Nazism.
Truman clearly warned Eisenhower that Richard Nixon was the kind of man America had just defeated in WWII. Ford probably was even worse in that context. And Truman was right, yet not leading the Right, so here we are a generation later talking about the same wrong Right.
The latest chapter, let’s call it 11, is a “RoboTaxi” fever-dream going about as well as Elon Musk promises to have flying cars that land on Mars.
…humans generally have a crash, whether they are at fault or not, every 700,000 miles. Tesla has 7 in probably ~300,000 miles, which should be worrying to anyone, whether the Robotaxis were responsible or not.
Human rate: 1/700,000 = 0.00000143 crashes per mile
Tesla rate: 7/300,000 = 0.0000233 crashes per mile
The ratio:
0.0000233 ÷ 0.00000143 = 16.3x higher crash rate
Elektrek is just being honest, giving a plain assessment of the latest Tesla scam.
Unlike other companies reporting to NHTSA, Tesla abuses the right to redact data reported through the system. The automaker redacts the “narrative” for each reported crash, preventing the public from knowing how the crashes happened and who is responsible.
Based on the limited information in Tesla’s reports, we know that one of the new crashes involved a Robotaxi driving into a car backing up, another involved a cyclist, and the last one involved an unknown animal.
The product is garbage, and its related stock so utterly worthless, it’s no wonder Peter Thiel just dumped his.
Tesla’s systematic redaction of crash narratives prevents independent assessment of fault and causation. This is exactly the kind of opacity that enables continued marketing claims disconnected from material reality.
That is why a Peter Thiel exit detail is particularly telling given his “ACTS 17” levels of tolerance for ethically questionable ventures (e.g. Nazism).
Wouldn’t It Be Funny if We Tricked a Bunch of People into Going [in RoboTaxis to Death Camps]?
When even Thiel bails on Swastikars, that’s a strong signal about the scam’s ongoing viability.
Tesla driverless is infamous for being so blind it tries to enter train tracks. For some reason the operator didn’t prevent it this time, and it crashed head-on into a tram.
A Tesla crashed into an approaching tram in Uithoorn early Saturday, causing the tram to derail and leaving multiple people injured. Authorities have not confirmed how many were hurt.
Police said the collision happened around 6 a.m. near the Randweg after the car entered the tracks for reasons that remain unknown. According to AD, the major disruption that shut down service between Westwijk and Uithoorn Centrum.
The impact was severe, derailing the tram and destroying the overhead power line. Emergency services responded in large numbers, including firefighters and a trauma helicopter. Police are investigating the cause of the crash.
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