Alex Forster @Alex_Forster
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More AI-generated code doesn't make your team faster. It might actually slow you down.
NEVER pay the ransom!
… we’ve determined the appropriate path forward is to not pay the ransom. As part of Grafana Labs’ standard security practices, we will share additional information from our post-incident review when our investigations are complete. (6/6)
I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and its impossible to have rational conversations about it with them. I can't name any specific people because they include personal friends I deeply respect, but I worry about how this plays out. I lived through the great MTBF vs MTTR (mean-time-between-failure vs. mean-time-to-recovery) reckoning of infrastructure during the transition to cloud and cloud automation. All those arguments are rearing their ugly heads again but now its... the whole software development industry (maybe the whole world, really). It's frightening, because the psychosis folks operate under an almost absolute "MTTR is all you need" mentality: "its fine to ship bugs because the agents will fix them so quickly and at a scale humans can't do!" We learned in infrastructure that MTTR is great but you can't yeet resilient systems entirely. The main issue is I don't even know how to bring this up to people I know personally, because bringing this topic up leads to immediately dismissals like "no no, it has full test coverage" or "bug reports are going down" or something, which just don't paint the whole picture. We already learned this lesson once in infrastructure: you can automate yourself into a very resilient catastrophe machine. Systems can appear healthy by local metrics while globally becoming incomprehensible. Bug reports can go down while latent risk explodes. Test coverage can rise while semantic understanding falls. Changes happens so fast that nobody notices the underlying architecture decaying. I worry.
One of the perks of working at @Cloudflare is getting to illustrate this nonsense
External blog out! Happy Haloween. blog.cloudflare.com/going-bgp-zomb…
Cloudflare just autonomously blocked hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks twice as large as anything seen on the Internet before — peaking at 22.2 Tbps & 10.6 Bpps. Can your mitigation provider’s scrubbing capacity handle that scale?
POV: your incident is about to be resolved
On August 21, 2025, an influx of traffic directed toward clients hosted in AWS us-east-1 caused severe congestion on links between Cloudflare and us-east-1. In this post, we explain what the failure was, why it occurred, and what we’re doing to make sure this doesn’t happen
What is more dangerous to involve in a DDOS attack?
billionaire tech bros dont seem to understand people just want to read some anonymous outback line cook posting shit like “she grunk on my grink” interspersed with breaking news
@zenithsio Solid front end platform and AWS reseller?
We recently thwarted a massive UDP Flood attack from 8-9K IPs targeting ~50 IP addresses of a Magic Transit customer. This was part of a larger campaign we covered in our Q3 2024 report. Check out the full details here: cfl.re/4f5Ytmo #DDoS
The platforms developers most want you to work with. @Cloudflare just off the podium today, but watch this space!
It turns out music, movies, entertainment, and society in general peaked during the exact time period when you, the person reading this, were a teenager.
Could not have asked for a better engineering partner. Congrats on retirement @OGudm
We’ve helped discover a new zero-day vulnerability–dubbed HTTP/2 Rapid Reset–that generated a DDoS attack 3X the size we’ve ever seen before. On our blog, we’re sharing a full technical deep dive on what you need to know. cfl.re/rapid-reset-br…
While exponential growth in DDoS volumes is expected, this is a rare outlier event that sits well above the trend-line. Even the largest providers must efficiently handle malicious traffic to absorb these 0-day events without impact. 3/3
I got Apple's visionOS Simulator streaming wirelessly to a Meta Quest using ALVR. Download: github.com/zhuowei/Vision… Demo of using the visionOS Simulator inside VR:
apropos of nothing, I'm on mastodon and now bluesky too mastodon.social/@alexforster alexforster.bsky.social
DPReview’s general manager has some exciting news about DPReview being acquired. Read about it here: dpreview.com/site-news/8298…
📣 REDDIT TURMOIL CONTINUES: 24 Hours after the blackout was supposed to end, 4974 subreddits are still dark. This includes r/funny, r/science, and r/music. Here's why over 40% of Reddit is still dark:
Kari Linder 🎨 @kkblinder
3K Followers 667 Following It's Kari but Karl is fine too. Draws pictures for Cloudflare 🌥
Tom Strickx @tstrickx
2K Followers 458 Following Bringing you regular network related snark. Principal Engineer. I min/maxed wisdom/speech. 🇧🇪 in 🇬🇧
Lucas Pardue @SimmerVigor
3K Followers 375 Following Protocol nerd at Apple. Ex-Cloudflare. Co-chair of IETF QUIC and WebTransport WGs. Thoughts are my own. Also simmervigor on bsky and mastodon
Adam Chalmers @adam_chal
4K Followers 3K Following Aussie. Building a new programming language for CAD @Zoodotdev. Prev @Cloudflare. I run https://t.co/hVeM2IQylE. My tweets have been read out in Australian parliament
Aaron A. Glenn @networkservice
4K Followers 3K Following "packet processing & packet processing accessories" my tweets are mine alone human rights over property rights. see also discuss . systems at this username
Mingwei 🦀🦋 @heymingwei
2K Followers 2K Following It's not DNS. It's BGP. principal engineer @Cloudflare also building @bgpkit $-300/m
ammar @impl_u64
393 Followers 2K Following network things, rust, flying, etc - all posts and replies are randomly generated by AI
Rustam X. Lalkaka @lalkaka
1K Followers 1K Following cooking things, coaxing agents, climbing rocks. building @usefiretiger so the code your agents write actually works in prod. ex-vp product @cloudflare.
Tom Paseka @tompaseka
1K Followers 1K Following
Annika Garbers @annikagarbers
655 Followers 846 Following product witch @cloudflare 🧙♀️ | staying curious.
Tanner @TheTannerRyan
546 Followers 361 Following From the land of maple and beavers, now in Texas. Network/infrastructure at Cloudflare. Views are own. Better alerting: https://t.co/rSn40Naw0q.
Sergi Isasi @sgisasi
876 Followers 2K Following I’m on my feet, I’m on the floor, I’m good to go. Product @Watershed. Former VP Product @Cloudflare.
Andree Toonk @atoonk
6K Followers 2K Following I like Internet infrastructure engineering. 🇳🇱Based in Vancouver🇨🇦 @tailscale
unnamed @cuntemplationnn
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unfold @davila_j41012
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Jose Valerio @josevalerio
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Sean Beatty @SeanBeatty56262
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venus @VenusXeon
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Tuethoa @Tuethoax8QwX
40 Followers 3K Following Some people say that people who complain are not necessarily bad people, but they are often unpopular.
Bill Mulligan 🐝�... @breakawaybilly
4K Followers 2K Following Cloud Native networking, observability, and security with @ciliumproject, @ebpffoundation, and @isovalent Newsletter https://t.co/4FUWt7Sf69
Matthew Matalucci @MattMatalucci
85 Followers 423 Following
Tellas Girl @GirlTellas48498
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Hexin Wang @zmkm888
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Rune @Rune2068951
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Seatesl @seatesl33849
25 Followers 2K Following Among the easiest things in the world, procrastination is the least effortful.
awlnx @awlnx
2K Followers 1K Following Tries to build a better #internet - https://t.co/zISDImG2HT - https://t.co/JzoJxZr51J
Nesouez @Nesouez184230
41 Followers 2K Following
Artem Russakovskii @ArtemR
26K Followers 1K Following @AndroidPolice https://t.co/NH3SfM5paY and @APKMirror https://t.co/WADOq6GYEV founder. 👨💻: Cursor @cursor_ai 🚘: Tesla Model Y + Lucid Gravity. 🇺🇦→🇺🇸
Rameez Rehman, Syed @rameezrehman408
260 Followers 1K Following IT Security Auditor @ECAC_PAK, Travel-lover and Foody. Visit my Youtube channel. https://t.co/haxwrOv9Kd Or my site👇
Jesper D. Brouer @JesperBrouer
2K Followers 782 Following Linux Kernel Developer at Red Hat, XDP kernel maintainer, behind https://t.co/Hur5eVL3zP
Shyam @Shyam334
63 Followers 1K Following
Todd Yocum @ToddYocum
14 Followers 345 Following
musa @musa3210123
283 Followers 4K Following John 13:35 By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
Janae Lee @JanaeLe97784159
5 Followers 226 Following Financiers, philanthropists, golfers, yogis, horseback riders, travelers, food lovers，God is the one who creates destiny, you are the one who changes it
Shawn DaCruz @dasnoozegk
3K Followers 1K Following let them compound until they stop compounding. read: https://t.co/ZzjmQALbsQ.
Walter @Wasdnsxchen
322 Followers 4K Following
yan zhai @yanzhai87
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rich @bofengqiye
66 Followers 1K Following
The Original Risk Cul... @RiskCultureBldr
1K Followers 3K Following #Africa #Risk #management #award 2019. Radical Risk Management 🇿🇦🇺🇲🇨🇦🇦🇪🇧🇭🇧🇼🇨🇭🇬🇧🇰🇪🇰🇷🇪🇬🇱🇸🇵🇰🇸🇿🇿🇼🇺🇬🇮🇳🇦🇿🇰🇼🇶🇦🇿🇲🇳🇬🇬🇲🇲🇾
Siwat Kaolueng @jameperjerz
1K Followers 7K Following Unlearn old ways of working and become AI-native engineer.
Kanan ALASGARLI 🛡 @hawker0ne
78 Followers 871 Following Cyber Security ( Analyst , Engineer , Specialist )
Henrique Jorge @HenriqueJorge__
962 Followers 5K Following Founder of #ETER9, an avant-garde and experimental AI-driven social network designed to extend human presence beyond the constraints of time and availability.
Claire Asselstine @classelstine
66 Followers 156 Following ☕️ some lady copy and pasting things ☕ Network Security / Software Engineer @ Google
Albert Gran Alcoz @albertgran
248 Followers 545 Following Senior Performance Research Engineer @ NVIDIA | PhD ETH Zürich | High-Performance Networking, AI Infrastructure, Cloud, Network Security 🇨🇭
kyhayama @kyhayama
707 Followers 2K Following Solutions Architect @AmazonBusiness ex-@Cloudflare ex-@IBM 「技術的革新について話すだけのヤツはクソだ、黙って手を動かせ」「継続はパワーなり。」「Get. Sit. Done.」 ※発言は個人の見解であり、所属組織を代表するものではありません
Luke Valenta @lukevalenta
348 Followers 373 Following Research Engineer @ Cloudflare. Opinions are my own. He/Him/His.
Tom Duff @roll_the_fiber
65 Followers 134 Following Husband, father, Linux nerd and cloud network engineer. Head Plumber @ PhillyIX
Scott Buscemi @scottbuscemi
5K Followers 1K Following orange cloud product manager who talks about tesla & ai nonstop
Cloudflare @Cloudflare
318K Followers 5K Following Cloudflare is the world’s leading #ConnectivityCloud, and we have our eyes set on an ambitious goal — to help build a #BetterInternet.
Matthew Prince 🌥 @eastdakota
346K Followers 299 Following A little bit geek, wonk, and nerd. Repeat entrepreneur, recovering lawyer, and former ski instructor. Co-founder & CEO of Cloudflare (NYSE: NET).
Kari Linder 🎨 @kkblinder
3K Followers 667 Following It's Kari but Karl is fine too. Draws pictures for Cloudflare 🌥
Tom Strickx @tstrickx
2K Followers 458 Following Bringing you regular network related snark. Principal Engineer. I min/maxed wisdom/speech. 🇧🇪 in 🇬🇧
Lucas Pardue @SimmerVigor
3K Followers 375 Following Protocol nerd at Apple. Ex-Cloudflare. Co-chair of IETF QUIC and WebTransport WGs. Thoughts are my own. Also simmervigor on bsky and mastodon
Adam Chalmers @adam_chal
4K Followers 3K Following Aussie. Building a new programming language for CAD @Zoodotdev. Prev @Cloudflare. I run https://t.co/hVeM2IQylE. My tweets have been read out in Australian parliament
Aaron A. Glenn @networkservice
4K Followers 3K Following "packet processing & packet processing accessories" my tweets are mine alone human rights over property rights. see also discuss . systems at this username
Dane Knecht 🦭 @dok2001
44K Followers 2K Following I help invent the future. CTO @cloudflare. Angel investor.
Dr. Peering @DrPeering
3K Followers 0 Following So tonight I'm gonna peer like it's nineteen ninety-nine DMs are open (for book deals and job offers)
Justin (he/him) @xxdesmus
5K Followers 132 Following VP of Trust & Safety @Cloudflare I run: https://t.co/CFhTtD4duw and https://t.co/JY9btGIuef. Bluesky: https://t.co/UvzddDtSTA
ammar @impl_u64
393 Followers 2K Following network things, rust, flying, etc - all posts and replies are randomly generated by AI
Rustam X. Lalkaka @lalkaka
1K Followers 1K Following cooking things, coaxing agents, climbing rocks. building @usefiretiger so the code your agents write actually works in prod. ex-vp product @cloudflare.
Louis P @lpoinsig
1K Followers 198 Following engineer sat 🛰️, past @cloudflare network eng. bgp, rpki and flows. Mostly data engineering and monitoring.
Tom Paseka @tompaseka
1K Followers 1K Following
Cloudflare Radar @CloudflareRadar
33K Followers 8 Following Internet trends, as seen by the @Cloudflare global network.
Annika Garbers @annikagarbers
655 Followers 846 Following product witch @cloudflare 🧙♀️ | staying curious.
Tanner @TheTannerRyan
546 Followers 361 Following From the land of maple and beavers, now in Texas. Network/infrastructure at Cloudflare. Views are own. Better alerting: https://t.co/rSn40Naw0q.
Yuchen Wu @eaufavor
5K Followers 305 Following Inference traffic cop @SpaceXAI. Slug engineer @cursor_ai. Former CDN/Pingora lead @Cloudflare. Look at memes everyday at 10:30pm.
Sergi Isasi @sgisasi
876 Followers 2K Following I’m on my feet, I’m on the floor, I’m good to go. Product @Watershed. Former VP Product @Cloudflare.
2001 Live @25YearsAgoLive
654K Followers 361 Following Live-posting as a reporter embedded in history. Curated by @MannyMarotta. Companion to @50YearsAgoLive, @100YearsAgoLive, and @250YearsAgoLive. DM for business.
Todd Hoff @toddhoffio... @toddhoffious
900 Followers 541 Following https://t.co/iUqywflGDj - Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 Max Workout - https://t.co/UPCYyLLBOP
Joseph Mallozzi 🏴�... @BaronDestructo
55K Followers 2K Following Showrunner/Executive Producer/Writer - Dark Matter, Stargates SG-1, Atlantis, Universe, Oops I'm in Love with My Boss's Daughter. Crime Show enthusiast.
amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17
71K Followers 2K Following she ruins lives -@NickJFuentes | hostile -@mschlapp | antifa Nancy Drew -@TAlbert0Barbosa | the expert in right wing extremism -@ChrisLaCivita
Tommy Vietor @TVietor08
541K Followers 3K Following Former Obama NSC staff, cohost Pod Save America, Pod Save the World @crookedmedia
venus @VenusXeon
3K Followers 529 Following
Tim Walz @Tim_Walz
1.1M Followers 2K Following Dad, husband, teacher, coach, veteran. 41st Governor of Minnesota. Official account: @GovTimWalz
Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris
21.0M Followers 699 Following Always fighting for the people. Wife, Momala, Auntie. She/her. 107 Days available now.
USGC @usgraphics
69K Followers 520 Following U.S Graphics Company. Check out our new typeface, Berkeley Mono → https://t.co/dUqr2XX9Wm
Shadow0pz 𝕏 @Shadow0pz
6K Followers 3K Following A.I. | Datacenters | Cybersecurity | Builder | Dogs | CAREFUL WHAT YOU HEAR |
Tim Saccardo @TimSaccardo
7K Followers 676 Following Comedy writer: Community, Vice Principals, American Dad, Universal Basic Guys, UCB
awlnx @awlnx
2K Followers 1K Following Tries to build a better #internet - https://t.co/zISDImG2HT - https://t.co/JzoJxZr51J
ao3 @ao3org
138K Followers 5 Following For alerts from AO3 News, you're in the right place! For site status updates, check @AO3_Status; for tag news @AO3_wranglers; our parent project is @OTW_News
AO3 Status @AO3_Status
1.0M Followers 9 Following Site status updates for the Archive of Our Own (@AO3org), a Hugo Award-winning project of the Organization for Transformative Works (@OTW_News)
Adams for HD1 @DakotaVAdams
3K Followers 2K Following @toxicmicroceleb.bsky.social This message will self destruct, no one should be on here.
Alex Borstein @AlexBorstein
72K Followers 496 Following If every chick sat down when using a public toilet then we could all sit down. Hovering only leads to your piss on the seat. Stop it.
Aric Toler @AricToler
133K Followers 1K Following @nytimes Visual Investigations Previously @bellingcat [email protected] https://t.co/aHPY73i935 Signal/Telegram/WhatsApp: +1 913-209-0215
🏳️⚧️Graph... @GraphCrimes
100K Followers 638 Following Graph High Crimes & Misdemeanors | I barely stick to the gimmick be warned | She/her
RedDrip Team @RedDrip7
17K Followers 29 Following Technical Twitter of QiAnXin Technology, leading Chinese security vendor. It is operated by RedDrip Team which focuses on malware, APT and threat intelligence.
Florian Tschorsch // ... @flotschorsch
562 Followers 242 Following I am no longer active here. Find me on Mastodon: https://t.co/4aBLboQfgm
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bi... @lorenzofb
52K Followers 3K Following Real-time historian of the late cyber capitalist era, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies. Writing a book about Hacking Team.
ZeroBS_GmbH @zero_B_S
681 Followers 238 Following Information and data security. Leader in DDoS-Testing and Assessments in DACH/EU-Region. Full Spectrum Neuland 2.0 #DFIR #OSINT #DDOS #Cyberien
Albert Gran Alcoz @albertgran
248 Followers 545 Following Senior Performance Research Engineer @ NVIDIA | PhD ETH Zürich | High-Performance Networking, AI Infrastructure, Cloud, Network Security 🇨🇭
Claire Asselstine @classelstine
66 Followers 156 Following ☕️ some lady copy and pasting things ☕ Network Security / Software Engineer @ Google
FEMA Region 6 @FEMARegion6
30K Followers 1K Following We provide FEMA resources to Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, New Mexico, Louisiana & 68 federally recognized Tribal Nations. FB: @FEMARegion6 Emergency? Call 9-1-1.
OPSGROUP @_opsgroup
6K Followers 247 Following We are the humans of International Flight Ops: Pilots, Flight Dispatchers, ATC, and operational specialists - and together we keep each other informed and safe.
Jen Gentleman 🌺 @JenMsft
99K Followers 239 Following I work on the Windows engineering team at Microsoft and help with feedback for Start menu, Settings, taskbar, input + more
apenwarr @apenwarr
17K Followers 2K Following wvdial, bup, sshuttle, netselect, popularity-contest, redo, gfblip, GFiber, and now @Tailscale doing WireGuard mesh. Top search result for "epic treatise."
Shadertoy @Shadertoy
24K Followers 3 Following Build and Share your best shaders with the world and get Inspired! Created by @Beauty_pi
Car Dealership Guy @GuyDealership
437K Followers 872 Following The voice of auto retail | news, intelligence & industry insight
Bad Legal Takes @BadLegalTakes
269K Followers 17 Following Posting the worst legal takes on Twitter. Have a submission? DM a link or @ me. Screenshot = bad take. RT = great take. Bingo cards: https://t.co/ONLbcQ8Rns
Noam Rosenthal 🦋 n... @nomsternom
2K Followers 2K Following Working on the web platform (Chromium, Google, etc). My opinions about AI are AI-generated
Coinfessions @coinfessions
220K Followers 1 Following anonymous crypto confessions by @illustratealpha THERE IS NO COIN. THERE IS NO DISCORD. Supported by @rollbit
Best of Dying Twiter @bestofdyingtwit
89K Followers 4 Following Looking into it. Chief Looker: @jenntakahashi
alex tax1a - 2020 (4)... @atax1a
1K Followers 283 Following @[email protected] ￤ posts are not an invitation to debate ￤ ex-birdsite SRE ￤ queerplural pueblo-ish ￤ time-and-chaos cognitohazard ￤ xe/xer^they/them 🔞
Hoshino Lina / 星乃... @Lina_Hoshino
41K Followers 323 Following Hacker & Mad Scientist VTuber! 💍 @CyanNyan6 🩵 | We are @TokyoHackerGrls ✨ ママ：@heripiro ｜パパ：@otozuki_teru All the links: https://t.co/kFwhALrGVU
Dan Luu @altluu
4K Followers 1 Following Chatty alt of @danluu. Mainly on https://t.co/V3Q53o3vC3 and https://t.co/00xlxH8ipr.
Yoel Roth isn't on th... @yoyoel
160K Followers 612 Following Used to lead Trust & Safety here. Find me elsewhere.
Tabletop Scenarios @badthingsdaily
17K Followers 1 Following THESE 👏 TWEETS 👏 ARE 👏 FICTION👏 This account tweets fictional or headline inspired breach scenarios. To play: Share opinions on prevention or response steps.You might like
