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  Iqra (@AiWithIqra) reported 54 seconds ago

  6. Default DNS Resolution Lag What it does: When your TV tries to load the image thumbnails for an app like Netflix, it uses your Internet Service Provider's default DNS server to find out where those images live on the internet. Think of DNS as the internet's phone book. Why it kills performance: ISP phone books are notoriously slow and incredibly outdated. Often, your TV is not actually lagging at all. The processor is fine, but the TV is frozen waiting for your internet provider to tell it where to download the movie poster graphics. *********** it: Settings → Network → Network Status → IP Settings → DNS Setting → Enter Manually. Change the numbers to 8.8.8.8 (Google) or 1.1.1.1 (Cloudflare). You will literally watch your streaming apps load twice as fast.

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  SID | Degen (@SidDegen) reported 6 minutes ago

  i don't buy the "ai search replaces Google" thesis. the data says the opposite is happening. Cloudflare Radar, may 2026: every ai chatbot — ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity — sends 0.29% of global search referrals. Google sends 87.63%. 301-to-1. Anthropic's ClaudeBot crawls 11,122 pages for every human visit it returns vs Google's 5:1. Alphabet Q1 2026 filing: Google search revenue $60.4B, +19% yoy, up from +17% in Q4. ai overviews hit 2.5B monthly users; ai mode crossed 1B. alphabet says ai overviews monetize at rates "similar to traditional search" (june 2026 investor presentation). the kill-google thesis is showing up as negative signal in the actual p&l. Perplexity — the consensus poster child — killed its entire ad business in feb (Financial Times, The Verge). ads generated $20K against $34M revenue. exec quote: "a user would just start doubting everything." a company that can't make advertising work cannot disrupt a $60B/quarter advertising business. the consensus pusher worth countering specifically — @sarahdingwang at a16z, who led Exa's $250M Series C at $2.2B in may. her line: "agents will search the web more than humans this year. soon orders of magnitudes more." historical analog — Netscape 1994-98. the next platform that would reduce windows to "a poorly debugged set of device drivers." 80% share, record ipo. microsoft bundled IE for free. netscape sold to AOL for scrap. the company that captured the value was the one everyone thought netscape would displace — Google, founded 1998 — the services layer above the commodity. counter-position: ai search isn't replacing Google. Google is becoming ai search. standalone players are fighting netscape's war while the incumbent absorbs the tech into a surface 2.5B people already use. investor read: Exa at $2.2B and Perplexity at $22B are priced for a market-share takeover the referral data says isn't happening. the smarter bet is the layer that monetizes the ai-overview expansion Google is driving.

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  Tobias Glöckler (@TobiasGloeckler) reported 6 minutes ago

  @dok2001 @QuinnyPig KeepassXC refuses to auto fill on cloudflare using the chrome extension for some reason. Anyone else has this issue?

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  Ragnarok013 (@Ragnarok013) reported 7 minutes ago

  @4nt1p4tt3rn That's a nice coincidence, I'm already using pihole and cloudflare. I wondered if they was something more that could help up my network game.

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  tidux (@skibidiblazor) reported 8 minutes ago

  @prestonjbyrne Not to mention because the major cloud providers have their own international cables between datacenters they'd have to put that DPI filter in front of Cloudflare, Cloudfront, Azure and Google CDNs, YouTube, etc.... it would make the Internet unusably slow.

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  Wallstreet Dragon (@longwashere) reported 13 minutes ago

  DD: Long term holdings. $NET cloudflare and why it's important in the age of agents ELI5: The world is moving towards agent. Big industries need better cloud bot protection, developers need LLM computing on the edge. Cloudflare provides the most afforadable option for both, even heavy aws users are using cloudflare for these purposes. What is Cloudflare? For the technically challenged or pre-med professionals, Cloudflare is a web infrastructure and security company that acts as a protective, performance-enhancing shield between a website and its visitors by providing services like content delivery networks (CDNs), DDoS mitigation, and secure domain routing. TL;DR: For the simple folks, it's that **** that pops up with the CAPTCHA to make sure you're not a bot. For developers, it's that **** that makes your sites fast and secure from bots. What is Cloudflare's growing revenue? Application Security and Content Delivery Network (CDN). What is a Content Delivery Network? A CDN is basically a network of servers used to store files closer to its users for faster retrieval. Imagine an app creates a backend database storing all its images on AWS based in US-East. A CDN will then copy the most commonly used images in that S3 database and duplicate them across multiple regions (Asia, Europe, US-East). When an app makes a service request, it will make the request to Cloudflare first. Cloudflare then uses its internal logic to determine if the data needed is in a nearby Cloudflare edge server (on the edge) or if it needs to get it from the main database in US-East. This is called storage on the edge. This CDN mechanism is a relic of Web 2.0, but it will become significantly more important in the age of AI. Now, instead of storing images, large AI providers will be storing entire LLM contexts on the edge. So instead of training specialized ML models to do a specific task, app companies can use a general-usage LLM with a stored context for that specific task, and it will be fast, too. This mechanism is called Prefix Caching or Prompt Caching. By doing this, it makes the LLM responses almost instantaneous. So all your consumer apps that use LLMs—like CALai, Duolingo, Grok, etc.—are most likely already using this process. Beyond simply storing data on the edge, the industry is shifting toward deploying entire servers and specialized AI models locally. A major component of this architecture relies on LLM routing. Instead of hosting massive, resource-heavy models on every single edge device or regional server, companies are deploying highly optimized, lightweight router models at the edge. These local routers analyze incoming user prompts to determine the most efficient way to handle them. If a task is simple, the edge model processes it instantly to minimize latency and eliminate cloud compute costs. If the task requires deep reasoning or a massive knowledge base, the router intelligently forwards the request to a larger cloud-hosted model. Additionally, these edge routers leverage tool calling, which allows them to execute local APIs, query regional databases, or trigger specific code workflows without needing to round-trip back to a centralized data center. Moving from simple edge storage to localized edge intelligent compute represents a massive paradigm shift. It allows enterprises to scale AI applications efficiently, safeguard data privacy, and drastically slash infrastructure costs. Cloudflare Security in the Age of Agents This one is simple. You know that Cloudflare CAPTCHA that pops up when you're entering a website or checking out with a credit card? Websites PAY for that CAPTCHA. And they pay a lot. These features block spam, bots, and DDoS attacks. When you move your mouse to click the CAPTCHA, Cloudflare uses proprietary logic that determines you're human by calculating how fast your mouse moved, the angle you moved it, how long you waited, and any other actions you took. Sometime in the 2010s, every website figured out that paying for this small puzzle CAPTCHA was more cost-effective than getting DDoS'd by bots, so almost every single site adopted it. The CAPTCHA is only one of Cloudflare's products in its security suite to block bots from websites, but the overarching theme is the same for all its features: blocking bots. Well, it's 2026 now, and web traffic across the board has increased, mostly driven by AI and AI agents. Automated web traffic has increased by 600% in 2026 alone. Guess who is positioned perfectly for this? Cloudflare. Not only is Cloudflare blocking bot traffic, but it's also getting paid by them. Cloudflare is releasing a new product (Pay Per Crawl) that allows website owners and Cloudflare to get paid for LLMs crawling their content. Cloudflare is simply winning by creating the gates for web traffic and now charging a toll fee for bots to use them. Cloudflare is direct play on internet traffic, which is a correlating play on ai agents and LLM adoption and usage. If you think people will continue to use ai agents and LLM, then cloudflare is your guy. Cloudflare valuation has dropped recently because of the layoffs due to ai, even though revenue has sped up. This drop was more of emotional sell off than a fundamental one. It's valuation has already bounced back. (Cloudflare is trading at 235 as of this post, I bought in earlier in the 190s for a swing trade after the bogus layoff dips, wish i bought in more)

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  Stefan Mincher (@StefanMincher) reported 15 minutes ago

  @betangel any issues currently? I bought keys on 16th June, I haven’t received the email with them on. Can’t log support via the website as there’s a cloudflare error.

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  CAPED CRUSADER🦇 (@stilleclectic) reported 15 minutes ago

  @matthansbello Sigh, everything was originally done on namecheap but I’ve now just moved the dns to cloudflare. Waiting to see if that fixes the issue

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  NOVA 🇷🇺 (@NOVA360HD) reported 17 minutes ago

  📌 The Illusion of Decentralization: Who Owns the Backbone of the Internet & AI in 2026? (Updated List) As you scroll daily, you might think you're navigating thousands of independent sites and apps. The reality? 90% of global data traffic flows through channels controlled by a select few. Here is who actually controls the world's digital backend: 1. The Cloud Big Three If these three companies went offline, half of the internet’s apps, banking systems, and aviation networks would vanish in seconds: * Amazon Web Services (AWS): Controls roughly a third of the entire global cloud market. It hosts giants like Netflix, Airbnb, and even highly sensitive government databases. * Microsoft Azure: The largest backbone for massive corporations, government institutions, and global digital identity systems. * Google Cloud: The third engine powering YouTube, massive big data research, and global startups. 2. The Gatekeepers These are the invisible shields you rarely see, but they control and protect your access to the internet: * Cloudflare: Manages and secures roughly 20-25% of all global web traffic. If Cloudflare goes down, half of the world's news outlets and crypto exchanges drop with it. * Akamai: The oldest and largest Content Delivery Network (CDN) in the world. They dictate how videos, live streams, and games reach billions of people without lagging. 3. The Hardware Monopoly Software is useless without processors, and this is where the greatest monopoly lies: * NVIDIA: Controls over 80% of the AI chip and data center GPU market. They essentially decide who has the compute power to train AI (like OpenAI and Meta) and who gets left behind. * TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor): The Taiwanese giant that manufactures almost all the world's advanced chips for Apple, Nvidia, AMD, and Qualcomm. If TSMC stopped, the production of global smartphones and military hardware would freeze. 4. The Submarine Cables (Who Owns the Physical Internet?) The internet isn't in the sky (satellites only cover a tiny fraction). 99% of global data travels through cables at the bottom of the ocean: * SubCom & ASN: The two companies responsible for laying and maintaining most of the world's underwater fiber-optic cables. * The Big Tech Alliance: Today, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon have become the largest investors and tenants of these cables, meaning they now physically own the routes data takes between continents. 5. The Institutional Masters If you dig deep into the shares of every media, tech, aviation, and defense company globally, you will always find three names repeating as the top institutional investors: * BlackRock (Manages over $10 Trillion in assets). * Vanguard Group (Manages roughly $8 Trillion in assets). * State Street These funds don't run the companies day-to-day, but they hold massive voting power to dictate board members and the strategic direction of these giants (from Apple and Microsoft to oil and defense contractors). 💡 The Bottom Line: The internet is no longer the free, distributed network it was once touted to be. It has evolved into a highly centralized infrastructure where a few massive corporations and investment funds dictate what you see, what you hear, and how your data flows.

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  Julian Goldie SEO (@JulianGoldieSEO) reported 18 minutes ago

  HERMES AGENT JUST TURNED WHATSAPP INTO A REAL AI WORKER But one tiny setup mistake can leave the entire bot completely silent. What Just Dropped: → Official WhatsApp Business Cloud integration → Run Hermes as a private assistant, team bot, or customer support agent → Text one WhatsApp number and get AI replies directly inside the chat Built Like A Proper App: ✓ Secure webhooks and official Meta support ✓ Voice notes, media, read receipts, and typing indicators ✓ Interactive approval buttons when Hermes needs confirmation The Setup: → Run `hermes whatsapp cloud` → Connect your Meta Business account and WhatsApp number → Use Cloudflare Tunnel to expose your local Hermes gateway securely Three Mistakes To Avoid: ✓ Use the 15–17 digit Phone Number ID, not your real phone number ✓ Replace the 24-hour test token with a permanent system-user token ✓ Subscribe to the `messages` webhook field or the bot will never receive anything For a reliable WhatsApp agent, use the official Cloud API path instead of the unofficial personal-account bridge.

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  Aly (@alishteinn) reported 30 minutes ago

  Most Next.js websites are entirely too slow. I just boosted the Cursor Baku community site performance from 77 to 98. It is deployed on @Cloudflare, and the fixes were incredibly simple. If you want lightning-fast load times, steal these 4 tips: • Resize images to their actual display size before committing • Set minimumCacheTTL in next.config to cache image at the edge • Always set sizes on Next.js <Image> or retina fetches 4× the bytes • Wrap R2 reads with caches.default to serve media from the edge Fast load times build trust. Stop losing users over a slow website.

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  Alon M. (@Alon_iploop) reported 32 minutes ago

  @BenjaminFlatz Stealth helps, but most Cloudflare failures are environment issues: IP reputation, geo, sticky sessions, and consistent browser state. IPLoop provides the residential network layer so Playwright/Scrapy stacks don’t fail just because the traffic looks wrong.

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  oops (@fataloops) reported 33 minutes ago

  @EddCoates I have a (conspiracy) theory about this- Cloudflare is the one doing the scraping, millions of requests Your only option is to use cloudflare or take down the site

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  Special Situations 🌐 Research Newsletter (Jay) (@SpecialSitsNews) reported 34 minutes ago

  New Activist Name: Shares of $MTN are trading up 13% at $141.65 on Thursday, rebounding sharply from their 52-week low of $118.51 hit earlier this year, as the Semafor scoop circulates across trading desks. The intraday move lifts the company's market cap to roughly $5.05 billion. According to Semafor, Vail's bankers are tasked with assessing vulnerabilities across a broad front: labor unrest, weather-related demand swings, and the specific pressure campaign being waged by Prince, who co-founded Cloudflare (NET). Prince told a local Colorado publication in June 2026 that he is willing to invest $500 million in Park City Mountain Resort and admitted he has already fielded calls from activist investors probing Vail's weaknesses. His preferred blueprint would see Vail pivot to an asset-light model, acting as a partnership facilitator rather than a direct mountain owner, a structure that would almost certainly require carving up the company's core real-estate holdings. The timing is awkward for management. Vail reported fiscal Q3 2026 earnings per share of $8.81, missing the consensus estimate of $9.09 by 3.1%, while revenue of $1.21 billion came in roughly $10 million below forecasts. The company subsequently cut its fiscal 2026 net income guidance to a range of $128 million to $162 million and trimmed Resort Reported EBITDA guidance to $735$755 million, down from the prior range of $745$775 million. Net debt has climbed to $2.65 billion from $2.24 billion a year earlier, pushing net leverage to 3.5x trailing twelve-month EBITDA as of April 30, 2026, while cash on hand stood at $371.4 million. Into that environment, the board moved in May 2025 to recall Rob Katz, the executive who originally built Vail into a multi-mountain empire, ousting his hand-picked successor in the process. Katz has since focused on the operational grievances that drove customer dissatisfaction, particularly lift-line congestion and chronic labor shortages, introducing products like Epic Friend Tickets and discounted super-advanced lift tickets that are showing early traction. The move signals that Vail's board views operational credibility as its first line of defense against any activist pitch centered on mismanagement. Management also has a financial lever to highlight in any proxy fight. The company pays a quarterly cash dividend of $2.22 per share, with the next payment scheduled for July 9, 2026, equating to an annualized yield of roughly 6.6% at current prices. That yield argument, steady cash returns while the turnaround plays out, is a standard defensive talking point, though it carries less weight when leverage is rising and guidance is being cut. Investors will get a clearer read on whether Katz's operational fixes are gaining traction when Vail reports fiscal Q4 2026 results, tentatively scheduled for September 24, 2026. The setup is challenging: consensus EPS for that quarter stands at -$5.05, with eight analyst downward revisions in the past 90 days and no upward revisions, reflecting the structural headwinds Prince and any allied activist would likely exploit.

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  Francisco T. Barbosa (@Cisco_research) reported 35 minutes ago

  @YashasGunderia I believe this is more a Cloudflare thing. Lots of issues with log in/log out