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Alexandre Dulaunoy

« Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025 »

Perhaps it’s time to return to DNS’s original distributed design.

#dns #distributed #cloudflare

blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare

The Cloudflare Blog · Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025On July 14th, 2025, Cloudflare made a change to our service topologies that caused an outage for 1.1.1.1 on the edge, resulting in downtime for 62 minutes for customers using the 1.1.1.1 public DNS Resolver as well as intermittent degradation of service for Gateway DNS. We’re deeply sorry for this outage. This outage was the result of an internal configuration error and not the result of an attack or a BGP hijack. In this blog post, we’re going to talk about what the failure was, why it occurred, and what we’re doing to make sure this doesn’t happen again.
Futurist Jim Carroll

"The power plant of the future isn't a smokestack. It's all around your home." - Futurist Jim Carroll

The global energy grid is in the midst of its most profound transformation in a century.

For decades, our model has been simple: massive, centralized power stations push electricity in one direction to passive consumers. That era is decisively ending. We are witnessing a fundamental shift from a one-way delivery monologue to a multi-directional energy grid. The power plant of the future is no longer a distant smokestack; it's the solar panels on your roof, the battery in your garage, and the smart devices throughout your home.

I must admit, it's kind of bizarre writing about this right now because the trend is real, and yet one nation is busy turning its back on the reality of the trend (and many other things.)

So let's consider this from a global perspective!

This evolution toward intelligent, multi-directional networks represents a critical inflection point over the next five years. It’s a transition creating enormous business opportunities that extend far beyond simple hardware to encompass sophisticated, data-driven services. Here's a PDF that explores it.

pdf.jimcarroll.com/Megatrend7-

Essentially, it's being a centralized grid, to a decentralized, distributed grid, with millions of energy inputs.

So what's it all about? Continuing on the energy theme from yesterday, this transformation isn't happening by accident. It's being propelled by three powerful, interconnected forces I call the "Three Ds":

Decarbonization: Despite some areas with political pushback, the world is aggressively shifting from fossil fuels to renewables.

Decentralization: Energy is now being generated, stored, and managed closer to where it's consumed. This gives rise to the "prosumer"—an active participant who both produces and consumes energy.

Digitalization: We're embedding intelligence into the network. Smart meters, IoT sensors, and advanced software are creating a responsive, "aware" grid where electricity and data flow in both directions.

The shift is pretty profound. In the old paradigm, you were a passive consumer with little control. Energy got sent to you. The new reality empowers you as a "prosumer." in which you contribute your energy when available.

Think of it this way - various groups right now are building smart home thermostats that manage your batteries and power generation - and become the next billion-dollar industry by doing so.

**#Decentralization** **#Energy** **#Grid** **#Solar** **#Microgrids** **#Innovation** **#Prosumer** **#Batteries** **#Future** **#Distributed**

Original post: jimcarroll.com/2025/07/decodin

h o ʍ l e t t

→ How the human brain is like a murmuration of starlings
aeon.co/essays/how-the-human-b

“The core idea of emergence inspired me to develop the concept I call the entangled brain: the need to understand the brain as an interactionally complex system where functions emerge from distributed, overlapping networks of regions rather than being localised to specific areas.”

AeonHow the human brain is like a murmuration of starlings | Aeon EssaysThe brain is much less like a machine than it is like the murmurations of a flock of starlings or an orchestral symphony
#human#emergence#entangled
Ecologia Digital

"…#Bluesky was started with its prime mission as creating a #distributed system. The more they dig in on nice-to-have features that have nothing to do with being distributed, the more they go down the same path as #Twitter. Jack talked about turning Twitter into a developer platform as early as 2007. Had they realized the system he talked about, basically global object storage with real financial backing, we'd be much further along with the web as an operating system."

scripting.com/2024/09/17.html

Scripting NewsScripting News: Tuesday, September 17, 2024Dave Winer, OG blogger, podcaster, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It's even worse than it appears.
Erik Jonker

DisTrO sounds exciting,
A new way to train large AI models that drastically reduces the need for super-fast internet connection, potentially allowing training on regular home computers and internet connections. The promise is that DisTrO cuts down the amount of data that needs to be shared between computers during pre-training and during fine-tuning with several magnitudes.
But only a preliminary report , not a reviewed paper yet.
github.com/NousResearch/DisTrO
#AI #training #distributed #DisTrO

GitHubGitHub - NousResearch/DisTrO: Distributed Training Over-The-InternetDistributed Training Over-The-Internet. Contribute to NousResearch/DisTrO development by creating an account on GitHub.
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> Today we are releasing a V0 of the gateway, which is a highly performant, regionally #distributed, traditional public #IPFS #gateway (built using #RainbowIPFS gateway). The reason for releasing this V0 now is because several customers were looking for a quick #Cloudflare replacement. However in subsequent releases over the coming months we will be transitioning the IPFS gateway to #fleekNetwork

fleek.xyz/blog/announcements/f

fleek.xyzIntroducing Fleek's decentralized IPFS gatewaya decentralized IPFS gateway that will leverage Fleek Network to achieve superior performance, reliability,censorship resistance, and long term sustainability compared to traditional IPFS gateways.
#fleek#serverless#webDev
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Everyone hears about IPFS and they think it means they can distribute their data and let someone else pay to host it, but that's not how it works. You have to "pin" your files if you want them to be available on IPFS. You have to pay for this, or just hope that somebody has enough VC cash to do if for you for free.

pinata.cloud/pricing

www.pinata.cloudPinata | PricingFlexible plans for IPFS file management. Simple IPFS pricing for web3 developers, platforms and creators at every stage.
#pinata#ipfs#distributed
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