It’s larping for people without a sense of humour.

Or: use a different email provider.

My assumption is that the pattern you describe is possible/doable on certain scales and in certain combinations of technologies. But doing this across a distributed system with as many nodes and as many different nodes as CloudFlare has, and still have a system that can be updated quickly (responding to DDOS attacks for example) is a lot harder.

If you really feel like you have a better solution please contact them and consult for them, the internet would thank you for it.

Somebody (Robert Heinlein) made it up in a book (Stranger in a Strange Land).

Isn’t it also an illness dogs can have? I remember a stray I adopted had to get treated for it.

That could be.

Also, are you relatively young? I think younger people tend to make more sweeping statements like this.

Enjoy :-)

Still has an open source version tho: https://www.usebruno.com/pricing

There are less bloated alternatives I prefer. Like Bruno, which is easy/easier to version control.

Lots of technical terms are used quite loosely I think. If you ask 10 people what a compiler is, or what functional programming is or what goes where on the OSI layers you’ll get different answers.

It’s not practical but that’s the world we live in.

The meaning of words can change yes.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/words-that-used-to-mean-something-different

Aka the Dunning Kruger effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect

That’s a math article