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A Bullet Crashed the Internet in Texas (www.404media.co)

submitted 1 day ago by resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/50043182

A ‘stray bullet’ 25,000 people offline near Dallas.

Archived version: https://archive.is/20251001151950/https://www.404media.co/a-bullet-crashed-the-internet-in-texas/

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 7 points 15 hours ago

A southern gun nut, this is hilarious:

Fiber optic cable lines are often buried underground, protected from the vagaries of southern gunfire.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

Have they ever heard the word "redundancy"? I mean, not just in the human resources meaning?

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 54 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So you're saying we need to give the fibre optic cables guns?

[–] middlemanSI@lemmy.world 6 points 19 hours ago

Only the white ones

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago

Of course not, they deserved it