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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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[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago

the texas internet is a series of gun barrels

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

stray bullet

Be sure to spay and neuter your bullets.

[–] protist@mander.xyz 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

And by "the Internet in Texas" they mean the internet for 0.08% of Texas

[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yes, but as everything is bigger in Texas, the same is valid for percentages. So, 0.08% in Texas corresponds to roughly 17% in Nevada, because of reasons.

[–] protist@mander.xyz 3 points 8 months ago

Your math indicates Nevada has 147,058 people

[–] ApeNo1@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

They need more robust gunfire walls.

[–] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

"This is not the first time gunfire has taken down the internet. In 2022, Xfinity fiber cable in Oakland, California went offline after people allegedly fired 17 rounds into the air near one of the company’s fiber lines. "

Truly an Idiocracy