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Widespread Cloudflare outage blamed on mysterious traffic spike (arstechnica.com)
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A Cloudflare spokesperson told Ars that the cloud services provider saw “a spike in unusual traffic to one of Cloudflare’s services,” which “caused some traffic passing through Cloudflare’s network to experience errors.”

“We do not yet know the cause of the spike in unusual traffic,” the spokesperson said. “We are all hands on deck to make sure all traffic is served without errors. After that, we will turn our attention to investigating the cause of the unusual spike in traffic.”

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[–] [S] 80 points 11 months ago* (13 children)

How many times have I told you not to download movies or games in the middle of the day? You'll tie up the phone lines.

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  • [–] 76 points 11 months ago (9 children)

    Ok mum I stopped torrenting. You can use the phone again.

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  • [–] 38 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (7 children)

    You can tell we're all old as fuck Millennials, because nobody else would make this joke. Lol.

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  • [–] 34 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    I can't even explain dial up modems to my son because I'd have to start by explaining what phone lines are.

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  • [–] 14 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I think that's a big part of why I like lemmy.

    There are plenty of tech-savvy critical thinkers in the younger generations, but the naïveté, tech illiteracy, and lack of critical thinking ability of the average internet commenter / poster is appalling.

    I've seen it just get worse and worse.

    The internalized self censorship, the laissez faire attitude towards digital privacy, just pure fucking idiocy.

    Wake me up when September ends.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago

    No longer relevant pro tip - an extra pair was typically left at the incoming service, which was used for testing. It worked as a second line and didn't interupt the main pair, allowing for a functionally free second phone line (that didnt have incoming service).

    Perfect for modem use!

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  • [–] 16 points 11 months ago

    I had fully forgotten the phrase "you'll tie up the phone line!" And I just had a nam style flashback of sneaking internet time during the day when my mom was at work, and praying that no one tried to call

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Ten movies streaming across that, that Internet, and what happens to your own personal Internet? I just the other day got... an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday. I got it yesterday. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the Internet commercially. They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.

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