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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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[–] cyrano@piefed.social 65 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 7 points 9 hours 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!

[–] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 31 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (3 children)

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

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 27 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] ace_garp@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago

Indeed.

"...you must first invent the universe".

[–] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 12 points 10 hours ago

I had a Gen Z person ask me how I got a "3D printer save button" when I had a floppy disk for some reason.

[–] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 10 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world 8 points 10 hours ago

Sorry friend, it is Eternal.

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 2 points 11 hours ago

I am 26 and this is my childhood too.