Article note: I've been expecting "Cheap multirotor with a shrapnel-throwing explosive device" to become a major fixture in small-actor warfare for years. Here they are.
Article note: Oh shit, this is the closest to "The Internet is broken" I've seen in a while.
I just spent half an hour nervously trying to figure out why my webserver and house weren't talking, discovered that if I went through an intermediary they could, _then_ checked the news.
Looks like CenturyLink (formerly Level3) is closing routes but leaving them in their BGP tables, so lots of traffic is going on dead routes through the backbones.
Please, please, stop referring to yourselves as ‘consumers.’ OK? ‘Consumers’ are different than citizens. Consumers do not have obligations, responsibilities, and duties to their fellow human beings. And as long as you’re using that word ‘consumer’ in the public discussion, you will be degrading the quality of the discussion we’re having, and we’re gonna continue to be clueless going into this very difficult future that we face.