Stray bullet takes out Spectrum fiber, knocks Texans offline

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/01/texas_internet_outage_gunshot/

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HubertManne@piefed.social · 52 pts · 312d (1 reply)

Sounds dangerous over there. Do you need ice with illinois national guard backup to help bring you freedom?

leo@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show · 12 pts · 312d

We have the freedom to knock out our own internet with freedom bullets. What more could one want?!

toofpic@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 312d

She is not stray, for every bullet has an owner

OppaGundamStyle@discuss.tchncs.de · 37 pts · 312d (1 reply)

Crime is out of control in Texas! What a lawless wasteland the pedophile party has made.

Nunar@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 312d

Send in the national guard and the army! I'm sure there's leaves to be raked and trash to be picked up!!!

nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 312d (2 replies)

This is the third firearms-related outage problem Spectrum has had in the last 12 months.

Texas, which will feel the warming more than other areas of the USA, is strongly religious, Republican, and needs to be isolated for everyone's protection

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 18 pts · 312d (1 reply)

Build a wall around Texas and make Texans pay for it.

nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 312d

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sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz · 8 pts · 312d (1 reply)

I thought "stray bullet" meant it didn't hit what was aimed at and just strayed off. This seems pretty deliberate. And for anyone who doesn't feel like reading the article, it's not happening in just Texas.

idiomaddict@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 312d

I read the article, but I don’t think it’s deliberate at all. There are 150M guns in the US, and lots of gun owners are morons. Episodically targeting Ohio, Texas, and California doesn’t seem like it would do much to benefit anyone.

BroBot9000@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 312d (2 replies)

Only way this would be more American if someone was also shot.

deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz · 6 pts · 312d

...By a toddler with the gun.

leo@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show · 4 pts · 312d

Give it time...

homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 312d

In Texas, you say

Bristlecone@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 312d

The most Texas internet outage ever

Outtatime@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 312d

The comments section here reads like a coping session for spoiled children who didn't get what they wanted. Came here for Linux, leaving with questions.

jake_jake_jake_@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 312d

working for an isp in rural NY and PA, this is not uncommon, but for us normally they are normally not "stray"

Fizz@lemmy.nz · 4 pts · 312d (1 reply)

Are the cables not underground? Just put them underground its not safe above ground in texas

unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 312d

Lots of stuff like power and phone lines still arent underground in large parts of the US afaik.

inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 312d

Man, Texas Republicans really don't want people to watch pornhub.

whiwake@lemmy.cafe · 1 pts · 312d

Texas problems. No one else’s.