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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I had the same thing happen to my internet cables but it was the cat.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why was six afraid of seven?

Because seven was a registered six offender.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Holy new version batman

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

jokes on you i almost always use wireless 🕶️

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've had it with these god damned sharks attacking my god damned internet cables

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What’s funny is, sharks legitimately attack these kinds of cables regularly. They need to be adequately shielded to prevent shark attacks.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

As they say, you're more likely to get struck by lightning than attacked by a shark(unless you're an Internet cable)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Feels weird too say that my wifi is being shit cause of sharks but its true!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Environmentalists don't like it when you bury too many sharks.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

This caught me off guard. I'm lucky I wasn't drinking anything.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Because it's one thing to cruise along with a ship and just unspool some cable into the water but a whole other thing to dig hundreds of miles of trenches deep under water.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

People with shovels don't like to get wet.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It's more expensive, especially in super deep water

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


At least 15 submarine cables pass through the Bab al-Mandab Strait at the southern end of the Red Sea, a body of water just 26km wide at some points.

"The location of the cable break is significant due to its geopolitical sensitivity and ongoing tensions, making it a challenging environment for maintenance and repair operations," Seacom said.

Globes attributed the outages to the Iran-backed Houthis, and alleged the damage was "significant, but not critical," because several other undersea cables serve the region.

Peripheral vendor Logitech recently warned its supply chain would experience delays as a result of the Red Sea conflict.

While it's not clear what's exactly going on with subsea internet cables in the Red Sea right now, pinning blame on the Houthis isn't entirely out of left field - the Yemeni rebels threatened to damage comms infrastructure late in 2023.

Rear Admiral John Gower, a former Royal Navy submarine commander, told the BBC earlier this month that it would take a more sophisticated force than the Houthis, someone with submersibles capable of locating the cables to do the deed.


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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

this what happened to AT&T?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Those Vietnamese Internet sharks are getting to be a real problem. 😆