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rogerrogerr a day ago

I know of a way to test it…

But realistically, I would think the US/Americas would be approximately fine. Most, if not practically all, services people on the NA continent use are based in the US from both a corporate and technical perspective. The command+control stuff for distributed systems is probably in the US.

Across the pond(s), yeah, I’d expect more disruption.

Swizec a day ago | parent | next [-]

When I was in high school, our cable out of the country got cut on the border with Austria. For a few hours we could only access domestic websites, which was a pretty interesting experience.

20 years later I wonder how many of those are hosted on AWS/GCP/Azure and would break anyway. Probably all but the biggest.

Mistletoe a day ago | parent [-]

An interesting thought experiment is what would happen to each region’s internet culture if cut off like this from one another? It would be like a speciation event like when animals get cut off from one another by continental drift etc.

rogerrogerr an hour ago | parent | next [-]

EU Internet would be dominated by cookie banners, which I regard as an invasive species they exported to other continents.

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andy_ppp a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I understand the US would be fine! Europe would struggle I think.