It's ironic that the Internet was designed to accommodate nuclear war and we still decided to consolidate so much critical infrastructure onto monoliths.

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mottalli a day ago | parent [-]

Internet is working perfectly fine, it's the services that run on top of the Internet that are failing

	▲	antiframe a day ago \| parent [-]
		SMTP is a protocol designed back when machines might connect once a day to exchange email. It was designed to work during intermittent connectivity, queue messages, and recover gracefully. We instead decided we like instant rather than reliable by putting all our emails in one basket and then forgot that it doesn't have to be that way.