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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
by rogerrogerr 2y 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 2y agoWhen 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 2y agoAn 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.
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- rogerrogerr 2y agoEU Internet would be dominated by cookie banners, which I regard as an invasive species they exported to other continents.
- andy_ppp 2y agoI understand the US would be fine! Europe would struggle I think.