Posted on 11/19/2025 6:32:00 AM PST by Rummyfan
Apparently, some twenty-five per cent of the Internet was inaccessible for much of the day - including (depending where you were) significant parts of the Steyn empire. Get used to it. A few years hence, "surfing the net" is going to be like switching on your kitchen light in Baghdad outside the Green Zone. This will be because China and other hostile powers will enjoy messing with us just to probe our strengths and weaknesses. But it will also be because the west's own governments will appreciate the advantages of a more conditional Internet. Let us say that, oh, multiple schoolgirls get stabbed in Southport or Dublin. Or another couple of French schoolteachers are beheaded by their students. Or two German Christmas markets get mown down on the same day. Just in case some intemperate Lucy Connolly types are tempted to weigh in, would it not be in everyone's interest for social media to be mysteriously afflicted by a Distributed Denial of Service?
~Speaking of Mrs Connolly, Starmer's political prisoner is now out of gaol. So Nigel Farage had planned to fly her to Washington to speak to members of Congress about the death of free speech in the United Kingdom.
But that's off. Even though Lucy Connolly has served the sentence imposed by Birmingham Crown Court, I learn from the indispensable Conservative Woman website that the poor woman has since been placed under MAPPA - "Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements". If you're wondering what that means, well, let us go to the UK government's own sodding website. The purpose of MAPPA is to "assess and manage the risks posed by sexual and violent offenders".
I was not hitherto aware that Mrs Connolly was a "sexual and violent offender"...
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
“I was in the pool!”
Bkmk
I got around this CLoudflare issue by logging in to a Washington DC node on the ExpressVPN menu. IT was clearly a no-go coming in through my usual Atlanta node.
Do self driving cars still work when the internet goes down?
Like a frightened turtle...
Do self driving cars still work when the internet goes down?
Isn’t “ technology” great? It is, until suddenly it isn’t.
“Cloudflare says that an hours-long global outage that knocked off several major websites earlier Tuesday was caused by a configuration file that unexpectedly got too big.”
“What they’re saying: Cloudflare spokesperson Jackie Dutton said the outage was caused by a “configuration file that is automatically generated to manage threat traffic.”
This is typical - nobody says ‘what will happen if?” It’s all automated, nothing can go wrong.
I don’t read Mark Steyn’s articles very often. He is well informed, but his writing style laden with satire is not always for me. Even still. I have always liked Mark as a personality.
It’s good to know he’s still writing at all.
Hasn’t he been quite ill for the last few years?
Good question. I think a lot of the technology is independent of the internet.
I’ve relied on Apple maps for direction while driving. Sometimes there’s no signal. That is awkward to scary.
Yes, he has had and is still having serious heart problems.
Steyn went through a long and harrowing lawfare ordeal launched by the climate nazis, led by Michael Mann. Steyn eventually prevailed, but the prolonged stress of malicious litigation ruined his health.
“...China and other hostile powers will enjoy messing with us...”
Why, they can get information from us with it running. Look at Hilary’s personal server she was using putting sensitive information on it. Never know who might be listening and she was stupid enough not to care.
wy69
Shock + deep worry can certainly wear a person down from within.
My small related experience with that is when the IRS ‘stole’ my paycheck and then some many years ago. Since then, I learned to slightly overpay my taxes. It was all legal and there was nothing I could do about it but twiddle my thumbs. I don’t ever want to go through that again.
Probably not and that is why they want them. Also, they can commandeer it upon demand and deposit you anywhere they want. They is the deep state.
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