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There is a reason it was called the slashdot effect, because it was the biggest source of traffic for many sites it linked.


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justsomehnguy06/17/2025

sigh

Yes, a bunch of nerds (10k?, 20k?) worldwide forced someone's PC used as a server to crash. Their views surely represent the views of a country with ~~50M population, right?