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by kiwijamo 958 days ago
"One Optus customer, Annie, told ABC Radio she found out about the issues through her cat, who is fed through an automatic Wi-Fi feeder, and missed being fed due to the outage."

Source: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia/301004965/major-optu...

2 comments

Catastrophic failure.
Internet of Shit strikes again. It’s just insane to me that anyone makes an embedded system that isn’t capable of tracking time and it’s own schedule.

I’m sure some useless agile product owner scrum type person came up with the brilliant idea of needing an internet connection just to turn the motor on and off.