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Re:Belgian man has been receiving pizzas he never ordered fo... by jvanderbot on Saturday June 06, 2020 @08:02PM (#23443466)
Reminds me of the couple that lives on a farm that is the default geolocation for 600 million IP addresses. Their farm has been visited by authorities for a long time.

https://consumerist.com/2016/04/11/this-farm-in-kansas-is-th....

And in my work, we always know the direction to null island, because stray robots will head right for it. I even thought about writing a short story about all the stray / bugged out robots piling up on the seafloor near it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_Island

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Re:Belgian man has been receiving pizzas he never ordered fo... by dependenttypes on Saturday June 06, 2020 @09:05PM (#23443798)
Your first link it broken. I think you meant to link https://consumerist.com/2016/04/11/this-farm-in-kansas-is-th...

Or if you connecting from Europe https://archive.is/Kvgzm

This one is a better article imo https://splinternews.com/how-an-internet-mapping-glitch-turn...

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Re:Belgian man has been receiving pizzas he never ordered fo... by netsharc on Saturday June 06, 2020 @08:30PM (#23443618)
Not just authorities, but wackos who think the residents living there hacked them, etc, etc...
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