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[–] r00ty@kbin.life 40 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, but is it web scale?

[–] zea_64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 46 points 2 months ago (2 children)

/dev/null is web scale, it maintains sub 1ms times no matter how much load you give it!

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Does /dev/null support sharding?

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago

Yes, you can run as many replicas as you want. It's also incredibly lean on the synchronization bandwidth.

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It certainly supports the admin sharting when he finds out where all the data went.

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago
[–] ThunderComplex@lemmy.today 3 points 2 months ago

How to avoid a alien invasion according to war of the worlds 2025

[–] desmosthenes@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

lololol yusssss

[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

EDIT: I got whooshed. Thanks for the reference :)

edit edit: Holt shit how did I miss this for 15 years. This is great, stayed accurate all this time.

Shoutout to software that had to deal with y2k and is still popular, gotta be one of my favourite genders.

[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago

I've never seen that one. It's a masterpiece for sure. Thanks.

[–] Feyd@programming.dev 6 points 2 months ago

Just fyi you're taking a meme seriously