This comm suddenly became Anarchy Chess lol
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Can someone please keep track of the evolutionary history of these? I wanna see a timeline.
You forgot Azure. According to my sister all of the internet runs on it. 😂
lol _new(3) gives me some flashbacks
Don’t forget the cutest single point of failure!!
I love this because of how often a squirrel would take down our remote disaster recovery site.
My child, you are beautiful.
Mesmerized Astronaut: Wait, It's all water?!
Rooted in reality Astronaut: Always has been.
Not to spread concern or anything, but the electrical grid is managed and controlled by software. And that software may or may not be very reliant on AWS. I'm probably not allowed to say more than that.
So somewhere in here we need some M. C. Escher stairs of AWS on the electrical grid on AWS on the electrical grid…
And that software may or may not be very reliant on AWS
Not. Electrical Scada systems are usually airgapped from the Internet.
Power company engineer here, it’s true that a lot of our supporting and analytics software went down during the AWS event.
However, most devices that actually control grid units (called bulk electric system cyber-assets) are air-gapped or utilize a data diode.
FERC Reliability Standards and NERC CIP
However-er, flipping through those standards just now, turns out it’s 100% permitted to connect your “bulk electric system cyber-asset” to a cloud integration if done compliantly.
The process to decide to turn power plants on and off isn't air-gaped.
It's missing a Saddam Hussein hideout
Naw it's there, just hidden very well.
That was a fun minute!
In all seriousness though, the core of the technical stack has become very robust in my opinion (DNS being the exception). From a hobbyist's perspective, things work much better than when the Web was still young. I can run multiple sites (some of them being what are today called apps) on a domain with subdomains, everything fast, HTTP3-capable, secured via valid free TLS certs, reverse proxied, all of that running on a system deployed in minutes...
If you focus on the part of the Internet that you have control over, it's a lot better than back in the simple days.
Usenet is still in use btw. And so is Nostr.
If you add infrastructure then you will need to add more transmission methods then a couple shark chewed undersea cables. Then you might as well add the millions of SAs, technicians, linemen (linepersons?), etc that install and maintain everything. Oh and I guess we would also need all the institutions and teachers that train all these techies.
We arrivied thus at the funny moment where meme is accurate enough to be used for educational purposes.
Look how little has to fail for whole web to decay, child xD
Earth: layer below electricity, melting and disintegrating
Elon Musk: boring through Earth and strapping hopelessly tiny, exploding rockets to the "Electricity" block to get everything to Mars
Sun: lowermost layer but extending a fist labeled "2027 solar flare" at internet infrastructure
What a horrible title. Maybe it's time to start using git
Or Fossil😅😅
Fossil rocks
Haha especially the angry bird is genius
What about left-pad?
A company abused their clout to steal ownership of an npm package from it’s FOSS developer. Because NPM was complicit in the theft, the maintainer deleted all their packages and abandoned NPM. One of those was left-pad, which was used by tons of other major projects, which could no longer be built. NPM then restored left-pad against it’s owners wishes and handed control to another corporate shill.
Can we please not make the layer above Electricity look like tombstones? I looked at "Linus Torvalds" and almost had a heart attack!
It's wonderful lmao...wait,i am wrong or did you snuck anti-nuclear propaganda in the meme? Bruh
I mean, thoughts on nuclear waste? They certainly need management, and I dunno if humans are good at waste management.
I think we don't really have problems with nuclear waste management right now, at least i think in europe, idk about America or Asia so please tell me if i am wrong.
If you can't make nuclear waste disappear them your always have a waste management problem.
Waste never disappear, it just get transformed in something else.
Paper? Can be recycled to be more paper or burned to be ashes and gas
Radioactive waste? Eventually it became lead, just in a long time, anyway, this was just to make you know that waste don't "disappear" like magic.
Radioactive waste can be repurposed, at least, for the majority of it, in the other cases where it can't be repurposed they try to get as much as they can from the waste(making it also less risky to manage overall) and enclosed in a reinforced concrete cage in a earthquake-safe area, in something like 50~ years it became almosts safe and can be managed again
We do have one in Germany. While we are searching for suitable long term storage, the barrels are rusting away in salt mines.
Okay i have to search about this, why the hell the barrels are in salt mines tho? 😭
Salt is plastic and over time will completely engulf the waste.
And risk mangement.
I dunno, looks overengineered to me.
What are green images in 4th row?
Me.
(Silly little fish snacking on internet noodles)
K&R?
Probably Kernighan and Ritchie. Ritchie invented C, Kernighan teamed up with him to write the first C programming book.