lol
_new(3)gives me some flashbacksMy child, you are beautiful.
Don’t forget the cutest single point of failure!!
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…
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.
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
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.
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
I dunno, looks overengineered to me.
