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.
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.
And that software may or may not be very reliant on AWS
Not. Electrical Scada systems are usually airgapped from the Internet.
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So somewhere in here we need some M. C. Escher stairs of AWS on the electrical grid on AWS on the electrical grid…
Hell yea, time for cycles in the graph!
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.
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.
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
Haha especially the angry bird is genius
What a horrible title. Maybe it’s time to start using git
Can someone please keep track of the evolutionary history of these? I wanna see a timeline.
I don’t want lore accurate cloud service I want biblically accurate cloud service
i’m afraid, is that a problem?
So you have chosen to blatantly sin in its presence? Bold maneuver… and ultimately unsurvivable. Roll for chance of mercy, then multiply by
0.00%to determine your odds of surviving this encounter.
lol
_new(3)gives me some flashbacksThis comm suddenly became Anarchy Chess lol
What are green images in 4th row?
Me.
(Silly little fish snacking on internet noodles)
…not the answer I was expecting…
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
Can we please not make the layer above Electricity look like tombstones? I looked at “Linus Torvalds” and almost had a heart attack!
K&R?
I can only assume this (copy-pasted from wikipedia)
The C Programming Language (sometimes termed K&R, after its authors’ initials) is a computer programming book written by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, the latter of whom originally designed and implemented the C programming language, as well as co-designed the Unix operating system with which development of the language was closely intertwined
K&R book is great! When you’re done with that I highly recommend you move on to “Modern C” by Jens Gustedt. It’s available for free online or in print. Brought my C knowledge up to date with all the cool stuff C23 has in it. Jens’ blog is a great resource as well.
Edit: typo
