I love how V8 doesn’t support anything, it’s just dead weight 🤣
You know all things considered - the global ISP backbone infrastructure is actually quite robust.
Undersea fiber cuts actually happen more often than people realize but aside from slower speeds or higher loading times, most people won’t even notice actually because of how redundant it is.
I don’t know of a single point of failure in the global ISP or internet cable network actually. Is anyone aware of any such vulnerability existing?
Its so robust really. How do you ever bring it down completely even if you wanted to. At best you can slow it down to a crawl.
i bet the internet will go down when the sun goes red giant and absorbs the earth.
i have no other means at my disposal to take the whole thing down, but it’s coming.
Does anyone know that story of some file or system that do many users rely on in their own infrastructure but it’s maintained by like 1 dude on his free time?
Pretty sure you’re thinking of tzdb, the time zone database: https://onezero.medium.com/the-largely-untold-story-of-how-one-guy-in-california-keeps-the-worlds-computers-on-the-right-time-a97a5493bf73
An adjacent and thematically resonant story is the volunteer effort that powers curl, which so many people use: https://thenewstack.io/the-world-runs-20-billion-instances-of-curl-wheres-the-support/
CURL got some kind of contract with several embedded hardware manufacturers, at least it’s financially stable.
Here’s the link to the ExplainXKCD about this image.
The one mentioned is the node.js story. It wasn’t a long term thing, as it was just a matter of replacing the code and many had their own local versions and weren’t relying on a core source like others that broke. But dependency, no redundancy, not breaking gracefully, they all are avoidable problems that are all around waiting for whatever little block topples for them.
Which one? I’m willing to bet there’s several.
xz, a case-in-point example of one way things can go wrong.
Stardew valley?
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Is the original an xkcd?
I don’t believe so, here is the original xkcd 2347
- the copyrighted logos wouldn’t be used
- colors aren’t common in xkcd
Edit, I reread your question. I thought you were asking if the posted image was an original xkcd, as Randle does build upon previous comics from time to time. Now, I realize my dyslexic brain mixed things up.
I don’t think these things are all in some tall heirachy. The internet is about distribution.
I shudder to think where Epic EMR is in all this. It’s got to be a disturbingly large part of the market share at this point but it’s by far the single easiest to use EMR I’ve ever touched. Like at least omni is drafting behind pyxis. Cerner is waaay behind epic and we don’t even talk about meditech. Epic is just so easy to use. The flowsheets literally link to an outline of a person where you can literally mark the person’s lines, drains, and wounds and just click them to see the flowsheet for each one, add a new entry, etc.
But I worry sometimes that it’s such a big part of the market now that if some fundamental flaw brings a large portion of it down it’s gonna hugely impact the health system. There are baby ICU nurses exiting their new grad years barely knowing how to titrate a weight-based drip because they’re so used to epic linking to the pump to calculate and titrate the drip automatically. I hate to give one to the ED nurses but at least they’re used to just eyeballing their coworker’s bag running on gravity out of the corner of their eye from the room around the corner.
