This is the most accurate depiction yet
But "unpaid open source developers should be in, like, 3 more places
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Should definitely be that big slab right under AI instead
and half the blocks above.
Let’s just say „every unmarked block, but one“?
Nah it should be a tall column of small ones stacked on top of each other, because if one project fails its enough to topple the whole thing.
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The point is it's a fragile point of failure, but still very important.
Being a big slab loses that meaning
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You forgot a couple zeroes.
Basically, all the small blocks. They aren't all critical, but some of them are, and they're all over the place.
Why am I in this picture?
Oh… yeah… sorry about Monday again…
The helpful bunny. Hello again.
Spicy hay! nom nom
What Microsoft is doing.
Image description: Hindenberg disaster, a zeplin explodes near a metal tower.
The difference is most passengers survived the Hindenburg
that's metal as fuck
What about ImageMagick? I feel it does deserve to stay in it's own comic strip.
Ffmpeg is definitely in there too
It was used to deliver the comic to you in the first place.
I am loving all the spoofs of this XKCD popping up lately
Hehe. It took a dump this week too.
DNS being a couple of toothpicks is hilarious.
If DNS breaks the right way, it can fix the AI problems!
Right way...
It's not always sharks. Sometimes it's Russian "trawler boats"
What is Microsoft doing? Everyone was giving them a pass recently. Because they had this so called Linux subsystem. Even people I worked with were using it. And Bill Gates was curing AIDS in Africa. And building schools and mosquito nets and vaccines, but then he got divorced because he was fucking underaged girls in the epstein files.
Edit: yes I know gates doesn’t run Microsoft anymore. It’s an image thing though.
I discovered that removing Cortana also removed typing as far as windows is concerned. I could type in anything but OS controls.
I needed to reinstall "basic typing" to work again (their advice is "delete your language pack, then reinstall it, after reinstalling Cortana")
Windows 11
What is Microsoft doing?
Whatever it is, it's not part of the modern digital infrastructure.
What is Microsoft doing?
In the world of digital infrastructure? Azure would be one big one. In this image, it would probably be a stone next to, or above AWS. Windows server and IIS, though that's not that important in the grand scheme of things (or is becoming less so each passing year). MS-SQL is still a thing. .NET and its frameworks are a bit more important and lower down on this graph, luckily they're also open source now. Having a stone as separate floating by itself is a little disingenuous if not ignorant, but we can forgive OP, since it is Microsoft :)
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A tech bro CEO cranking as hard and as fast as he can on that AI wedge apparatus ... while telling everyone 'THIS IS GOING TO BE GREAT!'
Why do I feel like this is going to become the new OSI model
I mean layer 1 fits (shark)
With AI wedging its way into everything, need to have a representative of tech billionaires working the crank. Also probably some more tech billionaires peeing in various parts of the stack.
Chefs kiss to the shark cable
Shork goes nom
I mean Microsoft has azure, A LOT of companies use azure
I like how the rememes of this only get more complicated and less stable with time; hopefully this means the collapse is approaching, or else I'm learning forth for nothing!
I gotta say, I like the attitude of that guy, particularly with respect to funding. He's blunt about "I would like to live off of my passion and the goodwill of others", doesn't do to the whole "support me on Patreon" spiel and straight up says "I'm looking for a rich philanthropist to fund my bare necessities, you'll get gratitude and whatever I happen to produce in return but you won't get to call shots." It's refreshingly honest.
Unfortunately, I'm neither rich nor particularly philanthropic (probably a byproduct of not being rich enough to afford it), but I wish him luck with his endeavour.
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My brain says the arrow goes the wrong way around if it's supposed to open more, i might just be tired though.
No because the jack is also threaded the wrong way!
I think the power grid should be included - as this AI onslaught is taxing it already.
Go team shark!
Accurate
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