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A visual diagram of how the web is held together with at the bottom Linux and unpaid developers and on top the end user. In between are all companies and AI bs that try to tumble over the tower

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Michael Jessopp
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I just saw my younger self in "C developers writing dynamic arrays" and snorted
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SanCla 🤘
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I remember, back in the day when I started in IT, people told me computers will make life easier in the future. Ow boy, if I would know then what I know now, I would have been a carpenter…
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Eric G.
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Me, taking a deep long drag, "Ya see, sonny, some of us oldtimers back in '25 just got sceered and decided that we'd best figure out how to herd sheep and do it right quick"
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Slackbear
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Throw in some suspicious contributors like that Jia Tan guy. They're circling around the "unpaid opensource developers" piece like vultures, waiting till the devs burn out or give up.
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Tristan Colgate-McFarlane
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I know MS are on there, but I reckon GitHub needs a *much* bigger call out in there somewhere!
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Guillotine Jones, Flâneur
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I've said it before and I'm saying it now: This cartoon just keeps getting better as it gets more elaborate.
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LiquorVicar
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Can I be *that* guy and point out that sharks don't bite subsea cables: wired.com/story/say-goodbye-to…

Say Goodbye to the Undersea Cable That Made the Global Internet Possible

History was unmade last year, as engineers began the massive project of ripping the first-ever transoceanic fiber-optic cable from the ocean floor. Just don’t mention sharks.
Jane Ruffino (WIRED)
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Mark T. Tomczak
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I had occasion to read some of tzdb this week.

It is a thing of beauty.

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cynical melomaniac
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Rust is more like replacing a block with another in this jenga game.
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