SkippsterNov 24
✧✦Catherine✦✧
Nov 24 at 4:40amTusky
Show threadbeka valentineNov 24
@whitequark when how why
Show threadТр3тий СергеевичNov 24
@beka_valentine That maintainer just went postal and removed the repo from all channels.
@whitequark
Show threadbeka valentineNov 24
@th3rdsergeevich maintainer of what?
Show threadТр3тий СергеевичNov 24
@beka_valentine
Show threadbeka valentineNov 24
@th3rdsergeevich so this wasn't in reference to a specific recent incident?
Show threadТр3тий СергеевичNov 24
@beka_valentine Not sure, tbh. There are so many outages you never know what breaks this time.
Show threadGorgeous na Shock!Nov 24
@whitequark Oh no my SBOM! 😭 /s
Show threada kilo of saucepans (rakslice)Nov 24
@indigoparadox @whitequark SBOMs Away!
Show threadإمي ❄️🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸Nov 24
@whitequark Maintainer Shrugged
Show threadLuka RubinjoniNov 24
@whitequark Quaclomm buying Arduino.
Show thread✧✦Catherine✦✧Nov 24
@rubinjoni not sure Arduino (the company) was doing much of anything important tbh
Show threadPxl PhileNov 24
@whitequark finally. Now we rebuild. better this time.
Show threadPxl PhileNov 24
@whitequark #alt4you
A zoom of the now famous xkcd Internet software architecture comic but the blocks lie in shambles.
Show threadJ. David EisenbergNov 24
@whitequark #AltText a drawing in the style of https://xkcd.com/2347/ (which shows an elaborate structure of blocks “all modern digital infrastructure” that depends on a very small piece that is “a project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003”). In this drawing, the structure has fallen apart with only the base intact and other blocks drawn at angles as if collapsed.
Dependency

xkcd
Show threadJeff GriggNov 24

@jdeisenberg @whitequark

One thing noticeably missing is that one critical tiny block that was supporting the whole thing, labeled “a project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003”.

Show threadlonely extrovertNov 24
@JeffGrigg @jdeisenberg @whitequark kinda like the one guy who still knows anything about NTP
Show thread✧✦Catherine✦✧Nov 24
@rothko @JeffGrigg @jdeisenberg does the guy have like a blog or a website
Show threadJeff GriggNov 24

@whitequark @rothko @jdeisenberg

What?
All of his postings are on the Usenet news groups, of course!

😆

Show threadlonely extrovertNov 24

@whitequark @JeffGrigg @jdeisenberg doh, i guess he died last year:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/inventor-of-ntp-protocol-that-keeps-time-on-billions-of-devices-dies-at-age-85/

Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85

Dave Mills created NTP, the protocol that holds the temporal Internet together, in 1985.

Ars Technica
Show threadNeputunuNov 24
@whitequark Y'know, based on the other images, I really thought it was going to fall the other way.
Show threadvoidNov 24

@whitequark

Good ending!

Show threadGuillotine Jones, FlâneurNov 24
@whitequark
This is your internet structure on Jenga.
Any questions?
Show threadInter-Integrated CatgirlNov 24
@whitequark strike! +30 pins
Show threadMulti Purr Puss Nov 24

@whitequark 🤣 😅 good luck, everybody! 🍻

..isn't THAT why we all keep a stash of somewhat up-to-date #Kiwix compressed dumps of #WikiCiv, #Wikipedia, wiki-what-nots on our local datahoarder*cough*Linux-ISO*cough* boxes?! 😉

Show threadcobratbq - cranky-by-designNov 24
@whitequark @niconiconi are you intending to respond to *current* events?
Show thread✧✦Catherine✦✧Nov 24
@cobratbq @niconiconi no comment
Show threadcobratbq - cranky-by-designNov 24
@whitequark @niconiconi you might want to start questioning the reliability of the information you're getting.
Show threadI_give_u_wormsNov 24
@whitequark erosion of wages, weight of AI slop and use of AI tools as an attack vector
Show threadebluNov 24
@whitequark "npm took over my kik package and gave it to some instant messaging company, they're bootlickers and I'm removing everything in protest" 2016, colorized
Show threadjakob 🇦🇹 ✅Nov 24
@whitequark
Weiß man schon genaueres? Wann wird es passieren?
Show threadIndevDec 4
@whitequark