nixCraft 🐧Dec 30

User: Hi! I'd like a wake up call.

Hotel front desk: The entire modern web infrastructure you rely on is held together by a handful of volunteer run opensource projects, and if one lead maintainer decides to delete their repository today, the global economy would stall by noon.

Show threadBOplaidDec 30
@nixCraft left-pad
Show threadGustavoDec 30
@boplaid @nixCraft I guess we learned from left-pad, right? NPM doesn't allow people to delete popular projects anymore, right? People learned to cache dependencies, right? Right????
Show threadmanchickenDec 30

@qgustavor @boplaid @nixCraft We ain’t learned shit. I research supply chain risk for work, and exposure across the board is off the charts.

I still believe technical folks would solve these challenges effectively, if not for the business decisions which led us here preventing them from doing so.

Show threadvrek
@manchicken @qgustavor @boplaid @nixCraft if you want to panic-cry look into how timezones work over the internet... Last I checked it was basically 1 guy with a "server" in his basement which controlled how most computers handle timezones. Yes time is tracked by quantum clocks. In most computers time is tracked by seconds since Jan 1st 1970 but converting to correct hour is difficult. Like dst or a town which is split in the middle by the timezone line. Spain is an hour ahead of England...
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Show threadJoe ❌👑Dec 30
@vrek @manchicken @qgustavor @boplaid @nixCraft