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.

@nixCraft

At this point I wouldn't mind seeing the global economy grind to a halt. As it is, it seems as if it's just a giant machine for killing off the planet!

@Quasit @nixCraft Whole lot of people would starve to death and die of bullshit causes. Might save the planet, but there'd be survivors and they'd have had to learn something or the planet would maybe recover a bit and then we'd be back at it.

It needs a few hundred years you know. We'd have to knock ourselves further back than the 1500's.