This time it wasn't the thing from Nebraska.

An edit to XKCD 2347, Dependency, modified to point out cloudflare in the stack
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[–] [S] 17 points 11 months ago

Mr. Munroe probably didn't intend it, but the diagram also shows the problem with monopolies, duopolies and similar concentrations of stuff. The original design for the Internet was something that was so distributed that it could survive even if some key nodes were nuked. But, the modern Internet depends way too much on just a few companies: cloudflare, google, meta, amazon, etc.

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