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All Modern Digital Infrastucture. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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All modern digital infrastructure AI is being wedged in throwing the tower off balance
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[–] 11 points 1 year ago (7 children)

You seem to be missing how the whole thing is now precariously off-balance.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    It's off center, but still balanced because it hasn't fallen. I think the point was a more accurate metaphor would be a wedge with a curve, so as it gets shoved in more (and clearly we're not done shoving it in yet), things get far more tilted, until...

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    It’s off center, but still balanced because it hasn’t fallen.

    Until a vibration hits, or someone blows gently on the blocks at the top right.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    In the sense of the metaphor, I think any of those things would have knocked it down long ago. Which says something about the odd resilience of our real systems. Not to mean they'll stay that way, it's just surprising sometimes.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Ypu have no idea how much energy is spent maintaining these old shits running. Spent a week trying to update a 18 year old application. For now, we failed.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    There's a piece of software that I use at work for managing tickets for a client, every time I open it there's a note that the app will be replaced next month on the 1st. This notice gets updated on the 27th of each month without fail by the end of day. For now critical infrastructure remains running on a windows xp machine that we remote into using the only software that let's people connect to it.

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