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[–] 201 points 11 months ago* (6 children)

This is the most accurate depiction yet

But "unpaid open source developers should be in, like, 3 more places

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  • [–] 57 points 11 months ago* (3 children)

    Should definitely be that big slab right under AI instead

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    Why am I in this picture?

    Oh… yeah… sorry about Monday again…

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  • [–] 87 points 11 months ago* (4 children)

    What Microsoft is doing.


    Image description: Hindenberg disaster, a zeplin explodes near a metal tower.

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  • [–] 52 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    What about ImageMagick? I feel it does deserve to stay in it's own comic strip.

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  • [–] 44 points 11 months ago

    I am loving all the spoofs of this XKCD popping up lately

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  • [–] 38 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    DNS being a couple of toothpicks is hilarious.

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  • [–] 28 points 11 months ago

    It's not always sharks. Sometimes it's Russian "trawler boats"

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  • [–] 19 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Why do I feel like this is going to become the new OSI model

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  • [–] 17 points 11 months ago

    Shork goes nom

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  • [–] 16 points 11 months ago

    I mean Microsoft has azure, A LOT of companies use azure

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  • [–] 16 points 11 months ago

    With AI wedging its way into everything, need to have a representative of tech billionaires working the crank. Also probably some more tech billionaires peeing in various parts of the stack.

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  • [–] 16 points 11 months ago

    Chefs kiss to the shark cable

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  • [–] 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

    I like how the rememes of this only get more complicated and less stable with time; hopefully this means the collapse is approaching, or else I'm learning forth for nothing!

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago* (3 children)

    Fascinating!

    I wonder what you can use it for, I mean 6502 or zilog 80 are not exactly power beasts nor network compatible.

    But then again, what are we using computers for that we actually need in todays life...

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago* (2 children)

    The intended use-case is for bit-banging, i.e. sending electricity to places according to certain algorithms. Think about simple automation, like the control chip in your washing machine which executes the selected program by sending enable/disable signals to the water pump, valves, and the motor. Well, the same basic principles could apply to a lot of industrial processes and such, helping us rebuild the civilization.

    It would also be really fucking great for helping post-collapse engineers do various calculations. Those chips are really slow by modern standards, but insanely fast compared to an abacus, a slide rule, and a sheet of paper.

    BTW there's also dusk OS, which follows similar principles but is targeted for more advanced hardware, like the abundant x86 and ARM chips. It has a way more user-friendly interface, a basic GUI, filesystem drivers, and IIRC even networking capabilities, all possible to run on a PC from the early 90s. It also has great bootstrapping flow, allowing you to rebuild itself from source, flash itself to other computers, and flash Collapse OS onto microcontrollers.

    Basically like a Linux install with all the dev-tools and sources already there, except much simpler, to the point that you probably can figure out how every component of the system works yourself, and fix issues when they happen. This knowledge will also directly translate into writing programs for collapse OS, because they share the programming language and many OS paradigms.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Interesting. I don't know if older chips are less sensible to EM, I'd bet the reverse, so maybe one day this dusk os can run on an ESP-32! Netstack & USB integrated and lots of useful pins!

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  • [–] 25 points 11 months ago* (6 children)

    What is Microsoft doing? Everyone was giving them a pass recently. Because they had this so called Linux subsystem. Even people I worked with were using it. And Bill Gates was curing AIDS in Africa. And building schools and mosquito nets and vaccines, but then he got divorced because he was fucking underaged girls in the epstein files.

    Edit: yes I know gates doesn’t run Microsoft anymore. It’s an image thing though.

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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago

    I discovered that removing Cortana also removed typing as far as windows is concerned. I could type in anything but OS controls.

    I needed to reinstall "basic typing" to work again (their advice is "delete your language pack, then reinstall it, after reinstalling Cortana")

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    What is Microsoft doing?

    In the world of digital infrastructure? Azure would be one big one. In this image, it would probably be a stone next to, or above AWS. Windows server and IIS, though that's not that important in the grand scheme of things (or is becoming less so each passing year). MS-SQL is still a thing. .NET and its frameworks are a bit more important and lower down on this graph, luckily they're also open source now. Having a stone as separate floating by itself is a little disingenuous if not ignorant, but we can forgive OP, since it is Microsoft :)

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    Microsoft has gotten a lot of good will in recent years with a few moves:

    • VS Code being good and open source
    • TypeScript
    • Buying Github and not immediately running it 8ntobthe ground
    • Linux friendliness, WSL
    • probably more that I'm forgetting

    However as Windows 11 shows, they are still the 90s Microsoft in a good disguise. Also, fuck Azure.

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  • [–] 22 points 11 months ago

    A tech bro CEO cranking as hard and as fast as he can on that AI wedge apparatus ... while telling everyone 'THIS IS GOING TO BE GREAT!'

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago

    I think the power grid should be included - as this AI onslaught is taxing it already.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago

    Go team shark!

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    [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    Now add some spaceships flying into the tower!

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  • add the EU somewhere there too.

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