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.
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 :)
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.
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!
I gotta say, I like the attitude of that guy, particularly with respect to funding. He's blunt about "I would like to live off of my passion and the goodwill of others", doesn't do to the whole "support me on Patreon" spiel and straight up says "I'm looking for a rich philanthropist to fund my bare necessities, you'll get gratitude and whatever I happen to produce in return but you won't get to call shots." It's refreshingly honest.
Unfortunately, I'm neither rich nor particularly philanthropic (probably a byproduct of not being rich enough to afford it), but I wish him luck with his endeavour.
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.
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!
This is the most accurate depiction yet
But "unpaid open source developers should be in, like, 3 more places
Should definitely be that big slab right under AI instead
and half the blocks above.
Let’s just say „every unmarked block, but one“?
Nah it should be a tall column of small ones stacked on top of each other, because if one project fails its enough to topple the whole thing.
That’s just Node based infra though. /s
The point is it's a fragile point of failure, but still very important.
Being a big slab loses that meaning
We should then replace that slab in the graphic with a thousand barely-balanced jenga-style little pegs
Except redundancy implies stability. The picture works best how it is.
You forgot a couple zeroes.
Basically, all the small blocks. They aren't all critical, but some of them are, and they're all over the place.
Why am I in this picture?
Oh… yeah… sorry about Monday again…
The helpful bunny. Hello again.
Spicy hay! nom nom
What Microsoft is doing.
Image description: Hindenberg disaster, a zeplin explodes near a metal tower.
Is Azure the zeppelin or the tower?
The hydrogen
Azure is everything but the Zeppelin and the hydrogen. It's the factories, the maintenance facilities, and refueling stations.
The difference is most passengers survived the Hindenburg
that's metal as fuck
What about ImageMagick? I feel it does deserve to stay in it's own comic strip.
Ffmpeg is definitely in there too
It was used to deliver the comic to you in the first place.
I am loving all the spoofs of this XKCD popping up lately
Hehe. It took a dump this week too.
DNS being a couple of toothpicks is hilarious.
If DNS breaks the right way, it can fix the AI problems!
Right way...
Who is Jeremy Berimy?
It's not always sharks. Sometimes it's Russian "trawler boats"
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.
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")
Windows 11
Whatever it is, it's not part of the modern digital infrastructure.
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 :)
Microsoft has gotten a lot of good will in recent years with a few moves:
However as Windows 11 shows, they are still the 90s Microsoft in a good disguise. Also, fuck Azure.
Probably Excel and Word alongside the already mentioned things
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!'
Why do I feel like this is going to become the new OSI model
I mean layer 1 fits (shark)
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.
Shork goes nom
I mean Microsoft has azure, A LOT of companies use azure
Chefs kiss to the shark cable
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!
I gotta say, I like the attitude of that guy, particularly with respect to funding. He's blunt about "I would like to live off of my passion and the goodwill of others", doesn't do to the whole "support me on Patreon" spiel and straight up says "I'm looking for a rich philanthropist to fund my bare necessities, you'll get gratitude and whatever I happen to produce in return but you won't get to call shots." It's refreshingly honest.
Unfortunately, I'm neither rich nor particularly philanthropic (probably a byproduct of not being rich enough to afford it), but I wish him luck with his endeavour.
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...
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.
Thanks for linking this, I had no idea "apocalypse ready" OSes were a thing people are designing and building, how neat!
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!
My brain says the arrow goes the wrong way around if it's supposed to open more, i might just be tired though.
No because the jack is also threaded the wrong way!
Why oh why did you mention that.
Happy to help ;)
I think the power grid should be included - as this AI onslaught is taxing it already.
Terry is doing his best
Upvote for the Network Chuck reference.
Go team shark!
Accurate
Now add some spaceships flying into the tower!
add the EU somewhere there too.