Current state of the internet

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• edinbruh@feddit.it ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You guys are all doomed. Telecom Italia is ranked 9 among ISPs, and it’s a tier 1 ISP.

  Imagine your global communication infrastructure being dependant on fucking Telecom Italia.

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• Zaplinaki@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You know all things considered - the global ISP backbone infrastructure is actually quite robust.

  Undersea fiber cuts actually happen more often than people realize but aside from slower speeds or higher loading times, most people won’t even notice actually because of how redundant it is.

  I don’t know of a single point of failure in the global ISP or internet cable network actually. Is anyone aware of any such vulnerability existing?

  Its so robust really. How do you ever bring it down completely even if you wanted to. At best you can slow it down to a crawl.

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    i bet the internet will go down when the sun goes red giant and absorbs the earth.

    i have no other means at my disposal to take the whole thing down, but it’s coming.

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• Aermis@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Does anyone know that story of some file or system that do many users rely on in their own infrastructure but it’s maintained by like 1 dude on his free time?

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  • jbrjake@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Pretty sure you’re thinking of tzdb, the time zone database: …medium.com/the-largely-untold-story-of-how-one-g…

    An adjacent and thematically resonant story is the volunteer effort that powers curl, which so many people use: thenewstack.io/the-world-runs-20-billion-instance…

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    • pelya@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      CURL got some kind of contract with several embedded hardware manufacturers, at least it’s financially stable.

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  • Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Here's the link to the ExplainXKCD about this image.

    The one mentioned is the node.js story. It wasn't a long term thing, as it was just a matter of replacing the code and many had their own local versions and weren't relying on a core source like others that broke. But dependency, no redundancy, not breaking gracefully, they all are avoidable problems that are all around waiting for whatever little block topples for them.

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  • Kyrgizion@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Which one? I’m willing to bet there’s several.

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  • everett@lemmy.ml ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    xz, a case-in-point example of one way things can go wrong.

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  • peteypete420@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Stardew valley?

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• ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I love how V8 doesn’t support anything, it’s just dead weight 🤣

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• DarkCloud@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I don’t think these things are all in some tall heirachy. The internet is about distribution.

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  • bottleofchips@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yes that’s the theory, and the joke here is that as shown by several recent global outages, in fact that distribution is wholly supported by a very few key resources.

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    • DarkCloud@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s really not. Plenty of websites didn’t go down with Cloudflare of AWS2.

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• jdredbeard@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Is the original an xkcd?

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  • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I don’t believe so, here the orgiand xkcd 2347

    1. the copyrighted logos wouldn’t be used
    2. colors aren’t common

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• Apytele@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I shudder to think where Epic EMR is in all this. It’s got to be a disturbingly large part of the market share at this point but it’s by far the single easiest to use EMR I’ve ever touched. Like at least omni is drafting behind pyxis. Cerner is waaay behind epic and we don’t even talk about meditech. Epic is just so easy to use. The flowsheets literally link to an outline of a person where you can literally mark the person’s lines, drains, and wounds and just click them to see the flowsheet for each one, add a new entry, etc. But I worry sometimes that it’s such a big part of the market now that if some fundamental flaw brings a large portion of it down it’s gonna hugely impact the health system. There are baby ICU nurses exiting their new grad years barely knowing how to titrate a weight-based drip because they’re so used to epic linking to the pump to calculate and titrate the drip automatically. I hate to give one to the ED nurses but at least they’re used to just eyeballing their coworker’s bag running on gravity out of the corner of their eye from the room around the corner.

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