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XKCD comic "Dependency" comic times eleven It illustrates a virtual structure of the internet where the top is standing on many and many layers of infrastructure required for top layers to function and whole UX is happening on the very top which is extremely fragile and is about to collapse. Above it flies a cloud "A lore accurate cloud server" The top 1/3 of the image is wobbly and is labeled "something happening in the web". This part is standing on one stick Left-pad. Down next is slightly sturdier structure all modern digital infrastructure relies on, but Crowdstrike there is also just a stick without which everything will crumble and Red angry bird is flying towards the structure from the right labeled "Whatever Microsoft is doing". From the left a rocket "Rust devs doing their thing" is flying towards JVM and Oracle. In the middle of the structure mechanical wedge has been inserted and "AI" is turning the handle. Under it to pillars are holding all of the above: slabs Cloudflare and AWS on the left and a stick "unpaid opensource developers" on the right. Beneath it is a slab "libcurl" standing on top of 2 "dns" sticks on the left and right which are standing on a slab "Linux foundation" which itself balances on a stick of internet undersea-cables. Said cables are being chewed up by sharks. All of it relies on "C developers writing dynamic arrays", Linus Torvalds, IBM, TSMC, K&R. Whole of it relies on electricity with comes via web of cables from nuclear fuel and waste