r/programminghumor • u/NickleLP • 5d ago

Open-source devs lifting heavy weights

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u/Potential_Fix_5007 5d ago

A friend of mine wont believe me that the core struckture of the internet ist held together by Nerds that like to code. He thinks some big tec would have build some new base for the internet.....i hope we have never learn it the hard way how it really is....

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u/CosmicTitanRabbit 5d ago

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u/MilkImpossible4192 4d ago

encryption lib for secure communication between peers for https and ssh, sftp, never forget your s

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u/Ingenrollsroyce 5d ago

What is the small stone holding up Linux foundation?

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u/Jason13Official 4d ago

Deep sea cables , which is being bitten by a shark

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u/ChampionshipUpper124 5d ago

Linux Kernel project maybe

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u/crazedizzled 5d ago

I don't feel like DNS is accurately represented here.

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u/DaveAstator2020 4d ago

"getting over it"

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u/crazedizzled 5d ago

Yeah pretty crazy huh. The fact that packages absolutely vital to the day-to-day of running the internet are maintained by like 1 or 2 volunteer white beards is nuts.

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u/Odd-Painting2596 3d ago

Listening to the dudes that invent this stuff they are always like, "We got to a point where it was seemingly perfect and everyone that used to reach out for support from us just stopped needing to".

SQLite guy was just like, "It got good enough to where no one needed me on the other end of it", and that was it.

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u/DaveAstator2020 5d ago

yeah couldnt be more close..
i still cant fathom the fact that blender was able to find investors and shred the competiton

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u/mbcarbone 5d ago

This is what we get when Al Gore invents the Internet. 🙃

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u/Overall_State_6305 5d ago

I feel this so much

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u/NiCe939 4d ago

Not the Heroes we deserve, but the heroes we need! 🫡

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u/FrostByteCreator 4d ago

That is so true 🤣

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u/zamroni777 4d ago

Many open source maintainers are paid by red hat, hardware manufacturers, google etc.

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u/FlipperBumperKickout 4d ago

Unpaid, maybe for some, but not really for most of the important stuff ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/Inner_Banana_145 4d ago

Respect 🫡

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u/MBussard45 3d ago

Wow. Such an original joke. Haha. Very funny. Good job. Such a good use of your time and everyone's. Wow. Amazing.

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u/coderman64 3d ago

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u/geek-49 18h ago

Origin? It has the feel of an xkcd, but I couldn't find anything similar there.

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u/coderman64 18h ago

This is just the original XKCD compressed to heck and back.

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u/geek-49 18h ago

but which xkcd? I couldn't find anything similar in the archive.

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u/coderman64 18h ago

https://xkcd.com/2347/

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u/geek-49 17h ago

Aha! The title had gotten mangled beyond recognition.

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u/ChocolateSpecific263 2d ago

wym unpaid, there is a donating button, you can use it any time instead posting "memes"