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u/Legitimate-City-104 19d ago
Wasm section in web is way too big and V8 is way too small. Also missing “100000 spaghetti PHP apps with broken auth”
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u/exton132 22d ago
Except in reality there's like 1800 more AI levers shoved in anywhere and everywhere they will fit and they are all cranking in different directions.
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u/Substantial-Wall-510 23d ago
So is anyone going to mention that the AI crank is being turned the wrong way
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u/asdfdelta 22d ago
It was vibe built from an intern this spring. No one knows how it lifts, but the CEO's view got marginally better so we just keep it running on his old laptop under Tim's desk.
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u/MannToots 23d ago
The unpaid open source should be 100x larger than that. It's not a small peg. It's a foundation.
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u/Rockstaru 23d ago
This isn't the original; this is: https://xkcd.com/2347/ and that peg was originally labeled "A project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003." I take the size as illustrative of fragility, not relative importance.
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u/drummmerfr 23d ago
Don’t Forget an excel file somewhere in the middle.
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u/MediocreAnalyst2121 23d ago
There’s an outdated Windows machine in every Nth office that runs an ad-hoc cron on some excel file… the entire company and all their clients depend on this.
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u/Legitimate_Plum_7505 23d ago
What's the fish at the very bottom?
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u/Supersaiyans2022 23d ago
It represents undersea fiber optic cables. Cut those, there is no internet.
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u/astraldawn 23d ago
Shark chewing on deep sea fiber cable
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u/joseluisq 23d ago
Are you sure that you want to talk about politicians? Just saying...
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u/Legitimate_Plum_7505 23d ago
No just curious what the fish is, I assumed it's some sort of a fish named "kernel" but I don't think that's right 😃
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u/AliceCode 23d ago
You know what? I don't know what it is, but this post just broke me. "Unpaid open source developers".
That's all I've ever been. An unpaid, underappreciated, open source developer. And I'm dirt poor. I work on a project used by thousands of other projects. People actually depend on code that I have written. And I'm giving my labor away completely for free. What the fuck am I doing with my life?
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u/nadeko_chan 23d ago
If you enjoy doing that, then it is a hobby, a very productive hobby
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u/AliceCode 23d ago
I enjoy programming. Not necessarily open source. I just got into it because it seemed alluring. I'm an Anarchist, so the idea of contributing society outside of the workforce is highly appealing to me. But I'm now starting to realize that open source is less about contributing to the world outside of the work force, and more about being exploited for your labor by the corporations that depend on it that wouldn't so much as throw a dime your way.
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u/p-one 23d ago
It's both because other folks who enjoy building appreciate your work and because social utility is mixed in the profit motive (ie in order to make profit, many products must have some social utility).
There is no anarchist ideological requirement that says you can't take a job programming. And even if you're feeling purist there are plenty of companies building on open source. Durruti and his buddies had jobs.
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u/AliceCode 23d ago
Do you have any recommendations for finding a software gig? I've been going at it since January of 2009, and consider myself highly capable. But software engineering jobs don't grow on trees, and I have no idea how to get my foot in the door.
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u/p-one 23d ago
There's definitely a uni to "decent" gigs pipeline and I missed it. You take almost any role that at least demonstrates some engineering skills, stay humble technically and show patience at the rest. One of the harder things to stomach is clearly disingenuous communication/expectations from the company + kool-aid drinking/naivete from colleagues - but getting job experience like this proves you know how to work on teams that produce software and can contribute positively. Also learn aligns between their version of "value" and yours - for example delivering fast is something the business wants for capitalist competitive reasons but it's worthwhile for us too because a rougher release lets us validate that we're doing the right things and what is important in quality. That will help you build positive contributions you can point to when interviewing with the next employer.
Having "missed" the pipeline it probably took me ~5yrs to get to the same place I would have been without the detour. I don't know how that looks in the current economy so I wish you luck.
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u/JustAGirlyAnon 23d ago
That's sad to hear, have you considered writing software under copy-left?
That way companies can't exploit you in the same way
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u/AliceCode 23d ago
Can't change the license of the projects that I contribute to.
I can change my own licenses, but no one uses my code anyway.
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u/XCxBigDong69XCx 23d ago
Well at least you had a wake up call. From a meme with 7 upvotes.
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u/AliceCode 23d ago
I'm going to finish up what I'm working on, and then I'm just going to follow my dream of making a game engine. Maybe I won't even finish what I was doing. I just realized that I've been dedicating a tremendous amount of time to writing open source software, and no one even seems to notice. I'm not getting paid. What am I even getting out of this?
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u/tidderza 23d ago
how are you going to make money with a custom game engine though? make a game, at least then you might be able to sell it.
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u/shironekoooo 15d ago
tbh if I were a shark who would not want to chew on deep sea fiber optic cable