"The people holding up the internet"
A good-looking but somewhat depressing exposé about the people holding up current digital infrastructure as a hobby.
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@bagder true heroes. I think it shows the value of giving things for free. The world needs more of it
@bagder Thank you for the decades of work you have done to keep the world running. Your efforts are greatly effecting the life of many around the world, very much positively.
How many bytes is a perpetuity in Forth?
@bagder damn, didn't know the Democratic Republic of the Congo maintains libjpeg
jokes aside, it is pretty dire
![[small text] Text inside libjpeg.so, read off an Android 16 phone
[large text] Copyright (C) 1991-2022 The libjpeg-turbo Project and many others
[large text below on the right] DRC
[medium text below on the right] Runs libjpeg-turbo, which opens every JPEG on Android phones and in Chrome and Edge, and signs his emails with his initials.](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/117/406/514/844/113/656/original/ef43b793e429eb1f.png)
@bagder hmm... cool but small correction.
This is a deeply important article, IMHO.
sigh, "peasants" do all the work, useless billionaires take all the credit & money...
really upsetting the story of the Russian prison guy, i hope he is better supported these days
@bagder If you hate clever scrolling overrides as much as I do, here’s the flat version: https://sheets.works/data-viz/holding-up-the-internet
@bagder I think the most depressing thing is how little money is at stake. This doesn't even rise to the level of 'rounding error' for companies using these resources.
@bagder I wish I had come accross such article on bbc.
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A depressingly badly designed site. Too pretty. Too little text on each screen.
@bagder the phrases "red on the wall" and "hidden way" as opposed to backdoor makes me think this was translated. Something doesn't sound right about this site.
@bagder I think dnsmasq is missing, it's used every where and isn't a big team if I recall the interview with its creator and maintainer.
@drajt I'm sure there are several more projects that could be added to that collection
@bagder SAP are issuing critical notes almost every day, and they have an army of developers to fix things. It must be a nightmare for all the small teams and "one man bands" to keep up.
I've used Debian for decades, and contributed a little now and then, but it's painfully clear that I owe more to a lot of people, and there needs to be a low cost and fair way of supporting everyone...
@bagder ...
the headlines "wordle" game is nice at least? 🥲