This is the most accurate depiction yet
But "unpaid open source developers should be in, like, 3 more places
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Should definitely be that big slab right under AI instead
and half the blocks above.
Let’s just say „every unmarked block, but one“?
Nah it should be a tall column of small ones stacked on top of each other, because if one project fails its enough to topple the whole thing.
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The point is it's a fragile point of failure, but still very important.
Being a big slab loses that meaning
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You forgot a couple zeroes.
Basically, all the small blocks. They aren't all critical, but some of them are, and they're all over the place.
The helpful bunny. Hello again.
Spicy hay! nom nom
What Microsoft is doing.
Image description: Hindenberg disaster, a zeplin explodes near a metal tower.
Is Azure the zeppelin or the tower?
The hydrogen
Azure is everything but the Zeppelin and the hydrogen. It's the factories, the maintenance facilities, and refueling stations.
The difference is most passengers survived the Hindenburg
that's metal as fuck
What about ImageMagick? I feel it does deserve to stay in it's own comic strip.
Ffmpeg is definitely in there too
I am loving all the spoofs of this XKCD popping up lately
DNS being a couple of toothpicks is hilarious.
If DNS breaks the right way, it can fix the AI problems!
Right way...
It's not always sharks. Sometimes it's Russian "trawler boats"
What is Microsoft doing? Everyone was giving them a pass recently. Because they had this so called Linux subsystem. Even people I worked with were using it. And Bill Gates was curing AIDS in Africa. And building schools and mosquito nets and vaccines, but then he got divorced because he was fucking underaged girls in the epstein files.
Edit: yes I know gates doesn’t run Microsoft anymore. It’s an image thing though.
I discovered that removing Cortana also removed typing as far as windows is concerned. I could type in anything but OS controls.
I needed to reinstall "basic typing" to work again (their advice is "delete your language pack, then reinstall it, after reinstalling Cortana")
Windows 11
What is Microsoft doing?
Whatever it is, it's not part of the modern digital infrastructure.
What is Microsoft doing?
In the world of digital infrastructure? Azure would be one big one. In this image, it would probably be a stone next to, or above AWS. Windows server and IIS, though that's not that important in the grand scheme of things (or is becoming less so each passing year). MS-SQL is still a thing. .NET and its frameworks are a bit more important and lower down on this graph, luckily they're also open source now. Having a stone as separate floating by itself is a little disingenuous if not ignorant, but we can forgive OP, since it is Microsoft :)
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A tech bro CEO cranking as hard and as fast as he can on that AI wedge apparatus ... while telling everyone 'THIS IS GOING TO BE GREAT!'
Why do I feel like this is going to become the new OSI model
I mean layer 1 fits (shark)
With AI wedging its way into everything, need to have a representative of tech billionaires working the crank. Also probably some more tech billionaires peeing in various parts of the stack.
Chefs kiss to the shark cable
Shork goes nom
I mean Microsoft has azure, A LOT of companies use azure
My brain says the arrow goes the wrong way around if it's supposed to open more, i might just be tired though.
No because the jack is also threaded the wrong way!
Why oh why did you mention that.
Happy to help ;)
I think the power grid should be included - as this AI onslaught is taxing it already.
Go team shark!
Terry is doing his best
Upvote for the Network Chuck reference.
Accurate
add the EU somewhere there too.
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