3/3/2026 at 12:41:25 PM
I would suggest adding the /r/ProgrammerHumor version too: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/1p204nx/ac...The AI crank always cracks me up.
by BoppreH
3/3/2026 at 6:29:54 PM
AWS definitely lives above unpaid developers. In fact they should probably be the bird flying straight at the unpaid developers as they force yet another company to move to a closed license to survive.by tw04
3/3/2026 at 6:33:20 PM
You don't think AWS is internally built on massive amounts of open source?by publicdebates
3/3/2026 at 6:36:23 PM
That's what it would mean to place them above unpaid developers in the illustration, yes.by sethaurus
3/3/2026 at 1:01:16 PM
The shark biting the cable is what gets meby sumo89
3/3/2026 at 7:28:59 PM
There's a recent update: https://x.com/Hesamation/status/2028289544676630739?s=20by mh8h
3/3/2026 at 2:57:39 PM
Can someone help me understand the single brick at the very bottom under Linux? What is it representing?by skyberrys
3/3/2026 at 3:06:12 PM
The undersea cables actually connecting the entire internet. Sometimes sharks just take a bite of them, they're reasonable well protected but it's enough damage to cause outages and disruptions.It's the single pin under everything because there are a limited number of those cables especially in some regions so a single shark can take out the entire internet for some countries.
by rtkwe
3/3/2026 at 3:48:43 PM
I feel like having them as a single brick is a bit hyperbolic, since undersea cables are pretty redundant in most of the world. Get rid of one and traffic just routes around it. Ships have been routinely destroying cables in the Gulf of Finland and the Baltic Sea in the past couple of years without causing significant disruptions.by Hamuko
3/4/2026 at 10:22:38 AM
"most of the world" is doing a seriously large amount of heavy lifting in this sentence.There are many regions that are served by a single line, more than you think.
Even "well connected" places have fewer cables than you expect, and the frustrating thing is that you don't know that you can route around an issue until you try.
BGP is really resilient, which is great, but if your path is not clear then you'll only realise it when the failover doesn't happen, you'll think there's a redundant path.
by dijit
3/3/2026 at 5:51:45 PM
Only mildly. There's not huge amounts of dark capacity just sitting around waiting to take over so if a major fiber connection goes down the remainder will get congested with the extra capacity. It won't cascade like a power outage but the remaining lines will slow down.by rtkwe
3/3/2026 at 5:15:10 PM
The whole Internet was designed for precisely this use case. If there is an outage, the distributed system will try to find another path. No actual central point of failure. As you say, the single brick is hyperbolic. But yea, those sharks can certainly be disruptive at times.by drob518
3/3/2026 at 5:48:08 PM
Well that depends on how much traffic that cable was supporting, how much free capacity is available on other cables heading to the same area, how much additional latency the rerouting will add and how sensitive to latency the rerouted traffic is doesn't it?by rezonant
3/3/2026 at 4:45:45 PM
[dead]by huflungdung
3/3/2026 at 5:46:59 PM
Do satellite networks not move the needle in terms of capacity/reliability now?by zahlman
3/3/2026 at 9:32:35 PM
Conceptually, it's the difference between your wifi versus running a single fiber to each room in your house. The difference in bandwidth is multiple orders of magnitude.This is never going to change because from a physical perspective free radio is a shared medium while each individual fiber (or wire) has its own private bandwidth.
by fc417fc802
3/3/2026 at 6:38:57 PM
Only a little bit. Just clicking around, a new Hawaii cable is supposed to have 24 Fiber Pairs and 18Tbit per Fiber Pair at the end of this year. If you lose several tbits of bandwidth, you're going to have a hard time making it up with satellite.For small island countries and such, satellite capacity may be sufficient; and it is likely helpful for keeping international calling alive even if it's not sufficient for international data. But when you drop capacity by a factor of 1000, it's going to be super messy.
by toast0
3/3/2026 at 5:50:14 PM
No. They're not setup to be a principal route between two nations and most satellite networks until very recently didn't even route messages through other satellites but instead retransmitted them to a ground station with access to hardline internet. Even Starlink mostly does this still because it's way cheaper and easier.by rtkwe
3/3/2026 at 8:52:09 PM
You can see an unofficial tracker [0] of the Starlink downlink network and see how outside of some rural areas your data is only moving a few tens of miles away most of the time before it's sent down to a ground system. Their sats have 3 200 Gbps laser communicators for intra constellation routing which is pretty small for the task of replacing fiber optic links.[0] https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1805q6rlePY4WZd8QMO...
by rtkwe
3/4/2026 at 12:51:42 PM
God, those nicknames. The Algo of Power GW (gateway?) the Pew Pew GW? Elon chose these.by gzread
3/4/2026 at 3:36:31 PM
It's all so pick me. Like his insistence that he's a top level gamer.by rtkwe
3/4/2026 at 12:56:17 AM
The capacity of satellite networks is minuscule compared to that of undersea fibre optics.by rcxdude
3/4/2026 at 3:56:43 AM
Plus still have to contend with the space sharks.by jpease
3/3/2026 at 6:26:58 PM
I never understand why questions like this get downvoted around here.by roughly
3/4/2026 at 12:30:53 AM
They don't, you just have to wait longer than an hour for an accurate ratingby SauntSolaire
3/3/2026 at 3:04:49 PM
Undersea cables. With a shark biting one.by CarVac
3/3/2026 at 3:04:17 PM
The cables at the bottom of the ocean.by apsurd
3/3/2026 at 3:09:31 PM
Looks like an undersea cable to meby forrestpitz
3/3/2026 at 1:43:56 PM
I like that the hand crank is going counter-clockwiseby Projectiboga
3/3/2026 at 4:01:05 PM
Crap, I saw it as clockwise. (Furious reversal of effort…)by Nevermark
3/3/2026 at 4:08:32 PM
One of DNS pillars should be replaced by BGP.by i-zu
3/3/2026 at 4:38:03 PM
And NTP, if I recall correctly.by mhink
3/3/2026 at 5:07:44 PM
When was that?by JeanSebTr
3/4/2026 at 4:23:22 AM
Apparently it is impossible to find the time or place to add them.by ordu
3/3/2026 at 5:44:44 PM
When was BGP? Or when was NTP?by rezonant
3/3/2026 at 6:12:28 PM
I think it was a joke based on NTP being a time protocol.by Sohcahtoa82
3/3/2026 at 9:07:26 PM
whooshby jibal
3/3/2026 at 6:17:50 PM
The "Whatever Microsoft is doing" bit was always my favorite.by Sohcahtoa82
3/4/2026 at 12:44:03 AM
The depiction of Microsoft as "angry birds coming to indiscriminately fuck everything up" is absolutely on point for Microsoft in 2025/26by stackghost
3/3/2026 at 1:57:09 PM
given the events of the last few days, one could add a Shahed drone too.by SideburnsOfDoom
3/3/2026 at 1:55:26 PM
Oh wow! :)Thank you for the laughs. I needed that!
by b3lvedere