<![CDATA[This is important: https://sheets.works/data-viz/holding-up-the-internet]]>This is important: https://sheets.works/data-viz/holding-up-the-internet

SQLite is everywhere and in everything, and it is not an exaggeration that if there's an undiscovered date-based bug in SQLite the world stops on that day.

But there are many, many pieces of software like that, built and maintained by people you've never heard of who often as not are barely scraping by.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/ee9651ee-7d0f-4cef-b20e-a85b75f4ea80/this-is-important-https-sheets.works-data-viz-holding-up-the-internetRSS for NodeFri, 23 Oct 2026 21:54:48 GMTThu, 08 Oct 2026 12:09:23 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to This is important: https://sheets.works/data-viz/holding-up-the-internet on Thu, 08 Oct 2026 20:48:56 GMT]]>@mhoye I'd like to mention NTP too. The ntp.org code is more likely running in infrastructure, but if it fails then a lot of stuff will break too. I met Harlan Stenn (the project manager) at a time sync conference 14y ago and it was eye-opening how much gets done with very little funding. It's good to see more support in recent years. A presentation on NTP and it's ongoing dev: https://nanog.org/events/nanog-86/content/4552/

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/ingram/statuses/117407254857328473https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/ingram/statuses/117407254857328473Thu, 08 Oct 2026 20:48:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This is important: https://sheets.works/data-viz/holding-up-the-internet on Thu, 08 Oct 2026 20:07:32 GMT]]>@mhoye yeah, I remember finding that libjpeg-turbo was basically one guy on a major funding crisis back in 2023: https://icosahedron.website/@greg/111166045158418586

not only was he not getting paid but he was being pestered by bug reports from big companies (google, etc) doing unpaid support for them

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://icosahedron.website/users/greg/statuses/117407092096661980https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://icosahedron.website/users/greg/statuses/117407092096661980Thu, 08 Oct 2026 20:07:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This is important: https://sheets.works/data-viz/holding-up-the-internet on Thu, 08 Oct 2026 15:14:43 GMT]]>@mhoye@cosocial.ca I agree, but the question is, why not?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.earw.ax/objects/01a11c14-bcce-76e1-b56e-f442e6720897https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.earw.ax/objects/01a11c14-bcce-76e1-b56e-f442e6720897Thu, 08 Oct 2026 15:14:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This is important: https://sheets.works/data-viz/holding-up-the-internet on Thu, 08 Oct 2026 14:52:09 GMT]]>@mhoye Heh. Nevermind. This post is my answer lol.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/chetman/statuses/117405851961826418https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/chetman/statuses/117405851961826418Thu, 08 Oct 2026 14:52:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This is important: https://sheets.works/data-viz/holding-up-the-internet on Thu, 08 Oct 2026 14:03:52 GMT]]>@joseph @mhoye
The comic is a much more rugged piece of infrastructure

Handling a lot of conceptual bandwidth very succinctly, and requires almost no maintenance as it’s sustained and spread virally (without even losing its citation!)

If other solutions were as robust as that cartoon, the system would be gang-busters

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/AccordionBruce/statuses/117405662070415680https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/AccordionBruce/statuses/117405662070415680Thu, 08 Oct 2026 14:03:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This is important: https://sheets.works/data-viz/holding-up-the-internet on Thu, 08 Oct 2026 13:57:54 GMT]]>@joseph Solutions aren't elusive at all. We know how to pay for things that don't benefit any one entity in specific but benefit all of us collectively, this is where roads, sewers, clean running water and the electrical grid come from. We're just not doing that for software.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://cosocial.ca/users/mhoye/statuses/117405638616983258https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://cosocial.ca/users/mhoye/statuses/117405638616983258Thu, 08 Oct 2026 13:57:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This is important: https://sheets.works/data-viz/holding-up-the-internet on Thu, 08 Oct 2026 13:55:01 GMT]]>@mhoye@cosocial.ca In fairness, the fact that one comic is so succinctly describes the problem, begs the question, why is the solution so elusive?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.earw.ax/objects/01a11bcb-c6dc-7890-84cf-7f759383c36dhttps://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.earw.ax/objects/01a11bcb-c6dc-7890-84cf-7f759383c36dThu, 08 Oct 2026 13:55:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This is important: https://sheets.works/data-viz/holding-up-the-internet on Thu, 08 Oct 2026 12:47:28 GMT]]>@mhoye@cosocial.ca Mandatory XKCD

https://xkcd.com/2347/

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