User: Hi! I'd like a wake up call.
Hotel front desk: The entire modern web infrastructure you rely on is held together by a handful of volunteer run opensource projects, and if one lead maintainer decides to delete their repository today, the global economy would stall by noon.
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@nixCraft That's why you make sure to fork your dependencies. The financial stuff is largely regulated so the OSS used is being used as SOUP so they probably already do this as part of their QMS. A lot would stay up.
Worse would be if one of them got super pissed and decided to ruin everything. Pretty much nobody would catch on in time.
Hotel front desk: It is sort of a miracle that we survived the 20th century with nukes used only twice in 1945. But now with the death of Pax Americana- which you may consider a good thing or a bad thing, it does not matter, the point is more countries will develop nuclear programs to ensure their security. With a proliferation of nukes there are more chances for simple errors. And subterfuge that might get nukes into the hands of those who intend to use them aggressively
@nixCraft So the 99.999% need the .001% #Oligarchy #TechBros to survive.
Gotcha.
