This is the most accurate depiction yet
But "unpaid open source developers should be in, like, 3 more places
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.
Basically, all the small blocks. They aren’t all critical, but some of them are, and they’re all over the place.
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…
What about ImageMagick? I feel it does deserve to stay in it’s own comic strip.
Ffmpeg is definitely in there too
It was used to deliver the comic to you in the first place.
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
Why am I in this picture?
Oh… yeah… sorry about Monday again…
The helpful bunny. Hello again.
Spicy hay! nom nom
Hehe. It took a dump this week too.
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.
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!’
It’s not always sharks. Sometimes it’s Russian “trawler boats”
I think the power grid should be included - as this AI onslaught is taxing it already.
Chefs kiss to the shark cable
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.
Microsoft has gotten a lot of good will in recent years with a few moves:
- VS Code being good and open source
- TypeScript
- Buying Github and not immediately running it 8ntobthe ground
- Linux friendliness, WSL
- probably more that I’m forgetting
However as Windows 11 shows, they are still the 90s Microsoft in a good disguise. Also, fuck Azure.
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 :)
What is Microsoft doing?
Whatever it is, it’s not part of the modern digital infrastructure.
Windows 11
Terry is doing his best
