Programmer Humor

Naw it's there, just hidden very well.

Power company engineer here, it’s true that a lot of our supporting and analytics software went down during the AWS event.

However, most devices that actually control grid units (called bulk electric system cyber-assets) are air-gapped or utilize a data diode.

FERC Reliability Standards and NERC CIP

However-er, flipping through those standards just now, turns out it’s 100% permitted to connect your “bulk electric system cyber-asset” to a cloud integration if done compliantly.

So somewhere in here we need some M. C. Escher stairs of AWS on the electrical grid on AWS on the electrical grid…

And that software may or may not be very reliant on AWS

Not. Electrical Scada systems are usually airgapped from the Internet.

I love this because of how often a squirrel would take down our remote disaster recovery site.

Looks like they'll only be the cutest SPOF for another minute or so...

Usenet is still in use btw. And so is Nostr.

Or Fossil😅😅.

For those people wondering, it's an alternative to GIT created by SQLite devs. In fact their HomePage is actually a self-hosted Fossil repository

Rooted in reality Astronaut: Always has been.

Sharks

A company abused their clout to steal ownership of an npm package from it’s FOSS developer. Because NPM was complicit in the theft, the maintainer deleted all their packages and abandoned NPM. One of those was left-pad, which was used by tons of other major projects, which could no longer be built. NPM then restored left-pad against it’s owners wishes and handed control to another corporate shill.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Npm_left-pad_incident

I can only assume this (copy-pasted from wikipedia)

The C Programming Language (sometimes termed K&R, after its authors' initials) is a computer programming book written by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, the latter of whom originally designed and implemented the C programming language, as well as co-designed the Unix operating system with which development of the language was closely intertwined

Probably Kernighan and Ritchie. Ritchie invented C, Kernighan teamed up with him to write the first C programming book.

I mean, thoughts on nuclear waste? They certainly need management, and I dunno if humans are good at waste management.

There is a huge amount of C code underlying most things, including the Linux kernel, most compilers, the Python interpreter, etc. At the same time, C doesn’t have dynamic arrays as a built in type but they are often critical to the operation of all of those. So, C developers keep implementing them in specialized ways for all of their applications.