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Micah
@rincewind.run

literally this comic except he apparently lives in Czechia instead of Nebraska

Charlie Warzel@cwarzel.bsky.social

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

theatlantic.comThe Man Who Saved the Internet YesterdayOndřej Surý was a relatively anonymous volunteer working on PHP security. Then the internet exploded.

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Steven Toth
@toths.info

BGP is a great example of how we have automated everything except for one very important button that has to be pushed correctly or the whole thing exploded for a while.

Xeynon
@xeynon.bsky.social

I remember seeing an interview with a guy named Thomas Homer-Dixon years ago that scared the crap out of me. He researches threats for a living and the number of unknown little things like this that are both load-bearing to our way of life and extremely vulnerable is scary.

Charlie
@reanderthal.bsky.social

"From where I stand, it was not stressful, because I’m doing this as a volunteer, and if I get hit by a bus, then it will be someone else’s problem."