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Post #7460, on Nov 21, 2025 in TG
All Modern Digital Infrastructure Rests on Unpaid Open Source Developers and a Homelab
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A hand-drawn illustration depicting 'THE END OF ALL MODERN DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE' as a post-apocalyptic cityscape. The center features a massive monolithic structure labeled 'Unpaid Open Source Developers' that everything rests upon. Scattered through the rubble are labels: 'DNS' on the left, 'Whatever Microsoft is doing' near a small building, and cloud service logos (AWS, Cloudflare) at the base. On the far right, separated from the main destruction, is 'My Homelab' section showing an 'OLD PC RUNNING LINUX,' an 'RP13' (Raspberry Pi 3), and an 'HP-NAS FROM 2011,' all perched on a cliff edge, suggesting a personal homelab survives the collapse of modern infrastructure. The drawing style is sketchy and intentionally rough
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Modern civilization runs on a mass of underfunded open source maintained by someone named Dave who hasn't merged a PR in 3 years, but his homelab uptime is somehow better than AWS us-east-1
The entire internet has a bus factor of one, and he lives in Nebraska and maintains a critical DNS library he wrote in 2003. We've sent him t-shirts