Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agoTIL the network utility "Ping" was written by a single person in an evening in 1983, and he named it after the sound a submarine sonar makesen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square62linkfedilinkarrow-up1628arrow-down16cross-posted to: todayilearned@lemmit.online
arrow-up1622arrow-down1external-linkTIL the network utility "Ping" was written by a single person in an evening in 1983, and he named it after the sound a submarine sonar makesen.wikipedia.orgDon_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agomessage-square62linkfedilinkcross-posted to: todayilearned@lemmit.online
minus-squarelime!@feddit.nulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up167·5 days agodigging through man pages makes you realize that most of the stuff that makes the modern internet consists of one-man projects glued together.
minus-squarepiecat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up43·5 days agoIt’s also when the scope of those projects could be accomplished by one person.
minus-squareQuetzalcutlass@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·5 days agoEven if projects could be solo efforts, it’s probably better to avoid the bus factor.
minus-squareBlueOysterCultist@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·5 days agoEven worse than bus factor, it’s really easy to compromise when no one double checks your work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils_backdoor
minus-squareOaksey@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 days agoWhat’s your BGB Plan? (Big Green Bus, I guess you could alter for the colour of buses in your city)
minus-squaretakeda@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·5 days agoThe original idea behind Unix was to have small tools doing very specific task and do it will. Then you could use shell to combine them together to do more advanced stuff.
minus-squareMonkderVierte@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 days agoMaybe we should go back to the roots and start doing things well, instead of just glueing more and more together. Maybe even start with hardware and kernels made for desktop use.
minus-squareAgent641@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·5 days agoAnd many of those one men were Dave Plummer
digging through man pages makes you realize that most of the stuff that makes the modern internet consists of one-man projects glued together.
It’s also when the scope of those projects could be accomplished by one person.
Even if projects could be solo efforts, it’s probably better to avoid the bus factor.
Even worse than bus factor, it’s really easy to compromise when no one double checks your work:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils_backdoor
What’s your BGB Plan? (Big Green Bus, I guess you could alter for the colour of buses in your city)
The original idea behind Unix was to have small tools doing very specific task and do it will.
Then you could use shell to combine them together to do more advanced stuff.
Maybe we should go back to the roots and start doing things well, instead of just glueing more and more together. Maybe even start with hardware and kernels made for desktop use.
And many of those one men were Dave Plummer
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