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Enkrod feddit.org Enkrod@feddit.org
Joined: 2024-06-24
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A modified XKCD-comic showing how all modern digital infrastructure is partly dependend on the work of one guy, Ondrej Sury.

With the Critical PHP Security Release in the pipeline, I know a lot of pages that would have to close down completely without him bringing the security patches to old versions, because managers think migrating to newer versions is unproductive time...
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cheese_greater lemmy.world cheese_greater@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-11
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So much depends upon a random Domino
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prettybunnys piefed.social prettybunnys@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-06-10
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Sometimes I wish that domino would fall so I could force the managers hand
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fancy_pants reddthat.com fancy_pants@reddthat.com
Joined: 2026-10-09
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Ondrej is a treasure, without him hosting PHP would be so much harder even without the vulnerability
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