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[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The infrastructure is more complex and robust than that. In reality, there are dozens of such dependencies that can break everything.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This xkcd always felt like curl though, which really feels like a single point of failure for... well... too much

[–] confusedbytheBasics 12 points 2 months ago

It's actually about NTP.