I don't think it's explicit in the article, but that's a comic (XKCD). Relevant discussion [1] suggests that there's not a specific project referenced by the c

I don't think it's explicit in the article, but that's a comic (XKCD). Relevant discussion [1] suggests that there's not a specific project referenced by the comic. When I first read this comic, ntpd [2] [3] came to mind. [1] https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2347:_Dependency#Discussion https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2347:_Dependency#... [2] https://lwn.net/Articles/701222/ https://lwn.net/Articles/701222/ [3] https://lwn.net/Articles/713901/ https://lwn.net/Articles/713901/