Comment on DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse

frezik@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yep, months is a joke, doubly so when talking about tens of millions of lines of code and also COBOL specifically.

  This is going to be a hilarious disaster but not so hilarious when people who need the benefits need them and won’t be able to get them.

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  • dryfter@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m on SSDI (and Medicaid and HUD housing) and have been having insane anxiety the last month and a half to the point that I’m wondering if I’ll even get paid in April. I regularly check my SSA account online to make sure my direct deposit is still freaking scheduled. Missing a payment could mess up all of my other benefits as well.

    I know the fuck up is coming, but I don’t know if I can handle another few months hoping they don’t fuck up the migration if they don’t fuck up just paying people first with all that’s been going on.

    I’m pretty sure Im not the only one in this situation who can’t handle the stress of this bullshit.

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  • monkeyman512@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    To be fair. We assume “months” means less than 2 years. But 10 years can also be “months”, and is probably a more realistic timeline.

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    • ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Nobody is referring to 10 years as “months”.

      When you’re talking about multiples of years, it’s going to be called years, not months. They were obviously talking about a short timeline, less than 2 years, likely less than 1 year.

      They have no idea what they’re talking about.

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      • monkeyman512@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        So was what I said. I was presenting a hypothetical way they justify their ridiculous claims by doing something else ridiculous.

        But conveying tone in text is difficult, so I’m not surprised you missed what I was going for.

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• nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Okay but have you ever tried just throwing genAI at the problem and not caring about the consequences?

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  • andallthat@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    With Grok looking more and more like the only one working for Musk with enough (digital) balls to stand to to his boss, that might be better than the alternative of “Big Balls” and the rest of the Digital Oblivous Goons of Elon

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    • nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They’ll have it lobotomized in a few days.

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• skozzii@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They have an experienced team of teenagers don’t worry.

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• Simulation6@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That is the mother load of all code bases. Probably still some COBOL if not mostly cobol.

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• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I mean this is a great example of what happens when you put conservative men in power who think they know what they are doing but are just going to loudly, incompetently and incorrectly re-invent the wheel while everyone else suffers from not having an actual practical solution.

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• peteyestee@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  By rebuild I don’t think they mean it’s going to function the same. …just torn apart and replaced.

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  • frezik@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It has to function the same. It has to follow the same laws as before.

    Bur more likely, they know this and it’s all part of privatizing social security.

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