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DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse
Submitted 2 months ago by oakey66@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits/
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crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 2 months ago
andros_rex@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Is it a “risk” if it’s the desired outcome?
WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social 2 months ago
That’s the idea. Then they say anyone who complains about not receiving benefits is a fraud.
Lutra@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Just adding. This and all the bad things that will happen if they get the green light, is not how this is done or should be done.
‘But all the waste and ineficciency!’ Hog wash.
From the system that is working? and serves thousands of people what they needed every day of every year.
They have to say it’s horribly broken. Its a lie, but they have to justify why.
There are standards, procurement contracts, entire agency’s to make sure — Make sure what?
March 28, 2025 - Make sure that what will happen, doesn’t.
coda: The trick this cabal is using is simple - take a thing most folk don’t understand. Say it’s broken. Open it. Rob it. Say its fixed. Collect profits and praise, leave town.
barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 2 months ago
The MuskRat should get Big Ballz and the boys to program a video game, so he can have a new revenue stream to replace Tesla when it goes bankrupt, which sure looks like the future of that company.
botanicangular@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Wont happen legacy systems more complicated than expected, well it wont happen functionally…
orbitz@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Won’t happen functionally, as it’s designed to. I feel for the US citizens, they’ll break it all. From Canada where they had a new system, Phoenix or something for payroll I think, it caused a lot of hassle and was probably well intentioned, unlike this, but I never read much on it.
elatedCatfish@lemm.ee 2 months ago
As long as Big Ballz is running things, I’m sure it will all be fine!
/s
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Rewrite it in Rust has gone too far 😆
FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Reminds me of that thing Lex Luthor did where he sponged off rounding errors in financial transactions
db2@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Office Space. PCLOADLTR
FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Do you remember that one song from the sound track. Get Off My Elevator. That song kicks ass
ripcord@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You’re thinking of discount Gene Hackman from Superman III: 2 bad 2 crazy
kryptonite@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Right movie, wrong character. Gus Gorman, played by Richard Pryor, skimmed the money from discount Gene Hackman (Ross Webster, played by Robert Vaughn).
darkpanda@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
GitHub Copilot about to be clocking some overtime on COBOL conversions.
Eezyville@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
You mean Grok, right?
darkpanda@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Grok has said disparaging things about Elon Musk so I’m assuming it’s going to be disappeared to El Salvador soon.
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
If you want the source of any future “technical glitches”, it’s this wilfully negligent act. Courts, take note.
Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Better shrubs than them have tried and failed. Same as with the ATC system.
endeavor@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Russia just wants musks boy toys to cripple the only checks and balances putin thinks he has.
Deathray5@lemmynsfw.com 2 months ago
Putin loves this but I suspect he’s not directly planning every dumb thing the trump team is behind. Trying to get Musk and Trump to follow instructions is challenging
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
KulunkelBoom@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Hey asshole - it works - don’t fix it.
turnip@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Bring back lotus notes and the command line!
based_raven@lemm.ee 2 months ago
When I started at my workplace a few years back, I had to login to lotus notes to obtain some sort of ID code. I’d never heard or seen the software before, but after opening it, I let out an audible “what the fuck is this shit”. Luckily they got rid of it completely a couple of years ago.
KulunkelBoom@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Lotus Notes ??!? So expensive. I’m keeping my Notepad from Windows 2000.
:D