As long as Big Ballz is running things, I’m sure it will all be fine!
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DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse
Submitted 6 days 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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elatedCatfish@lemm.ee 4 days ago
geoff@lemm.ee 6 days ago
This is how you know Musk is a fraud. This far into his career and he’s leading teams into rookie mistakes.
Or, he knows this will break it and that’s the goal. I’m just not sure how he avoids the blame.
bugg@lemm.ee 6 days ago
DARVO is all you need to avoid blame. Deny. Reverse Victim and Offender. Incredibly effective either way everyone except the genuinely principled.
futatorius@lemm.ee 5 days ago
When he suggested PayPal convert its data centers from Linux to Microsoft Server, I knew he was a wrong’un. That was one of the reasons he got booted out of PayPal, by the way. Even the other bullshitter tech bros knew how stupid that idea was.
barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 5 days 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.
WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social 6 days ago
That’s the idea. Then they say anyone who complains about not receiving benefits is a fraud.
Lutra@lemmy.world 6 days 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.
botanicangular@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Wont happen legacy systems more complicated than expected, well it wont happen functionally…
orbitz@lemmy.ca 5 days 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.
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Rewrite it in Rust has gone too far 😆
FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 6 days ago
Reminds me of that thing Lex Luthor did where he sponged off rounding errors in financial transactions
db2@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Office Space. PCLOADLTR
FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 6 days ago
Do you remember that one song from the sound track. Get Off My Elevator. That song kicks ass
ripcord@lemmy.world 6 days ago
You’re thinking of discount Gene Hackman from Superman III: 2 bad 2 crazy
kryptonite@lemmy.world 6 days 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 6 days ago
GitHub Copilot about to be clocking some overtime on COBOL conversions.
Eezyville@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
You mean Grok, right?
darkpanda@lemmy.ca 6 days 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 6 days ago
If you want the source of any future “technical glitches”, it’s this wilfully negligent act. Courts, take note.
Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Better shrubs than them have tried and failed. Same as with the ATC system.
endeavor@sopuli.xyz 5 days ago
Russia just wants musks boy toys to cripple the only checks and balances putin thinks he has.
Deathray5@lemmynsfw.com 5 days 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 5 days ago
orcrist@lemm.ee 6 days ago
“risking”? No no no. “promising”
Xaphanos@lemmy.world 6 days ago
If SS payments stop, there will be hundreds of thousands of people with nothing left to lose.
whotookkarl@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Over 70 million including many retirees, orphans, and disabled workers. The people most in need of help and the reason that trying to run a government like a capitalist business is one of the dumbest forms of government organization ever. A quick way to radicalize someone against you is to harm their family or take their money.
Xaphanos@lemmy.world 6 days ago
My mom is over 80. Little old suburban white lady. She already volunteered - “Just get me close.” She’d be super-thrilled to have her shot with a suicide vest.
futatorius@lemm.ee 5 days ago
Suicide bombers on mobility scooters. Be very afraid.