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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 months ago

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

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

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 months ago

cross-posted to:
politics@beehaw.org

Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.

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Oh hey, we had one of those disasters in Canada! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_pay_system
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  Made by IBM. We chose one of the worst company to do it.
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    Hah. It was IBM that was running the shitshow in Queensland too.

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