5mo ago

What could possibly go wrong? DOGE to rapidly rebuild Social Security codebase.

arstechnica.com

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5mo ago

What could possibly go wrong? DOGE to rapidly rebuild Social Security codebase. They'll KILL people

arstechnica.com /tech-policy/2025/03/what-could-possibly-go-wrong-doge-to-rapidly-rebuild-social-security-codebase/

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5mo ago

What could possibly go wrong? DOGE to rapidly rebuild Social Security codebase.

arstechnica.com /tech-policy/2025/03/what-could-possibly-go-wrong-doge-to-rapidly-rebuild-social-security-codebase/

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These dumb fucks are going to have blood on their hands. I hope they all catch a bullet
- Soon or later they will. I just hope it is more soon than later.
  
  I remember some years ago outcry about platforms offering hitman services for bitcoins...
- I never wish death on anybody. But I wouldn’t be in a hurry to capture the assailant
- Sic semper tyrannis
"If it ain't broke, break it."
Motto of the Department Of Ultra Cool High Efficiency.
- I see what you did there with the acronym. Lol
- If it ain't broke, fix it till it is!
Let me guess.
A bunch of kids who have never seen COBOL before use AI to rewrite it all into a language they also can't read, do the bare minimum of checks, and then run millions of payments through it.
This from the genius bar whose hard drive "overheated" when they ran a query on 60,000 records.
- Ugh that overheated shit pisses me off. Everyone decided they can just make up whatever they want and there will be no repercussions for flat out intentional lies. So annoying.
- It does sound a bit like creating plausible deniability for some sketchy transactions later on.
This is absurd, they have no business doing this.
- Break it, privatize it, squeeze for every penny. That's their business.
"Hey we said 'rapidly', nobody said anything about it still working when we're done"
- Fast, cheap, good. They're going for 1 out of 3.
  
  Hahaha, good point. On the other hand, "cheap" depends on the perspective. From Musk's it's an incredibly cheap way to get a big payoff....huge ROI!
He's going about it all wrong. Make the new system run parallel to the old system, THEN take the old system down. This is being done wrong on purpose.
Well, there goes disability for me, my full time care twin, and my siezure prone full time care sister...
Musk remains true to his Disney villain character and I stand by my previous wish for his fate to be:
...eaten by hyenas. Preferably hyenas he had recently betrayed to save his own skin.
At the rate were going were going to get the bad ending which is:
...Chinese bombers over Washington blotting out the sun.
Hopefully, when it’s all broken and nobody’s getting their social security payments, maybe some of them will wake up.
They'll turn off benefits to people with opinions
I would bet that there will be an "accidental" bug in the code that deletes every single Social Security account.
- "Woops! Well, just reapply via this new DOGE chatbot! It rejects applications with a 100% success rate!"
- Only those that criticize the government, somehow. “Oops, because of some complicated algorithm, it only affected people who posted the word ‘orange’ on social media recently.”
For my Americans across the pond, I ask earnestly:
What could Russia do today that would cement themselves as an unparalleled oligarchy where just a few people control everything with no regard for anybody else in their country, that the US isn't already doing?

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