This is the typical Elon "Fully self driving soon" of 2016.

Fr. They’re gonna “accidentally lose” all the records of who was receiving social security and how much they were getting, and they’re gonna make people reapply for it in person, but they have to bring their birth certificate, social security cart, passport, driver’s license with real id, 5 years of tax returns, and probably some new special certificate they start issuing to prove you’re ~~maga~~ a real citizen

Yeah, the ideal process is something like this:

1. Write a bunch of automated tests
2. Rewrite a chunk that's well tested
3. Go to 1 until the project is done

I would budget a couple years. Even a smaller codebase would take more than a couple months.

They're just going to feed it to some LLM and then rely on the slop it outputs.

I just tried to check that out and got "online service not available"

Don’t worry, I’m sure they’ll make a full backup before they do something as drastic as try to re-write the system. /s

Imagine the overload on the systems as everyone rushes to do just that...

Buddy, keep fighting the good fight, but there has got to be a better way to post about this shit where you don't come across as insane to those not already in the know. This reads like something from insanfacebookposts.

That first sentence is a run on that takes multiple reads to parse. It's definitely missing a word, and it's worded somewhat odd.

I almost broke protocol

I highly doubt anyone but you has any idea what you mean by that. We aren't all from 50501 or whereever.

The hashtag makes the next line unreasonably large, at least on lemmy. You can just bold things. That really, really damages the overall look of your post. Also, don't be coy. There's negative reason to be vague. Why shouldn't anyone read the replies? Explicit nazi propaganda? Stupid Elon simps?

What you can do, is warn people on social security what will repeat historically, and defend the vulnerable.

What you can do is: warn people on social security about the atrocities from history about to repeat, and you can defend the vulnerable.

I will continue communications happening until I too get abducted.

There are numerous college students and academics being abducted right now. I will continue posting things like this until I am as well. Abduction tracker here.

Look. I know there's a huge thing about "don't tear down or nitpick allies' messaging, that's just helping the enemy" but poor enough messaging can be self defeating. Not saying yours is, just that it can be. Lord knows they have masterful propagandists on their side, "influencers", editing teams, maybe even "audience" reaction and sentiment analytics shit going on.

You can at least take two extra minutes to proofread your shit.

Avoiding Gell-Mann amnesia! Unfortunately, to even get to this question you have to be expert enough in one area to see through the BS... Not a luxury everyone is afforded.

That's probably why. It was the premise for the reimanged series of bsg, Galactica was so old that the cylons could not hack the computers like did with the 12 colonies whom they disabled with a virus.

Not really, no.

Obscurity is not security. We've learned a lot about security in the post 20 years, let alone the last 40

No, cobol is not more secure because it's a dead language. Obscurity is a hurdle, security is a wall - security is mathematical and good practices, obscurity is just being weird. It takes a bit longer to get past the weird, getting past a solid wall is a matter of luck or brilliance

The programming language itself rarely opens hacking opportunities in my experience. It is more the design of the system and potential bugs introduced by the dev can be exploited as well.

It will kill the black market for that kind of data. What good is a black market if the data is trivially available to everyone?

even his own Grok is against the idea: