Mastodawn

Holy shit.

Just wow, wow, holy shit:

Completely rewriting a multi-million line COBOL codebase that has life-or-death consequences for real people in the space of a few months, using gen AI?

I’ve been writing software for 40-some years, and I have to say: this may be, without exaggeration, the stupidest software-related idea I’ve ever heard from leadership.

https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits/

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

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.

WIRED

FriendlyEMP (he/him)Mar 10

Trans Rescue Mar 10

URGENT
Khaled Needs Emergency Surgery Khaled, a trans man we helped escape persecution, is now fighting for his life. He has appendicitis, but the public hospital in Lebanon won’t help him because his passport doesn't match his appearance - in short, because he's trans.
Private hospital wants $4,000 upfront.
He's been imprisoned, lived on the run for 6 months, got to Lebanon just to be caught up in a war, and now he's facing this.
#trans #TransRights #uspol
@lgbtqia
https://transrescue.org/donations/donate

Donate to Trans Rescue - Trans Rescue

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Trans Rescue

FriendlyEMP (he/him)Mar 2

Can someone who's been using #mastodon longer than I help me out? I'm following the #Linux tag, is there a way to filter these to just English and Spanish? Been seeing an influx of German posts recently, no offense I just can't read it lol

FriendlyEMP (he/him)Mar 1

gnutux بالعربي Mar 1

#linuxmint #arch #gnutux #linux #لينكس

FriendlyEMP (he/him)Feb 25

Kim Scheinberg Feb 25

I didn't realize how fucking useful the word 'fucking' is for eliminating AI

Turns out, it's really fucking useful!

FriendlyEMP (he/him)Feb 16

Shouty person Feb 16

I've had fellow business owners say to me, 'Don't make business decisions based on feelings' – as though business and morality exist on separate planes of existence.

I'm calling on #Shopify to oust Tobi Lütke. If you're a small business owner, will you join me?

https://chng.it/ptsqFGQvyT

#AntiFascist #CdnPoli #uspolitics #ukpolitics #eupol

This campaign needs you now

Tell Shopify to stop supporting hate

Change.org

FriendlyEMP (he/him)Feb 16

With #amazon killing sideloading support for #kindle , this is a good reminder that #nooks are still around on the used market for wicked cheap, you can get replacement parts for them, and don't need an account to use because the servers don't exist anymore. They read PDFs and EPUBs. Scored this unopened before the news dropped, great little machine