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For some reason, Elon hates old people, including Cobol and older adults. He wants to do it quickly, killing two birds with one stone. (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago by Loduz_247@lemmy.world to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

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[–] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 40 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Someone at work was saying people should download their work records from the ssa web portal before they mess it up/lose it.

[–] valkyre09@lemmy.world 23 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 19 points 4 days ago

I fully expect them to celebrate launch day by taking a sledgehammer to the old machine like that scene from Office Space. All I can say is that I really hope the SSA has been virtualizing their old COBOL applications and not running them on an ancient mainframe.

[–] pubertthefat@lemm.ee 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 5 points 4 days ago

I’m sure they have their remaining engineer on the job and it will be back soon o_-

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 days ago

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