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DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months (www.wired.com)
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[–] snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 28 points 4 days ago

COBOL systems, when properly maintained, are highly reliable, with built-in redundancy and fault tolerance.

They can't have that because they want excuses when it goes down and leaves old people to starve and ruin their credit.