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Yep this headline is from today, Monday morning.

Some snippets from the article about how efficient things are now that DOGE have injected their code changes into production without testing.

Suddenly forced offline as they were taking claims, the staff members scribbled down clients’ information, then had to wait until later to load it into the computer, doubling or tripling the amount of time and work involved, the employee said.

In other instances, Managers or security guards improvised a solution after the online scheduling system failed, the employee said. They walked out to the reception area, wrote down numbers on paper slips and started handing them out to people waiting in line.

The network crashes appear to be caused by an expansion initiated by the Trump team of an existing contract with a credit-reporting agency that tracks names, addresses and other personal information to verify customers’ identities. The enhanced fraud checks are now done earlier in the claims process and have resulted in a boost to the volume of customers who must pass the checks.

EDIT: here’s an archive link. https://archive.is/FQfBu

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 44 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

That's just sheer insanity. No one - no one thinks what they're doing is helping anything.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 31 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, if your end goal is to force Social Security to be so broken that the government has no choice but to privatize it, then it is helping....

[–] qprimed@lemmy.ml 8 points 14 hours ago

there is limited (I cant say "no" anymore) chance that the brokenness wont be attributed to the robber barons currently infesting government.

whats that quote about x missed meals and revolution/anarchy, again...? creeping closer and closer, we are.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 8 points 15 hours ago

Surely there are a bunch of dumbass fox-watching MAGAts that think they are.

[–] einlander@lemmy.world 12 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

So now the credit agencies know where you live at all times, and thusly collection agencies.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 11 points 16 hours ago

Now? They know my last 4 addresses and have for years.

[–] funkforager@sh.itjust.works 4 points 13 hours ago

Leaving a comment to poll the chat: Who thinks the “existing contract with a credit rating agency” — who now thanks to this code injection will get a lot of new information that was previously filtered before it reached their part of the SS process — is tied to Peter Thiel?

(I honestly don’t know, just trying to ask the room)

[–] militaryintelligence@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

The purpose of a system is what it does. He's gonna wreck SS using extra steps.