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Everything about this story is terrifying, but the cherry on this shit sundae is that they are pushing changes directly to prod.

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Musk Cronies Dive Into Treasury Dept Payments Code Base

Overnight, Wired reported that, contrary to published reports that DOGE operatives at the Treasury Department are limited to “read only” access to department…
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Matt Blaze
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That stands out as Extremely Not At All Good, even among all the other not at all good things going on.
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evacide
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@mattblaze The people who think they are good at everything because they are good at coding are also bad at coding.
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@mattblaze

It is extraordinarily disappoint to see smart people get caught up in the mob frenzy of "technology/ technologists = bad", when the issue of "privileged cunts who have never had to suffer the consequences of their mistakes due to money, and therefore never learned from the occasions, yet use money as a weapon against the rest of us" slides right by, because the same cunts have become experts at dividing (attentions, narratives, and) populations against each other with fucking daft false equivalences

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Matt Blaze
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@smooch you might want to look into Eva’s (and, for that matter, my) background before you broadly caricature her position as “technology is bad” as a way to score yourself Internet Savvy points.
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Corb_The_Lesser
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AARP and umpteen federal employee and retiree organizations should be in court right now about Musk's potential sabotage of Treasury and OPM.
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github.com/markoelez/TinyZero

assuming that this is indeed his github (which is not confirmed at all), his latest activity from 3 days ago is forking a counting module for deepseek


GitHub - markoelez/TinyZero: Clean, minimal, accessible reproduction of DeepSeek R1-Zero

Clean, minimal, accessible reproduction of DeepSeek R1-Zero - markoelez/TinyZero
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@alienghic and the courts arent even taking up the lawsuits with the neccessary alacrity, not ONE, injunction has been filed.

They dont even know or cate if this DOGE shitshow is legal before tearing everything down.

this is worse than the time when people used radium as a dietary supplement.. thats how bad this is.

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Dustin Lang
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it's probably just 1000000 lines of COBOL what could go wrong
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ティージェーグレェ
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[sarcasm mode enabled]

What are the cool kids programming in these days? Surely there is a Docker container loaded with NPM/NodeJS COBOL bridge stuff with only 30X more brittle dependencies, 50X worse performance and merely 100X the attack surface?

Y'know, using something like what's in this GitHub repo that hasn't been touched in > 4 years: github.com/IonicaBizau/node-co…

With fElon Musk behind it, I'm sure it will be like Full Self Driving in no time!

Just run it in an AWS or other "cloud" hosting provider and sprinkle in some "AI" (ChatGPT, DeepSeek, OpenAI, I don't care and neither do the people behind those companies) and cryptocurrencies with cool USG NFTs to really make it scream 2025 DevOps du jour!

[sarcasm mode cool down]

Emphasis on scream.


GitHub - IonicaBizau/node-cobol: :tv: COBOL bridge for NodeJS which allows you to run COBOL code from NodeJS.

:tv: COBOL bridge for NodeJS which allows you to run COBOL code from NodeJS. - IonicaBizau/node-cobol
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