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minus-squareglitch1985@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·14 days agoThere are tons of IT systems in the government that have been running the same programming for 30+ years but if it isn’t broke it doesn’t get touched. Source: Use mainframe emulators often to perform routine tasks in government HR systems.
minus-squaremacniel@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3·14 days agoso the huge legacy codebase should be ported to… and who’s gonna do that? You?
minus-squarefrezik@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·14 days agoYeah, great. Is DOGE going to fix any of that?
minus-squareAmDread@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·14 days agoThey would have to spend on new systems instead of giving tax breaks to corporate welfare queens and the landed gentry.
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There are tons of IT systems in the government that have been running the same programming for 30+ years but if it isn’t broke it doesn’t get touched.
Source: Use mainframe emulators often to perform routine tasks in government HR systems.
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so the huge legacy codebase should be ported to…
and who’s gonna do that? You?
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Yeah, great. Is DOGE going to fix any of that?
They would have to spend on new systems instead of giving tax breaks to corporate welfare queens and the landed gentry.