Hi,
I’ve been a software developer for 30 years, including in very large IT projects.
Everything about “DOGE” and a bunch of Hitlerjugend walking into a data center and optimizing a code base and data grown over 70 years in a few days is complete bullshit on its nose.
Sincerely,
Thomas
I’ve been a software developer for 30 years, including in very large IT projects.
Everything about “DOGE” and a bunch of Hitlerjugend walking into a data center and optimizing a code base and data grown over 70 years in a few days is complete bullshit on its nose.
Sincerely,
Thomas
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Also, “move fast and break things” doesn’t work for government systems, but that’s Musk’s philosophy
Musk takes it literally though. He’s literally causing service outages. That’s totally avoidable. Well assuming those are accidental.
The programming is just a tiny part. The real work is simulating, testing and verifying.
At best they've added malware.
They've possibly added some AI code. There's no way they've added quality code to legacy systems that they've only just been given access to.
It reeks of people sharing a keyboard in a bad movie.
I don't think that's the case. Musk's support is too recent.
it’s so stupid that clearly not even elon understands how databases and corporate intranets work.
as AOC said, he is the stupidest billionaire you’ll ever meet.
yes, they are shitty and scary ghouls, but no, they cannot transform a massive pile of data likely across multiple mediums into useable information that quickly.
However I am well versed in criminology and counterterrorism.
Since the outset, it seems like they aren’t trying to find anything, they are hoping to erase something.
W/terrorism, it’s always about publicity.
What. Is the ??
where are its offices located?
what is its charter?
who are its officers?
where can i find its bylaws, policies, and procedures?
by what authority does it act?
to whom is it accountable?
to what oversight is it subject?
just asking questions"
Sam Brody
She always had some excuse about the evil marketing people overworking her and so our website was open to sql injection and we couldn’t fix it
Stupid easy fixable stuff
I’ve supported developers doing more complex data manipulation for many years as well as batch processing
Half the complexity of it seems to be junk that is automated by modern software
just here to cosign this
Perhaps combined with some malicious code that says "delete USA" if anyone were to, let's say, Arrest Musk and Trump for treason.
It's pretty easy to see where they are going with this: they are trying to take out all entities with the power to drag them out of the Oval office, handcuff them and lock them up. It's a "soft coup" in progress.
Just grabbing Crystal Report exports and sucking it into a LLM is Plenty Bad Enough
/me panics
He's got a predictable managerial style that plays to the "not invented here" crowd, and a million sycophants desperate to blow smoke on LinkedIn and tech journals.
The only way in which I am interested in them is I want them the hell out of my personal information and my country's treasury money.
They are in there stealing data and breaking security.
To get a load of kids who've been coding for a few years to "optimise" massive databases and code bases is fucking preposterous.
He's using kids as they won't understand the magnitude of what herr musk wants
Musk will throw them under the bus and let them go to prison
If we couldn't convince ourselves Covid was real, do you think anybody is going to care about our data being illegally accessed?
Most people assume their data is out for the world anyway.
Altnoaa 🇺🇸
@altnoaa.bsky.social
NOAA websites are mysteriously going offline now that Musk’s crew is in charge. Guess running a government is just as hard as keeping Twitter from crashing every other week. Who could’ve seen this coming?
Sticks to high hell
I really don't see what else they could do in such a short time in such a humongous system.
Funny.
They just run in, tap into the DB servers, download the whole shizzle and run.
No way they're implementing anything in such a brief time.
THIS IS JUST A ROBBERY.
Although I assume that normal SQL queries should work on COBOL. Only code structure and some syntax differ in these queries. I should ask a friend of mine he's the COBOL expert in the team.
I only roughly know some basics of it.
Same why they still need COBOL programmers to keep maintaining that.
IMS came out in 1968. DB2 came out in 1983.
Depending on how old their code base is....
Imagine what you can do with that training LLM of the sensible data of the whole US population including profile pictures (see your drivers licence). What a complete surveillance tool you would have.
1/2
If you're interested and this is not speculating.
It's fully there and you can look it up yourself.
Then watch this video and don't freak out. 2/2
https://youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no
Data is probably in Moscow already /s
Now, if you were just dropping a script into a code base -- say, a data capture/transfer...
...let's just say that's far more plausible.
This whole thing is orchestrated to get people to freeze in response. They would like to keep your tax money for as long as possible. They are running a float and the interest is what they are interested in here. Ignore them and file for your refund. It’s smoke and mirrors.
Love, Kelly
But magats often aren’t IT professionals.
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Imagine the scale of the data corruption (likely) introduced when they started playing with code that old.
The whole org has more than proven themselves unworthy of even read-only access. Terrifying to watch.
Problem is these kids has got no adult supervision
https://www.ibm.com/products/automatic-binary-optimizer-zos
I've been in NetOps\SecOps almost 35 years. Even if I hired one of these punks myself, I wouldn't have given them the keys to the kingdom on day one.
Total and unbridled bullshit.
The trillions of lines of government source code are so old they’re having trouble finding engineers for support & maintenance. A few people in the world might know how to optimize 70 yo code, but not 22 yo tech bros.
Stop watching shitty movies.
Carry on
And I'm terrified by the weight of people who think that can be done.
The catastrophic mayhem will be legendary when they start asking GPT to optimize the code.
I’d laugh with my popcorn if they weren’t messing with grandma’s SS money.
It’s total tech bro hubris to think they can just drop in to trillions of lines of code & magically improve languages they have no proficiency in.
PISSED at the amount of work and expense (many hundreds of thousands of dollars) I’ve gone through for security to have it, all of a sudden, not matter at all. For some.
I'm an IT Systems Engineer with 15+ yrs. This man is 100% correct.
This is a hack. They created HUGE regression,testing, integrity & validation issues+security holes the size of Edolf's ego
You can't just kick them out. What changes did they make? Will payments be accurate? Is there malware?
This'll be millions to fix
I don’t know which is worse the ones who don’t know probably because they can’t figure it out, or the ones who have probably figured it out, and are going to pretend they haven’t, for power and profit.
it is a cluster fuck and should not be dimished.
He & his minions have access to so much data & systems that every terrorist & criminal org is eyeing thwm (kidnapping, extortion, bribe) all to steal from or cripple the USA financially.
What they are doing is 1. waging cyberwar against us and 2. aiding our enemies. this is treason.
For now, my guess is, they're just stealing the data. I can assume that a later part of this plan is to train AI on that.
Imagine what you could do with that. It got all your info including a profile picture of you.
You could build a surveillance society never seen. 1/2
Found you a dissident person? You could eliminated them in a snap of your fingers.
It all fits in a bigger plan. If you didn't see this I recommend you do look at this video. 2/2
https://youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no
So $200+ million and “potential” election fraud is the price to get to plug into all departments to attain one of the largest training sets in the world.
Maybe locked some government admins out.
As this was planned since at least early november, they did not discover this in January.
They had time to prepare.
We should not underestimate them again.
Consider how radio stations were used in Rwanda to organize attacks, now consider they're all on X/Telegram and would have our addresses...
Fucking /s
Just the simple fact of hacking a system by entering a building and demanding root access is kinda unbelievable.
How to call that? Social engineering? No because it is done quite openly.
Let's call it a malevolent political engineering, it's a coup.
But you should not underestimate Musk as this is planned since at least Novembre. This task force did not come empy-handed.
https://sunlightfoundation.com/2012/05/22/spacex-blasts-literally-and-politically/
Now is time for bold actions.
Answer: Because they are trying to sell tools to do the conversion. (Converting is really a bad idea.)
Reading fund flow and finding corruption isn't IT project, but mere audit
What they are doing is optimizing workflow by removing inefficiency
They don't build new system from scratch
I ask you, sir: Do you know of any college that still teaches COBOL?
... I can also code FORTRAN, thank you.
Actually understanding the application and its interaction with reality is always the challenge to good code, no?
Fun fact: FORTRAN has the only validated and verified and testably correct statistical tool set you can easily deploy. Parallelizes good!
I theorize they aren't looking to touch any code. They are sucking down the data to train AI models to replace federal workers, i.e. bypass current systems. Thoughts?
It'd fit pretty nicely into the troll/meme/pop culture motif
I understood part of the plan was to cut USAID funding directly through the payment system. So indeed it looks like they're messing with the code.
The points about pulling data to train AI is likely also true...and a privacy violation.
https://bsky.app/profile/mclean.bsky.social/post/3lhhlmkx43c2q
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you might want to look at this:
(Warning! It's pretty f'd up and ugly what their plans are.)
Enjoy,
and don't get freaked out too much.
https://youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no
It takes more than a few days to figure out which modules go with which systems. It’s not always clear cut, especially with old code. They didn’t take time to understand, they just started writing code. That never works.
In my experience, it took as long as 3 months just to perform a first pass review of large-scale legacy corporate applications. Those must be tiny compared to this.
They weren’t optimizing shit. They were hunting.
They had time to prepare.
As Musk did plan the destruction of USAID in a few days.
It will completely be gone by the end of the WE. You cannot do that without early planning.
People mocked Musk staying at mar al ago... He was planning all this.
The 3 month count only starts after that.
Hacking has nothing to do with modifying system code.
I don’t dispute at all the probability of those nefarious things that are trivial to do.
I doubt they hand over anything to anybody. That stuff is worth a fortune.
Been doing IT work since 1994 myself.
Seconded. Everything going on is so very wrong.
Atleast that's a better scenario than them actually doing something, because that would probably lead to disaster.
They could however be…
1. Installing Trojans and back doors
2. Stealing data
3. Stealing code
4. Breaking the system irrevocably
You just haven’t discovered the reason but you will eventually… Hopefully you didn’t kill anyone with your ‘improvement’…
Anybody who’s worked on any software project of any meaningful size knows that they’re not making changes.
Could they be copying data en masse? That seems the more likely thing.
Either they’re lying about what they’re doing or really f*gg1ng it all up.