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[–] AnarchoSnowPlow@midwest.social 125 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Holy shit lol

I'm more than a decade into my engineering career. Nobody pushes directly to prod on my team, not even me. Everyone gets reviewed and tested.

I read this and cackled in public. Because my god, however bad you think this is, it's way fucking worse. Idk what a reasonable reaction to this is but wow. Just wow. Fucking. Cooked.

Like member how everyone talked about graft in Russia resulting in funds meant for military maintenance being siphoned off the top instead of being used for what it was supposed to be used for? This is like that, except you don't even have to have any excuses or anything, the money just... Disappears.

Edit: Have you ever seen a check from the US Treasury bounce? These fuckers boutta be rubber.

We told people to stop giving Brawndo to crops and now the economy computer failed. Brought to you by Carl's Jr.

[–] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

what i think this really means is that the treasury was hacked a long time ago and marko is making changes that were already written beforehand….
otherwise this would be impossible.
they entered those systems like three days before significantly altering the code….

[–] AnarchoSnowPlow@midwest.social 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You can absolutely push changes to a system that you don't actually understand.

You might be right, but consider the alternative: "someone thinks that they're so much smarter than the people who originally designed, implemented, and maintained a system integral to the functioning of modern society that they dismiss out of hand the idea of caution when dealing with it in situ."

If someone of that description were in this situation, what do you suppose their behavior would be?

[–] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

dude it’s not even written in a language this kid understands… he’s just implementing a patch other people wrote

[–] Miaou@jlai.lu 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No need you can just get an llm to convert your JavaScript into COBOL

[–] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago