Gregory's ServerI was alive during the "2000 problem" and it was really overrated imo
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 sam henri gold, I'm really looking forward to when the 32-bit unixtime overflows. That will sure be a disaster.  @grishka I worry about the legacy web servers that were setup for government agencies in, like, 2002 and haven't been touched since that run important web tools. When I created a company in Connecticut, the only way to do so was through a cgi-bin web app. I think they're gonna have a terrible time in 14 years. sam henri gold, blows my mind that you don't have an equivalent to our gosuslugi.ru. It's a centralized portal where you get all government services. But I'm not sure this is possible in the US where each state has much more autonomy.  @grishka @samhenrigold why do both Ukraine and Russia have this meanwhile Germany is like “fill out these 14 forms, go to these 5 offices (who all have the same name and do the same thing), Notary etc. and then maybe you have a company in 6 months. I mean, founding a company is one thing, but social services?? Local government appointments?? Yeah, I am glad some countries put their IT money in things other than Windows 7 licenses @grishka The GSA (part of the executive branch) has 18F (an in-house studio that works with other government agencies) as well as the U.S. Digital Service which governs some tech stuff (like the USWDS https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/06/26/1093656/us-government-website-design-accessibility/). But it’s all optional and most people who work at gov’t agencies suck at web design, so they use whatever fuckass Microsoft Frontpage template they feel like instead. |
@grishka we should've played it more fast and loose with year formatting. i asked my dad and he said the most catastrophic consequence was that he lost his high score in a card game that was preinstalled on his Gateway 2000