Notices by radikalgrafitio :ancom: (radikalgrafitio@sunbeam.city)

people were talking about the millennium bug recently, well it turns out a lot of the fixes just delayed the problem to 2020

"Programmers wanting to avoid the Y2K bug had two broad options: entirely rewrite their code, or adopt a quick fix called “windowing”, which would treat all dates from 00 to 20, as from the 2000s, rather than the 1900s. An estimated 80 per cent of computers fixed in 1999 used the quicker, cheaper option."

"Those systems that used the quick fix have now reached the end of that window, and have rolled back to 1920. Utility company bills have reportedly been produced with the erroneous date 1920, while tens of thousands of parking meters in New York City have declined credit card transactions because of the date glitch."

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2229238-a-lazy-fix-20-years-ago-means-the-y2k-bug-is-taking-down-computers-now/

"Kickstarter’s Year of Turmoil
How a Nazi-punching satire led to the first union drive at a well-known tech company—and, workers say, the firing of two organizers in eight days."

https://slate.com/technology/2019/09/kickstarter-turmoil-union-drive-historic-tech-industry.html

we shouldn't think of solving our environmental problems by reducing our tech level or returning to an earlier level of technology, and we absolutely can't think to localise everything, or worse build everything for the level of individual independent houses, with one family each

a lot of our older tech was very environmental damaging, even just herding goats can fuck up the environment if its not organised with protecting it in mind

currently tech mainly built and used for the purpose of generating profit, this has been the case for hundreds of years, there isn't a past form that didn't harm the envroment, even simple hunter-gatherer societies sent species extinct

the only solution is to repurpose what we already have for the benefit of all humanity, its not about how much tech we have its how its used