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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social

it’s pretty obvious that a lot of people remember that COVID lockdowns were unpleasant and from there just extrapolate that they were therefore bad policy

Stacie Rosenzweig
@ethicking.com

People still think Y2K was a hoax because nothing bad happened when really the crisis was averted because of a massive effort to fix it ahead of January 1, 2000 This does not portend well for unix end of time in 2038

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keithzg
@keithzg.ca

It's gonna be a real stark display of institutional intertias. I'm pretty confident any of the self-hosted software stacks I run will be fine . . . but also when the 2038 limit hits I bet like half the banks in the world will suddenly have service outages