#legacy database

[avendatagmbh]

Von Altlasten zu Innovationen: Die Rolle der Künstlichen Intelligenz in der Modernisierung von Altsystemen

In einer Ära rasanter technologischer Entwicklungen stehen viele Unternehmen vor einer entscheidenden Frage: Wie können veraltete Systeme, die einst das Rückgrat ihrer IT-Infrastruktur bildeten, in das digitale Zeitalter überführt werden? Die Antwort könnte in der Kraft der Künstlichen Intelligenz (KI) liegen.

Die Herausforderung der Altsysteme

Viele Unternehmen, insbesondere solche in traditionellen Industrien wie Banken, Versicherungen und Fertigung, stützen sich immer noch auf sogenannte Altsysteme. Diese Systeme, oft jahrzehntealt, sind zwar zuverlässig, aber zunehmend schwerfällig und teuer im Unterhalt. Sie sind nicht nur technologisch veraltet, sondern auch schwer in moderne IT-Umgebungen zu integrieren. Hier kommt die Modernisierung von Altsystemen ins Spiel – ein Prozess, der darauf abzielt, diese veralteten Technologien durch moderne, effiziente und zukunftssichere Lösungen zu ersetzen oder zu ergänzen.

Warum Künstliche Intelligenz?

Künstliche Intelligenz hat das Potenzial, die Modernisierung von Altsystemen auf völlig neue Ebenen zu heben. KI kann nicht nur helfen, bestehende Prozesse zu optimieren, sondern auch neue Möglichkeiten eröffnen, wie Unternehmen ihre IT-Infrastruktur nutzen und erweitern können. Hier sind einige der Hauptgründe, warum KI ein Schlüssel zur Modernisierung von Altsystemen sein kann:

Automatisierung und Effizienzsteigerung: KI kann repetitive und manuelle Aufgaben automatisieren, die bisher von Menschen erledigt wurden. Dies ist besonders wichtig bei Altsystemen, die oft viele manuelle Eingriffe erfordern. Durch den Einsatz von KI-gestützter Automatisierung können Unternehmen die Effizienz steigern und gleichzeitig Fehler reduzieren.

Datenanalyse und Entscheidungsfindung: Altsysteme enthalten oft riesige Mengen an historischen Daten, die wertvolle Erkenntnisse bieten könnten, aber aufgrund ihrer unstrukturierten und verteilten Natur schwer zugänglich sind. KI-Algorithmen können diese Daten analysieren, Muster erkennen und wertvolle Einblicke liefern, die Unternehmen bei strategischen Entscheidungen unterstützen.

Integration und Interoperabilität: Eine der größten Herausforderungen bei der Modernisierung von Altsystemen ist die Integration mit neuen Technologien. KI kann helfen, die Kompatibilität zwischen alten und neuen Systemen zu verbessern, indem sie beispielsweise die Übersetzung und Anpassung von Datenformaten automatisiert.

Vorhersage und Proaktive Wartung: KI kann genutzt werden, um Probleme in Altsystemen frühzeitig zu erkennen und proaktive Wartungsmaßnahmen vorzuschlagen. Durch den Einsatz von prädiktiven Analysen können Unternehmen Ausfallzeiten reduzieren und die Systemverfügbarkeit verbessern.

Praktische Anwendungen von KI in der Modernisierung von Altsystemen

Robotic Process Automation (RPA): RPA ist eine Form der KI, die es ermöglicht, sich wiederholende Aufgaben zu automatisieren. Unternehmen können RPA nutzen, um die Interaktion mit Altsystemen zu automatisieren, ohne dass tiefgreifende Änderungen am bestehenden System erforderlich sind. Ein Beispiel ist die Automatisierung von Datenübertragungen zwischen einem alten und einem neuen System.

Natural Language Processing (NLP): NLP kann verwendet werden, um unstrukturierte Daten in Altsystemen, wie Textdokumente oder Kundenfeedback, zu analysieren und zu strukturieren. Dies kann besonders nützlich sein, wenn Unternehmen Informationen aus alten Berichten oder Archiven extrahieren möchten.

Machine Learning für Prognosen: Machine Learning kann historische Daten aus Altsystemen nutzen, um zukünftige Trends vorherzusagen. Dies ist besonders wertvoll in Branchen wie dem Finanzwesen, wo historische Daten genutzt werden können, um Markttrends oder Kundenverhalten zu prognostizieren.

Fallstudien aus Deutschland

Die Deutsche Bank und KI-gestützte Transformation: Die Deutsche Bank hat erfolgreich KI eingesetzt, um ihre alten Kernbankensysteme zu modernisieren. Durch den Einsatz von KI-Algorithmen konnten sie die Verarbeitung von Transaktionen und die Erkennung von Betrug automatisieren, was zu erheblichen Kosteneinsparungen und einer verbesserten Effizienz führte.

Siemens und KI in der Fertigung: Siemens hat KI verwendet, um die Wartung und den Betrieb seiner Produktionsanlagen zu optimieren. Durch die Integration von KI in ihre alten Fertigungssysteme konnten sie vorausschauende Wartungsstrategien implementieren und so die Ausfallzeiten erheblich reduzieren.

3. Allianz und Datenanalyse: Die Allianz Versicherung hat KI eingesetzt, um ihre Altsysteme für die Datenanalyse zu modernisieren. Mit fortschrittlichen Machine-Learning-Algorithmen konnten sie aus historischen Daten präzise Risikobewertungen erstellen und ihre Versicherungsprodukte entsprechend anpassen

Zukunftsperspektiven

Die Modernisierung von Altsystemen mit Hilfe von KI ist keine kurzfristige Lösung, sondern ein kontinuierlicher Prozess der Transformation. Unternehmen, die diesen Weg einschlagen, müssen bereit sein, in neue Technologien zu investieren und ihre bestehenden Prozesse kontinuierlich zu überdenken. Die Zukunft der Altsysteme liegt in ihrer Fähigkeit, sich zu adaptieren und durch innovative Technologien wie KI ständig weiterzuentwickeln.

Die Modernisierung von Altsystemen mit Künstlicher Intelligenz bietet nicht nur die Möglichkeit, bestehende Prozesse zu verbessern, sondern auch neue Wege zur Wertschöpfung und Innovation zu eröffnen. Unternehmen, die diesen Weg beschreiten, können ihre Wettbewerbsfähigkeit steigern und sich für die Herausforderungen der digitalen Zukunft rüsten.

Mit den oben genannten Ansätzen können deutsche Unternehmen nicht nur ihre veralteten Systeme modernisieren, sondern auch ihre Position in der dynamischen und technologiegetriebenen Welt stärken. Die Modernisierung von Altsystemen durch KI ist nicht nur ein Schritt in Richtung Effizienz, sondern ein Sprungbrett in eine innovative Zukunft.

[samssims]

[pancakeke]

a couple weeks back dev made a big update to one table. it really pissed me off because it's used by almost everything I write, and I have to filter it by excluding what I know I don't need rather than including what I do since everyone has permissions on our site to silently add rows to this thing.

one guy in dev made a comment about my complaints saying that if their update was such a big problem then maybe I should be writing more robust queries. but then also he said all I needed to do to exclude the new data was to filter by one column. which did not exist before this update. so how could I have future-proofed anything dude.

I think he was implying that I was filtering by names rather than IDs, which I wasn't cause that's nuts. but also our forecast tables show component inventory locations as names only. no mention of location IDs. these aren't views too, they're actual tables. knowing the inventory location is critical and needs to join to other tables to make anything of value. don't talk down to me if that's how your dept is setting things up.

[infoanalysishub]

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[roseband]

oh my god i don't speak to my dad anymore cuz hes nutty but i know what he does for a living

and musk is currently pulling a "the software govs use is 50 years old which means there can be no advances"

and that's..... that's what my dad does for a living, he gets paid 500-1k an hour to make software that specifically communicates with old legacy software cause he's a 90s dev who knows the old languages still and it's more efficient to hire a freak who knows how to make something to bridge between the old and new programs than to fully trash the old system

like there's literally consultants that get hired for that specific purpose and as a software guy musk KNOWS this

[softweb-solutions]

Softweb Solutions provided a software to a law firm that was facing challenges of technology migration. We offered them our legacy system modernization services to achieve more business benefits. 

[the-ugly-swan]

★ꓸ 𝗙𝗜𝗟𝗘𝗦 𝗙𝗥𝗢𝗠 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗘 𝗟𝗘𝗔𝗚𝗨𝗘 !

𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗘 𝗟𝗘𝗔𝗚𝗨𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗔𝗕𝗔𝗦𝗘

𝗙𝗜𝗟𝗘 𝗨𝗣𝗟𝗢𝗔𝗗𝗘𝗗 𝗕𝗬: ❪ 𝗭𝗢𝗥𝗥𝗢, 𝗦𝗨𝗕𝗝𝗘𝗖𝗧 𝗔-𝟬𝟲 ❫

𝗟𝗔𝗗𝗬 𝗭𝗢𝗥𝗥𝗢, 𝗦𝗨𝗕𝗝𝗘𝗖𝗧 𝗕-𝟬𝟲

𝗜𝗡𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗠𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡

𝗙𝗨𝗟𝗟 𝗡𝗔𝗠𝗘:

Amelia Esmeralda De La Vega.

𝗔𝗚𝗘:

30 years old. ❪ present day ❫

𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗘𝗥:

Female.

𝗡𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗧𝗬:

American.

𝗦𝗣𝗘𝗖𝗜𝗘𝗦:

Human.

𝗗𝗘𝗦𝗜𝗚𝗡𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡:

B-06

𝗡𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗡𝗘𝗧:

Earth.

Earth 1.

𝗖𝗨𝗥𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗡𝗘𝗧:

Earth.

Earth 1.

𝗟𝗔𝗦𝗧-𝗞𝗡𝗢𝗪𝗡 𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗘:

Big City.

Mount Justice.

𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗔𝗦:

Lady Zorro. ❪ alter-ego ❫

Amelia. ❪ first name ❫

Amy. ❪ most common nickname ❫

Doña Amelia. ❪ by her butler Bernardo Montez ❫

Doña Zorro. ❪ by Wally West ❫

𝗔𝗟𝗧𝗘𝗥 𝗘𝗚𝗢:

Lady Zorro.

The Masked Vigilante.

Queen of Swords.

𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗧𝗘:

Alive.

𝗖𝗢𝗦𝗧𝗨𝗠𝗘:

𝗙𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗖𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗺𝗲: Her first costume consisted of a gray blouse, black pants, black boots, a black hat and mask, weapon-belt, and a black cape.

𝗦𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗺𝗲: Her second costume was designed by Zorro himself and especially for her. It consisted of a black jumpsuit with symbolic decorations, black boots, black hat with a feather, black mask, weapon-belt, and black cape.

𝗦𝗞𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗦:

𖧹Genius intelligence.

𖧹Swordswoman skills.

𖧹Privileged knowledge on every type of weapons.

𖧹Multilingualism.

𖧹Agility.

𝗪𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗡𝗘𝗦𝗦𝗘𝗦:

𖧹Poor physical strength.

𖧹No superpowers.

𖧹Basic human weaknesses.

𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗢𝗥:

El Zorro. ❪ Alejandro De La Vega ❫

𝗣𝗛𝗬𝗦𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗟 𝗗𝗘𝗦𝗖𝗥𝗜𝗣𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡

𝗘𝗬𝗘 𝗖𝗢𝗟𝗢𝗥:

Dark brown.

𝗛𝗔𝗜𝗥 𝗖𝗢𝗟𝗢𝗥:

Black.

𝗦𝗞𝗜𝗡 𝗖𝗢𝗟𝗢𝗥:

White-tanned.

𝗛𝗘𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧:

1.60 ❪ 5 ft 3 in ❫

𝗪𝗘𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧:

41 kg.

𝗥𝗘𝗟𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗣𝗦

𝗠𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥:

Esmeralda Sánchez.

𝗙𝗔𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥:

Alejandro De La Vega.

𝗕𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥:

Diego De La Vega.

𝗦𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗥-𝗜𝗡-𝗟𝗔𝗪:

Maria Martinez-De La Vega.

𝗡𝗜𝗘𝗖𝗘:

María Esperanza De La Vega-Martinez.

𝗘𝗫𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗢𝗥 𝗙𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗦:

Bernardo Montez.

Elena Montero.

𝗔𝗗𝗗𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗔𝗟 𝗜𝗡𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗠𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡

𝗡𝗢𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗘𝗗 𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗢𝗡𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗧𝗬:

Amelia is extremely cold and serious. She doesn’t talk much and always maintains a numb expression. Although, she can make anybody laugh with her un involuntary sarcasm. Although, it’s been known she never denies anybody a word or a shoulder to cry on, even if she’s not really close to The Team.

𝗞𝗡𝗢𝗪𝗡 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗦:

Amelia fears…❪ CLASSIFIED INFORMATION ❫

𝗙𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗦 𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗣𝗔𝗦𝗧:

❪ CLASSIFIED INFORMATION ❫

𝗙𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗦 𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗘𝗡𝗧:

❪ CLASSIFIED INFORMATION ❫

𝗙𝗜𝗟𝗘 𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗗 𝗕𝗬: ❪ 𝗕𝗔𝗧𝗠𝗔𝗡, 𝗦𝗨𝗕𝗝𝗘𝗖𝗧 𝗔-𝟬𝟮 ❫

[sarahelizasims]

Landscape Oil Paintings Collection - Part 1

Hello everyone, and Happy New Year! To kick off the year, I’m excited to share my first collection of stunning landscape oil paintings, inspired by the highly sought-after styles of the 19th century. During that time, landscape painting flourished, becoming the dominant genre and a celebrated pinnacle in art history—a legacy that continues to captivate us today.

💟A heartfelt thank you to @sims4luxury for graciously allowing me to recolor her stunning wall art. Your kindness, support, and help throughout this process have meant so much to me!

This is a recolor of Sims4Luxury's British Collection - Artwall #1: You must download @sims4luxury's mesh in order to see my recolor in your game! This is included in the ZIP file, so don't worry!

This is optional, but if you haven't done so already, please download the entire British Collection! It is truly a very beautiful set.

📌Collection Features:

This collection consists of 19 swatches of beautiful paintings

Custom thumbnails

In build mode, use keys '9' and '0' to increase/decease the paintings to desired size!

📌Credits:

All the original paintings were made available for public use under the public domain, in accordance with the open access policy.

Images sourced from the open-access databases of the National Gallery of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago.

CC creators used within my screenshots: @pinkbox-anye @casadutti @ts4novvvas @mxims @syboubou @cowbuild @kerriganhouse @aggressivekitty @sundays-sims @baumgarten-sims @mincts4 @ddaeng-sims

If I am forgetting anyone, I am so sorry! Please message me and I will add you to the list.🤍

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[dearmeker]

The FBI has undergone multiple reforms in its history due to internal corruption issues, such as the downsizing and reorganization of internal personnel during the Hoover period. But similar problems still occur, indicating that historical legacy issues have never been completely resolved.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence in the United States has released documents showing that the FBI has repeatedly abused surveillance tools and illegally accessed a restricted personal communication database of American citizens.

[diejager]

Technical Issues Cw: smut, sex work, OnlyFans, porn, fuck machine, squirting, prostitution handjob, tell me if I missed any.

Part3

It started with a reluctant alliance between SpecGru and KorTac, two powerful PMCs that were tricked by the same employer, played and played again, unable to work alone to take them down. So both heads of the PMCs decided to work together to take down this problematic employer, which meant that they’d have to come and go between bases, sharing the same space and the same area. They were unenthusiastic about it, still holding a grudge against the other.

There was a technical issue in giving access to KoTac members sent over to the British base the right clearances for the compiled data, to-know intel and the statistics. That’s how König found himself in the database, looking up the different clearance codes to give him access to the information he needed before 1900, he only had half an hour to find the code if he didn’t want to miss the event.

Unfortunately, all he stumbled into was a page, a familiar name popping up on this person’s browser history. It was Soap’s. Sergeant John “Soap” MacTavish, the snipe and demolition specialist that König knew from both experience and intel. It was a strange find, Soap had used a public browser to watch his nightly activities and had forgotten to wipe it clean —did he even wipe his history? Something ugly flared in König’s chest, an explosive warmth of possession and envy. How could’ve he not seen him on the chat when König spent so much time on it himself?

With dilated pupils and a one-track mind, he completed his search and rushed to his room, pushing past everyone he met in the hall with his broad shoulders and even bigger ego, nostrils flaring and seeing red. He knew this kind of reaction was nonsensical, near illogical on his par, seeing the type of content he consumed, but he couldn’t help it, he was the second highest payer.

Slamming and locking the door behind him, he ripped his mask off, throwing it haphazardly on the floor and ripped his clothes off, his skin hot to the touch in his cold room. It was 1857 —perfect. Settling himself on his temporary desk in nothing but his briefs, he felt his cock struggle against the fabric, head poking out on the side of his boxers. He was quick to open up the right tab, clicking in the sweet temptation of the profile picture.

A screen popped out, a familiar bed in a familiar setting with familiar objects surrounding the plush sheets, and in the middle, sat the little cherub of his dreams. Seraphim, the little slut that he was happy to spend his legacy on, to watch and indulge in the sinful act jerking off to a woman he might never meet or know outside of this screen. He pushed his waistband down his thighs and his cock swung out, hanging low between his legs, veins pulsing with the rush of blood from his head to his cock and uncut head drooling on his chair.

👑 gifted you 100$

“Hello, sir,” you smiled so sweetly at him, glossy lips pulled into an innocent image, “Thank you for the gift.”

He always gave you a gift at the start of each live he watched to get a greeting from you and would gift you much more with ever minute he spent watching you bend over your bed, ass up and face down, getting fucked by the fuck machine he gifted you. You had two cameras set up, one that let them view your tight cunt stretched around the silicone copy of his cock - thick and veiny - and one giving them a clear view of your tearful eyes and cock drunk expression.

König kept his eyes glued to your cunt, ploughed so roughly bu his girth that slick gushed around it, lips swollen and wet, and the little plug your pushed into your flared rim, the flat handle spreading your ass for them to see. He jerked himself, calloused fingers gripping the head of his cock and spreading pre down his shaft, the foreskin spread around his girth. He shuddered, his cock throbbing in his hand, reacting to the image of your ravaged and gasping figure taking the dildo so well, mewling and wailing like the angelic whore you were.

He wanted you to come, he wanted to see you squirt around the toy, slick rolling down your thighs in waves of pleasure, your voice breaking as you mewl and wail. He moved thoughtlessly, hand moving to type out his command, sending you more money, it was an addiction at this rate, his need to sustain you and your living. If you let him, he’d be your sugar daddy, paying for everything you’d need and you’d have the real deal, his hot and heavy cock rather than a silicone.

“Please let me come, sir!” Your begging had always been delicious and who was he to deny you of your pleasure when you brought him to his ground shaking climax.

He came with a loud groan, a deep rumbling in his chest, still pumping his cock as the head twisted, spraying his opaque cum over the table, white and viscous. His eyes rolled at the back of his mind, lids feeling heavy and body wracked with tremors, legs jerking as his hand slowed down, steadily riding out his mind-numbing release.

“Them too?” Horangi peered at the four Brits, an unamused gleam in his hidden eyes.

König nodded, his hood twisting with every motion, fingers moving gracefully over his rifle, dismantling and cleaning it after their recon mission. A groan caught his attention, his eyes moving from the beauty of his weapon to the cold blues that stared back at him.

“It does not matter,” Nikto’s voice had always been violent, a rough and jagged husk that exhumed power, “We found her first.”

It was a statement to himself, a strong and unyielding one that stemmed from Nikto’s dark and broken person, but they agreed.

Part 5

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[mariacallous]

The so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is starting to put together a team to migrate the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) computer systems entirely off one of its oldest programming languages in a matter of months, potentially putting the integrity of the system—and the benefits on which tens of millions of Americans rely—at risk.

The project is being organized by Elon Musk lieutenant Steve Davis, multiple sources who were not given permission to talk to the media tell WIRED, and aims to migrate all SSA systems off COBOL, one of the first common business-oriented programming languages, and onto a more modern replacement like Java within a scheduled tight timeframe of a few months.

Under any circumstances, a migration of this size and scale would be a massive undertaking, experts tell WIRED, but the expedited deadline runs the risk of obstructing payments to the more than 65 million people in the US currently receiving Social Security benefits.

“Of course, one of the big risks is not underpayment or overpayment per se; [it’s also] not paying someone at all and not knowing about it. The invisible errors and omissions,” an SSA technologist tells WIRED.

The Social Security Administration did not immediately reply to WIRED’s request for comment.

SSA has been under increasing scrutiny from president Donald Trump’s administration. In February, Musk took aim at SSA, falsely claiming that the agency was rife with fraud. Specifically, Musk pointed to data he allegedly pulled from the system that showed 150-year-olds in the US were receiving benefits, something that isn’t actually happening. Over the last few weeks, following significant cuts to the agency by DOGE, SSA has suffered frequent website crashes and long wait times over the phone, The Washington Post reported this week.

This proposed migration isn’t the first time SSA has tried to move away from COBOL: In 2017, SSA announced a plan to receive hundreds of millions in funding to replace its core systems. The agency predicted that it would take around five years to modernize these systems. Because of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, the agency pivoted away from this work to focus on more public-facing projects.

Like many legacy government IT systems, SSA systems contain code written in COBOL, a programming language created in part in the 1950s by computing pioneer Grace Hopper. The Defense Department essentially pressured private industry to use COBOL soon after its creation, spurring widespread adoption and making it one of the most widely used languages for mainframes, or computer systems that process and store large amounts of data quickly, by the 1970s. (At least one DOD-related website praising Hopper's accomplishments is no longer active, likely following the Trump administration’s DEI purge of military acknowledgements.)

As recently as 2016, SSA’s infrastructure contained more than 60 million lines of code written in COBOL, with millions more written in other legacy coding languages, the agency’s Office of the Inspector General found. In fact, SSA’s core programmatic systems and architecture haven’t been “substantially” updated since the 1980s when the agency developed its own database system called MADAM, or the Master Data Access Method, which was written in COBOL and Assembler, according to SSA’s 2017 modernization plan.

SSA’s core “logic” is also written largely in COBOL. This is the code that issues social security numbers, manages payments, and even calculates the total amount beneficiaries should receive for different services, a former senior SSA technologist who worked in the office of the chief information officer says. Even minor changes could result in cascading failures across programs.

“If you weren't worried about a whole bunch of people not getting benefits or getting the wrong benefits, or getting the wrong entitlements, or having to wait ages, then sure go ahead,” says Dan Hon, principal of Very Little Gravitas, a technology strategy consultancy that helps government modernize services, about completing such a migration in a short timeframe.

It’s unclear when exactly the code migration would start. A recent document circulated amongst SSA staff laying out the agency’s priorities through May does not mention it, instead naming other priorities like terminating “non-essential contracts” and adopting artificial intelligence to “augment” administrative and technical writing.

Earlier this month, WIRED reported that at least 10 DOGE operatives were currently working within SSA, including a number of young and inexperienced engineers like Luke Farritor and Ethan Shaotran. At the time, sources told WIRED that the DOGE operatives would focus on how people identify themselves to access their benefits online.

Sources within SSA expect the project to begin in earnest once DOGE identifies and marks remaining beneficiaries as deceased and connecting disparate agency databases. In a Thursday morning court filing, an affidavit from SSA acting administrator Leland Dudek said that at least two DOGE operatives are currently working on a project formally called the “Are You Alive Project,” targeting what these operatives believe to be improper payments and fraud within the agency’s system by calling individual beneficiaries. The agency is currently battling for sweeping access to SSA’s systems in court to finish this work. (Again, 150-year-olds are not collecting social security benefits. That specific age was likely a quirk of COBOL. It doesn’t include a date type, so dates are often coded to a specific reference point—May 20, 1875, the date of an international standards-setting conference held in Paris, known as the Convention du Mètre.)

In order to migrate all COBOL code into a more modern language within a few months, DOGE would likely need to employ some form of generative artificial intelligence to help translate the millions of lines of code, sources tell WIRED. “DOGE thinks if they can say they got rid of all the COBOL in months, then their way is the right way, and we all just suck for not breaking shit,” says the SSA technologist.

DOGE would also need to develop tests to ensure the new system’s outputs match the previous one. It would be difficult to resolve all of the possible edge cases over the course of several years, let alone months, adds the SSA technologist.

“This is an environment that is held together with bail wire and duct tape,” the former senior SSA technologist working in the office of the chief information officer tells WIRED. “The leaders need to understand that they’re dealing with a house of cards or Jenga. If they start pulling pieces out, which they’ve already stated they’re doing, things can break.”

[critrolestats]

New Blood, Old Regards

Thanks to @eyeofthenewt1 for this art piece!

Greetings! Although the Stats Team is still in a state of retirement, we’ve periodically updated several of our Campaign 3 Running Stats categories and galleries thanks to the efforts of a new team of data collectors. This team, consisting of Archivists Astral, Ethereal, Fey, and Shadow, have been preparing since the beginning of the year to launch their own site, and that day has come! With that, we’re pleased to present:

The Omen Archive

Although they have been providing CritRoleStats updates for our Campaign 3 records, their site will be its own thing with its own tools, toys, and focuses, such as graphics derived from their own databases of data. Please visit them at their website, reach out to them, and check them out on their various social media pages:

Website: https://www.omenarchive.com/

Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/omenarchive

Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/omenarchive.bsky.social

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/omen_archive/

Tumblr: https://omenarchive.tumblr.com/ ( @omenarchive )

CritRoleStats will continue to update our databases and running stats pages with the data we receive from the Omen Archive until the end of the campaign, so that anyone from academics to casual fans have access to a complete catalogue of three campaigns worth of data. After that, our site will be completely (accessibly) archived, and our legacy will be carried on entirely by projects like the Omen Archive.

Thanks Are In Order

Outside of our final livecast, we realize we went out without the proper thanks to the community members who helped us grow. We’d like to take this opportunity to give credit where we feel it’s due.

We’d like to thank the team at Critical Role for their support over the years, with special thanks to Dani Carr for both her wonderful spirit, tenacious work ethic, and the marvelous send-off she gave us.

We’d like to thank the creators in the community. Thank you to the artist community for letting us feature your wonderful talent to give vibrancy to the numbers and words we’ve filled. Thank you to the information gathering community, from the wiki workers to the meta analysts, for giving your time to help make Critical Role more accessible. Thank you to the academics for finding value we didn’t know we had in our work. Thank you to everyone who creates in this community, whether your medium is music, words, stats, or art; whether you share for a large audience or for the joy of your private home or table; whether you encourage others with high presence, or quietly inspire and support from the shadows. Your creation makes the world a more interesting place.

We’d like to thank both our patrons and our Ko-Fi supporters for allowing us to carry on for as long as we have, and to make sure our work can continue to reach those who want to be informed and inspired. Thank you to our regular visitors, as well; traffic is supportive in several ways!

Thank you to those who have been with us, whether it’s the very beginning, sometime in the middle, or even if you’re tuning in just now. Your patronage and your expression of value in our work has been a blessing. (Thanks for the 1d4.) We’d also like to thank everyone who has continued to visit the site in spite of the lack of regular content creation on our part, and are grateful that so many of you are still finding use in the previous campaigns’ worth of data, as well as the current one.

We love you all very much. Now, back to retirement!

[dailyrothko]

So here's the deal:

I just want to be transparent with my tumblr Rothko lovers. I applied and got fiscal sponsorship as a non-profit through Fractured Atlas.

Sadly, "Fiscal Sponsorship" is not what it sounds like, I pay them, they don't pay me. What it allows me to do is take donations and make them tax deductible and secure. I hope it's worth it.

I don't expect my poor pals on tumblr to donate, I don't think most of us have any money or we probably wouldn't be here, however, I am letting you know this because there's now a donate button on the blog.

I'm very poor and needed to do this to realize certain projects Rothko related projects. This is just a voluntary thing, i'm not going behind a paywall. Nothing is changing.

I mention this because their tacky donate button makes it look like I made a deal with the devil, but in actuality it's just for everyone's security.

I hate doing this at all but I am spread very thin. I spend a lot of time and money on this project and that's fine when i can do it, it's a labor of love. But some of it is just becoming impossible for me to maintain and so it goes.

Future projects include-

-I am writing a series of (three) articles I would like to publish about Rothko's impact in the modern world. Scholarly material on Rothko from art historians is good and I don't wish to retread old ground. However, there are some sides of the Rothko legacy I would like to cover based on my experiences, including interviews I have done with people on how they have come to the work (some of you guys), coverage of fakes and misattributions, and biographical impressions based on numerous interviews I have read with his family and friends.

-A bigger and ongoing project would be to create a website and central database that art enthusiasts can use to locate travelling Rothko exhibits and find which paintings are in which museums. Many people ask me these questions personally but if there was a place where all this information lived and someone to update it, people could look up available Rothko works in different cities they are travelling to.

We are living in a troubled world with many humanitarian concerns that should rightly take precedence over my little project, but I am trying to survive myself and lately it's pretty hard.

Thanks to all for 9 years of Rothko love.

(I realized no one can donate on the mobile app, so if you wish to, use this link below.)

[azspot]

Over the past 100 days, DOGE teams have grabbed personal data about U.S. residents from dozens of federal databases and are reportedly merging it all into a master database at the Department of Homeland Security. This month, House Democratic lawmakers reported that a whistle-blower had come forward to reveal that the master database will combine data from federal agencies including the Social Security Administration, the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Health and Human Services. The whistle-blower also alleged that DOGE workers are filling backpacks with multiple laptops, each one loaded with purloined agency data.

Elon Musk’s Legacy: DOGE’s Construction of a Surveillance State

[alexanderlightweight]

The way experiment baby alec rotates in my brain.... the possibilities.....

Hell hound alec,, mermaid alec, cannibal alec..... maybe some dnd bloodhunter type shit... damn

@queensaryn and I actually have a really fucked up idea/headcanon that I haven't worked on yet but that Robert Lightwood is actually sterile and when Valentine helps them with a 'special fertility treatment' but he really just does IVF with his own sperm.

So like, he does not have Maryse's consent and she doesn't know that Alec or Izzy are his and they only find out something is wrong when she and robert try to have another kid and go to the doctors of Idris who are like 'oh no this guys sterile' and maryse is like 'what injury did that' and they're 'oh no. we can tell by his system that he's always been sterile.' and then maryse has to have her kids run through the database because whose are they? like at this point Maryse's is just relieved they're fully shadowhunter with what she remembers hearing about Jonathon later. (who she thinks is dead and doesn't bring up).

They find out the they're Valentine's and the Clave basically is like 'wait... if you didn't know. what if he did this to other people?' and DNA check all kids born during the time Valentine was active (even before he started the circle) just to be safe. it's how they discover Jace is a herondale and that some other fucky shit has happened.

but also Alec on learning who his bio-sperm is immediately does a ritual that basically is destroying his own sire's legacy. like he creates a blood-oath that is basically he will kill Valentine on site.

the clave is all: okay with the evidence before us we don't know that Valentine is dead anymore. so if you see him try to capture him.

Alec: if I see him i'll try to remember to bring you a piece of his corpse. i'm a mama's boy even if she's not the best mom and he violated her consent and I am going to take it out of his hide. he is not my father.

the clave unable to argue since legally he's allowed to do this: ... well at least we don't have to worry about another uprising?

the clave: surely valentine's children won't be downworlders extremists as well? is this something we need to worry about?

Izzy growing up with Alec teaching her to hate everything Circle because it hurt their mom and fucked them over: screw shadowhunter politics. i'm going to live my best life and fuck a bunch of downworlders until my name becomes synonymous with a good time in the downworld. ha! take that Valentine. hows the legacy the kids you made created? is this what you wanted???

Everyone in the Clave: thank Raziel that Alec Trueblood is slightly more normal than his sister and just wants to tear apart his father and is known for killing and sometimes eating other nephilim (aka circle members).

Alec coming out as a consort to a Dominion King: excuse me. I may only fuck ONE downworlder but I do so in style. and I have the best taste.

Magnus and Alec bonding over hating their fathers and their father's hurting their mothers.

Magnus to Valentine: yes I am fucking your oldest. what are you going to do about it. nothing because he wants to kill you

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but also experiment!Alec is amazing in so many different contexts and I really do enjoy using it because the timeline fits and it makes sense. I doubt Valentine experimented first on his own kid and while maryse wouldn't have been willing, Valentine knows how to lie very convincing. she wouldn't know they were anything but normal medical checks.

so it does make sense that Alec could have been experimented on and its very fun to play with the different things he could be or become.

especially if Alec develops them over time and its a steep learning curve.

thank you for dropping by the asks! this is very fun to talk about

<3 lumine

*mermaid Alec where alec haunts lake lynn until Magnus is called in. mermaid Alec where Magnus is lured to the beach on the waves of a sad song of yearning

i could go so many places

[softweb-solutions]

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