@bakachu @lily Almost like it's the second phase of trying to kill general purpose computing or something...

@Chagrins @lily That's a determining function for them. Either you figure out how to get access or you're not worth taking money from.

@superflippy @lily The industry has always moved in cycles. This is the latest one.

@VeroniqueB99 <cackle!>

@EUCommission Good luck with that.

@tuban_muzuru @johnzajac @koakuma That is pretty much what I do. After years of trying to disprove it and failing, I had to accept it.

@tasket @johnzajac I did the same thing - hex editing VMS executables to patch date checking routines.

@tasket @johnzajac No, it wasn't simple.

@mikeash @johnzajac Thank Hollywood for that.

@human3500 @johnzajac Because we worked sixteen hour days for months on end fixing it.

@johnzajac @koakuma That's pretty much the motto back home. I knew a lot of folks inside the Beltway who operated like that. Though it was usually for the purpose of expanding their influence over other stuff in the org.

@koakuma @johnzajac For a lot of folks, unless a hero saves the day at the last minute it wasn't a thing at all.

@burnitdown @glent @johnzajac Industrial control systems, too, because COBOL is weirdly good for developing programmable state machines. Power companies used them (probably still do) for managing when substations go offline and others take up the load for maintenance.