In the sense of the metaphor, I think any of those things would have knocked it down long ago. Which says something about the odd resilience of our real systems. Not to mean they'll stay that way, it's just surprising sometimes.

[–] Diurnambule@jlai.lu 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Ypu have no idea how much energy is spent maintaining these old shits running. Spent a week trying to update a 18 year old application. For now, we failed.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I have an idea how much energy is spent trying to replace older working systems with crap that doesn't. We definitely are failing.

[–] Diurnambule@jlai.lu 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah same though. Can't have nice thing when you keep piling crap on crap

[–] 42Firehawk@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 2 days ago

There's a piece of software that I use at work for managing tickets for a client, every time I open it there's a note that the app will be replaced next month on the 1st. This notice gets updated on the 27th of each month without fail by the end of day. For now critical infrastructure remains running on a windows xp machine that we remote into using the only software that let's people connect to it.