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Day 5 of Trump-Musk and Treasury Payments: Not "Read Only" Access Anymore
- hnburnsy 2y agoDuplicate...https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42933219 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42933219
- ForHackernews 2y agoTechnically that one is the duplicate of this earlier submission. ;)
- drooby 2y ago[flagged]
- jghn 2y ago> Does the US government not use version control? Do they not have mechanisms I place to prevent an intern from destroying the universe? When you were working on a COBOL codebase that stretched back decades and intended to run on specific mainframe hardware, what version control were you using? Also, part of the point of the article is that the intern was given admin access to circumvent the controls that *are* in place.
- palmfacehn 2y ago>I am going to state the obvious: Until this crisis is resolved or it fundamentally destroys the ability for economic and social life to continue in the United States, this newsletter is now devoted to this crisis full time How has this crisis affected your economic and social life?
- ForHackernews 2y agoI think it's fair to assume that if some Tesla/X dev runs some commands provided by "Grok" on a system he doesn't understand and halts coupon payments on US bonds or SSA payments, we will all feel the effects.
- dmbche 2y agohttps://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/nonprofits-say-still-cant-access-federal-funds-rulings-blocking-trumps-rcna190491 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/nonprofits-say... Googled "usa funding blocked"