gedhrel@lemmy.worldtoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•If anything happen to Linux today, like what happened to Windows, most of the internet would be dead.
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2 months ago…unless it’s running software that uses signed 32-bit timestamps, or stores data using that format.
The point about the “millennium bug” was that it was a category of problems that required (hundreds of) thousands of fixes. It didn’t matter if your OS was immune, because the OS isn’t where the value is.
That’d be Dame Cressida Dick, later promoted to Commissioner of the Met.