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   Dwight Silverman (dsilverman@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 03-Mar-2024 00:10:03 JST Dwight Silverman

   • Christopher Mims

   Excellent piece from @mimsical on the financial and security burdens of technical debt.

   https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/the-invisible-1-52-trillion-problem-clunky-old-software-f5cbba27?st=u6ay24cd15o1obh&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

   Worth your time to read.

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     Dwight Silverman (dsilverman@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 03-Mar-2024 00:10:05 JST Dwight Silverman

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     There's an equivalent in personal and home software, too. Anyone who's been writing about consumer tech for any length of time has gotten many, many emails with cries for help in keeping old tech running long past its "best used by..." date.