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.
There were a bunch of contributory factors to that outcome, but frankly the demographic skew was such that about half the change in opinion is down to more Brexit voters being dead than their opposites.