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[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (4 children)

2038 is approaching super fast and nobody seems to care yet

[–] [email protected] 46 points 7 months ago (3 children)

At the rate of one year per year, even.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

For each second that passes we're one second closer to 2038

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Except for leap seconds. Time is the worst to work with :(

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

AfaIk that's not entirely true, e.g. Debian is changing the system time from 32 bit integer to 64 bit. Thus I assume other distros do this as well. However, this does not help for industrial or IOT devices running deprecated Unix / Linux derivatives.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

industrial or IOT devices running deprecated Unix / Linux derivatives

This is my concern, all the embedded devices happily running in underground systems like pipes and cables. I assume there are at least a few which nobody even considered patching because they've "just worked" for decades!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Or like... PLANES! Some planes still update their firmware using floppy disks

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

They do at least get updates though, and they're big enough that they don't get forgotten!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

That's not true, lots of people are panicking about how fast they're getting older

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Well that's justifiable. We're not sure if we're even going to make it to then