• motor_spirit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      23 days ago

      I’m sitting here wondering what modern safety programs would find wrong with the processes involved here. Looks amazing though.

      • xpinchx@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        22 days ago

        The obvious one is an enclosure or latches door to prevent accidental falls. They might be wearing fall protection that we can’t see but I doubt it.

        There’s a good chance nobody ever fell from one of these but those regulations exist for a reason.

        Maybe less obvious is fail-safes for any elevator system so if the brakes fail it doesn’t freefall into the ground.

  • xia@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    12·
    22 days ago

    This must unironically be the first “big data”, where it is cheaper to move the computation than the data.

  • Gork@lemm.eeEnglish
    108·
    23 days ago

    What Futurama level bureaucrat do I need to be to get assigned this post?

  • ironsoap@lemmy.oneEnglish
    40·
    23 days ago

    “The offices of the Central Social Institution of Prague, Czechoslovakia with the largest vertical letter file in the world. Consisting of cabinets arranged from floor to ceiling tiers covering over 4000 square feet containing over 3000 drawers 10 feet long. It has electric operated elevator desks which rise, fall and move left or right at the push of a button. to stop just before drawer desired. The drawers also open and close electronically. Thus work which formerly taxed 400 workers is now done by 20 with a minimum of effort.

    Source

  • Amputret@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    25·
    23 days ago

    🎵They say the world looks down on the bureaucrats,
    They say we’re anal, compulsive, and weird,
    But when push comes to shove,
    You’ve got to do what you love,
    Even if it’s not a good idea!🎵

    • Optional@lemmy.worldEnglish
      226·
      22 days ago

      Amazing. They say the records are digitized but they still use the paper version as the authority for court cases and things like that. That’s amazing because the rest of the world is rushing to jettison the idea of paper as authority and everyone accepts easily faked electronic documents.

      • cadekat@pawb.socialEnglish
        271·
        22 days ago

        Cryptography and PKI makes it pretty feasible to authenticate digital documents.

        • Optional@lemmy.worldEnglish
          75·
          22 days ago

          When used completely and properly. Which rarely, if ever, happens because it requires end-users to know how to use keys and keep them offline somehow.

          • cadekat@pawb.socialEnglish
            5·
            22 days ago

            This is a government office. A government should be able to build the technical knowledge required to keep a private signing key secure.

            I do agree that individual-to-individual cryptography is more difficult, but how often do you need to check the authenticity of a document from a friend or acquaintance, digital or otherwise?

            • Optional@lemmy.worldEnglish
              32·
              22 days ago

              Well, a bank. A financial transaction. Health records. Not just email to your friends.

              Government has the technical knowledge - heck many people here have that - but implementing a standard is a different problem, it’s a political problem. A pit full of vipers, in a sense. We’re unlikely to see standardized crypto signing anytime soon. At least IMO.

          • turmacar@lemmy.worldEnglish
            8·
            22 days ago

            This system hasn’t lasted ~90 years because they just throw someone in a chair and let them figure it out on the job.

            Any reliable system, electro-mechanical or digital, needs thorough user training and checks.

            The worry with this one is it’s a single authoritative record with no easy way to backup or replicate it. They say there are non-authoritative (at least legally) digital versions of most(?) of the records. I hope/assume they’re actually more consistent with that than the video makes it seem because those are the only feasible off-site backups they really have. If not one fire is all it would take to wipe out an entire countries SSA program.

        • BakerBagel@midwest.socialEnglish
          48·
          22 days ago

          So do authorized notaries and paper trails for physical documents. Everyone who had a wallet hacked that lost NFTs or currencies can tell you that crypto cant protect your assets.

          • ysjet@lemmy.worldEnglish
            10·
            22 days ago

            Cryptocurrencies have absolutely nothing to do with cryptography, they just appropriated the name.

            • Txmyx@feddit.orgEnglish
              15·
              22 days ago

              Uhm Actually 🤓 crypto is called crypto, because it is based on cryptograhy

              • ysjet@lemmy.worldEnglish
                6·
                22 days ago

                It’s called cryptocurrency because Bitcoin used sha256 as it’s proof of work algorithm for funsies, but has no actual tie to cryptography. Proof of work is not cryptography.

                • cadekat@pawb.socialEnglish
                  22·
                  22 days ago

                  I hate to be that guy, but Bitcoin uses elliptic curve cryptography to sign transactions, and SHA256 is definitely in the field of cryptography. While cryptocurrency isn’t purely cryptography, it is cryptography plus economics. Borrowing the “crypto” prefix, at least in my opinion, is reasonable.

                • Txmyx@feddit.orgEnglish
                  2·
                  22 days ago

                  Bitcoin (abbreviation: BTC; sign: ₿) is the first decentralized cryptocurrency. Nodes in the peer-to-peer bitcoin network verify transactions through cryptography Source

                  But you’re kinda right with the proof-of-work. But I would consider sha256 as cryptography

          • daq@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
            71·
            22 days ago

            Nonsense argument. It is much easier to forge or steal a paper copy of a document that it is to do so with an equally well protected digital copy.

            Vast majority of digital theft is done via social engineering and not through some exploit in the underlying technology.

            • BakerBagel@midwest.socialEnglish
              14·
              22 days ago

              If the local county records get broken into and every property deed gets stolen, the theif doesn’t have ownership of every property in the county. Anything that represents physical ownership of an item is way more secure with a physical paper trial than a digital one. I understand that cryptocurrencies are different than cryptography, but a physical copy of a record i own and an official copy that a relevant party owns, such as a local government, hospital, or bank will always be more secure than digital tokens of ownership.

              • daq@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
                1·
                22 days ago

                That’s just demonstrably false. Lots of historical precedent for people losing property, access, etc due to lost or incorrectly filed documents, clerical errors, corruption and a billion other ways. None of this really affects digital assets.

            • zbyte64@awful.systemsEnglish
              15·
              22 days ago

              Yeah, obviously it’s the user’s fault for not holding crypto correctly. This is why my crypto is stored on a floppy disk that can only be read by my 8086 computer with no Internet connectivity. If you loose money it’s always your fault for not being prepared.