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[–] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

If you only use Free Open Source software, you can!

[–] A_Porcupine@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Unfortunately my bank, government, national health, surgery, local shops, food delivery services, etc. don't open source their code. It'd be nice if they did however.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They wouldn't want you to know it all depends on a Frankensteined chunk of spaghetti'd COBOL that hasn't been updated since a guy they forgot about set it up before he retired in like 1996. And they're just betting that, if they don't look at it too hard, it won't oopsie a cascade of critical failures.

[–] A_Porcupine@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Funnily enough, the one you'd expect this from, the bank, I used to work for, it's all Go and running on k8s in aws.

[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

There are FOSS core-banking systems (aka CBS) like Apache-Fineract

True open source software runs on frustrated developers

But yeah, that is a really nice part of FOSS. I have myself been in situations where I just went and fixed a big myself because it annoyed me lol