TIL that all some UNIX based systems have a Y2K38 superbug in which the number of seconds that have elapsed since the Unix epoch began (Jan 1, 1970) are stored as a signed 32-bit integer which maxes out on March 14, 2038.
I suppose Proton Calendar is just using a generically premature cutoff because reasons. Unfortunately experts report no known solution to this problem and we will very likely be without computers after this date.
Edit: The recent discovery of signed 64-bit integers (as published in PNAS) will now allow us to kick the can down the street an additional 292 billion years until overflow. Unfortunately, this only delays this apocalyptic problem for a mere 21 times the age of the universe.
Can we change the integer to an 8bit one, so we can get the apocalypse over with already? I’m tired of being doomedged.
But when the 8-bit rolls over you get the Genesis.
Speaking of 8-bit: a good website for the original NES would’ve been fami.com
fuckin farmers alliance taking what would have been a brilliant retro gaming domain
Better get working on an alternative. Don’t want to run out of time.
Sorry but I am unavailable for the event “End of the World” on January 1st, 2028. I am however free anytime in the next year. lets light this roman candle already.
Goddamit. I was about to think about starting to learn how to become immortal and save the universe from it’s entropic demise but it’s pointless now.
Agreed, we just have to move universe escape to the top of our priorities. Then immortality. Then dementia (getting dementia, that is).
