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FAA to finally ditch floppy disks in what it calls "historic" tech upgrade (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 6 points 7 hours ago (1 child)

If it’s still using floppies in 2026, there’s likely a damn good reason. Nobody is keeping around something vulnerable to antiCMOS.b for no reason.

It is intentional. It solves a problem. And we’re going to regret this fuckery.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 hours ago

    Failure rates and avenues that are predictable and can be operationally regulated around. That's a form of reliability that they want in that system. That's it. Plus it costs money to update things like that.

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