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Old tech blamed for the ground stop that caused flight chaos: 'It got overloaded' (laist.com)
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Grifters promise us fake "AI" while our (unfortunately) critical, tech infrastructure rots. Ride a bicycle instead.

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[–] 56 points 15 hours ago (13 children)

So what flooded the interface? Something definitely changed.

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  • [–] 74 points 15 hours ago (4 children)

    Headline is kinda doing the article dirty here because that's pretty much what it says

    "We have old switches, old routers. We use 1980s little copper lines. It's an old system that went down and went down everywhere. It got overloaded," he said.

    But when pressed by reporters on exactly why those systems would become overwhelmed on an otherwise normal travel day, Duffy did not have a ready answer.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

    You mean those components made when durability was better than today and could last forever with proper maintenance? Both hardware and software, just because something has a 1980s PCB inside it does not automatically make it shit and more prone to spontaneous failures than modern tech.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 hours ago (1 child)

    Not defending Duffy, just saw a presser shortly ago where he said that this all happened in the critical moment of switching over from copper lines to fiber optic ones, and that one switch then started flooding others with requests or transmissions, can't remember his exact phrasing there.

    Guess that could be their AI slop, but perhaps could be some other network equipment misconfiguration or failure.

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  • [–] 113 points 15 hours ago (7 children)

    They hooked up new ai tech, bragged about it the day before lol. Now they are trying to blame the old tech for being overloaded by the new ai tech, as opposed to admitting it was the new stuff that caused the failure.

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  • [–] 65 points 15 hours ago (4 children)

    You mean the old tech that has been fine for a long time? That old tech got overloaded?

    Lmao. These people think we’re stupid…

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  • [–] 36 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

    Yep, had the gall to then demand $50 billion dollars or it will happen again.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 hours ago (1 child)

    They hooked SMART up 3 days before the shutdown, and over 2 months ago in DC and FL.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 hours ago

    They hooked up the old system decades ago, the last time they had to ground all flights was 09/11/2001, and it wasn't because anything went wrong with the ATC system.

    2 months in regional areas and 3 days nationwide is not really impressive in any way except for how quickly their shit fucked up the existing functional and reliable system that has worked without fail for decades.

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