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  • [–] 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    AI should only be implemented by people who could create the same thing manually.

    We can assume this was vibe coded by a moron tho.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    AI should only be implemented by people who could create the same thing manually.

    Why tho?

    If you have the skill set then just use that skill set.

    IMO the best use of AI has been making something meh when you have absolutely no clue what you are doing.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 days ago (5 children)

    That handles routing of traffic, not communications.

    The pilot on my flight today joked that this might be like the beginning of Independence Day

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  • [–] 6 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    If the aliens want to take over I'm not going to fight them on it.

    We'll make great pets.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 days ago* (4 children)

    ADSB (live map of all air traffic) over the US is pretty damn interesting right now.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago* (3 children)

    Afaik atm, anything leaving from the US, headed to somewhere in the US, is... indefinitely (?) grounded.

    Outbound to international destination flights do appear to be leaving from some airports, flights crossing over the US from say Mexico to Canada are still en route... oddly I think I'm seeing flights that are ultimately international dest outbound... but have stopovers at US airports... are still ... going to US airports?

    I genuienly think this is 'we turned on our new vibe coded slopgorithm that "optimizes" internal US flights' ... and it immediately shit the bed.

    Also from various live coverage I'm seeing, many many reports of passengers just being in a grounded aircraft, on the tarmac, for 2 3 4 hours, then apparentltly the airlines just eventually give up and deboard them.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Yeah I've been watching the LAX livestream and they've been keeping those airstairs moving. I have no idea where they're going to put all these planes, the poor ATC controllers.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    ... this makes me less annoyed when some idiot triggers an impromptu fire drill at my apartment.

    Sure, that's annoying.

    This?

    LOL guys wouldn't it be funny if we just, pulled the fire alarm at every airport in the country, at the same time, and were also in charge of the fire alarm system, and also just like, didn't say anything specific or meaningful regarding what was going on?

    ... is it possible for the FAA or people in it to be found to be, like, criminally materially negligent?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago

    Listening to the FAA presser right now and holy shit, there needs to be a criminal investigation into this. They turned their new AI system on without checking to see if the network could handle the additional load. It's. Fuck.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 days ago

    "Jimmy, get the box of floppies!"

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  • [–] 14 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    Perhaps they weren't quite ready to stop using floppies.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago

    The outage appears to be affecting a telecommunications network overseen by L3Harris Technologies, according to people briefed on the matter. The network handles crucial radio frequencies that air-traffic controllers use to communicate with pilots, the people said.

    https://www.wsj.com/us-news/faa-temporarily-halts-flights-across-u-s-b9b06e59?st=BXwwdR

    In other news: https://www.l3harris.com/newsroom/editorial/2025/01/letter-leaders-doge

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  • [–] 6 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    wth, why is everything happening at once??

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  • [–] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    Listening to the JFK ATC live feed and it's crazy busy. I feel sorry for ATC there.

    Edit: you can watch a replay of the ground stop here.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    As of 6:14pm central, I'm seeing planes taking off on the flight radar. Specifically a plane registered in the UK leaving Chicago, 2 leaving Seattle, 1 leaving San Francisco.

    Perhaps they're letting a few through?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    The issue is the routing within the US. If a flight can take off and immediately leave US airspace (ie. east/west coast or near the Canadian/Mexican borders), they can go. For example, I just found one taking off from Detroit and flying over eastern Canada to Amsterdam.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago

    Flights are resuming

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

    Update from the livestream (sorry, bad source) and their claim is that they overwhelmed the networking.

    So the theory that they did absolutely no testing or integration with the legacy network/systems they plugged their dipshit AI system into seems to be 100% spot on.

    Update: "old wires. We have old copper wires, we need them upgraded" hey sysops wonks, have you checked the expiration date on your ethernet??

    More update: Okay so their explanation is that the legacy network got overloaded with traffic and cascaded. Coincidentally, they turned on a massive new AI system yesterday that relies on this network.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (1 child)

    The head of the FAA claim on and claimed that Trump has been calling for an upgrade for more than a year. Sounding more like a really lame false flag.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago*

    I laughed out loud when the reporter asked "then why hasn't this happened in the last two years, since republicans controlled and still control both the house and senate?"

    Honestly, there's just no point to this being a false flag - aside from that they've gone up and down assuring us it wasn't a cyberattack and never even mentioning Iran. Honestly, from the press conference this sounds exactly like Duffy (apparently his real name) and cronies dumped a fuckton of traffic on a system that runs on equipment from the 80s (because it's reliable within it's context) and they didn't do any testing with the extant isolated network so the whole thing cascaded.

    That seems like the most likely scenario; fucking idiots got put in charge of a critical system, decided they could improve things by taping AI to it, and subsequently broke the entire country's ATC network because they're, again, fucking idiots.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago

    Following current events is getting really hard recently.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 days ago

    Says who???

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