Please tell me these aren’t related

FTA:

Duffy said the ground stoppage was issued after experts saw “instability for our radar and our communications in our centers and our coms across the country.”

That’d be a weird wiring harness to hook into RF communications (read from a different article), air traffic radar, AND their network connecting their centers.

He went on to say, “So we have TDM telecom. This is analog telecom. Our switches, our routers, actually got overloaded with data and they went down. I shouldn’t say they went down. They started to give us inconsistency in the data from those routers, and because of that we shut the system down.”

First off, given all the other measures this admin attempts to save face, grounding the planes was the right call. Good job and please do it again if this situation ever comes up again.

OK, so you went to bed Thursday and your network, while old, was sized correctly for the network traffic you have. You get into Friday and it’s overloaded? Were they pushing new AI traffic over the old network without upgrades, or pushing it over radios? Were they network routers or some other tech? I don’t think there’s enough information yet to make a call here.

One really, really good path forward, since this seems to be the first time something like this has happened, is to put the NTSB on it and have them run their full investigative process. This time it might not’ve been a cyber attack, but this is what it’ll look like, so anything the NTSB turns up in terms of not having data to reconstruct the events should be treated as some sort of finding. Presumably the old ATC system held on so long because it comes from a day when strict system requirements were designed to and adhered to, and if new-fangled AI slop companies are going to swoop in and expect to “oops, you’re totally right, I shouldn’t have saved time by ramming those two airliners together in mid air” then this is the absolute time to put a stop to it.

So to answer your question: we don’t really know yet, but we should.

you get multiple accounts that can’t be merged.

• microsoft
• github (owned by microsoft)

It’s cool. I don’t know why more people don’t use the BSDs as a basis for a project. Depending on what you’re doing just starting with a UNIX like OS means there’s time to pivot if you’re not writing drivers for specific hardware. I’ll never understand why people use Windows for that kind of thing.

also, osx is based on openbsd; not freebsd

This is the first time I’ve heard this, and I couldn’t find any sources for it. Everything I’ve ever read indicated they based off of Mach and FreeBSD. I’d love to see sources to the contrary.

HEC would like a word.

HEC?

EDIT: HDMI Ethernet Channel. It’s a feature that can run network connectivity over the HDMI cable itself.

As an addendum, this was posted yesterday: AI Needed to Produce More Gas to Power More AI, Tech Firm Cohere Says

In use cases like that, complex evaluation is required and probably can’t be fully automated anytime soon.

It shouldn’t be, but it seems like there’s an apetite for letting the AI cook and blaming it if something goes wrong (no actual consequences faced). I can’t wait until an AI escapes test lab containment and sends a side channel message to the pricing AI to drop the power price to nothing so it’s cheaper to run more AI. /s

I just don’t see people ever falling all the way out of the loop. Eventually economics will prevent the AI from becoming some tautological circle jerk if it doesn’t translate to profit, no matter how cool it is. I worry more about how techbros are setting the bridge on fire behind us before we find out where it goes.

I liked AlecSadler’s answer from this thread. If you weren’t already comfortable with doing stats in something like python+scipy.stats then now might be a good time. With the pandas library it’s supposed to be a little like R. (ask me for more details if you want)

Sorry for the half-ass answer.

I would pay good money for a tent that were actually impervious to bears. Good luck with that.

I got you covered fam. I mean, on one of your requirements.

I fully expect that when the dems get more investigative powers in January that we’ll find out how many more of these kinds of things we’re living through right now. There won’t be many situations simpler than this one, though (assuming that mistakes were made here).

The Jevons paradox point is interesting. Maybe we’ll finally get better software products, so far it seems like everything is as buggy and slow as as ever.

The bar to be a coder is being lowered, but actual software engineering with metrics, requirements, and deadlines will probably increase. I can easily see a world where everyone rushes into the AI to solve problems that used to not be cost effective and at the end of the first push (hopefully that’s around now) there’s a lot of new, untested code, and no metrics whether programmers were more efficient, and more importantly no metrics (I saw stats PhD) about whether the bottom line increased: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/02/ai-redefining-wall-street-jobs.html

How would one measure the efficacy of two different AI generated trading regimes (or however it is they work up there) when the people who understood what they were asking can’t understand any of the code?

Source I guess:

• https://youtu.be/B31ZJcPl_3Y?t=8818

As an aside, I like that news team:

• Wired phone cords under chonky headsets FTW.
• Novel way of stalling for 30 seconds while on live tv.
• “The trump agenda for a deep red district is a very appealing agenda to run on. In a swing district like CO-8 the trump agenda was a bit of an excrement sandwich for Gabe Evans. It was just tough for him to chew on or serve to other people.” (https://youtu.be/B31ZJcPl_3Y?t=10842)
• “Kyle Clark, this one’s on you, OK buddy.” (https://youtu.be/B31ZJcPl_3Y?t=13289)

Nah, just read the dashed lines. Zero is dah-dah-dah-dah-dah, where two is dit-dit-dah-dah-dah. It’s the international morse code! With pastel colors!

We’ll wake up tomorrow with Clarence Thomas riding off into the sunset in a new RV, John Oliver poorer by one RV and $1mil/year, and a supreme court justice that doesn’t need to shave everyday.

P.S.: Someone get word to John Oliver that sooner rather than later might be a good time to rescind his offer!

“What bigger break could there be?” she asked.

Yep.

And the market only corrected back to April 2026. All the election results sound bites are going to play great on Fox, though.

The way I tend to think about it these days is that this guy is part of a community where that kind of thing is normal; otherwise, why would he share it?

If anything sexual is so big of a deal to him (and I infer it is from the statements he made), then how does that align with shielding his boss from the allegations made against him?

Everything’s easy when you know the trick:

Guy who knows the trick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPsgEdmlUf0

That guy?

The guy who pays money to a third party company to log all of his internet browsing habits and share them with his son as proof he isn’t looking at porn?

I’m sure that a company that caters to highly conservative people who feel the need to be “kept honest” with their browsing history does a bangup job keeping their servers up to date, and no foreign intelligence teams focus on it at all after the Speaker of the House bragged about using it.

So what do we do next? I mean, in terms of things that might actually help?

Become a society with strong critical thinking skills who values people based on reasoned takes based on experience and science over people who value rapid, loud appeals to emotion.

One piece of that is recognizing that doing things like putting flat earthers up in high altitude planes or near space is a waste of resources that could’ve been spent doing something better.

EDIT: that last paragraph was an incomplete thought. Individual flat earthers have done the whole scientific method thing, and proved themselves incorrect and stepped away from it. How do you handle the people that refuse to be convinced? If there’s no level evidence that a person will accept and they’re out in the forest commons chopping down trees to build a tower to whatever is on top of earth, how do you tolerate it at a societal level? It’s still an incomplete thought.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Murphy#Health