The Federal Aviation Administration said Friday that it was halting all departing flights “due to extraordinary circumstances and for reasons of safety.”
  • boaratio@lemmy.world
    2·
    35 minutes ago

    This reminds me of when our entire management team got stuck in France because of a volcano with a name you can’t pronounce.

  • laranis@lemmy.zip
    1·
    7 minutes ago

    My pet theory… Some tiny but critical process holding up the Air Traffic Control network depended on data shared periodically between systems using a python script that emails the info using Outlook. It took 24 hours for the Outlook outage to catch up with the ATC data sync routine.

    Icing in on the cake: They fired the guy who maintained the script in June as part of an AI cost savings initiative.

  • Townlately@feddit.nl
    27·
    3 hours ago

    Lmao I am having the WORST (forced, extended family) vacation. Everything that could have gone wrong, went wrong. And this is the cherry on top. My return flight was gonna be tomorrow lol. At least I have an excuse for my boss. Pray for me, everyone.

    • thallamabond@lemmy.world
      5·
      1 hour ago

      Always best to be prepared, couldn’t hurt to check and see what other forms of transportation you may be able to take home. I missed a flight once, renting a car got me home faster than waiting for the next plane

    • Xaphanos@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 hour ago

      I was stuck in Tortola during hurricane Lenny in 1999. When I got back 4 days late, I found out that I had been part of a mass layoff.

      • assembly@lemmy.world
        1·
        44 minutes ago

        Happens to me in 2002, I finally got a flight scheduled and a coworker called me to say, “don’t bother rushing back, we’ve all been laid off”.

    • MartianSands@sh.itjust.works
      191·
      3 hours ago

      Microsoft’s big outage is beginning to affect more and more systems.

      Turns out that even things which don’t seem to depend on Microsoft can actually only last for a limited time if it goes away

      • mushroommunk@lemmy.today
        14·
        3 hours ago

        Or it could be the recently announced phaseout of their floppy disks and they’ve announced they’ll be using “more AI” (whatever that means). It could be either of those too

      • nymnympseudonym@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        2 hours ago

        I was watching a doomer AI video about how it would hold us hostage by infiltrating all our medical transportation and energy infrastructure.

        It’s not a superpowerful AI. It’s just Microsoft business as usual

    • 「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」@piefed.caEnglish
      6·
      2 hours ago

      Actually less scary than if, say, Obama was president. (or even a Bush really)

      Cuz a trump admin having a major shutdown could just mean his admin hired a Christian straight white cis male “DEI Hire” that was incompetent and flipped off a switch and shut the whole thing down.

    • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      2 hours ago

      It’s what happens when you put nut jobs and idiots in positions of power and control over a country

    • Ooops@feddit.org
      3·
      2 hours ago

      Their all-knowing AI probably couldn’t solve some minor issue (because a lot of tech there predates their mass scraped ‘knowledge’) and made it worse, but they also can’t beg their fired employees to return by mail because MS fucked up their service (who wants to take a guess how THAT happenend? 😜)

  • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
    10·
    3 hours ago

    of course my prefered local news is showing judy justice but abc is live with it. sounds like the automated air traffic control systems are having problems.

  • T00l_shed@lemmy.world
    51·
    1 hour ago

    “You’re right to be mad at me, I shouldn’t have directed the two Boeing supermaxes to fly into eachother, my mistake!” -FAA AI