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FAA Begins Retiring Decades Old Floppy Disks from Air Traffic Control

24 points pseudolus 46 minutes ago 13 comments

tencentshill 26 minutes ago | parent

I don't want the FAA to make changes at "lightning speed" or "rapidly moving to make upgrades" or "record pace". Safety must be further down the list for these guys.

p-e-w 17 minutes ago | parent

Using outdated computer systems with aging storage media is a safety issue.

ale42 9 minutes ago | parent

Replacing them with cloud-based systems (if this is the "streamlined, 21st-century system") is a safety issue as well. I hope they are not.

creatonez 3 minutes ago | parent

Just turn winrar error correction up to max /s

alex_suzuki 20 minutes ago | parent

> replacing outdated floppy disks that contain vital weather and other critical information with a streamlined, 21st-century system

What does this even… mean?

whynotmaybe 5 minutes ago | parent

Micro-services with docker running out of a kubernetes compliant blockchain with somewhere some "AI" added in the mix. I guess this news is more for PR than anything else because I don't see how the replacement of 69% of copper wire is meaningful in any way. What copper wires? Where? Is it because you removed landlines and replaced with voip?

greenavocado 1 minute ago | parent

Probably something something fiber optic

superxpro12 11 minutes ago | parent

why is this "historic"? the thirst for this admin to use the most bombastic language possible is so tiring.

Just... modernize the thing already. thats your job. It's not impressive that you did this. You're supposed to do this. You dont get extra kudos for doing the thing you signed up to do...

and dont forget to put Trump's name at the beginning. Or he might get cranky

tokai 5 minutes ago | parent

You could call it histrionic.

njovin 4 minutes ago | parent

Everything they try to spin positively has to be 'historic' because:

1. The party leader is a fragile, dying narcissist who is desperate for his name to be attached to anything other than the misery he's inflicted upon the world.

2. Their _actual_ historic achievements are all war crimes, human rights violations, and policy changes that would terrify their average supporter if they actually understood the long-term consequences.

InsidiousWombat 6 minutes ago | parent

hopefully not with pendrives

Bluestein 3 minutes ago | parent

Out with FDD, in with GPT! (!)