• Burn_The_Right@lemmy.today
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    6 hours ago

    Don’t let conservatives lie about their abject incompetence. No one hacked the FAA. Conservatives are just pathological liars.

  • takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    16 hours ago

    It wasn’t hackers it was Super Incompetence with a lot of corruption.

    A company which donated to Sean Duffy’s son in laws’ campaign received a nearly 1 billion dollars contract to develop AI slop.

    After they deployed it it broke the system and instead of going after then for not delivering what they promised they are trying to turn it around that they need to invest additional 50 billion dollars to replace everything else so their AI slop can work.

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      20 hours ago

      That’s why they keep. Cutting positions. The IRS is one if the few organizations in the government who actually make a profit the more agents they have. But this hurts the Trump-Epstein class, so…

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    20 hours ago

    ChatGPT: “You’re correct, you did say that. That’s my misunderstanding. Would you like me to try a different approach?”

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      10 hours ago

      Technically, if they wiped the federal government’s data on the loans it would just wipe the subsidies and repayment/forgiveness plans and allow the loan lenders/servicers who provided the funds to make the borrowers’ lives hell.

      The actual lenders are not the government, the government only subsidizes the loan. It’s a horrible system designed by lobbying lenders.

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      10 hours ago

      They cut out the old copper wires and replaces it with fiber, but the fiber wrapping failed and everything went offline.

      Funny thing about it is probably less than a year ago I saw a political talkshow host discuss this exact possibility because there is only 1 central server location with no redundancy, might have been John Oliver.

      Of course it’s suspicious that this happens right as they deployed their FAA Flight Controller AI tools nationwide which they’ve been using in Washington DC for a couple of months, and now Republicans and Fox News are talking about the need for congress to “upgrade and modernize” the nation’s flight controller technology. Sounds to me like an excuse to further the surveillance state.

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      20 hours ago

      They added something new in and Duffy mentioned routers. My guess is the new thing added more network traffic, and the routers are probably ancient 10mbps or something tiny and it overwhelmed it.

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        They developed an AI slop which failed but they are trying to turn it around that it was the old system that couldn’t handle the AI slop and that we should spend another 50 billion (on top of that 1 billion they got) to replace the old system.

        They cashed 1 billion dollars made some MCP interface to old system with a prompt to ask for an optional route and got surprised that once they started making queries for every plane in the sky it was making massive number of queries that overwhelmed the whole system.