Are they finally switching to zip drives now?
Somebody out there is thinking “why not vibe code it and get it done by AI fast?”
I hear AI would make a great traffic controller. Surely you wouldn’t regret replacing human traffic controllers with AI.
Sounds like they actually only entered the 20th century.
Old tech is solid and reliable. Do you really want the modern tech ethos of “move fast and break stuff” to apply to Air Traffic Control? I wouldn’t trust the big tech companies to write software for red-lights without killing people.
First time I’ve heard a floppy disk being referred to as reliable
Floppy disks are not reliable!
I grew up with floppy discs. Once we had hard shells on them they were fine. I never had one fail.
Did have some MBR viruses back in the day though.
Moving away from floppy discs in 2026 is moving fast and breaking things? Peak Lemmy moment.
Old tech still requires maintenance and replacement parts. This tech is so old that they can’t effectively provide either. I 100% agree with you that you don’t want to “move fast and break things” but there does need to be a program to upgrade over time to deal with the maintenance and replacement problems, as well as improve capabilities and safety. The fact that some ATC systems completely crashed in recent months, leaving air traffic in a very dangerous state, is evidence of this problem.
The floppy disk is 60 years old. In which universe is migrating away from 60-year-old technology “moving fast and breaking stuff”?!
Fuck. You just reminded me of my age.
Yeah, me too. I can’t move fast anymore, but I can certainly break stuff 🤣
Your own back and hips?
Sorry but ‘Floppy’ and ‘reliable’ in the same sentence… is odd.
It’s not so much that new tech is bad … new tech could be made to be ten times safer than what we have now.
The problem is that the new tech is controlled by psychopaths who want to squeeze as much profit out of everything imaginable … imagine all that new tech controlling air traffic but its all locked up by proprietary software that would hold entire airports, agencies and governments hostage, or be made available to the highest bidder and even for international opponents or enemies … and all of it up for grabs for profit and regardless of morals, ethics or human decency.
This is going to devastate the floppy disc industry.
Goodbye S&P500 floppy was it last true champion.
Yeah, didn’t Japan recently make a move away from floppys too for sone goverment stuff? Big floppy is going to take a dive on the stock market.
Booo
I’m sorry, what?
Apparently they believe an unreliable storage medium that hasn’t been manufactured in more than twenty years may not be trustworthy enough for a life critical system anymore. That, or finding “new” floppies is more expensive than making the switch…
You need a computer to do a thing, ALL you want is the command prompt and thing doing.exe
Can’t hack a floppy disk remotely, it’s the OG air gap
Actually, I’m pretty sure the air gap is the OG air gap.
I don’t trust it happening well under Trump so I’m going to take this as a sign to be prepared for far more crashes in the next two years.
More and more I’m thinking if I need to travel, I’ll walk.
To Hawaii???
I’ll be a wayfinder, like Moana!
I admit, there’s a few kinks in my plan I’ll need to work out.
Holy smokes, I thought Cobol was archaic
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
Lol I use software every day that was written in COBOL. It would cost billions to replace. So leadership never wants to add that expense to their budget so they just hobble along and leave it for the next people.
I’m pretty sure the software I use for work is written in COBOL too, but they’re currently in a multi-year rollout of a modern replacement. So that’s good, I guess.
