Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

In response to the Microsoft service outage today, a friend texted me to ask how many of these outages are caused by “vibe coding.”

I replied, “It’s kind of like asking ‘how many of these hurricanes are caused by climate change?’ The numbers are going to get a lot higher but I can’t tell you which ones specifically”

#noAI

Microsoft went down for hours because of some sort of vague problem that caused their network to become massively overloaded. Later that day, the entire US airspace went down because of some sort of vague problem that caused their network to become massively overloaded.

uhhh

@ifixcoinops

Seriously?..

All West Coast US flights also now halted because of ‘debris from SpaceX launch’
https://bigislandnow.com/2026/11/13/all-west-coast-us-flights-also-now-halted-because-of-debris-from-spacex-launch/

#FAA #GroundStop #SpaceX

Turns out it was related to an update on a Friday!

> An update to the private communications network that connects America's air traffic control system caused the system to reboot, leading to a crash and a communications outage, multiple sources told CBS News. The system is operated by L3Harris, which did not immediately respond to CBS News' request for comment.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/faa-issues-nationwide-ground-stop/

#FAA #GroundStop

im gonna wager a guess:
l3harris is a windows shop
their shit is in azure
like the win11 screenshot i saw yesterday, a system dependent on azure for login gets locked out cuz you cant auth against a cloud thats down

l3 rebooted something
it didnt come back up because azure

FAA outsources to l3
l3 outsources to azure
everyones horked

In the unlikely case that this is related to AI roll out by the FAA, I call dibs on "Ground Slop"

I’ve been testing a theory: many people who are high on #AI and #LLMs are just new to automation and don’t realize you can automate processes with simple programming, if/then conditions, and API calls with zero AI involved.

So far it’s been working!

Whenever I’ve been asked to make an AI flow or find a way to implement AI in our work with a client, I’ve returned back with an automation flow that uses 0 AI.

Things like “when a new document is added here, add a link to it in this spreadsheet and then create a task in our project management software assigned to X with label Y”.

And the people who were frothing at the mouth at how I must change my mind on AI have (so far) all responded with resounding enthusiasm and excitement.

They think it’s the same thing. They just don’t understand how much automation is possible without any generative tools.

How to end a sentence
- IRL: .
- in programming: ;
- on Fedi :

the most important part of the history of Unicode is the time that a mouse fell out of a light fixture and got added to the count of members present

https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16325.htm#149-A94

Baby’s first third dimension

Claude Code has been storing developer passwords in plain text files, which in some cases have ended up on Github.

Anthropic: Our large language models are the future of infosec!

Also Anthropic: Claude Code's "don't ask again" feature saved passwords, API keys and SSH logins in plain text to .claude/settings.local.json files exposed across more than 1000 public GitHub repositories.

By @juha / @juha.bsky.social at IT News: https://www.itnews.com.au/news/dont-ask-again-in-anthropics-claude-code-leaks-developer-secrets-630203

@fuck_ai #infosec #cybersecurity

I can't think of a better illustration of the fundamentally selfish, libertarian foundation of the free software movement than a GNU maintainer loudly affirming that contributions known to be produced by slave labor are welcome without reservation https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2026-11/msg00128.html