Air to Ground Message:

HOW YOU DOING, BLINK TWICE FOR OKAY

Area: Austin, TX, USA
Type: Embraer 175 (Enhanced Wing)
A: #a5f0a38358c
F: #f6066775b42

#acars #vdlm2

I just came out of Shabbat to the news about the full USA air traffic ground stop.

Oof.

Shabbat Shalom!

i refuse to do anything for the time being—the time being is already far too powerful

“At this point, we are observing marginal success” is a line I am filing away for future reference.

Notice how no one gives a fuck about Copilot being offline.

“Advance Aus” are running genai election ads. ಠ_ಠ

@xssfox Average Australian reads instructions factoid incorrect. Average Australian has never read an instruction. Instructions Michaela who lives in an instruction manual factory and reads 3000 instructions a day is an outlier and should not have been counted.

You would not believe how many times today I've gone "well, I can do Other Thing while the email is down" only to find I actually cannot because a service provider switched to "we'll email you a code" logins instead of letting me actually use a proper 2-factor method.

Posted a Microsoft joke on the company Teams group about the outage this morning.

No one got it.

Windows Defender is also affected. Anyone got some fun zero days to burn? 🙃

Microsoft: We are working hard to restore service.
Users: Please don’t.

Microsoft364

RE: https://social.chinwag.org/@abc_bot/117605856930299440

“yep, it’s down!”

RE: https://cloudisland.nz/@DrCuriosity/117605842552143708

on the flip side, GitHub makes me do this far more regularly these days

Nothing like global service outages to make me think even harder about digital sovereignty as a matter of strategic resilience.

I got annoyed by ads on my Samsung TV and leveraged the recently discovered weak eMudhra CA keys to spoof the ads and show pictures of my family on the TV instead.

https://dvratil.cz/2026/11/hijacking-samsung-tv-smart-hub-ads/

What if (work with me here) forcing everyone in the world to use the same enterprise software creating a single point of failure is a bad idea?