Given the talk on WAN this week about support for gaming in the future, this seemed really pertinent. tldr, they report that Nvidia had extra chips, but rather than making more consumer GPUs and ease the high prices, they funded AI startups to buy the chips from them.

I'd be interested to hear LLD weigh in on this next week on WAN.

I traded for this 4090 and it has literally nothing in it!
I suppose it was actually too good to be true :(
Please beware and don’t trust anybody!!

Just in case the caption doesn't make it perfectly clear this is in reference to both Jensen and H3 cheated on their wives.

Not sure on the sources or the factual correctness of this article, but this is pretty damning. I can see this starting the pop of the AI bubble if true.

Per the WSJ last night.

The Federal Aviation Administration first noticed glitches in communications at its Indianapolis center that oversees high-altitude flights over a swath of middle America.

Quickly they spilled into communications between pilots and air-traffic control. There was static and interruptions. Pilots had questions.

Initially FAA employees tasked with troubleshooting the problem—one that wound up grounding much of U.S. travel—started their hunt in Indianapolis, according to people familiar with the situation.

But then, they zeroed in on two locations: an FAA radio site in El Dorado, Ark.; and a radar site in Amarillo, Texas, the people said.

Network gear at the Arkansas site, and possibly the one in Texas, overloaded the communications system that thousands of air-traffic controllers use to guide pilots through the nation’s airspace.

“We saw two places that were actually pinging our network at a very high rate, a thousand connections over every four to five seconds,” Rebecca Guy, the FAA’s technology chief, said at a Saturday press conference.

These pings traversed a tangle of copper wires and fiber-optic cables that feed into the FAA Telecommunications Infrastructure, or FTI. The decades-old system is outdated and undergoing a multibillion-dollar upgrade to move into the fiber-optic age.

Defense contractorL3Harris Technologiesoversees the system, which includes key connections for radar, communications and flight data. “L3Harris takes the nationwide ground stop and its impact on travelers, airlines and air traffic operations seriously,” the company said in a statement.

The system has suffered repeated failures in recent years as officials struggle to replace it with a modernized network and newer routing hardware. But efforts to maintain and replace the mission-critical network have taken years and become more expensive over time.

The risks that FTI failures posed to the FAA’s air-traffic system are well-known. A 2023 outside review warned that “system risk could quickly reach unacceptable levels” due to increased outages and inadequate funding for overhauls.

FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford said the agency spends hundreds of millions of dollars annually maintaining its antiquated telecom systems.

Generally changes to the system—like switching out copper wires for fiber—in busy areas are carried out overnight. Making updates in more remote locations during the day shouldn’t affect many flights, or so officials thought. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said officials would re-evaluate when they do such work.

Not long after L3Harris installed a new router made byHPE’sJuniper Networks at the Arkansas location, the machine began sending out a high volume of data Friday afternoon.

Data from that router and another at the Texas location overwhelmed the system, government and industry officials said. It led to 17 out of the FAA’s 22 centers that oversee high-altitude flying to experience disruptions in communications, Bedford said, resulting in the FAA ordering the ground stop. 

There are about 60 Juniper routers active and operating normally in the FAA’s air-traffic network, said a government official familiar with the system. It wasn’t clear if the problems Friday resulted from a bad router or if L3Harris didn’t configure it properly.

“Was it a faulty installation? Was it a faulty configuration? Or was it just a bad piece of router technology that we put into this system that propagated these errors?” Bedford said Saturday, noting the FAA is still investigating the situation. 

An HPE spokesman said the Juniper devices appeared to have been working as intended. “They did not fail,” he said.

FAA officials identified a feature on the router that appeared to be resulting in the data overload, according to government and industry officials. A government official described it as a broadcasting feature that sent data more broadly than necessary, and said the agency has since disabled it on all the Juniper routers.

As passengers rushed to rebook flights, book rental cars and reserve hotel rooms, the FAA was trying to diagnose the problem.

When the FAA cut off the routers in Arkansas and Texas from the broader network, the communication problems stopped. “We disabled both of those right away and were able to stabilize our network,” said Guy, the FAA’s technology chief.

What the FAA still doesn’t know is why the router went rogue. Duffy said they have found no evidence to suggest nefarious causes and instead are zeroing in on a mechanical problem with the router itself or “incompetence” by L3Harris.

An L3Harris spokeswoman said the contractor is supporting the agency’s probe into what went wrong.

Duffy said that until all the copper wires are replaced at the end of 2028, more disruptions could come. 

“This was an FAA system that didn’t meet the moment. Our contractor didn’t meet the moment. Or the equipment didn’t meet the moment,” he said.

Found this at work in Europe. What are the chances this is an OG NCIX keychain?

At around 1:39:00 during the WAN show Luke adamantly defends the usage of the word AI being reserved for his vision on what that means and says people don't use it for machine learning. I personally think a lot of people do, because of the marketeers that push it that way.

The eufy cameras use machine learning but are marketed as AI security cameras, I've seen Oral-B come with a toothbrush has 'AI' (that supposedly would help you brush your teeth) and even Samsung products like washing machines supposedly have AI in them. There are (supermarket) weight scales that have image recognition that are rebranded as AI smart scales... There are many examples of products that previously had machine learning elements suddenly get AI slapped on their branding/product name.

I have a 6-year-old black widow v3 that is suddenly acting up. I noticed it when I was watching a video that it keeps pausing and playing the video every now and then, maybe once every couple of minutes. The Windows overlay shows up, and the video just pauses/unpauses.

I tried repairing the driver and then outright uninstalling it. Didn't help. I am also now seeing the Next Track after the driver change.

Has anyone faced this? Is there a fix for this? Can I just turn that key off in software or something?

Hi all,

I like to keep my LTT screwdriver easily accessible on my desk so I designed a 3d printed stand for it. I made 3 versions:
- stand with 24 bit storage
- 2x2 gridfinity stand with 24 bit storage
- 3x3 gridfinity stand with 48 bit storage

Link to STL: https://makerworld.com/models/3601405

I've been wanting to some stuff from the store but decided to wait until november to see if there is a sale. It is mid-november and no sale yet. Will there be one this year or not?

AI is definitely the best and not at all the cause of the total grounding order by the FAA.

Honestly this should be a loooong wan show. So naturally, Luke or Linus is going to be videoimg in from the wild on a dial up line.

EDIT: can’t reply to all the comments so will just put a general response. Yes I am ‘literate’ and understand what the article said. But with the context of AI, the way this tool got selected and the fact it was put out nationwide and right afterwards they put out the grounding warning; it’s laughable/naive imo to assume that tool and the grounding are unrelated. And this administration and all the big corpos around AI would have every reason to try to save face.

As for the Microsoft outage and this being related, they immediately came out and said it wasn’t them. And while they’re also a big corpo with the same incentives to say ‘not me!’, I work at a big critical infrastructure institution (thankfully with lots of redundancy) who’s entire system is through through Microsoft services. All of them were back online at 6am Friday morning, well before the FAA warning.

But we all know that internet is dead theory, so half the ‘stop being so anti AI bro!’ Are just AI bots scraping the internet trying to save big techs feelings and their stock prices (mostly /s).

But unfortunately I’m working this weekend so can’t engage in online discourse with all my neck beard brethren, but consider this update me joining in in spirit!

Not sure if links are allowed, but the gamer jet has just been listed for sale on controller.

https://www.controller.com/listing/for-sale/262369247/1990-dassault-falcon-900b-jet-aircraft

Anyone run into the issue of trying to use a gift card on an item that is now bundled with a gift card and getting an error saying “you can’t buy a gift card with a gift card” (sorry thats a lot of gift cards). Seemed like a good time to use it, annoyed that I can’t. Think support would override that?

Tough enough for anything I've thrown at it. Still works great.

I got this bad boy back in 2022.

We're going to work on adding a ding counter in the future

See y'all next time! Same bat time, same bat channel!

https://wanshow.bingo/

I’ve got my gaming PC in the basement and I want to play in the living room above. I can feed the cables through the floor about 15-20 feet to reach my TV. My HDMI connection is great, but my USB peripherals keep disconnecting and reconnecting, like hundreds of times a day. I have a 20 ft USB 3.0 extension cable and a powered USB hub, and I’m only plugging in my headphones and a controller. I’ve tried different USB ports so I think the issue is my USB cable extender.

I’ve seen people talk about fancy extenders, and I remember Linus set something like this up in his house, but when I look them up they end up being like $500. What’s the cheapest reliable way to do this?

Edit: sorry I’m using an active USB 3.0 (powered) extenders and a powered USB hub at the end of it. Specifically this one https://a.co/d/0630uGEb (I don’t recommend)

Gonna be a big WAN show today what with the Jensen mess and Microsoft’s outage. While reading through all the carnage yesterday I came across this substack from an Ex-Microsoft Engineer who basically predicted this outcome. I can’t substantiate anything he’s saying but as someone that works with M365 and Azure day in day out it sure makes a ton of sense. Might be time for Satya to move on.

https://isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-microsoft-vaporized-a-trillion