In this episode I talk about how a solar flare could wipe out all digital media and how I'm preparing for the AI Apocalypse. This Labor Day I put all seven o...
In this episode I talk about how a solar flare could wipe out all digital media and how I’m preparing for the AI Apocalypse.
But do you genuinely believe any of these corpos, which are rabidly engaging in enshittification, to maintain solar flare preparedness systems?
Even if an intern set up an alert to warn about solar flares (and it wasn’t dismantled by an errant vibe code push), it certainly won’t be in a critical alert path.
And it absolutely won’t be in training for the employees to know what to do to harden their systems when the warning arrives. It’ll either be a crunch to shore up or no attempts at all. It’s practically an act of God, so how is the company’s problem at all?
Yes, because hardening since the 2003 October solar flares that caused blackouts that were expensive. Standards for the baseline engineering of a lot of power and telco systems changed then, and have remained above those standards.
But do you genuinely believe any of these corpos, which are rabidly engaging in enshittification, to maintain solar flare preparedness systems?
Even if an intern set up an alert to warn about solar flares (and it wasn’t dismantled by an errant vibe code push), it certainly won’t be in a critical alert path.
And it absolutely won’t be in training for the employees to know what to do to harden their systems when the warning arrives. It’ll either be a crunch to shore up or no attempts at all. It’s practically an act of God, so how is the company’s problem at all?
FFS, chill out and DDG anything before you react.
Yes, because hardening since the 2003 October solar flares that caused blackouts that were expensive. Standards for the baseline engineering of a lot of power and telco systems changed then, and have remained above those standards.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Halloween_solar_storms