It’s the final decommissioning of 2g/3g and how it’ll affect monitoring tools!
(I don’t know, now I’m just being silly.)
But, yeah. I get that. The profit motive/cost to build in redundancy, or a failure of imagination for future technologies so certain kinds of redundancy or features aren’t included is problematic.
Not saying it is your issue, but the 3g issue is on my mind because it was a big deal in my neck of the woods last year when local carriers shut it down, and it is again because a utility failed to update their meters in a timely manner, causing them to estimate on customer utility bills for longer than is allowable, resulting in statutory violations and customer overcharges. They got a pretty hefty fine and an order to refund the overcharged customers.
I could see how similar foundational technology issues could completely fuck a utility for… whatever impacted systems are involved.
(Also, going to be editing out this part of my comment in a few hours, because I don’t like how much specific info is in there, even though everything I just described is public record.)
I’ll also delete this purely hypothetical, definitely did not happen, scenario in a few minutes.
Imagine a smart gas meter. Regulations state that said gas meter shutdown and alerts crews if a leak is detected within two minutes of fault. The automated system might have missed the requirement by almost 45 minutes before issuing the command. People died…hypothetically.
People don’t understand how flimsy everything we depend on is. It’s easier to imagine a 13 year old bullshitting and trying to be cool than a man, tired of sounding the alarm, venting on Lemmy.
It’s the final decommissioning of 2g/3g and how it’ll affect monitoring tools!
(I don’t know, now I’m just being silly.)
But, yeah. I get that. The profit motive/cost to build in redundancy, or a failure of imagination for future technologies so certain kinds of redundancy or features aren’t included is problematic.
Not saying it is your issue, but the 3g issue is on my mind because it was a big deal in my neck of the woods last year when local carriers shut it down, and it is again because a utility failed to update their meters in a timely manner, causing them to estimate on customer utility bills for longer than is allowable, resulting in statutory violations and customer overcharges. They got a pretty hefty fine and an order to refund the overcharged customers. I could see how similar foundational technology issues could completely fuck a utility for… whatever impacted systems are involved. (Also, going to be editing out this part of my comment in a few hours, because I don’t like how much specific info is in there, even though everything I just described is public record.)
I’ll also delete this purely hypothetical, definitely did not happen, scenario in a few minutes.
Imagine a smart gas meter. Regulations state that said gas meter shutdown and alerts crews if a leak is detected within two minutes of fault. The automated system might have missed the requirement by almost 45 minutes before issuing the command. People died…hypothetically.
People don’t understand how flimsy everything we depend on is. It’s easier to imagine a 13 year old bullshitting and trying to be cool than a man, tired of sounding the alarm, venting on Lemmy.
Scary.