Comment by analogpixel

1 day ago

I pine for the day when news is this:

- Flight 767 returned to airport after seeing a bluetooth device named "BOMB"

- After asking all passengers multiple times to turn off all devices and not getting the "BOMB" to go away, they flight had to return to the airport where officials were waiting to search the plane.

- This was not intentional, but a product that calls it self "BOMB" https://hellottec.com/product/bomb-portable-bluetooth-speake...

- Passengers on the plane commented of the event as it was going on in this reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/unitedairlines/s/57lugEMhxl

I guess I shouldn't pine, I can just have AI summarize all sources for me, and stop dealing with poor reporting that tries to drag 3 bullet points into multiple pages for the sake of selling ad space.

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eh_why_not  21 hours ago

FYI Reddit "s" links require login, an unnecessary burden. For your purpose here a direct link would have sufficed:

https://old.reddit.com/r/unitedairlines/comments/1tse6mq/ua_...

  • analogpixel  21 hours ago

    I don't have a reddit login and was able to view the link just fine.

    • eh_why_not  20 hours ago

      Hmm I see. I only use "old" reddit and it does require login there to resolve to a real address. In any case, it is a special link that enables tracking (unnecessary, to say the least).

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tasuki  21 hours ago

Oh, I thought how stupid it was to return the flight based on Bluetooth device name, which is just a random string identifying a thing. But I think it's also strongly discouraged to bring devices called bombs on a plane?

monkeywork  21 hours ago

I'd love that as well - can we not get LLMs to summerize and give us non-click bait versions of these events.