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A computer upgrade shut down BART

(www.bart.gov)
232 points ksajadi | 1 comments | 05 Sep 25 14:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.317s | source
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coldest_summer ◴[05 Sep 25 18:04 UTC] No.45141618[source]▶
sorry using throwaway for this.

When GitHub was constantly failing, I finally got fed up and now I use my own private Gitea. It’s near-zero maintenance and has never had any unexpected downtime. Never looked back.

Stories like these make me feel the same way about California, which I called home for almost 20 years. So much to love, so many reasons never to live there again. Great place to visit when there’s not an active disaster unfolding.

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outlore ◴[05 Sep 25 18:10 UTC] No.45141696[source]▶
mate we can't self host BART
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1. dlcarrier ◴[05 Sep 25 21:34 UTC] No.45143884[source]▶
I think the problem with BART is that it is self hosted.

By "self hosted" I'm not referring to it being run directly by the government, but that in comparison to every other government-run transit system, everything at BART is done the BART way, limiting access to an entire industry of light rail infrastructure, reducing safety and reliability, while significantly increasing costs.