theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
How does the right tear down progressive societies? It starts with a joke
Whether it’s bloodshed at Glastonbury or starving people on benefits, their ‘irony poisoning’ seeps obscene ideas into the range of the possible, says Guasrdian columnist George MonbiotGeorge Monbiot (The Guardian)
tom jennings
in reply to dobó istván • • •WOW that's craptacular! That block map is hilarious!
You can probably buy those on Amazon for 9 bucks. Prime Day!
Did you do the testing? WHat software is that?
dobó istván
in reply to tom jennings • • •Photos were from furious buyers in the comments. I’m not gullible enough to think I can get 1TB flash for $3.
Still ranked 4.9 stars because Ali reviews are so heavily botted!
I think AliExpress you have to look at the reviews with pictures. Everything else is botted and AI slop.
tom jennings
in reply to dobó istván • • •In my AliExpress purchase, I specifically looked for the SMALLEST cards I could find. I'm only using 32 MEGA-bytes of each card... so seriously you can't buy a card too-small. I hope this takes me off the front lines of scam-dom. Most of what I buy are 16GB claimed. If they work reliably, I don't care. Even slow cards are adequately fast.
As crappy as things are now, I suspect it will only get worse, and things could become effectively impossible to navigate.
And then we could soon (do...) have more pressing daily concerns.
dobó istván
in reply to tom jennings • • •I remember a decade or so ago there was someone else who ran into issues with cards and it led to an amazing blog article where they encountered the concept of “ghost shift”.
Apparently the “ghost shift” is when workers show up at the factory in the middle of the night when the boss is gone, rerun all the materials that failed during day shift, mark them with bullshit data, and dump it onto the market for extra cash.
dobó istván
in reply to dobó istván • • •The guy writing had contracted a factory to make his product and 80% of the products were failing. It was eventually traced to the SD cards being used for internal storage, which were bought for way below budget (someone pocketed the money) from workers dumping the rejected goods on the market.
Lots of that kind of stuff goes on.
I remember getting a whole batch of 74hc595 shift registers that uh… didn’t shift. Same story.
ティージェーグレェ
in reply to dobó istván • • •The blog entry to which you are referring is this one from 2010:
bunniestudios.com/blog/2010/mi…
Written by: @bunnie@treehouse.systems who still blogs about fascinating hardware explorations (and unsurprisingly, also designs hardware, e.g. betrusted.io/ )
Though maybe more related to hardware trust concerns, here's a BlueHat talk from 2019 on supply chain risks: youtube.com/watch?v=RqQhWitJ1A…
CC: @tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
BlueHat IL 2019 - Andrew "bunnie" Huang - Supply Chain Security: "If I were a Nation State...”
YouTubedobó istván
in reply to ティージェーグレェ • • •@teajaygrey Wow. Thanks for taking the time to dig that up.
Forwarding the post for anyone else who might be curious.
ティージェーグレェ
in reply to dobó istván • • •You are more than welcome!
I had the good fortune to meet bunnie in person at REcon around two decades ago and took a hardware hacking class (back when the Chumby was still in prototype stage) from him at ToorCon as well. We last crossed paths in person in SF probably circa 2010?
I was hoping to see him (and even contemplated bringing a first edition self published "Hacking the Xbox" book for him to sign just in case, but decided I didn't want to lug the extra mass in transit on just a chance), and a bunch of other old familiar faces at REcon this year for the 20th anniversary but aside from Hugo, almost everyone was new to me!
I have been "out of the loop" for a very long time though; I think the last tangential event I attended was Chaos Communications Camp circa 2011?
So for me, a blog post from 2010 probably is still fresher in my neurons. ;)
Maybe I'll catch back to -CURRENT one of these days?
I've got more menial Maslow's hierarchy of needs layers to address first (I seem to have been stuck on the physiological needs being unsatisfactory for well over a decade as well) before loftier ideals! Still seemingly stuck in a "survival" mode. My suspicion: I will require a new (non human) incarnation to transcend my current corporeal maladies.