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Martin Hamilton
Martin Hamilton
@m@martinh.net  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Them: Can you confirm you have no more than 15 personal electronic devices in your carry on?

Me: (excitedly infodumping) Well, it really depends what you consider to be a device. Many of these computers themselves contain multiple smaller computers. Consider these microSD cards (waves a small anti-static bag around), each of which has a tiny ARM processor - designed by a trans person from the BBC Micro team, if I might go off at a tangent for a moment. Or the battery controller chip on the LiPo pouch protection circuit, which significantly reduces the probability of a thermal excursion. And let's face it, nobody wants a spicy pillow in their lap at 30,000 feet-

Them: Just say yes. (Pleadingly) Just yes. That's all I'm asking. I'm begging you.

#39c3 #AuDHD

Photo showing a number of personal electronic devices including a Bluetooth Thinkpad keyboard, a couple of laptops adorned with Chaos-adjacent stickers, a Tanmatsu, a DECT phone (no base station, awww), a Mysterious Clamshell Device, some headphones, a BangleJS watch, a Pimoroni Tufty running a CO2 monitoring app, a FOSSAsia name badge showing the word "Don't" and a little tub full of the smaller personal electronic devices....
Photo showing a number of personal electronic devices including a Bluetooth Thinkpad keyboard, a couple of laptops adorned with Chaos-adjacent stickers, a Tanmatsu, a DECT phone (no base station, awww), a Mysterious Clamshell Device, some headphones, a BangleJS watch, a Pimoroni Tufty running a CO2 monitoring app, a FOSSAsia name badge showing the word "Don't" and a little tub full of the smaller personal electronic devices....
Photo showing a number of personal electronic devices including a Bluetooth Thinkpad keyboard, a couple of laptops adorned with Chaos-adjacent stickers, a Tanmatsu, a DECT phone (no base station, awww), a Mysterious Clamshell Device, some headphones, a BangleJS watch, a Pimoroni Tufty running a CO2 monitoring app, a FOSSAsia name badge showing the word "Don't" and a little tub full of the smaller personal electronic devices....
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Martin Hamilton
Martin Hamilton
@m@martinh.net replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Second queue nerd: One of the most fascinating things is that some of these little computers run a full operating system. Obviously most people would expect this be a cut down Linux distro like Alpine (other queue members nod in agreement) or perhaps a declarative infrastructure-as-code type approach like NixOS (some people become visibly excited at this point), but actually there are some really weird edge cases, like when your 5G modem turns out to be running Android with some "interesting" apps installed by the OEM - instead of what you thought was just a proprietary blob of baseband gloop.

Third queue nerd: I'd just like to interject for a moment-

(Hysterical laughter from the entire airport security nerd queue.)

Antifa choir: (which has just manifested spontaneously like they do) "Scheiß AfD, und Scheiß RMS!"

#39c3

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