Posts by masek@infosec.exchange
 (DIR) Post #B69ExKqWKzg4j0LTzE by masek@infosec.exchange
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       Rückreise gestartet. Ankunft in Kiel laut Plan morgen um 18:40 Uhr. Drückt mir die Daumen.Mein Koffer ist auf der Rückreise 12kg schwerer als auf dem Hinweg 😱
       
 (DIR) Post #B69ExLC92ayVo4Skgy by masek@infosec.exchange
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       Wenn der Zug halten würde, könnte man direkt auf den Strand aussteigen:
       
 (DIR) Post #B69ExLPcEVkaTqlVgm by masek@infosec.exchange
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       In Marseille wird ja eine andere Lok angehängt und deshalb gibt es einen längeren Aufenthalt (so ca. 15min). Das wird genutzt, um den mitreisenden Hunden etwas Frischluft zu geben. Alle in meinem Sichtfeld haben sich benommen und nicht auf den Bahnsteig geschissen 🙂.
       
 (DIR) Post #B69ExLd5QQWf9d4Gga by masek@infosec.exchange
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       Ich verstehe nicht, wie man in einer Stadt x verschiedene Bahnhöfe bauen, diese dann nicht direkt per Metro verbinden und dann alle Zugverbindungen durch eben diese Stadt führen kann.
       
 (DIR) Post #B69ExLqub1aJqVXJEe by masek@infosec.exchange
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       Eigentlich wollte ich in Paris ein Taxi nehmen, aber Schlange am Taxenstand des Gare de Lyon war so ca. 60-90min lang. Also bin ich mit der U-Bahn gefahren. Das ist aber im Untergrund sehr, sehr weitläufig und so bin ich auf 10.000 Schritte gekommen. Zum Glück habe ich heute morgen mir aus Vorsicht das Knie getapet.
       
 (DIR) Post #B69ExM4NmwMOWHq4ES by masek@infosec.exchange
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       An den langen Treppen wäre ich vorhin mit dem schweren Koffer wohl verreckt, wenn mir nicht zwei Mal junge Franzosen zu Hilfe geeilt wären. Das war das positivste Erlebnis seit Jahren in Paris. 👍
       
 (DIR) Post #B69ExMIYwDhdEGTOKm by masek@infosec.exchange
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       Gare de l’Est um 6:10 Uhr, die am häufigsten gehörte Sprache ist aktuell Deutsch.Kein Franzose ist so blöd, jetzt schon (30min vor Abfahrt) am Bahnhof zu sein. Die ganzen Bäcker haben noch zu und das Gleis für die Abfahrt ist derzeit noch Staatsgeheimnis. Unser DB-trainiertes Völkchen ist total paranoid schon in Divisionsstärke angetreten.
       
 (DIR) Post #B69ExMYA0EBC0dlqe8 by masek@infosec.exchange
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       Sorgen macht mir, dass ich um 10 Uhr im üblichen Jagdrevier (Stuttgart) von @evawolfangel ankommen werde und dort sogar umsteigen muss 😏.
       
 (DIR) Post #B69ExMn36s5akojjqy by masek@infosec.exchange
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       Bis mindestens Straßburg habe ich eine Etage des TGV fast für mich alleine.Nur die Plätze an beiden Enden des Wagons neben der Tür sind besetzt. Ich bin sicher, dass bei der SNCF jemand mächtig Spaß daran hat, die unattraktivsten Plätze via Deutsche Bahn zu verkaufen.
       
 (DIR) Post #B69ExMzSMk0vNIXeC0 by masek@infosec.exchange
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       Jetzt fahren wir 15min Verspätung durch einen außerplanmässigen Stop in Kehl ein, um rechtswidrige Kontrollen durchzuführen.
       
 (DIR) Post #B69ExN7FtkFhlUBsLg by masek@infosec.exchange
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       Mangels Passagiere anderer Hautfarbe (wir sind jetzt 3 Leute im Wagon) wurde diesmal lustlos auch mein Ausweis betrachtet.
       
 (DIR) Post #B69ExNF3QkUU9fq6VM by masek@infosec.exchange
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       Positiv überrascht: In Stuttgart gibt es noch eine Lounge. Das Klo ist aber ausserhalb und mit einem Code gesichert. Um die Codeeingabe zu erkennen braucht es aber jüngere Augen als ich die habe. Musste due Brille abnehmen und auf 10cm an den Türgriff heran, um dort das Codefeld im Türgriff zu entziffern.
       
 (DIR) Post #B69FSnmknAulSIaWTw by masek@infosec.exchange
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       @daniel Bisher lief es eigentlich recht gut, aber gleich geht es mit der DB weiter.
       
 (DIR) Post #B69ZG8sr2H70D3gN7o by masek@infosec.exchange
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       Q: How old are you?A: That old…
       
 (DIR) Post #B69ZG9D3p9H7Dj8VcW by masek@infosec.exchange
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       Visit https://www.smbc-comics.com/ and support the artist on Patreon if you can.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6Tx3IRiSJsOABaw3E by masek@infosec.exchange
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       Es wäre dedutlich einfacher, nahestende Personen zu Arztbesuchen zu überreden, wenn sie nicht bei jedem Mal mit dem Gefühl zurückkämen, die Praxismitarbeiter sehr gestört zu haben.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6kku0S4ZTvfLidOjI by masek@infosec.exchange
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       Valve massively raised the prices for the Steam Deck:1TB OLED $649 -> $949512GB OLED $549 -> $789The items are out of stock nonetheless.Get used to the pattern: The unavailable hardware will become unaffordableThe supply chains will die, then the accessory industry will follow. Companies like FixIt may prosper as the PC has now to last a decade.What remains of the industry will be handed over to China on a silver platter.#gaming as we knew it is dead. Hope the software devs (or their AI agent) got the memo that their games have to run fine on older hardware.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6muFHIuOkJjbHUBdY by masek@infosec.exchange
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       What a lot of people do not understand is the fragility of supply chains.SetupLet us assume there is a part X that is used by a large number of other companies. It is not glamorous, it is not expensive, and nobody outside a small circle of specialists ever thinks about it. But it is needed. Without it, other products cannot be finished.Everything is finePart X is made by a small company with a few dozen employees and a machine that is several decades old.Everything runs smoothly. The company knows how to maintain the machine. They know how to operate it. They know its strange noises, its moods, its undocumented rituals. They know which lever needs a bit of persuasion on cold mornings and which replacement part must be machined by hand because nobody has made the original since 1987. They also know how to train new employees, because the knowledge still exists inside the company.CrisisThen, suddenly, a few large customers run into a crisis.Orders slow down. The warehouses fill up with part X. Prices fall.The company downsizes. Then it downsizes again. But nobody really notices, because stocks are still full. Customers are not yet affected. Purchasing departments can still get part X from inventory. Balance sheets still look fine. The problem has not yet reached the spreadsheet.If this goes on for long enough, the company goes broke.Again, nobody really notices. Stocks are still full. Some people may worry, but as long as no current production line is stopping and no quarterly number is visibly bleeding, nothing urgent is done.The employees move on. They retire, change industries, start new careers. The old machine is sold for scrap. The building is repurposed. The knowledge evaporates.RecoveryA few years later, demand picks up again.The warehouses slowly empty. Stocks run low. People start ordering part X again, only to discover that nobody is offering it anymore.Now someone decides to restart production.The first thing they discover is that there is no machine. Building a new one would be prohibitively expensive, assuming anyone still knows how to build it properly. So they desperately search for an old one.They get lucky. In a scrapyard, they find a machine that used to produce part X. It is rusted, incomplete, and dysfunctional. Naturally, they buy it.Now they try to get it working again.But there is another problem. There are no people left who know how to maintain it. So they hire someone who understands industrial maintenance in general, but has never worked on this specific machine. That person does their best. They improvise. They read old manuals. They reverse-engineer undocumented fixes. They keep the machine alive with skill, patience, and increasing amounts of despair.But it breaks down every few hours. Output is abysmal.BottlenecksAnd now that one poor maintenance person is overworked. They need help. But training help requires time, and the only person who can train others is the same person needed to keep the machine barely running. Every hour spent teaching is an hour not spent preventing the next failure.Very few businesses survive this phase.There is no institutional knowledge anymore. New people are hired, begin training, look at the state of the machine, the chaos of the process, and the constant emergency mode, and conclude that the business is doomed anyway. Then they quit.Churn becomes terrible. Even if the company survives financially, it remains fragile. It is always just one or two people quitting away from disaster.At the end the world decides it needs to get rid of part X as the supply is too fragile.SummaryThis is still very much simplified. The reality is more complex, more ugly.And that is the part many people miss: a supply chain is not just warehouses, contracts, prices, and transport routes. It is also people, habits, obsolete machines, informal knowledge, and boring little skills that nobody values until they are gone.
       
 (DIR) Post #B7LhPE8Fa26W0pJiqW by masek@infosec.exchange
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       @MoritzGlantz @entropia A quest worthy of the bravest knight 🙂
       
 (DIR) Post #B88adq7C0ycregNuSm by masek@infosec.exchange
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       @davidrevoy Need to memorize the spell for the coming weekend