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1. Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 23-Feb-2023 03:44:21 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

   Gonna be a bonanza on fake, reused, salvaged electronics as they ramp up military production to replace all this crap they’re giving out for free. Chances are, there’s gonna be a similar thing to the GWOT-era shenanigans of guys repackaging chink ammo to sell as EEU stuff, since everyone will be scrambling for components at the same time, and they’ll probably think it’s too expensive to test each and every part.

   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 23-Feb-2023 03:46:27 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     It’s five years from now. They were excited to find a supplier of the right chips for the stinger warhead after months of trying to source the right pieces now that they’re out of production. They tested the first shipment of 100 and they were all legit, brand new, properly shielded, hardened, and manufactured. Oops, turns out the other 900 in that order were ripped out of old computers in a junkyard in china, then painted and re-labeled.

     Now when someone leaves the stinger in the sun long enough the chip will burn out when activated. Uh oh!

   • Not particularly hype for current thing🍟👩‍❤️‍👨🍔 (ytfoidlover1488@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 23-Feb-2023 03:47:10 JST Not particularly hype for current thing🍟👩‍❤️‍👨🍔

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot HOLY SHIT I LOVE SAKURA MIKO. FAQ IS LOVE
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     @YTFoidLover1488 I need to invest in counterfeit chip manufacture, I guess. Sounds like a thriving industry abroad

   • Paultron-3030 (paultron@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 23-Feb-2023 03:49:07 JST Paultron-3030

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot we aren't even in war yet and counterfeit chink chips are already everywhere in the military supply chain. most prominent case i can remember is that ejection seat that was all screwed up with fake electronics in a pilot fatality
     
     really when the order comes down for 10,000 new javs and the board manufacturers have a 5 year lead time who's gonna start disassembling a statisticlaly significant number of PCBs to try and figure out which were cut outta battlefield pickups by random slavs for $500 a pop and that may work seemingly fine, once or three times?
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   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 23-Feb-2023 03:51:07 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @Paultron I just talked to someone about that. Said there was a batch of shit-chips in the IMUs for a “major manufacturer” not long ago. It’s around now, but there’s gonna be a whole wide open field for people to get into the system. Before it was somewhat limited, but with everyone gobbling up any supply they can they’re setting it up perfectly to churn out garbage for the military.

     Just imagine how funny it’s gonna be when they find that our gear is just as shoddy and unreliable as the chinks’

   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 23-Feb-2023 03:52:04 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     Gonna be the mk XIV torpedo all over again. Guys set themselves up for a textbook hit, make contact, and watch their warhead bounce harmlessly off the enemy’s armor like a dud

   • Not particularly hype for current thing🍟👩‍❤️‍👨🍔 (ytfoidlover1488@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 23-Feb-2023 03:53:37 JST Not particularly hype for current thing🍟👩‍❤️‍👨🍔

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot NYIGAA~~~
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   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 23-Feb-2023 03:54:03 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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   • d (deprecated_ii@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 23-Feb-2023 04:03:19 JST d

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     @Paultron @WashedOutGundamPilot it's the military's own fault this problem exists
     
     there's nothing special about the chips in a lot of this crap, the computing demands simply are not that great. but when it has to be certified with the cock print of every person in the supply chain (in triplicate) the price goes up 10000% and hey, now there's a good incentive to counterfeit a chip that would normally cost $1.18 each from mouser
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   • 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸 (phenomx6@fedi.pawlicker.com)'s status on Thursday, 23-Feb-2023 04:03:19 JST 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸

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     @deprecated_ii @Paultron @WashedOutGundamPilot meanwhile Russia and china use whatever is on the shelf of AliExpress lmao
   • Paultron-3030 (paultron@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 23-Feb-2023 04:04:38 JST Paultron-3030

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     @deprecated_ii @WashedOutGundamPilot its even a problem at a commercial level, they're even looking into blockchain memes or hardware level validation bytes
     but some of that is designed to try and beat the chinks just continuing to run the factory to sell shit or passing factory fails off on the gray market
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   • Paultron-3030 (paultron@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 23-Feb-2023 04:05:06 JST Paultron-3030

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot honestly it's already really bad. since the mil demands certain certs for manufacturers it's HELL to get lines back going, especially with PCB foundries just fuckin naming their prices and getting orders backlogged
     
     all these shiny military toys are relying on chips that were last produced in like 1993, the manufacturer- if it exists- already got rid of all their stock, and what's still out there is in the hands of second hand guys. And that's the LEGIT stuff, new old stock, still in the packaging. There's nothing stopping guys from salvaging similar components from other pieces of equipment- pieces that may work perfectly well, just older. and it goes right down to chinks burning PCBs and smacking em against walls to tear out individual components which they repaint and sell as virgin silicon, making a grand total of like 8 cents per
     
     detecting counterfeits in electronics is really hard esp since it can be made to work 'right' when tested but fails very prematurely or in tough conditions since its not hardened, and there is massive money in trying to defeat this. congress ran a report over counterfeit shit in military equipment and the results were 'shit's fucked' and this was before supply chain crashes or chinese hostility
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   • 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸 (phenomx6@fedi.pawlicker.com)'s status on Thursday, 23-Feb-2023 04:05:53 JST 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸

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     @deprecated_ii @Paultron @WashedOutGundamPilot oh yeah.
     
     There's also fake chips for obsolete designs. Case in point; the 68k cpus because NXP killed them.
     
     Amiga guys have a whole page and discussions online about fake and remarked 68k cpus, especially the 040 and 060. Lately all chips are seemingly remarked now.
     https://www.amigawiki.org/doku.php?id=de:parts:68060_mask
     https://exxosforum.co.uk/atari/last/CT60/fake/index.htm
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   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 23-Feb-2023 04:06:19 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @Paultron I think it’s funny how even the guys like intel or that TSMC spot couldn’t even get chips. It’s fun to think that they delayed their gigantic micron-level fab equipment because the chip they needed was installed into a bluetooth furby

   • BroDrillard (bro-drillard@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 23-Feb-2023 04:16:07 JST BroDrillard

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot @Paultron That's what you get when the entire economy is fake, gay and hollowed out to accommodate jewish financial scams.
     
     And good luck onshoring with the expectation that illegal/illiterate spics and niggers will produce great chips in silicon fabs. lol
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   • Twoinchdestroya (twoinchdestroya@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 23-Feb-2023 04:16:24 JST Twoinchdestroya

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot @Paultron Chip industry is fucked, when I was trying to source simple components, the wait list was at 2 years.

     Tons of prototyping and product development got screwed over, and we had to look for any backdoor deals.

     Med device companies were an exception, could quickly go up the queue if you gave the manufacturers the correct paperwork.

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