Wow, these #AliExpress sellers are pretty ingenious! These 304 stainless set screws are *much* easier to pick up with a magnet than with sausage fingers.
#Chinesium #SetScrew #GrubScrew #304Stainless #StainlessSteel #fake #Qwality #magic
#qwality
"The forged certification marks that are different on each part in the component series is your trusted sign of Qwality."
#qwality #certification #forged #certificate #Chinesium #SafetyThird #electronic #component #AliExpress
Breaking localhost network functionality is an impressive achievement.
Pushing that breakage out undetected in a general availability update of your current mainstream OS is even more impressive.
But the real WTF is why it was even possible in the first place. Quoting The Register's coverage:
> The bug, introduced in build 26100.6899, has been traced to HTTP.sys,
> the Windows kernel component that handles local HTTP traffic.
"the Windows kernel component that handles local HTTP traffic" is a phrase that has no reason to exist in the English language. I can only imagine how many security vulnerabilities having HTTP/2 in the kernel makes possible.
#Windows #security #breakage #broken #localhost #networking #Windows11 #Microsoft #qwality #QualityWeveHeardOfIt #WeveHeardOfIt #HTTP #kernel
Line manager: Uh, Boss?
Boss: Yes?
L: We finished that new run of the component. We sent it to QA.
B: Okay? Is there a problem?
L: I just got the report back. This batch, uh, didn't meet the tolerance goal.
B: [rubs temple] Okay, shit happens. I guess it goes out as 10%. That's not too bad a hit.
L: Uh, it didn't meet 10% tolerance, either.
B: What? How bad is it? 20%?
L: Uh...
B: It's *worse* than 20%?
L: Most of the parts are barely within 50% tolerance.
B: ...
L: So, uh, we should probably ...
B: Who was running the line?
L: ...
B: It was Chuck, wasn't it?
L: ... yes.
B: Was he drunk again?
L: I don't know. I sent him home.
B: Nobody's made these components in 50% tolerance for thirty years. Where am I going to sell them?
L: ...
B: Okay, AliExpress it is. Go to the noodle shop across the street and offer him some new boxes if we can have the ones his supplies come in. No way I'm putting these parts and the company name in the same room together.
(inspired by some parts I received today...)
#electronics #hobby #AliExpress #tolerance #components #ShortFiction #qwality #ShipIt #scene #business #Chinesium #YumCha
So, when you buy a bag of metric 304 stainless hex nuts, and each nut is attracted to a magnet by a different amount of force, that's a sign of quality, right? 😂
#quality #qwality #chinesium #M3 #nut #HexNut #stainless #304Stainless #ferrous #magnetic
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