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2026-05-25 21:51:59 CEST
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elly on Nostr: Depthcharge beep almost got me arrested once. I were messing with KRANE in the office ...

Depthcharge beep almost got me arrested once. I were messing with KRANE in the office and corrupted the rootfs, so I threw it into my backpack and went home.

Because public transport in Strasbourg was unbearably loud, I always had my headphones on.
KRANE shifted in my backpack which caused magnetometer to report that keyboard folio was open, which in turn caused it to bootloop every ~30 seconds (it tried to boot corrupted rootfs, watchdog reset the platform, then depthcharge did two beeps, tried to boot the rootfs... you get the idea).

I didn't hear it because I had headphones on, and back then we had Vigipirate: Urgence Attentat (highest level of terorrist attack warning). When I was trying to leave the tram in the city center (wanted to do shopping before heading home) I was stopped by (I assume?) Gendarmerie who demanded to search my backpack. I guess someone must've called and reported me for being a nerd but I have to say... I almost pooped myself when I saw armed men approaching me.

After that I modified GBB flags to disable beeping and shorten wait time to make sure it never happened again :blobcatsweat: