Raspberry-Pi

I’ve seen plenty of weird computer bugs in my time, but nothing quite like what Peter Onion discovered in February 2015. He was proudly photographing his brand new Raspberry Pi 2 when something bizarre happened—every time his camera flash went off, his Pi instantly powered down. At first, Peter thought it was just a coincidence. But after it happened three times in a row, he realized he’d stumbled onto something unprecedented. His post to the Raspberry Pi forums with the innocent title “Why is the PI2 camera-shy?” would soon reveal one of the strangest hardware vulnerabilities in modern computing history. ...

I didn’t keep good notes as I went, honestly. I did a first pass on this “shooting from the hip” a bit to just see if I could get it to work. Instead of using Docker-CE, I used podman which created a little bit more work (not much at all really). Ultimately the service did start up, did run. It was even usable until the moment it started federating. As soon as I started following external accounts from the instance, and the federated traffic started coming in, I could see that the system was hitting high loadavg numbers (like in excess of 5.0). But the CPU cores still had plenty of idle capacity. ...