What this is
A record. Of professional tools that kept working long after their software support window closed — and of apps that treated that fact as someone else's problem.
The CAT S61 in question has a FLIR thermal camera. It is used for building inspection and electrical fault-finding. It was non-functional for most of a working day because a speaker app decided to probe sensor hardware it had no reason to touch. This site exists because that should not happen without someone writing it down.
Who runs it
One person. One CAT S61. One working day lost to a crash loop that shouldn't have been possible if anyone had read the manifest spec.
Not a security researcher. Not a journalist. Someone who needed their thermal camera to work and found out the hard way that "end of life" is treated by app publishers as "end of our responsibility."
Why "Colonel Manic"
The kernel panic that started it all. One letter transposed. It stuck.
Submit a case
If your rugged or EOL Android device was destabilised by an app install and you have crash logs, a timeline, or a reproduction — get in touch. Evidence required. Inference will be flagged. Speculation will not be listed.
Evidence means: device model, Android version, app name and version, what broke, when it broke relative to the install, and whether uninstalling resolved it. Logcat output is ideal. A clear timeline is sufficient.
Site, in sexadecimal
The colors, because someone will ask.
sexadecimal /sek·sə·des'·i·məl/ — synonym for hexadecimal, from Latin sex (six) rather than Greek hex. The Jargon File considers this form more etymologically consistent. It is also more fun to say at standup.