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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • [Ben] needed some hardware to test the device with, so he spent $77 on a RF-to-fiber converter and a cheap composite-to-RF modulator so he could test the $5 fiber-to-RF part. A grand expenditure to explore a $5 device, but a necessary sacrifice for the investigation.

    And we’re using 100 000 € analysers to make 100€ devices. Of course tools have costs not related to the line. Want to guess what the test equipment for 0.01€ IC costs?

    And no content in the “article” at all. HaD is just complete trash these days.


  • The SVG is probably parsed by a different library or different module at least and might have exploitable bugs. Still, the js would likely be fed to the same engine. It might not be impossible that something gets mangled or the context is different.

    But mostly this smells like a fantasy article. No mention of which exact browser, what the mechanism is and, in particular, no sample code. And as a bonus the bs blanket term of “adult sites” which makes this look more like fear propaganda.







  • In my experience it’s also very very hard to wear out an SSD. It’s limited, but mostly the limit is very very far away. I treat those warnings as largely fud. Most common failure more seems to be that the controller in the drive dies for some reason and the drive just goes completely dead and never gets detected again. There won’t be warnings from any smart values either.

    Or the drive is just replaced with a bigger faster one, maybe on a different bus/connector or something, and forgotten in a drawer or a box somewhere.

    Naturally it’s still worth trying to enable trim and limit writes if there’s no downside. It can only help in case the drive does get an exceptionally long service life. But I’d say use it while it’s still useful and keep fresh and verified backups.