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Goz3rr··on Gadget Exposed a Spy Camera [video]
My issue is that a large share of what he tests are Amazon products with alphabet soup brand names, where QA is likely nonexistent and the conclusions are often based on a sample size of N=1. Even if you wanted to buy the "winner", the exact same product may be sold under a different name a week later.

I also find his testing methodology inconsistent. In some cases he takes manufacturer specs at face value without actually verifying them, in others he goes out of his way to comprehensively measure things that don’t matter much (to me anyways), while skipping things that seem genuinely important (self-discharge of jump starter packs for example).

That said, he's doing this with his own time and money, and makes it available for free to anyone. A lot of this also comes down to personal preference in what you value in a test.

Goz3rr··on Lottie is an open format for animated vector graphics
The last time I worked with them there also was basically no way to render them into any other format easily, and all the available tools I found basically just launched a Chromium instance to copy each frame, messing up transparency in the process
Goz3rr··on Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team
Even with AOT compilation, as someone who loves C# and also does embedded development in C I would personally say a garbage collected language like C# has no place there.
Goz3rr··on Airlines required to refund passengers for canceled, delayed flights
Every time it has happened to me the airline paid out quickly without any fuss. Once with KLM the plane broke over Siberia, they flew back and put me on a flight the next day. I got my 600 eur compensation and also the cost of two train tickets for the extra trip between home/airport and they didn't even ask for receipts.

For the longest time Ryanair actually gave me more money than I spent with them on tickets.

Goz3rr··on Deej: An open-source hardware volume mixer for Windows and Linux
What happens when software is at 0%, your slider is at 100% and you want to raise the volume?
Goz3rr··on RP2040 Boot Sequence
That doesn't seem unusual to me, given that to get to this page you either have to be searching for the specific terms already (and know what they are) or come from the homepage -> RP2040 (Raspberry Pi Pico) projects -> Custom serial bootloader for the RP2040 -> Preliminary reading RP2040 boot sequence
Goz3rr··on Nearly all of California's reservoir's are above their historical averages
That link (https://cdec.water.ca.gov/resapp/RescondMain) just times out for me, might be yet another American site that just geoblocks all European IP addresses. Here's an archive copy for those who need it: https://archive.is/oZodo
Goz3rr··on Czech republic sets IPv4 end date
My ISP gives me both an IPv4 address and a heap of IPv6, most browsers will use what is called Happy Eyeballs to try both IPv4 and IPv6 at the same time and use the one that connects the fastest.
Goz3rr··on PID Controllers in Unity3D (2021)
At least in Europe I've seen plenty of thermostats/boilers that support OpenTherm which allows the thermostat to set the boiler temperature instead of only switching on/off
Goz3rr··on Building a USB SNES Controller
They are if you have anything else that needs to be done at the same time. I would say they're fine if you have nothing else to do while waiting, or you need microsecond delays to generate a signal like in this case.
Goz3rr··on The failure of self-checkout technology
You can get randomly selected upon checkout where they will sample a few items from your bag, and if it finds a discrepancy they will rescan every item you have.

These hand held scanners have been a thing for over 10 years, way before the current iteration of self checkout stations. They continue to exist side by side with self checkout stations at supermarkets mainly.

It also should be noted that I have not seen a single self checkout station in the Netherlands that puts restrictions on how you scan your items. It doesn't care about weight and in what order you scan and put items into your bag or if you just keep holding the items, and I never have any issues with this system breaking or complaining about anything.

Goz3rr··on Making my own bed sensor
At least for the lighting related concern, I personally use both Zigbee bulbs and switches. These can be bound together so the switch will directly tell the bulb to turn off/on without intervention of anything else. This results in a faster response and working light switches even when home assistant is down.
Goz3rr··on Court: Cloudflare Is Liable for Pirate Site, but Not as a DNS Provider
I'm Dutch, and can walk into pretty much any supermarket to buy a prepaid sim card without identification and pay with cash.
Goz3rr··on Linksys WRT54G and WRT54GS power supply (2005)
Or the power supply is sourced from multiple vendors, and other units might not have the same range
Goz3rr··on Linksys WRT54G and WRT54GS power supply (2005)
> Note that Watts, in general, goes down (not by a lot, and not at every voltage, but generally, linearly) as Voltage goes up...

I would say it flattens out pretty quickly and doesn't keep going linearly. This probably has to do with the fact that the device was designed to be powered from 12V so the supporting components of the power supply would have been chosen to maximize efficiency around that input voltage.

EDIT: I was curious and had a WRT54G v2.2 laying around (unlike the 1.0 used by OP), which results in this graph: https://i.imgur.com/CBNTtRI.png The lower power usage can probably be explained by my later revision having less LEDs and more integrated chips instead of several discrete ones.

Goz3rr··on I need more USB power
USB defaults to 5V, so depending on how much current you want to draw you might not even need a trigger module.
Goz3rr··on uBlock Origin 1.53
I'm on the regular stable Chrome build and was explicitly asked on several devices over the last few months if I wanted to enable memory saver or not, it wasn't automatic for me at least.
Goz3rr··on Raspberry Pi 5
Missed this comment when asking why you didn't add a $2 RTC, but given that you mention Adafruit I assume making your own hardware to stick onto a Pi wasn't an option? The DS3231 you mention is a chip with mainline support since 2009. Cheaper options like a DS1307 cost less than a $0.50 a piece when you buy 100 of them, and they've been supported in Linux since 2006.
Goz3rr··on Raspberry Pi 5
If you were already going through all that effort, what was the reason behind not just adding a $2 RTC to the i2c header of each Pi?
Goz3rr··on Raspberry Pi 5
I pulled up the actual USB power delivery standard[1] USB_PD_R3_1 V1.8 2023-04.pdf, and 5V 5A is perfectly compliant, albeit optional.

On page 805 you find Table 10-2 SPR Normative Voltages and Minimum Currents, which specifies that a USB PD source with a rating of 15 < x ≤ 27 watts *shall* support 3A at 5V, however it *May* advertise up to RoundUp (PDP/Voltage) to the nearest 10mA. Requires a 5A cable if over 3A is advertised. 27W/5 rounded to the nearest 10mA comes to 5.4A

[1]: https://www.usb.org/document-library/usb-power-delivery

Goz3rr··on I digitalized Berlin's registration form
I ran into something similar as a Dutch person trying to buy a car from Germany. The initial plan was to drive the car back from Germany, but to do this I had to get an export license plate. This can only be done in the municipality where the car was sold, and they told me I was lucky because I could get an appointment quite quick, which was a month and a half from now. I would also have to bring the car to the Straßenverkehrsamt. How I would have gotten the car there was also a mystery to me, as I did not have a license plate and to get a license plate I would have to bring the car there. If I did somehow manage to do that though, I would have to get a physical license plate made and then get temporary insurance. Not a single German insurance company said they could insure the temporary license plate, as I was not already an existing customers of theirs. I ended up just renting a car transporter and bringing it home that way.

The process of getting a license plate once home was actually a breeze. I used the website of the Dutch Vehicle Authority to make an appointment (for the following day at 2pm) and they gave me a temporary license plate. I simply had to write this on a piece of cardboard and put it where the license plate would go. Called the cheapest insurance company to get temporary insurance, which was no problem, and simply drove the car to get it inspected.

Goz3rr··on I2c-USB-hub: An i2C Controllable USB 2.0 Hub
Software controllable USB ports already are a thing, Per-port power switching can be found in the USB 2.0 spec and there's a bunch of hubs out there that implement it, controllable via USB instead of I2C. Since USB 3.2 any device that has downstream type C ports is required to implement PPPS.

A DIY hub that uses a chip with PPPS support can be found here for example: https://oshwlab.com/iamseer/ch335-hub

Goz3rr··on Keystroke timing obfuscation added to ssh(1)
I can type pretty fast (100+ WPM) but I'm sure as hell not getting multiple keystrokes into a 20ms window
Goz3rr··on Does Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 DNS Block Archive.is? (2019)
The problem is that there are more parties than you, your DNS server (the cab driver) and your destination (the website). The cab driver might have to ask a number of other people how to get to the destination.

Your DNS server probably doesn't have the exact record for you at the ready, but it does know another DNS server that gets you closer to an answer. That's how recursive DNS works and it might happen a few times before you actually get to a result. With ECS now every DNS server in this chain knows 12.45.56.x wanted to visit hacker news.

Goz3rr··on Does Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 DNS Block Archive.is? (2019)
It's not just about the server you're connecting to knowing your IP, that's a given. With ECS every recursive DNS server in the chain also knows which site you want to visit
Goz3rr··on Does Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 DNS Block Archive.is? (2019)
If you're using a Pi-hole for your DNS (or anything else using dnsmasq I suppose), I worked around the issue by creating /etc/dnsmasq.d/02-archive.is.conf (with a Docker bind mount in my case) with the following content:

    server=/archive.today/8.8.8.8
    server=/archive.today/8.8.4.4
    server=/archive.ph/8.8.8.8
    server=/archive.ph/8.8.4.4
    server=/archive.is/8.8.8.8
    server=/archive.is/8.8.4.4
    server=/archive.li/8.8.8.8
    server=/archive.li/8.8.4.4
    server=/archive.vn/8.8.8.8
    server=/archive.vn/8.8.4.4
    server=/archive.fo/8.8.8.8
    server=/archive.fo/8.8.4.4
    server=/archive.md/8.8.8.8
    server=/archive.md/8.8.4.4
    server=/archive.to/8.8.8.8
    server=/archive.to/8.8.4.4
This way you use 1.1.1.1 for everything, except the domains listed above where it uses Google DNS instead.
Goz3rr··on Does Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 DNS Block Archive.is? (2019)
For me it worked for a while, and has broken again earlier this year.
Goz3rr··on The Password Game
Mine gave me a place a Qatar, which doesn't even seem to have real photos but 3D renders instead: https://goo.gl/maps/YynAc2JSfKJzeAwWA
Goz3rr··on Arduino Uno R4
There's a youtube video on the page that autoplays, and youtube is on the magic list that can autoplay without interaction
Goz3rr··on Hacking my “smart” toothbrush
Payment terminals come to mind, they brick themselves when tampered with
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