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Reverse-Engineering a Tuya Wi-Fi Air Conditioner: From APK to a Standalone Controller
Static analysis of a Tuya-based Carrier CMI AC app: recovering the cloud-MQTT payload (AES-128-ECB + CRC32), the native JNI surface, Shamir-shared keys hidden in a BMP asset, and an HMAC-SHA256 signer.
Wisdom Share Smart Cloud TV Remote Codes: The Jio Remote Setting That Works
Pick Reconnect in the Jio set-top box's Universal Remote Setup. Reverse-engineered from the CVTE_MSD338 firmware: the TV only accepts NEC 0x00/0xF7, so Samsung and Sony profiles can never work. Full IR code table inside.
MinIO Alternatives Benchmarked: RustFS vs SeaweedFS vs MinIO
A reproducible single-node benchmark of RustFS 1.0.3, SeaweedFS 4.48 and MinIO (last community release): throughput, memory, CPU, S3 compatibility and crash durability.