Ty. Sorry it was a grumpy warning :(

From memory, it felt like the electrostatic discharge that used to happen whenever I was touching my car.

That’s likely a valid comparison. Some parts of the tube might give you the same style of event as static electricity discharge when you touch them. Other parts would give you something more though :D so please don’t take this as a generalisation.

Interestingly, the PC suffered no damage at all and didn’t blow its internal fuse, either.

Fuses are OK as fire prevention devices, but mostly useless as electrocution prevention. They blow based off power draw and time. Many human-electric interactions don’t actually draw that much power or last that long when compared to normal circuit power draws & timescales.

Thankfully, it must have been all volts and no amps so I was OK, even though I let out quite the yelp. 😁

Complete myth. Please don’t repeat this. It’s not even remotely close to a generalisation, it’s completely wrong and dangerous.

(Sorry, pet peeve of mine. Have had family members happy to play with mains wires but terrified to touch car batteries for fear of death)

100mA through someone can be harmless. 1mA through someone can be fatal. Lethal conditions occur under certain complex circumstances involving not just voltage/current, but frequency, exact waveforms, duration, contact points and the individual’s physical parameters (human skin resistance varies a LOT, it’s not an insignificant factor).

The most commonly encountered electrical hazards involve 50/60Hz 120/230V mains and hand/foot dermal contacts. This is a lethal combination that can cause heart fibrillation. Even 5mA or 100VAC can cause this (sometimes you will see lower numbers cited, “it depends”). Death can occur a day later, see immediate medical attention if you believe you have been shocked by mains wiring.

At very high frequencies our nervous system is not sensitive, so we can pass larger amounts of current or deal with higher voltages without much harm. I’ll still hedge this with “it depends”, you can get thermal burns (which if on the eyes includes blindness) and pathways through the body vary with contact points, changing the risks.

Static electricity discharges can be crazily high voltages and currents (many amps, sometimes hundreds of amps). Yet they are not a hazard.

The high voltages in your CRT will supply very high currents when applied to dermal contact points on the human body. This will likely induce involuntary muscle contraction. Prolonged contact could cause burns and unwanted chemical reactions to occur internally, but is unlikely to cause heart fibrillation because of the non-repeating DC nature.

I was young and did not have access to soldering irons. So I bridged the two pins with aluminium foil and sticky tape.

It would slowly peel off and my controller would suddenly stop working mid game. I couldn’t reboot the console because I couldn’t save (no VMUs). So I’d fix it live – I’d leave the screws out of the case, jiggle my fingers in there and fix it.

This was fine, worked for most of a year. Until I killed the console by accidentally touching the controller PCB to another PCB whilst doing this fix. I still have the corpse somewhere, to this day I still feel awful about it.

If something is POSIX compliant then it’s very likely to work on any Linux, BSD or the like; and probably very easy to port to windows. It’s a sign that the developer is willing to go the extra mile to make users’ lives easier.

N.B. “POSIX compliance” is not just considered in black or white terms, it’s also done in degrees. There are many things that have never formally been changed or been specified in POSIX but informally things have evolved. By attempting any level of compliance (or a similar equivalent) you tend to be doing better than most software.

PSA: Perfect dark (original n64) has a community-made PC port that’s beyond excellent.

https://github.com/fgsfdsfgs/perfect_dark

I hated the original because the low framerate gave me bad motion sickness. The PC port is like magic by comparison.

Bogus CVE. Spam.

From the PoC:

Replace the original DLL (such as Notepad++\plugins\NppExport\NppExport.dll) with a DLL file with the same name containing malicious code

If you replace parts of a program with malware then you can get malware to run. This is true of all software.