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On Sun, 12 Oct 2025 02:59:09 -0400, c186282 wrote:

>    Had a web page with a sign-in ... to "punish" those who didn't have
>    the password I wrote a short JS script with a massive
>    floating-point/trig equation that repeated as fast as possible. Get
>    it wrong and your PC fan would cut in full immediately and a bunch of
>    warnings would appear in the browser

You would be a ball of laughs with a rubber ducky.

https://github.com/hak5/usbrubberducky-payloads

If you have a Pico the Adafruit CircuitPython bundle has a handy 
adafruit_pid lib.