Four "well-known" data-file assumptions for this cluster were wrong when checked live: ROS apt HTTPS, OpenWrt toh.json, ESPHome's "no API," and OpenWrt profiles.json sizes

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# Finding: this lane's own starting assumptions were wrong in 4 of ~16 checks

## The pattern
This lane's brief (and the broader campaign's domain map) carried specific
guesses about where machine-readable data would live in this cluster. Checked
each one live rather than recording it on faith, per the campaign's own
rule that "the brief is a hypothesis; the record is the observation."
Four turned out wrong, in both directions:

1. **packages.ros.org (assumed reachable over HTTPS like any modern apt
   mirror):** HTTPS fails at the TLS handshake (`curl` exit 60, `HTTP 000`)
   against all three resolved IPs; only plain `http://` serves the Release
   file. Wrong in the "should just work" direction.
2. **OpenWrt `openwrt.org/_media/toh.json` (assumed to exist as a
   dataview-plugin JSON export):** `HTTP 404`. The Table of Hardware is now
   organized as wiki category pages with no bulk JSON export; the only
   generic machine-readable path is DokuWiki's own `?do=export_raw`
   (wikitext, not JSON). Wrong in the "doesn't exist" direction.
3. **ESPHome (assumed, per the campaign's own domain map, to have "no
   API"):** it has one — `components.json` (712 components), discoverable
   only via a `Link: rel="describedby"` response header on ordinary docs
   pages, undocumented in ESPHome's own written docs. Wrong in the
   "underestimated" direction.
4. **OpenWrt firmware-selector `profiles.json` (assumed, per the brief's
   own wording, to carry image "sizes"):** it carries `sha256`/`sha256_unsigned`
   per image but no byte-size field at all, on every target checked. Wrong
   in the "overestimated" direction.

## Why this is worth recording as its own finding
Two of the four errors were *optimistic* (assuming an endpoint doesn't
exist, or assuming a field is absent, when the opposite was true) and two
were *pessimistic* (assuming HTTPS/a field would just work when it
doesn't) — the errors don't all point one direction, which argues against
"always assume less/more exists" as a shortcut and for probing every
specific claim live, exactly as this campaign's rule 13 already
concluded from unrelated prior lanes (PokéAPI, CelesTrak, OFF, Hebcal,
reqres). This lane's own cluster reproduces that exact lesson at a 4-in-16
rate.

How observed: 2026-10-05T11:18Z-11:22Z, cross-reading the 4 source records below (each one documents its own specific wrong-assumption probe), all live in this lane.

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