Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/31
I both understand the [WayBack] Urgent security advisory – MikroTik and the users reluctant to upgrade: Mikrotik has a history of updates breaking existing behaviour and underdocumenting features and release notes.
The attack is over the www or www-ssl services which by default run on port 80 and 443. You can see on which networks they are bound using this example from the terminal:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/30
Now any of your Google Home devices can connect to other Bluetooth speakers so you can control your entertainment experience simply using the sound of your voice.
Multi-room audio through your Google Home device with “follow-me” behaviour: [WayBack] Google Home and Bluetooth speakers make the perfect pair.
Now if your smartphone could do the same…
Via: [WayBack] Now any of your Google Home devices can connect to other Bluetooth speakers so you can control your entertainment experience simply using the sound of y… – Roderick Gadellaa – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/30
Deze pagina is zo mooi in alle opzichten van mooi: [WayBack] Telefoonverslaving.
Via: [WayBack]Diederik Broekhuizen on Twitter: “Complimenten aan @nos voor dit supersterke digitale stuk. Visueel, inhoudelijk en modern, zo kan ‘t ook: “Sowieso herkenbaar: je telefoon heeft jou #OnderDeDuim.” https://t.co/ChjzIqZ6Ss… https://t.co/cP1839LEGY”
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/30
Cool interactive colour mixing:
The www.spectrumcolors.de site has way more interesting pages around colour spaces, colour press techniques (like colour separation, rasterising, etc). Worth visiting!
–jeroen
via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/30
TL;DR: Connecting to Macs over Thunderbolt is easy and has transfer speeds way faster than other network connections.
Summary of steps from [WayBack] Connecting two Macs using Thunderbolt | Macworld
This also increases LAN sync speeds of DropBox, Google Drive and others.
Note the connection by default using SMB
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/29
[WayBack]FizzBuzz: One Simple Interview Question… Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+:
THE BASICS S1 • E2
FizzBuzz: One Simple Interview QuestionTom Scott
Published on Jul 31, 2017
There are a lot of opinions on how to hire coders, and most of them are terrible. The opinions, that is, not the coders. But a basic filter test to make sure someone can do what they say they can: that seems reasonable, and FizzBuzz is one of the more common tests. Even now, interviewers use it. Let’s talk about why it’s tricky, and how to solve it.Imran’s blog post: [WayBack] Using FizzBuzz to Find Developers who Grok Coding | Imran On Tech
Other approaches for pretty much every language: [WayBack] FizzBuzz – Rosetta Code
…
In retrospect, I wasn’t really surprised Kristian Köhntopp commented these two:
–jeroen
– https://plus.google.com/+KristianKöhntopp/posts/jYKBAD4MHMj
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/29
Interesting to try:
The new generation Pascal programming language that combines simplicity of classic Pascal, a great number of modern extensions and broad capabilities of Microsoft .NET Framework
I didn’t know about it either.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/29
I will probably need the netstat/tcpdump/wireshark tricks here in the future: [WayBack] Troubleshooting Bitbucket Cloud MTU/MSS issues – Atlassian Documentation
via: [WayBack] Atlassian Bitbucket Status – Network maintenance; MTU/MSS changes coming
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/29
[WayBack] Privacy Badger | Electronic Frontier Foundation: Privacy Badger blocks spying ads and invisible trackers.
Chrome first run settings are at
chrome-extension://pkehgijcmpdhfbdbbnkijodmdjhbjlgp/skin/firstRun.html
Via: [WayBack] Arjen Lentz on Twitter: “EFF’s Privacy Badger does this for any site. Also available for Chrome/Chromium.… “
There is a really interesting Y-combinator thread at [WayBack] Facebook Container Extension: Take control of how you’re being tracked | Hacker News which goes way deeper in how various browsers and extension combinations can help you getting more hold of your privacy.
A few links via that hacker news link:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/29
via [WayBack] Cracking xkcd Passwords in 20 Seconds, breaking 12 character passwords and other cyber “I hope I’ve demonstrated that you need unique words, digits and … – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+
Some interesting reads:
–jeroen
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