Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/19
Want to protect your security and privacy? Here are some places to start:
via: [WayBack] I think I’ll keep this article somewhere where I can easily share it with the famz the coming days :) – Roderick Gadellaa – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/18
Wow: [WayBack] Wolfgang Rupprecht – Google+:
Dennis H. Klatt 1938 – 1988
I knew him at MIT. He was my undergraduate thesis advisor and was a kind and gentle person. When I knew him around 1980 he was about to build the prototype for the first Klatt Talker as it was called then. He had speech samples generated by running his mathematical model of the vocal tract on a large mainframe, but no way to generate speech in real time. I remember being quite happy years later when I heard he had convinced DEC to produce it. The local Boston radio stations would sometimes use it on air when they were goofing around. The initial voice (and the only voice early on) had a bug that made it sound like a Mexican accent to most people. It wasn’t intentional and was a bit of a surprise that a vocal tract modeled from first principles would sound that way. Going with that observation and figuring it was best to advertise bugs as features, the voice was often called “Carlos”. I didn’t realize that Hawking’s voice was also based on the Klatt models (and Klatt’s own voice at that!)
Poking around Google to see what else Google had on him dredged up one more interesting tidbit. There was a character in a TV cartoon called Deeklatt that used his voice. I wonder how many people realize that Deeklatt was a play on D. Klatt. Dennis, we should all be so lucky as to leave a legacy like yours.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/16
I’ve a ton of slides, negatives and photos to scan and want to automate the process as much as possible. Think thousands.
Opinions are welcome on both the hardware to use and the process.
It looks like for slides and negatives the opinions vary between building your own rig, fiddling with flatbed lighting or buying a tad more expensive one.
But that was 3 years ago. How’s the state of the art right now?
–jeroen
via: [WayBack] Guess I’ve got a lot to do over the holidays… I’m pretty sure #Google…
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/16
From a note a very long time ago: [WayBack] 0x8024400E error with WSUS SP2
TL;DR:
Related: [WayBack] windows – WSUS clients failing to get updates with error 80072EE2 – Server Fault
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/15
Need to watch these:
A few notes:
$ curl --silent --show-error http://example.org > /dev/null
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
$ curl --silent --show-error http://example.org > /dev/null
Most important bits of my external infrastructure – page 1
I thought I had forgot about the SuSEfirewall2 changes (On my research list: migrate from OpenSuSE SuSEfirewall2 to firewalld) so assumed that was the reason I broke one of my secondaries (which runs on a Raspberry Pi 2):
Mistakes like these are the reason to have secondaries in the first place https://infrastatus.wiert.me and do port-mortems.
Which is kind of odd, as the SuSEfirewall2 didn’t throw any warnings like at this similar one:
This one still works because it is on the firewall in front of the Raspberry Pi 2:
(Screenshots of the above URLs are below).
In fact it was another mistake: I had forgotten to make the DHCP lease static, which resulted in a wrong IP address to be assigned upon reboot, instantly making the firewall rules invalid:
I could have fixed this remotely when I had thought about this.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/15
Over time, there are lots of complaints about Embarcadero related internet services (like forums, QC, Appanalytics, docwiki, blogs, web site, maintenance, …) so to track uptime, I’ve created a set of EmbarcaderoMonitoring pages:
This is preliminary work based on my own lists of Embarcadero endpoints combined with some research like [WayBack] dnsdumpster embarcadero.com.png and [WayBack] IdentIPSpy
Underneath, they run on the uptimerobot.com infrastructure which has a limit of 50 free monitors.
It means I have to:
Any ideas on improving this are welcome: please post a comment here on on the resulting G+ thread.
Note it likely won’t show cases like when the website was hacked or TLS certificate issues like in SSLLabs security reports for some embarcadero subdomains. I need to think about a means for those, as it will certainly help monitoring my own infrastructure in a similar way.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/15
TL;DR:
Reminding everybody of the actual purpose of the daily stand-up and of the goal(s) you have for the sprint may be all that’s needed to give the shortened versions some much needed context and focus.
Always read the Scrum guide, as it states the purpose of this meeting:
The Daily Scrum is a 15-minute time-boxed event for the Development Team to synchronize activities and create a plan for the next 24 hours.
Source: [WayBack] Stop using anemic daily stand-up questions | Software on a String
via: [WayBack] Marjan Venema – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/15
A very interesting discussion on what the mixing of interfaces and classes can get you into: [WayBack] I’ve got an interface with generics which accepts classes:IMyGeneric = interface…..end;What I want to do is to allow this interface to… – John Kouraklis – Google+
TL;DR: do not mix interfaces and classes.
As often, Asbjørn Heid chimes in showing some insight on clever mixing of the two with sample code accepting an unconstrained type. Don’t do that unless you really know what’s going on behind the scenes.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/14
[WayBack] GitHub – keith-turner/ecoji: Encodes (and decodes) data as emojis:
Ecoji 🏣🔉🦐🔼
Ecoji encodes data as 1024 emojis, its base1024 with an emoji character set. As a bonus, includes code to decode emojis to original data.
Sick. Works splendid when all your systems are fully nice to Unicode.
None are. So there’s a German word for it:
Nein
Via:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/14
[Archive.is] Medisch dossier | Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, meer details in [Archive.is] praktijkgids_patientgegevens_in_de_cloud_def.pdf.
Doordat een combinatie van regelgeving van toepassing kan zijn – waaronder “Wet op de geneeskundige behandelingsovereenkomst” (WGBO), “Wet bescherming persoonsgegevens” (Wbp) of/en “Wet bijzondere opnemingen in psychiatrische ziekenhuizen” (Wet Bopz) – is het een lastig gebied, niet alleen voor jezelf, maar ook voor ouders/verzorgers/vertegenwoordigers.
Bovenstaande link heeft meer informatie over wie er recht heeft op inzage/wijziging/verwijdering van welke gegevens en waarom wel/niet.
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 