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Random User Generator | Home

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/11/23

Cool tool for when you ever need random users to test a system [Wayback] Random User Generator | Home:

Random user generator is a FREE API for generating placeholder user information. Get profile photos, names, and more. It’s like Lorem Ipsum, for people.

This was used when extracting Parler data to substantiate evidence around the 20210106 USA Capitol riots.

You can even use a simple HTTP GET like [Wayback] randomuser.me/api and get a JSON result like this.

{"results":[{"gender":"female","name":{"title":"Miss","first":"Malou","last":"Mortensen"},"location":{"street":{"number":2669,"name":"Lyngbyvej"},"city":"Sundby","state":"Syddanmark","country":"Denmark","postcode":48047,"coordinates":{"latitude":"-35.1307","longitude":"113.7480"},"timezone":{"offset":"+1:00","description":"Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris"}},"email":"malou.mortensen@example.com","login":{"uuid":"981747de-66fe-40b0-87ea-adfe403fe1be","username":"purpleostrich871","password":"sweets","salt":"x86aQbIB","md5":"55497ac53530b428f98b9d36267ceeef","sha1":"358b94ffabe7d827c34da15791e5d6717c594428","sha256":"6e357e887877e29b7e6d53073f648174382c53c24f83479e25fed9c82075ed32"},"dob":{"date":"1995-06-05T04:50:35.145Z","age":26},"registered":{"date":"2018-07-21T00:59:50.523Z","age":3},"phone":"02990797","cell":"94800012","id":{"name":"CPR","value":"050695-9954"},"picture":{"large":"https://randomuser.me/api/portraits/women/27.jpg","medium":"https://randomuser.me/api/portraits/med/women/27.jpg","thumbnail":"https://randomuser.me/api/portraits/thumb/women/27.jpg"},"nat":"DK"}],"info":{"seed":"8971869bb62b73d7","results":1,"page":1,"version":"1.3"}}

Via:

–jeroen

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IFTTT alternatives

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/11/23

A long time ago, I experimented a bit with if this then that, but found it too limited for my purposes. Though there were many integrations, the level of automation wsa very limited, especially in the kinds and flexibility of rules. Nice idea, not well executed.

By now, they even charge for it.

So here are some alternatives you might want to use:

Via [Wayback] Ifttt introduceert betaald Pro-abonnement en beperkt gratis versie – Beeld en geluid – Nieuws – Tweakers

–jeroen

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Tool for debugging makefiles – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/11/23

I’m not good at makefiles, so I needed a tool to help me debug some relatively simple ones.

[Wayback] Tool for debugging makefiles – Stack Overflow came to the rescue.

The suggestion in the first answer was enough: run make -n.

But the other suggestions are great too, so here I quote them (thanks [Wayback] Rob Wells and [Wayback] User Rajish):

Have you been looking at the output from running make -n and make -np, and the biggie make -nd?

Are you using a fairly recent version of gmake?

Have you looked at the free chapter on [Wayback] Debugging Makefiles available on O’Reilly’s site for their excellent book “Managing Projects with GNU Make” ([Wayback] Amazon Link).

I’m sure that [Wayback] remake is what you are looking for.

From the homepage:

remake is a patched and modernized version of GNU make utility that adds improved error reporting, the ability to trace execution in a comprehensible way, and a debugger.

It has gdb-like interface and is supported by mdb-mode in (x)emacs which means breakponts, watches etc. And there’s [Wayback] DDD if you don’t like (x)emacs

The free chapter: [Wayback] https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/make3/book/ch12.pdf

Remake documentation: [Wayback] remake – GNU Make with comprehensible tracing, profiling, extended error messages, and a debugger — remake 4.3+dbg-1.4 documentation

Tutorials

[Wayback] Makefile Tutorial by Example

–jeroen

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SNPG – Aanmelden patiënten met een afweerstoornis voor derde prik tegen het Covid-19 coronavirus

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/11/22

[Wayback/Archive] SNPG – Aanmelden patiënten met een afweerstoornis voor derde prik

Om een patiënt door te verwijzen kunt u een uitnodigingsbrief aanmaken door het volgende formulier in te vullen: [Wayback/Archive] www.formdesk.nl/rivm2/immuno2021. Als u de naam, het adres, woonplaats en emailadres van de patiënt invult in wordt er een uitnodigingsbrief aangemaakt. Dit gebeurt onder AVG-voorwaarden, het RIVM heeft geen toegang tot deze gegevens.

Via [Archive] Valerie van de Flier on Twitter: “Hier kunnen artsen het aanmeldingsformulier vinden: … “

–jeroen

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PiKVM v3 HAT by Maxim Devaev » Shipping in progress — Kickstarter

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/11/22

Oh cool: should arrive during the holiday season:

~500pc have been shipped to the backers in the USA and CanadaWe are planning to ship ALL pledges that don’t contain the case by Nov, 19.We are planning to ship ALL pledges that include the case by Dec, 3.Depending on your location it might take from a couple of days to a couple of weeks to actually receive the shipments.Important: we send a notification with a tracking number for every shipment. Please check your Spam folder from time to time.

Source: [Wayback/Archive] PiKVM v3 HAT by Maxim Devaev » Shipping in progress — Kickstarter

Documentation is at [Wayback/Archive] PiKVM v3 HAT guide – PiKVM Handbook via [Wayback/Archive] Thank you for buying PiKVM v3 HAT! showing that the ATX case bracket needs to be 3D-printed separately:

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mail.google.com throwing ERR_CONNECTION_RESET and ERR_FAILED only on MacOS with Chrome (many versions)

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/11/22

This started somewhere towards the end of 2019, and the only solution that consistently is a full reboot.

Chrome (many versions) on MacOS High Sierra sometimes throws these errors only on https://mail.google.com:

Failing solutions:

  • close and open new tab
  • kill and restart chrome

Searches tried, but no results yet:

This was not the cause: [WayBack] 913220 – Broken Gmail sign in with Chrome 71 and “Block third-party cookies” enabled – chromium – An open-source project to help move the web forward. – Monorail

–jeroen

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Thread by @SNeurotypicals: Neurotypical social skills develop very early on. They are making friends at 5 and negotiating complex diplomatic scenarios at 10…

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/11/19

Interesting observation [WayBack] Thread by @SNeurotypicals:

Neurotypical social skills develop very early on. They are making friends at 5 and negotiating complex diplomatic scenarios at 10. This can cause NT parents to despair that their kids are behind, and have stopped developing at 8 or 10 or 18 or 25. But we haven’t. 
For many NDs, social skills development just takes longer. Lacking the innate instincts of neurotypicals, we have to build our frameworks using experience and the scientific method. It takes sophisticated skills and higher order thinking. I hit my stride in my late 20s. 

and [WayBack] later on (on neurotypicals versus neurodivergents:

it’s the double empathy problem. They don’t understand us or themselves, we don’t understand them or ourselves (to begin with), but the onus is on us to fix it so we end up having to figure out both sides. It’s an achievement that we make any headway at all.

Related:

–jeroen

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Effectiviteit van COVID-19 vaccinatie tegen ziekenhuis- en intensive-care-opname in Nederland (stand eind oktober 2021)

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/11/19

I wanted to know how well protected in the Dutch context my vaccination against Covid-19 with the Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine was, so I asked [Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “Waar vind ik cijfers rond AstraZeneca voor de groep onder de 60 (met name voor zorgverleners die daarmee gevaccineerd zijn en vaak een hoger risico lopen vanwege veel contacten omdat ze in de zorg werken)… “ and got this:

–jeroen

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Dutch vattenfall outgoing mail servers: energierapport, accounts

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/11/19

  • energy report: mailzgbazb.mail.dmdelivery.com [91.197.72.102]
  • account activation o16789100x225.outbound-mail.sendgrid.net [167.89.100.225]

Via:

–jeroen

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One needs to actually fail in order to get a feel for reality

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/11/18

Failure is very important to understand about reality.

Software Development and DevOps should do this more often, as real world failures are always different from test cases.

This is especially true in the field of web sites, cloud development, kubernetes, microservices and other distributed “Stuff” (which starts with DNS!).

There was a great thread last year that ended with this quote:

“Error Budget”: How much infrastructure you’re allowed to set on fire to learn the meaning of the word “heiß”. Every organization has an error budget, but most don’t plan for it.

The start of the thread is around [Archive.is] Kristian Köhntopp on Twitter: “So the little one was a bit over 12 months old, and could already say “Mama” and “Papa”. It was around christmas, and there was a candle on the table, glowing interestingly, so he wanted to touch it. Of course I told him “Nein, heiß!”.”.

Then Kristian Köhntopp summarised the thread in this great blog post: [Wayback] On Touching Candles, And Error Budgets | Die wunderbare Welt von Isotopp.

Too bad ThreadReaderApp still is unable to archive trees of messages (not even single threaded trees with multiple participants) as this is possible with the Twitter v2 API: [Archive.is] twopcharts_nl on Twitter: “is wel eenvoudig mogelijk nu met api v2.… “

So I archived the thread in two Archive.is links:

In the thread, Kristian also mentions [Wayback] Code rant: The Configuration Complexity Clock

That article has a very important observation:

At a certain level of complexity, hard-coding a solution may be the least evil option.

–jeroen

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