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Archive for 2021

Most of the things you eat or use have to do with corn

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/11/15

Most important parts of the below Twitter thread:

  • Corn is not a _food_.
  • Corn is a _platform_.

Follow the thread using this tweet:

[WayBack/Archive.is] SwiftOnSecurity on Twitter: “You are slowly realizing it has literally been years, maybe decades, since you ate any meal made without corn.” (2020 capture of the thread)

–jeroen

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Diagnose de Wild gemist? Start met kijken op NPO Start

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/11/12

Het verhaal van Ruud lijkt veel op dat van mij. De reden van de spoedoperatie was anders, en hij is inmiddels alweer – op een andere manier dan vroeger – aan het werk . Al duurt het iets langer, dat laatste gaat mij ook lukken.

Zelf werk ik ook aan een verhaal met de werktitel “You got one partial life left: let’s talk about poo and pee”, misschien zelfs wel in de vorm van een speech voor op conferenties en workshops. Want hoe eerder je erbij bent, hoe hoger de kans op beter worden.

Ruud’s verhaal is er al, en daar ben ik blij om.

Kijken dus: [Wayback/Archive] Diagnose de Wild gemist? Start met kijken op NPO Start

Begin dit jaar krijgt Ruud de Wild te horen dat hij darmkanker heeft. ‘Als ik hier goed uitkom, dan ben ik verplicht om dit verhaal te vertellen’. Dat nam Ruud zich voor toen hij de diagnose kreeg.

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Some links on Wireguard as DHCP clients were not supported back then yet

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/11/12

Wireguard seems more light-weignt and secure than OpenVPN and IPsec. So I’m anxious to know how it is supposed to work for road warriors that often depend on receiving DHCP addresses into the network of the VPN server.

Some links that hopefully get me started to install a Wireguard VPN server and provide services to road warrior clients.

First the Twitter thread that got me investigating:

Then some links I found:

–jeroen

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Posted in Hardware, Network-and-equipment, Power User, Tailscale, VPN, Wireguard | Leave a Comment »

Google has stopped (Dutch: Google is gestopt) on older Anrdoid devices

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/11/12

I got the Dutch message “Google is gestopt” on an older Android device which translates to the below English error message “Google has stopped”.

Below is the solution based on [WayBack] Google is stopped – OnePlus Community

  1. Go to “Settings”
  2. In “Settings” go to “Apps”
  3. In the application list, browse to “Google”
  4. Uninstall all updates (sometimes this is under the hamburger or 3-dot icon)
  5. Confirm
  6. Start the Google Play Store
  7. Update the “Google” application

Related:

–jeroen

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Posted in Android, Android Devices, Development, Google, Mobile Development, OnePlus One, OnePlus Two, Power User | Leave a Comment »

Great git videos on YouTube by @shanselman (thanks @simongeering)

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/11/11

[Archive.is] simon geering on Twitter: “Thanks to @shanselman for creating these great Git Videos. As a senior dev starting to mentor/teach tech skills this is very helpful. What tool do you use for the green arrows and other overlays please? Git 101; GitHub PRs “:

Embedded videos below the fold.

–jeroen

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Posted in Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, git, GitHub, Software Development, Source Code Management | Leave a Comment »

To bypass a Chrome certificate/HSTS error, you can type ‘badidea’ (previously ‘thisisunsafe’) without quotes (this might change in the future)

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/11/11

For expired or self-signed certificates with an untrusted chain, you might want to by base the Chrome certificate/HSTS error message.

Instead of clicking a few times, you can also type ‘badidea’ (this used to be ‘thisisunsafe’ and might change again someday).

Based on: [WayBack] security – Does using ‘badidea’ or ‘thisisunsafe’ to bypass a Chrome certificate/HSTS error only apply for the current site? – Stack Overflow

Found via [WayBack] KPN-klanten kunnen Experiabox V10A niet benaderen door verlopen certificaat – Computer – Nieuws – Tweakers

Source code that handles this: [WayBack] components/security_interstitials/core/browser/resources/interstitial_v2.js – chromium/src – Git at Google

/**
 * This allows errors to be skippped by typing a secret phrase into the page.
 * @param {string} e The key that was just pressed.
 */
function handleKeypress(e) {
  var BYPASS_SEQUENCE = 'badidea';
  if (BYPASS_SEQUENCE.charCodeAt(keyPressState) == e.keyCode) {
    keyPressState++;
    if (keyPressState == BYPASS_SEQUENCE.length) {
      sendCommand(SecurityInterstitialCommandId.CMD_PROCEED);
      keyPressState = 0;
    }
  } else {
    keyPressState = 0;
  }
}

–jeroen

Posted in Chrome, Development, Encryption, https, HTTPS/TLS security, Power User, Security, Web Browsers, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

[MS-ERREF]: NTSTATUS Values | Microsoft Docs

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/11/11

Searching for Windows error codes (like the ones in blue screens) often leads to web-sites with an incomplete list.

This is very complete: [WayBack] [MS-ERREF]: NTSTATUS Values | Microsoft Docs

–jeroen

Posted in Development, Software Development, Windows Development | Leave a Comment »

Drawing with nice handwriting

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/11/10

Did you also wonder about the nice handwriting in the diagrams of yesterday’s post @adamsand0r drew up a few sketches of design decisions needed to be taken when building a #gitops-based CD pipeline « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff?

I did too.

They are from [Archive.is] Excalidraw | Hand-drawn look & feel • Collaborative • Secure, with source code at [Archive.is] GitHub – excalidraw/excalidraw: Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams.

Via:

–jeroen

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@adamsand0r drew up a few sketches of design decisions needed to be taken when building a #gitops-based CD pipeline

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/11/10

Great decision diagrams: [Archive.is] Thread by @adamsand0r: good morning Twitter! I drew up a few sketches of design decisions needed to be taken when building a #gitops-based CD pipeline. let me know…

Via [Archive.is] Ian Miell on Twitter: “Oh man, these diagrams will make the hell of architecting GitOps pipelines easier to reason about… Thread 👇… “

[Archive.is] Ádám Sándor on Twitter: “good morning Twitter! I drew up a few sketches of design decisions needed to be taken when building a #gitops-based CD pipeline. let me know what do you think… #gitopsdecisions”

–jeroen

via

Posted in Development, DevOps, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, git, Source Code Management | Leave a Comment »

🔎Julia Evans🔍 on Twitter: “ten questions about UDP”

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/11/10

From a while back, but still relevant when you learn all your life:

[Archive.is] 🔎Julia Evans🔍 on Twitter: “ten questions about UDP: “

[WayBack] UDP questions

Hello! Here are some questions & answers. The goal isn’t to get all the questions “right”. Instead, the goal is to learn something! If you find a topic you’re interested in learning more about, I’d encourage you to look it up and learn more

–jeroen

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Posted in Communications Development, Development, Internet protocol suite, Software Development, UDP | Leave a Comment »