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Archive for January 20th, 2022

RFC2606: Reserved Top Level DNS Names (RFC); draft-ellermann-idnabis-test-tlds-04: Reserved Top Level DNS Names (Internet-Draft, 2008)

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/01/20

Note

Though there are .example.edu and .example.info, though used in documentation and  registered by IANA, have a status is different from the official Reserved Top Level DNS Names:

This is not exactly the same situation as for say ".example.org", where IANA is the registrant *and* registrar.

Wikipedia links:

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Posted in Development, DNS, Documentation Development, Internet, Power User, Software Development, Testing | Leave a Comment »

Some links on Chrome not prompting to save passwords (when Firefox and Safari do)

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/01/20

For quite some time now, Chrome (think years) refuses to prompt for saving passwords whereas Firefox and Safari do prompt and save them, even for site types that it used to save passwords for in the past.

It has been annoying enough for too long now that I tried to do better than the Google searches I used back when I saw this happen first.

Below are some links based on new searches (starting with [Wayback] adding a password in chrome settings – Google Search); hopefully I can try them after I made a list of sites that Chrome does not show the password save prompt for.

Solutions I tried that failed (but maybe useful for others):

Solutions still to try:

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Posted in Chrome, Chrome, Communications Development, Development, Encryption, ESXi6, ESXi6.5, ESXi6.7, Firefox, Fritz!, Fritz!Box, Fritz!WLAN, Google, https, HTTPS/TLS security, Internet, Internet protocol suite, Let's Encrypt (letsencrypt/certbot), Power User, routers, Safari, Security, TCP, TLS, Virtualization, VMware, VMware ESXi, Web Browsers, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

The Seven Step Process to Creating an Amazing Demo | by Chris Bensen

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/01/20

On the reading list: [Wayback/Archive.is] The Seven Step Process to Creating an Amazing Demo | by Chris Bensen | Oracle Developers | May, 2021 | Medium

So you have some crazy idea and want to build a demo. This seven step process should help you turn that idea into something amazing

Chris created the World’s Largest 3D Printed Brick Computer and was the driving force behind the Raspberry Pi Mini Super Computer [Wayback].

World’s Largest 3D Printed Brick Computer

World’s Largest 3D Printed Brick Computer

Raspberry Pi Mini Super Computer

Raspberry Pi Mini Super Computer

–jeroen

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