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Archive for June, 2022

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Interactive @waybackmachine achievement unlocked while manually archiving 4 pages.: HTTP 429 Too Many Requests

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/06/20

[Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “Interactive @waybackmachine achievement unlocked while manually archiving 4 pages. web.archive.org/429.html“.

The below error took a few hours to recover from. The submitted URLs were indeed already archived when checking if they were.

It was about the URLs in my blog post earlier today: Vanaf 1 juli kost opheffen oude spaarrekening EUR 75, dus wees er snel bij: Beëindig je oude spaarproduct – ING – Sparen.

I really wish Archive.org had a status page to show system status, as right now you have to guess by pages like below about their status.

You can find the error page at [Archive] https://web.archive.org/429.html (but not all HTTP response codes have pages like this and some respond in a different way like [Archive] https://web.archive.org/404.html).

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Inclusie/toegankelijkheid voor het @LUMC_Leiden: een tabel in HTML in plaats van plaatje zonder alt-text – #a11y

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/06/20

Voor inclusie en toegankelijkheid heb ik het plaatje van de tabel met voedingsmiddelen op [Wayback/Archive] Coloscopie | LUMC onderstaand in een HTML versie gegoten dankzij Google Lens die voor mij de tekst via OCR eruit gehaald heeft.

Dit vanwege een ingreep die binnenkort plaatsvindt waarbij een laxeerprotocol met Picoprep bij hoort.

De tabel als plaatje

De tabel is niet leesbaar voor mensen met een visuele beperking, en is afgedrukt bovendien zo klein dat zelfs voor mensen met een normaal zicht dit bijna niet leesbaar is.

Vanuit oogpunt van (verplichte, zie onder) toegankelijkheid en inclusie van mensen met een beperking is dit onwenselijk.

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Vanaf 1 juli kost opheffen oude spaarrekening EUR 75, dus wees er snel bij: Beëindig je oude spaarproduct – ING – Sparen

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/06/20

[Wayback/Archive] Beëindig je oude spaarproduct – ING – Sparen: tot 1 juli kan dit nog zonder EUR 75 aan kosten.

De flow bestaat uit een stap of 30 (als je kiest voor online identificatie via IDIN) en eindigt heel onverwachts niet op ing.nl, maar op digitaal.id:

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Windows: require UAC elevation to enter password instead of a simple “Yes” helps preventing USB HID attacks

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/06/17

Of course you should be careful inserting random USB devices. Apart from USB HID attacks, they could perform other attacks like DMA ones.

To help preventing automated UAC elevation, you can make it harder to activate UAC by requiring a password. I think the below registry trick and policy is supported as of Windows 7, but it could be more recent (i.e. Windows 8.1).

The video below shows the trick, but does not document it in text. So here we go [WayBack] Windows doesn’t ask for your password when changing settings – Windows 10 Forums

reg add "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System" /v "ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin" /t REG_DWORD /d "1" /f
reg add "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System" /v "ConsentPromptBehaviorUser" /t REG_DWORD /d "1" /f
reg add "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System" /v "EnableInstallerDetection" /t REG_DWORD /d "1" /f
reg add "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System" /v "EnableLUA" /t REG_DWORD /d "1" /f
reg add "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System" /v "EnableSecureUIAPaths" /t REG_DWORD /d "1" /f
reg add "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System" /v "EnableUIADesktopToggle" /t REG_DWORD /d "1" /f
reg add "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System" /v "FilterAdministratorToken" /t REG_DWORD /d "1" /f
reg add "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System" /v "PromptOnSecureDesktop" /t REG_DWORD /d "1" /f

(A more elaborate batch file with lots more hardening is at [WayBack] Win 10 edits · GitHub)

The registry trick is especially useful for Home editions of Windows which do not allow you to run the Security Policy control panel applet secpol.msc.

The first two values explained at [WayBack] How to configure Windows UAC prompt behavior for admins and users – gHacks Tech News:

ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin

This key defines the User Account Control behavior for system administrators. The default value is set to prompt but do not require credentials to be entered. Here are all possible values:

  • 0: A value of 0 allows administrators to perform operations that require elevation without consent (meaning prompts) or credentials (meaning authentication).
  • 1: A value of 1 requires the admin to enter username and password when operations require elevated privileges on a secure desktop.
  • 2: The value of 2 displays the UAC prompt that needs to be permitted or denied on a secure desktop. No authentication is required.
  • 3:  A value of 3 prompts for credentials.
  • 4: A value of 4 prompts for consent by displaying the UAC prompt.
  • 5: The default value of 5 prompts for consent for non-Windows binaries.

ConsentPromptBehaviorUser

  • 0: A value of 0 will automatically deny any operation that requires elevated privileges if executed by standard users.
  • 1: The value of 1 will display a prompt to enter the username and password of an administrator to run the operation with elevated privileges on the secure desktop.
  • 3: The default value of 3 prompts for credentials on a secure desktop.

The changes should take effect immediately. You can for instance set the admin behavior to 0 so that no prompts are displayed, and user behavior to 0 as well to prevent them from running operations that require elevated privileges.

Related:

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How can you export the Visual Studio Code extension list? (via: Stack Overflow)

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/06/16

Adapted from [Archive.is] How can you export the Visual Studio Code extension list? – Stack Overflow, presuming that code is on the PATH:

  1. From the command-line interface on MacOS, Linux, BSD or on Windows with git installed:
    code --list-extensions | xargs -L 1 echo code --install-extension
  2. From the command-line interface on MacOS, Linux, BSD or on Windows without git installed:
    code --list-extensions | % { "code --install-extension $_" }

    or, as I think, more clearly (see also [WayBack] syntax – What does “%” (percent) do in PowerShell? – Stack Overflow):

    code --list-extensions | foreach { "code --install-extension $_" }

    or even more explanatory:

    code --list-extensions | ForEach-Object { "code --install-extension $_" }
  3. From the command-line interface on Windows as a plain cmd.exe command:
    @for /f %l in ('code --list-extensions') do @echo code --install-extension %l
  4. On Windows as a plain cmd.exe batch file (in a .bat/.cmd script):
    @for /f %%l in ('code --list-extensions') do @echo code --install-extension %%l
  5. The above two on Windows can also be done using PowerShell:
    PowerShell -Command "code --list-extensions | % { """""code --install-extension $_""""" }"

    Note that here too, the % can be expanded into foreach or ForEach-Object for clarity.

All of the above prepend “code --install-extension ” (note the trailing space) before each installed Visual Studio Code extension.

They all give you a list like this which you can execute on any machine having Visual Studio Code installed and its code on the PATH, and a working internet connection:

code --install-extension DavidAnson.vscode-markdownlint
code --install-extension ms-vscode.powershell
code --install-extension yzhang.markdown-all-in-onex

(This is about the minimum install for me to edit markdown documents and do useful things with PowerShell).

Of course you can pipe these to a text-file script to execute them later on.

The double-quote escaping is based on [Wayback/Archive.is] How to escape PowerShell double quotes from a .bat file – Stack Overflow:

you need to escape the " on the command line, inside a double quoted string. From my testing, the only thing that seems to work is quadruple double quotes """" inside the quoted parameter:

powershell.exe -command "echo '""""X""""'"

Via: [Archive.is] how to save your visual studio code extension list – Google Search

--jeroen

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AI and ML are just as smart as the training data, which for large sets of data usually gives biased or outright results

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/06/15

Kris phrases a thought that has been lingering in my head for decades: [Archive.is] Kristian Köhntopp on Twitter: “”AI” ist nicht intelligent, sondern reproduziert das Trainingsmaterial und die Vorurteile darin. Es handelt sich um automatisierten Aberglauben und Verschwörungsquatsch. Je größer das Netzwerk, um so wirrer.” / Twitter

Basically there are two kinds of AI:

  • a bunch of if/then/else statements
  • a model based engine that is as bad as it’s training data; the larger the set of training data, the worse it gets.

A few of the images in the excellent thread that Kris quoted (more in the [Wayback/archive.is] PDF): [Archive.is] Owain Evans on Twitter: “Paper: New benchmark testing if models like GPT3 are truthful (= avoid generating false answers). We find that models fail and they imitate human misconceptions. Larger models (with more params) do worse! PDF: https://t.co/3zo3PNKrR5 with S.Lin (Oxford) + J.Hilton (OpenAI)… “

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Moving an existing GitLab project into a new subgroup is called “Transferring”

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/06/14

Turns out the “slug” for a project… the part of the URL after the GitLab server domain name is made up of the “namespace” and the project name. The name space is the group/subgroup path, so I was

Via [Wayback] git – Moving an existing GitLab project into a new subgroup – Stack Overflow

Turns out the “slug” for a project… the part of the URL after the GitLab server domain name is made up of the “namespace” and the project name. The name space is the group/subgroup path, so I was looking to transfer project to new namespace.

Transferring the project to a different namespace means re-typing the project name during the transfer. You can do this using copy & paste.

The documentation is under [Wayback] Project settings: Transferring an existing project into another namespace | GitLab.

–jeroen

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Some notes on (temporarily) using CIFS/SMBv1 with Windows 10

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/06/13

Warning: only do this in a well confined network because of the SMBv1 has serious security implications!

Temporarily allowing SMBv1 makes it easier to transfer files from/to ancient Windows XP (virtual) machines.

Sometimes you need those to support hardware for which more modern drivers or support do not exist.

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LUMC folders over rectoscopie, coloscopie en diepe verdoving

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/06/10

Ik heb niet alleen prikangst, maar ook onderzoek in ziekenhuizen vind ik eng, dus voorbereiding hierop is voor is belangrijk, want uiteraard ga ik wel (en ben ik de rest van de dag uitgeteld vanwege de propofol).

Deze folders van het LUMC hielpen me de afgelopen dagen met voorbereiding:

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How isotopp became the online handle of Kristian Köhntopp

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/06/09

Like me, [Archive.is] Kristian Köhntopp is a nerd.

Unlike me, Kris bumped into character encoding issues for just about all his digital life. That started about the same time as mine, but again unlike me: he was way more involved in the technical aspects of it.

First a series of Tweets:

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