Posted by jpluimers on 2022/08/29
For Signal messenger users: please visit [Wayback/Archive] Signal PIN: manage Registration Lock – Signal Support then enable it on your mobile phone.
The breach: [Wayback/Archive] Twilio attacker ‘explicitly’ looked for 3 Signal numbers • The Register
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/08/26
Last winter, I discovered that the OpenVPN version on Chocolatey was really old: it had not been updated since 2019.
Most Chocolatey maintainers are volunteers and sometimes the burden can become too large. Back then the maintainer was [Wayback/Archive] Chocolatey Software | wget, but luckily [Wayback/Archive] Chocolatey Software | dgalbraith has stepped in and in March 2022 bumped the version from [Wayback/Archive] Chocolatey Software | OpenVPN 2.4.7 to [Wayback/Archive] Chocolatey Software | OpenVPN – Open Source SSL VPN Solution 2.5.4 and kept maintaining (currently there is [Wayback/Archive] Chocolatey Software | OpenVPN – Open Source SSL VPN Solution 2.5.7).
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/08/25
No, Carbon is not the same thing as the same named MacOS Carbon API it .
Someone had to make it: [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “@d_feldman That has a net zero Carbon footprint, right? (OK, I’ll show myself out)”.
Luckily Googlers themselves are joking about it as well:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/08/24
Cool: [Wayback/Archive.is] Pi Zero USB Stem – KIT-14526 – SparkFun Electronics
The Pi Zero USB Stem is a PCB kit that turns a Raspberry Pi Zero into a USB dongle. Once the Stem is installed, your Raspberry Pi can be plugged directly into a computer or USB hub without any additional cables or power supplies. The Raspberry Pi then acts as a USB device using its own Linux kernel gadget drivers to get started.
The Zero Stem is designed to be soldered directly to the USB SMD test pads on the bottom of the Raspberry Pi Zero, needing no wires or pogo pins at all, just solder and a soldering iron! Attaching the stem to your Pi also allows you to create a portable VNC server, or even cluster several Raspberry Pi Zeros with just a USB hub.
The Zero Stem is compatible with the Raspberry Pi Zero v1.3 and the Raspberry Pi Zero W v1.1, but unfortunately it is not compatible with the Raspberry Pi Zero v1.2 or any full-size Raspberry Pi due to their shapes and sizes.
Note: In order for your Pi Zero to function as a USB device with this Stem, you will need to configure it to act as one. You will be able to find these instructions in the Documentations tab under “How to OTG Fast“.
Related:
Video below the signature or at [Wayback/Archive.is] Product Showcase: Pi Zero USB Stem – YouTube.
Via [Archive.is] Chris Bensen on Twitter: “Oh this is cool!”.
Related: RPIZ USB OTG Raspberry Pi Zero – Hi-Speed OTG-adapter and RPIZ USB ADAPTER Raspberry Pi Zero – Adapter van contact naar USB
Pictures:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/08/23
For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive.is] Facebook banned me for life because I created the tool Unfollow Everything.
Via:
Related:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/08/22
For my link archive, as sometimes uploading does not proceed, and I want to figure out the cause: [Wayback/Archive.is] How To Fix “Google Photos Not Uploading” On Android & iPhone
Before you start: Check your Back up Status
- Diagnose your Internet Connection
- Ensure you’re using the right backup settings
- Enable Backup Device Folders
- Disable Battery Optimization for Google Photos
- Enable Background Data Usage
- Keep Google Photos updated
- Reset/Reinstall the Google Photos app
I had to revert to 7. as 5. was already set, and 4. was not available in the settings.
That solved my issues.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/08/19
[Wayback/Archive.is] Mijn nummervermelding
Via mijnnummervermelding.nl kunt u inzien of uw gegevens door uw telecomaanbieder worden verstrekt aan telefoongidsen en nummerinformatiediensten. U kunt ook uw voorkeuren wijzigen.
Via: [Wayback/Archive.is] S07E23 – Hoe je VoIP stuk maakt met pebkac en waarom telefonie nog zo gaar klinkt met Nick Bouwhuis – Met Nerds om Tafel
Regelateerd:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/08/18
If you like working with STM32 and want to try out a new simulator for it (by [Wayback/Archive] Wokwi (@WokwiMakes)), then sign up at
[Wayback/Archive] https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfpuGcUI1YdsX6o5lBhit14GPBEh6L7MVTSSDEk_HJFvBgjUQ/viewform
Via [Wayback/Archive] Wokwi on Twitter: “Want to try out the new STM32 simulator? Sign-up for early access: link.wokwi.com/stm32-simulator 🤓” and [Wayback/Archive] tnt (@tnt).
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/08/17
This is so cool!
[Wayback/Archive.is] Eff-Uno Racer v1 by chrisbensen – Thingiverse
Welcome to the home for the things to print for the Eff-Uno Racer project ([Wayback/Archive.is] github.com/oracle-devrel/eff-uno-racer). Eff-Uno Racer is a LEGO© Open Wheel Race Car that you can build and remotely control. Most of it is made with LEGO© bricks but the motors are regular RC motors controlled by a Raspberry Pi and Arduino. Below are the extra parts needed.
The videos are via these three tweets:
List is at: [Wayback/Archive.is] Cool DevRebel Projects – YouTube
Videos when writing (by now there should be more):
Via [Archive.is] Chris Bensen on Twitter: “If you want to build your own open source cloud connected toy race car follow this thing”
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/08/16
A while back Kristian Köhntopp (isotopp) wrote a blog post after quite a Twitter argument where he poses against using git empty commits. I’m with Kris: don’t use them for anything, especially not for kicking off your CI/CD.
Basically his blog post is all about avoiding to think you have a golden hammer, and avoid falling for the Law of the instrument – Wikipedia.
Originally, Abraham Maslow said in 1966:
“I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.”
For me this has all to do with preventing technical debt: find the right tool to kick your CI/CD pipeline after part of that chain somehow malfunctioned is way better than polluting the commit history with empty commits.
His blog post: [Wayback/Archive.is] Empty commits and other wrong tools for the job | Die wunderbare Welt von Isotopp
The most important bit in it:
And since we are talking about CI/CD pipelines: Don’t YAML them. Don’t JSON them. Don’t XML them.
…
Programming in any of these three is wrong use of tooling, and you should not do it.
- YAML, JSON and XML are for declarative things.
- Python, Go and Rust are for procedural things.
- Bash is for interactive use only.
Use the proper tooling for the job. Be an engineer.
This very much reminds me of an Entwickler Konferenz keynote a long time ago, where Neal Ford made the point that most software engineers act very much unlike what is expected from traditional engineering way of operating where the engineer is both responsible and liable for his actions.
The start of the Twitter thread: [Archive.is] Kristian Köhntopp on Twitter: “A lot of people right now that git is an API and triggering CI/CD pipelines with empty commits replaces the equivalent of a Kubernetes controller for their fragile pile of bash in git triggers. This is broken and begets more brokenness. Evidence:… “
The tweet that started the subtweet: [Archive.is] Florian Haas on Twitter: “(For anyone wondering, what’s nice about this one is it works in any CI. So you don’t have to remember how to manually kick off a GitLab CI pipeline or GitHub Action or Zuul job, you just push an empty commit and off you go.)”
Other relevant tweets:
This solution still has one drawback. Gitlab requires a project specific token. If every developer uses the same token, its validity is bound to the project and not the individual contributor. While Gitlab allows users to create personal access tokens, you cannot require such a token to trigger a pipeline.
Yes, you want to avoid shell too (anything like for instance sh, ash, dash, bash or zsh), but you have to know it (and understand why to avoid it) as often it is the only interactive way to access systems from the console.
And of course Kris also wrote a big document on that too, which is available as full PDF (Wayback), full HTML (Wayback) and chaptered HTML Die UNIX Shell /bin/sh.
But more importantly, Kris wrote [Wayback/Archive.is] Using Python to bash | Die wunderbare Welt von Isotopp which is about using Python to do things you might be tempted to do in the shell. It quotes
Shell is a thing you want to understand and then not use, because you learned to understand it.
which is from the German post in thread [Wayback/Archive.is] Bashprogrammierung, wo gehts am besten los which quotes Kris’ 1998 message:
From kris Tue Sep 1 11:26:12 1998 From: kris Newsgroups: de.comp.os.unix.misc Subject: Re: Shell-Frage, find, xargs, kopieren von vielen Dateien References: <6seh24$q9a$2...@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> From: kr...@koehntopp.de (Kristian Koehntopp) Alignment: chaotic/neutral X-Copyright: (C) Copyright 1987-1998 Kristian Koehntopp -- All rights reserved. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Marc.Hab...@gmx.de (Marc Haber) writes: >mir ist das ganze Zeug mit der Shell, find, xargs und Konsorten noch >reichlich verschlüsselt. http://www.koehntopp.de/kris/artikel/unix/shellprogrammierung/ >xargs hin oder sollte ich besser ein Perlskript schreiben? Verwende Perl. Shell will man koennen, dann aber nicht verwenden. Kristian
–jeroen
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