For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] How to set up OpenVPN with Google Authenticator on pfSense – Vorkbaard uit de toekomst
Should work with Authy too.
Via: [Archive] Matthijs ter Woord (@mterwoord) | Twitter
–jeroen
Archive for September, 2023
How to set up OpenVPN with Google Authenticator on pfSense – Vorkbaard uit de toekomst
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/18
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Revision of some JavaScript bookmarklets for WordPress published pages centered around navigation and IDs: WordPress ditched the undocumented HighlanderComments structure
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/15
As promised yesterday, I updated the scripts for Some JavaScript bookmarklets for WordPress published pages centered around navigation and IDs
Code (which broke at 20230914 because of WordPress.com changes: the undocumented
HighlanderCommentsstructure got removed; I will update the gist later on and post an updated blog post)
Instead of the undocumented HighlanderComments structure, I now use two (also undocumented) link rel elements.
In addition, I found this element that will be interesting in the future: <link rel='shortlink' href='https://wp.me/pvelJ-m8g' />.
You can view the change with the below archivals of the Wayback Machine and Archive.is.
And of course I learned a few things from these MDN entries:
- [Wayback/Archive]
<link>: The External Resource Link element – HTML: HyperText Markup Language | MDN - [Wayback/Archive] HTML attribute:
rel– HTML: HyperText Markup Language | MDN
The 20230530 archivals (Wayback/Archive) of wiert.me/2022/02/14/philosophy-of-management have this HighlanderComments structure:
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Using Fields in Microsoft Word – a Tutorial in the Intermediate Users’ Guide to Microsoft Word
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/15
This page has a truckload of information, but has a short index and few anchor targets: [Wayback/Archive] Using Fields in Microsoft Word – a Tutorial in the Intermediate Users’ Guide to Microsoft Word.
I found it doing these searches:
- [Wayback/Archive] microsoft word “savedate” error unknown switch argument – Google Search
- [Wayback/Archive] word macos savedate format – Google Search
I needed them because I misread it at first and replaced { SAVEDATE \* MERGEFORMAT } with { SAVEDATE \* "dd-mm-yyyy" } which resulted in the field to become displayed as needed Error! Unknown switch argument.. and at first thought this might be a Windows versus MacOS thing.
Fixing the error with { SAVEDATE \@ "dd-mm-yyyy" }) almost solved the problem, as the actual format should be { SAVEDATE \@ "dd-MM-yyyy" } (which displays month number instead of minute number).
So I learned that Word date formatting is almost the same as Excel date formatting.
I was specifically looking for these bits (the first luckily has the #Charformat anchor and was immediately followed by the latter):
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John Scott-Railton on X: “Where are the Quote Tweets? 1️⃣ Find & click the tiny dots 2️⃣ Navigate this cumbersome menu 3️⃣ Marvel at the deliberate enshittification of Twitter 4️⃣ Ponder whether this change is because someone didn’t enjoy getting ratioed.”
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/14
[Wayback/Archive] John Scott-Railton on X: “Where are the Quote Tweets? 1️⃣ Find & click the tiny dots 2️⃣ Navigate this cumbersome menu 3️⃣ Marvel at the deliberate enshittification of Twitter 4️⃣ Ponder whether this change is because someone didn’t enjoy getting ratioed.”
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Some threadreaderapp URLs
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/14
For my link archive so I can better automate archiving Tweet threads using bookmarklets written in JavaScript:
- https://twitter.com/ThomasDamsko/status/1499996661535367169
- https://threadreaderapp.com/search?q=https://twitter.com/ThomasDamsko/status/1499996661535367169
HTTP-302 redirects to:
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1499996661535367169.html
pressing refresh does a POST to:
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1499996661535367169/refreshx
The base will likely be this:
javascript:void(open(`https://archive.is/?run=1&url=${encodeURIComponent(document.location)}`))
which for now I have modified into this:
javascript:void(open(`https://threadreaderapp.com/search?q=${document.location}`))
It works perfectly fine without URL encoding and demonstrates the JavaScript backtick feature for template literals for which you can find documentation at [WayBack/Archive] Template literals – JavaScript | MDN.
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Waarom verschillen buizerds zo sterk in kleur? – rootsmagazine.nl (dank @HermVerm)
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/13
Ik vroeg @HermVerm (twitter) via DM wat een grote bijna zwarte roofvogel lijkend op een buizerd en in de buurt van Lisse plots tussen de bomen de weg overvloog zou kunnen zijn. Herman kwam met [Wayback/Archive] Waarom verschillen buizerds zo sterk in kleur? – rootsmagazine.nl
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Erfelijk bepaald
Kleurvariaties, oftewel genetisch polymorfisme, komen bij 3,5 procent van de vogelsoorten voor en zijn erfelijk bepaald. Het overgrote deel van de buizerds is min of meer bruin. Zo’n 5 procent is (spier)wit, eenzelfde percentage zwart. De basis voor die kleurvariaties ligt in de hoeveelheid pigment: hoe meer melanine, hoe donkerder de buizerd.
…
Ik heb nu dus geleerd dat een buizerd ontzettend veel kleurvariaties van licht tot donker kan hebben.
–jeroen
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Figuring out the cause of “Controlled Folder Access” error messages.
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/13
Still need to investigate why every now and then Windows Remote Desktop causes this error:
C:\Windows\System32\mstsc.exe has been blocked from modifying %userprofile%\Documents\ by Controlled Folder Access.
Related links about EventID numbers 1123, 1124 and 5007:
- [Wayback] Is anyone using Windows Defender Controlled folder access? – Page 4 – Windows 10 Forums explaining the below Event Viewer (eventvwr.exe) custom view:
<QueryList> <Query Id="0" Path="Microsoft-Windows-Windows Defender/Operational"> <Select Path="Microsoft-Windows-Windows Defender/Operational">*[System[(EventID=1123 or EventID=1124 or EventID=5007)]]</Select> <Select Path="Microsoft-Windows-Windows Defender/WHC">*[System[(EventID=1123 or EventID=1124 or EventID=5007)]]</Select> </Query> </QueryList>
- [Wayback] Protect important folders from ransomware from encrypting your files with controlled folder access | Microsoft Docs
The following table shows events related to controlled folder access:
REVIEW CONTROLLED FOLDER ACCESS EVENTS IN WINDOWS EVENT VIEWER Event ID Description 5007Event when settings are changed 1124Audited controlled folder access event 1123Blocked controlled folder access event - [Wayback] View attack surface reduction events | Microsoft Docs
This is the place in the Settings where you can enable the Controlled Folder Access feature:
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Microsoft Store: update all apps from the command-line
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/12
TL;DR
I have converted the below PowerShell one-liner into this batch file (the ^| syntax is to ensure the pipe runs within PowerShell, not within the batch file):
PowerShell 'Get-CimInstance -Namespace "Root\cimv2\mdm\dmmap" -ClassName "MDM_EnterpriseModernAppManagement_AppManagement01" ^| Invoke-CimMethod -MethodName UpdateScanMethod'
The why and how
Since I am a CLI person, and some Windows applications are only available on the Microsoft Store, I wanted to be able to initiate an update cycle from the command-line interface.
So I searched for [Wayback/Archive] microsoft store update all apps from the command-line – Google Search and found these to be valuable:
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Seams I might in part be the cause of (#3186) Remove easter egg “You are smarter than the average bear …” by pauby · Pull Request #3276 · chocolatey/choco
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/11
Only having really learned to speak English starting in my late teens, I never got the “smarter than the average bear” reference, so I filed what I thought was a bug early 2019: [Wayback/Archive] “You must be smarter than the average bear…” after upgrading to 7zip.install v18.6 and notepadplusplus.install v7.6.2 · Issue #1700 · chocolatey/choco which last year got this useful comment
I had this for several packages now, since I am updating them daily.
I am assuming there is a way to remove versions, which leads to this error until there is a new update.
It was confirmed this summer from
I’m smarter than the average bear at least once or twice a month. I think it might be packages which are pulled back and you happen to have installed that version
The bug got referenced this summer from [Wayback/Archive] Remove warning message about “smarter than the average bear” · Issue #3186 · chocolatey/choco.
This in turn lead to [Wayback/Archive] (#3186) Remove easter egg “You are smarter than the average bear …” by pauby · Pull Request #3276 · chocolatey/choco
That made me realise that for large groups of English speaking people “smarter than the average bear” would actually be a well known thing.
So I searched and learned a thing or two:
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Fixing a broken xs4all internet connection was a simple as a cold NTU reboot – jpluimers on Twitter
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/11
Translation of solving a broken xs4all connection:
Solved. Summary:
- Liander and UPS functiond, so both Fritz!Box and NTU had power
- NTU LEDs show Power and Glass, but no Ethernet
- Fritz!Box has green Power and WLAN LEDs and a red Info LED
Solution was cold reboot of NTU.
I also neatly tucked away the NTU power cord for an additional 8 minutes extra down time: [Wayback/Archive] mwgp ping – wiert.me
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 