Posted by jpluimers on 2023/11/15
[Wayback/Archive] Danielle Braun dr. on Twitter: “En en in plaats van of of.”
The image is by @thepresentpsychologist on Instagram (figured that out via Google Lens finding [Wayback/Archive] Psychological Safety Newsletter #39: Diversity and Ethical Behaviour | Psychological Safety), but and it took some effort to find the original post back as Instagram does not allow anonymous browsing.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/11/14
Apparently you have to do this once for a Google account, as it is on the account level, not the web-browser level.
The odd thing was that somehow despite setting the country to The Netherlands when setting up the account, these were the settings in Google Calendar
After the steps from [Wayback] How to Switch to a 24 Hour Clock in Google Calendar – Live2Tech, the settings now are these:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/11/13
5cdca90b182ffcfb7deb17686168116ea44c37ad3c4f3b871255e27271f4704e4bc6c7e7c61af4b5d1b086c5d279947357cff45c2f82021bb58628c2503eb64e1c2edc542dc450b0666b74ecdf97073751123c78450fb92783587fcceecf445d8f8e54759e54a25d4cbf869a418f57b7c4942a9b2672a8c3fb84396551608b7fGot to the ISO files from www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows11 by changing the User-Agent of Chrome on Windows to be Chrome on Mac:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/11/10
A while ago, Jilles found out why not to use VirtualBox: [Wayback/Archive] Jilles🏳️🌈 on Twitter: “@jpluimers Ik wil op basis van wat de Arch community schreeuwt; “Virtualbox is stom, als je geen hyper-v gebruikt vraag je om problemen”, HYPER-V maar gaan proberen.” / Twitter
The biggest problem is that VirtualBox seems to be developed ant tested for the happy path, not the failing path.
Which means that when you use it for less common scenarios, it will often fail in mysterious ways.
Back in Running ArchiveTeam Warrior version 3.2 on ESXi, I already mentioned this:
Totally agreeing with Kristian Kohntopp, I do not understand why people use VirtualBox at all: I just run in too much issues like [Archive.is] Kristian Köhntopp on Twitter: “Hint: Wenn die Installation einer Linux-Distro in Virtualbox mit wechselnden, unbekannten Fehlern scheitert, hilft es, stattdessen einmal VMware Workstation oder kvm zu probieren. In meinem Fall hat es dann *jedes* *einzelne* *Mal* mit *demselben* Iso geklappt.”.
Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, ArchiveTeamWarrior, Hyper-V, InternetArchive, Linux, Power User, VirtualBox, Virtualization, VMware, WayBack machine, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 11 | 1 Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/11/09
Wow, what a long title!
What happened is that I have a few dashboards for people that include various embedded Google Calendar widgets in <iframe>s.
These won’t show on fresh installs of Google Chrome that have the particular user signed on in the Chrome Settings so that settings will be synchronised, right?
Right?!
Wrong!!
Not all Chrome settings will be synchronised by Chrome. Things like [Wayback/Archive] “On startup” (with the pages shown after Chrome startup) and wich installed extensions are synchronised including the visibility of their icons. But the settings of the extensions themselves will not.
This means that odd things happen, for instance extensions like [Wayback/Archive] Privacy Badger and [Wayback/Archive] uBlock Origin being installed, but both reverting to their default settings.
That in turn leads to hard to see problems, in this case the embedded Google Calendar <iframe>s failing.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/11/08
Edit: I scheduled this post a long time ago, but it likely won’t work any more because of Space Karen demolsing Twitter. So for now, view this post as a how historically we had nice things on Twitter.
When writing this, the fork [Wayback/Archive] woluxwolu/twint works and the original [Wayback/Archive] twintproject/twint: An advanced Twitter scraping & OSINT tool written in Python that doesn’t use Twitter’s API, allowing you to scrape a user’s followers, following, Tweets and more while evading most API limitations. does not.
See these tweets in Dutch (Google Translate on them works well):
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/11/07
From quite a while ago, and still interesting:
[Wayback/Archive] Truncated incorrect DOUBLE value | Die wunderbare Welt von Isotopp which is actually a correct but confusing error when performing a
SET…WHEREand you get theANDin the wrong place.
[Wayback/Archive] Debugging SQL in Python | Die wunderbare Welt von Isotopp on being “able to see the actual SQL string that has been sent to the database in order to facilitate interactive debugging” for mysqlclient and the the official MySQL 8 Connector/Python package.
Why are these interesting?
For me it is because tiny hick-ups can be just as hard for senior people as for novices.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/11/06
We should do more to increase the accessibility of both software developers and users of software.
[Wayback/Archive] Serge Lachapelle 🇺🇦🇸🇪 on Twitter: “Quote of the day from @Vintharas. Don’t think of it as accessibility in your product design. Think of it as inclusivity.
#a11y#i9y“which refers to both
a11y– (computer) accessibility andi9y– inclusive design.
An important aspect there is to support case insensitive environments for both software developers and software users.
This sounds strange, as it makes systems less strict, but with the diversity of people not doing so makes it less accessible and decreases inclusivity.
It all started with reading [Wayback/Archive] /Fay-lee-nuh/ on Twitter: “Totally agree with this, case sensitivity does not add a lot apart from errors. Also note that some languages (Arabic, for example) do not have uppercase letters! So the whole idea of “case sensitive” to some people is new (and thus can make learning to program a lot harder)”.
Parts of the responses there and in the tweet Felienne quoted, were from people still insisting on case sensitivity or even limiting identifiers and filenames to US 7-bit ASCII.
I totally disagree, so I wrote a long thread in response, starting with [Wayback/Archive] “@Felienne @guido_leenders Sentence 2 in your first tweet should be an eye opener to everyone….” archived at the ThreadReaderApp as [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @jpluimers on Thread Reader App:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/11/03
Formatting USB sticks in Fat32 on Windows 10 can be a pain, especially when they are larger than 32 gigabyte.
Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19043.1081] (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\bin>format D: /FS:FAT32 Insert new disk for drive D: and press ENTER when ready... The type of the file system is EXFAT. The new file system is FAT32. Verifying 239.0 GB The volume is too big for FAT32. Format failed. C:\bin>
This works:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/11/02
[Wayback/Archive] corbosman on Twitter: “I created a container in my private kubernetes cluster that checks if my ziggo ip address changes and if so, notifies me and makes some DNS changes through the API of my DNS provider. Last night Ziggo changed my IP and it worked flawlessly. Win!” / Twitter
His ISP: [Wayback/Archive] corbosman on Twitter: “@jpluimers transip“.
The Domain API for his ISP TransIP is at [Wayback/Archive] TransIP API: Domains (via [Wayback/Archive] transip dns api – Google Search).
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 