Posted by jpluimers on 2024/01/31
A while after writing notes on updating DNS info with bind DNS, b0rk (Julia Evans) posted about her DNS zine which got a reply about her DNS lookup tool. Below is part of that thread.
The reason I post is that – unlike the Google DNS ToolBox – you can bookmark her DNS tool link including the actual search part, which makes it far easier to do systems administration.
Examples:
There is a trace tool too:
The thread:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/01/29
Not sure about you, but when I write code I want it to be better – way beter even – than average code.
The problem with any LLM based Generative AI is that it generates text based on the average of the past corpus they were trained with at the time they were trained.
It is exactly why I have been advocating for a while: be careful when using Generative AI, as you get generated text based on the combination of averaging over the LLM corpus with the relatively small prompt you phased trying to reflect a tiny bit of the model of the reality you are trying to write software for.
So I was not at all surprised by this article: [Wayback/Archive] New GitHub Copilot Research Finds ‘Downward Pressure on Code Quality’ — Visual Studio Magazine.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/01/26
A long time ago, I wrote about Wifispots instellen | Klantenservice | Ziggo « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff.
For that, you need a Ziggo VPN certificate, which you can download from [Wayback] www.ziggo.nl/content/dam/www.ziggo.nl/tools/WifiSpots certificaten/WifiSpots certificaat Android en Windows Ziggo.crt .
On many Android phones, that does not install the default way any more as back then.
The reason is that it is a CA root certificate (in this case identifying Ziggo as certificate authority) thereby allowing them to issue any certificate. This can be a serious risk, so you have to be really sure to trust them before installing the certificate.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/01/26
The drawback of evening live USA broadcasts is that most of Europe and Africa are asleep.
The Americas, Asia and Australia are awake, so I get it that [Wayback/Archive] Insanely Great – CHM – The Apple Mac at 40 was streamed live at 04:00 UTC at [Wayback/Archive] Computer History Museum – YouTube: live.
Hopefully the capture will be available soon.
Not holding my breath though as not response whatsoever from the moderator when I asked for it.
Via [Wayback/Archive] David Pogue on X: “40 years ago today, Steve Jobs unveiled the Macintosh. Tonight, I’m hosting an astonishing event that reunites many of its creators: Bill Atkinson, Andy Hertzfeld, Susan Kare, Steve Capps, Bruce Horn, Guy Kawasaki, many more. Free livestream at 7 pm PT:”.
--jeroen.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/01/25
This one is cool: [Wayback/Archive] PRANK: Windows XP Updates.
Note that unlike the screenshot below, the actual prank does count the percentage. The actual page does.
You can start this one and various other OSes plus Windows versions and other pranks via [Wayback/Archive] FakeUpdate.net – Windows Update Prank by fediaFedia (at the time of writing Windows 98 install, Windows Vista update, Windows 8 update, Windows 7 update, Mac OS boot, Windows 10 install, Windows 10 update, steam and “fake ransomware”).
It is a cool and relatively harmless way of teaching people to use their lock screen when away from their machine (Windows: Win+L, Mac OS: Ctrl+Shift+Power).
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/01/24
I wasn’t aware that Java has some some catch-up and now supports user definable inline types: [Wayback/Archive] Inline Thinking | Patricia Aas – Programmer
Computers changed. They changed in many ways, but for the purpose of this text they changed in one significant way: The relative cost of reading from RAM became extremely high.
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These “cache friendly” behaviors are already present in Java when using so called “primitive types”, like ints and chars. “Primitive types” are “inline types” and come with all of their advantages. So even though inline types may seem foreign in the beginning, you have worked with them before, you just might not have thought of them as objects. So when “inline classes” seem confusing, you could try to think: “What would an int do?”
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