Archive for March, 2024
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/03/15
Cool event – for me even relatively close (about 60 minutes driving) – [Wayback/Archive] The Global Delphi Summit taking place this year on June 13 and 14.
The speaker line-up is great as are their sessions. The main web-site pages are:
Via [Wayback/Archive] Delphi Summit 2024 – GDK Software
If you come from abroad, consider spending a few extra days. Purmerend has a nice old Dutch city center with roots going back as far as the 1100s. The map File:Waterland 1288.jpg – Wikimedia Commons shows it situated in between various lakes which in the 1600s all became land by pumping out the water and transforming them into polders. There are scenic routes over many of the dikes surrounding these polders.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/03/13
I am publishing this in order of the Twitter bot Social bots appearing, though I found this one later than the Apple ][ equivalent:
[Wayback/Archive] 8bitkick/BBCMicroBot: Runs your tweet on an 8-bit computer emulator which is a GitHub repository with full source code.
The odd thing is that I bumped into it while performing a [Wayback/Archive] bot that reads unicode – Twitter Search / Twitter (I was looking for a bot responding to fancy Unicode in account names and messages that makes using Twitter for visually impaired a pain to use wich I covered in To make Twitter a better place for visually impaired: please do without those fancy Unicode letters in your account and messages – Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2022 – #a11y).
It made me find this thread stat started in spring 2022:
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Posted in 6502, 6502 Assembly, Assembly Language, BASIC, BBC Micro B, Development, History, SocialMedia, Software Development, Twitter, TwitterBot | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/03/12
Still working on handling open Chrome tabs after having moved in the period that GitLab had quite a few issues causing my PagerDuty alerts to go wild.
Today PagerDuty gave me 7 calls in 4 hours again (see [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers @wiert@mastodon.social on X: “@gitlab Since 20240312T1727Z I get PagerDuty alerts from HetrixTools for some pages hosted on GitLab. It would be nice if someone could have a look at gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/production/-/issues/17717“).
In adddition I need to check if anything made it to the GitLab issue list from the 20230827 connectivity issues I mentioned at [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers @wiert@mastodon.social on X: “Is it @gitlab hosting having transcontinental issues, or are other continental connections affected as well? These are from two different *.gitlab.io pages as measured via @HetrixTools . No issues are listed at status.gitlab.com“.
Back then, this was the most important one: [Wayback/Archive] GitLab System Status: GitLab.com availability issues – October 30, 2023 15:39 UTC
Likely because of this, wiert.me.gitlab.io had been down for a while as well on 20231031 (see [Wayback/Archive] wiert.me.gitlab.io (Recent History) – HetrixTools down from 2023-10-30T15:24Z until 2023-10-30T16:14Z for 3 + 3 + 11 + 27 = 44 minutes.)
Back then, the hardest part was to quickly find out if there was indeed an issue being investigated at all.
The GitLab status multi-media account on Twitter just points to the status page, which makes it hard to find the underlying issue.
I didn’t archive that one in time, but when I got the alerts it didn’t show anything and when it was resolved it was already beyond the cut-off timestamp to mark it as “same day” and the graph didn’t show much down-time [Wayback/Archive] GitLab System Status graph didn’t show much down-time:
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Posted in *nix, Cloud, Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, GitLab, hetrixtools, Infrastructure, Monitoring, PagerDuty, Power User, Software Development, Source Code Management | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/03/11
Most Fritz!Box VoIP configurations have a phone number configured to only work on telephony devices (i.e. handsets) on the same Fritz!Box.
But it is possible to define a telephony device that itself is another VoIP end-point.
This way you can hook a second (or more) Fritz!Box up to the phone number(s) of the first Fritz!Box.
I am using this for two reasons:
Below is how to get this going, assuming the first Fritz!Box is a 7490 running firmware 7.29 and the second is a a 7360 with firmware 6.33 (other versions and firmware versions vary slightly).
But first the related post: Many links about free modem/router choice and their configurations for the Dutch KPN internet/VoIP provider where I figured out that just using a 7360 won’t cut it any more.
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Posted in DECT, Fritz!, Fritz!Box, Hardware, ISDN, Network-and-equipment, Power User, PSTN, Telephony, VoIP | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/03/08
[Wayback/Archive.is] about etched:
etched is an internet archive tool that permanently timestamps and stores web pages directly into the Bitcoin BSV blockchain.
This is a major improvement from traditional web archivers as all etched pages are permanently stored and independently provable by anyone who has access to the bitcoin blockchain. This means even if etched shuts down anyone can search and view all previously saved data using bitcoin browsers like Bottle.
Via [Wayback] Archive.is blog — See if you suddenly died and that hardware failure…:
For redundancy, try something like etched.page, they store pages on Bitcoin blockchain.
Example: [Wayback] etched archive of nos.nl, 2021-09-10
Related:
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/03/06
I totally missed this feature got implemented: [Wayback/Archive] Use Remembered Arguments for a Package During Upgrades · Issue #797 · chocolatey/choco. I also seem to be lucky I have not tried it out yet (:
I bumped into it via [Wayback/Archive] Chocolatey Software | Notepad++ 8.4.4, which had this interesting comment:
If you want Notepad++ 32 bit and you want it to stay on 32 bit with upgrades, ensure you are on Chocolatey 0.10.4 (or newer). Then add `-x86` to your installation arguments. Then turn on the remembered arguments feature with ‘choco feature enable -n useRememberedArgumentsForUpgrades‘ – this will ensure that `-x86` gets passed on upgrade when running `choco upgrade all`. For more information on how this works, see https://github.com/chocolat…797
First of all, if you started using Chocolatey at or before 0.14, the useRememberedArgumentsForUpgrades feature is disabled by default and kept that way even after upgrading to the most recent version. You can see executing choco feature list on a system that started with Chocolatey:
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 