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Archive for November, 2024

Not just on a new tab: MacOS chrome crashes when command + shift + i is pressed on a new tab [333424895] – Chromium

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/23

April 2024 this bug was reported: [Wayback/Archive] chrome crashes when command + shift + i is pressed on a new tab [333424895] – Chromium

That one was fixed, but it looks shortcuts like Command (⌘) + Shift + I still break Chrome when used on a tab pointing to a web-site.

Hopefully the original fix at [Wayback/Archive] Fix crash in sharing menu (5449679) · Gerrit Code Review will help people fixing the standing issue as well.

Related (I plan to file a bug report when the number of my open tabs is closer to zero from the current 200+):

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GHP1989 to WHY2025: Dutch hacker camps from the past and the future – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/22

A long, since 1989, tradition is the Quadrennial Dutch hacker convention.

A nice video summarising all of them is at [Wayback/Archive] GHP1989 to WHY2025: Dutch hacker camps from the past and the future – YouTube

The upcoming [Wayback/Archive] WHY2025 hacker camp convention is covered starting at 44:42.

--jeroen

Posted in Conferences, Event, LifeHacker, Power User, WHY2025 | Leave a Comment »

ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ” by tzwickl · Pull Request #768 · sivel/speedtest-cli

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/22

Somehow this post missed the schedule and for a long time I forgot to properly checked for “missed schedule” posts.

Back in 2021, suddenly systems with speedtest-cli threw a [Wayback/Archive] ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ” by tzwickl · Pull Request #768 · sivel/speedtest-cli after accessing the speedtest.net servers.

Around 7-8 April, 2021 the speedtest.net/speedtest-config.php XML configuration suddenly had changed the value for the XPath expression /settings/server-config/@ignoreids from being a list of integers into empty, see the archived files below.

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Posted in Development, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Python, Scripting, Software Development, XML/XSD, XPath | Tagged: , | Leave a Comment »

Reminder to self: write Bookmarklet to assemble URL for Amazon Shipping ID

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/21

Example URL: [Wayback/Archive] track.amazon.com/tracking/NL2017506177

Via: [Wayback/Archive] Amazon Shipping

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Posted in Bookmarklet, Development, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Scripting, Software Development, Web Browsers | Leave a Comment »

The Twelve-Factor App

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/21

Still relevant: [Wayback/Archive] The Twelve-Factor App and [Wayback/Archive] 12 Fractured Apps — Medium

Once Docker hit the scene the benefits of the 12 Factor App (12FA) really started to shine. For example, 12FA recommends that logging should be done to stdout and be treated as an event stream. Ever run the docker logs command? That’s 12FA in action!

Via

–jeroen

Posted in Back-End Development, Cloud Development, Communications Development, Conference Topics, Conferences, Deployment, Developing scalable systems, Development, DevOps, Distributed Computing, Event, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

GitHub – ggerganov/whisper.cpp: Port of OpenAI’s Whisper model in C/C++

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/20

For future experimentation transcribing voice conversations: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – ggerganov/whisper.cpp: Port of OpenAI’s Whisper model in C/C++

Whisper (speech recognition system) usually runs in the cloud (someone else’s computers, often rentable for a substantial monthly sum).

Via

  1. [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers: “Wat is een goede tool voor transcriptie van Nederlandse tekst voor hobbymatig gebruik?…” – Mastodon
  2. [Wayback/Archive] bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺: “@wiert whisper.cpp als je handig bent…” – Fosstodon

Now hopefully Whisper works well with the Dutch language…

I later realised Jeff Geerling mentioned Whisper a while ago as well:

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Posted in AI and ML; Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, C++, Development, LifeHacker, Power User, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Generate a GUID in Windows 10 (Globally Unique Identifier)

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/20

A while ago, I needed to generate GUIDs on any Windows console so performed a [Wayback/Archive] generate guid windows terminal – Google Search, found [Wayback/Archive] Generate a GUID in Windows 10 (Globally Unique Identifier) and came up with this generate-guid.bat file:

powershell [guid]::NewGuid()

–jeroen

Posted in CommandLine, Console (command prompt window), Development, PowerShell, PowerShell, Scripting, Software Development, Windows | Leave a Comment »

Un4seen.Bass Namespace – BASS.NET API for the Un4seen BASS Audio Library

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/19

A while ago, within a week time, I got reminded of a project I did some 15 years ago involving low-latency audio using the .NET platform on Windows XP Embedded.

For that I used the BASS.NET wrapper classes and P/Invoke methods around the Un4seen BASS Audio Library.

Back in those days there was not much documentation about this, but now there is more.

Some starting points are:

Via:

Related:

--jeroen

Posted in .NET, Audio, Conference Topics, Conferences, Development, Event, LifeHacker, Media, Power User, Software Development, Windows Development | Leave a Comment »

crt.sh allows you to search for the history of TLS certificates for domains (example: *.wiert.me)

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/19

I while ago, I bumped into [Wayback/Archive] crt.sh | Certificate Search that allows searching for (the history of) TLS certificates.

One example of what it returns is [Wayback/Archive] crt.sh | wiert.me (for my blog domain and subdomains).

The basic mechanism of crt.sh is to query various Certificate Transparency logs and Certificate revocation list, terms I vaguely knew, but never fully realised the vast usefulness of (including questions like [Wayback/Archive] How does crt.sh becomes aware of certificates that are in no CT logs?).

The cool thing is that most (everything?) of it is open source in the various repositories at [Wayback/Archive] Github: crt.sh.

There is also an advanced search page [Wayback/Archive] crt.sh | Certificate Search (a=1) with many more options (including linting) I really want to try later plus a bunch of background links (including the support forum at) of which some *.crt.sh returned a http 502 while writing this blog post. Will try later to see if they have started working again:

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Posted in Communications Development, Development, Encryption, HTTPS/TLS security, Internet protocol suite, Power User, Security, TCP, TLS | Leave a Comment »

Is it possible to deter AI scraping by providing overly large robots.txt?

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/18

An idea: [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers: “@ruurd @mcc … Maybe place useful content below 500 KiB and serve a file at least 1 GiB size?…” – Mastodon

@ruurd @mcc probably not, although Google Search limits them to 500 KiB.

developers.google.com/search/d

“Google currently enforces a robots.txt file size limit of 500 kibibytes (KiB). Content which is after the maximum file size is ignored. You can reduce the size of the robots.txt file by consolidating rules that would result in an oversized robots.txt file. For example, place excluded material in a separate directory.”

Maybe place useful content below 500 KiB and serve a file at least 1 GiB size?

It was in response to these earlier toots (with quotes of some very interesting links on when cookies are (dis)allowed –  TL;DR: it depends on local regulations):

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Posted in Antivirus, GDPR/DS-GVO/AVG, Power User, Privacy, Security | Leave a Comment »