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Archive for December, 2024

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den on Twitter: “Kubernetes.” portrayed by Seinfeld characters (Engineering Festivus)

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/18

At the end of 2020, in the midst of the Covid-19 crisis, [Wayback/Archive] den (@DennisCode) / Twitter started [Wayback/Archive] Engineering Festivus

The only thing 2020 needed is Seinfeld making a career change and getting into tech.

It is a series of IT parodies that at the time of writing just had its’ 35th episode: [Wayback/Archive] den on Twitter: “Kubernetes.”

Kubernetes

Kramer decided to use Kubernetes for his website. Jerry tries to explain what that entails. Kramer is adamant to do it all himself.

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Posted in Amazon.com/.de/.fr/.uk/..., AWS Amazon Web Services, Cloud, Cloud Development, Containers, Development, Docker, Infrastructure, Kubernetes (k8n), Software Development | Leave a Comment »

As a tribute to their @isotopp handle history, Kris now changed its name to Köhntopp

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/17

[Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers: “LOL, just saw @isotopp changed…” – Mastodon

LOL, just saw @isotopp changed his name to Köhntopp

Well done, Kris. Well done.

ftfy.vercel.app/?s=ö

( the history of the iso isotopp handle is so great, that I was glad I captured it from Twitter before that content got deleted; it is now at wiert.me/2022/06/09/how-isotop )

This Vercel app cannot be archived in the Wayback Machine properly as it then returns a HTTP 500. The Archive.is save succeeded though: [Wayback/Archive] https://ftfy.vercel.app/?s=ö:

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Posted in Development, Encoding, ISO-8859, ISO8859, Mojibake, Software Development, Unicode, UTF-8 | Leave a Comment »

Markdown has been the Internet’s lingua franca for documentation. Microsoft finally the documentation format with markitdown: Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/17

Finally an easier way to convert Office documents (and other formats) to markdown: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – microsoft/markitdown: Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown. (after Google added a Markdown export feature to Google Docs about half a year ago, and basic Markdown formatting about 2 years ago – see below):

There are quite a few dependencies in [Wayback/Archive] markitdown/pyproject.toml at main · microsoft/markitdown · GitHub, so be prepared for that.

Supported formats (added links for clarity):

The MarkItDown library is a utility tool for converting various files to Markdown (e.g., for indexing, text analysis, etc.)
It presently supports:
  • PDF (.pdf)
  • PowerPoint (.pptx)
  • Word (.docx)
  • Excel (.xlsx)
  • Images (EXIF metadata, and OCR)
  • Audio (EXIF metadata, and speech transcription)
  • HTML (special handling of Wikipedia, etc.)
  • Various other text-based formats (csv, json, xml, etc.)

Google was first though:

  1. [Wayback/Archive] Google Workspace Updates: Compose with Markdown in Google Docs on web
  2. [Wayback/Archive] Google Workspace Updates: Import and export Markdown in Google Docs

There is speculation on why Microsoft introduced it just now ranging from “they need it for AI training” to “just late to the game”. I’m with the latter. Apple is even later, so if you want to convert Apple Notes to markdown, then you can use [Wayback/Archive] Import from Apple Notes – Obsidian Help.

Via various sources, including:

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Posted in CSV, Development, Excel, HTML, HTML5, JSON, Lightweight markup language, MarkDown, Office, PDF, Power Point, Power User, Software Development, Word, XML/XSD | Tagged: , | Leave a Comment »

Some links and notes as I want to write a Bookmarklets to help resize HTML images

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/17

Probably not fully the direction I need to search to (main goal is to interactively edit img tag attributes (basic and style) to manipulate the appearance of pictures in my blog), but should do for now:

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

Kleding voor nerds en geeks / Clothing for nerds & geeks — getDigital

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/16

This site will redirect you to your localised version (which means the archived links are titled “Clothing for nerds & geeks — getDigital”) [Wayback/Archive] Kleding voor nerds en geeks — getDigital.

It is originally German (see below links) and the T-shirt quality is quite OK.

--jeroen

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Evade Windows Defender Mimikatz detection by patching the amsi.dll | by Nol White Hat | Jul, 2022 | System Weakness

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/16

For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] Evade Windows Defender Mimikatz detection by patching the amsi.dll | by Nol White Hat | Jul, 2022 | System Weakness

Via: [Wayback/Archive] rootsecdev on Twitter: ““Evade Windows Defender Mimikatz detection by patching the amsi.dll” by Nol White Hat”

–jeroen

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Some initial steps solving the Raspberry Pi (3 and 4) issue where OpenSuSE LEAP does reach Graphical Target but Tumbleweed does not

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/13

This is from years ago, but I forgot to schedule it, so here it is:

Problem on an E20 (enlightenment using lightdm) image:

  • LEAP 15.2 did reach Graphical Target
    • Image [Wayback] openSUSE-Leap-15.2-ARM-E20-raspberrypi3.aarch64-2020.07.08-Build1.34.raw.xz [Wayback] .packages [Wayback] .raw.xz.sha256 [Wayback]  [Wayback] .raw.xz.sha256.asc
  • Tumbleweed did not.

Parts of the chat transcript:

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Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, LEAP, Linux, openSuSE, Power User, SuSE Linux, Tumbleweed | Leave a Comment »

Some notes as I need to perform contact syncing between various Google accounts

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/13

Consolidating and splitting contacts between Google accounts because of family affairs has been on my wish list for a long time.

Somehow this is far more difficult than I expected.

So here is a link dump that hopefully will help me later on.

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Nein! Doch! Oh! Grenscontrolemijders maken de N35 bij Enschede nog drukker

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/13

Now where is my surprised hat?

(dit was op voorhand al een spel van muren en ladders, waar er niet genoeg personeel is om de muren te bemensen)

[Wayback/Archive] Grenscontrolemijders maken de N35 bij Enschede nog drukker

 

--jeroen

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Nerd Corner making life easier: Dupont connectors and soldering aids (3D printing) for jumper cables!

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/12

Making life easier for hardware fiddling people:

Cool solutions with .stl files.

Via [Wayback/Archive] Iceman on X: “This is nifty. A nice solution to a Real world problem Dupont cable mess! …”

--jeroen

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