Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/21
Sometimes the XKCD episodes are hard to get, so I wanted a Bookmarklet to navigate to [Wayback/Archive] explain xkcd.
Here is the regular expression to change the domain name part if it matches: [Wayback/Archive] regex101: build, test, and debug regex: VI34VW with this generated sed code:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/20
[Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers @wiert@mastodon.social on X: “RT @forrestbrazeal: Let me see if I have this straight: – Retweets are when you like something good – Likes are when you like something bad…”
Responses then talk about replying to a tweet or sharing it:
I so much love Forrest’s contributions on Twitter!
Start:
https://x.com/forrestbrazeal/status/1800918914148520314
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/20
Boy was I surprised how bad a human brain functions when getting more stressful:
Figure 6
STATE DEPENDENT FUNCTIONING“STATE” CALM ALERT ALARM FEAR TERROR DOMINANT
BRAIN AREASCortex
(DMN)Cortex
(Limbic)Limbic
(Diencephalon)Diencephalon
(Brainstem)Brainstem ADAPTIVE “Option”
ArousalReflect
(create)Flock
(hypervigilance)Freeze
(resistance)Flight
(defiance)Fight ADAPTIVE “Option”
DissociationReflect
(daydream)Avoid Comply Dissociate
(paralysis/catatonia)Faint
(collapse)COGNITION Abstract
(creative)Concrete
(routine)Emotional Reactive Reflexive FUNCTIONAL IQ 120-100 110-90 100-80 90-70 80-60
I got the table from a Tweet by Andrea Walraven-Thissen (see below).
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/17
[Wayback/Archive] Welcome to the BAG: The Dutch Building and Addresses database – Bert Hubert’s writings
Bert made a test page for it too: [Wayback/Archive] berthub.eu/pcode/2513AA/14 (postal code for “Binnenhof”)
And a repository: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – berthubert/bagconv: Convert Dutch building/dwelling administration into a simpler format
The BAG (Basisregistratie Adressen en Gebouwen) information, which is maintained by the Dutch Kadaster (Cadastre), allows bug reporting, which is processed remarkably quickly: [Wayback/Archive] Postcode + huisnummer niet uniek in Emmen? – Datasets / BAG – Geoforum
Via: [Wayback/Archive] bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺: “I’ve updated my conversion of the official Dutch address, postcode, building database (BAG) with the July 2024 release. Description in English, API, code, CSV files can be found on …” – Fosstodon
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/17
Een paar quotes van Laurens Verhagen’s column [Wayback/Archive] ChatGPT is een soort waarzegger, die net iets vaker de waarheid vertelt | de Volkskrant:
‘Mensen vrezen dat computers te slim worden en de wereld zullen overnemen, maar het echte probleem is dat ze te dom zijn en de wereld al hebben overgenomen.’ Deze vaak aangehaalde uitspraak van computerwetenschapper Pedro Domingos is al zo’n tien jaar oud, maar heeft nog niets aan actualiteit ingeboet.
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ChatGPT in de basis is: een slimme woordvoorspeller.
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Nog erger is misschien wel dat er bij Harper’s Bazaar blijkbaar niemand meer is die nog een boek leest. Ze zijn daar te druk met lijstjes maken aan de hand van chatbots, maar vooral met zichzelf in rap tempo overbodig te maken.
Dat laatste geldt natuurlijk voor iedereen die zwaar leunt op generative AI zonder veel moeite te steken in te verifiëren dat wat de woord- en beeldvoorspellers produceren klopt. Die moeite wordt steeds groter juist door de vervuiling van trainingsdata doordat AI trainingsmodellen niet kunnen onderscheiden of hun bron nu door mensen of door AI wordt gemaakt.
De trainingspool van menselijke data (feit of fictie – waaronder uiteraard satire, dat kunnen de modellen ook niet onderscheiden) – al dan niet uit materiaal dat zonder toestemming is opgenomen – is overigens inmiddels doodgebloed:
“Het had waar kunnen zijn” had van ChatGPT kunnen komen. Als die term faschineert, lees dan vooral [Wayback/Archive] Van Aarsvink tot Zeebreker – O.C. Hooymeijer.
Links uit de quotes van de column:
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/17
Having had to use Mimikatz a few times in the past, I was not aware of the history.
So I was glad to find this elaborate article [Wayback/Archive] Mimikatz and password dumps | Ivan’s IT learning blog and the video (embedded after the signature). [Wayback/Archive] How to fix mimikatz null password in Windows 10 | WORKING 2019!!! – YouTube
Besides the history, it also explains why sometimes you only get hashes and other times you do get plain text passwords.
Recommended reading.
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/16
For me, saving bitbucket.org passwords fails consistently (when using app passwords, it keeps popping up the git credentials dialog on Windows each time I try to push to origin), so I need to dig deeper into [Wayback/Archive] Updating Git for Windows credentials for Bitbucket app password – Stack Overflow.
Query: [Wayback/Archive] windows store bitbucket app password in git – Google Suche
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/16
[Wayback/Archive] NSA Warns iPhone And Android Users—Disable Location Tracking
Related: [Wayback/Archive] Advertising ID – Play Console Help
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/16
Interesting: [Wayback/Archive] nginxinc/kic-reference-architectures: MARA: Modern Application Reference Architecture
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/15
I wonder, 40 years later, what happened after the USSR dismantled: especially with the developments over the last 10 years and the culmination in the last 2, are these bands – banned in January 1985 – still banned in Russia? [Wayback/Archive] They were banned in the USSR – The Scotsman
The above article was published in 2014, and a full translated list in the 2015 article [Wayback/Archive] The Soviet Union Creates a List of 38 Dangerous Rock Bands: Kiss, Pink Floyd, Talking Heads, Village People & More (1985) | Open Culture.
A picture of the original list in Russian was published in the 2017 article [Wayback/Archive] A list of 38 “dangerous” Western bands banned in the USSR
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 