Archive for February, 2025
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/21
I needed to charge a bunch of 12V gelbatteries, but most of the CTEK pages are location specific and localised so it’s hard to get English pages on the EU version of the MXS 5.0 charger: the one that can deliver 5 ampere to 12 volt batteries.
The universal English start page is [Wayback/Archive] Battery Chargers | ctek.com with the EU sheet at
[Wayback/Archive] MXS_5.0-productsheet-low-EN.pdf [Wayback PDF View/PDF View]
Note that Google docs does not always start the PDF View correctly due to cloud resource usage.
Localised links:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/21
Interesting: [Wayback/Archive] ufrisk/MemProcFS: The Memory Process File System
MemProcFS is an easy and convenient way of viewing physical memory as files in a virtual file system.
Easy trivial point and click memory analysis without the need for complicated commandline arguments! Access memory content and artifacts via files in a mounted virtual file system or via a feature rich application library to include in your own projects!
Analyze memory dump files, live memory via DumpIt or WinPMEM, live memory in read-write mode from virtual machines or from [Wayback/Archive] PCILeech [Wayback/Archive] FPGA hardware devices!
It’s even possible to connect to a remote LeechAgent memory acquisition agent over a secured connection – allowing for remote live memory incident response – even over higher latency low band-width connections! Peek into Virtual Machines with [Wayback/Archive] LiveCloudKd or [Wayback/Archive] VMWare!
Use your favorite tools to analyze memory – use your favorite hex editors, your python and powershell scripts, WinDbg or your favorite disassemblers and debuggers – all will work trivally with MemProcFS by just reading and writing files!
On Windows, there is even the cool tool [Wayback/Archive] evild3ad/MemProcFS-Analyzer: MemProcFS-Analyzer – Automated Forensic Analysis of Windows Memory Dumps for DFIR:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/20
Cool: [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @mariusheier on Thread Reader App – USB-A to USB-C. A @cursedconnector ? Or genius?
Image on the right is larger on [Wayback/Archive] Gdn-fwFW4AAao2D.jpg (964×772)
I think it is genius, as it is way shorter than what I found on sites like Amazon, ebay, Aliexpress and others.
For now I am using ones from Amazon that are a tad bit too long (thereby putting too much stress on the USB C output of my laptop), but they are charging only (no video capability): [Wayback/Archive] USB C Female to USB Male Adapter Pack of 3, Type A Power Supply Charger Cable Adapter for iPhone 11 12 13 Pro Max, SE, iPad Mini 6 Air 4 5, Apple Watch iWatch 7, Samsung Galaxy S20 S21 S22 Plus Ultra FE: Amazon.de: Computer & Accessories (image below)
The one Marius posted about is also charging only, but shorter: [Wayback/Archive] 1-10PCS Type-C 3.1 Female to Double-sided USB Am Male Connector 2.0 Charging Version Adapter with PCB Board Inside – AliExpress
Compare with the picture of the Amazon one:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/20
For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] How to send raw network packets in Python with tun/tap
I never really played around with tun and tap, so this is a nice opportunity to do so. I know they were the base for VPN on Linux, but just now I learned TUN/TAP are not available on nx, but also on Windows. Cool!
Via [Wayback/Archive] 🔎Julia Evans🔍 on Twitter: “how to send raw network packets in Python with tun/tap …”
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/19
Cool thread: [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @dosdude1 on Thread Reader App – upgrading storage from 512GB to 8TB on an M3 Max MacBook Pro (images at the bottom of this blog post: they are large):
Just finished my most difficult Apple Silicon storage upgrade yet… 512GB to 8TB on an M3 Max MacBook Pro! This was especially difficult, as it required installing around 100 extra tiny components to use the second set of 4 NANDs…
Because I didn’t have schematics for this model, I had to painstakingly hand draw this diagram to locate the correct position of each component, which I derived based on a schematic for a similar model. Definitely took a long time!
If I need to have a Silicon Mac upgraded, this is one of the people to keep an eye on and when needed visit [Wayback/Archive] Technical Support – DosLab Electronics.
Dosdude1 has been active in this field of work for quite some time. A nice article on earlier work is [Wayback/Archive] Collin Mistr’s Open-Hardware 2.5″ IDE SSD Aims to Bring Speedy Solid-State Storage to Vintage PCs – Hackster.io.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/19
Last week, I wrote that I switched to Visual Studio Code for most of my text based coding: Visual Studio Code: blazingly fast text expansion with Emmet.
I also use vscode for documentation and text writing, which – yes sometimes I am a copy/paste person too – means you want a bit more flexibility than just copying the selected text.
In most of my previous development tools, either the tool itself, or a plugin, would allow me to copy the word under the cursor if none was selected.
I wanted to change that behaviour too and become more flexible.
So I did some searches:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/18
It’s almost
Goal of the current post amend the above posts with information so I can later write a bookmarklet or web-page with JavaScript that – from a x.com or twitter.com – tweet URL can get the JSON, then the images and/or videos in all sizes, then generate a web-page from it for Wayback Machine archival.
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Posted in Development, HTML, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Scripting, SocialMedia, Software Development, Twitter, Web Development | Tagged: 128, 32392, 7473, 7476, LaTeX | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/18
I unconsciously wanted a tool like this for a long time, and was glad I finally searched for it:
A keyboard logging and presentation utility for presentations, screencasts, and to help you become a better keyboard user.
[Wayback/Archive] Code52/carnac: A utility to give some insight into how you use your keyboard
The first time I saw something similar was in the Delphi days where it was part of a plugin for CodeRush in Delphi (think Delphi 5-6 era), the famous developer productivity tool by Mark Miller that later got rewritten for Visual Studio and became part of DevExpress.
So I searched for [Wayback/Archive] windows show keystrokes – Google Search which found [Wayback/Archive] How to show keystrokes on Windows 10 which in turn mentioned a fork of Carnac.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/17

Download & transfer via USB Transfer Tip: After downloading, use your USB cable to connect your computer and Kindle. Your Kindle will appear as a drive on your computer. Copy your downloaded file from your computer to your Kindle’s documents folder. ❗️Starting 26 February 2025, the ‘Download & Transfer via USB’ option will no longer be available. You can still send Kindle books to your Wi-Fi enabled devices by selecting the ‘Deliver or Remove from Device’ option. Learn more about managing downloads
Amazon will disable downloading of Kindle books after 2025-02-25 (yup: slightly more than a week!):
(image on the right via Jan Wildeboer)
Edit 20250224: steps to convert from Kindle 1.17 on MacOS or Windows in 3 Ways to Convert Kindle to PDF for Free.
It allowed me to convert everything to PDF except one book which I found a free PDF of at [Wayback/Archive] Linear Algebra Done Right as [Wayback/Archive] linear.axler.net/LADR4e.pdf [Wayback PDF View/PDF View] via [WaybackSave/Archive] Sheldon Axler on X: “The free Kindle version of the fourth edition of my book Linear Algebra Done Right is now available at www.amazon.com/Linear-Algebra-Right-Undergraduate-Mathematics-ebook/dp/B0DDT4WVRD. The free pdf version of the book is available at linear.axler.net. The free translation into Chinese is also available as a pdf file at linear.axler.net“ ¹
Back to the original:
Table with URLs for your Kindle libraries where you can download manually based on https://www.amazon.com/hz/mycd/digital-console/contentlist/booksAll/dateDsc/ which I got form the below mentioned download tools:
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