Archive for February, 2025
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/11
A lot of forum software (not just on retro computing or history) embed image smileys in their messages translated from text-smileys.
It seems they missed that a lot of them have made their way into Unicode, making it not just easier to display but also a lot easier for visually impaired.
So, please software developers, use the Unicode characters whenever possible.
Here is a good start
--jeroen
Posted in accessibility (a11y), Awareness, Development, Inclusion / inclusive society, Software Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/11
For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] Payload Box.
It has lots of examples on payloads for various kinds of injections that are excellent teaching material.
Covered are Cross Site Scripting (XSS), SQL Injection, Server Side Template Injection, RFI/LFI, Command Injection, CSV Injection, Directory, Open Redirect and XML External Entity (XXE) Injection.
Got there when inspired by:
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Blue team, Database Development, Development, Power User, Red team, Security, Software Development, SQL, Web Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/10
Inn de basis een door mijn opa gebouwde opwindbare (3 gewichten) Warmink Wuba triple chime – Westminster, St. Michael, Whittington clock.
Die liep nauwelijks meer, en sloeg zowel geen melodie meer, maar ook geen uursignaal meer.
Hieronder links die me hielpen met uitzoeken wat er van dit merk nog bestond en kennis aanwezig is.
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in About, Development, DIY, Encoding, LifeHacker, Mojibake, Personal, Power User, Software Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/10
Remember [Wayback/Archive] Apple Provides Further Clarity on Why It Abandoned Plan to Detect CSAM in iCloud Photos | MacRumors Forums?
Google now forces a similar thing.
Uninstall this as soon as it appears on your Android phone: [Wayback/Archive] Google System APK Transparency | Android Binary Transparency | Google for Developers
Via [Wayback/Archive] jack: “You remember #Apple scanning a…” – Mastodon @ SDF:
If you have an
#Android #phone, a new app that doesn’t appear in your menu has been automatically and silently installed (or soon will be) by
#Google. It is called
#AndroidSystemSafetyCore and does exactly the same – scan all images on your device as well as all incoming ones (via messaging). The new spin is that it does so “to protect your
#privacy“.
You can uninstall this app safely via System -> Apps.
For more information, see:
Query: [Wayback/Archive] “Android System Safety Core” – Google Search
--jeroen
Posted in Android Devices, Power User | Tagged: android, AndroidSystemSafetyCore, Apple, google, mobile, phone, Privacy | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/10
It’s hard to not hack all the things…
–jeroen
Posted in LifeHacker, Power User, Red team, Security | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/07
Ain’t history extra lovely when someone discovers the original drawings of what her dad had sent to space?
Back in the 1970s, Frank Drake did two memorable things: he helped design the Pioneer plaque (sent to space in 1972 on Pioneer 11) containing among other things pulsar map, and later helped design the 1977 Voyager Golden Record (sent to space in 1977 on both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2) again containing the pulsar map. In between, he helped designed Arecibo message broadcasted to space in 1974.
And guess what: today is the 50th anniversary of that message being broadcasted.
Almost 10 years ago, in 2016 his daughter Nadia Drake found back the original drawing of the pulsar map: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in History, LifeHacker, Power User, science | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/06
Hopelijk lukt dit iemand van de grond te krijgen, maar het zal wel stranden in regelgeving (net als GPT-NL wat tegen licentieproblemen aan loopt¹ en GEITje – wat vanwege licentieproblemen uit de lucht gehaald is ²) [Wayback/Archive] Mailen en communiceren zonder Musk en Trump: Cloud Kootwijk – Bert Hubert’s writings.
Via onder meer:
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Cloud, Communications Development, Development, eMail, Infrastructure, SocialMedia, Software Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/06
I’m anxious to see how some 2.5 years after the introduction, Stable Diffusion has evolved.
By then, you could run it either on-line at for instance [Wayback/Archive] Stable Diffusion – a Hugging Face Space by stabilityai:
Stable Diffusion DemoStable Diffusion is a state of the art text-to-image model that generates images from text.
or run it yourself if your GPU was powerful enough by using the base repository [Wayback/Archive] CompVis/stable-diffusion or one of the many forks: [Wayback/Archive] Forks · CompVis/stable-diffusion (back then some 1.4k!)
The original announcement was [Wayback/Archive] Stable Diffusion Public Release — Stability.Ai.
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in AI and ML; Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Development, Python, Scripting, Software Development | Tagged: stablediffusion | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/05
TL;DR: the [Wayback/Archive] Self Service Repair – Apple Support parts are very expensive; having an expert solder them is way more affordable
Last year, [Wayback/Archive] Official (by_APPLE): Mac mini (2024) Repair Manual : r/macmini already had the part numbers for Mac Mini M4 SSD upgrades which I put in this table (staggered staggered to emphasise the M4 and M4 Pro differences) with prices for the M4 upgrades after receiving back the return credit (which I still need to figure out what you need to return):
Mac Mini M4 SSD upgrade part numbers
| Mac mini (2024 with M4) |
|
Mac mini (2024 with M4 Pro) |
|
|
661-43668, 256GB
|
USD 263.12 |
|
|
|
661-43669, 512GB
|
USD 251.12 |
661-43672, 512GB
|
|
|
661-43670, 1TB
|
USD 439.12 |
661-43673, 1TB
|
|
| 661-43671, 2TB |
USD 748.00 |
661-43674, 2TB
|
|
|
|
661-43675, 4TB
|
|
|
|
661-43676, 8TB |
|
NB: If anyone can provide a Mac Mini M4 Pro serial, I can amend the table with those part prices as well.
It also had these links:
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Apple, Apple Silicon, Mac, MacMini, Power User | Leave a Comment »
The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 