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Archive for March, 2025

One of the marvels from b0rk on Twitter is some 40 pages of debugging strategies: by now it should be a fully fledged zine

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/11

[Wayback/Archive] 🔎Julia Evans🔍 on Twitter: “so far we have about 40 pages of debugging strategies and trying to organize them is a struggle :) here’s a draft of the table of contents (though it’s SO FAR from being done, note the “unsorted pages” section haha)”:

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Table of contents text (via Google Lens):

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Posted in Agile, Debugging, Development, Software Development, Unit Testing | Leave a Comment »

On my list of things to try: xBrowserSync – Browser syncing as it should be: secure, anonymous and free!

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/10

[Wayback/Archive] xBrowserSync – Browser syncing as it should be: secure, anonymous and free!

Things to watch for are syncing actions the browsers perform themselves (like Google Browser Sync integrated into Chrome and Firefox Sync).

It is open source at [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – xbrowsersync/api: Server-side REST API that serves requests from xBrowserSync client apps.

Other freemium solutions also exist, like [Wayback/Archive] Raindrop.io — All-in-one bookmark manager which has [Wayback/Archive] Pricing — Raindrop.io.

Via :

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Posted in Chrome, Edge, Firefox, LifeHacker, Power User, Safari, Web Browsers | Leave a Comment »

U-prevent

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/10

Interesting:

Get more insights by calculating individual cardiovascular risk and the effect of preventive treatment.

[Wayback/Archive] U-prevent.

--jeroen

Posted in Health, LifeHacker, Power User | Leave a Comment »

oobe\bypassnro removed from Windows 11 24H2 dead/hidden ? – YouTube – or is it? Two alternatives

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/07

I needed this for some Windows ARM VMs on VMware Fusion for running on my M1 MacBook Pro: [Wayback/Archive] oobe\bypassnro removed from Windows 11 24H2 dead/hidden ? – YouTube

In the end this combination works:

  • before booting, remove the network adapter (physically, or virtually from VMware Fusion or from Parallels)
  • after boot, as soon as the Shift-F10 combination works, run oobe\bypassnro (or add the registry entry, see below)

After this, Windows detected no network, and offered an install with a local username/password indicating the choice “I don’t have internet”.

If that ever fails in the future, I can use this trick from the comments:

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Posted in Apple, Apple Silicon, ARM Mac, M1 Mac, Mac, MacBook, Power User, Windows, Windows 11 | Tagged: | Leave a Comment »

Kenteken Font | dafont.com

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/07

This is cool when one needs a temporary 1-day Dutch license plate (for instance when importing a car): [Wayback/Archive] Kenteken Font | dafont.com

Download:

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Posted in cars, Font, LifeHacker, Power User | Leave a Comment »

Weather info in plain text or JSON

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/06

Two sites that can help you out getting weather info on the console:

wttr.in

wttr.in is developed by [Wayback/Archive] Igor Chubin (@igor_chubin) / X and looks at the request header to figure out what kind of output it sends.

It supports various output formats, so on my TODO list is to see how they do their mapping: always an opportunity to learn (it’s based on Python and Go so I am curious what libraries they use as well).

From the documentation:

wttr.in currently supports five output formats:

  • ANSI for the terminal;
  • Plain-text for the terminal and scripts;
  • HTML for the browser;
  • PNG for the graphical viewers;
  • JSON for scripts and APIs;
  • Prometheus metrics for scripts and APIs.

The ANSI and HTML formats are selected based on the User-Agent string.

There are more parameters in the documentation on the main page of the repository and through this command:

curl wttr.in/:help

The idea is derived from [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – schachmat/wego: weather app for the terminal.

Oh: Igor has more repositories at [Wayback/Archive] chubin (Igor Chubin) · GitHub (including [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – chubin/cheat.sh: the only cheat sheet you need which is hosted at [Wayback/Archive] cheat.sh; I thought I had blogged about that before, but found it only in a draft note mentioning that I got it via [WaybackSave/Archive] Nicolas Krassas on X: “The only cheat sheet you need cheat.sh)

7timer

A 7 timer JSON usage example is at [Wayback/Archive] Get Weather from 7Timer! · GitHub

It has documentation at

Output formats can be chosen from HTML, PNG, XML and JSON.

Via

[Wayback/Archive] Hacker Public Radio – hpr4266 :: What’s the weather?
Lee writes a script to check what the weather is like ~ The Technology Community Podcast

HPR is a great podcast series!

--jeroen

Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, ash/dash, bash, bash, Development, Go (golang), JavaScript/ECMAScript, JSON, Power User, Python, Scripting, Software Development, Web Development, XML/XSD | Leave a Comment »

Miguel de Icaza on Twitter: “This is so beautiful – SQL Injection attacks but for GPT-3 and other AI text models.” / Twitter

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/06

2.5 years after Miguel summarised the state of AI text models, and given SQL Injection (because of mixing control and data channels) still is a thing in the 2020’s, I wonder both how much improvement there has been on the AI side of things and how much it is used in pen testing.

So I archived the below tweets to be able to read back and figure out on the current state.

[Wayback/Archive] Miguel de Icaza on Twitter: “This is so beautiful – SQL Injection attacks but for GPT-3 and other AI text models.”:

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Posted in AI and ML; Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Blue team, Database Development, Development, Pen Testing, Power User, Red team, Security, Software Development, SQL | Leave a Comment »

Unicode subscripts and superscripts: Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and IPA tables; Source: Small caps: Unicode – Wikipedia

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/05

I originally searched for the tables below to see if I could get the visualisations of TeX and LaTeX right for infinite loop in “LaTeX: A Document Preparation System” by Leslie Lamport, printed in 1994..

Didn’t work, neither did using plain html super and subscript. The only thing that worked was using CSS styles (I chose to embed them, as separate CSS files are a huge premium over the WordPress plan), which also preserves actual meaning for screen readers:

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Posted in accessibility (a11y), CSS, Development, HTML, Power User, Software Development, Unicode, URL Encoding, User Experience (ux), Web Development | Leave a Comment »

On my list of thigs to play around with: ISSUE_TEMPLATE and other GitHub templates/settings

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/05

Somehow I never consciously thought through how on many GitHub repositories, some of the issue reporting steps started with nice templates.

That is, until I bumped into [Wayback/Archive] alfred-my-mind/.github at master · nikitavoloboev/alfred-my-mind which has:

  1. a folder [Wayback/Archive] alfred-my-mind/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE at master · nikitavoloboev/alfred-my-mind with Markdown files for different kinds of issues (bug report, feature request and question).
  2. a file [Wayback/Archive] alfred-my-mind/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md at master · nikitavoloboev/alfred-my-mind

So from [Wayback/Archive] ISSUE_TEMPLATE – Google Search a few results for me to get started:

--jeroen

Posted in Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, git, GitHub, Software Development, Source Code Management | Leave a Comment »

Reminder to self: re-check the Dotpe API Security Breach — bool.dev

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/04

Still public merchant information

Still public merchant information

It looks like some store and merchang APIs were not protected back when [Wayback/Archive] Dotpe API Security Breach — bool.dev was published.

Reminder to self: check their status now as I can’t believe their “human error” got fixed properly.

History (reverse chronological order):

  1. [Wayback/Archive] How DotPe’s ‘Human Error’ Exposed Confidential Customer API Data
  2. [Wayback/Archive] Deedy on X: “Today, Google-backed DotPe locked down their APIs by rate-limiting by IP on /external/merchant and blocking others. They sent a legal notice to the author before fixing it and haven’t publicly acknowledged the issue at all. Companies must be held accountable for poor security.…”

    [Wayback/Archive] Tweet JSON: [Wayback/Archive] GYSlTthakAEoojp.png:orig (2346×1838)

  3. Now protected private API

    Now protected private API

    [Wayback/Archive] Deedy on X: “6 hours later, the API is still very much public! …”

    [Wayback/Archive] Tweet JSON: [Wayback/Archive] GYK38dXbkAEEEs_.jpg:orig (1358×1798)

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Posted in Communications Development, Development, HTTP, Infosec (Information Security), Internet protocol suite, REST, Software Development, TCP, Web Development | Leave a Comment »