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Archive for 2025

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PayPal domains to enable JavaScript for

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/16

I have JavaScript disabled in my browser and had to enable it for these domains to get PayPal working:

Without the first and last, Captchas nor 2FA would work.

[Wayback/Archive] Netify.ai: PayPal – Domains, IPs and App Information (which I found via [Wayback/Archive] domains used by paypal – Google Search) only lists primary domains (not subdomains like the above) and contains both paypal.com and paypalobjects.com.

The list is by Netify.ai, the company having Deep Packet Inspection products around the open source engine [Wayback/Archive] pcbaldwin/netifyd: The open-source Netify DPI engine is a standalone deep packet inspection agent that provides a flexible and affordable DPI solution for gateways, firewalls, SD-WAN, WiFi, IoT and other OEM devices..

–jeroen

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Running Android applications on Apple Silicon: is the Android Emulator from Android Studio the only option?

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/13

On my research list: running Anrdoid apps on Apple Silicon.

I wonder if using the Anrdoid Emulator from Android Studio the only straightforward option.

Links:

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Posted in Apple, Apple Silicon, ARM Mac, M1 Mac, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, macOS 14 Sonoma, Power User | Leave a Comment »

How to restrict a Google search to results of a specific language? – Web Applications Stack Exchange

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/13

Note that below:

  • the two-letter language code can be either lowercase or uppercase
  • the two-letter country code needs to be UPPERCASE

[Wayback/Archive] How to restrict a Google search to results of a specific language? – Web Applications Stack Exchange (thanks [Wayback/Archive] ZygD):

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A PDF can run JavaScript, which means it can hosts a VM for Linux or Doom

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/12

A few years back, this question popped up: [Wayback/Archive] Embedding JS into PDF : cybersecurity

The answer is yes, and you can take this far. Virtualisation far. Which is what these repositories – both by [Wayback/Archive] ading2210 · GitHub – did:

Via [Wayback/Archive] Angry Nerds Podcast – YouTube -> [Wayback/Archive] Angrynerds 235 – Automasturbator – YouTube -> 1540 seconds at [Wayback/Archive] Angrynerds 235 – Automasturbator – YouTube – t=5040s

1:24:00 Hadden we Doom in PDF-vorm al eens genoemd? https://github.com/ading2210/doompdf Er is een vervolg, nu gewoon linux draaien in een PDF https://github.com/ading2210/linuxpdf Dus in feite gewoon een PDF-VMetje

Related:

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Sequoiaview altrnatives

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/12

I wrote about Sequoiaview in depth in SequoiaView Homepage, made some research notes in “cushion treemap” delphi – Google Search and touched it slightly in A choco install list.

I never heard back from my request for Sequoiaview source code, and given ever increasing local storage media sizes, the speed of it now has become an issue, so I started looking to see if more alternatives have appeared and what sets them apart.

TL;DR

  1. There is the open source WinDirStat that runs as non-admin and is about as slow as Sequoiaview
  2. There is the closed source but free for personal use WizTree that requires admin elevation and is much faster than Sequoiaview and WinDirStat

Neither of them allow for a view that is cushion treemap only.

The reason that WizTree is fast is that it directly uses the NTFS MFT (Master File Table) to read the information from. This requires elevated permissions.

This is the same mechanism used by the Everything search tool, but unlike Everything, WizTree:

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unix – How come is this command returning “GET A LIFE!”? – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/11

Didn’t know nx had a scriptable RPN command-line calculator dc (for Desk Calculator) which does not seem to need white space characters in the input stream or input file.

It likely is a source for command-injection attacks given the question [Wayback/Archive] unix – How come is this command returning “GET A LIFE!”? – Stack Overflow, so I did a bit of digging and found this great platform:

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An Interactive Guide to Flexbox in CSS

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/11

For my link archive (as interactive stuff works way better for me than learning from plain reading) [Wayback/Archive] An Interactive Guide to Flexbox in CSS

Via:

–jeroen

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Solution for “mac flush DNS cache” by Jan Lehnardt :couchdb:: “@christopherkunz alias dnsreset=’sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder'” – narrativ.es

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/10

https://narrativ.es/@janl/114658491232292970

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TFrame – What is the accepted way to use frames in Delphi? – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/10

From a while ago: [Wayback/Archive] TFrame – What is the accepted way to use frames in Delphi? – Stack Overflow.

Besides me referring to my blog post Delphi – Frames as visual Components – don’t forget your Sprig!, these were important comments and answers with notes by myself:

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For my link archive: swSIM and swICC by Tomasz Lisowski, two open source repositories to enable SIM card emulation

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/10

I wonder how this evolved, as the links are from fall 2022:

More links and info below, but first the image from the above Tweet:

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