Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/28
For me, it is always difficult to navigate to the Amazon help pages where you can reach their chat.
These are some of the links; follow the pattern to figure out which domain part you need to replace to get to your local ones:
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/28
Hopefully by now I have given GitHub Copilot so I can put this link from a while back into more perspective: [Wayback/Archive] 8 things you didn’t know you could do with GitHub Copilot | The GitHub Blog.
I saved it for my link archive as these thought processes take me a while. The conceptual thing here is if I want to pay for products that harvest profit from the enormous time and effort invested by open source authors (in this case even after the fact, as there was no way to opt out while most of the harvesting took place). See my earlier post On my list of extensions to try in vscode: tab nine.
An alternative for parts of GitHub Copilot might be the (then working title) TLDR from [Wayback/Archive] Beyond Code (German and have the domain beyondco.de). Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/27
Just in case I ever need ASCII art in a document again:
[Wayback/Archive] GitHub – cmatsuoka/figlet: Claudio’s FIGlet tree
Via:
FIGlet is a program for making large letters out of ordinary text
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/27
It has been a very long time since I played around with ripping audio from audio CDs and wrote software for audio handling. I lost access to that source code some 20 years ago, so part of this post is from memory. Hopefully that is still good memory (:
Yes, I am one of those old farts that still has computing equipment with optical drives (:
Much has improved since then, so one needs to write far less code nowadays as a of tooling is now open source or has been open source for quite some time. The hardest part was finding back CDex (which I think is still very useful especially as it handles not-so-well-handled audio CDs quite OK).
Anyway: I didn’t document much of my audio history. The only post I mentioned CDex in was Streaming your mp3 collection through an Icecast server using ezstream, which does not does it justice as back then it had been reliable for such a long time.
That web-site was horrible, especially as it was picky on audio formats. In the end, it handled 128-bit fixed bit-rate MP3 files best.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/26
Not just for IIS, but for hardening any Windows system including ones running http.sys (like ADFS): [Wayback/Archive] Nartac Software – IIS Crypto
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/26
Normally when calculating hashes in .NET you use the [Wayback/Archive] HashAlgorithm.ComputeHash Method (System.Security.Cryptography) | Microsoft Learn.
This can be slow as [Wayback/Archive] cmcginty showed while answering the question [Wayback/Archive] How to get an MD5 checksum in PowerShell – Stack Overflow by [Wayback/Archive] Luke101 posing a faster solution (in this case for md5, but it can be generalised):
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/25
Interesting modification: [Wayback/Archive] Embedding a Floppy Emu in a standard APPLE II Floppy Disk Drive – YouTube
STL: [Wayback/Archive] FermuAssembly.STL – Google Drive [Wayback] FermuAssembly.STL
Buttons: [Wayback/Archive] 3/4/5-Bit Independent Button Module MCU External Button Module Micro Switch Button Board Bluetooth-compatible Power Amplifier – AliExpress 502
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/25
Bookmarklets are basically URLs that execute a JavaScript function.
Sometimes you want to rely on external JavaScript files (for instance jQuery), but Bookmarklets themselves cannot do that.
Bookmarklets can modify the current page though, and use those to load a script, wait until it is loaded, then continue executing.
Often that is OK as you want to operate the Bookmarklet on that page anyway, but be careful though that you do not mess up the page by loading an incompatible script: test, test, test!
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/24
My filter removal tool broke, so while I had new ones on order, I had to figure out how many F-stops I would need to compensate for especially because I would be shooting during the evening.
Here are some links that gave me an impression:
Although 1.3 f-stops is the average amount of light a polarizing filter blocks, this can vary according to the scene and your position relative to the light waves coming from your light source. The average is slightly different between linear polarizers and circular polarizers.
If you own a modern DSLR camera, it will probably have a partially reflecting mirror. The presence of this partially reflecting mirror can cause metering errors if you use a linear polarizer with a DSLR camera. A CPL filter does not interfere with the lens metering system, however, so is the right choice of polarizing filter for a DSLR camera.
Don’t you love the accessibility (a11y) awareness of people that put tables as images on their web-pages? The last link above did (see the image on the right below), I don’t: I love plain HTML with plain old rules and left-alignment content when it makes things more readable, so I converted it into a plain HTML table (: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/24
Why everyone hates Excel data entry:
[Archive.is] Andrew R on Twitter: “Person 1: The glass is 1/2 full Person 2: The glass is 1/2 empty Excel: The glass is the 1st of February”
--jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 