“Tricking” ChatGPT to give you information is about navigating around the gates added by humans: [Wayback/Archive] Gokul Rajaram on Twitter: “lol”:
Archive for 2026
ChatGPT is a language model, which means it does not understand you and you can circumvent the gates added by humans
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/29
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Don’t forget you also have a personal gitignore file in $HOME/.config/git/ignore
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/28
The question in [Wayback/Archive] git – What will happen when a pull request includes changes to ignored .gitignore? – Super User comes down to:
I don’t want anybody to change what’s in my
.gitignorefile because it includes some things that are specific to my own system.
Those settings should go in a personal gitignore file, which is mentioned in the [Wayback/Archive] Git – gitignore Documentation
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Generating ASCII-tables with spanning cells: manual labour still needed
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/28
Every now and then, documentation in source code requires an ASCII table. Sometimes table cells are spanning multiple rows or/and column.
TL;DR: The tools I tried did not support that, so manual labour is still needed.
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A lot of GitLab pages links and Git pushing a relatively large commit to GitLab: “error: RPC failed; HTTP 502 curl 22 The requested URL returned error: 502”
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/27
Got an error when pushing a relatively large commit to GitLab: error: RPC failed; HTTP 502 curl 22 The requested URL returned error: 502
There was no big difference in information between these commands¹:
git pushgit push --verbose
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The GitLab.com risk of having “Inactive project deletion” disabled and “Delayed project deletion” enabled
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/27
After the 2022 GitLab.com backlash* to auto-delete “inactive” (for whichever metric of “inactive”) repositories of free users, I thought they would have multiple checks in place to prevent that from happening.
TL;DR: of two possible checks to prevent this, only one is in place.
This means that if by accident one of those checks stops working, all inactive repositories will be be deleted after a 7 day retention period. Which is very short, especially when you miss the email about it (for instance because of holiday or health reasons).
That bad!
How/why I found out
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Stack Overflow’s forum is dead thanks to AI, but the company’s still kicking… thanks to AI – Sherwood News (and a few links on SEDE – Stack Exchange Data Explorer)
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/26
Interesting article: [Wayback/Archive] Stack Overflow’s forum is dead thanks to AI, but the company’s still kicking… thanks to AI – Sherwood News. with this important quote:
The complex questions still get asked on Stack because there’s no other place. If the LLMs are only as good as the data, which is typically human curated, we’re one of the best places for that, if not the best for technology.
I wonder about how far it has declined now, and also think these are reasons for the decline as well:
- a lot of fundamental questions for each topic have already been asked
- few new programming languages gained popularity over the last decade (I think golang was the last major one)
- discussions on GitHub and to a lesser extent GitLab have taken over a lot of traffic
- toxic behaviours on mainly the Stack overflow and meta site I mentioned in The toxic reactions to “What would be good alternatives to Stack Overflow for questions about software solutions to drive hardware? – Meta Stack Overflow”
Anyway, the graph in that post is just a sexy version of a query you can create yourself on the SEDE (Stack Exchange Data Explorer). That’s why I included both below.
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KotlinConf’23 video streams (including the keynote by Kevlin Henney which is generic to any programming language or concept)
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/26
Some of the video URLs of #kotlinconf23 most via [Wayback/Archive] KotlinConf’23 – YouTube:
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Figuring out which COM Surrogate dllhost.exe process to kill (via The Old New Thing)
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/25
A while ago, ejecting a CompactFlash card on Windows 10 failed with the dreaded message “The action can’t be completed because the file is open in COM Surrogate.”
I was in a hurry, and it was a long time since I bumped into a similar message, so I simply rebooted as I knew that for certainly would fix it.
Next time, these links will help me find which dllhost.exe process to kill:
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Flipper Zero: Amazon.de: Garden
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/25
On my list of things to try out when more readily available [Wayback/Archive] Flipper Zero: Amazon.de: Garden
Demos:
Via
- [Wayback/Archive] Jilles @ DC30/Las Vegas🦩 on Twitter: “Nearly 30 hour awake travelling. Checked in to @FlamingoVegas for @defcon and unpacked my suitcases.”
- [Wayback/Archive] Speex on Twitter: “Introducing the Esp-01s WiFi module for the @flipper_zero Reprogrammable, with endless possibilities.”
- [Wayback/Archive] jilles.com🔜DEFCON🦩 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ on Twitter: “Updating @flipper_zero”
–jeroen
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Zorgcriminelen richten zich op Wlz, zorgkantoren beloven actie – Skipr
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/22
Waar altijd de PGB-houders onder vuur liggen, lopen vooral de grote zorginstellingen al jaren de kantjes af van Wlz maar declareren wel alles (vaak 4 maal het PGB tarief van een naaste), betalen de Wlz-“cliënten” volledige eigen bijdrage ook al ontvangen ze meestal veel minder zorg dan geïndiceerd.
Zorgcriminelen hebben dat gat ontdekt: dat kunnen zij ook, maar dan vloeit de winst af naar hunzelf in plaats van externe aandeelhouders van de zorginstellingen.
Die lezen dan ook de handleiding die bij [Wayback Zorgcriminelen richten zich op Wlz, zorgkantoren beloven actie – Skipr gelinkt staat, en volgen precies dezelfde stappen die reguliere zorginstellingen ook gaan volgen.
[Wayback/Archive] Handreiking-integriteit-gecontracteerde-Wlz-zorg-RIEC-ON.pdf [Wayback PDF View/PDF View]
--jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 