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Archive for July, 2026

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Paul Schoe: “… Many people confuse the benefits of automation with a perceived need for AI or LLMs …” – Mastodon

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/08

The very to the point post [Wayback/Archive] Paul Schoe: “@dentangle You are totally c…” – Mastodon

You are totally correct.

Many people confuse the benefits of automation with a perceived need for AI or LLMs.

They don’t want ‘intelligence’ to do things for them. They want to implement a set of rules that they themselves define, to be done automatically instead of having to do it themselves. That is automation.

was a response to a more precise post [Wayback/Archive] Brett Sheffield (he/him): “I see people recommending LLMs repetitive tasks …” – chaos.social

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Full logging of the HTTPS connection in your browser – jawj/subtls: A proof-of-concept TypeScript TLS 1.3 client

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/08

This is cool: [Wayback/Archive] jawj/subtls: A proof-of-concept TypeScript TLS 1.3 client showing both the bytes and the decoded meaning of the data structures they form.

A demo is at [Wayback/Archive] https://subtls.pages.dev/

See this page fetch itself, byte by byte, over TLS

Based on / related:

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Posted in Communications Development, Development, HTTP, Internet protocol suite, SMTP, TCP, TLS, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

Interesting Bluesky Map of ˜3.5 million users

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/07

Interesting: [Wayback/Archive] Bluesky Map by [Wayback/Archive] Theo Sanderson.

I wasn’t in any of the clouds (:

Via:

  1. [Wayback/Archive] Post by @sebasvandenbrink.nl — Bluesky: He-le-maal aan het randje van het Bluesky-universum in een… bepaalde groep. Kun je nagaan hoe makkelijk een overheid je groepeert als iemand anders dit zo eenvoudig kan doen 😅😬
  2. [Wayback/Archive] Post by @theo.io — Bluesky: I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users – see if you can find yourself! …

Thread trees:

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microsoft/pyright: Static Type Checker for Python

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/07

I will likely need this one day: [Wayback/Archive] microsoft/pyright: Static Type Checker for Python

Via:

  1. [Wayback/Archive] Julia Evans on Twitter: “I wish there was something like pyright for Javascript — I love how pyright will tell me about type errors even if I don’t add *any* type annotations in my code at all github.com/microsoft/pyright (I assume you can’t make pyright-for-JS because Typescript is a different language)”
  2. [Wayback/Archive] Julia Evans on Twitter: “Also I think the reason pyright works so well even if I don’t add type annotations is that a lot of the Python library code I’m depending on actually does have type annotations, so it can use those”

--jeroen

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Meer ketens van boekhandels zouden dit moeten doen een kaart met welke vestiging een boek op voorraad hefet (via Ionica Smeets)

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/06

Dit is inderdaad briljant: [Wayback/Archive] Ionica Smeets: “Heel veel hartjes voor de kaar…” – Mathstodon

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Maps of windturbines in The Netherlands (kaarten met windmolens in Nederland)

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/06

Sources/maps:

I used it to OSINT a location of a picture that had water, a bridge and windturbines on it.

Queries:

  1. [Wayback/Archive] kaart windturbines nederland – Google Search
  2. [Wayback/Archive] kaart windturbines nederland – Google Image Search

You can make your own maps here:

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Posted in Data Visualisation, Google, GoogleMaps, Government, LifeHacker, OSINT - Open Source Intelligence, Power User | Leave a Comment »

(over het jaar 2025) Hoe kun je gratis belasting-aangifteprogramma in Excel downloaden? | GratisSoftware.nl

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/03

Helaas is het meeste op de pagina [Wayback/Archive] Hoe kun je gratis belasting-aangifteprogramma in Excel downloaden? | GratisSoftware.nl automatisch gegenereerd.

Het belangrijkste stukje is de download link die in een aantal stappen naar de echte download gat: WeTransfer, helaas geen KPN File Transfer of een andere die qua privacy minder omstreden is, zie mijn eerdere blog-post Bye bye WeTransfer, hello Wormhole – Simple, private file sharing.

De quick-link is een nummertje hoger dan die van vorig jaar in Belastingaangifte 2024 met Excel gratis downloaden | Computer Idee.

Let op: het werkt eigenlijk alleen goed in Microsoft Excel op Windows. Dus de gegenereerde content over andere omgevingen mag je geloven, maar dan zit je zelf ook op de blaren.

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Couldn’t find earlier Whyatt comics than the copy at “How machine learning actually works – 9GAG”

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/03

How machine learning actually worksThe original by [Wayback/Archive] Tim Whyatt must be older than the one on the right published on 9GAG, but I couldn’t find it, so the below inks will have to do as the 2022/2023 I found on Twitter (with the picture further below) seemed to be more original:

It’s fitting to see the Machine Learning mocking a few years before ChatGPT and other Large Language Models based Machine Learning web sites.

By now I really wonder how much they have involved as back then they were in a state of pity. There were many examples like for instance [Wayback/Archive] Microsoft Kills Bing AI’s ChatGPT-Powered Alter Ego Sydney.

--jeroen

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Casting media.ccc.de to Chromecast or AndroidTV: VoctoTV – Apps on Google Play

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/02

Found [Wayback/Archive] VoctoTV – Apps on Google Play which successfully casts media.ccc.de ([Wayback/Archive] home – media.ccc.de) to my Chromecast devices.

Great!

Via:

  1. [Wayback/Archive] cast media.ccc.de to tv at DuckDuckGo
  2. [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – NiciDieNase/chaosflix: AndroidTV/Fire TV client for media.ccc.de
  3. [Wayback/Archive] “chaosflix” “chromecast” at DuckDuckGo
  4. [Wayback/Archive] about media.ccc.de – media.ccc.de

--jeroen

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Common Conditional Access Misconfigurations and Bypasses in Azure – TrustedSec

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/02

For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] Common Conditional Access Misconfigurations and Bypasses in Azure – TrustedSec

Via [Wayback/Archive] Stephan Berger on Twitter: “”Blocking Linux operating systems used to not be available in Conditional Access. It’s worth a review however because there have been times when I have gained unintended access simply by using a Linux operating system such as Ubuntu to log in.” [1] Yep, a customer told me… “

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