Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/07
Windows had its own aCropalypse in the Snipping tool, but other UWP based applications are vulnerable of that too because of this:
[Wayback/Archive] Steven Murdoch on Twitter: “However, the new “more secure” Universal Windows Platform (UWP) sandboxes the file picker in a separate process, allowing neat features like capability-based access control. It returns a file handle which, if the selected file exists, will not overwrite the existing content! 3/9”
It is part of this interesting [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @sjmurdoch on Thread Reader App with these two parts just after the above Tweet:
The old Win32 API for saving a file was (roughly) to show a file picker, get the filename the user selected, and then open the file. To open a file, the programmer must specify whether to overwrite the file or not, and example code usually does overwrite the file.
However, the new “more secure” Universal Windows Platform (UWP) sandboxes the file picker in a separate process, allowing neat features like capability-based access control. It returns a file handle which, if the selected file exists, will not overwrite the existing content!
The tread continued supporting this statement, that in the new situation you need to manually truncated the file, and referenced these links:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/06
Op [Wayback/Archive] Sirenes – Brandweer staat dit:
👉 Geen testalarm!
Op maandag 6 april (2e paasdag) en op maandag 4 mei (dodenherdenking) is er geen test-alarm. De sirene zal dan niet te horen zijn.
Ze vergeten daar de vervolgvraag: wanneer gaan de sirenes dan wel af?
Met andere woorden: wordt het uitgesteld tot een week later, of wordt het maar liefst twee maanden overgeslagen tot maandag 1 juni? Of pas als de voorraden fossiele brandstoffen op zijn en er chaos uitbreekt?
Dit is een iets aangepaste versie van mijn toot [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers: “Vandaag om 12:00 waren wel de …” – Mastodon
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/03
[Wayback/Archive] keyboard – Shortcut to apply header style 4 (and 5, 6…) – Ask Different (thanks [Wayback/Archive] bouke!):
Found it, although I did not expect the solution to be this simple. To do this, follow these steps:
- Right-click the Heading 4 style in the ribbon and choose ‘Modify’ (Or through Layout > Styles > Heading 4 > Modify
- In the left hand bottom corner, select ‘Shortcut’
- Assign shortcut ⌘⌥4
- Repeat for Heading 5, 6…
- Done!
Query: [Wayback/Archive] macos microsoft word shortcut for heading levels – Google Suche
More: [Wayback/Archive] Keyboard shortcuts in Word – Microsoft Support: MacOS
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/03
This works in other browsers too; you can sync between them if you logon to it: [Wayback/Archive] Super Agent – Automatic cookie consent – Chrome Web Store
Via: [Wayback/Archive] #607: De opgesmukte maan | Tech45 Podcast
Site: [Wayback/Archive] Super Agent – Automatic Cookie Consent
Note: I think, but need to check, this only works for sites for which you have JavaScript enabled.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/02
This is definitely on our list to visit, despite it being permanently closed: [Wayback/Archive] ICC Berlin (de) / [Wayback/Archive] ICC Berlin (en).
Wikipedia pages:
Last year, it was open during the [Wayback/Archive] Day of the Open Monument | visitBerlin.de (the German term is Tag des offenen Denkmals “seit 1993 am zweiten Sonntag im September”).
Just like the celebration of the Mauerfall gained popularity¹, the ICC Berlin has regained popularitly, hopefully later this year, a decision will be made if/how it will be repurposed, as well as the status of the asbestos. There seems to be enough potential:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/02
Last month I wrote about CELL function looks interesting but beware: language nightmares coming up….
There I mentioned both formulas from [Wayback/Archive] Get sheet name only – Excel formula | Exceljet and [Wayback/Archive] Insert the current Excel file name, path, or worksheet in a cell – Microsoft Support failing to deliver the expected results
an official Microsoft example of obtaining the Worksheet name which I suspected would not work on systems allowing ] in path names. And indeed it is true: that case fails on both MacOS and Windows in the same way.
Here you see the failures of both the ExcelJet function and the ones from Microsoft Support on two operating systems:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/01
[Wayback/Archive] Maartje: “Remember in Brussels to start …” – BLÅHAJ Social
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Remember in Brussels to start a conversation you have to do the Language 3-way handshake. Here is a scenario:
SYN: Goeiedag/Bonjour!
SYN-ACK: Goeiedag!
ACK: Hoe kan ik i helpen?
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Do keep in mind that this 3-way handshake is ILLEGAL outside of the borders of brussels. Here is a map.
Yes people have been sued.
Indeed: sued – [Wayback/Archive] Train Conductor language outrage in Belgium « Euro Weekly News
TL;DR
- If you say “Bonjour” in the Dutch part, you can get sued
- If you say “Goeiedag” in the French part, you can get sued
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/01
For a while now, after initially displaying archived Google Search results, it changes the Wayback Machine archival URL after displaying.
Examples:
https://web.archive.org/web/20230322163526/https://www.google.com/web/20230322163526/https://www.google.com/search?q=excel+last+delimiterhttps://web.archive.org/web/20230321192712/https://www.google.com/search?q=excel+textafter+textbefore+textsplit+site:https:%2F%2Fsupport.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Foffice%2F&google_abuse=GOOGLE_ABUSE_EXEMPTION%3DID%3D3020867903a1f6fa:TM%3D1679426832:C%3D%3E:IP%3D207.241.225.236-:S%3DTSrpWMPwWKoNpiXh-oD21Q%3B+path%3D/%3B+domain%3Dgoogle.com%3B+expires%3DTue,+21-Mar-2023+22:27:12+GMThttps://web.archive.org/web/20230321192712/https://www.google.com/web/20230321192712/https://www.google.com/search?q=excel+textafter+textbefore+textsplit+site:https:%2F%2Fsupport.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Foffice%2F&google_abuse=GOOGLE_ABUSE_EXEMPTION%3DID%3D3020867903a1f6fa:TM%3D1679426832:C%3D%3E:IP%3D207.241.225.236-:S%3DTSrpWMPwWKoNpiXh-oD21Q%3B+path%3D/%3B+domain%3Dgoogle.com%3B+expires%3DTue,+21-Mar-2023+22:27:12+GMT
I want to write a Bookmarklet that fixes these.
There is not much in the results of
[Wayback/Archive] “GOOGLE_ABUSE_EXEMPTION” “Wayback” – Google Search, but I think this happens when there is a high frequency Google Search archivals from the Wayback Machine.
–jeroen
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