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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Generating ASCII-tables with spanning cells: manual labour still needed
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/28
Posted in ASCII, ASCII art / AsciiArt, Development, Documentation Development, Encoding, Excel, Fun, HTML, Office, Power User, Software Development, Web Development | Tagged: 2 | Leave a Comment »
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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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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Be careful running Proxmox with Samsung SSDs
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/22
In 2016, Proxmox within 6 months caused so many media errors on a Samsung MZ-7KE2T0BW 850PRO SSD 2TB that I had to RMA it. A year before that, a friend has similar issues with Samsung SSDs as well.
Other Samsung products seem to suffer with Proxmox when NCQ is enabled [Wayback/Archive] 201693 – Samsung 860 EVO NCQ Issue with AMD SATA Controller.
Reminded because of [Wayback/Archive] corbosman on Twitter: “@jpluimers That might be because of excessive logging. But sure, it’s relatively old but still relevant if you own this specific combination of hardware. For me the workaround was not turned on automatically.”.
–jeroen
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Some tools for conference organisers
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/21
Just in case I ever get involved in organising a conference:
- [Wayback/Archive] frab | conference management system
- [Wayback/Archive] cbeyls/fosdem-companion-android: FOSDEM Companion for Android
- [Wayback/Archive] rkallensee/fosdem-android: This is a native Android app which helps you to manage the FOSDEM conference schedule on your phone. Note: this is a fork of the app of orrc (https://github.com/orrc/fosdem-android) which is in turn a fork of the “official” app hosted on Sourceforge (https://github.com/orrc/fosdem-android).
- [Wayback/Archive] pretalx — CfP and scheduling for conferences
Via:
- [Wayback/Archive] Angrynerds Podcast – YouTube: hackerhotel review
- [Wayback/Archive] Hackerhotel 2020 – Review – YouTube (starts at around the 07:30 mark)
- [Wayback/Archive] 2020-03-28-Content-meeting-minutes – MCH2022 wiki
- [Wayback/Archive] OrangeCon on X: “@J0R1AN who is giving a workshop on hack the box methodology at Orangecon found a stored XSS on pretalx. (Which would probably be able to make CFP reviewers automatically accept his submission.) It is now fixed. Thanks for the quick response and fix @pretalx” / X
Queries:
- [Wayback/Archive] fosdem companion – Google Search
- [Wayback/Archive] pretalx – Google Search
- [Wayback/Archive] “frab” conference – Google Search
–jeroen
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the 90 day disclosure policy is dead :: Himanshu Anand :: Threat Notes
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/19
15 minute important read: [Wayback/Archive] the 90 day disclosure policy is dead :: Himanshu Anand :: Threat Notes
TL;DR: (not sugar coated; read the full post and their follow-ups on the why and how)
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You thought Windows drivers from 2006 were old, wait’ll you see the Intel drivers from 1968! – The Old New Thing
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/19
Or in other words: with this mechanism drivers can be a generic alternative to be installed when no more specific or newer driver is available.
Via [Wayback/Archive] ⚜ 8-bit Hero (aka Sven) ⚜ on Twitter: “Wow, Intel has been writing windows divers for a long time! Had no idea.”
Related
Intel Drivers dated 1970 shown by [Wayback/Archive] Kevlin Henney (@KevlinHenney) in his Keynote streamed at around the 1200 second mark: [Wayback/Archive] KotlinConf’23 – Effectenbeurszaal Day 2 – YouTube.
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Some notes on Nikon cameras and HDR (I have F-lenses)
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/18
Still using Nikon F-mount DSLRs here, though I might upgrade to Nikon Z-mount and appropriate Z-mount adapter to continue using my F-lenses.
Anyway: some links on HDR, as for older bodies that require extra steps.
- [Wayback/Archive] 📷 Nikon HDR Mode Explained On D850 😊 Hands On 💪 – YouTube
- [Wayback/Archive] Nikon D800 HDR mode setup and review – YouTube
- [Wayback/Archive] How I take a HDR photo on my Nikon D700 – YouTube
- [Wayback/Archive] HDR (High Dynamic Range)
- [Wayback/Archive] Nikon D800 – Review from an HDR perspective
- [Wayback/Archive] Flickr: Discussing Built in HDR function in Nikon D800-D850 and Nikon Z7-Z9 Users Group
--jeroen
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TrueNAS ZFS: on my list of things to tinker with
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/18
I totally missed that FreeNAS has been renamed into TrueNAS CORE. Since FreeNAS had been on my list to tinker with, now is TrueNAS – Wikipedia.
Relate/via:
- [Wayback/Archive] TrueNAS has the open source repositories
- [Wayback/Archive] TrueNAS CORE | The World’s Most Popular Open Storage OS
- [Wayback/Archive] TrueNAS SCALE | Open Hyperconverged Storage Scales Up & Out
- [Wayback/Archive] Tuesday Tech Tip – Houston Module Release Day – YouTube
Tweets:
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 