Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/09
Interesting, I am going to try to make one with help of Viskip: [Wayback/Archive] Post by @viskip.bsky.social — Bluesky
Wil je deze ook? Ik heb nog een op maat gemaakte as waar ik niets mee doe.
This is the device: [Wayback/Archive] One Winder to Rule Them All – Bambu Filament? No Problem! – YouTube
Maybe at the time of publication, I already made it.
The cool thing: it also winds other things like electromagnetic coils – you can see that towards the end of the video.
Related links, including the 3D model files:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/09
[Wayback/Archive] A bit of perl trickery shows a great example why you should only code you understand.
It explains the innards of a classic trap luring people into execute some obfuscated code, in this case Perl based.
Which makes it yet another testament to not blindly download and execute stuff from the internet.
So be aware when you see obfuscated scripts and things luring you into:
Be even more alert when these require elevated access (like running under sudo).
Via: [Wayback/Archive] Leo Bicknell on Twitter: “@jpluimers @IanColdwater Executes “rm -rf /”. This is ancient Perl monks way of teaching people not to run programs they don’t understand as root. … But hey, these days people “curl -o – url | bash”. It’s surprising that isn’t exploited more.”
Which was response to me asking what the below code did that was fully misunderstood by ChatGPT (which is Large Language Model based on a large corpus of natural language, not a small corpus of evil red-team programming language code snippets) to a series of Tweets by Ian Coldwater.
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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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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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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/03
The 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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