Posted by jpluimers on 2021/11/25
Cool: [Wayback/Archive.is] GitHub – TimeToogo/tunshell: Remote shell into ephemeral environments 🐚 🦀
Via: [Archive.is] Jan Schaumann on Twitter: “This looks neat: on-demand remote shell into ephemeral environments, e.g. CI/CD pipeline container. Both sides fetch a client, use rendezvous server to negotiate session info, then establish connection or fall back to proxy through rendezvous. “
Posted in Communications Development, Development, DevOps, HTTP, Infrastructure, Internet protocol suite, Power User, Software Development, TCP, WebSockets | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2021/11/23
Cool tool for when you ever need random users to test a system [Wayback] Random User Generator | Home:
Random user generator is a FREE API for generating placeholder user information. Get profile photos, names, and more. It’s like Lorem Ipsum, for people.
This was used when extracting Parler data to substantiate evidence around the 20210106 USA Capitol riots.
You can even use a simple HTTP GET like [Wayback] randomuser.me/api and get a JSON result like this.
{"results":[{"gender":"female","name":{"title":"Miss","first":"Malou","last":"Mortensen"},"location":{"street":{"number":2669,"name":"Lyngbyvej"},"city":"Sundby","state":"Syddanmark","country":"Denmark","postcode":48047,"coordinates":{"latitude":"-35.1307","longitude":"113.7480"},"timezone":{"offset":"+1:00","description":"Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris"}},"email":"malou.mortensen@example.com","login":{"uuid":"981747de-66fe-40b0-87ea-adfe403fe1be","username":"purpleostrich871","password":"sweets","salt":"x86aQbIB","md5":"55497ac53530b428f98b9d36267ceeef","sha1":"358b94ffabe7d827c34da15791e5d6717c594428","sha256":"6e357e887877e29b7e6d53073f648174382c53c24f83479e25fed9c82075ed32"},"dob":{"date":"1995-06-05T04:50:35.145Z","age":26},"registered":{"date":"2018-07-21T00:59:50.523Z","age":3},"phone":"02990797","cell":"94800012","id":{"name":"CPR","value":"050695-9954"},"picture":{"large":"https://randomuser.me/api/portraits/women/27.jpg","medium":"https://randomuser.me/api/portraits/med/women/27.jpg","thumbnail":"https://randomuser.me/api/portraits/thumb/women/27.jpg"},"nat":"DK"}],"info":{"seed":"8971869bb62b73d7","results":1,"page":1,"version":"1.3"}}
Via:
–jeroen
Posted in Communications Development, Development, HTTP, Internet protocol suite, JavaScript/ECMAScript, JSON, Python, REST, Scripting, Software Development, TCP | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2021/10/05
googlechrome: scheme to force Chrome as browser on it a while agoexample: scheme to an application)microsoft-edge: scheme even more than Windows 10 to force URIs to open in Edge, and some browsers are now working around thisVia:
- Implement
microsoft-edge:protocol handler, issue #1726697, , Masatoshi Kimura, Firefox project, Bugzilla, Mozilla- When Brave handles
microsoft-edge:protocol searches use user’s default search instead of Bing, issue #17684, , Brian Clifton, Brave browser project, Brave Software, GitHub- Allow Brave to Handle Searches from Windows Shell and Cortana, issue #13875, , Brave browser project, Brave Software, GitHub
microsoft_edge_protocol_util.cc, commit a80e1ea7b6, , Simon Hong, Brave Core project, Brave Software, GitHub- Mozilla has defeated Microsoft’s default browser protections in Windows, , Tom Warren, The Verge, Vox Media
- Microsoft is making it harder to switch default browsers in Windows 11, , Tom Warren, The Verge, Vox Media
- Opening links in Chrome for iOS, , Mobile Chrome, Documentation, Chrome Developers, Google
Posted in Awareness, Development, HTTP, Internet protocol suite, Software Development, TCP, TLS, URI, Web Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2021/10/04
From a while back: [Archive.is] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: ‘Answering Yes to “You have an older version of PackageManagement known to cause issues with the PowerShell extension. Would you like to update PackageManagement (You will need to restart the PowerShell extension after)?” hung my Visual Studio Code.… ‘
After clicking “Yes”, the the only thing visible was this notification that had an ever running “progress bar”:
Notifications – Powershell – Source: Powershell (Extension)
The first part of the solution was relatively simple: restart Visual Studio code, then the original notification showed, and after clicking “Yes”, the “Panel” (you can toggle it with Ctrl+J) showed the “Terminal” output (yes, I was working on [Wayback/Archive.is] PowerShell script for sending Wake-on-LAN magic packets to given machine hardware MAC address, more about that later):
Posted in .NET, Communications Development, Development, Encryption, HTTP, HTTPS/TLS security, Internet protocol suite, Power User, Security, Software Development, TCP, Visual Studio and tools, vscode Visual Studio Code, Windows, Windows 10 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2021/09/30
Last weekend I published 5 days before the Let’s Encrypt’s Root Certificate is expiring!
It basically was a post trying to amplify the [Wayback/Archive.is] Let’s Encrypt’s Root Certificate is expiring! message by [Wayback] Scott Helme .
Yesterday and today, he is maintaining a Twitter thread on things that have broken.
Quite a few things have, including some versions of curl, on which a lot of infrastructure relies (the certificate for it got fixed later on 20120930), see:
This bundle was generated at Thu Sep 30 03:12:05 2021 GMT .
Two important starting points in his thread:
If you want to check from one of your own clients, try [Archive.is] Scott Helme on Twitter: “I’ve created a test site to help identify issues with clients. If you can connect to https://t.co/bXHsnlRk8D then your client can handle being served the expired R3 Intermediate in the server chain!… “
[Wayback/Archive.is] https://expired-r3-test.scotthelme.co.uk/
Note that neither SSLabs, nor Cencys, nor CertCheckkerApp do show the expired certificate, only the new one:
Yes, I know the pluimers.com web server is rated B from a TLS perspective. Will be working on it, but I’m still recovering from rectum cancer treatments, and have an almost 1.5 year backlog to get through.
–jeroen
Posted in Communications Development, Development, Encryption, HTTP, https, HTTPS/TLS security, Internet protocol suite, Let's Encrypt (letsencrypt/certbot), Power User, Security, Software Development, TCP, TLS, Uncategorized, Web Development | Leave a Comment »
The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 