15 minute important read: [Wayback/Archive] the 90 day disclosure policy is dead :: Himanshu Anand :: Threat Notes
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the 90 day disclosure policy is dead :: Himanshu Anand :: Threat Notes
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/19
Posted in AI and ML; Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Blue team, Development, LLM, Power User, Red team, Security, Software Development | Leave a Comment »
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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When you bump into Mojibake in your development, don’t use table-based solutions to solve it
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/14
A while ago I bumped into [Wayback/Archive] Unicode weirdness – VCL – Delphi-PRAXiS [en].
This sketched a mojibake problem where PDF to text converted files had odd looking character sequences.
The solution – replacing these sequences with more correctly looking text – worked at first, but then failed because the underlying source code got “corrected” from containing the Mojibake character sequences into the correct Unicode text.
A better solution is to figure out what series of encoding/decoding steps will give the correct text.
This is where – again – [Wayback/Archive] Home – ftfy: fixes text for you comes up: a still indispensable tool.
–jeroen
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Beeper — All your chats in one app
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/13
[Wayback/Archive] Beeper — All your chats in one app
Via a friend that mentioned Beeper to me.
On the list to try out somewhere during the year.
It is open source; some more links:
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Posted in Chat, Development, Discord, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, Facebook, git, GoogleChat, IRC, LinkedIn, Power User, Signal messenger, SocialMedia, Software Development, Source Code Management, Telegram, Twitter, WhatsApp | Leave a Comment »
An easier to understand first time Scoop install command
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/13
The Scoop repository lists this first time Scoop install command at [Wayback/Archive] ScoopInstaller/Scoop: A command-line installer for Windows. – installation:
Run the following command from a non-admin PowerShell to install scoop to its default location
C:Users<YOUR USERNAME>scoop.iwr -useb get.scoop.sh | iex
[Wayback/Archive] ScoopInstaller/Install: 📥 Next-generation Scoop (un)installer is very similar:
Run this command from a non-admin PowerShell to install scoop with default configuration, scoop will be install to
C:Users<YOUR USERNAME>scoop.irm get.scoop.sh | iex # You can use proxies if you have network trouble in accessing GitHub, e.g. irm get.scoop.sh -Proxy 'http://<ip:port>' | iex
The Scoop homepage at [Wayback/Archive] Scoop.sh is not much better:
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Ontdek alle Nederlandse bedrijven uit het Handelsregister – OpenKvK.nl
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/12
Weet altijd waar je zaken mee doet: [Wayback/Archive] Ontdek alle Nederlandse bedrijven uit het Handelsregister – OpenKvK.nl
Er is een API van in totaal 4 datasets volgens [Wayback/Archive] API documentatie – overheid.io:
- [Wayback/Archive] BAG adres & postcode API documentatie – overheid.io
- [Wayback/Archive] Energielabels API documentatie – overheid.io
- [Wayback/Archive] Nederlandse Kenteken API documentatie – overheid.io
- [Wayback/Archive] OpenKvK V3 API documentatie – overheid.io / [Wayback/Archive] OpenKvK API documentatie – overheid.io
Gerelateerd: [Wayback/Archive] Hacken voor Democratie | Hack de Overheid!
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Know your TypeScript/JavaScript operators… or why having little ceremony sometimes makes programmers life harder
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/12
Based on that, I added a bit of logging:
const a = undefined; const result1 = a ?? 0 + 10; const b = 100; const result2 = b ?? 0 + 10; console.log(result1); console.log(result2);
Two questions:
- What is the output of both log lines?
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default settings – How do I disable all AI features in Chrome? – Super User
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/11
Few places have the configuration for various platforms on how to prevent Google Chrome from installing the 4GB LLM model that got traction over the last few days. Luckily it is at [Wayback/Archive] default settings – How do I disable all AI features in Chrome? – Super User (thanks [Wayback/Archive] A-Tech and [Wayback/Archive] cachius):
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Devs of VS Code extensions are leaking secrets en masse • The Register
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/07
Reminder from a while back: all your development tools are belong to us: [Wayback/Archive] Devs of VS Code extensions are leaking secrets en masse • The Register
--jeroen
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Wondering if the takeown/icacls/del trick still work to screw up %windir%\system32 (via Patrick Doyle on Twitter)
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/07
A few years back this trick was shown to screw up %windir%\system32 [Wayback/Archive] Patrick Doyle on Twitter: “@SwiftOnSecurity @RoseAreaZero Delete any file in three easy steps: > takeown /F "example.ext" > icacls "example.ext" /grant "%USERNAME%":F > del "example.ext"“.
Like [Wayback/Archive] SwiftOnSecurity (@SwiftOnSecurity) / Twitter (see the long thread further below), I was expecting that Windows would either prevent you from doing this at all, or allow for easy recovery with System File Protection (now Source: Windows File Protection).
That didn’t prevent or recover it back then.
I wonder if that has been changed by now.
From the above Tweet:
Delete any file in three easy steps:> takeown /F "example.ext" > icacls "example.ext" /grant "%USERNAME%":F > del "example.ext"
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