Cool video [Wayback/Archive] What “Stairway to Heaven” Can Teach Us About Software Development – YouTube with this intro:
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What “Stairway to Heaven” Can Teach Us About Software Development – YouTube
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/20
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Be inquisitive: a Thread by @cyb3rops on Thread Reader App – The act of hiding is often more suspicious than what’s being hidden.
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/19
[Wayback/Archive] Thread by @cyb3rops on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App
If your agent gets flooded – detect the flooding.
If code gets obfuscated – detect the obfuscation.
If ETW gets silenced – detect the silence.
If the EDR gets killed – detect the killing.
If logs get cleared – detect the clearing.The act of hiding is often more suspicious than what’s being hidden.
It’s like a surveillance camera going black or freezing.
That is the signal.
I’ve been doing this successfully for years.I detect obfuscated crap all the time.
People ask, “What is it?”
I say, “No fucking clue. Could be:
– a Themida-packed sample with a Microsoft copyright,
– a UPX-packed ELF with a 1-char filename,
– a PowerShell script that looks like static noise, or
– a fake svchost.exe with no Microsoft copyright.”I don’t need to know what it is.
It’s obviously shady.
That’s enough to detect it – and deal with it.
There’s a Chinese saying that fits perfectly: 欲蓋彌彰
The more you try to hide it, the more obvious it becomes.
--jeroen
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GitHub – RfidResearchGroup/ChameleonUltra: The new generation chameleon based on NRF52840 makes the performance of card emulation more stable. And gave the chameleon the ability to read, write, and decrypt cards.
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/18
[WaybackSave/Archive] GitHub – RfidResearchGroup/ChameleonUltra: The new generation chameleon based on NRF52840 makes the performance of card emulation more stable. And gave the chameleon the ability to read, write, and decrypt cards.
Via: [Wayback/Archive] Angry Nerds 260 – Opladen voor WHY2025 – YouTube
Related: [Wayback/Archive] ChameleonUltra NFC/RFID Reader/Writer/Simulator from Dim6 Tech on Tindie
It is also available from various Asian sites.
Query: [Wayback/Archive] chameleon nfc reader writer at DuckDuckGo
Way more lightweight than Flipper Zero (less chance of getting it confiscated at border controls as well) but also less powerful/flexible.
--jeroen
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Naming devices and animals
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/18
Via [Wayback/Archive] Diederik Jekel on Twitter: “@CaAl @michielveenstra Mijn montage PC’s voor video-editing heette Edit Piaf, Chiel Montage en Antje Montero. Kwam in brainstorm naar boven met mijn maatje Jon.”:
- Video-editing equipment:
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Some notes on running Postfix inside a docker container
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/14
The plan was to run a Postfix secondary MX inside a docker container.
Below are many links that might help me to get that going.
For now, I think this is the shortlist of solutions to try:
- Docker Mailserver
- Mailcow
- Mailu
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Best 404 page ever? : ProgrammerHumor
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/13
While doing some ASCII art blog-post drafts cleanup, I bumped into the (now deleted) [Wayback/Archive] Best 404 page ever? : r/ProgrammerHumor which pointed to the (also now deleted).
I got there via my (not deleted!) blog post Why I like PlantUML.
So I dug up the old archived copy of that PlantUML 404-page and made gist out of it.
I soon realised this was all encoded stuff, seemingly a mix of a ROT13 variation and some other shifting around.
Luckily the original page mentioned in the Reddit post was way easier, so I put that in a gist too.
Bot are below the blog-signature. Enjoy!
Oh, and the full text of course above the signature:
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2023 PDF special voor alle leden: GUI’s programmeren met Python | MagPi
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/13
[Wayback/Archive] PDF special voor alle leden: GUI’s programmeren met Python | MagPi
Via: [Wayback/Archive] MagPi Nederland on Twitter: “PDF special voor alle leden: gui’s programmeren met python #raspberrypi #python”
Download:
[Wayback/Archive] https://www.magpi.nl/files/attachment/35 (202209131320GUI NL.pdf).
Guizero: Read the rest of this entry »
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This is nice #geekporn. ASCII Art that’s truly useful.…
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/12
I forgot both to archive this 10+ year old G+ post and schedule a blog post about it This is nice #geekporn. ASCII Art that’s truly useful.….
ASCII to bezier drawn images in a very clever way.
Found it back when searching for prior blog posts on ASCII art, because of my yesterday’s blog-post ASCII Art Archive, so here it finally is: the links about how to go from ASCII art to bezier images. Have fun!
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roehling/postsrsd: Postfix Sender Rewriting Scheme daemon
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/12
This finally made me perform the (long overdue) migration from Sendmail to Postfix:
The Sender Rewriting Scheme (SRS) is a technique to forward mails from domains which deploy the Sender Policy Framework (SPF) to prohibit other Mail Transfer Agents (MTAs) from sending mails on their behalf. With SRS, an MTA can circumvent SPF restrictions by replacing the envelope sender with a temporary email address from one of their own domains. This temporary address is bound to the original sender and only valid for a certain amount of time, which prevents abuse by spammers.
[Wayback/Archive] roehling/postsrsd: Postfix Sender Rewriting Scheme daemon
Via a long queste to figure out why Gmail every now and then bounces forwarded messages because of Sender Policy Framework (SPF). Below are a few of the links that brought me here in mostly reverse order, but first some links that should help me further on the topic of Postfix virtual aliases.
The sendmail setup had some features not covered below (like a catch-all forward for email to addresses virtual domains not covered by a virtual alias) which I hopefully can cover later.
One thing learned both over the past decades and related postfix material: use separate servers or containers for each of your functions. So do not mix web-hosting, outgoing mail, incoming mail, fail2ban and others on the same server.
Links:
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ASCII Art Archive, my own ASCII signature, plus many FIGlet and TOIlet ASCII font art links
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/11
Earlier this year I bumped into [Wayback/Archive] ASCII Art Archive
This brought back instant memories about ASCII art, so in the future expect af few unfinished blog-posts that were in my “if I ever get to it archive” about it.
Let me start with my very limited ASCII art I used in late 1980s and early 1990s newsgroup and LISTSERV mailing list signature I reconstructed from a comp.virus post¹ having some very old contact data²:
o _ _ _ _ _ voice: +31-2522-20908 (18:00-24:00 UTC)
/ (_' | (_) (_' | | snail: P.S.O.
__/ attn. Jeroen W. Pluimers
P.O. Box 266
jeroenp@rulfc1.LeidenUniv.nl 2170 AG Sassenheim
jeroen_pluimers@f521.n281.z2.fidonet.org The Netherlands
Shortly after that, my main source of income moved from the command-line to GUI based tools, so I temporarily kind of lost interest in command-line tools and customs. In that period FIGlet (see below) got created, which I totally missed (though I vaguely remember the 1.0 version being named newban).
The link at the start of this blog post not only pointed me to FIGlet, but also has a lot of examples (like some [Wayback/Archive] ASCII Art Logos – asciiart.eu) of which many by ASCII artist Joan Stark, and also links to JavaScript based tools:
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 