Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/14
Interesting, as this seems to handle all actions client-side: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – breakzplatform/downloader.notx.blue
Hosting is at two sites:
The code is a tiny HTML wrapper around about 1000 lines of JavaScript (plus a few hundred lines of minified [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – ffmpegwasm/ffmpeg.wasm: FFmpeg for browser, powered by WebAssembly JavaScript code). Impressive!
Via [Wayback/Archive] notx.blue – Projetos do Joselito para o Bluesky
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/14
Hopefully we can visit here someday: [Wayback/Archive] Scotland’s Secret Bunker – Visitor attraction of Scotland’s best kept secret
Via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/13
[Wayback/Archive] IEEE Spectrum: Old Smartphones Get New Life as Tiny Data Centers Even 15-year-old phones can still outperform IoT-specific devices
Via: [Wayback/Archive] Joaquim Homrighausen on X: “”Old Smartphones Get New Life as Tiny Data Centers” 🤔 🧐 https://t.co/rWWwCe7nBU #smartphones #datacenter #devops #hacking #clustercomputing #computing #research”
--jeroen
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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:
iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString( piped through PowerShell.curl piped through bash, Perl, Python or other scripting languagesBe 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 2026/07/08
This is cool: [Wayback/Archive] jawj/subtls: A proof-of-concept TypeScript TLS 1.3 client showing both the bytes and the decoded meaning of the data structures they form.
A demo is at [Wayback/Archive] https://subtls.pages.dev/
See this page fetch itself, byte by byte, over TLS
Based on / related:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/07
I will likely need this one day: [Wayback/Archive] microsoft/pyright: Static Type Checker for Python
Via:
github.com/microsoft/pyright (I assume you can’t make pyright-for-JS because Typescript is a different language)”--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/02
Found [Wayback/Archive] VoctoTV – Apps on Google Play which successfully casts media.ccc.de ([Wayback/Archive] home – media.ccc.de) to my Chromecast devices.
Great!
Via:
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/02
For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] Common Conditional Access Misconfigurations and Bypasses in Azure – TrustedSec
Via [Wayback/Archive] Stephan Berger on Twitter: “”Blocking Linux operating systems used to not be available in Conditional Access. It’s worth a review however because there have been times when I have gained unintended access simply by using a Linux operating system such as Ubuntu to log in.” [1] Yep, a customer told me… “
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/30
Like many of the post Delphi 2007 Delphi RTL features, replacements are so much better in functionality and stability.
One of those replacement examples is [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – paolo-rossi/delphi-neon: JSON Serialization library for Delphi
It reminds me of
[Wayback/Archive] GitHub – JamesNK/Newtonsoft.Json: Json.NET is a popular high-performance JSON framework for .NET which was way better than the original .NET JSON support. The .NET framework has improved greatly since then. Delphi JSON support hasn’t.
Via: [Wayback/Archive] Serialize/Deserialize Enums with no RTTI – RTL and Delphi Object Pascal – Delphi-PRAXiS [en]
--jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 