Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/16
So relatable: [Wayback/Archive] Five Geek Social Fallacies – Plausibly Deniable
Via: [Wayback/Archive] Ian Coldwater 📦💥 on X: “It has come to my attention that there are younger folks who haven’t heard of Five Geek Social Fallacies. It was written in 2003 and the social dynamics stay real. Once you read it, you’ll see them everywhere.”
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/16
On my list of things to look at via [Wayback/Archive] “AutoLogonSID” – Google Search:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/15
[Wayback/Archive] Accessibility Myths has great debunks.
Quite a few of them are phrased with a web perspective in mind. That’s just because of prevalence. These myths are there on native platforms (mobile, Windows, MacOS and Linux) as well and can be debunked in the same way.
Similar myths are even there for real life: accessibility of buildings, signage, streets, you name it are just that and can be debunked with common sense.
An inclusive society actually is cheaper than a exclusive one, as it benefits everyone. The same holds for your software.
Related: [Wayback/Archive] Learn Accessibility | web.dev
Via:
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/15
A while ago I downloaded some internal tooling that required vcredist140.dll (and related DLLs).
From the name you cannot see if that is a 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) dependency so you often have to trial and error to figure out which one you need.
I adopted some winget package install command-lines with package IDs current at the time of writing this blog post; similar should be available at the time of publication:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/10
A very interesting read, where it keeps me wondering how batch files like these are being generated (making them by hand feels very surreal): [Wayback/Archive] From Highly Obfuscated Batch File to XWorm and Redline – SANS Internet Storm Center
VirusTotal entry: [Wayback/Archive] VirusTotal – File – 453c017e02e6ce747d605081ad78bf210b3d0004a056d1f65dd1f21c9bf13a9a
The day after the article was written, only Kaspersky and ZoneAlarm detected it; in the past ZoneAlarm used the Kaspersky engine, but that stopped a while ago: [Wayback/Archive] ZoneAlarm Free Antivirus Review | PCMag.
The malware uses at least these technologies:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/10
Nowadays software development documentation is usually sparse and distributed, which means it should be well searchable.
[Wayback/Archive] No documentation | CommitStrip
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/09
Note that the below methods likely will cause security warnings if a Windows machine has been properly configured, but in most cases at least one of them works.
curl --url https://speed.hetzner.de/100MB.bin --output %TEMP%\100MB.bin
certutil | Microsoft Docs (at least Windows 7 and up; needs UAC elevation)certutil.exe -urlcache -split -f https://speed.hetzner.de/100MB.bin %TEMP%\100MB.bin
powershell.exe -Command (New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadFile('https://speed.hetzner.de/100MB.bin','%TEMP%\100MB.bin')
I think it works for all versions of curl, certutil, and PowerShell though I did not have anything older than up-to-date Windows 7 (having PowerShell version 3) and recent to test on.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/08
Apparently I was living under a stone since the 2015 introduction of [Wayback/Archive] Paste to Markdown:
Paste to Markdown
Instructions
- Find the text to convert to Markdown (e.g., in another browser tab)
- Copy it to the clipboard (
Ctrl+C, or⌘+Con Mac)- Paste it into this window (
Ctrl+V, or⌘+Von Mac)- The converted Markdown will appear!
The conversion is carried out by to-markdown, a Markdown converter written in JavaScript and running locally in the browser.
The “to-markdown” I did already know (see A few HTML to Markdown converters written in javascript, Python, Ruby, PHP and C#) but has been renamed from [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – domchristie/to-markdown: An HTML to Markdown converter written in JavaScript into then “turndown” repository below.
More links:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/08
When working on larger screens, I am always amazed at how little window estate most web sites actually use.
For sites that just try to look nice that is not so much or a problem, but for productivity sites it is.
The go-to solution for this is to manually modify the CSS. This can often be a pain because the CSS is either deeply nested or – even worse – uses semi-random HTML class attribute values.
This post is a reminder to myself to check if the below CSS modification in my Stylus library still works (gist link is at the bottom of this post):
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/03
The result C macros having become more lenient on the types they expect, is that they can become very large expansions. This not only causes long expanded code lines, but also
This shows you some examples:
[Wayback/Archive] Lorenzo Stoakes on social.kernel.org: For those interested in the ‘combinatorial explosion of min()/max() macro’ thing slowing down kernel builds, witness the horrors :))
[Wayback/Archive] Re: [PATCH 0/7] minmax: reduce compilation time – Linus Torvalds
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 