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No more https://www.whatsapp.com/cidr.txt

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/11

Not sure when this happened but the CIDR list is no more [WayBack] https://www.whatsapp.com/cidr.txt:

Dear partners,
Please note that we have migrated the latest IP pools of WhatsApp to Facebook Mobile Partner Portal. Feel free to browse to the Settings page of the portal and download the latest WhatsApp IP pool: https://fb.me/mpp_support 
Further IP pool updates are also done through the portal and are no longer distributed via email or through WhatsApp web site.
If you have not yet registered on the Mobile Partner Portal or have difficulties accessing it - please request access through the following form and we'll be happy to assist: https://fb.me/mpp_access
For any technical requests please contact us through the Support section of the portal: https://fb.me/mpp_support 
WhatsApp team

In the past it was the place to get the CIDR so you could either block or allow WhatsApp traffic: [earlier WayBack]

It is still widely cited as way to regulate WhatsApp traffic, for instance at these places:

Time to find an automated way to get the replacement list. Maybe the below helps (via [WayBack] Block facebook messenger and whatsApp on Dlink router – Super User)

whois -h whois.radb.net '!gAS32934'

–jeroen

Posted in Android Devices, Development, Internet, Network-and-equipment, Power User, routers, SocialMedia, Software Development, Ubiquiti, WhatsApp, WhatsApp for Android, WiFi | Leave a Comment »

Backing up ZFS snapshots

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/06

An interesting idea at [WayBack] I was getting concerned about a backup, which had exceeded 1GB, when the data was only about 400MB. Once the job finished, I realized: Ahh, ZFS compres… – Dan Langille – Google+:

Here’s that script I use for creating/destroy the snaphots for a particular long dataset name. Then I backup from /mnt

[WayBack] gist.github.com/dlangille/480dbca509562eb03e76c2e1b576c6d2 is in sh, not even bash.

–jeroen

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VirusTotal: Avira marks a Delphi built executable als false positive

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/06

Found out yesterday that Avira marks one of many Delphi 10.1 built executables as false positive; submitted, but VirusTotal shows it as false positive:

Related:

I think it was Avira too that interfered with my Delphi IDE compiling Delphi applications, especially resource compilation:

–jeroen

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[solved]Where is my user ID in GitLab.com? – HowTo – GitLab Community Forum

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/06

Try https://gitlab.com/api/v4/users?username=??? where ??? is your username. This will only work if you are already logged into gitlab.

Alternatively,

  1. go to https://gitlab.com/profile/account and copy your Private token.
  2. Then run the following command from a bash-like terminal:
    curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: AAAA" https://gitlab.com/api/v4/users?username=BBBB
    where AAAA is your private token and BBBB is your username.

Source: [WayBack] [solved]Where is my user ID in GitLab.com? – HowTo – GitLab Community Forum

Works:

  1. https://gitlab.com/users/sign_in
  2. https://gitlab.com/api/v4/users?username=wiert

Via the ID, you can find the issues assigned to the user:

–jeroen

Posted in Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, GitLab, Software Development, Source Code Management | Leave a Comment »

Take C# 8.0 for a spin | .NET Blog

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/06

[WayBack] Take C# 8.0 for a spin | .NET Blog: A first-hand look from the .NET engineering teams

Either:

download and install Preview 1 of .NET Core 3.0 and Preview 1 of Visual Studio 2019.

or with Visual Studio Code

[WayBack] Bill Wagner on Twitter: “@cecilphillip @MadsTorgersen @VisualStudio @code Yes, install .NET Core 3 preview, add the 8.0 element and it works fine.”

Then play around with:

  • Nullable reference types
  • Ranges and indices
  • Asynchronous streams

Via: [WayBack] Mads Torgersen on Twitter: “I blogged a little walkthrough of the three major C# 8.0 features (nullable reference types, range and index expressions and async streams) shipping in Preview 1 of @VisualStudio 2019 and Preview 1 of .NET Core 3.0. Hope you like it!https://t.co/4uM7JlSRwE”

–jeroen

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Dependency Injection in Delphi: use Spring4D and Nick Hodges’ book

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/06

Over the past few months, various people asked me where to get started with Dependency Injection in Delphi.

First of all, get this book:

[WayBack] Dependency Injection In… by Nick Hodges [Leanpub PDF/iPad/Kindle]

This book covers Dependency Injection from A to Z.  In it you’ll learn about Constructor Injection, Property Injection, and Method Injection.  You’ll learn about the right and wrong way to use the Dependency Injection Container.

It’s well worth reading.

Then buy this book and continue reading; it’s more extensive but coming from a Delphi background it’s better to read Nicks’ book first:

[WayBack] Dependency Injection in .NET: Mark Seemann: 9781935182504

Dependency Injection in .NET, winner of the 2013 Jolt Awards for Productivity, presents core DI patterns in plain C#, so you’ll fully understand how DI works, covers integration with standard Microsoft technologies like ASP.NET MVC, and teaches you to use DI frameworks like Structure Map, Castle Windsor, and Unity.

Then start at these demo projects:

Finally read through these posts and what they link to:

Then compare what you learned with this:

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Delphi Indy “SSL routines:SSL23_GET_CLIENT_HELLO:http request” – means you get an http request, but expecting an https request

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/05

A client got this with Delphi Indy “SSL routines:SSL23_GET_CLIENT_HELLO:http request” and was confused.

The message means you get an http request, but are expecting an https request.

If you really want to, you can have one component service both http and https requests, though most of the time you really do not want to: you want to phase out http whenever possible.

Related: [WayBack] delphi – Can a single TIdHTTPServer component handle http and https request in the same time? – Stack Overflow

–jeroen

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git – How to integrate UML diagrams into GitLab or GitHub – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/05

Note that as of somewhere in 2022, GitLab now natively supports PlantUML (even embedded in files like markdown and asciidoc), so here are the updated saved links to the StackOverflow question below: [Wayback/Archive]

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Behind the Scenes – Coolblue – alles voor een glimlach

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/05

The presentations from [WayBack] Behind the Scenes – Coolblue – alles voor een glimlach are on-line:

It was totally booked: [WayBack] Behind the Scenes – Coolblue – alles voor een glimlach

––jeroen

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Trying to get golang working on a new system I learned a few things…

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/04

From a G+ post a while ago, but they still hold after seeing much more golang projects: [WayBack] Trying to get golang working on a new system I learned a few things today: … – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+

This is too bad as it indicates a lot of golang programmers are not that aware of maintaining projects for the longer term, nor about the real meaning of cross platform over time.

  • many golang developers have a hate relationship towards non-standard systems, especially Windows, likely because history has not proven to them yet that systems over time are distinctly different, even in the same family of operating systems
  • much golang tooling radiate “showing progress or logging is for whimps, it it takes time, wait, or watch a process monitor like ps, task manager or activity monitor), like for instance this issue that has been open for a year https://github.com/golang/dep/issues/1001 [WayBack]
  • few golang developers understand that there are older versions of make (especially the Borland one) with different syntaxes. The ones that do not, sort of get mad, failing to understand developing software is 80+% maintenance, meaning keeping old stuff around so you are sure you can build things depending on that old stuff.
  • many of the Makefile entries are filled with bashisms which makes it hard to use with different shells

Fun: [WayBack] Capitalization of GoLang should actually be golang. It’s also not automatic… | Hacker News

–jeroen

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