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Reminder to self: re-check the Dotpe API Security Breach โ€” bool.dev

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/04

Still public merchant information

Still public merchant information

It looks like some store and merchang APIs were not protected back when [Wayback/Archive] Dotpe API Security Breach โ€” bool.dev was published.

Reminder to self: check their status now as I can’t believe their “human error” got fixed properly.

History (reverse chronological order):

  1. [Wayback/Archive] How DotPeโ€™s โ€˜Human Errorโ€™ Exposed Confidential Customer API Data
  2. [Wayback/Archive] Deedy on X: “Today, Google-backed DotPe locked down their APIs by rate-limiting by IP on /external/merchant and blocking others. They sent a legal notice to the author before fixing it and havenโ€™t publicly acknowledged the issue at all. Companies must be held accountable for poor security.โ€ฆ”

    [Wayback/Archive] Tweet JSON: [Wayback/Archive] GYSlTthakAEoojp.png:orig (2346ร—1838)

  3. Now protected private API

    Now protected private API

    [Wayback/Archive] Deedy on X: “6 hours later, the API is still very much public! โ€ฆ”

    [Wayback/Archive] Tweet JSON: [Wayback/Archive] GYK38dXbkAEEEs_.jpg:orig (1358ร—1798)

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Posted in Communications Development, Development, HTTP, Infosec (Information Security), Internet protocol suite, REST, Software Development, TCP, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

Writing a tool that restarts the Google Chat desktop app Window (and hopefully theย Google Duo desktop app Window too)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/04

In the past, the Google Hangouts desktop app on Windows would integrate with the system “tray” (actually the notification area) and show you missed chats and calls.

The [Wayback/Archive] Google Chat desktop app does not. It shows missed messages only as a number on the taskbar icon. Even worse: when you close the Window, the taskbar application icon does not show that number any more.

The odd thing is that the Google Duo desktop app does stay active and shows a notification popup on incoming calls. The Google Chat desktop app does not.

So I wanted to restart the Google Chat desktop app automatically when the Window was closed. But there is a catch:

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Posted in .NET, C#, CommandLine, Delphi, Development, PowerShell, PowerShell, Scripting, Software Development | Tagged: | Leave a Comment »

Forrest Brazeal on Twitter about their your process for learning a new technology or framework on the job

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/03

Interesting responses to [Wayback/Archive] Forrest Brazeal on Twitter: “People whoโ€™ve been software engineers for awhile: whatโ€™s your process for learning a new technology or framework on the job? (I want the beginners who follow me to read the replies carefully)”.

Not just interesting for beginners to read, but for any developer: understanding how other people acquire new technology helps you to compare your own way of learning to others.

Forrest keeps these simple steps as “[Wayback/Archive] For me:

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Posted in Conference Topics, Conferences, Development, Event, Learning/Teaching, LifeHacker, Power User, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

On accessibility (thanks Bianca Prins!) and archivability.

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/27

A long while ago, I participated in a Twitter thread that started with a translation of some important accessibility posts by Bianca Prins, then extended it to the concept to archivability:

[WayBack] Thread by @jpluimers: “I am going to first translate this, then extend this to archivability…. @jpluimers [โ€ฆ]” #UXdesign #accessibility.

TL;DR

  1. make sure what you create is accessible
  2. ensure your (online) content is archivable
  3. help archiving content

Let’s go

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Posted in ArchiveTeamWarrior, Conference Topics, Conferences, Development, Event, Internet, InternetArchive, Power User, Software Development, Usability, User Experience (ux), WayBack machine | Tagged: , , | Leave a Comment »

OpenAI Researchers Find That Even the Best AI Is “Unable To Solve the Majority” of Coding Problems

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/26

[Wayback/Archive] OpenAI Researchers Find That Even the Best AI Is “Unable To Solve the Majority” of Coding Problems

Either Erik Meijer begs to differ, or this is sarcasm: [WaybackSave/Archive] Erik Meijer on X: “I don’t think many developers realized their white collar job could be implemented by a few hundred lines of JavaScript โ€ฆ plus a couple of billion floating point numbers. And we are only just beginning.”

[Wayback/Archive] gist.githubusercontent.com/1rgs/e4e13ac9aba301bcec28d761992ec4e8/raw/7c7cd5b91c6d355e72c7a34b6662006018588780/claudecode.js

Claude Code is a Beta product per Anthropic's Commercial Terms of Service.

It is part of [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – anthropics/claude-code: Claude Code is an agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal, understands your codebase, and helps you code faster by executing routine tasks, explaining complex code, and handling git workflows – all through natural language commands. for which you need to be aware of

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Data collection, usage, and retention

When you use Claude Code, we collect feedback, which includes usage data (such as code acceptance or rejections), associated conversation data, and user feedback submitted via theย /bugย command.

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Via: [WaybackSave/Archive] Marcel Weiher ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ on X: “โ€œOpenAI Researchers Find That Even the Best AI Is “Unable To Solve the Majority” of Coding Problemsโ€ “

--jeroen

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Some interesting tweets by @isotopp and others on home power measurement and what to do to optimise energy usage at home

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/26

For my link archive (browse back and forth in the tweets: lots of useful tips):

[Wayback/Archive] Kris on Twitter: “@mausdompteur @HildebrandtRalf โ€ฆ Tasmota Support P1-mqtt in Python, fรผr den oa Zuidwijk Slimme Lezer Diese Lรถsung setze ich ein.”

A few of his power usage pictures:

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Posted in Development, Hardware, IoT Internet of Things, LifeHacker, Network-and-equipment, Power User, Python, Scripting, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Going Native – Malicious Native Applications

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/25

On the reading list wondering which tool chains can deliver NtAPI based development: [Wayback/Archive] Going Native – Malicious Native Applications

Via [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @MrPc69257431 on Thread Reader App with first tweet at

https://x.com/MrPc69257431/status/1864855379651498292

Note that being able to call NtAPI from your code base does not mean NtAPI based development: Pure NtAPI means you need a linker that can target a different output. See the quote from the above article (emphasis mine):

So, to get started with an empty native executable, all we have to do is include the โ€œphnt.hโ€ file, and set up the NtProcessStartup function. Then itโ€™s important to tell the linker that we want to link against ntdll, and that weโ€™ll be making a native application by passing in the โ€œNativeโ€ text to the Subsystem linker option

It means that for instance Delphi is kind of out of the question for this, see these links on why:

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GitHub – Sanakan8472/copy-dialog-lunar-lander: Play lunar lander in you windows file copy dialog

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/25

[Wayback/Archive] Sanakan8472/copy-dialog-lunar-lander: Play lunar lander in you windows file copy dialog

Hard

Via:

--jeroen

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Posted in .NET, C#, Development, Power User, Software Development, Uncategorized, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows Development | Leave a Comment »

How to send raw network packets in Python with tun/tap

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/20

For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] How to send raw network packets in Python with tun/tap

I never really played around with tun and tap, so this is a nice opportunity to do so. I know they were the base for VPN on Linux, but just now I learned TUN/TAP are not available on nx, but also on Windows. Cool!

Via [Wayback/Archive] ๐Ÿ”ŽJulia Evans๐Ÿ” on Twitter: “how to send raw network packets in Python with tun/tap …”

--jeroen

Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Development, Ethernet, Hardware, Linux, Network-and-equipment, Power User, Python, Scripting, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Visual Studio Code: copying text when none is selected.

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/19

Last week, I wrote that I switched to Visual Studio Code for most of my text based coding: Visual Studio Code: blazingly fast text expansion with Emmet.

I also use vscode for documentation and text writing, which – yes sometimes I am a copy/paste person too – means you want a bit more flexibility than just copying the selected text.

In most of my previous development tools, either the tool itself, or a plugin, would allow me to copy the word under the cursor if none was selected.

I wanted to change that behaviour too and become more flexible.

So I did some searches:

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Posted in .NET, Conference Topics, Conferences, Development, Event, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, KVM keyboard/video/mouse, Lightweight markup language, MarkDown, Power User, Software Development, Visual Studio and tools, vscode Visual Studio Code | Leave a Comment »