Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/30
I love the new title-text for the 2018 “Clippy” picture at [Wayback/Archive] CrazyMyra: “After AI took his job as an online assistant, Mr Clippy was obliged to seek work in other sectors…” – beige.party
A metal toilet paper holder in a corner od a bathro,with an empty roll, that looks similar to a large paperclip
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/30
I forgot this was in the queue: [Wayback/Archive] ruffle-rs/ruffle: A Flash Player emulator written in Rust.
It is cool and plays a lot of Adobe Flash content and supports quite a bit of the underlying ActionScript language.
I really wish the web version could play web.archive.org/web/20160706140910oe_/http://games.erdener.org/laser/laser.swf (older), web.archive.org/web/20061211011310/http://www.gamuz.com/jeux/laser.swf (newer) or web.archive.org/web/20030827220214oe_/http://www.lurghi.net/laser/laser.swf (newest) but alas when running from https://ruffle.rs/demo/, that SWF is trying to download https://ruffle.rs/demo/config.txt some 20-30 times per second.
Maybe there is a workaround, as I have only tried the [Wayback/Archive] Ruffle Web Demo page (which is the easiest way to get started).
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/27
Mentioned this on various social media already yesterday, as then suddenly – even for EU users, which is against their GDPR regulations – Twitter turned on data sharing with Grok AI of your Twitter data at x.com/settings/grok_settings (direct settings link) without given prior warning at all
I got this default setting despite living in The Netherlands and Twitter knowing that:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/25
A few years ago I asked for some help figuring out what to whitelist so that winget can update its sources and install packages.
This is how I found out.
The queste started with [Wayback/Archive] Need help trying to figure out what domains/IPs to whitelist for installing packages · Discussion #2304 · microsoft/winget-cli
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/25
Reminder to check out this [Wayback/Archive] David Fowler on Twitter: “Playing around with using static interface methods and the new IParsable to make generic callsites for HTTP APIs. Before .NET 7 there was no way to write generic code that did {Type}.TryParse/{Type}.Parse. The type system didn’t have a way to describe these contracts. #dotnet” (and OCR the images):
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/24
If even companies that normally charge a fukcton of money* to advise the obvious gets it, why are so many still falling for it?
[Wayback/Archive] Goldman Sachs: AI Is Overhyped, Wildly Expensive, and Unreliable
“Despite its expensive price tag, the technology is nowhere near where it needs to be in order to be useful for even such basic tasks”
Via [Wayback/Archive] tldr.nettime – tante: “”What this means in plain Engl…”
“What this means in plain English is that one of the largest financial institutions in the world is seeing what people who are paying attention are seeing with their eyes: Companies are acting like generative AI is going to change the world and are acting as such, while the reality is that this is a technology that is currently deeply unreliable and may not change much of anything at all.”
(Original title: Goldman Sachs: AI Is Overhyped, Wildly Expensive, and Unreliable)
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/23
Sometimes you need a relatively low-tech solution for updating.
I will need to give this some thought: [Wayback/Archive] Poor Man’s Auto Update. by Chris Bensen | by Chris Bensen | Jun, 2022 | Medium
Back then I posted some edits on Twitter which by now should be reflected in the script and GitHub repository at [Wayback/Archive] chris-blogs/PoorManAutoUpdate.md at main · chrisbensen/chris-blogs (with script at [Wayback/Archive] chris-blogs/updater.sh at main · chrisbensen/chris-blogs)
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/17
Earlier this week there were only three sponsors for [Wayback/Archive] sebres (Sergey G. Brester) · GitHub.
You might think “Why is this important?”.
Sergey is the single maintainer of fail2ban, the open source project that protects countless (likely a majority) of public facing servers facing on the Internet.
Please don’t let fail2ban become another XZ Utils and support Sergey: we don’t want the project to become unmaintained, or worse: being backdoored like XZ was.
[Wayback/Archive] Sponsor @sebres on GitHub Sponsors · GitHub
The fail2ban repository is at [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – fail2ban/fail2ban: Daemon to ban hosts that cause multiple authentication errors
Via [Wayback/Archive] dee 🏳️⚧️: “fail2ban has one core maintain…” – Grafana Social
fail2ban has one core maintainer github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban and he has only 3 Github sponsors github.com/sebres
WTF
I can’t even comprehend how many servers are protected by fail2ban, how many compromises are avoided, how many people who run hobby things all the way up to major sites that get to sleep soundly every night… because of this single project.
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/17
The feature reminds me on how archive.today saves content.
Both the zhot and tweetzhot repositories are on my list of tools to try. They might make writing blog posts easier.
They are both based on [Wayback/Archive] puppeteer/puppeteer: Headless Chrome Node.js API
…
Puppeteer is a Node library which provides a high-level API to control Chrome or Chromium over the DevTools Protocol. Puppeteer runs headless by default, but can be configured to run full (non-headless) Chrome or Chromium.…
It demonstrates headless browser usage and can for instance:
- Generate screenshots and PDFs of pages.
- Crawl a SPA (Single-Page Application) and generate pre-rendered content (i.e. “SSR” (Server-Side Rendering)).
- Automate form submission, UI testing, keyboard input, etc.
- Create an up-to-date, automated testing environment. Run your tests directly in the latest version of Chrome using the latest JavaScript and browser features.
- Capture a timeline trace of your site to help diagnose performance issues.
- Test Chrome Extensions.
Note any headless browser will have some trouble rendering single-page applications.
Repositories:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/16
From a few months back: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – MinBZK/woo-besluit-broncode-digid
Via Bugblauw [Wayback/Archive] Lord Mendel Mobach 💉💉💉💉🦠💉 on X: “DigiD Backend is openbaar … met dank aan @Logius_minbzk @MinBZK @DigiDwebcare” / X
Comments (on why parts of it is obfuscated):
--jeroen
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