Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/24
If you do business with for instance Jordan for he first time, then is likely -1 because tomorrow their clock moves forward one hour.
The 2022 daylight saving time changes (summer time / winter time) are at time.is/DST_2022 [Wayback/Archive.is]
[Archive.is] Dr. Jessie Christianstein 👩🏻🔬🧟♀️ on Twitter: “… “
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/24
Two command-lines I use to view my Postfix logs:
journalctl --unit postfix --since "2 days ago"journalctl --unit postfix --pager-endNote that neither of these work well with the
--follow(or equivalent-f) option, as this will effectively disable the pager (which by default isless).
The second is via [Wayback] systemd – How to see the latest x lines from systemctl service log – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange (which got the--pagerend bit wrong, as it misses a dash and should be --pager-end, but still thanks [Wayback] Daniel Kmak):
Just:
journalctl -u SERVICE_NAME -eParameter
-estands for:-e –pagerend
…
That’s the one ! Other answers will go through the whole log to get to its end, which can be veeeeery long for large syslogs.
The last bit (by [Wayback] Léo Germond, thanks!) is why I like it most.
Similarly, specifying --since in the first example will not go through the whole log.
Some background information:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/23
A follow-up on Source: Some links with notes on WoonVeilig/Egardia security system communications, protocols and support by 3rd party home automation apps:
Instructions on how to setup Egardia / Woonveilig within Home Assistant.
…
If the system support XMPP, disable XMPP by invalidating the configuration in the XMPP menu (for example by changing the user name). This is required for recent firmwares of the GATE-03 system as it does not use the Reporting server at all in the case of a valid XMPP configuration.
This is the actual Woonveilig/Egardia plugin that Home Assistant can use. It is integrated through [Wayback] pythonegardia · PyPI via [Wayback/Archive.is] core/requirements_all.txt at dev · home-assistant/core
Python library to interface with Egardia / Woonveilig alarm. Tested with WV-1716, GATE-01, GATE-02 and GATE-03 version of Egardia / Woonveilig. Other versions might work, but unsure. Originally written for integration with Home Assistant it can also by used to integrate with these alarms in other solutions.
Notes on the Woonveilig/Egardia GATE-03 model alarm hub (where 192.168.x.y is the IPv4 address that hub):
http://192.168.x.y/setting/xmpp.htm.xmpp01.egardia.com as primary and xmpp01.alt.egardia.com as secondary server on port 443.arg-####-auth where ###### are the last 6 *lowercase* hexadecimal digits of the MAC address of the GATE-03.http://192.168.x.y/action/xmppGet http GET request fired by http://192.168.x.y/setting/xmpp.htm.ip://######@ics.alt.egardia.com:52010/CID where ###### are the last 6 *uppercase* hexadecimal digits of the MAC address of the GATE-03.http://192.168.x.y/setting/userCode.htm together with their user names.http://192.168.x.y/setting/codeSetting.htm and obtained via http://192.168.x.y/action/areaListGet and http://192.168.x.y/action/codeSettingGetI got all of the above via: [Wayback/Archive.is] GATE-03 system does not report to Egardiaserver · Issue #26 · jeroenterheerdt/python-egardia (which by coincidence used the same firmware I had: HSGW 0.0.2.18.1 HPGW-L2-XA35H).
Which brings me to some Google search with some remarkable results:
…
LUPUSEC simply re-branded a Climax HPGW-G2 system and loaded some of their custom firmware on it.
…
So I did a quick look at LUPUS XT* based products:
Then at the Woonveilig/Egardia and Climax shops:
Conclusions:
Side note on open ports
PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION 9/tcp filtered discard 25/tcp filtered smtp 80/tcp open http 445/tcp filtered microsoft-ds
PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION 9/tcp filtered discard 21/tcp open ftp oftpd 25/tcp filtered smtp 80/tcp open tcpwrapped 445/tcp filtered microsoft-ds 554/tcp open rtsp 711/tcp open cisco-tdp? 1935/tcp open rtmp? 6000/tcp open X11? 49152/tcp open upnp Portable SDK for UPnP devices 1.6.17 (Linux 3.4.35; UPnP 1.0)
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/23
Yesterday I wrote about I consider stealing the user’s time because of a bad UX design among the Dark Patterns.
It was about a site blocking the paste of an e-mail field.
I forgot about an almost Dark Pattern on the same site that might be not obvious for English and French readers, but (though there is little documentation on this) there are a lot of countries having the house number put after the street name.
When filling out forms, it makes a lot of sense to put the house number and street name fields in the order of use for the majority of people living that country.
Not doing so rates a form almost as Dark Pattern, for instance the Dutch “MijnOLVG” site, as this is their account sign-up form:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/22
I an with [Wayback] Craig Buckler to consider Dark Patterns being wider than the strict sense.
For me anything that costs a user extra time or makes accessibility harder is a Dark Pattern.
So I agree with the issues he explains at [Wayback] The Web’s Most Annoying Dark Patterns – SitePoint
Does the web delight or displease you? Craig lists his least favourite UI and marketing dark patterns. Have you developed on the dark side?
Paste is enabled, but does not function
Having had RSI, I’m dependent on keeping my hands and arms in good shape. This means minimising the use of pointing devices and also trying to minimise typing.
In addition, I have heavily segmented my use of email addresses (among others for cutting down SPAM). Basically any point of contact gets a new email address.
This means I realy on tooling like password managers and email address generators. It means copying and pasting information.
So I bumped into a web-site that disallowed pasting the (unique and long!) email address into the email verification field.
[Archive.is] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “The @olvg #mijnOLVG site is now on my Dark Patterns list as they make #accessibility harder by blocking pasting into the email address verification field. Blocking the paste-blocker. CC some people advocating mijnolvg.nl @MauricevdBosch @ronklitsie63 @kyntha”
Despite the popup menu, paste didn’t work. Chrome autofill did, but didn’t have the information for this particular (new and unique) email address yet, so could not be used yet.
It is relatively easy to disable a paste block. In this case, I was using chrome, but this can be done with any browser. Some browsers even have optional extensions that can do this for you.
In the case of Chrome, when right clicking, there is an “Inspect” option
Inspect is enabled and actually works.
It inspects the current element, which on this site looks like this:
The element does not contain event handlers. But the code hooks them behind our backs.
On the “Event Listeners” tab on the right, you can see there are two JavaScript methods hooked to the paste handler:
The paste handlers. The first is OK, the second blocks paste.
The first one is OK, though I did not really look into what the proxy does.
Second paste event handler: remove this one.
First paste event handler: keep this one.
The second is not OK, as it effectively prevents the event from being handled any further at all by calling preventDefault
Second paste event handler: remove this one.
- [Wayback] Event.preventDefault() – Web APIs | MDN
The Event interface’s preventDefault() method tells the user agent that if the event does not get explicitly handled, its default action should not be taken as it normally would be.
By clicking on the second Remove button above, the paste blocker is gone and you can paste again.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/17
I always facepalm myself after looking up this: [Wayback] Can bash show a function’s definition? – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback] Benjamin Bannier!):
…
Use
type. Iffoobaris e.g. defined in your~/.profile:$ type foobar foobar is a function foobar { echo "I'm foobar" }…
typewill also expand aliases, which is a nice bonus :) – [Wayback] Esdras Lopez
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/17
I will try to keep this table up-to-date.
Note that in some tooling, names are case sensitive.
Name Category Tool Comment Debug Directory lib Directory *.identcache Extension Delphi *.local Extension Delphi *bin Extension *obj Extension RECYCLER Directory Windows Bin Directory *.user Extension Visual Studio/Delphi *.suo Extension Visual Studio *.dcu Extension Delphi __history Directory Delphi ModelSupport_* File Delphi *.rsm Extension Delphi thumbs.db File Windows stored in each directory that contains thumbnails on Windows systems thumbcache_256.db File Windows stored in each directory that contains thumbnails on Windows systems *.bak Extension *.~* Extension pattern Delphi __recovery Directory Delphi *.tvsconfig Extension Delphi *.o Extension *.lo Extension *.la Extension *.al Extension .libs *.so Extension *.so.[0-9]* Extension pattern *.a Extension *.pyc Extension Python *.pyo Extension Python *.rej Extension Mercurial [WayBack] Rejected patches *~ #*# .#* Extension pattern .*.swp Extension .DS_Store File MacOS stores custom attributes of its containing folder desktop.ini File Windows determines how a directory is displayed by Windows, such as the icon used by that directory *.chw Extension HTML Help Compiled HTML Help general index
Based on at least these earlier blog posts, and a lot of fiddling around:
Hopefully, some day, I will find time to compare these against gitignore templates, for instance via:
and against [WayBack] svn – How do I configure the TortoiseSVN ‘Global ignore pattern’ properly? – Stack Overflow.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/16
I use this small script to install or update [Wayback] Chocolatey package NirLauncher (which is the [Wayback] Nirsoft Launcher that has all the [Wayback] Nirsoft freeware tools in it).
powershell -Command Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath "%TEMP%\chocolatey\NuGetScratch" choco update --yes NirLauncher powershell -Command Remove-MpPreference -ExclusionPath "%TEMP%\chocolatey\NuGetScratch"
It works around the issue that many times NirLauncher is marked by anti-virus tools or/and listed on VirusTotal, which means you get an error like this:
NirLauncher not installed. An error occurred during installation: Operation did not complete successfully because the file contains a virus or potentially unwanted software.
followed by
Chocolatey upgraded 0/1 packages. 1 packages failed. See the log for details (C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\logs\chocolatey.log).
I wrote about this error before Need to research: Nirlauncher v1.23.42 to 1.23.43 upgrade through Chocolatey fails with “Operation did not complete successfully because the file contains a virus or potentially unwanted software.”, and this post is explaining how I got to the above workaround.
Context: I was running Windows Defender (now officially called Microsoft Defender, but most people still use the old name), which is a good baseline anti-virus tool that is included with Windows.
The offending location is not actually in the C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\logs\chocolatey.log file.
I did a small search to see if one could list Windows Defender messages, and there was [Wayback] Use PowerShell to See What Windows Defender Detected | Scripting Blog explaining the Get-MpThreatDetection available since around Windows 8.x.
This little command got what I wanted:
C:\temp>PowerShell Get-MpThreatDetection ^| Format-List ^| Out-String -Width 4096 | findstr /I "nir" Resources : {file:_C:\Users\jeroenp\AppData\Local\Temp\chocolatey\NuGetScratch\a78a5776-0fdd-48c0-8313-9b0107f54cba\hy3odwgw.1dc\tools\nirsoft_package_1.23.44.zip}
A few tricks I used here:
^| allows pipes to run within PowerShell itself (instead of the cmd wrapper)Out-String -Width 4096 makes for a really wide output (so Format-List does not wrap around any lines; I mentioned that trick before in PowerShell: when Format-Table -AutoSize displays only 10 columns and uses the width of the console when redirecting to file)| findstr /I "nir" uses the cmd wrapper pipe through the old findstr command from the DOS era that allows to filter output (I tried Select-String, but that failed – despite tricks mentioned in [Wayback] piping Get-ChildItem into Select-String in powershell – Stack Overflow – likely because that is not text-oriented, but object oriented in nature)Searching for [Wayback] “chocolatey\NuGetScratch” – Google Search, I found out %Temp%\chocolatey\NuGetScratch is the default value for [Wayback] chocolatey cacheLocation – Google Search. I run default settings, so that is good enough for me.
I found [Wayback] Windows Defender – Add exclusion folder programmatically – Stack Overflow through [Wayback] “Windows Defender” exclusion from commandline – Google Search explaining these (thanks [Wayback] gavenkoa!):
Run in elevated shell (search
cmdin Start menu and hit Ctrl+Shift+Enter).powershell -Command Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath "C:\tmp" powershell -Command Add-MpPreference -ExclusionProcess "java.exe" powershell -Command Add-MpPreference -ExclusionExtension ".java" powershell -Command Remove-MpPreference -ExclusionExtension ".java"
This was a short step to these documentation pages (note to self: figure out the origin of the Mp prefix)
Of course Windows Defender still marks individual tools as “unsafe” (for instance C:\tools\NirLauncher\NirSoft\mailpv.exe). To alleviate that, you have to permanently add this directory to the exclusion list: C:\tools\NirLauncher.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/16
So I can find them back later:
An interesting party with some public SMS APIs is MessageBird. You can compare their old and new ones:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/15
[Wayback] WILT: XML encode a string in .net « Benoit MARTIN’s Weblog:
Always wondered why I couldn’t find a method that would XML encode a string, effectively escaping the 5 illegal characters for XML. There is such a method but its location in the API is not intuitive at all. It’s in the
System.Securitynamespace: [Wayback] SecurityElement.Escape(String) Method (System.Security) | Microsoft Docspublic static string? Escape (string? str);Its usage is:
tagText = System.Security.SecurityElement.Escape(tagText);This will escape the 5 characters
<,>,&,"and'
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 