Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/18
Where in ESXi 6.x you could change /etc/rc.local in ESXi 7 and up tightened security and now use /etc/rc.local.d/local.sh [Wayback/Archive] virtualization – ESXi 7.X file permissions – how to buypass new security measures – Server Fault
Notes:
Via [Wayback/Archive] “esxi 7” run your own shell scripts – Google Search
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/13
Some notes because of Some links on the Archive Today controversy and steps I need to take on this blog: some more notes and links to automate archival into the Ghostarchive:
Related:
[Wayback/Archive] gist:9a02bc50e75e7239f6f0c8f04fe4cfb1 · GitHub – Python script to archive a web page in the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, Archive Today, Ghost Archive; requires Python, ChromeDriver and Chrome or Chromium
My earlier blog posts mentioning Ghostarchive:
Via: [Wayback/Wayback] Ghostarchive does a decent job for the same sites in my experience: https://ghos… | Hacker News
Query: [Wayback/Archive] automate ghostarchive at DuckDuckGo
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/12
DCMA banned in various places, but still interesting, especially because of the way it functions: Bypass Paywalls Clean – Wikipedia
Current repositories:
Note these have limited sources, but historic sources can still be found. At the time of writing, some were at:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/29
I wanted to detect the programming language of some code I wasn’t sure what it was written in.
A quick search found [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – yoeo/guesslang: Detect the programming language of a source code
Apps powered by Guesslang
Microsoft Visual Studio Code, automatic language detection
That was cool, as I always have vscode installed.
Query: [Wayback/Archive] detect programming language of source code at DuckDuckGo
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/28
This post originally appeared on [Wayback/Archive] PowerShell Get-WinEvent XML Madness: Getting details from event logs – GoateePFE – Archived, but due to link rot got lost including the images. I restored this post from the Wayback Machine archived version including the comments so the content gets re-indexed in search engines as this was one of the few posts detailing how to filter and extract XML from Windows Event logs using PowerShell.
I needed this content for a future blog post that is going to appear in a day or so: Some links on getting the most recent defragmentation time of a Windows volume
Queries:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/27
This is way easier than I thought (but you need Raspberry Pi 5 or it will be dead slow on earlier models): [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – Botspot/bvm: Windows 11 Virtual Machine on ARM Linux
And yes, there are other write-ups for doing this, but this repository is so much easier and reliable than the others.
Did not test it outside of Raspbian yet, so not sure on which other distributions it runs. It will likely run on more plainDebian, but my guess is that Fedora, Ubuntu, OpenSuSE and others will be out.
Oh: better use NVMe instead of MicroSD for speed too.
Via:
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/24
A year ago, Hadi Hariri wrote this very important Tweet which I preserved through [Wayback/Archive] Thread Reader App because the Space Karen hates the Wayback Machine so much that it still can’t archive tweets ¹:
[Wayback/Archive] Thread by @hhariri on Thread Reader App
“You need to learn to delegate”
Learning to delegate is not that hard. Delegating, and doing it successfully on the other hand, requires having the right people to delegate to.
That’s not always easy due to a variety of situations out of one’s control.
Luckily, Archive.is can still archive Tweets, so here is the original one: [WaybackSave/Archive] Hadi Hariri on X: “”You need to learn to delegate” Learning to delegate is not that hard. Delegating, and doing it successfully on the other hand, requires having the right people to delegate to. That’s not always easy due to a variety of situations out of one’s control.”
Anyway, I responded with my story, which I archived too, but this time because Twitter does not allow viewing threads as an anonymous user since 2021: [Wayback/Archive] Twitter won’t show complete threads now without an account. :( Twitter accounts … | Hacker News.
My story [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @jpluimers on Thread Reader App
@hhariri Especially when explaining what and how to a delegatee is taking more time/energy/effort than doing it yourself.
Still training the new internal care of my brother. Costs less energy than last year, but back then the old “ambulant” care took 2 hours and then “it was OK”.
@hhariri Weekly I try to figure out what happened then hours re-explaining “treat him like he is: mentally a 3 year old with autism in a full grown body that seems to speak Dutch very well, but does not really understand what he says. So what he says is different from what he wants/needs”
@hhariri And for “normal work”, the life long job is to keep explaining that doing things right the first time saves a lot of effort.
@hhariri And yes, there is hindsight when at the time you did things, you didn’t know there was or would become a better way, or that the current situation changed.
Those are valid reasons for redoing things later, but not valid reasons for not even trying to do it right the first time.
In case you have a Twitter account, you can find the thread start at [WaybackSave/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers @wiert@mastodon.social on X: “@hhariri Especially when explaining what and how to a delegatee is taking more time/energy/effort than doing it yourself. Still training the new internal care of my brother. Costs less energy than last year, but back then the old “ambulant” care took 2 hours and then “it was OK”.”
--jeroen
¹ sometimes it archives something of the tweet, in this case the [Wayback/Archive] Tweet JSON which you normally would get through the Twitter CDN like [Wayback/Archive] Tweet JSON (I wrote about creating a JavaScript Bookmarklet for this method in Probably many more like these are needed to download Twitter videos: [extractor/twitter] Fix unauthenticated extraction by bashonly · Pull Request #7476 · yt-dlp/yt-dlp).
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/22
Yes, the text of this post is still on [Wayback/Archive] Forensics: Automating Active Directory Account Lockout Search with PowerShell (an example of deep XML filtering of event logs across multiple servers in parallel) | Microsoft Learn but the original images from blogs.technet.microsoft.com as well as the code snippet got lost due to link rot and incomplete migration. I restored the blog post with comments from the Wayback Machine archives.
I needed the images and the snippet to be able to write future blog post Some links on getting the most recent defragmentation time of a Windows volume hat is appearing in a week or so.
The script is downloadable from LockoutEventsXML.ps1 or via [Wayback/Archive] TechNetGalleryArchive/LockoutEventsXML.ps1 at master · GoateePFE/TechNetGalleryArchive · GitHub at [WaybackSave/Wayback/Archive] github.com/GoateePFE/TechNetGalleryArchive/raw/refs/heads/master/LockoutEventsXML.ps1 by [Wayback/Archive] GoateePFE (Ashley McGlone) · GitHub.
Note the blog post uses @" strings – with $using.variable to pass local variables to remote sessions. See these entries for more information about that topic:
$using in PowerShell for local variables in remote sessions@ Symbol in PowerShell | Delft Stack with the section Use the @ Symbol for Here-Strings in PowerShellQueries:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/21
Took me a while to notice this is open source: [Wayback/Archive] bluesky-social/social-app: The Bluesky Social application for Web, iOS, and Android
Via [Wayback/Archive] Gergely Orosz on Twitter: “Wow. The other Blue site open sourced their app (The protocol is already open sourced) Unlike Twitter’s recommendation algorithm that is a fork (and not the real thing), both these are the prod thing. This developing in the open is new, and encouraging! “
Related:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/16
Learned this a while ago as someone linked to a video on it: [Wayback/Archive] yewtu.be is an invidious instance with an easy to remember domain name. | Hacker News
[Wayback/Archive] yewtu.be: Invidious
Related:
This Firefox extension provides a simple and convenient way to automatically redirect YouTube video URLs to yewtu.be without the need for user interaction.
Queries:
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 