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Remotely controlling most Harman Kardon systems

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/05/03

There is a Harman Kardon Remote app on [Wayback/Archive.is] Android and [Wayback/Archive.is] iOS.

It can control Harman Kardon AVR and BDS devices, and the communication appears to be simple XML over HTTP according to [Wayback/Archive.is] H/K AVR 151 Remote Control API – Adam Parsons.

It got reverse engineered into two libraries, both based on string concatenating XML HTTP requests:

Note:

–jeroen

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Making it dead simple to implement @haveibeenpwnd in your applications, including strength warning if found in @troyhunt’s password collection.

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/12/02

I wasn’t aware that Troy Hunt created an API [WayBack] for [WayBack] Have I Been Pwned: Check if your email has been compromised in a data breach.

He did, as I noticed through [WayBack] Michelangelo van Dam on Twitter: “Making it dead simple to implement @haveibeenpwnd in my applications, including strength warning if found in @troyhunt’s password collection. Check out to try it out yourself. #ImproveSecurity #haveibeenpwnd”.

There are in fact plenty of other packages, web-sites and apps using the API as seen on [WayBack] Have I Been Pwned: API consumers.

Many people ask “if it is safe” (often assuming passwords are sent in clear, or hashes are sent in full; my fear is that those people implement security somewhere).

It is safe:

PHP source is at [WayBack] GitHub – DragonBe/hibp: A composer package to verify if a password was previously used in a breach using Have I Been Pwned API.

There is also a [WayBack] composer package at [WayBack] dragonbe/hibp – Packagist.

A really cool thing on it is this:

This project was also the subject of my talk [WayBack] Mutation Testing with Infection where the code base was not only covered by unit tests, but also was subjected to Mutation Testing using [WayBack] Infection to ensure no coding mistakes could slip into the codebase.

Apart from the tests, the most important source is at [WayBack] hibp/Hibp.php at master · DragonBe/hibp · GitHub

Related:

–jeroen

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Check your PHP project for known security issues – SensioLabs Security Advisories Checker

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/02/05

If I ever cross a PHP project, this is my first requirement to pass: [WayBack] Check your PHP project for known security issues – SensioLabs Security Advisories Checker

–jeroen

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Design Patterns & Refactoring

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/07/16

Design Patterns and Refactoring articles and guides. Design Patterns video tutorials for newbies. Simple descriptions and full source code examples in Java, C++, C#, PHP and Delphi.

Source: [WayBack] Design Patterns & Refactoring.

And indeed a lot of examples in Delphi too; few sites have that: Delphi site:sourcemaking.com.

–jeroen

Via: [WayBack] I stumbled upon this yesterday, very informative, accessible and also with Delphi examples – among other languages. – Steffen Nyeland – Google+

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Lesson learned: do not copy/paste code from the `Visual` WordPress.com editor…

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/04/16

[WayBack] Lesson learned: do not copy/paste code from the Visual WordPress.com editor; copy from the Text editor or the Preview… – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+.

Note: likely the HTML below got rendered badly by WordPress.com, so the gist below has the same text as a MarkDown file.

Ever wonder why copy-pasting code from your WordPress.com post fails?

The first statement fails, but the second works:

[root@linux:/etc] # useradd --create-home --shell /bin/false autossh24
useradd: unrecognized option '--shell /bin/false'
...
[root@linux:/etc] # useradd --create-home --shell /bin/false autossh24
[root@linux:/etc] #

The reason is that the first is copied from the Visual WordPress.com editor that renders this HTML inserting   which is a different unicode characer (0x00A0) than a normal space (0x0020):

<blockquote><p><code data-mce-selected="1"># <strong>useradd --create-home --shell&nbsp;/bin/false autossh24</strong></code></p></blockquote>

However, the the second copied from the Text WordPress.com editor succeeds because it has all regular spaces:

<blockquote><code># <strong>useradd --create-home --shell /bin/false autossh24</strong></code></blockquote>

Luckily the Preview render is correct:

<blockquote><p><code># <strong>useradd --create-home --shell /bin/false autossh24</strong></code></p></blockquote>

Lesson learned: do not copy/paste code from the Visual WordPress.com editor; copy from the Text editor or the Preview.

–jeroen

[WayBack] Ever wonder why copy-pasting code from your WordPress.com post fails?

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GitHub – sdsalyer/gplus-archiver: A tool for exporting content from Google+

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/02/27

[WayBack] GitHub – sdsalyer/gplus-archiver: A tool for exporting content from Google+

Example saves: [WayBack] gplus-archiver

Via:

–jeroen

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Programmer humour: Working at PornHub

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/11

Programmer humour from a while back:

“I don’t think I would be comfortable telling my family that I develop PHP either.”

Via:

 

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UptimeRobot is written in PHP and runs on IIS

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/11/28

In [WayBack] Jeroen Pluimers‏ @jpluimers: Every now and then editing @uptimerobot entries failed. Just “HTTP Error 503.4 – Service Unavailable The FastCGI pool queue is full” 1/2 I found out that UptimeRobot:

There is also a maintenance page at uptimerobot.com/maintenance.php#tvMode [Archive.is] and uptimerobot.com/maintenance.php?c-e [Archive.is]. If you get to those, then retry in ~10 minutes as sometimes it takes that long for an update to be processed.

Sometimes setting up multiple Android devices for the same uptimerobot account can be a bit of a hassle: [WayBack] Uptime Robot on Twitter: “Once logged in to the account from another Andriod device, that device will be added as an alert contact too.… “.

All in all it is still a nice tool (:

–jeroen

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Let’s stop copying C / fuzzy notepad

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/07

Ah, C. The best lingua franca we have… because we have no other lingua francas. Linguae franca. Surgeons general? C is fairly old — 44 years, now! — and comes from a time when there were possibly more architectures than programming languages. It works well for what it is, and what it is is a relatively simple layer of indirection atop assembly. Alas, the popularity of C has led to a number of programming languages’ taking significant cues from its design, and parts of its design are… slightly questionable. I’ve gone through some common features that probably should’ve stayed in C and my justification for saying so. The features are listed in rough order from (I hope) least to most controversial. The idea is that C fans will give up when I call it “weakly typed” and not even get to the part where I rag on braces. Wait, crap, I gave it away.

Great re-read towards the end of the year: [WayBack] Let’s stop copying C / fuzzy notepad

Via: [WayBack] Old and busted: emacs vs vi. New and hot: Language war, everybody against everybody else. – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+

–jeroen

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“Network Graph of Programming Language Influence – White Background” Posters by ramiro | Redbubble

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/11/03

Via [WayBack] Graph of programming languages influence poster – nice gift idea for programmers… – This is why I Code – Google+:

A network graph with more than a thousand programming languages connected by influence relations. Highly influential languages like Lisp, Smalltalk, C, Java, Pascal, C++, Haskel or Python are shown as larger circles as compared to languages with little influence on others like PHP or Argh!. / The influence relation data was retrieved from Freebase in 2013. This design available on posters and other products. An awesome gift for programmers who are into digital art. • Also buy this artwork on wall prints, apparel, kids clothes, and more.

[WayBack] “Network Graph of Programming Language Influence – White Background” Posters by ramiro | Redbubble

I wonder how they drew the relations and why certain languages are in certain places.

--jeroen

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