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Conductor, Semiconductor and Superconductor with a twist

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/11

I tried finding older versions of [Wayback/Archive] 160767437_1614740178716498_1088211482313253900_n.jpg (667×960) from Facebook: Crappy Electrical jokes and Puns. 1,666 likes · 9 talking about this. Just for fun (20210315), especially as the web-site of the ultimate source seems to have died: [Wayback/Archive] Kill The Neighbours, the game that doesn’t hurt – free online puzzle game

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No, You Are Not Getting a CVE for That (as it rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/25

A great rambling on “It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway” (I really want that printed on a T-Shirt):

[Wayback/Archive] No, You Are Not Getting a CVE for That.

Lot’s of references by [Wayback/Archive] Parsia to great posts by [Wayback/Archive] Raymond Chen mainly on security issues that are not: there is only a vulnerability when you get from the other side of the outside of the airtight hatchway to the inside, not when you are already inside.

And of course this great reference to H2G2 (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy), a trilogy in five parts by Douglas Adams:

Arthur: But can’t you think of something?!
Ford: I did.
Arthur: You did!
Ford: Unfortunately, it rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway—
Arthur: oh.
Ford: —that’s just sealed behind us.
Douglas Adams —Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Fit The Second

Via:

--jeroen

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For a long time there has been Alice and Bob, but since a week there is Hegseth and Waltz!

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/05

For a long time there has been Alice and Bob, but since the end of March 2025 there is Hegseth and Waltz!

Nah, the last Wikipedia link does not show history, as it does not really exist.

But someone made the first Wikipedia page into the below picture where Hegseth replaced Alice, Waltz replaced Bob, and Goldberg replaced Mallory.

I found it in these places, but likely it proliferated more:

The Facebook image (see further below) has less JPEG artefacts, so is more original than the Twitter image.

Since [Wayback/Archive] Some URLs Are Immortal, Most Are Ephemeral (a highly recommended reading by the way), I archived the image in the links below the blog signature and had Google OCR the text.

OPSEC is easy if you are clueless.

--jeroen

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Hegseth and Waltz

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Hegseth and Waltz are fictional characters commonly used as placeholders in discussions about cryptographic systems and protocols, [1] and in other science and engineering literature where there are several participants in a thought experiment. The Hegseth and Waltz characters were created by Jeffrey Goldberg in his 2025 article “The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans”. [2] Subsequently, they have become common archetypes in many scientific and engineering fields, such as

Hegseth
Waltz
Goldberg
Example scenario where communication between Hegseth and Waltz is intercepted by Goldberg

A similar pun was [Wayback/Archive] 487203204_10238119445586263_7274268486470714839_n.jpg (700×433)

Alice, Bob and The Atlantic

Alice, Bob and The Atlantic

Likely all actual images have long been expired from their caches.

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Ryan Els on X: “Center-aligned code just looks better 🥰 https://t.co/AP2l22jHRG” / X

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/01

[Wayback/Archive] Ryan Els on X: “Center-aligned code just looks better 🥰 …”

[Wayback/Archive] Tweet JSON

[Wayback/Archive] Gel3nsxWUAALM77.jpg:orig (617×776)

--jeroen

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Personalised audio cards and video books with your own video or audio file

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/01

For Whamageddon or Rickrolling: [Wayback/Archive] Personalised audio cards and video books with your own video or audio file (UK) /

[Wayback/Archive] Wenskaart met ingesproken boodschap of eigen muziek – Geluidkaartje (Dutch).

Or build your own with chips like these: [Wayback/Archive] 30S Sound Voice Music Recorder Board Voice Chip Module for Greeting Card DIY | eBay

Or buy blank cards:

Via [Wayback/Archive] sound record your own postcard – Google Search

--jeroen

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ASCII art generator: GitHub – cmatsuoka/figlet: Claudio’s FIGlet tree

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/27

Just in case I ever need ASCII art in a document again:

[Wayback/Archive] GitHub – cmatsuoka/figlet: Claudio’s FIGlet tree

Via:

--jeroen

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Kleding voor nerds en geeks / Clothing for nerds & geeks — getDigital

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/16

This site will redirect you to your localised version (which means the archived links are titled “Clothing for nerds & geeks — getDigital”) [Wayback/Archive] Kleding voor nerds en geeks — getDigital.

It is originally German (see below links) and the T-shirt quality is quite OK.

--jeroen

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Nein! Doch! Oh! Grenscontrolemijders maken de N35 bij Enschede nog drukker

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/13

Now where is my surprised hat?

(dit was op voorhand al een spel van muren en ladders, waar er niet genoeg personeel is om de muren te bemensen)

[Wayback/Archive] Grenscontrolemijders maken de N35 bij Enschede nog drukker

 

--jeroen

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CAPTCHA by Basic Apple Guy on X: “Find the Mac Pro (5th anniversary edition) 🔍 1949 cheese graters, 1 of them is a Mac Pro”

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/11

Next level CAPTCHA which AI engines fail at [Wayback/Archive] Basic Apple Guy on X: “Find the Mac Pro (5th anniversary edition) 🔍 1949 cheese graters, 1 of them is a Mac Pro”

The low res versions are impossible for me, and even the high-res picture is tough.

What is the smallest size you can find the Mac Pro? Picture on the right for reference.

Twitter picture sizes (I will explain them in a future blog post) via [Wayback/Archive] Tweet  JSON:

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Is it Pokémon or Big Data?

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/03

Fron a while ago but still relevant [Wayback/Archive] Is it Pokémon or Big Data?.

It is a cool experiment to test your own knowledge or for fun to assess recruiters or candidates (;

And it is open source too:

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