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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/05/20
Cool feature I discovered from [WayBack] How to read network requests in Chrome for new tab or popup window:
chrome://net-internals/#events
It will immediately show all events from all tabs including networking events.
The red bar at the top has a drop down on the right where you can stop them and perform a few other actions.
During or after capture, you can select relevant requests from the list (through checkboxes) so the right of the pane gets their info (which is a lot: not just the request/response content including all headers and cookies, but also any delegates from extensions and their results).
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/05/18
This is still so cool: [WayBack] Free Linux cloud shell for Gmail users … – Adrian Marius Popa – Google+:
Free Linux cloud shell for Gmail users
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16247577
comments are more interesting
“If you want a free Linux box with a Public IP and SSH, I’d recommend spinning up an f1-micro VM. It’s part of the permanent free tier”
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16248668
Even cooler is that you can use it both from a web browser and from your own console, more on that below.
Cloud Shell from the web
The above links:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/05/08
Boy, I totally missed that the Google Photos search has become this smart: [WayBack] 8 Brilliant Search Tools Hidden Within Google Photos:
Google Photos’ search tools have powerful algorithms that are on par with that of Google’s search engine.
Things I tried so far at photos.google.com and they all work, most way better than I anticipated:
- Person names
- Object names (like Fiat, BMW, Mercedes, Mitsubishi, Ford; Fiat got me way more car types than the other brands)
- Area names (cities, places, countries, etc)
- Time
- Screenshot, screenshots, png, jpg
- Tall, wide, but these worked better: portrait, landscape
- WMC
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/04/17
Reminder to self:
Some 5 years after the .zip top-level domain got live, I wonder if there are any domains in it.
Currently, it screws up non-quoted searches in browsers like Chrome, so I wonder if this still holds: .ZIP URLs (or, Why You Should Block Domains on a TLD That Doesn’t Have Any) | Blue Coat
When writing this, there was one domain (nic.zip) and two registrars.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/03/30
It seems Google Voice has gotten more restrictions over time that I was not aware of: [Archive.is] No forwarding phone number – Google Product Forums:
Bluescat said:
There is no bug involved here. And no, you haven’t stumbled on a way to game the system.
Two things have changed.
- With the introduction of Google Hangouts’ ability to place and receive calls via a Google Voice telephone number, the requirement to maintain a 10-digit forwarding phone number was removed. So yes, you can remove all forwarding phone numbers from your account if you wish. However, keep in mind that you have now made it more difficult to access your account from a telephone, to manage your voicemail greetings, listen to messages, set Do Not Disturb mode, etc. Without a forwarding phone number, you have no way to do that over the phone.
- In response to fraud and abuse of the service, Google now requires that users have a valid, working (paid-service) telephone number, which hasn’t been previously used to claim another Google Voice number, to be eligible to be issued a new Google Voice number. This is designed to deter people from collecting multiple Google Voice phone numbers to use for spam, robocalling, stalking, etc. Once that number has been used to claim a Google Voice number, it can’t be used to claim another Google Voice number. However, there’s no requirement that it be left on the account. Removing the forwarding phone from one Google Voice account will not enable that forwarding number to be used to claim a Google Voice number for another account.
So, all you did was use up your husband’s entitlement to a Google Voice number.
Finally, a disclaimer: Google Voice cannot be used for emergency 911 calling. Not having some alternative telephone service available for that purpose is a very bad idea.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/03/24
If you want to process the JSON form the Google Take Out, then below are some resources that will help you get started developing
Started developing you say?
Yes, of course the JSON does not match APIs any more, and of course Google has not provided and starting point or guidance.
A perfect execution of Sunset.
So you are on your own with:
All via [WayBack] Continuing the takeout data migration process with a first look at the data that is in the archive. – Edward Morbius – Google+
In the mean time, some people started hosting their HTML take out, for instance:
Here you have to note that the take out does not include media, and many hyperlinks still point to within Google Plus itself, for instance for circles and avatars.
Example:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/01/17
A blog entry since it was hard to find about [WayBack] “Isolated segment – all turns from it are closed” – Google Search as the source reveals not much: no explanation at [WayBack] wme-history/index.html at master · wazers/wme-history · GitHub (A repository containing the pretty-printed index and JavaScript files of the WME to investigate version differences – wazers/wme-history).
Same for [WayBack] “Added big junction” waze – Google Search and [WayBack] wme-history/index.html at master · wazers/wme-history · GitHub
Note that updates you make to the map can take a while to update to the actual live map (even after approval).
You can check at [WayBack] Waze Status for the latest updates.
I added a piece of road in between Thunstetten and Herzogenbugsee, but could not save it:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/12/30
Boy, I totally missed this was possible: [WayBack] How to text from your computer with Android Messages – The Verge
Texting from the web gives you a lot more flexibility in how and where you can continue conversations. Here’s how to set it up and get started.
…
- Make sure you’ve got the latest version of Android Messages installed on your phone.
- Go to messages.android.com on the computer or other device you want to text from. You’ll see a big QR code on the right side of this page.
- Open up Android Messages on your smartphone. Tap the icon with three vertical dots at the top and to the far right. You should see a “Messages for web” option inside this menu. If you don’t, just give it some time. Google is rolling out the feature gradually to everyone over the next week.
- Tap “Scan QR code” and point your phone’s camera at the QR code on your other device. In less than a second, your phone will vibrate and the two will be linked up. You should notice your conversations show up in the left column of the browser window. Google says that “conversation threads, contacts, and other settings will be encrypted and cached on your browser.”
Note: this doesn’t mean your actual text conversations are encrypted. They’re not.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/12/23
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/12/23
This is a reminder to myself to check out [WayBack] Justin O’Beirne again, as over the last years he posted various very interesting observations on the various Maps services.
Is Google Maps still years ahead of the competition? Why is that? Interesting topics that Justin covered in the past, for instance in [WayBack] Google Maps’s Moat How far ahead of Apple Maps is Google Maps?
Via:
–jeroen
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Cool feature I discovered from [WayBack] How to read network requests in Chrome for new tab or popup window:
The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 