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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/01/30
Hopefully by now the Google Assistant and Google Home have made their way into the Dutch language. If so, then it’s time for me
[WayBack] Quick Intro Into Actions on Google | Grokking Android: Find out which options exist to develop apps for the Google Assistant with Actions on Google and to bring the Assistant to devices with the Assistant SDK.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/01/25
This week, Google introduced the [WayBack] Phishing Quiz, a series of questions to see how good you spot phishing emails.
It is a perfect example on why Google AMP is a bad idea: it makes it easier to write phishing mail targeting Google users.
One of the questions is about a password change email seemingly from Google with a link by Google.
The link is really deceptive, as it:
- uses Google AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) which are hosted directly through a root path on the Google main domain: the URL starts with https://google.com/amp
- Especially on mobile, Google accelerates a lot of things through Google AMP, so a link on mobile that looks like this might be legit
This will deceive a lot of people as they are trained to look at the main domain to assess authenticity: google.com
That combined with an email domain that also looks being from Google (with so many real word top-level domains, many would not be surprised getting email from no-reply@google.support)
Just look at the below screenshot to see how deceptively this trick is.
Solution
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/01/15
Though the Google Calendar UI does not support EXRULE and EXDATE to exclude certain slots (via dates or rules) from recurring events.
The API supports them: [WayBack] Google Calendar API, RRULE and EXDATE – Stack Overflow
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/01/11
For a long time, sites have been able to add themselves to the search engine list in Google Chrome.
The last one is my own, but hundreds of them are not.
I never noticed this until I needed to add some custom search engine strings to the list and found the UI is obnoxiously slow when there are hundreds of entries in that list.
It’s like the cookies editor: the editing speed decreases exponentially with the number of entries in that list.
The feature is called Tab to Search, apparently is intentional, based on the OpenSearch standard and well documented:
Many people dislike it though:
There are various ways around it documented in the last link.
This is the one I liked best: [WayBack] Don’t add custom search engines – Chrome Web Store.
Via: [WayBack] Google Chrome: Remove all ‘Other Search Engines’ – Super User who also pointed me to the script below the signature ([WayBack] Remove chrome “other search engines” · GitHub), which likely needs this change:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/01/10
Using OpenSuSE Tumbleweed E20 on Raspberry Pi 3: accessing the enlightenment desktop over VNC after automatic logon I wanted to buy an on-line read-only diary to help my mentally retarded brother see what his next few days are going to be like.
He increasingly has difficulty handling a paper agenda and has an agenda with 30 minute blocks like [Archive.is] bol.com | Bureau Agenda 2017 – 1 dag per Pagina | 0041560163422 | Boeken (and the [Archive.is] picture on the right), but actually he needs 15 minute blocks during some portions of the day.
We call that kind “bureau agenda” which I think translates well into “desk diary”.
They were quite different from the agendas I used to have at school (:
[WayBack] [Zonder titel] Rijam agenda 1983/84 verzamelen? Stripcatalogus op Catawiki
For most school mates, they were more like this:
Had je een O’Neill of ging je voor De Familie Doorzon? De oude agenda’s uit je middelbare schooltijd zijn de verpersoonlijking van je eigen puber-ik. Afgelopen weekend startte in het Nationaal Onderwijsmuseum in Dordrecht de toffe tentoonstelling Grow Up over die vuistdikke, volgeplakte agenda’s.
[WayBack] Schoolagenda vol sentiment | Go with the Vlo
Anyway, some ideas I initially had are below.
This is what I actually did:
Two things for the future:
- The Agenda view does not show end-times for events. Other views do. The printable output does. I want them in the Agenda view as well. I’m not alone (:
- I might make the page responsive and have multiple iframe instances with different views on the calendar. For that, these will likely help:
Initial thoughts
Raspberry based:
Chromecast based:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/01/07
A while ago, I write about Locally Administered Addresses: a few series of MAC addresses you can use on your local network: MAC address ranges safe for testing purposes (Locally Administered Address).
A while ago, I found ones in my network and ones in my WiFi SSID survey starting with FA:8F:CA. They did not show up in the Wireshark · OUI Lookup Tool nor their manufacturer database.
But with bit 7 turned off they start with F8:8F:CA which does show up as “F8:8F:CA Google, Inc.”
They appear to be Google devices, in my case Google ChromeCast ones, though they can also be Google Home ones.
Google does “magic” with networks, just look at a few of the links here:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/21
Steps:
- visit this URL once: https://google.com/ncr (to fix google.com as search engine)
- define a Google.com search shortcut in chrome://settings/searchEngines
You can use example search shortcuts from Forcing Chrome to use google.com as search engine.
If you forget the first step, then often your search still will go a localised place (except when you are in the USA).
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/11/12
For a very long time, gMail did nothing with Outlook Calendar entires.
So I had to view at the message source, then translate them to Google Calendar entries myself.
--_000_430b30b9ffd74d959b74ab7ba778b487ultrawarenl_
Content-Type: text/calendar; charset="utf-8"; method=REQUEST
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
...
As of late, they seem to be processed into Google Calendar compatible entries. Nice!
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/23
Cool: [WayBack] Just wanted to tell that the Google+ Optimizer now has a cross post to Diaspora – Feature…. – Ole Albers – Google+.
Get it from [WayBack] Ghosttown – Optimizer – Chrome Web Store
The Google+ – Optimizer increases the user experience with Google+ until the bitter end…
With this extension you can modify and arrange your google+ stream just like you want.
Some of the Features:
* Remove unwanted content ("suggested contacts, youtube-comments,animated gifs...)
* Display additional content (stopwatch)
* Filter by Hashtag
* Autosave-Feature
* Bookmark-Feature
... and more
The first time you open a page on plus.google.com, you see this:
Then when you post a removable information bar:
That directs you to the configuration (either right click the icon, or follow http://hurz.me/gplusoptimizer), where in the main item, you can enter your diaspora host (in my case pluspora) information:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/16
tl;dr: Finding event handlers registered using jQuery can be tricky. findHandlersJS makes finding them easy, all you need is the event type and a jQuery selector for the elements where the events might originate.
I need to invest some time in using this: [WayBack] Quickly finding and debugging jQuery event handlers with findHandlersJS – The Blinking Caret
Sourcecode: [WayBack] raw.githubusercontent.com/ruidfigueiredo/findHandlersJS/master/findEventHandlers.js
References:
Via: [WayBack] javascript – Chrome Dev Tools : view all event listeners used in the page – Stack Overflow
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 
penguin020 commented on Dec 22, 2017 •