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GitHub – dessant/web-archives: Browser extension for viewing archived and cached versions of web pages, available for Chrome, Edge and Safari (plus Firefox and Opera too)

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/26

The description of [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – dessant/web-archives: Browser extension for viewing archived and cached versions of web pages, available for Chrome, Edge and Safari is missing Firefox and Opera, but in the meantime the extension is available in these stores for:

As a great example of how to write a browser plugin for all these architectures, it shows how to write this in mostly JavaScript with Vue.js with a tiny bit of play HTML.

Web Archives is a plugin that lets you search either the URL from the current browser tab, or a URL you type, within various archival sites (all Wikipedia links):

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Posted in Archive Today controversy, archive.is / archive.today, Archiving, Chrome, Development, Edge, Firefox, Internet, InternetArchive, Opera, Power User, Safari, Software Development, WayBack machine, Web Browsers, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

LLM-generated passwords ‘fundamentally weak,’ experts say • The Register

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/24

LLM eat a lot of energy and are their hallucination are bad: [Wayback/Archive] LLM-generated passwords ‘fundamentally weak,’ experts say • The Register

Your AI-generated password isn’t random, it just looks that way

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AI security company Irregular looked at Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini, and found all three GenAI tools put forward seemingly strong passwords that were, in fact, easily guessable.

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Basically they are almost as good as the 2007 XKCD “four” number generator, the 2013 XKCD “I’m So Random” or the 2001 Dilbert “nine” number generator further below (don’t read the latter if you dislike Scott Adams)

Is it a coincidence or are these two using two small squared numbers?

Anyway: avoid LLM whenever possible, as most often they do more bad than good.

And for passwords, better use the blog post that was already scheduled for tomorrow: Generating random strings for passwords and uuids/guids on both Windows and Linux using base64 and hex encoding, plus: “Hive Systems: Are Your Passwords in the Green?”

Via [Wayback/Archive] Eloy.: “LLMs are centrist randomness: not useful for anything that requires truth but neither for password generation” – HSNL Social

Below this post, there are some great responses as well.

Comics

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Posted in AI and ML; Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, C++, Conference Topics, Conferences, Development, Event, Internet, InternetArchive, LLM, Pingback, Power User, Python, Scripting, Software Development, Stackoverflow, WayBack machine | Leave a Comment »

archive.today: On the trail of the mysterious guerrilla archivist of the Internet – Gyrovague

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/23

I pulled this post forward from the blog queue in light of the recent Archive Today controversy (which started because of the Gyrovague article mentioned below). Please note that in this controversy, the Wayback Machine of the Internet Archive plays no role: it is purely about the Archive Today behaviour. Apart from this remark above the line I left this blog post in the original form I wrote it in, as I liked it a lot and quite a few published and queued blog posts still depend on it.

From a while back, but still a historic relevant article: [Wayback/Archive] archive.today: On the trail of the mysterious guerrilla archivist of the Internet – Gyrovague

Via [Wayback/Archive] difference between archive today and wayback machine – Google Search

Related:

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Posted in Archive Today controversy, archive.is / archive.today, Archiving, Bookmarklet, History, Internet, mementoweb, Power User, WayBack machine, Webcitation | Leave a Comment »

Foutje bedankt: SMS gehad dat wijziging van KPN Hotspots is verwerkt | KPN Community

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/12

De SMS van dinsdag:

Beste klant, je bestelling of wijziging van KPN HotSpots is verwerkt. Ga naar MijnKPN (kpn.com/mijnkpn) voor meer informatie. Groet, KPN

Beste klant, je bestelling of wijziging van KPN HotSpots is verwerkt. Ga naar MijnKPN (kpn.com/mijnkpn) voor meer informatie. Groet, KPN

Die SMS had nooit verzonden moeten worden, want KPN HotSpots zijn al jaren gratis voor iedereen toegankelijk, en de abonnee had zelf niets gewijzigd.

Zie: [Wayback/Archive] SMS gehad dat wijziging van KPN Hotspots is verwerkt | KPN Community

Woensdag kwamen er, ook per SMS, excuses. Twee keer zelfs.

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A few diagrams.net (formerly draw.io, see below why) that made me more productive with it

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/09

Diagram.net is a wonderful on-line and off-line drawing tool that saves drawings in XML format and provides a rich set of shapes libraries.

It used to start out as draw.io (well, actually diagram.ly when some parts were still Java applets), but then in 2020 started migrating to migrate to diagrams.net, both for domain and name, because, well a [Wayback/Archive] wonderful piece of modern day British Imperialism. See [Wayback/Archive] Blog – Open source diagramming is moving to diagrams.net, slowly for details.

Oh yes, this is one of the tools where Java and JavaScript actually are related (:

The tool is still open source at [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – jgraph/drawio: Source to app.diagrams.net.

These were helpful links:

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Posted in Power User, Internet, LifeHacker, Cloud Apps, draw.io | Leave a Comment »

vmstan/gravity-sync: 💫 The easy way to synchronize the DNS configuration of two Pi-hole 5.x instances.

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/28

Interesting: [Wayback/Archive] vmstan/gravity-sync: 💫 The easy way to synchronize the DNS configuration of two Pi-hole 5.x instances.

Reasoning: [Wayback/Archive] Frequent Questions: Why two Pi-hole? · vmstan/gravity-sync Wiki

Via:

–jeroen

Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, bash, bash, Development, DNS, Hardware Development, Internet, Power User, Raspberry Pi, Scripting, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

SearX: a privacy-respecting, open metasearch engine

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/26

Experimenting with [Wayback/Archive] SearX: a privacy-respecting, open metasearch engine

Links (including repository):

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Posted in Bing, DuckDuckGo, Internet, Power User, SearchEngines, SearX, Seeks | Leave a Comment »

Found back some emails and links from way back when promoting/helping ThunderByte AntiVirus (hi Frans Veldman)

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/20

Nice memories of the TBAV/ThunderByte Anti-Virus story.

Together with Jeroen Smulders, I was sort of on the sideline in the early days as we both were at the university had access to FidoNet (I as host, other Jeroen as point), Internet, mailing lists and newsgroups.

I used it because it was the fastest Virus Scanner around and a need when scanning all incoming FidoNet data for viruses (I had seen at university what damage a spread could do).

Some VIRUS-L, comp.virus and book links from that past:

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Posted in 8086, 8088, Antivirus, BBS, Compuserve, FidoNet, History, Internet, Power User, SearchEngines, Security | Tagged: | Leave a Comment »

Apparaat terugsturen | Klantenservice | Ziggo

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/16

[Wayback/Archive] Apparaat terugsturen | Klantenservice | Ziggo

Stuur de apparatuur in een stevige doos naar ons terug. Gebruik de doos die je van ons ontvangt of de originele doos. Als je die niet (meer) hebt, kun je ook een andere passende doos gebruiken.

Stuur de apparatuur naar dit adres:

Ziggo retouren
Antwoordnummer 1070
5800 VB Venray

Of download het retourformulier:

[Wayback] Formulier apparaten terugsturen (542.0 kB)

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Does Odido (the old T-Mobile Netherlands) which took over Tweak Internet (they supported IPv6) already support IPv6?

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/12

I am writing this early 2025, shortly after Odido introduced “Klik & Klaar” for EUR 25/month: yet another of their internet products, this time over 5G, and yet again: no IPv6 support, just like their DSL and fiber products.

This post is a reminder to check if by now Odido has started supporting IPv6.

I know that at the time of writing, of the large Dutch mobile providers, only KPN supported IPv6, but both Vodafone and Odido didn’t. However, for Vodafone it is not a technical limitation: their bean counters need an upgrade to their billing system. The Odido back-haul technically isn’t ready for IPv6 at all.

Regrettably, The Netherlands has been behind on IPv6 adoption, which is a shame for a knowledge worker country. UK, Belgium, Germany, France, Greece, Hungary and even Russia are doing far better on IPv6 adoption:

Hopefully that has changed by now.

Edit 20261214: no, that has not changed, see a reaction at [WaybackFailed/ArchiveFailed] Odido verhoogt prijs van Klik&Klaar met 1 euro naar 26 euro per maand – Tweakers (which regrettably can neither be archived in the Wayback Machine nor Archive.is):

En Odido heeft ook nog eens geen IPv6. Anno 2026 loop je dan echt enorm achter.

Translated:

And Odido still does not support IPv6. Anno 2026, they are far behind.

Related / background information:

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Posted in FreedomInternet, Internet, ISP, KPN, Odido (ex Dutch T-Mobile), Power User, Tele2, xs4all, Ziggo/UPC/A2000 | 1 Comment »

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