Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/27
A long while ago, I participated in a Twitter thread that started with a translation of some important accessibility posts by Bianca Prins, then extended it to the concept to archivability:
[WayBack] Thread by @jpluimers: “I am going to first translate this, then extend this to archivability…. @jpluimers […]” #UXdesign #accessibility.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/12
[Wayback/Archive] FrogFind! (archived as “Server Error”, but working fine on my end) and [Wayback/Archive] FrogFind!
FrogFind!
The Search Engine for Vintage Computers
Leap to:
Built by Action Retro on YouTube | Logo by Mac84 | Why build such a thing?Powered by DuckDuckGov1.2
More information at [Wayback/Archive] About FrogFind!
Based on [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – fivefilters/readability.php: PHP port of Mozilla’s Readability.js and DuckDuckGo.
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/31
[Wayback/Archive] keirf/greaseweazle: Tools for accessing a floppy drive at the raw flux level
Interesting drive: [Wayback/Archive] BTC BCO 4816IA 48x 7-in-1 Card Reader CDRW/DVD Combo Drive ODD Computer Laufwerk
More on Greaseweazle:
Via this project allowing many kinds of media to be grabbed:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/29
In the past xs4all.nl had a shell server. In the shell you had a WWW directory which was the route of your personal web-site.
For instance, I had a file there in ~jp/WWW/route/route.html which was served at:
Almost 25 years after KPN bought xs4all, it switched off the shell servers and these links, so I was glad with this warning [Wayback/Archive] Koen de Jonge on Twitter: “Morgen stopt #kpn4all met het aanbieden van shellaccess. Wij willen dat met #Protagio ook gaan aanbieden. Wil je ook #shellacces houden, kijk dan snel op: … #eerlijkecloud”
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/27
I wrote about programs and scripts doing IPv4 subnet calculation, but sometimes it is easier to have a table at hand, so here is the one I found at [Wayback/Archive] OccupytheWeb on Twitter: “Network Basics for Hackers: Subnetting, Subnet Masks and CIDR Notation #networks #networkbasics #subnetting #infosec #networks4hackers #cyberwarrior #cyberwarrior #networkbasics #networkbasics subnet”
Notes:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/31
A few of my git repositories and technical surroundings (like pages) should outlast my life expectancy, for instance the ones supporting the IT infrastructure of my mentally retarded brother after I pass away.
Most of the involved repositories have no write-activity (they are either documentation that the people can use after I passed away, or are semi-static web-pages that require TLS in order to keep functioning; GitLab provides an automatic update mechanism for that which is based on Let’s Encrypt).
Summer 2022, GitLab caused quite some stir when they planned to first delete dormant repositories. Links on tose below.
Of course I could move to GitHub, but that lacks access control through project hierarchy provided by GitLab and could implement a similar repository dormancy scheme in the future.
Using an external “keepalive” mechanism only induces a game of walls and ladders [Wayback/Archive] (likely requiring intervention after I die) and also makes the infrastructure more brittle so I proposed a lump sum plan.
Some links for my reminder:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/10
Despite messages of the Internet Archive and Wayback Machine were fully up again after the DDoS in the last few days (usually starting at around 20:00 UTC, lasting for hours at a time, but today at 10:00 UTC), countermeasures of their password breach at the end of September and defacement yesterday, today they still had Wayback Machine archiving issues:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/16
tTL;DR: Google Search also (after 3+ manual steps) showing the most recent Wayback Machine archived page for a web-page search result, helps tremendously for pages that are temporarily off-line (everyone knows how stable the cloud – someone else’s computers – or on-premise computing is), but takes too many steps and still doesn’t index the full Wayback Machine.
But there is a Clint Eastwood movie title here, even after the devastating fact that Google now off-loads its Google Cache to the Wayback Machine (which many sites refuse to be archived in), as per [Wayback/Archive] Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead | Ars Technica:
Many posted the links to the big news last week:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/27
I put the proper Bookmarklet wrapper around the functions from Bookmarklet for Archive.is to navivate to the canonical link (because especially Firefox needs them):
An immediately invoked function that returns no value or an expression preceded by the
voidoperator will prevent the browser from attempting to parse the result of the evaluation as a snippet of HTML markup:javascript:(function(){ //Statements returning a non-undefined type, e.g. assignments })();
It means they now have become these:
javascript:(function(){location=document.querySelector('link[rel="canonical"]')?.href})();
javascript:(function(){prompt("Anchor",document.querySelector('link[rel="canonical"]')?.href)})();
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/12
In the past I wrote a few articles containing information about Captive Portals, but I forgot mentioning that the article Captive portal – Wikipedia exists.
Got reminded to this by these tweets about Apple not using the default browser when displaying the Captive Portal page:
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 