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Removing identifiable metada from PDF files

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/06/19

I archived a long thread that started withΒ [Archive] πš“πš˜πš—πš—πš’οΉπšœπšŠπšžπš—πšπšŽπš›πšœ on Twitter: “More fun publisher surveillance: Elsevier embeds a hash in the PDF metadata that is unique for each time a PDF is downloaded, this is a diff between metadata from two of the same paper. Combined with access timestamps, they can uniquely identify the source of any shared PDFs. ” / Twitter atΒ [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @json_dirs on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App.

TL;DR: publishers put hashes in PDF metadata to track back redistribution; they hardly use smarter watermarking as those are difficult to automatically parse; the hashes can be easily removed.

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Heffingsvrij vermogen – Uitleg vrijstelling box 3 | Spaarrente.nl

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/06/16

For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] Heffingsvrij vermogen – Uitleg vrijstelling box 3 | Spaarrente.nl

–jeroen

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There is always an XKCD: Β«xkcd: Is It Worth the Time?Β»

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/06/09

The Bookmarklets posts have mostly reached past the front of the blog queue, so here goes a tweet from last year:

[Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “The past week, I learned a ton of HTML, JavaScript and (Shadow) DOM oddities while writing browser bookmarklets to speed up my blogging and @waybackmachine / @archiveis archiving. There is always an XKCD: Β«xkcd: Is It Worth the Time?Β» …” / Twitter

–jeroen

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For my link archive: Microsoft account activity policy – Microsoft Support

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/06/01

Bumped into [Wayback/Archive] Microsoft account activity policy – Microsoft Support because an account that I hardly use was about to expire.

A few quotes (but be sure to read the most up to date policy):

  • Except as provided below, you must sign in to your Microsoft account at least once in aΒ two-yearΒ period to keep your account active. If you don’t sign in during this time, Microsoft will consider your account to be inactive.
  • Exceptions: The activities below are exceptions that will result in Microsoft extending your account’s active status, even if you have not otherwise signed in to your Microsoft account within a two-year period.
    • Purchases
    • Subscriptions
    • Publishing to the Microsoft Store
    • Certifications
    • Account Balance
    • Accounts Payable
    • Family Accounts
    • Legal Requirements or as otherwise provided by Microsoft

Probably the easiest way at the time of writing is to make sure there is an account balance.

–jeroen

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Tijs Hofmans on Twitter: “LPT die echt werkt: in februari heb ik “Retour afzender: bewoner is gokverslaafd” op een ongevraagde loterijreclame gezet en sindsdien heb ik er nooit meer een gekregen. Loterijen HATEN hem!” / Twitter

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/05/30

[Archive] Tijs Hofmans on Twitter: “LPT die echt werkt: in februari heb ik “Retour afzender: bewoner is gokverslaafd” op een ongevraagde loterijreclame gezet en sindsdien heb ik er nooit meer een gekregen. Loterijen HATEN hem! …” / Twitter

Via

–jeroen

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GazelleΒ 02978 backlight pictures (via Bike Forums)

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/05/12

Since one of my bicycles got the same Gazelle 02978 backlight:

[Wayback/Archive] [Dutch bikes] Replacing Rollerbrake drum brake + Nexus 7s shifter – Bike Forums

Outside of Gazelle 02978 backlight

Outside of Gazelle 02978 backlight

Inside of Gazelle 02978 backlight

Inside of Gazelle 02978 backlight

The button on the back side (which you can press through the outer housing under the luggage carrier), is a simple on-off toggle, but you have to wait about 2 seconds between pressing twice (otherwise it won’t recognise the second press).

If I ever need to replace it, this is the current (at time of writing early 2022) replacement part number 8717118039984.

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MXbord.nl – live kaart met matrixborden en portalen met snelheid/kruisen

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/05/08

Cool:

Was op 6 januari 2022 handig vanwege totale afsluiting A2 door een politieactie.

Via:

Gerelateerd:

–jeroen

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Pasjes op creditkaartgrootte: hulpkaart, toiletpas voor darmklachten, autipas, zonnebloem lan yard

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/05/05

Met name met een onzichtbare handicapt, maar ook met een zichtbare handicap, kan het handig zijn om een pasje te overhandigen of een lan yard te dragen als je hulp of noden hebt.

Ze zijn een beetje vergelijkbaar met (meest voor vrouwen) aan de bar vragen om een “Angel shot” of “is Angela er ook” om je uit noodsituaties te helpen.

Via:

–jeroen

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The Wordle word list is in the source JavaScript file (via Isotopp)

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/05/03

Oh well: [Archive] Kris on Twitter: “L> add AI there and you’ve got a paper R> I just had a look, and that thing is pretty much completely offline. the JS contains the entire dictionary C> well would you look at that, might want to use the actual dictionary then “

Actually, it was dead easy to copy the sources to a gist and host the gist:

And of course someone distilled the wordle word solutions list into some statistics:

More was done at [Wayback/Archive] Reverse Engineering Wordle | Robert Reichel.

Which got updated to the statistics of the union of solution and accepted words list

Another tool that helps solving is [Wayback/Archive] willthames/wordle-guesses which I found viaΒ [Archive] Will Thames on Twitter: “I spent some of my New Year’s Day writing a program to generate the best first two guesses for Wordle. Time well spent, I think: …”.

Jilles then posted a video on how to view the source [Archive] JillesπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ on Twitter: “How to cheat on #wordle …”.

To make Wordle even harder, there is Absurdle, an adversorial version of Wordle that decides the word upon your input until it runs out of decisions:

A Dutch and German version were added as Woordle and Wordle (which missed being called WorDeL and Wortle):

Shortly followed by another German version (always the Austrians setting themselves apart), and a French one (which messed Le Word as perfect name):

There is also a four-letter word edition, actually two of them:

There is a Prime version too:

Felienne posted a cool analysis bot that watches Wordle tweets and uses them to estimate the correct Wordle solution:

Oh, there is a single Letterle, which on average takes you some 13 tries when disregarding letter frequencies (which likely should not matter):

When you think Absurdle was going far, look at what happened Wordlinator:

Two search tools that are very useful:

If you are desperate, these solvers can help; the second one is more flexible, the first one faster, and the last one is pure cheating:

  1. [Wayback/Archive] Ruining the fun: a Wordle auto-solver – by Tom
  2. [Wayback/Archive] Wordle Helper – Suggestion and Solver Tool – Gamer Journalist
  3. [Wayback/Archive] Wordle Answers (February 2022) – Today’s Solution

I tried referencing all posts in the somewhat broken thread at:

Some links that did not make it into that thread (yet):

Having good start words and an on-line dictionary help:

And there is always a really fast way:Β [Wayback/Archive] Wordle Solver | Not Fun at Parties (explained inΒ [Wayback/Archive] Ruining the fun: a Wordle auto-solver – by Tom)

–jeroen

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Some links on measuring CO2 and Volatile Organic Compounds in the air

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/05/02

Some links on measuring these:

I was triggered by some messages in a thread:

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