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Locations and IPs for whitelisting | UptimeRobot

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/12/14

A page with IPv4 and IPv6 network blocks and addresses [Wayback] Locations and IPs for whitelisting | UptimeRobot:

If you need to whitelist these IPs so that any requests that Uptime Robot send are not blocked.

Or in [Wayback] text form (with Wayback history):

216.144.250.150
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46.137.190.132
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178.62.52.237
54.79.28.129
54.94.142.218
104.131.107.63
54.67.10.127
54.64.67.106
159.203.30.41
46.101.250.135
18.221.56.27
52.60.129.180
159.89.8.111
146.185.143.14
139.59.173.249
165.227.83.148
128.199.195.156
138.197.150.151
34.233.66.117
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–jeroen

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Rabobank webcare phone contact: +31887226767

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/12/13

In case something you want to arrange in the on-line Rabobank portal fails, you can call their web-care team:

[Archive.is] Rabobank on Twitter: “Hi Jeroen, jammer dat het online niet lukt. Ik adviseer om te bellen met mijn collega’s op 088 722 67 67. Fijne dag 🍀 ^Liesbeth… “

In my case as custodian, it was impossible to on-line change the bank statements from paper to digital, even after following [WayBack] Wijzigen of stoppen ontvangst rekeningafschriften – Rabobank.

The on-line team changed it for me in a matter of minutes.

–jeroen

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The IDEA project – an ongoing series of nonverbal algorithm assembly instructions

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/12/10

I wonder how many new algorithms were added, as the first 6 were really impressive: [WayBack] IDEA on Twitter: “Excited to announce the IDEA project – an ongoing series of nonverbal algorithm assembly instructions: https://t.co/zOAyfOAv3l… https://t.co/epQfBBdzdF”

While originally scheduling this, these were added:

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Having cancer is not a fight or a battle, it is about having luck or misfortune

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/12/10

It has been a while after my last post about me having cancer. No, I am not giving up. But I am having the regular fear of the upcoming checks: did the metastases return, or do I have the luck to outlive some 30% of my peer group.

The last metastases surgery has been slightly more than a year ago. A year from now, that percentage hopefully will be 50% and slowly increase over time until about 90% in some 9 years from now.

At year’s end, I will know for sure.

Below are some links on, mostly Dutch but with English abstract, articles about the mental side of having cancer, or having survived it for now.

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Threader is dying: save your content as soon as possible

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/12/09

Luckily I only had two posts using Threader, as I today learned that it is dying really soon now, as per [Wayback/Archive] Threader – Good Twitter threads every day (emphasis and archival links mine):

As part of this acquisition, we’ll be shutting Threader down on December 15, 2021.

…

We’ve [Wayback/Archive] recently built a similar reading experience at Twitter, which is now available as part of [Wayback/Archive] Twitter Blue.

…

All of our users will be able to export their bookmarks from their settings in our iOS and web apps. Make sure to also download your PDF archives if you’d like to keep them.

Twitter Blue is paid and only available in very few countries and is part of Twitter, so quite useless for archival.

The alternatives [Archive] @ThreadReaderApp, [Archive] @WayBackMachine and [Archive] @ArchiveIs for the win (:

Bye bye [Archive] Threader (previously [Archive] @Threader_app), it was fun while it lasted.

––jeroen

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Playing around with spammers is easy

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/12/09

Thread start: [Archive.is] Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on Twitter: “I created a fake company to play around with spammers, and it is just such a joy to use, and you can use it too. A thread: I receive an email from a scammer/spammer. Like this:… “

Archived unroll: [Wayback] Thread by @Boris on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App.

Via: [Archive.is] Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on Twitter: “Or, next time you receive spam reply with this: “Please forward this email to bill@noprocurement.com, and delete my email, as I’ll be changing jobs soon, and this email address will no longer be active.””

The [Archive.is] inspiration partly came from [Wayback] The Story of Lenny, the Internet’s Favorite Telemarketing Troll:

Lenny is a decade-old chatbot designed to troll telemarketers that has developed a cult following online. It’s remarkably convincing, but is it actually effective?

Research indicated that Lenny is effective and wastes time of scammers which they cannot spend on calling real people.

Some highlights

Waste time by sending spammers in an auto-reply loop of personas.

“Please forward this email to bill@noprocurement.com, and delete my email, as I’ll be changing jobs soon, and this email address will no longer be active.”

One of the email forwards bounces:

There even is a (http-only) web-site [Wayback] Nordic Procurement Services – Providing Procurement services worldwide since 1994.

A plugin for gmail or other mail systems would be cool, just as having more domains and accounts:

Some people are already adding these to their own domains:

Be sure to spread the word.

Oh, and have some spammers contact john@noprocurement.com

–jeroen

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Jan Schaumann: “The secret language of coders, part N of many. Today: “risk acceptance”… “

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/12/08

From a while back, but more relevant than ever:

[Archive.is] Jan Schaumann on Twitter: “The secret language of coders, part N of many. Today: “risk acceptance”… “

Obligatory video below the fold.

–jeroen

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Some links on EPC, EPA and Energielabel in The Netherlands

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/12/06

For my link archive:

–jeroen

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When a cross-head screw is not Philips, and you might need a JIS screwdriver

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/12/06

A while ago, when messing with some Asian electronics, I found that the cross-head screws in it do not fit Philips screwdrivers well.

The cause is the use of JIS (Japanese Industry Standard) cross-head screws in Japan and some other Asian regions.

JIS screws can also been found in other Asian mechanical stuff like motor-cycles and cars.

Here are some links about JIS screws and screwdrivers.

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Tried to find the original of “The Netherlands after a huge western storm” map

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/12/03

TL;DR: the picture is at the bottom; I think it is the original.

A few years ago, slightly before a big storm hit The Netherlands ([WayBack] Storm Ciara – Wikipedia), I bumped into a similar “after storm map” that had shifted cities towards the east emphasising in a funny way the expected strength of the storm.

They appeared on both Facebook and Twitter:

The second image was larger, but did not show text “Belgium” nor the upper islands from the first image. Furthermore the first image had a “@goedverhaallekkerkort” bookmark, which – on social media – usually is a sign the image is not original.

So I had to go and find an image based on the first (as it had the most data) but with larger dimensions than the second.

Using “Image Search”  for the image [Archive.is] atlas – Google Search and [Archive.is] storm kaart nederland – Google Search revealed many relatively small images, but also one larger image in the 20200209 post [WayBack] Oeps zo is de kaart morgen als de storm is gaan liggen😂😂😂 via [Archive.is] Google Image Result for https://stoprokenblog.nl/blog_img/w/74498-WbfGk-original.jpeg and 20180119 post [WayBack] Gewoon een verzameling hilarische foto’s #921 – VK Magazine.

I think the final one is the original: it is sharper, and has all the elements mentioned above.

Is this now the famous OSINT? Is it the original one?

–jeroen

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