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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/09/18
Interesting video explaining there is a lot of work to do around me, meaning I probably need more in stead of less people around me (:
- Nurture diversity: Creativity managers dislike brains being the same.
- Create markets: Creativity managers favor coopetition in networks.
- Rely on merits: Creativity managers embrace networks and gameplay.
- Make no predictions: Creativity managers keep many options open.
- Update the workplace: Creativity managers work the environment.
- Change constraints: Creativity managers optimize for exploration.
- Open boundaries: Creativity managers connect instead of protect.
Via [WayBack] 7 Rules for Creativity Managers – Marjan Venema – Google+ (who is a great coach).
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/09/14
When you have the forrest and trees problem on Amazon Instances, then these will help a lot:
It is open source too: [WayBack] GitHub – powdahound/ec2instances.info: Amazon EC2 instance comparison site
Found this because I wanted to know instance difference because the 2018 addition of local NVMe storage to C5/M5 instances:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/09/14
Interesting, not just from a GDPR perspective:
EditThisCookie is a cookie manager. You can add, delete, edit, search, protect and block cookies!
[WayBack] EditThisCookie – Chrome Web Store
Via [WayBack] Error 400 on Google sites (YouTube, Maps, Search etc) · Issue #537 · deanoemcke/thegreatsuspender · GitHub
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/09/01
Some baking apps want a lot of permissions, including privacy sensitive ones.
Maybe they should split themselves in a small, non-intrusive app that allows payment confirmation, and fatter (hopefully less intrusive than now) app for account management.
For now, I try to avoid these apps as they are single points of failures.
ING had a great TAN code system on paper. It hardly had any side-channel attack vectors, and by putting some copies in geographically distinct locations, you had good and safe back-ups too.
It looks like the successor is a single point of failure: only one scanner device per account holder is possible.
Let’s see what the future will bring.
Related:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/09/01
Still an interesting question: [WayBack] hash – Why is Git not considered a “block chain”? – Stack Overflow.
With my limited knowledge of both, I think git is a Merkle tree without both a proof of work and consensus system. That would make it the chain part of block chain, and the without bits the block.
How wrong am I?
It seems I still have a lot to learn about Merkle tree related stuff, so on my research list:
- [WayBack] Merkle Tree | Brilliant Math & Science Wiki
- InterPlanetary File System – Wikipedia IPFS is a peer-to-peer distributed file system that seeks to connect all computing devices with the same system of files. In some ways, IPFS is similar to the World Wide Web, but IPFS could be seen as a single BitTorrent swarm, exchanging objects within one Git repository. In other words, IPFS provides a high-throughput, content-addressed block storage model, with content-addressed hyperlinks.[11] This forms a generalized Merkle directed acyclic graph (DAG). IPFS combines a distributed hash table, an incentivized block exchange, and a self-certifying namespace. IPFS has no single point of failure, and nodes do not need to trust each other, except for every node they are connected to.[12]Distributed Content Delivery saves bandwidth and prevents DDoS attacks, which HTTP struggles with.[5]
- [WayBack] Is Git a Block Chain? | Hacker News
- Need to decide which of these videos explain the Merkel tree best:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/08/28
Still glad I got a few of [WayBack] GL-AR300M – GL.iNet: it makes travel life so much easier when you cannot use tethering.
I got the model GL-AR300M with external antennas (the GL-AR300M only has internal ones with a much shorter range).
Powered over USB, it runs OpenWRT and can NAT a local network towards an external network on the WAN, WiFi or (via USB) 3G/4G modem.
Despite doing only 2.4Ghz, it was a life saver in many occasions (there is a 5Ghz model, but it has over heating issues).
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/08/28
We already have a lot of solar panels, but if you do not and live in the USA, then this might be a good starting point to get a solar estimate for your area, based on the amount of usable sunlight and roof space.
[WayBack] Project Sunroof – About.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/08/24
Lots of videos below the fold. Most from VicFirth, but not all.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/08/24
Suguru is a moldable glue that cures (settles/hardens) because of moisture and temperature (see the [WayBack] tech PDF.
Keeping it longer than the standard 13 month shelf life (at room temperature in original packaging) works best in a moist free, cold environment.
It is excellent for doing some cable repair (especially for those pesky expensive USB-C, lightning, magsafe 2 or magsafe connectors of which the middle 2 are most prone to damage).
It glues best to hard surfaces, though the materials it glues to varies (see also the tech PDF).
Some more links:
Via: [WayBack] Welk vakantiegadget raad jij je medetweaker aan? – IT Pro – .Plans – Tweakers
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 