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If the downloading PDF reports (like bank statements) from the new ABN AMRO on-line banking environment fails: try the old environment

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/02/04

Great set of steps from ABN AMRO to get into the old on-line banking environment that usually works if the new one fails downloading PDF reports:

Note that outages like these are not reported at [Archive.is] Storingen – ABN AMRO – beschikbaarheid.

Related:

–jeroen

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Local Guides Connect – Help Desk – Local Guides Connect

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/02/01

Reminder to self: Local Guides Nederland moved their [WayBack] G+ community over to [WayBack] Local Guides Connect – Help Desk – Local Guides Connect which is part of [WayBack] Local Guides Connect and powered by [WayBack] Powered by Lithium | Lithium.

Since that is not part of any other social media platform I subscribe to, I will likely only see new stuff when I actively go to that place: hopefully that is more than once a year.

–jeroen

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Google’s Phishing Quiz shows why Google AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) is a bad idea

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/01/25

This week, Google introduced the [WayBack] Phishing Quiz, a series of questions to see how good you spot phishing emails.

It is a perfect example on why Google AMP is a bad idea: it makes it easier to write phishing mail targeting Google users.

One of the questions is about a password change email seemingly from Google with a link by Google.

The link is really deceptive, as it:

  1. uses Google AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) which are hosted directly through a root path on the Google main domain: the URL starts with https://google.com/amp
  2. Especially on mobile, Google accelerates a lot of things through Google AMP, so a link on mobile that looks like this might be legit

This will deceive a lot of people as they are trained to look at the main domain to assess authenticity: google.com

That combined with an email domain that also looks being from Google (with so many real word top-level domains, many would not be surprised getting email from no-reply@google.support)

Just look at the below screenshot to see how deceptively this trick is.

Solution

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Migrating KPN ISDN MSNs to XS4ALL VoIP: via https://mijn.xs4all.nl

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/01/24

Migrating KPN ISDN MSNs to XS4ALL VoIP: via https://mijn.xs4all.nl:

Reminder to self to finish this when the final ISDN A/D dependency has been resolved.

–jeroen

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Google Sheet with forwarding addresses. Please feel free to add yours….

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/01/21

[WayBack] I have created a Google Sheet with forwarding addresses. Please feel free to add yours- only the info you are comfortable with. Please DO NOT add full e… – Di Cleverly – Google+

[Archive.is] Forwarding Addresses – Google Sheets

–jeroen

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E46: replace battery in car key

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/01/14

Two videos that show how to cut open the E46 diamond shaped car key to replace the battery are below.

Far cheaper than a ~ EUR 200 replacement key: [Archive.is] what did you pay for your E46 diamond key replacement? – E46Fanatics

Parts needed:

  • Panasonic VL2020 Akku – http://amzn.to/2emKNVN or 2016 (non-rechargeable but should be compatible)
  • 66 12 2 155 753 BMW Schlüssel-Emblem

Tools needed:

  • Vise/Vice (German: Schraubstock)
  • very sharp knife
  • super glue

Related Related: door lock and key problems; FM Antenna problems

–jeroen

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Life after Google+: an export tool that use the G+ API and runs on Google Firebase

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/01/14

Another follow up on Life after Google+ – Lars Fosdal:

[WayBack] GitHub – RomainVialard/Google-Plus-Community-Migrator

This repository presents a way to export posts from a Google+ community (in this case the Google Apps Script community), along with comments & likes (plusones) using the Google+ REST API and import them in a Firebase Database, then use Firebase Hosting to display those posts. To see a live result, simply open this URL: https://apps-script-community-archive.firebaseapp.com/

It depends on the G+ REST API (so it will die earlier than G+ itself) and hosts on Google.

Related:

–jeroen

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Life after Google+ – Lars Fosdal: Friends+Me Google+ Export tool.

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/01/11

A little while ago, I blogged about Life after Google+ – Lars Fosdal. In the mean time, Lars has made a lot of progress exporting the community [WayBack] Delphi Developers – Google+ (which has moved to en.delphipraxis.net !).

He is a heavy user of the Friends+Me Google+ Export tool, which basically is an actively maintained web scraper with standard output targets:

[WayBack] Google Plus Exporter – Medium: Export your Google+ feeds to WordPress, Blogger, and JSON.

It does not depend on the G+ REST API: “the app is using web scraping and will keep working until the bitter end”.

Quite a bit of that information and the feedback he has is in this thread: [WayBack1/WayBack2] Hi Everyone, We’ve just released Google+ Exporter, an application that helps you to export your Google+ feeds (profile, pages, collections, communities… – Friends+Me – Google+

Of course G+ does not save the whole thread in the WayBack machine, so here it is copy-pasted (unformatted; maybe I will format it later):

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Some ideas to show a Google Calendar on a TV using a Raspberry Pi and HDMI output

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/01/10

Using OpenSuSE Tumbleweed E20 on Raspberry Pi 3: accessing the enlightenment desktop over VNC after automatic logon I wanted to buy an on-line read-only diary to help my mentally retarded brother see what his next few days are going to be like.

He increasingly has difficulty handling a paper agenda and has an agenda with 30 minute blocks like [Archive.is] bol.com | Bureau Agenda 2017 – 1 dag per Pagina | 0041560163422 | Boeken (and the [Archive.is] picture on the right), but actually he needs 15 minute blocks during some portions of the day.

We call that kind “bureau agenda” which I think translates well into “desk diary”.

They were quite different from the agendas I used to have at school (:

[WayBack] [Zonder titel] Rijam agenda 1983/84 verzamelen? Stripcatalogus op Catawiki

For most school mates, they were more like this:

Had je een O’Neill of ging je voor De Familie Doorzon? De oude agenda’s uit je middelbare schooltijd zijn de verpersoonlijking van je eigen puber-ik. Afgelopen weekend startte in het Nationaal Onderwijsmuseum in Dordrecht de toffe tentoonstelling Grow Up over die vuistdikke, volgeplakte agenda’s.

[WayBack] Schoolagenda vol sentiment | Go with the Vlo

Anyway, some ideas I initially had are below.

This is what I actually did:

Two things for the future:

Initial thoughts

Raspberry based:

Chromecast based:

–jeroen

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AmazonSmile – Kontaktieren Sie uns

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/01/07

Für mein Archiv: Zur Amazon chat geht via AmazonSmile – Kontaktieren Sie uns.

–jeroen

https://smile.amazon.de/gp/help/contact-us/general-questions.html/

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