Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/11
Cool practical application of LinuxCNC: [Wayback/Archive] The Raspberry Pi that ships other Raspberry Pis – Pi Australia
LinuxCNC controls CNC machines. It can drive milling machines, lathes, 3D printers, laser cutters, plasma cutters, robot arms, hexapods, and more.
Via [Wayback/Archive] Frans van Berckel on Twitter: “@geerlingguy So, there is a Raspberry Pi, that ships other Raspberry Pis?”
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/05
As promised yesterday¹ because “what’s an open source project without its status page” (and some commercial vendors cough Embarcadero cough could highly benefit from this):
[Wayback/Archive] GitHub – louislam/uptime-kuma: A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool.
Some links (so you can try it for yourself):
--jeroen
¹ GitHub – cryptpad/cryptpad: Collaborative office suite, end-to-end encrypted and open-source.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/04
Google Docs alternative for self-hosting or hosted usage: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – cryptpad/cryptpad: Collaborative office suite, end-to-end encrypted and open-source.
The project started last month 12 years ago in 2014 as the “realtime collaborative visual editor with zero knowlege server” with the commit [Wayback/Archive] and so it begins · cryptpad/cryptpad@1508c7b · GitHub.
Via¹: [Wayback/Archive] Dr. Christopher Kunz: “I’m currently testing Cryptpad for collaborative working.…” – chaos.social
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/02
Some notes (mainly links) on the Oracle Cloud Free Tier as at the time of writing it is the only provider with a “free forever” tier.
In the past for FOSS, there was [Wayback/Archive] Fosshost on Twitter: “@d_feldman Check out fosshost.org for an alternative to Oracle Cloud for ARM/AArch64. We are free, open source and you will never get bill shock. Open source projects must apply only.”, but at the end of 2022 they started to wind down their services as per [Wayback/Archive] Fosshost to Sunset Tenant Services
Fosshost to Sunset Tenant Services
At this time, Fosshost is deeply sorry to announce we are no longer able to continue offering our services.
Because of this, we strongly recommend all Fosshost tenants to backup their data immediately, and migrate elsewhere as soon as possible.
Oh before you begin: if you need a reverse DNS record then be sure to request that as soon as your free tier starts: at that time you have USD 300 credits for running paid services which includes the support to request reverse DNS records.
Anyway, many links on the Oracle OCI Cloud Free Tier (especially the ARM deal is great: lots of RAM as compared to the x86 VMs):
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/30
Now that I got pointed to this twice (see “Via” below), I need to get one so I can play with it: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – i-am-shodan/USBArmyKnife: USB Army Knife – the ultimate close access tool for penetration testers and red teamers.
Via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/25
Perl isn’t my strength, so I was glad to find the below links that inspired me to add this bash function to my profile decoding Quote-Printable email data (for instance used by sendmail and postfix to store SMTP message files):
# https://superuser.com/questions/1452249/fix-revert-wrong-encoding-of-file function sendmail-decode-quoted-printable-from-stdin() { perl -0777 -ne 'use MIME::QuotedPrint; print decode_qp($_)' }
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/23
Sometimes I feel like having lived under a rock for ages despite trying to live the command-line life as much as possible.
Anyway: not that long ago I learned about [Wayback/Archive] mutool: all purpose tool for dealing with PDF files | mupdf Commands | Man Pages | ManKier
It is part of [Wayback/Archive] Package mupdf – man pages | ManKier which also has [Wayback/Archive] mupdf: MuPDF is a lightweight PDF viewer written in portable C | mupdf Commands | Man Pages | ManKier.
MuPDF – a kind of sibling to GhostScript – lives at [Wayback/Archive] MuPDF: The ultimate library for managing PDF documents.
The below query got me to [Wayback/Archive] mupdf/docs/man/mutool.1 at master · ccxvii/mupdf · GitHub in the “wrong” repository [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – ccxvii/mupdf: mirrored from git://git.ghostscript.com/mupdf.git
The actual repositories are at:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/15
I wish I had found this overview eons ago: [Wayback/Archive] Managing the Mail Queue Files and Directories.
The most important bits on the various kinds of files that appear in your message queue:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/06
Sometimes I need [Wayback/Archive] Redirect Checker | Check your Statuscode 301 vs 302 on the command-line, so cURL to the rescue: [Wayback/Archive] linux – Get final URL after curl is redirected – Stack Overflow. The relevant portions of answers and comments further below.
TL;DR:
Since I prefer verbose command-line arguments (you can find them at the [Wayback/Archive] curl – How To Use on-line man page) especially in scripts this HTTP GET request is what works with Twitter:
% curl --location --silent --output /dev/null --write-out "%{url_effective}\n" https://twitter.com/anyuser/status/20https://x.com/anyuser/status/20
This failed (twitter dislikes HTTP HEAD requests):
% curl --head --location --silent --output /dev/null --write-out "%{url_effective}\n" https://twitter.com/anyuser/status/20https://twitter.com/anyuser/status/20
Given so many of my scripts now run on zsh, I added the new-line because of command line – Why does a cURL request return a percent sign (%) with every request in ZSH? – Stack Overflow. You can strip that bit.
Note that these do not perform client side redirects, so they do not return the ultimate originating URL https://x.com/jack/status/20 (which was the first ever Tweet on what was back then called twttr) as Twitter on the client-side overwrites window.location.href with the final URL. Similar behaviour for getting the Twitter user handle of a Twitter user ID, more on Twitter tricks below.
Tweet by TweetID trick via [Wayback/Archive] Accessing a tweet using only its ID (and without the Twitter API) – Bram.us.
Further reading (thanks [Wayback/Archive] vise, [Wayback/Archive] Daniel Stenberg, [Wayback/Archive] Ivan, [Wayback/Archive] AndrewF, [Wayback/Archive] Roger Campanera, and [Wayback/Archive] Dave Baird):
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/04
Every now and then you make a typo when accessing remote systems through UltraVNC vncviewer.exe (I did the worst: thinking I had hit Enter to select the most recent connection, but typing a password instead).
I could not find settings in the registry, nor a vncviewer.ini file, so I used Process Monitor and filtered all events for the most recently started vncviewer.exe to figure out where it would store configuration files.
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 