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Wegstatus.nl – Home

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/12/04

This is so cool: a site showing live road status obtained through public APIs of roads in The Netherlands and Belgium covering closures, incidents (via P2000), open bridges, etc, communicating everything to Waze:

Wegstatus, een overzicht van actuele afsluitingen en incidenten in het verkeer.

[Archive.is] Wegstatus.nl – Home

Soo much information:

You can view new road closures through [Archive.is] Wegstatus.nl (@wegstatus) on Twitter

–jeroen

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Mike Cardwell’s Tech Blog: Twitter to RSS with Google Cloud Function – Grepular

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/12/03

Cool, on my list of things to tinker with: [WayBack] Twitter to RSS with Google Cloud Function – Grepular at Mike Cardwell’s Tech Blog

Source at [WayBack] Mike Cardwell / funcTwitter · GitLab, of which these are the most important bits:

Via [WayBack] Mike Cardwell on Twitter: “Twitter to RSS with Google Cloud Function”

–jeroen

Posted in Cloud Apps, Cloud Development, Development, Google, Google Cloud Function, Internet, Power User, RSS, SocialMedia, Software Development, Twitter | Leave a Comment »

How to install Telnet with only one command

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/12/01

Source: [WayBack] How to install Telnet with only one command:

dism /online /Enable-Feature /FeatureName:TelnetClient

–jeroen

Posted in Microsoft Surface on Windows 7, Power User, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 9, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016, Windows Vista | Leave a Comment »

Keep alive SSH connection with server in MacOs Mojave – Ask Different

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/11/30

Reminder to self: check if this has been worked-around yet: [WayBack] Keep alive SSH connection with server in MacOs Mojave – Ask Different

In El Captain, to maintain active a SSH connection you should edit ~/.ssh/config file to add your additional rules.

nano ~/.ssh/config

To maintain active for 1 hour you should add:

Host *
   ServerAliveInterval 3600

I cannot recreate the same situation is MacOS Mojave, it continue to close connections after some minutes. Any suggestions about this?

Via: [WayBack] Ask Different on Twitter: “Can you answer this? Keep alive SSH connection with server in MacOs Mojave #ssh”

–jeroen

 

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Android: measuring sound levels

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/11/30

Two Android apps I tried that work quite OK for measuring dBA or Sound Pressure Level:

Measuring sound levels is not easy, especially the calibration is important. That’s why professional devices are relatively expensive.

These are no full replacements for those professional devices, but the first comes close enough for me.

–jeroen

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Compressing C:\Users\All Users\Microsoft\ClickToRun\ProductReleases

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/11/27

Microsoft keeps more and more under C:\Users\All Users\Microsoft\ClickToRun\ProductReleases (also accessible via C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\ClickToRun\ProductReleases or more precisely %AllUsersProfile%\Microsoft\ClickToRun\ProductReleases).

This can be huge, running into 10s of gigabytes, which – for todays cloud, VM and light-weight device based world – is huge.

Compressing seems to fail for me consistently, as I get “access denied” while compressing when elevating from Windows Explorer.

So this is a reminder to sort this out eventually.

These did not help yet:

I don’t dare deleting it:

Hopefully it is something explainable like the a virus scanner.

Later

Yup: it was the Avira Virus Scanner.

Somehow it has the Windows Explorer UI cause an “Access Denied” message to appear when elevating, but you can still compress files fine in a subdirectory with these steps:

Given a subdirectory named C:\SomeDir\A do this:

  1. pushd C:\SomeDir\A
  2. compact /c /s *.*
  3. cd ..
  4. compact /c A
  5. popd

It is not the first time I bump into Avira stuff (but I only blogged about it once, dumb me: VirusTotal: Avira marks a Delphi built executable als false positive), but the decision of using it was outside my control.

–jeroen

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Aaron Tay on Twitter: “trying experimental Wayback Machine Chrome ext from @internetarchive . There’s usual find latest/earliest archived versions and “context”, which just checks whois, annotations from https://t.co/qlqDUJNkIa, tweets etc but “find cited books and papers” is only on wikipedia pages… https://t.co/QqFSQ2HJ3e”

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/11/27

On my list of things to try:

Source: Aaron Tay on Twitter: “trying experimental Wayback Machine Chrome ext from @internetarchive . There’s usual find latest/earliest archived versions and “context”, which just checks whois, annotations from Hypothes.is, tweets etc but “find cited books and papers” is only on wikipedia pages”

–jeroen

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“twitter lite” “not available in your country” – Google Search

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/11/27

Need to figure out how to install: “twitter lite” “not available in your country” – Google Search.

Failing steps from [WayBack] Twitter vs Twitter Lite: Is Lite App Worth it?, but it might actually be the app sans APK.

On my reading list:

–jeroen

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Exiting the Microsoft Narrator

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/11/24

The keyboard bindings for the Microsoft Narrator changed in Windows 10 from Windows 8.1 and earlier.

Since the below support pages refuse to save in the WayBack machine and Archive.is, I copy-pasted some bits of them.

Related:

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Protocols and Networks – PlexodusWiki

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/11/23

The G+ exodus caused some people to create some great information on available online messaging and social-networking / social-media / social-graph based technologies: [WayBack] Protocols and Networks – PlexodusWiki.

Via [WayBack] Protocols and Networks +Mr. McNoname compiled and formatted an excellent rundown of open & federated social networking protocols. This is the kind of… – Edward Morbius – Google+

–jeroen

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