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When Archive.Today (and their .fo/.is.li/.md/.ph/.vn) look down; check your DNS

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/19

The [Wayback] Archive Today blog has not been updated for more than a year now*, and this looks to coincide with up-time issues.

Part of the inability to save pages in Archive.Today (or any of their other domains) or access them can have to do with DNS issues, actually confirmed by the linked Wikipedia article. There are many links on them, some are these reddit threads:

  • Note the problem archiving the Archive Today blog into the Wayback Machine isn’t always successful. When trying around the moments that Archive Today could not archive pages, the Wayback Machine could not find the Archive Today blog in their DNS, see the the picture below.

The really cool thing is that during after the Internet Archive hack (and therefore Wayback Machine downtime), Archive Today held up pretty much OK, so not all is bad (:

Anyway Archive Today archival started to work again after some 4 hours of problems, and I got dragged into other work, so there was no chance to investigate further. Hopefully another day… or preferably: hopefully they stay up.

Query: [Wayback/Archive] archive today down – Google Suche

--jeroen

Wayback Machine archival: "SorryCannot resolve host blog.archive.today."

Wayback Machine archival: “Sorry
Cannot resolve host blog.archive.today.”

 

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Moa: Link your Mastodon account to Twitter with Moa Bridge.

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/19

Hopefully by now (given Spare Karen’s moves), this still exists: [Wayback/Archive] Moa

Link your Mastodon account to Twitter with Moa Bridge.

Documentation and updates are on [Wayback/Archive] Home — Moa Party

Welcome to the Moa Party!

Moa is open source server code that enables cross-posting between networks such as Mastodon, Twitter, and other networks. The main server runs at https://moa.party, and is maintained as a public utility.

This site is the Moa Party: used for status updates, documentation, and news from the maintainers.

You can also run your own instance as it is open source at [Wayback/Archive] FedStoa / moa · GitLab (formerly at [Wayback/Archive] FedStoa/moa: A Mastodon, Twitter, and Instagram Cross-poster).

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Some links on the Apple IIc Plus (Apple IIc + on the boot screen) likely the rarest from the Apple II series

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/16

A while ago I bumped into this video about likely the rarest model in the Apple II series: the Apple IIc Plus:

[Wayback/Archive] Apple IIc Plus – the rarest and fastest Apple II! – YouTube

Returning to one of my favorite subjects – the Apple II – I decide to finally repair a broken Apple IIc Plus gifted to me a little more than a year ago. This machine was the final true hardware revision to the Apple II line, coming in 1988, and the last standalone machine in the line released. It was also the fastest, with a 4Mhz CPU (vs. 1Mhz in most other Apple II’s, and 2.6Mhz in the IIGS). But it was a problematic machine for Apple, with a concept that had been watered down to the point of, well, pointlessness.

The market wanted it even less than it wanted the original IIc (which was my first computer – the one in the thumbnail is my original machine). Still, it is an interesting computer for its accelerated CPU, and its somewhat anachronistic nature at the time of its launch.

It has a cool demo of Flight Simulator II demo mode (which back in those days crashing the plane – demo modes luckily improved from there :) at both 1 Mhz and 4 Mhz. It indeed is not smooth, but a lot faster.

The problem back in those days with acceleration is it would not just improve render speed, but also increase clock time speed. It made most games almost impossible to play in accelerated mode.

If I ever get one, I need to replace the 110V power supply with a 240V/110V auto-switching one as per [Wayback/Archive] IIc + 240v Power:

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Cyber Gangsta’s Paradise | Prof. Merli ft. MC BlackHat [Parody Music Video] – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/16

Cyber Gangsta’s Paradise | Prof. Merli ft. MC BlackHat [Parody Music Video] – YouTube [Wayback/Archive]

Cyber Gangsta’s Paradise; professor Merli featuring MC Blackhat

Via @christopherkunz@chaos.social [Wayback/Archive]

The video is on the walled garden called Instagram as well, but since I intentionally don’t have an account there accessing is hard. Anyway, it is at: [WaybackSave/Archive] Instagram: „Cyber Gangsta’s Paradise“ feiert Premiere 🎶🎬.

In the past, picuki was an alternative. Now it fails for instagram content.  [Wayback/Archive] Instagram Reels Download with Reels Downloader got me to [Wayback/Archive] cdninstagram, which in the end worked.

Transcript (via Google, typos all mine), song-text (from video description), and of course the credits:

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Yes, you can globally block JavaScript and enablpe per-site, but you block Bookmarklets too

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/16

Trying to trim down excessive CPU usage of my web browsers, and lessen the risk of intrusion, I experimented with globally disabling JavaScript and only enabling it on sites where it adds value to me.

That is possible (see below), but immediately showed a big side effect: Bookmarklets will not work on sites that have JavaScript disabled.

Disabling JavaScript globally only allows Bookmarklets on sites where you have enabled JavaScript. Not the situation I hoped for (:

I’ll try it for a while though.

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Posted in Bookmarklet, Chrome, Chrome, Development, Firefox, Google, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Web Browsers, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

Teardown of an APC Switched Rack PDU – AP7921 – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/15

Cool to see how the innards exposed of a PDU model I have: [Wayback/Archive] Teardown of an APC Switched Rack PDU – AP7921 – YouTube

Related blog posts showing containing the AP7920 and AP7921 I have:

Product links with one level down the current models: Read the rest of this entry »

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Upptime: GitHub-powered open-source uptime monitor and status page

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/14

I wonder how long this can be hosted on GitHub. Will start using it, just to learn more about the GitHub computing infrastructure.

Links:

--jeroen

Posted in Cloud, Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, GitHub, Hosting, Infrastructure, Monitoring, Power User, Software Development, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

Early Firefox history thread by @asadotzler on Thread Reader App (from before it was called Phoenix, heck from before Phoenix was created!)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/14

A few years back I bumped in this cool [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @asadotzler on Thread Reader App on early Firefox history (from before it was called Phoenix or Firebird, heck from before Phoenix was created!).

It is important to keep telling these bits of history as they are fundamental to understand the Web Browser landscape as it is now.

Great material that complements Wikipedia articles like these:

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Posted in Database Development, Development, Firebird, Firefox, History, Power User, Web Browsers | Leave a Comment »

10-inch racks have apparently been a thing for the last few years. Some links.

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/13

When at look at a local Amazon site, they have plenty of stuff: [Wayback/Archive] Amazon.de : 10 inch rack

2023 example via [Wayback/Archive] Ikea Eket DIY 10″ Rack (UK) [build showcase] · Issue #22 · geerlingguy/mini-rack · GitHub:

Via [WaybackSave/Archive] Jeff Geerling on X: “Everyone in #Homelab knows about the DIY 19″ IKEA LACK rack… but did you know IKEA makes the perfect mini rack furniture, too? Presenting stirkage’s Eket rack! …”

[Wayback/Archive] Tweet JSON (image on the right).

That tweet and [WaybackSave/Archive] Jeff Geerling on X: “Indeed… there’s gotta be some nerd at @IKEA who’s ensuring certain furniture fits standard sized rackmount gear, right?” (image below via [Wayback/Archive] Tweet JSON) have some interesting replies, making the list of usable IKEA products at least this:

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Coo responses to b0rk no Twitter: “is there an easy way (in the browser, at runtime) to generate a call graph of which functions called which other functions in a javascript program?”

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/13

For my reading list, the various responses to [Wayback/Archive] Julia Evans on Twitter: “is there an easy way (in the browser, at runtime) to generate a call graph of which functions called which other functions in a javascript program?”

--jeroen

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