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G+ shutting down; where to go now?

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/26

Take out your data!

Before doing anything else: take out your data, especially the G+ data at takeout.google.com/settings/takeout, then download at takeout.google.com/settings/takeout/downloads:

TL;DR:

  1. export JSON, not HTML
  2. export often to get a feel for wat works fails
  3. download what works over time, then post-process it
  4. remember a download might be available only a week or so
  5. data is incomplete
  6. many platforms cannot (yet?) import G+ JSON

Think about a Google exit strategy

An excellent post on this is [WayBack] The Google Exit Strategy – alexreusch which I found via:

It looks like having a blog with a commenting system is not such a bad starting point at all…

Moving from G+

I have no really good idea where to go from G+. The sunset feels a lot like Google Reader, after which I switched to Feedly, which works pretty well, Wave and Inbox.

There is a [WayBack] Petition · Google, Inc: Don’t Shut Down Google Plus · Change.org, but if memory serves well, that did not help much for the other discontinued products.

So before in 9 months G+ ends up in Category:Discontinued Google services – Wikipedia, I am contemplating about alternatives.

Suddenly very relevant is the 2014 comic [WayBack] xkcd 1361: Google Announcement / [WayBack] 1361: Google Announcement – explain xkcd on the right (via [WayBack] XKCD 1361 – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+).

You can register your migration at the [WayBack] Google Plus Migration Directory Form form which will end up in [WayBack] Google Plus Migration Directory (Responses) – Google Sheets (via [WayBack] I made a form that will generate a spreadsheet with anyone’s information and destinations. Email field was added so you could edit your responses, but t… – John Lewis – Google+)

Your email will not end up in the migration directory, see [WayBack] Does Google collect survey participant’s email address? – Google Product Forums

Edit 20240819: the above Goo.Gl link died; it used to point to [Wayback/Archive] Google Plus Migration Directory.

What next?

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Hunting for Beyond Compare on your system: bc.bat

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/23

For my archive bc.bat it finds Beyond Compare, then starts it with the given command line parameters. It prefers version 4 over version 3 and user settings over system settings:

:begin
@echo off
  setlocal
  IF /I %PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE% == amd64 goto :x64
  IF /I %PROCESSOR_ARCHITEW6432% == amd64 goto :x64
  goto :x86
:x64
  :: OS is 64bit
  set hkcuBaseKey=HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Scooter Software\Beyond Compare
  set hklmBaseKey=HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Scooter Software\Beyond Compare
  
  goto :findBC
:x86
  :: OS is 32bit
  set hkcuBaseKey=HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Scooter Software\Beyond Compare
  set hklmBaseKey=HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Scooter Software\Beyond Compare
  goto :findBC
:findBC
  :: https://gist.github.com/rojepp/634908
  :: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5369528/windows-batch-reg-query-key-value-to-a-variable-but-do-not-display-error-if-key
  set SupportedBeyondCompareVersions=3, 4
  for %%v in (%SupportedBeyondCompareVersions%) do (
    for /f "usebackq tokens=2* delims= " %%c in (`reg query "%hkcuBaseKey% %%v" /v ExePath 2^>NUL`) do (
      call :do set bcExe="%%d"
    )
  )
  if not [%bcExe%]==[] goto :foundBC
    for /f "usebackq tokens=2* delims= " %%c in (`reg query "%hkcuBaseKey%" /v ExePath 2^>NUL`) do (
      call :do set bcExe="%%d"
    )
  if not [%bcExe%]==[] goto :foundBC
  for %%v in (%SupportedBeyondCompareVersions%) do (
    for /f "usebackq tokens=2* delims= " %%c in (`reg query "%hklmBaseKey% %%v" /v ExePath 2^>NUL`) do (
      call :do set bcExe="%%d"
    )
  )
  if not [%bcExe%]==[] goto :foundBC
    for /f "usebackq tokens=2* delims= " %%c in (`reg query "%hklmBaseKey%" /v ExePath 2^>NUL`) do (
      call :do set bcExe="%%d"
    )
:foundBC
  if [%bcExe%]==[] ( echo no bc.exe found in registry) else (
    echo bcExe=%bcExe%
    if exist %bcExe% start "Beyond Compare" %bcExe% %*
    if not exist %bcExe% echo not found: [%bcExe%]
  )
:exit
  endlocal
:end
  goto :eof
:do
  ::echo %*
  call %*
  goto :eof

–jeroen

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DIY Filament Sensor for your 3D Printer

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/23

Via:

–jeroen

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Ole Albers: Just wanted to tell that the Google+ Optimizer now has a cross post to Diaspora…

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/23

Cool: [WayBack] Just wanted to tell that the Google+ Optimizer now has a cross post to Diaspora – Feature…. – Ole Albers – Google+.

Get it from [WayBack] Ghosttown – Optimizer – Chrome Web Store

The Google+ – Optimizer increases the user experience with Google+ until the bitter end…
With this extension you can modify and arrange your google+ stream just like you want.

Some of the Features:
* Remove unwanted content ("suggested contacts, youtube-comments,animated gifs...)
* Display additional content (stopwatch)
* Filter by Hashtag
* Autosave-Feature
* Bookmark-Feature
... and more

The first time you open a page on plus.google.com, you see this:

Then when you post a removable information bar:

That directs you to the configuration (either right click the icon, or follow http://hurz.me/gplusoptimizer), where in the main item, you can enter your diaspora host (in my case pluspora) information:

–jeroen

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Nieuwere @Samsung_NL TVs gebruiken de OneRemote (soms ook Smart Remote genoemd) model BN59-01241A. Werken op die TVs ook de klassieke remotes zoals BN59-01223A die met oudere TVs werden meegeleverd?

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/22

Geen antwoord van Samsung op [WayBack] “Nieuwere @Samsung_NL TVs gebruiken de OneRemote (soms ook Smart Remote genoemd) model BN59-01241A. Werken op die TVs ook de klassieke remotes zoals N59-01223A die met oudere TVs werden meegeleverd?”

Gelukkig kwam ik dit tegen:

[WayBack] Reviews over Samsung UE50MU6100 – Coolblue – alles voor een glimlach

De afstandbediening is wel even wennen in gebruik, maar als je een oude Samsung afstandbediening hebt liggen werkt dit op deze tv en kun je dus de nummertoetsen gebruiken bij het zappen ;)

Later kwam Samsung alsnog met een antwoord:

[WayBack] Samsung Nederland on Twitter: “Hey Jeroen! De ‘normale’ afstandsbediening werkt ook gewoon op de nieuwere modellen! ^Nadia… “

Oh ja: Samsung maakt zowel 49, 50 als 55 inch versies: [WayBack] Comparison between: 49.5″ Samsung UE50MU6100, 48.5″ Samsung UE49MU6100, 54.6″ Samsung UE55MU6100.

Vergelijken in die MU61xxx serie blijft lastig. De 6100 kan meer dan de 6120 (bluetooth en voicecommand). De 6199 kan meer dan de 6179:

–jeroen

 

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Hopefully this is now available: in March you could pre-order the PoE hat for the Raspberry Pi 3 B+ at ~ EUR 15.

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/22

Wow, EUR 15 is almost half the price of an Raspberry Pi 3 B+:

[WayBack] RPI3-MODBP-POE RASPBERRY-PI, Add-On Board, Power over Ethernet (PoE) HAT for Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ | Farnell UK

Via:

–jeroen

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The Analysis of Drive Issues – unRAID

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/22

Interesting info for any RAID system: [WayBack] The Analysis of Drive Issues – unRAID

Start with Drive problems by keyword.

–jeroen

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Doctors disabled wireless in Dick Cheney’s pacemaker to thwart hacking – Naked Security

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/22

Medical devices are still vulnerable, five years after this became public:

Former US Vice President Dick Cheney’s doctors disabled his pacemaker’s wireless capabilities to thwart possible assassination attempts, he said in an interview with CBS’s ̶…

[WayBack] Doctors disabled wireless in Dick Cheney’s pacemaker to thwart hacking – Naked Security

I knew they were, but never realised Dick Cheney had a modified one implanted.

Some people are more equal to others…

via: the below video “Freedom In My Heart And Everywhere” from the linux.conf.au 2012 Keynote by Karen Sandler.

–jeroen

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wget and curl: downloads that sometimes fail

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/19

For my archive somewhere between cURL 7.21.0 and 7.34.0 it does not like to be started from an RDP based tsclient share:

C:\Users\jeroen\Downloads>\\tsclient\bin\curl.7.21.0.exe --remote-name https://www.xs4all.nl/index.html
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 86465    0 86465    0     0  60805      0 --:--:--  0:00:01 --:--:-- 70012

C:\Users\jeroen\Downloads>\\tsclient\bin\curl.7.34.0.exe --remote-name https://www.xs4all.nl/index.html
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0curl: (6) Could not resolve host: web.archive.org

C:\Users\jeroen\Downloads>\\tsclient\bin\curl.7.61.0.exe --remote-name https://www.xs4all.nl/index.html
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0curl: (6) Could not resolve host: www.xs4all.nl

C:\Users\jeroen\Downloads>copy \\tsclient\bin\curl.7.61.0.exe
        1 file(s) copied.

C:\Users\jeroen\Downloads>curl.7.61.0.exe --remote-name https://www.xs4all.nl/index.html
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100    13    0    13    0     0     10      0 --:--:--  0:00:01 --:--:--    10

It fails the same way after net use B: \\tsclient\bin, so that does not matter.

The best link I could find until I got to the real problem was [WayBack] curl: (6) Could not resolve host: application – Stack Overflow which shows a different problem: properly quoting.

In addition to remote-name, you can also grab the file name from the headers using --remote-header-name, and --remote-time use the remote file time. The --location follows 302-redirects. You can see that in the example below which I build based on

[WayBack] unix – Curl to grab remote filename after following location – Stack Overflow: The remote side sends the filename using the Content-Disposition header.curl 7.21.2 or newer does this automatically if you specify –remote-header-name / -J.curl -O -J -L $url

C:\Users\jeroen\Downloads>b:\curl.7.21.0.exe --location --remote-name --remote-time --remote-header-name "https://web.archive.org/web/20180712073755if_/https://www.danielwolf.eu/?wpdmdl=1965"
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 86465    0 86465    0     0  45748      0 --:--:--  0:00:01 --:--:-- 50772
curl: Saved to filename 'pkgWuppdiWP_DX102T_1-1-2.zip'

wget failed big time:

C:\Users\jeroen\Downloads>B:\wget.exe --no-check-certificate -v -v -v --content-disposition --restrict-file-names=windows "https://web.archive.org/web/20180712073755if_/https://www.danielwolf.eu/?wpdmdl=1965"
wget: Cannot read b:/.wgetrc (No such file or directory).
--2018-07-12 09:55:23--  https://web.archive.org/web/20180712073755if_/https://www.danielwolf.eu/?wpdmdl=1965
Resolving web.archive.org... 207.241.225.186
Connecting to web.archive.org|207.241.225.186|:443... failed: Invalid argument.
Retrying.

...

--2018-07-12 09:55:23--  (try:20)  https://web.archive.org/web/20180712073755if_/https://www.danielwolf.eu/?wpdmdl=1965
Connecting to web.archive.org|207.241.225.186|:443... failed: Invalid argument.
Giving up.

This is not caused by the filename (Windows does not like the ? question mark in output file names, so  – like & ampersand in file URLs – you have to quote the full URL, but also provide the --restrict-file-names=windows parameter; see [WayBack] wget – I can’t download files with “?” – Super User).

–jeroen

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Euler’s identity – cool explanatory videos by Burkard Polster

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/19

[WayBack] e^iπ = -1 – Daniela Osterhagen – Google+ reminded me of [WayBack] Euler’s identity (often called the most beautiful formula in the world) and these two great videos by Burkard Polster I bumped into a few years back below.

She points to a German link about “the most beautiful formula in the world”, to which I fully agree:

Gerade einmal sechs Symbole braucht es dafür

[WayBack] Freistetters Formelwelt: Die schönste Formel der Welt – Spektrum der Wissenschaft

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