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Notifications – Google+

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/10

For mu own memory: Notifications – Google+ are at https://plus.google.com/notifications/all

–jeroen

 

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Nooit toestemming gegeven, toch in het EPD? Check het zelf! | Platform Bescherming Burgerrechten

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/10

[WayBack] Nooit toestemming gegeven, toch in het EPD? Check het zelf! | Platform Bescherming Burgerrechten:

Burgers ontdekken dat hun medische gegevens in het systeem staan en door verschillende partijen zijn geraadpleegd, zonder dat ze daar ooit toestemming voor gaven. De enige manier om zeker te weten dat je dossier niet via het systeem beschikbaar wordt gesteld, is door dit zelf na te vragen.

–jeroen

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MUSTOOL MT8206 Multimeter & Oscilloscope Goes for $42 (Promo)

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/09

The coupon for the Promo worked yesterday, so you might want to try it if you like a scope in a multimeter form factor: [WayBack] MUSTOOL MT8206 Multimeter & Oscilloscope Goes for $42 (Promo).

MUSTOOL MT8206 looks like a standard digital multimeter, but the device is actually a 2-in-1 device that also serves as a oscilloscope. Banggood have the…

Via [WayBack] New 2-in-1 digital multimeter + oscilloscope selling for ~$42 shipped for a limited time – Jean-Luc Aufranc – Google+

–jeroen

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https://altd.embarcadero.com/ TLS certificate does not match domain name

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/07

One of the domains not yet monitored at embarcaderomonitoring.wiert.me, was the altd download server for ISOs and installers on http and https level. Ultimately you want https, as most of these are about installers, so you do not want any man-in-the-middle to fiddle with them.

TLS on altd fails

Upitmerobot is not yet smart enough to check validity of TLS certificates on https connections.

Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, wget, curl and ssllabs however are.

altd hides as much from itself as possible

Uptimerobot did not like monitoring the plain http://altd.embarcadero.com/ and https://altd.embarcadero.com/ URLs, because the altd is not browsable, so it tries to hide most of its structure from access. This means they both return an odd response:

Those responses are actually 404 errors (note the - minus sign after curl --trace-ascii: it sends the trace to stdout):

$ wget http://altd.embarcadero.com/
--2018-09-05 10:44:23-- http://altd.embarcadero.com/
Resolving altd.embarcadero.com (altd.embarcadero.com)... 88.221.144.40, 88.221.144.10
Connecting to altd.embarcadero.com (altd.embarcadero.com)|88.221.144.40|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2018-09-05 10:44:23 ERROR 404: Not Found.

$ curl --verbose http://altd.embarcadero.com/
*   Trying 88.221.144.40...
* TCP_NODELAY set
* Connected to altd.embarcadero.com (88.221.144.40) port 80 (#0)
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> Host: altd.embarcadero.com
> User-Agent: curl/7.54.0
> Accept: */*
> 
< HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
< Server: Apache
< Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
< Content-Length: 16
< Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2018 08:45:57 GMT
< Connection: keep-alive
< 
* Connection #0 to host altd.embarcadero.com left intact
File not found."

$ curl --trace-ascii - http://altd.embarcadero.com/
== Info:   Trying 88.221.144.40...
== Info: TCP_NODELAY set
== Info: Connected to altd.embarcadero.com (88.221.144.40) port 80 (#0)
=> Send header, 84 bytes (0x54)
0000: GET / HTTP/1.1
0010: Host: altd.embarcadero.com
002c: User-Agent: curl/7.54.0
0045: Accept: */*
0052: 
<= Recv header, 24 bytes (0x18)
0000: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
<= Recv header, 16 bytes (0x10)
0000: Server: Apache
<= Recv header, 45 bytes (0x2d)
0000: Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
<= Recv header, 20 bytes (0x14)
0000: Content-Length: 16
<= Recv header, 37 bytes (0x25)
0000: Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2018 08:47:19 GMT
<= Recv header, 24 bytes (0x18)
0000: Connection: keep-alive
<= Recv header, 2 bytes (0x2)
0000: 
<= Recv data, 16 bytes (0x10)
0000: File not found."
File not found."== Info: Connection #0 to host altd.embarcadero.com left intact

This is also the reason that WayBack does not want to archive that link, but it can be archived at [Archive.is] https://altd.embarcadero.com/.

Luckily, a Google search for site:altd.embarcadero.com revealed there is a non-installer file short enough (~72 kibibytes) for Uptime robot to check, so it now verifies it can access these:

–jeroen

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Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, cURL, Encryption, HTTPS/TLS security, Monitoring, Power User, Security, Uptimerobot, wget | Leave a Comment »

LiFePO4wered/Pi+ | Crowd Supply

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/07

A few days left for [WayBack] LiFePO4wered/Pi+ | Crowd Supply: A full-featured LiFePO4 battery, power manager, and UPS for the Raspberry Pi

via:

–jeroen

 

 

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Some sites than can help you check if your (maybe dynamic) IP has been black-listed

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/07

A few links that helped me track down why a sudden new Ziggo IP-address was blacklisted:

–jeroen

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Some Linux mail solutions

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/07

Too bad most of them are very picky to the Linux distributions they run on.

–jeroen

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playing with IOT

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/06

Interesting stuff:

Open-source home automation platform running on Python 3. Track and control all devices at home and automate control. Installation in less than a minute.

Source: Home Assistant

Via:

CounterDesk
@Dysan • 18 mei 2017 09:47

Ik doe dus een hoop met home-assistant (https://home-assistant.io/) en wat custom Python scripts/apis wat allemaal op een oude laptop met ubuntu draait (10w verbruik).

De Horizon Box specifiek gaat via Harmony Hub, kan via de standaard integratie of via eigen brouwsels. Lifx en Nest heeft standaard integratie met Google Home. Al heb ik voor Lifx zelf het een-en-ander geschreven in Python om bijvoorbeeld scenes op te slaan en op te roepen met voice commando’s, dat kan weer niet standaard. NS API gaat ook via die Python API en wat er terug gezegd wordt (in het Nederlands) gaat via home-assistant.

Het voordeel van zelf zoiets bouwen is dat ik alles makkelijkers aan elkaar kan knopen dan bijvoorbeeld via IFTTT en Stringify o.i.d.. Zo kan ik bijvoorbeeld “Hey Google, sexy time” roepen en dan veranderd mijn verlichting langzaam naar iets romantischers (denk rood/oranje/roze), speelt er een zwoel lounge muziekje op mijn Sonos van een samba share, gaat de tempratuur wat omhoog en gaat mijn tv aan naar het chromecast kanaal en speelt er van die zelfde samba share een mp4 met een haardvuurtje.

Vet cheesy, I know, ik moet er de eerste vrouw nog mee verrassen :P maar het was ook vooral als demo van wat ik allemaal kan aansturen, bedoeld als grapje voor vrienden etc.

Google voegt een notificatiefunctie toe aan zijn Home-speaker. Als gebruikers een belangrijk bericht krijgen, zullen de ledjes op de speaker de aandacht gaan trekken van de gebruiker. De speaker gaat vooralsnog niet uit zichzelf spreken.

Source: Home-speaker van Google krijgt notificatiefunctie – Beeld en geluid – Nieuws – Tweakers

–jeroen

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RaiMan’s SikuliX: Automate what you see on a computer monitor

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/05

On my research list:

Automate what you see on a computer monitor

Source: [WayBack] RaiMan’s SikuliX

Repositories:

It is an evolution of [WayBack] Sikuli Script – Home that has an other fork that can be automated with PowerPoint slides:

I should play with it: [WayBack] SikuliX – QUICKSTART

Via: [WayBack] Any recommendations of automation tools for GUI testing.We tried AutoIT but it had some problems and way too technical… – Tommi Prami – Google+

–jeroen

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Plastic SCM command-line for merge and diff

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/03

Just in case I have Plastic SCM without Beyond Compare:

Merge

"C:\Program Files\PlasticSCM5\client\mergetool" -b="%TEMP%\baseFile-guid.pas" -bn="baseSymbolicName" -bh="baseHash" -s="%TEMP%\sourceFile-guid.pas" -sn="srcSymbolicName" -sh="srcHash" -d="...\destinationPath\destinationFile.pas" -dh="destinationHash" -a -r="%TEMP%\resultFile.pas" -t="text" -i="NotIgnore" -e="NONE" -m="forced" -re="NONE" --progress="progressDescription" --extrainfofile="%TEMP%\extraInfoFile.tmp"

Diff

To be done

aa

Merge help (takes about 10 seconds to start):

"C:\Program Files\PlasticSCM5\client\mergetool.exe" --help

---------------------------
Mergetool usage
---------------------------
Usage: mergetool [ | ]

    diffOptions:  []

    mergeOptions:   [] [[] [] ] [] []

        baseFile:            {-b | --base}= 
        baseSymbolicName:    {-bn | --basesymbolicname}=
        automatic:           -a | --automatic
        silent:              --silent
        resultFile:          {-r | --result}=
        mergeType:           {-m | --mergeresolutiontype}={onlyone | onlysrc | onlydst | try | forced}

    generalFiles:  []  []

        sourceFile:          {-s | --source}=
        srcSymbolicName:     {-sn | --srcsymbolicname}=
        destinationFile:     {-d | --destination}= 
        dstSymbolicName:     {-dn | --dstsymbolicname}=

    generalOptions: [] [] [] []

        defaultEncoding:     {-e | --encoding}={none |ascii | unicode | bigendian | utf7 | utf8}
        comparisonMethod:    {-i | --ignore}={none | eol | whitespaces | eol&whitespaces}
        fileType:            {-t | --filestype}={text/csharp | text/XML | text}
        resultEncoding:      {-re | --resultencoding}={none |ascii | unicode | bigendian | utf7 | utf8}
        progress:            {--progress}=progress string indicating the current progress, for example: Merging file 1/8
        extraInfoFile:       {--extrainfofile}=path to a file that contains extra info about the merge

    Remarks:
          
        -a | --automatic:    Tries to resolve the merge automatically.
                             If the merge can't be resolved automatically (requires user interaction), the merge tool is shown.
        --silent:            This option must be used combined with the --automatic option.
                             When a merge can't be resolved automatically, this option causes the tool to return immediately
                             with a non-zero exit code (no merge tool is shown).
                             If the tool was able to resolve the merge automatically, the program returns exit code 0.

    Examples:

        mergetool
        mergetool -s=file1.txt -d=file2.txt
        mergetool -s=file1.txt -b=file0.txt --destination=file2.txt
        mergetool --base=file0.txt -d=file2.txt --source=file1.txt --automatic --result=result.txt
        mergetool -b=file0.txt -s=file1.txt -d=file2.txt -a -r=result.txt -e=utf7 -i=eol -t=text/csharp -m=onlyone
---------------------------
OK   
---------------------------

The merge extraInfoFile.tmp has a syntax like this:

Source (cs:-#)
    relative-sourceFile from cs:-# created by userName on timeStamp
    Comments: Source changeset description

Base (cs:#)
    relative-baseFile from cs:#@/baseBranch by userName on timeStamp
    Comments: BO's + CRUDS 

Destination (cs:#)
    relative-destinationFile from cs@/destinationBranch created by userName on timeStamp
    Comments: Destination changeset description

Where each cs is a change set number.

–jeroen

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