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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/09
Nice historic perspective: [Wayback/Archive] From Turbo Pascal to Delphi to C# to TypeScript, an interview with PL legend Anders Hejlsberg – YouTube
Via [Wayback/Archive] Zack Urlocker on Twitter: “Great interview with @ahejlsberg on the evolution of programming languages, the rise of TypeScript and more. Anders is one of the best programmers I ever worked with. …”
--jeroen
Posted in .NET, Borland Pascal, C#, Delphi, Development, History, JavaScript/ECMAScript, MS-DOS, Pascal, Scripting, Software Development, Turbo Pascal, TypeScript, Windows Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/08
Cool (and available both for regular Raspberry Pi and Raspberry Pi Zero):
[Wayback/Archive] GitHub – PiSCSI/piscsi: PiSCSI allows a Raspberry Pi to function as emulated SCSI devices (hard disk, CD-ROM, and others) for vintage SCSI-based computers and devices. This is a fork of the RaSCSI project by GIMONS.
I wonder how it compares feature wise and performance wise to [Wayback/Archive] BlueSCSI (which is Raspberry Pi Pico based, see [Wayback/Archive] index – BlueSCSI v2 Documentation, and now has a [Wayback/Archive] BlueSCSI Wi-Fi Desk Accessory – joshua stein which is open source at [Wayback/Archive] jcs/wifi_da – BlueSCSI Wi-Fi Desk Accessory for classic Mac OS – AmendHub and important to for instance [Wayback/Archive] Adding Wi-Fi to the Macintosh Portable – joshua stein).
Via [Wayback/Archive] The RaSCSI is MAGIC for Old Macs (and Much More!) – YouTube
More links:
Posted in Apple, Classic Macintosh, Development, Hardware Development, Hardware Interfacing, Macintosh SE/30, Power User, Raspberry Pi, Raspberry Pi Pico, Retrocomputing, RP2040, SCSI, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/07
Not just for safety: if you keep blasting your WiFi radio at frequencies used by weather radar, you are highly visible on the weather map causing predictions to fail.
[WaybackSave/Archive] SwiftOnSecurity on X: “Fun Fact: Your WiFi access point needs to know what country it’s in because of law about specific radio powers and channels and other functionality. It can be super-complicated! For example, DFS detects radar pulses and switches frequency for safety. “
[WaybackSave/Archive] db.txt – kernel/git/wens/wireless-regdb.git – wens’s fork of wireless-regdb.git
(there are non-fork version of it is as well, but this one is good enough for the point)
Weather radar effect image on the right from
[WaybackSave/Archive] Wes on X: “@SwiftOnSecurity also fun fact: if you set this up incorrectly, you can show up on the weather radar”
Related: Dynamic frequency selection – Wikipedia
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/07
A while ago, I wrote two threads (one in English and one in Dutch) about using the Twitter Alt-badge to make pictures in tweets more accessible.
The English one had the correct quote, but a wrong link which I corrected below (we want editable tweets!).
Two bots that I mention in reply-Tweets usually helps to rudimentary restore the text:
@get_altText @AltTextUtil OCR
in the first Tweet and to the reply that @AltTextUtil gives, I respond with another
@get_altText
Here are the two threads:
Posted in accessibility (a11y), Development, Power User, SocialMedia, Twitter, TwitterBot | Tagged: a11y, inclusion, inclusive | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/05
For a long time there has been Alice and Bob, but since the end of March 2025 there is Hegseth and Waltz!
Nah, the last Wikipedia link does not show history, as it does not really exist.
But someone made the first Wikipedia page into the below picture where Hegseth replaced Alice, Waltz replaced Bob, and Goldberg replaced Mallory.
I found it in these places, but likely it proliferated more:
[Wayback/Archive] 486367253_10232703147773777_4034863747031352064_n.jpg (766×504)
The Facebook image (see further below) has less JPEG artefacts, so is more original than the Twitter image.
Since [Wayback/Archive] Some URLs Are Immortal, Most Are Ephemeral (a highly recommended reading by the way), I archived the image in the links below the blog signature and had Google OCR the text.
OPSEC is easy if you are clueless.
--jeroen
[Wayback/Archive] 427522053-438a2589-f781-45e5-b94e-92fce4c17314.png (766×504)
Hegseth and Waltz
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaHegseth and Waltz are fictional characters commonly used as placeholders in discussions about cryptographic systems and protocols, [1] and in other science and engineering literature where there are several participants in a thought experiment. The Hegseth and Waltz characters were created by Jeffrey Goldberg in his 2025 article “The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans”. [2] Subsequently, they have become common archetypes in many scientific and engineering fields, such as
Hegseth
Waltz
Goldberg
Example scenario where communication between Hegseth and Waltz is intercepted by Goldberg
A similar pun was [Wayback/Archive] 487203204_10238119445586263_7274268486470714839_n.jpg (700×433)
Alice, Bob and The Atlantic
Likely all actual images have long been expired from their caches.
Posted in Encryption, Fun, Meme, Power User, Security | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/04
[Wayback/Archive] How to use two or more monitors to M1, M2 or M3 MacBooks | Macworld will likely hold for M4 based ones as well:
- higher-end MacBooks with M1/M2/M3 Pro and Max chips support multiple external displays
- get around Apple’s annoying M1/M2/M3 Mac single-display limitation via software and adapters
The solutions we explain here will also help M2 Pro and M3 Pro MacBook users extend to three external displays.
Recommended reading, despite the extra hardware and software you will likely need.
--jeroen
Posted in Apple Silicon, ARM Mac, M1 Mac, Mac, MacBook, Power User | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/04
B&W logo
Colour logo
Looking at the Wayback Machine Archivals of the banner logo, I saw two things:
Posted in History, Power User, Retrocomputing | Tagged: NewProfilePic | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/03
Learned a while ago: if you have the username from a GitHub or GitLab user, you can download interesting that sometimes can make life easier (but not necessarily more secure):
github.com/username.keys gives you their public SSH keysgitlab.com/username.keys gives you their public SSH keysgithub.com/username.png gives you their profile imageAnd that there are tools like gh, glab and age that can make direct use of them.
I love Twitter, so thanks for these for teaching me these little tricks:
Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, ArchiveTeamWarrior, Conference Topics, Conferences, Development, Event, GitHub, GitLab, Internet, InternetArchive, OpenSSH, Power User, Software Development, Source Code Management, SSH, ssh/sshd, WayBack machine | Tagged: GitHub, GitLab | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/02
Steps for installing Chocolatey on Windows 11 and up or 10 version 1803 and up.
Since I often install Windows on machines where it is not easy to copy/paste longer install commands my steps are slightly different than the ones on [Wayback/Archive] Chocolatey Software | Installing Chocolatey:
--remote-name and -O):
curl --remote-name https://community.chocolatey.org/install.ps1curl -O https://community.chocolatey.org/install.ps1Note the cURL pre-installed on Windows 10 since at least 6 years*: release 1803 or insider build 17063 is good enough to download the Chocolatey install script
install.ps1 to check if you spot anything you dislikeSet-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Forceinstall.ps1
.\install.ps1Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Chocolatey, cURL, Development, Power User, Software Development, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/02
Every now and then I want to check how a URL redirect, for instance when checking out why a domain failed loading in browsers a while ago because of certificate problems:
The thing was that back then, the site officially did not have a security certificate, but somehow the provider had installed a self-signed one. Most web-browsers then auto-redirect from http to https. Luckily the archival sites can archive without redirecting:
When querying [Wayback/Archive] redirect check – Google Search, you get quite some results. These are the ones I use most in descending order of preference and why they are at that position:
Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, archive.is / archive.today, Communications Development, Development, Encryption, HTTP, https, HTTPS/TLS security, Internet, Internet protocol suite, ISP, Power User, Security, Software Development, TCP, WayBack machine, Web Development, wget, xs4all | Leave a Comment »
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