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Archive for the ‘Power User’ Category

Cleaning PlexWriters – Gammitin (Ben) 💾 on X: “@jpluimers Usually the trays are a little sticky on these: I take them apart, grease up the tray mechanism and any gears (use lithium grease), clean the laser with Isopropyl alcohol, clean all the connectors with WD40 contact cleaner, retro-bright the front – job done!”

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/14

Back in the days, Plextor made a series of great PlexWriter CD and DVD/RW devices. This is how to get them working again:

[Wayback/Archive] Gammitin (Ben) 💾 on X: “@jpluimers Usually the trays are a little sticky on these: I take them apart, grease up the tray mechanism and any gears (use lithium grease), clean the laser with Isopropyl alcohol, clean all the connectors with WD40 contact cleaner, retro-bright the front – job done!” (retrobright thread further down this blog-post)

Via [Wayback/Archive] Gammitin (Ben) 💾 on X: “I’ve fully refurbished the Plextor PlexWriter on the bottom, inside and out, I need to get these other three sorted! 👍 💿📀📀📀”

[Wayback/Archive] GZEEApaXQAAB1Tz.jpg (1130×1200)

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Fun with Windows Containers – Popping Calc

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/14

Running Kubernetes containers on Windows means taking into account a different can of worms than running them on Linux.

For example [Wayback/Archive] Fun with Windows Containers – Popping Calc explains about the various isolation levels and privileges (through runAsUserName) and this helpful advice:

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Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Cloud, Containers, Docker, Infrastructure, Kubernetes (k8n), Power User, Windows | Leave a Comment »

macos – How can I update everything installed through Homebrew after OSX upgrade? – Ask Different

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/13

[Wayback/Archive] macos – How can I update everything installed through Homebrew after OSX upgrade? – Ask Different

A

Use the command brew upgrade in the terminal to update all of the packages.

C

brew upgrade --cask not updated my excited packages like Flutter. using brew upgrade --g will be preferred as mentioned in Manpage : –g–greedyAlso include outdated casks with auto_updates true or version :latest. –greedy-latestAlso include outdated casks including those with version :latest. –greedy-auto-updatesAlso include outdated casks including those with auto_updates true.

C

Casks are not upgraded because of their internal auto-update capabilities and the conflict in these two auto-update mechanisms. See more details on docs.brew.sh/…

So if you want to upgrade casks as well, then run this (but read the warnings below first):

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The Search Engine for Vintage Computers: FrogFind!

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/12

[Wayback/Archive] FrogFind! (archived as “Server Error”, but working fine on my end) and [Wayback/Archive] FrogFind!

FrogFind!

a pixelated cartoon graphic of a fat, lazy, unamused frog with a keyboard in front of them, awaiting your search query

The Search Engine for Vintage Computers

 

Leap to:
Built by Action Retro on YouTube | Logo by Mac84 | Why build such a thing?Powered by DuckDuckGov1.2

More information at [Wayback/Archive] About FrogFind!

Based on [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – fivefilters/readability.php: PHP port of Mozilla’s Readability.js and DuckDuckGo.

--jeroen

Posted in Development, LifeHacker, PHP, Power User, Retrocomputing, Scripting, SearchEngines, Software Development, Web Browsers | Tagged: | Leave a Comment »

Payload Box

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/11

For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] Payload Box.

It has lots of examples on payloads for various kinds of injections that are excellent teaching material.

Covered are Cross Site Scripting (XSS), SQL Injection, Server Side Template Injection, RFI/LFI, Command Injection, CSV Injection, Directory, Open Redirect and XML External Entity (XXE) Injection.

Got there when inspired by:

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Posted in Blue team, Database Development, Development, Power User, Red team, Security, Software Development, SQL, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

Notities Warmink / Wuba staande klok met drie melodieëen en wijzers voor minuten+uren, seconden, weekdag, maand, maanstand

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/10

Inn de basis een door mijn opa gebouwde opwindbare (3 gewichten) Warmink Wuba triple chime – Westminster, St. Michael, Whittington clock.

Die liep nauwelijks meer, en sloeg zowel geen melodie meer, maar ook geen uursignaal meer.

Hieronder links die me hielpen met uitzoeken wat er van dit merk nog bestond en kennis aanwezig is.

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Posted in About, Development, DIY, Encoding, LifeHacker, Mojibake, Personal, Power User, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

“To protect your privacy” this invisible app automatically scans all your images: Google System APK Transparency  |  Android Binary Transparency  |  Google for Developers

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/10

Remember [Wayback/Archive] Apple Provides Further Clarity on Why It Abandoned Plan to Detect CSAM in iCloud Photos | MacRumors Forums?

Google now forces a similar thing.

Uninstall this as soon as it appears on your Android phone: [Wayback/Archive] Google System APK Transparency  |  Android Binary Transparency  |  Google for Developers

Via [Wayback/Archive] jack: “You remember #Apple scanning a…” – Mastodon @ SDF:

You remember #Apple scanning all images on your #mobile device?
If you have an #Android #phone, a new app that doesn’t appear in your menu has been automatically and silently installed (or soon will be) by #Google. It is called #AndroidSystemSafetyCore and does exactly the same – scan all images on your device as well as all incoming ones (via messaging). The new spin is that it does so “to protect your #privacy“.
You can uninstall this app safely via System -> Apps.
For more information, see:

Query: [Wayback/Archive] “Android System Safety Core” – Google Search

--jeroen

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Refrain from hacking all the things (:

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/10

It’s hard to not hack all the things…

–jeroen

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Dr. Nadia Drake has discovered both her dads Golden Record pulsar map, and the sketches for the Arecibo message

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/07

Ain’t history extra lovely when someone discovers the original drawings of what her dad had sent to space?

Back in the 1970s, Frank Drake did two memorable things: he helped design the Pioneer plaque (sent to space in 1972 on Pioneer 11) containing among other things pulsar map, and later helped design the 1977 Voyager Golden Record (sent to space in 1977 on both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2) again containing the pulsar map. In between, he helped designed Arecibo message broadcasted to space in 1974.

And guess what: today is the 50th anniversary of that message being broadcasted.

Almost 10 years ago, in 2016 his daughter Nadia Drake found back the original drawing of the pulsar map: Read the rest of this entry »

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If you thought you found cheap directional WiFi antennas (2.4GHz or 5Ghz), then think twice

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/07

Nice [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @jhewitt_net on Thread Reader App that started with [Wayback/Archive] Joseph Hewitt on Twitter: “I bought some cheap aliexpress directional 2.4GHz antennas. As expected, they aren’t very good. (A small thread)”:

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