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Generate a GUID in Windows 10 (Globally Unique Identifier)

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/20

A while ago, I needed to generate GUIDs on any Windows console so performed a [Wayback/Archive] generate guid windows terminal – Google Search, found [Wayback/Archive] Generate a GUID in Windows 10 (Globally Unique Identifier) and came up with this generate-guid.bat file:

powershell [guid]::NewGuid()

–jeroen

Posted in CommandLine, Console (command prompt window), Development, PowerShell, PowerShell, Scripting, Software Development, Windows | Leave a Comment »

Un4seen.Bass Namespace – BASS.NET API for the Un4seen BASS Audio Library

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/19

A while ago, within a week time, I got reminded of a project I did some 15 years ago involving low-latency audio using the .NET platform on Windows XP Embedded.

For that I used the BASS.NET wrapper classes and P/Invoke methods around the Un4seen BASS Audio Library.

Back in those days there was not much documentation about this, but now there is more.

Some starting points are:

Via:

Related:

--jeroen

Posted in .NET, Audio, Conference Topics, Conferences, Development, Event, LifeHacker, Media, Power User, Software Development, Windows Development | Leave a Comment »

crt.sh allows you to search for the history of TLS certificates for domains (example: *.wiert.me)

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/19

I while ago, I bumped into [Wayback/Archive] crt.sh | Certificate Search that allows searching for (the history of) TLS certificates.

One example of what it returns is [Wayback/Archive] crt.sh | wiert.me (for my blog domain and subdomains).

The basic mechanism of crt.sh is to query various Certificate Transparency logs and Certificate revocation list, terms I vaguely knew, but never fully realised the vast usefulness of (including questions like [Wayback/Archive] How does crt.sh becomes aware of certificates that are in no CT logs?).

The cool thing is that most (everything?) of it is open source in the various repositories at [Wayback/Archive] Github: crt.sh.

There is also an advanced search page [Wayback/Archive] crt.sh | Certificate Search (a=1) with many more options (including linting) I really want to try later plus a bunch of background links (including the support forum at) of which some *.crt.sh returned a http 502 while writing this blog post. Will try later to see if they have started working again:

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Posted in Communications Development, Development, Encryption, HTTPS/TLS security, Internet protocol suite, Power User, Security, TCP, TLS | Leave a Comment »

Is it possible to deter AI scraping by providing overly large robots.txt?

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/18

An idea: [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers: “@ruurd @mcc … Maybe place useful content below 500 KiB and serve a file at least 1 GiB size?…” – Mastodon

@ruurd @mcc probably not, although Google Search limits them to 500 KiB.

developers.google.com/search/d

“Google currently enforces a robots.txt file size limit of 500 kibibytes (KiB). Content which is after the maximum file size is ignored. You can reduce the size of the robots.txt file by consolidating rules that would result in an oversized robots.txt file. For example, place excluded material in a separate directory.”

Maybe place useful content below 500 KiB and serve a file at least 1 GiB size?

It was in response to these earlier toots (with quotes of some very interesting links on when cookies are (dis)allowed –  TL;DR: it depends on local regulations):

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Posted in Antivirus, GDPR/DS-GVO/AVG, Power User, Privacy, Security | Leave a Comment »

Quit Nested SSH Sessions: use one more ~ for each nesting

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/18

Never too old to learn:

  • [Wayback/Archive.is] Quit Nested SSH Sessions

    works with ssh as well but is much simpler: press as many ~ as level of nest before . (by default, ~ is the escape character while . is to terminate ssh).

  • [Wayback/Archive.is] How can I break out of ssh when it locks? – Ask Ubuntu

    Notice that because hitting ~~ causes ssh to send the ~ instead of intercepting it, you can address N nested ssh connections by hitting ~ N times. (This only applies to ~s that directly follow an Enter.) That is to say that Enter~~~~~. terminates an ssh session 5 layers deep and keeps the other 4 intact.

So this is basically an extension of my 2017 blog post OpenSSH Escape Sequences (aka Kill Dead SSH Sessions) – The Lone Sysadmin (:

–jeroen

Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Power User, ssh/sshd | Leave a Comment »

Opinie | Bosrandgeluk – NRC – ikje uit zomer 2010

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/15

Het blijft hartverscheurend: [Wayback/Archive] Opinie | Bosrandgeluk – NRC

Als we door een bos rijden, zegt ze opeens: „Als je straks ophoudt met werken, wil ik met jou in een huisje aan de bosrand wonen, met een tuin, een moestuintje en een weitje.”
Ik brom instemmend.
Na een poosje keren we terug.
Zij (83) naar het verpleeghuis.
Ik (89) naar het huisje aan de bosrand met een tuin, een moestuintje en een weitje, waar we ruim dertig jaar heel erg gelukkig waren.
W. van der Heijden

--jeroen

Posted in Awareness, Health, LifeHacker, Power User | Leave a Comment »

Some links on Aviation Registration and ICAO 24-bit call signs

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/15

Some ADSB sites use Aircraft Registration in their tracking URLs and others use the hexadecimal representation ICAO 24-bit call signs.

Some links for my archive with some help from [Wayback/Archive] Rens – Chemtrail Squadron Officer (@HelemaalRens) / Twitter:

 

 

–jeroen

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Hans Otten @hansotten@mastodon.social on X: “PiDP-11/70 with a real PDP-11 CPU, a DCJ11-AF”

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/14

Where old history meets modern history: [Wayback/Archive] Hans Otten @hansotten@mastodon.social on X: “PiDP-11/70 with a real PDP-11 CPU, a DCJ11-AF”

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Posted in Development, Emulators, Hardware Development, History, Power User, Raspberry Pi | Leave a Comment »

Reminder to self: get the Technic 40 year anniversary model and also rebuild the 8860 on which it was based (via Brickset: LEGO set guide and database)

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/14

Some 7 years ago, I missed the [Wayback/Archive] Technic 40 year anniversary model | Brickset: LEGO set guide and database.

Hopefully by now I have had time to get the various underlying boxes and build it, together with reviving the 8860 I still have from my child-hood time.

Pictures from Brickset:

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Florian Haas on Twitter: “Let’s do something we should do every once in a while: if you have a personal web site with an RSS or Atom feed, drop it in the replies so people can add it to their feed aggregator.”

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/13

Lot’s of interesting tech blogs: [Wayback/Archive] Florian Haas on Twitter: “Let’s do something we should do every once in a while: if you have a personal web site with an RSS or Atom feed, drop it in the replies so people can add it to their feed aggregator. Signal boosts appreciated.”

–jeroen

Posted in Blogging, Power User, SocialMedia | Leave a Comment »