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How to Weaponize the Yubikey – Black Hills Information Security

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/12

I totally missed this back in 2019 when having the first belly surgery (that eventually would lead up into discovering I had already had rectum cancer at that time) [Wayback/Archive] How to Weaponize the Yubikey – Black Hills Information Security.

Luckily I got a reminder: [Wayback/Archive] jilles.com on Twitter: “/me the asshole that spoils the magic trick …” after [Wayback/Archive] yan on Twitter: “who’s excited for defcon next week”

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Posted in 2FA/MFA, Authentication, Development, Hardware, Hardware Interfacing, Power User, Security, Software Development, U2F FIDO Security Keys, USB, USB | Leave a Comment »

Kris on chaos.social about doing the math on heap pumps combined with solar power and home batteries

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/11

Copied in full as the Wayback Machine archival of toots are broken: [Wayback/Archive] Kris (@isotopp): “Im Juli werden wir nicht mehr …” – chaos.social

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Posted in LifeHacker, Power User, Solar Power | Leave a Comment »

Windows: Will the new Google Chat PWA for Chrome ever have system tray support? : gsuite

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/11

About 2 years after Google switched every Google Hangouts user over to Google Chat, I still wonder about [Wayback/Archive] Will the new Google Chat PWA for Chrome ever have system tray support? : gsuite:

Chrome _right now_ can be sustained as a background process with the Chrome-ball in the system tray. This is the vehicle with which Hangouts remains open at all time, so why not Chat, too?

I’m left with no option but to have Chat running on a mobile device so I have always on access. Perhaps this is the angle. I nunno.

Your support page link I’ve seen already and it doesn’t answer the Why question.

It is absolutely a bizzarotown implementation.

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Posted in Chat, Google, GoogleChat, GoogleHangouts, Power User, SocialMedia | Leave a Comment »

Bestel ontbrekende puzzelstukjes van Jan van Haasteren puzzels

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/08

Dit is zoooooo handig: [Wayback/Archive] Ontbrekende puzzelstukjes

Teruggaand tot 2018 heeft het een mooie geschiedenis en bijzondere manier van werken, beide opgetekend in [Wayback/Archive] Over ons | Ontbrekende puzzelstukjes.

Kijk voor het aanvragen het [Wayback/Archive] Instructiefilmpje | Ontbrekende puzzelstukjes (het staat ook op [Wayback/Archive] JvH instructie – YouTube en hieronder).

Heb je (andere) vragen, reageer dan via [Wayback/Archive] Contact | Ontbrekende puzzelstukjes.

Via [Wayback/Archive] Gemiva on Twitter: “Hoe leuk is dat, je bestelt een puzzel bij Ontbrekende Stukjes en ontvangt een bonuspuzzel van onze eigen Jan! 🧩 Jan maakt deze kleine puzzeltjes helemaal zelf. Na al die leuke reacties zullen er zeker meer volgen!”:

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2014 memory: TL;DR Thank you! You’re awesome! Let’s do it again! • GDG DevFest Netherlands

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/08

10 years ago, I decided to step out of my comfort zone and attend the [Wayback/Archive] GDG DevFest Netherlands 2014.

Until then, on the mobile front, I only had deep experience with the .NET Compact Framework, on the cloud framework I had no real experience: my experience were (sometimes huge) systems running in private data centers communicating with various protocols over SNA and TCP/IP (and way before that: UUCP and dial-up) and on the programming front my strengths were .NET and Delphi (with truckloads of scripting) and no experience in Go or Dart (Rust was invented a year later).

So I was really happy with the [Wayback/Archive] TL;DR Thank you! You’re awesome! Let’s do it again! • GDG DevFest Netherlands

I think this comment by Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on a G+ post is one of the best complements we’ve got:
“Thanks for organizing this. It was a great conference! A great mix of things outside my comfort zone and things I could relate to from a very different perspective: wonderful and inspiring.”

G+ plus is gone, but this memory will last forever as this was a start widening my horizon learning about GDG like I knew about SDN*, Borland/Inprise/Codegear/Embarcadero DevRel and Microsoft DevRel.

Related links (they repeated the DevFest in 2015 as well):

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Posted in Cloud, Cloud Development, Development, GCP Google Cloud Platform, Google, Infrastructure, Mobile Development, Power User, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Links to HTML versions of RFC’s need to move from “tools” to “datatracker” – Meta Stack Exchange

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/07

Some work to do replacing dead IETF RFC and draft links in my blog posts.

From the accepted answer on [Wayback/Archive.is] Links to HTML versions of RFC’s need to move from “tools” to “datatracker” – Meta Stack Exchange:

  1. [http/https]://tools.ietf.org/html/[rfc/RFC] became https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc network-wide
  2. [http/https]://tools.ietf.org/html/draft- became https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-

>Both of these should conform to the reply we received from IETF.

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Posted in C, C++, Carbon, Development, Power User, SocialMedia, Software Development, Web Development, WordPress, WordPress | Leave a Comment »

Strive for a work environment that allows for continuous improvement over delayed perfection

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/06

Interesting picture posted by [Wayback/Archive] Syed Balkhi on X: “It always seems impossible until it’s done.”

Regrettably, Syed forgot to attribute the source, as the picture is a few years older, from [Wayback/Archive] Mélodie | Visual Ideas on X: “Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection”.

You should strive for a working environment that allows this:

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

Bookmarklet idea: find Wikipedia entry for currently selected text, then (when editing in WordPress) make the selected text link to it

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/05

Two stage bookmarklet idea (so if will be easier to create this in an agile fashion):

  1. create a bookmarklet that looks up the currently selected text in Wikipedia (or another source)
  2. modify the current selection to link to that Wikipedia entry (convenient when editing blog posts)

Hopefully these links will help me getting started:

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Posted in Bookmarklet, Development, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Web Browsers, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

Summer 2024: Our audit of Homebrew | Trail of Bits Blog

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/04

In the summer of 2024, something interesting happened in the Homebrew world: [Wayback/Archive] Our audit of Homebrew | Trail of Bits Blog.

This is really cool, while not only it caused some fixes of by then unknown issues, but also improved the various processes that already made Homebrew such a great tool by focusing on these aspects:

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How to check if your device meets Windows 11 system requirements after changing device hardware

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/04

For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] How to check if your device meets Windows 11 system requirements after changing device hardware

Press Windows logo key + or select Search, type pc health check, and select PC Health Check from the list of results.

The trick os to install and run the above tool:

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Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 11 | Leave a Comment »