Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/21
Fork of a repository that shows how to do this with normal Homebrew installs [Wayback/Archive] Install an old version with homebrew for macOS · GitHub has my notes to do a similar thing with Homebrew cask installs.
Fork of: [Wayback/Archive] Install an old version with homebrew for macOS · GitHub.
TODO: check notes to ensure they really work on a different system and were not a lucky shot.
Notes:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/21
Sometimes the XKCD episodes are hard to get, so I wanted a Bookmarklet to navigate to [Wayback/Archive] explain xkcd.
Here is the regular expression to change the domain name part if it matches: [Wayback/Archive] regex101: build, test, and debug regex: VI34VW with this generated sed code:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/20
Boy was I surprised how bad a human brain functions when getting more stressful:
Figure 6
STATE DEPENDENT FUNCTIONING“STATE” CALM ALERT ALARM FEAR TERROR DOMINANT
BRAIN AREASCortex
(DMN)Cortex
(Limbic)Limbic
(Diencephalon)Diencephalon
(Brainstem)Brainstem ADAPTIVE “Option”
ArousalReflect
(create)Flock
(hypervigilance)Freeze
(resistance)Flight
(defiance)Fight ADAPTIVE “Option”
DissociationReflect
(daydream)Avoid Comply Dissociate
(paralysis/catatonia)Faint
(collapse)COGNITION Abstract
(creative)Concrete
(routine)Emotional Reactive Reflexive FUNCTIONAL IQ 120-100 110-90 100-80 90-70 80-60
I got the table from a Tweet by Andrea Walraven-Thissen (see below).
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/17
Having had to use Mimikatz a few times in the past, I was not aware of the history.
So I was glad to find this elaborate article [Wayback/Archive] Mimikatz and password dumps | Ivan’s IT learning blog and the video (embedded after the signature). [Wayback/Archive] How to fix mimikatz null password in Windows 10 | WORKING 2019!!! – YouTube
Besides the history, it also explains why sometimes you only get hashes and other times you do get plain text passwords.
Recommended reading.
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/16
[Wayback/Archive] NSA Warns iPhone And Android Users—Disable Location Tracking
Related: [Wayback/Archive] Advertising ID – Play Console Help
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/16
Interesting: [Wayback/Archive] nginxinc/kic-reference-architectures: MARA: Modern Application Reference Architecture
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/15
I wonder, 40 years later, what happened after the USSR dismantled: especially with the developments over the last 10 years and the culmination in the last 2, are these bands – banned in January 1985 – still banned in Russia? [Wayback/Archive] They were banned in the USSR – The Scotsman
The above article was published in 2014, and a full translated list in the 2015 article [Wayback/Archive] The Soviet Union Creates a List of 38 Dangerous Rock Bands: Kiss, Pink Floyd, Talking Heads, Village People & More (1985) | Open Culture.
A picture of the original list in Russian was published in the 2017 article [Wayback/Archive] A list of 38 “dangerous” Western bands banned in the USSR
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/15
I have a lot of old Power Point slide decks that I want to reuse in current presentations. By now however, I learned prepare all my presentation stuff in either Markdown or reStructuredText: far easier to publish and put under version control.
After searching, I could only find one tool that is still maintained doing a decent job doing a PowerPoint to Markdown conversion: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – ssine/pptx2md: a pptx to markdown converter. The tools which works great, in big part of PowerPoint content being highly structured with styles like title, subtitle and various heading levels and content types.
The thing it does not document is the prerequisites, which are these:
venv (which, despite having used Python quite often, but not proficient in it, still makes me nervous: one forgotten step and you pip everything in your global environment).This links helps me every time [Wayback/Archive] Install packages in a virtual environment using pip and venv – Python Packaging User Guide. From it, I created this little table:
Steps for setting up and using a Python virtual environment Step *n*x/MacOS Windows Comment 1. python3 -m venv .venvpy -m venv .venvOnly needed once 2. source .venv/bin/activate.venv\Scripts\activateSwitch to virtual environment 3. which pythonwhere pythonCheck if python is used from the virtual environment (should result in
.venv/bin/pythonon *n*x/MacOS or
.venv\Scripts\pythonon Windows)4. which pipwhere pipCheck if pip is used from the virtual environment (should result in
.venv/bin/pipon *n*x/MacOS or
.venv\Scripts\pipon Windows)5. ./.venv/bin/pptx2md</precode
.venv\bin\pptx2mdForce a module which didn’t add itself to the path when installed via pip 6. deactivatedeactivateLeave the virtual environment
pip install pptx2md (in order I discovered them):
pip install numpypip install matplotlibpip install scipypip install wand./.venv/bin/pptx2mdPosted in Development, Lightweight markup language, MarkDown, Office, Power Point, Power User, Python, Scripting, Software Development, venv | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/15
For my link archive on the Apple 30-pin Dock Connector:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/13
[Wayback/Archive] Thread by @0gtweet on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App
A very friendly reminder, especially for non-corporate PCs protected with BitLocker: if you are not sure if you have your Recovery Password handy, you can display it any moment with “manage-bde -protectors -get c:”
Store the password in your password manager and make its backup!
Note: manage-bde.exe -protectors -get c: needs admin rights!
--jeroen
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