Archive for the ‘Power User’ Category
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/09
[Wayback/Archive] A bit of perl trickery shows a great example why you should only code you understand.
It explains the innards of a classic trap luring people into execute some obfuscated code, in this case Perl based.
Which makes it yet another testament to not blindly download and execute stuff from the internet.
So be aware when you see obfuscated scripts and things luring you into:
Be even more alert when these require elevated access (like running under sudo).
Via: [Wayback/Archive] Leo Bicknell on Twitter: “@jpluimers @IanColdwater Executes “rm -rf /”. This is ancient Perl monks way of teaching people not to run programs they don’t understand as root. … But hey, these days people “curl -o – url | bash”. It’s surprising that isn’t exploited more.”
Which was response to me asking what the below code did that was fully misunderstood by ChatGPT (which is Large Language Model based on a large corpus of natural language, not a small corpus of evil red-team programming language code snippets) to a series of Tweets by Ian Coldwater.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/03
Helaas is het meeste op de pagina [Wayback/Archive] Hoe kun je gratis belasting-aangifteprogramma in Excel downloaden? | GratisSoftware.nl automatisch gegenereerd.
Het belangrijkste stukje is de download link die in een aantal stappen naar de echte download gat: WeTransfer, helaas geen KPN File Transfer of een andere die qua privacy minder omstreden is, zie mijn eerdere blog-post Bye bye WeTransfer, hello Wormhole – Simple, private file sharing.
De quick-link is een nummertje hoger dan die van vorig jaar in Belastingaangifte 2024 met Excel gratis downloaden | Computer Idee.
Let op: het werkt eigenlijk alleen goed in Microsoft Excel op Windows. Dus de gegenereerde content over andere omgevingen mag je geloven, maar dan zit je zelf ook op de blaren.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/01
Weliswaar werd [Wayback/Archive] Hoe een reclametypetje het weleens tot premier zou kunnen schoppen gepubliceerd op 1 april, maar de strekking klopte: gewiekste marketing gefinancierd door de agri-reuzen maakten BBB en kerrolain binnen enkele jaren groot.
Hoe zou het nu met ze zijn? Net zo uitgedoofd als vergelijkbare partijen met veel onderliggend extreem-rechts gedachtengoed (zoals bijvoorbeeld bleek tijdens de 4-mei affaire).
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/29
Hou er rekening mee dat er ook actietarieven staan in het overzicht [Wayback/Archive] Hoogste spaarrente – Actuele rentestanden.
Bijvoorbeeld Nationale-Nederlanden:
Mocht je het ondanks onderstaande toch overwegen:
- de actie internetsparen loopt tot en met 30 juni 2026
- de actie betaalrekening loopt tot en met 15 juli 2026
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/29
Quintessence shows you the top links that the people that you follow on Mastodon tooted or boosted in the last hours and the most notable toots that appeared in your timeline.
In order to work it just needs read permissions for your account.
You can allow this by specifying your instance in the text box below and clicking “Authorize”.
Quintessence is a static site, all its code runs on the device that you are using to read these lines. No data leaves your browser nor is being shared with anyone.
[Wayback/Archive] https://quintsns.pianeta.uno/ is on my list of tools to try and make Mastodon more manageable for me.
Related:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/26
Luckily I do not have to transfer large files to others often, but now that WeTransfer has been out for a while, I think Wormhole is a good replacement:
[Wayback/Archive] Wormhole – Simple, private file sharing
Like KPN Filetransfer below, anyone can use it.
Links on KPN Filetransfer, especially because of the white paper, but also the WeTransfer Terms of Service change that made it unusable for many, and some other alternatives like Send (which you can self-host):
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/26
Somehow the default dpi setting on my ARM MacBook Pro was 300dpi.
This caused all the specific printer settings saves (mostly permutations of N-up and single/double-sided) to have become 300dpi. Fine for scalable output (vector graphics and fonts), but awful for bitmap images.
[Wayback/Archive] How to change default printing dpi – Apple Community explains how to set the default:
- Print something to bring up the print dialog box.
- Make sure the Presets menu shows “Standard”.
- Change the dpi.
- Now from the Presets menu, choose “Save”.
- That should change the “Standard” settings.
But it fails to explain that the default is not retroactively applied to saved settings.
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