Keeping an eye on this: [Wayback/Archive] Researcher finds a way to invisibly reverse Windows updates • The Register
--jeroen
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A big oops: “Researcher finds a way to invisibly reverse Windows updates • The Register”
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/07
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Downloads: North Pi 3D Files — Fractal Design
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/07
Since a few weeks, you can now download the [Wayback/Archive] North Pi 3D Files — Fractal Design
The concept North Pi created for Computex 2024 is now available to download as 3D-print files
- [Wayback] 3D Print Files
- [Wayback/Archive] Instrunctions [Wayback PDF View/PDF View]
Required hardware
- 3D Printer or access to 3D printing service.
- Screws:
- 13 x M2.5 threaded inserts, outer diameter 3.5 mm (other diameter will require altering the holes for the inserts) + tools for inserting them.
- 9 x M2.5×4 (-6) for case assembly.
- 4 x M2.5×4 (-6) or stand-offs for motherboard assembly.
- Screwdriver.
- Glue.
Optional hardware
- File or sanding paper for cleaning up print.
- Wood strips (for authentic look) and shaping tools for those
- 2 x 40 mm fans (max 10 mm thick). Check the documentation of your specific SBC on what voltage to use.
- Paint and paintbrush/airbrush.
This was after a few other people recreated Pi cased in the style of the North Pi:
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Some notes on codepoints.net and beta.codepoints.net
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/07
At the time of writing a lot of this might be more recent, but for quite some time codepoints.net had not been updated with code point information newer Unicode releases.
Basically it was stuck at Unicode version 8.0 with some 120k glyphs. At the time of writing Unicode version 15.0 is in beta and the difference between 15.0 and 8.0 is some 24k glyphs.
So I had a quick twitter chat with the author and jotted down the links in this blog post so I won’t forget them.
There I learned it was open source (I think it is the only Unicode codepoint site that is).
Here it goes:
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The 2002 “Cruft Force” scale in Aug02: The New Adventures of Verity Stob
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/05
All computers acquire cruft over time, though with the ever increased data storage space capacities, nowadays it usually takes much longer to notice the effects of the Second Law of Thermodynamics on your computer until it is way too late.
I got reminded of the “Cruft Force” scale in the 2002 DDJ column [Wayback/Archive] “Aug02: The New Adventures of Verity Stob” by [Wayback/Archive] bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺: ‘…”cruft force 9″…’ – Fosstodon
Spent the best part of a day attempting to recover a friend’s Windows 11 machine that had shat itself. Was reminded of the most EXCELLENT description of Windows putrefaction by Verity Stob www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~susan/475/cruft.html “cruft force 9” – in this case, Adobe had deposited a new Adobe Reader install one directory lower apparently every time it had been used (!). There were also 34 numbered Teamviewer binaries getting progressively bigger.
Having known Verity Stob from DDJ (often named “Dr Dobbs”, but officially named “Dr. Dobb’s Journal”) and El Reg (officially named “The Register”). Until recently totally unaware .EXE Magazine had existed, I didn’t know that before DDJ she wrote columns for it nor that DDJ took over after it got renamed to “EXE Magazine”.
Learning new things every day: I love it!
--jeroen
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Trekkous kabeltrekken – YouTube
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/02
[Wayback/Archive] Trekkous kabeltrekken – YouTube
Niet goedkoop, maar wel praktisch.
Officiele benamingen:
--jeroen
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How to check the country that Google associates with your account, and how to change it – gHacks Tech News
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/02
I used the tips in [Wayback/Archive] How to check the country that Google associates with your account, and how to change it – gHacks Tech News to check out why I would get errors on invited family members that they were not in my country. Somehow my better half could join, but my brother and others could not.
Well, bummer as for all accounts:
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Jilles preparing for a Red Team training event
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/01
Remember to adapt what you pack and tailor it for each red team training event as the blue team should expect the unexpected. Believable pretext is key.
[Wayback/Archive] jilles.com 🔜 MCH2022 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ on Twitter: “Need to pack enough breaking and entering stuff to pull a good show during the RedTeam training but not too much to get arrested on my way to work. Then again, I might pull it off when I put YMCA on in a loop, in case I get pulled over. “
[Wayback/Archive] jilles.com 🔜 MCH2022 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ on Twitter: “This will do for now ;-)”
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CrazyMyra: “After AI took his job as an online assistant, Mr Clippy was obliged to seek work in other sectors…” – beige.party
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/30
I love the new title-text for the 2018 “Clippy” picture at [Wayback/Archive] CrazyMyra: “After AI took his job as an online assistant, Mr Clippy was obliged to seek work in other sectors…” – beige.party
A metal toilet paper holder in a corner od a bathro,with an empty roll, that looks similar to a large paperclip
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Saving an era of indie games: Ruffle – an Adobe Flash Player written in Rust compiled to WebAssembly
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/30
I forgot this was in the queue: [Wayback/Archive] ruffle-rs/ruffle: A Flash Player emulator written in Rust.
It is cool and plays a lot of Adobe Flash content and supports quite a bit of the underlying ActionScript language.
I really wish the web version could play web.archive.org/web/20160706140910oe_/http://games.erdener.org/laser/laser.swf (older), web.archive.org/web/20061211011310/http://www.gamuz.com/jeux/laser.swf (newer) or web.archive.org/web/20030827220214oe_/http://www.lurghi.net/laser/laser.swf (newest) but alas when running from https://ruffle.rs/demo/, that SWF is trying to download https://ruffle.rs/demo/config.txt some 20-30 times per second.
Maybe there is a workaround, as I have only tried the [Wayback/Archive] Ruffle Web Demo page (which is the easiest way to get started).
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NLZorg on X: “Klacht: Elastieken schieten steeds los vanwege dikke tempurmatras en nemen dan het hoeslaken mee. Een gebruikte beenband is voor zoveel van nut!”
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/29
[Wayback/Archive] NLZorg on X: “Klacht: Elastieken schieten steeds los vanwege dikke tempurmatras en nemen dan het hoeslaken mee. Een gebruikte beenband is voor zoveel van nut!”
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 