Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/12
In the past I wrote a few articles containing information about Captive Portals, but I forgot mentioning that the article Captive portal – Wikipedia exists.
Got reminded to this by these tweets about Apple not using the default browser when displaying the Captive Portal page:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/12
I needed this a while ago for a OnePlus A0001: [Wayback/Archive] How to reset OnePlus One – Factory reset and erase all data
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/11
Interesting take of which I was subconsciously aware for a while as well: [Wayback/Archive] Thom :linux: :kde: :systemd:: “My concerns about the future o…” – Exquisite.social
My concerns [www.osnews.com] about the future of Firefox keep becoming reality [www.osnews.com] and yet nobody who relies on Firefox – Canonical, Fedora, KDE, GNOME, etc. – seem to give a shit.
Y’all realise Mozilla is about to lose 80% of its revenue, right? And y’all do understand what this will mean for Firefox, right? Why aren’t you taking any steps or making any plans to prepare for what this will inevitably mean for the most important and crucial desktop Linux application?
I feel like Kassandra [en.wikipedia.org] over here.
It is not a Desktop Linux problem alone: it is a Firefox problem at heart which will also (and in much larger numbers) affect other platforms as it also means one less browser engine: the Gecko browser engine used by Firefox and other browsers highly depends on Mozilla funding.
Given the long lasting keyboard productivity problems in Firefox on MacOS and Windows (even without any extensions installed), I don’t think that my frequency of Firefox usage will increase beyond occasional use.
A few examples hampering power usage of Firefox:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/09
A promising video:
[Wayback/Archive] Why are we drying filament this way? – YouTube
The trick is blowing warm air over the fillament strand while it is pulled through some tin cans.
This also works for drying used (and therefore wettened) silica gel beads on a 3D printer heat bed.
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/09
For quite some times my back-up way to access a Fritz!Box when the VPN itself failed was to SSH into a system behind it and use SSH port forwarding to access the Fritz!Box.
Seems that only works for older models with older firmware versions, but newer models with newer firmware now give a rebinding protection error.
I am not sure why it does this as technically there is no [Wayback/Archive] DNS rebinding – Wikipedia.
Regrettably, I could not find a way around this from the links below.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/08
Last year I posted about Some JavaScript bookmarklets for WordPress published pages centered around navigation and IDs.
It depended on HighlanderComments to exist in order for getting its .connectURL which contains the canonical blog post URL (i.e. from https://wiert.me it obtains https://wiert.wordpress.com).
Nowadays HighlanderComments does not always exist, but in that case <link rel="EditURI" type="application/rsd+xml" title="RSD" href="https://wiert.wordpress.com/xmlrpc.php?rsd"> does exist.
Its’ href value can be obtained by querying document.querySelector('link[rel="EditURI"]').href and truncate it, so I made some conditional code that first tries the HighlanderComments and defers code obtaining it from the link element I mentioned above.
I also added proper Bookmarklet wrappers so the function results don’t leak to the console or Browser (Firefox really does not like Bookmarklets without this wrapper).
javascript:(function(){
//Statements returning a non-undefined type, e.g. assignments
})();
Firefox also dislikes pasting code into the development console.
Code:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/07
Keeping an eye on this: [Wayback/Archive] Researcher finds a way to invisibly reverse Windows updates • The Register
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/07
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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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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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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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 