Archive for the ‘Power User’ Category
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/15
After researching the below tweet, I found out that many LG monitors have this limitation on downstream ports, depending on how the upstream USB-C port is connected:
Their manuals phrase it like this:
- When the USB C-C cable is connected between Upstream port of monitor and Host PC, the Downstream port of
monitor support USB 2.0 device.
- When the USB C-A cable is connected between Upstream port of monitor and Host PC, the Downstream port of
monitor support USB 3.0 device.
However, Host PC must support USB 3.0 function.
This means that in USB C-C land (for which Apple was basically a driving force, but nowadays many laptops only have USB-C connections) your monitor downstream ports are limited to USB 2.0.
If I read the various comments correctly, the additional limitation is that in the USB C-C case, the downstream ports are non-powered.
Which means I will avoid LG monitors at all cost.
Tweet: [Wayback/Archive] anna (arar) meow 𓃠 on X: “i have this monitor connected to my mac with a single USB C-C cable. why can’t i have USB 3.0 speeds on the downstream ports??? why does it work with the USB C-A cable?? is there a way around it? or is there just not enough bandwith for both video and these silly ports?”
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Posted in Displays, Hardware, LG Monitors, LifeHacker, Power User, USB, USB-C | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/14
[Wayback/Archive] funnymonkey: “To disable Mozilla’s data grab…” – Free Radical
To disable Mozilla’s data grab,
- enter:
about:preferences#privacy
in the address bar.
- Then, scroll down to “Website Advertising Preferences” and
- DESELECT the option for “Allow websites to perform privacy-preserving ad measurement“
--jeroen
Posted in Firefox, Power User, Web Browsers | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/12
There is a Blast-RADIUS exploit that makes many uses of RADIUS vulnerable as they depend on MD5, and MD5 collisions have been sped up considerably. Basically only RADIUS TLS seems safe now.
The Blast-RADIUS logo on the right reminded me about using grenades in a game 40+ years old, so lets digress: Archive.org is such a great site, with for instance the original Apple ][ Manual of Castle Wolfenstein by MUSE Software (the manual is written in Super-Text which they also sold):
The PDF from [Archive] Instruction Manual: Castle Wolfenstein from Muse Software : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive is at
[Archive.org PDF view/Archive.is] archive.org/download/1982-castle-wolfenstein/1982-castle-wolfenstein.pdf
Screenshot
The trick in that game when entering a room full of SS-officers was to throw a grenade into a chest of grenades in the middle of that room, then quickly leaving the room, waiting a few seconds then re-entering that room.
Not many moves further, you would find the chest with the war plans and find the exit, then finish the game.
Back to Blast RADIUS
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Posted in 6502, Apple, Apple ][, Authentication, Hashing, History, md5, Power User, Security | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/12
Reminder to self to play around with [Wayback/Archive] Tailscale SSH · Tailscale
Tailscale SSH allows Tailscale to manage the authentication and authorization of SSH connections on your tailnet.
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Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Hardware, Network-and-equipment, Power User, ssh/sshd, Tailscale, VPN, Wireguard | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/11
Quoting in full from [Wayback/Archive] Nelson’s Weblog: tech / zero-width-space to demonstrate a zero-width-space problem with WordPress too.
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Posted in Bookmarklet, Classic editor, Development, Gutenberg editor, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Power User, Scripting, SocialMedia, Software Development, Twitter, Web Browsers, Web Development, WordPress | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/09
Related to WhatsApp Desktop for Mac or PC cannot only chat but also voice and video call: installing WhatsApp from the command-line.
That was easy to do via winget:
c:\temp>winget install -e --id WhatsApp.WhatsApp
Found WhatsApp [WhatsApp.WhatsApp] Version 2.2222.12
This application is licensed to you by its owner.
Microsoft is not responsible for, nor does it grant any licenses to, third-party packages.
Downloading https://web.whatsapp.com/desktop/windows/release/x64/WhatsAppSetup.exe
██████████████████████████████ 145 MB / 145 MB
Successfully verified installer hash
Starting package install...
Successfully installed
This was a while ago, so the version number by now is dated, but it is about the command winget install -e --id WhatsApp.WhatsApp
Via:
–jeroen
Posted in Batch-Files, Development, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 11, winget | Leave a Comment »
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