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Dit is het dj-team van de NPO Radio 2 Top 2000 in 2023

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/12/12

Niet zo sexy als Top 2000 café 2019 – Alle informatie op een rij – NPO Radio 2 – Presentatoren, producers/sidekicks, nieuwslezers en tijden, maar nu na een fikse verhuizing even door mijn energie heen, dus voorlopig een kopietje van [Wayback/Archive] Dit is het dj-team van de NPO Radio 2 Top 2000 in 2023:

Schema dj-team tijdens NPO Radio 2 Top 2000

  • 00.00 – 02.00 uur Jeroen van Inkel
  • 02.00 – 04.00 uur Frank van ‘t Hof
  • 04.00 – 06.00 uur Desiree van der Heiden
  • 06.00 – 08.00 uur Paul Rabbering
  • 08.00 – 10.00 uur Jan-Willem Roodbeen & Jeroen Kijk in de Vegte
  • 10.00 – 12.00 uur Bart Arens
  • 12.00 – 14.00 uur Annemieke Schollaardt
  • 14.00 – 16.00 uur Gijs Staverman
  • 16.00 – 18.00 uur Ruud de Wild
  • 18.00 – 20.00 uur Wouter van der Goes
  • 20.00 – 22.00 uur Emmely de Wilt
  • 22.00 – 00.00 uur Morad El Ouakili

Via [Wayback/Archive] NPO Radio 2 on X: “Deze dj’s hoor je dit jaar tijdens de NPO Radio 2 Top 2000! 🤩 #Top2000 #NPORadio2”.

--jeroen

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Need to write a bookmarklet that strips a Twitter URL down to the canonical form without s= and t= parameters (or maybe easier: no parameters at all)

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/12/12

Based on these tweets, I want to write a bookmarklet that at least removes the s= and t= parameters from Twitter URLs, maybe even all parameters (TODO: figure out if there are useful Twitter URL parameters first):

Even Jack Dorsey didn’t know they were introduced when he was still Twitter CEO. From the tweets below:

  1. The s parameter seems to have to have to do with both the kind of sharing and the type of client used.
  2. The t parameter could correlate with the user ID.

There is a sort of bookmarklet below which goes through an external web-site (search for “unfurl”), but I want to do it purely client-side.

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Firefox shift right-click forces context menu (via Frederik Braun). It reminds me of Windows 11 using this to show the full Windows 10 context menu

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/12/11

[Wayback/Archive] Frederik Braun �: “Annoyed that a website is doin…” – security.plumbing

Annoyed that a website is doing something custom on right-click?
Did you expect the browser’s context menu (Back, Reload, Save Page As, View Source etc.)?

Just hold the ⇧Shift key while clicking and Firefox will show the built-in context menu.

It reminded me of Windows 11 first crippling the context menu, then allowing shift right-click to show the Windows 10 context menu:

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Reminder to self: mid-term solution for replacing Ubiquiti access points

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/12/11

Last year, after an already long sequence of doing stupid things, Ubiquiti sued Brian Krebs.

For many this was a reason to think about what to replace their Ubiquiti.

My cloud key had already died, I never installed the USG router, so this is the reminder to see if anything has come up to replace the Unifi access points that is easy to manage in a self-hosted way are powered over ethernet, do the same seamless handover and cooperative WiFi antenna management.

Some links from back then:

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Yet another reason not to use SMS based 2FA: those phone numbers get leaked or sold as Daniel Cuthbert mentioned on Twitter: “@LinkedIn did indeed sell my 2FA phone number”

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/12/06

Many recommend against using SMS for 2FA because of security reasons (SIM swapping, sniffing, etc), but there is another privacy+security reason: these 2FA phone numbers get leaked or sold as [Wayback/Archive] Daniel Cuthbert (@dcuthbert) found out the hard way last year:

–jeroen

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The Wayback Machine Chrome extension got a big update. Every journalist & researcher should install it ASAP! Faster URL archiving w/ customization, access to yr personal archive, and it tells you if the page you’re on has already been archived, etc.

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/12/05

Last year I learned about [Wayback/Archive] Wayback Machine – Chrome Web Store via a Twitter thread starting at

[Wayback/Archive] Craig Silverman on Twitter: “The Wayback Machine Chrome extension got a big update. Every journalist & researcher should install it ASAP! Faster URL archiving w/ customization, access to yr personal archive, and it tells you if the page you’re on has already been archived, etc. #osint”

I saved the full thread at [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @CraigSilverman on Thread Reader App:

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notes on updating DNS info with bind DNS

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/12/01

Steps:

  1. Edit the DNS zone file in /var/lib/named/master
  2. Make sure you updated the SOA serial number
  3. rcnamed restart
  4. Watch /var/lib/named/log/general for errors (you can even increase logging, for instance by reading [Wayback/Archive] this serverfault entry and editing /etc/named.d/logging) and – on my system – these other logs for the actual zone transfers:
    • /var/lib/named/log/in-xfer.log for incoming zone transfers on the secondary server
    • /var/lib/named/log/notify.log for notifications of zone transfers on the primary and secondary servers
    • /var/lib/named/log/out-xfer.log for outgoing zone transfers on the primary server
  5. Check on [Wayback/Archive] mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=dns:example.org&run=toolpage# to see if the SOA serials have been replicated (one day I will write a bookmarklet for this)

Alternatives for the last step are sites like these:

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25 years ago today – Windows NT and VMS: The Rest of the Story | ITPro

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/11/30

https://www.itprotoday.com/compute-engines/windows-nt-and-vms-rest-story

Via

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Google: inactive account policies

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/11/28

Reminder to self to yearly check all my Google accounts because of [Wayback/Archive] Updating our inactive account policies

we are updating our inactivity policy for Google Accounts to 2 years across our products. Starting later this year, if a Google Account has not been used or signed into for at least 2 years, we may delete the account and its contents – including content within Google Workspace (Gmail, Docs, Drive, Meet, Calendar), YouTube and Google Photos.
The policy only applies to personal Google Accounts, and will not affect accounts for organizations like schools or businesses. This update aligns our policy with industry standards around retention and account deletion and also limits the amount of time Google retains your unused personal information.
We are going to roll this out slowly and carefully, with plenty of notice:
  • While the policy takes effect today, it will not immediately impact users with an inactive account — the earliest we will begin deleting accounts is December 2023.
  • We will take a phased approach, starting with accounts that were created and never used again.
  • Before deleting an account, we will send multiple notifications over the months leading up to deletion, to both the account email address and the recovery email (if one has been provided).

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Glue 3D printed parts – Chris Bensen on Twitter: “@geerlingguy It depends. I often times use hot glue. Super glue is great. Epoxy is better. Jbweld is even better. You can even heat the two parts and melt them together. Bolts also work. Rubber band. Velcro’s strap.”

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/11/24

Various way to keep 3D printed parts together: [Wayback/Archive] Chris Bensen on Twitter: “@geerlingguy It depends. I often times use hot glue. Super glue is great. Epoxy is better. Jbweld is even better. You can even heat the two parts and melt them together. Bolts also work. Rubber band. Velcro’s strap.” / Twitter

–jeroen

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