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Only 2 weeks left to enable 2FA for your GitHub account

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/29

If you haven’t done so already, then enable 2FA for your GitHub account now: This will be a requirement in 2 weeks time.

The 2FA/MFA possibility started about half a year ago with [Wayback/Archive] Raising the bar for software security: GitHub 2FA begins March 13 – The GitHub Blog

You can have various means of 2FA, which al start with a choice between:

After completing either of those those, you can view/download a set of backup codes, and you can add more factors to your Multi-factor authentication setup up to these:

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Posted in 2FA/MFA, Authentication, Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, git, GitHub, Power User, Security, Software Development, Source Code Management | Leave a Comment »

Learned a while ago from @Caramelia79  at Twitter: “AEG Methode.”

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/28

Too bad that [Wayback/Archive] Cara (@Caramelia79) / Twitter deleted their tweet before it got archived, so this lone tweet does not really make sense now:

[Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “@Caramelia79 @unimanatee Heute neu gelernt: AEG Methode.” / Twitter

The joke however was this:

AEG Methode:

  1. Ausschalten
  2. Einschalten
  3. Geht

It is also known as “AEG-Prinzip” and refers back to the AEG brand that was (still is?) big in Germany for household appliances and industrial products.

The not so cool thing is that by now it seams to mean:

  1. Ausschalten
  2. Einschalten
  3. Geht nicht

as about a year ago some AEG microwave appliance models show errors F606 and F254 after a firmware update: they now think they are steam ovens but cannot find the correct steam hardware:

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Email Handling and vBulletin Cloud – vBulletin Community Forum

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/25

For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] Email Handling and vBulletin Cloud – vBulletin Community Forum.

  • Asking your end users to white list your email address and the Sendgrid IP (167.89.58.99) can help alleviate the issues.

I didn’t know the above but bumped into an issue because I didn’t know a supplier had moved to vBulletin Cloud, my account password stopped being accepted and my account password reset messages would not arrive.

So I wrote this as part of a mail to sort this out, and it was confirmed to be correct:

Then I re-checked a few connection refusals that appeared close to the password reset tries. Not sure if this a pattern, but a few of them had this:
2022-02-20T19:41:42.999415+01:00 snap sendmail[24314]: NOQUEUE: connect from o1678958x99.outbound-mail.sendgrid.net [167.89.58.99]
2022-02-20T19:41:43.015958+01:00 snap sendmail[24314]: NOQUEUE: dns 99.58.89.167.bl.spamcop.net. => 127.0.0.2
2022-02-20T19:41:43.016442+01:00 snap sendmail[24314]: ruleset=check_relay, arg1=o1678958x99.outbound-mail.sendgrid.net, arg2=127.0.0.2, relay=o1678958x99.outbound-mail.sendgrid.net [167.89.58.99], reject=553 5.3.0 Spam blocked see: http://spamcop.net/bl.shtml?167.89.58.99
2022-02-20T19:42:29.527789+01:00 snap sendmail[23814]: 21KIeTfo023814: engine10.uptimerobot.com [69.162.124.231] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA
From the linked page I got to https://www.spamcop.net/w3m?action=blcheck&ip=167.89.58.99 indicating

167.89.58.99 listed in bl.spamcop.net (127.0.0.2)

If there are no reports of ongoing objectionable email from this system it will be delisted automatically in approximately 13 hours.

Causes of listing
  • System has sent mail to SpamCop spam traps in the past week (spam traps are secret, no reports or evidence are provided by SpamCop)

Express-delisting is not available

Listing History

In the past 44.4 days, it has been listed 12 times for a total of 13.3 days

Can you check if the forum software uses sendgrid?

The confirmation linked to the first post in this blog entry on how to whitelist the SendGrid outgoing IP-address.

One thing I wonder: why does SendGrid use a single outgoing IP-address? If it gets blacklisted, many of their clients have problems.

Anyway: before adding the entry to my whitelist, the problem had resolved itself, and the blacklist entries were done:

Related: [Wayback/Archive] Forum Move – Scooter Forums

We’ve moved our forums to vBulletin Cloud.

New forum URL: https://forum.scootersoftware.com/

Links to the old forum will be redirected to the new URL.

If you notice any problems after the move, please let us know.

[Wayback/Archive] Forums – Scooter Forums

–jeroen

Posted in Communications Development, Development, eMail, GMail, Google, Internet protocol suite, Power User, SMTP, SocialMedia | Leave a Comment »

Some notes on the WordPress Press-This bookmarklet

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/23

I want to improve my WordPress blogging experience especially since most of the pages I link also have two extra links of the archived pages in the Wayback Machine and Archive.is.

The WordPress Press-This bookmarklet does not always cut it. It is slow too as it does a POST request to the WordPress site which then renders a new page.

It is also highly minified, so below are some links that will hopefully allow me to research it further to see if I either could improve it for my own workflow, or need to start from scratch.

I want to figure out:

  • what the values of the v= version parameter were (I know about v=8 and v=4, there are likely more)
  • which commits were involved
  • can I get more information (like summary, first heading or first paragraph of a page too)
  • what techniques are used for opening new windows/tabs

TODO: make diffs of the various versions

–jeroen

Posted in Bookmarklet, Development, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Power User, Scripting, SocialMedia, Software Development, Web Browsers, Web Development, WordPress, WordPress | Leave a Comment »

Bookmarklet to save a page both in the WayBack machine and Archive.is (ending on the latter to solve a reCAPTCHA)

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/22

TL;DR:

javascript:{h=location.href;open('https://archive.is/?run=1&url='+encodeURIComponent(h));location.href='https://web.archive.org/save/'+(h)}

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Posted in Bookmarklet, Development, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Web Browsers, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

HTGWA: Create a ZFS RAIDZ1 zpool on a Raspberry Pi | Jeff Geerling

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/21

For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] HTGWA: Create a ZFS RAIDZ1 zpool on a Raspberry Pi | Jeff Geerling

–jeroen

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WhatsApp Help Center – How to use broadcast lists

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/18

Cool, did not know this and used readonly groups (with one writer) for this before: [Wayback/Archive] WhatsApp Help Center – How to use broadcast lists

Via: [Archive] Sylvia on Twitter: “Ik wist nooit van t bestaan van verzendlijsten op whapp. Zusje kwam er gisteravond mee. Ging wereld voor mij open. Ideaal in deze situatie. Gewoon 1 bericht er uit en hele familie en vriendenkring is op de hoogte.”

–jeroen

 

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Figuring out the threads for processes ran by python

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/17

A while ago I wrote about Figuring out the open network connections for processes ran by python, which explained the TL;DR:

pidof python | tr " " "\n" | xargs -r -n 1 lsof -i -a -e /run/user/1001/gvfs -p

Now I needed thread information as well, so below two examples using ps and pstree. I won’t explain the pidof and xargs stuff here as that was already covered in the above blog-post and I found out that ps already has a built-in way to filter on process name.

The ps solution uses the H, -L or -T argument to show the threads:

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Youtube – Extract Meta Data – Amnesty International

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/16

Cool that Amnesty International can do a YouTube [Wayback/Archive] Extract Meta Data (Amnesty International).

Via:

I wonder if I can write a Bookmarklet for this (it will likely require an HTTP POST request).

–jeroen

Posted in Development, HTML, JavaScript/ECMAScript, LifeHacker, Power User, Privacy, Scripting, SocialMedia, Software Development, Web Development, YouTube | Leave a Comment »

Bookmarklet for Archive.is to navigate to the canonical link

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/15

This is a follow-up to Bookmarklets for Archive.is and the WayBack Machine to go to the original page.

Archive.is has two kinds of URLs:

  1. The encoded version is the short form without any meta-information,
  2. The canonical version is a long form and has metadata about Archive date and time, and the Archived URL,

You get the first URL both after archiving and when browsing from an archived page to another archived page (if it is not archived you will go the unarchived full page URL).

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Posted in archive.is / archive.today, Development, Internet, InternetArchive, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, WayBack machine | Leave a Comment »

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