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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/06/15
For my link archive some ISO links via [Wayback/Archive] openSUSE Leap 15.5 – Get openSUSE as I am steadily working my way back into IT and Software Development so I was anxious to see what has changed on this front. In the past I usually ran OpenSuSE Tumbleweed, but now I am going for OpenSuSE Leap versions that are stable for a longer period of time as per [Wayback/Archive] Lifetime – openSUSE Wiki
Leap Major Release (15.x) extends maintenance and support until a successor. At present, a successor has not been declared; Leap 15’s lifecycle fully aligns with SUSE Linux Enterprise. There is a projection as of March 2021 that Leap 15 will extend to Leap 15.5. The previous major version of Leap, 42, was supported for more than 36 months, while the current major version of Leap, 15, would then have up to 72 months of support (12×6).
Full DVD download for off-line installation:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/06/08
Many organisations train their personell with phishing attempts from domains that are different from the one the organisation uses.
The mantra is: only respond to emails (or clicking links in them) from domains you know.
Microsoft sent (still sends?) account expiration emails for various *.microsoft.com, *.visualstudio.com and other Microsoft domains like this:
[Wayback/Archive] 232840055-2ccfdb9b-2a13-4a34-92f5-f27f337825f8.png (766×653) email from Microsoft account team <account-security-noreply@mail.msa.msidentity.com>
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/06/08
In Bookmarklets for Archive.is and the WayBack Machine to go to the original page, I wrote about how the Shadow DOM is used to prevent side effects between the code of the WayBack machine and the archived page.
In a similar manner, Bookmarklets can also interfere with code on the page and vice versa, for instance by using global variables.
That is why the [Wayback/Archive] A simple bookmarklet to tweet the current page – DEV Community is wrapped in a special kind of function:
javascript:(function(){
n=getSelection().anchorNode;
t=n.nodeType===3?n.data:n.innerText;t='“'+t+'”\\n\\n';
window.open(`https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?
text=${encodeURIComponent(t)}${document.location.href}`)
})()
This is an [Wayback/Archive] IIFE – MDN Web Docs Glossary: Definitions of Web-related terms | MDN or “Immediately Invoked Function Expression”, a mechanism coined by [Archive] Ben Alman (@cowboy) / Twitter at [Wayback/Archive] Ben Alman » Immediately-Invoked Function Expression (IIFE).
Since the variables are inside the function body, they won’t interfere with the page. The body will be immediately executed.
Related:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/06/07
Quite often, when browsing an archived page on Archive.is or the WayBack Machine, I want to check the current status of the original page.
So I wrote a few Bookmarklets.
Archive.is
Default field
Any Archive.is page has a Saved from field which is an input html element having a name attribute with value q and a value property containing the URL, which is navigated to by assigning the location in the above code.
So my goto Bookmarklet is this one:
javascript:open(document.getElementsByName("q")[0]?.value)
It uses [0]? as there is no getElementsByName, but there is [Wayback/Archive] Document.getElementsByName() – Web APIs | MDN as name values need not to be unique but id values have to be.
Other Archive.is fields
The above works on all types of Archive.is page types:
- search pages like https://archive.is/https://example.org
- actual archived pages like https://archive.is/LkpeZ and https://archive.ph/2022.01.22-165646/https://example.org/
- these only have a
Saved from field.
- redirected archived pages like https://archive.ph/UEQeg and https://archive.ph/2013.01.03-111457/http://www.iana.org/domains/example/
- these both have
Saved from and Redirected from fields.
- complex pages like https://archive.ph/5iVVH and https://archive.ph/2015.11.14-044109/http://www.example.org/
- those have even more fields: in addition to fields
Saved from and Redirected from, the fields Via and Original also are added.
To get the additional fields from the other fields, we need to figure out a way to access them.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/06/05
Reminder to self GitLab pages on the gitlab.com are free, so Setting up a GitLab project so it is served over https as a gitlab.io and a custom subdomain comes with two caveats:
- Intermittent HTTP error 502 Bad Gateway
- Intermittent
NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID (Chrome) or SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN (Firefox):
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/06/02
If course you can configure Windows Optional Features using the GUI as for instance explained at [Wayback/Archive] How to manage Windows 10’s many ‘optional features | Windows Central.
However, I prefer command-line management.
About the only post doing the comparison of command-line mangement options I could find about is [Wayback/Archive] Different ways for installing Windows features on the command line – Peter Hahndorf and hopefully will be further updated in the future. It is dated 2015, but has been updated until at least Windows Server Nano.
I added one, and then rewrote the tool-set availability table in the post into this:
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Posted in Communications Development, Development, Internet protocol suite, Microsoft Store, OpenSSH, Power User, SSH, TCP, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016, Windows Vista | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/06/01
Bumped into [Wayback/Archive] Microsoft account activity policy – Microsoft Support because an account that I hardly use was about to expire.
A few quotes (but be sure to read the most up to date policy):
- Except as provided below, you must sign in to your Microsoft account at least once in a two-year period to keep your account active. If you don’t sign in during this time, Microsoft will consider your account to be inactive.
- Exceptions: The activities below are exceptions that will result in Microsoft extending your account’s active status, even if you have not otherwise signed in to your Microsoft account within a two-year period.
- Purchases
- Subscriptions
- Publishing to the Microsoft Store
- Certifications
- Account Balance
- Accounts Payable
- Family Accounts
- Legal Requirements or as otherwise provided by Microsoft
Probably the easiest way at the time of writing is to make sure there is an account balance.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/06/01
As Chrome mangles Bookmarklets to a partially escaped form (I think using Percent encoding), I first tried to document my Bookmarklets in Markdown so I could easier edit them and copy these JavaScript links to various browsers. That failed, because the html rendered from the Markdown didn’t contain the links any more. So I now use plain html for documenting them which is a pain to edit but works.
[Wayback/Archive] Some bookmarklets hosted as [Wayback/Archive] Some bookmarklets – cached 1 minute – throttled and [Wayback/Archive] Some bookmarklets – cached 1 year – CDN.
This is why:
- Technically you can include JavaScript for Bookmarklets in Markdown documents both as Markdown links (either with escapes or by splitting reference and link in two pieces) and html links (as embedding html in Markdown is allowed): [Wayback/Archive] Bookmarklet link in Markdown document – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Adam Haile, [Wayback/Archive] Zombo and [Wayback/Archive] stevemegson)
- Because of security reasons, many hosters will filter out JavaScript when transforming Markdown in html [Wayback/Archive] Embed JavaScript in GitHub README.md – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Matt Smith and [Wayback/Archive] coyotte508)
Searches: [Wayback/Archive] markdown javascript in link – Google Search and [Wayback/Archive] “embed javascript” in markdown – Google Search.
–jeroen
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