Posted by jpluimers on 2023/03/28
While writing On my reading list: Windows Console and PTY, I found out that OpenSSH had become available as an optional Windows feature.
It was in [Wayback/Archive.is] Windows Command-Line: Introducing the Windows Pseudo Console (ConPTY) | Windows Command Line:
Thankfully, OpenSSH was recently ported to Windows and added as a Windows 10 optional feature. PowerShell Core has also adopted ssh as one of its supported PowerShell Core Remoting protocols.
Here are a few links:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/03/27
The next time I need to figure out what to use my TM items for is to read [Wayback/Archive] Attackers Tier List | Pokemon GO Wiki – GamePress.
The intro of it:
The Attackers Tier List aims to tackle the question of where best to spend your resources (Stardust, Rare Candy, and TMs). The Attackers Tier List highlights what are arguably the best Raid Pokemon in the game, divided into three distinct sections.
- A rotating “Flavor of the Month” with counters not featured in the core list for current [Tier 5] Raid Bosses
- A list of Mega Evolved Pokemon that are boosted by the current season, which may include Pokemon that are also on the tier list in other capacities.
- A core list of top attackers with good matchups against many Gym defenders and past / future Raid Bosses, ranked from S to C.
While the top attackers may fluctuate with additions of new Pokemon and moves into the game, we anticipate entries on this core list to be highly used in Raid and Gym battles. All trainers should feel confident in powering up and adding these Pokemon to their team.
The best Pokemon to power up will always be the ones immediately useful, so pay attention to Raid Boss rotations! The Flavor of the Month spotlights Pokemon currently useful who aren’t on the tier list. They can provide nice alternatives for those without the superior species on the tier list.
Via [Archive] Murdock (@Generic42) / Twitter.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/03/24
De praatkaart gewoon sterven van Pharos staat op [Wayback/Archive] Informatiekaarten over palliatieve zorg – Pharos.
De kaart zelf is [Wayback/Archive preview] https://www.pharos.nl/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Praatkaarten-gewoons…
Via: [Archive] Gudule Boland on Twitter: “Wat gebeurt er als iemand doodgaat? Veel mensen kennen het natuurlijke proces van sterven niet. Deze gratis informatiekaart legt het uit in begrijpelijke woorden en beelden. … @PharosKennis …” / Twitter
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/03/20
A while ago when applying KB5008212* through Windows Update, I got errors. It was odd, as until now, all other upgrades had worked fine.
Often Windows update errors are because of lack of disk space (I try maintain 10 gigabytes or more free space on virtual machines, but that sometimes fails because some software – despite user files being on a different drive – sometimes insists on filling the system drive).
This time, Windows Update would show 0x80073701, of course right after reaching 100%, but actually it was a 0x800f081f in disguise.
My usual modus operandi didn’t solve it (with a retry after every step):
CleanMgr.exe (Disk cleanup)SFC /ScanNow (System File Checker)DISM /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth (Deployment Image Servicing and Management)All failed, but in the last step, DISM would consistently show error 0x800f081f.
Even a local DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth /Source:C:\Windows\WinSxS /LimitAccess would fail.
Each DISM run will actually log in two log files, and this is the trick to figure out what the next step would be.
Examples from my case:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/03/17
[Wayback/Archive] mess with dns: a cool site at messwithdns.net that allows you directly mess around with subdomains of messwithdns.com (yup: these are on different top level domains by intent, see [Wayback/Archive] mess with dns: about/FAQ).
Her blog post [Wayback/Archive] New tool: Mess with DNS! has a cool insightful explanation with lots of gifs showing what is going on. The below gif is just one of them:
In addition, it has a cool [Wayback/Archive] mess with dns: DNS dictionary explaining common DNS related terms.
The backend is written in Go, and has a snapshot of the initial source code on github at [Wayback/Archive] jvns/mess-with-dns-backend (mainly so you can file issues or submit ideas).
Oh, and this is a cool video that shows you how DNS works assuming the protocol is phone based: [Archive] Max Meier👨🏻💻🛡⚔️ on Twitter: “DNS Server …” / Twitter.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/03/16
PolyShell is a script that’s simultaneously valid in Bash, Windows Batch, and PowerShell (i.e. a polyglot).
[Wayback/Archive] llamasoft/polyshell: A Bash/Batch/PowerShell polyglot!
Need to check this out, as often I have scripts that have to go from one language to the other or vice versa.
Maybe it enables one language to bootstrap functionality in the other?
The above polyglot started with a quest to see if I can could include some PowerShell statements in a batch file with two goals:
cmd.exe command prompt, then have it start PowerShell with the same command-line argumentsThe reasoning is simple:
cmd.exe or PowerShell are runningLots of users still live in the cmd.exe world, but PowerShell scripts are way more powerful, and since PowerShell is integrated in Windows since version 7, so having a batch file bootstrap PowerShell still makes sense.
Since my guess was about quoting parameters the right way, my initial search for the link below was [Wayback/Archive] powershell execute statement from batch file quoting – Google Search.
I have dug not yet into this, so there are still…
These should give me a good idea how to implement a polyglot batch file/PowerShell script.
dosps2.cmd:@findstr/v "^@f.*&" "%~f0"|powershell -&goto:eof
Write-Output "Hello World"
Write-Output "Hello some@com & again"
@f and including an & and passes everything else to PowerShell.C:\tmp>dosps2
Hello World
Hello some@com & againbut the second answer got me in the below polyglot search query
@@:: This prolog allows a PowerShell script to be embedded in a .CMD file.
@@:: Any non-PowerShell content must be preceeded by "@@"
@@setlocal
@@set POWERSHELL_BAT_ARGS=%*
@@if defined POWERSHELL_BAT_ARGS set POWERSHELL_BAT_ARGS=%POWERSHELL_BAT_ARGS:"=\"%
@@PowerShell -Command Invoke-Expression $('$args=@(^&{$args} %POWERSHELL_BAT_ARGS%);'+[String]::Join([char]10,$((Get-Content '%~f0') -notmatch '^^@@'))) & goto :EOF
@PowerShell -Command Invoke-Expression $('$args=@(^&{$args} %*);'+[String]::Join([char]10,(Get-Content '%~f0') -notmatch '^^@PowerShell.*EOF$')) & goto :EOF
…
There are quite a few quirks that were leveraged or had to be worked around:
- All three languages have different escape characters:
- Bash: backslash (
\)- Batch: caret (
^)- PowerShell: backtick (
`)- Escape characters work inside Bash and PowerShell strings, but not batch strings.
- Redirects (i.e.
<and>) have special meaning in all three languages unless quoted.- Redirects don’t have to be at the end of a command.
- This is valid Bash/Batch/PowerShell:
echo >output.txt "Hello World"- Batch is the only language without multi-line strings or comments.
- Batch treats
>as a redirect even when it directly touches a string, but PowerShell doesn’t.- Batch script
GOTOstatements only work when run as a script, not when run interactively.- PowerShell’s multi-line comment (
<#) must be immediately preceded by whitespace.- Bash’s here documents may begin anywhere so long as it’s unquoted and not a comment.
…
It also pointed me to the above repository on GitHub, so lets include it here as well:
cmd.exe prompt, and it hides that prompt after finishing. Need to figure out why, and if it can be prevented or undone.hideWindow $script:cmdPid # Prevent user from closing command prompt
Powerglot encodes several kind of scripts using polyglots, for example, offensive powershell scripts. It is not needed a loader to run the payload.
It basically is a Python script that allows you to generate a polyglot from multiple separate scripts.
iex, aka [Wayback/Archive] Invoke-Expression (Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility) – PowerShell | Microsoft Docs)
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/03/15
Yup, web browser bookmarklets, though hardly published about any more, I still like them (and wrote about them before). With a little bit, usually unreadable, JavaScript, they can add magical functionality to your browser.
So here are some links on Twitter related bookmarklets:
javascript:location.href='http://twitter.com/share?url='+encodeURIComponent(window.location.href)+'&text='+encodeURIComponent(document.title)
which I reworked into:
javascript:window.open('http://twitter.com/share?url='+encodeURIComponent(window.location.href)+'&text='+encodeURIComponent(document.title))
This is the right one:
javascript:(function(){n=getSelection().anchorNode;if(!n){t=document.title;}else{t=n.nodeType===3?n.data:n.innerText;}t='“'+t.trim()+'”\n\n';window.open(`https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=${encodeURIComponent(t)}${document.location.href}`)})();
which I reworked using «» quotes into:
javascript:(function(){n=getSelection().anchorNode;if(!n){t=document.title;}else{t=n.nodeType===3?n.data:n.innerText;}t='«'+t.trim()+'»\n\n';window.open(`https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=${document.location.href}&text=${encodeURIComponent(t)}`)})();
javascript:q = "" + (window.getSelection ? window.getSelection() : document.getSelection ? document.getSelection() : document.selection.createRange().text); if (!q) q = prompt("Please enter a Twitter handle", ""); if (q!=null) location="http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:https://twitter.com/" + escape(q).replace(/ /g, "+"); void 0
javascript:q = "" + (window.getSelection ? window.getSelection() : document.getSelection ? document.getSelection() : document.selection.createRange().text); if (!q) q = prompt("Please enter a Twitter handle", ""); if (q!=null) location="https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://twitter.com/" + escape(q).replace(/ /g, "+"); void 0
javascript:q = "" + (window.getSelection ? window.getSelection() : document.getSelection ? document.getSelection() : document.selection.createRange().text); if (!q) q = prompt("Please enter a Twitter handle", ""); if (q!=null) location="https://archive.md/https://twitter.com/" + escape(q).replace(/ /g, "+"); void 0
javascript:var u = window.location.protocol + '//' + window.location.host + window.location.pathname; var l = document.getElementsByTagName("link"); for (var i = 0; i < l.length; i ++) { if (l[i].getAttribute('rel') === 'canonical') {u = l[i].getAttribute('href')}}; window.open('https://twitter.com/search?q=' + encodeURIComponent(u) + '&src=paulmwatson');
All via [Wayback/Archive] twitter bookmarklet – Google Search.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/03/14
I need to try [Wayback/Archive] Live Share – Visual Studio Marketplace and get a feel for how it is to live share code: is it a way of working that fits me well?
This installs Live Share for Visual Studio Code:
code --install-extension MS-vsliveshare.vsliveshare code --install-extension MS-vsliveshare.vsliveshare-pack
The second extension is for [Wayback/Archive] Live Share Extension Pack – Visual Studio Marketplace, which got released about a year after the first one.
Live Share was introduced in 2017, a period when most of my work was outside the Visual Studio realm, Visual Studio Code was just starting to gain momentum over Atom (which was mul multi-platform editor of choice back then; I wrote about it in a few blog posts), and my then main development environment did not allow live sharing at all. so I missed all this (:
For my reading list:
Uses search queries:
The first query was my initial goal to accomplish, but I rather have the markdown files available off-line, so these did not help:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/03/13
The links found via [Wayback/Archive] macos kernel_task high cpu dual screen – Google Search were daunting.
In the end, the issue ways way easier to fix than I thought: open up your Intel MacBook (you need pentalobe screwdrivers for that), then with some compressed air, clean the dust (especially from the fans).
This post saved my day [Wayback/Archive] kernel_task takes up 500% of my CPU when plugging in external monitor – MacBook Pro 15″ Retina Display Mid 2015 – iFixit
Things I haven’t tried yet:
- Cleaning out more free space from HDD
- Using plain HDMI cable into the HDMI cable port
- Taking MBP apart and cleaning any potential dust
…
I faced the very same issue that you guys are facing and based on input from another forum decided to get my 2016 MPB fans cleaned out.
This made an immediate impact where when I connected my external display to the MBP.pre-cleaning, it would overheat causing the fans to spin at 6000 rpm or thereabout and the kernel_task would eat up 500%-900% of the CPU rending the system unusable.
This simple cleanup of the fans has allowed me to connect the monitor with no kernel panic anymore and even though the fans run around 5000 rpm now the CPU and GPU are running around 10 degrees cooler now.
The same picture is in [Wayback/Archive] macos – MacBook Pro high CPU with external monitors – Ask Different.
An even dirtier MacBook was at [Wayback/Archive] External Display – High CPU Usage – MacBo… – Apple Community.
Links that were interesting but unhelpful:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/03/10
The jvc compulik cables are mono 1/8 inch miniplugs. You can get them at radio shack. Hope this helps.
I’ve got an ancient JVC CD player hooked up to an old JVC receiver. The cable, which came original with the CD player, looks like mono mini-jack to me. The CD player advertises itself as Compu Link-1 and the receiver advertises itself as Compu Link-3, and the both function as expected.
I can’t help you with the configuration, but you should have the right cables and Compu Link is at least partly backwards compatable.
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 