Posted by jpluimers on 2022/05/27
A while ago [Archive.is] Adam Jacob on Twitter: “Let’s say nice things about technology today. I’ll start. If it wasn’t for @lkanies and @puppetize, there is no way we would have been able to adapt as an industry to the rise of the cloud. Quote tweet me with your own.” sparked some interesting threads.
First posts are below; click on them to see the full threads.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/25
When downloading Windows 10 builds, I usually want them as ISO files because I test them out as Virtual Machines before running on real hardware.
Downloading can be done from [WayBack] www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10, however what you get depends on what machine you start browsing.
The above WayBack link, because it got archived from a non-Windows machine redirects from https://web.archive.org/web/20210321163339/https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 to https://web.archive.org/web/20210321143203/https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO.
On Windows systems the redirect goes from https://web.archive.org/web/20210321143203/https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO to https://web.archive.org/web/20210321163339/https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
By default, when you are on a Windows machine, the download link only provides the Media Creation tool. This forces an extra step into getting the ISO file on the virtual machine host.
When downloading from a non-Windows machine, you get a possibility to download the ISO file directly after selecting which kind of build and language you need. This provides you with a time limited https link to download the ISO (in practice this seems to last at least an hour).
I didn’t dig into this before, but luckily others did, and the difference is as easy as changing the User-Agent in your browser, as these posts describe:
Luckily, since ESXi 6.7, VMware ESXi added https as protocol to wget, so now you can download the https link you get via the above trick without hassle.
Oh, this answers my question from a few years back too: How can I get Win10_1511_1_English_x64.iso or Win10_1511_1_EnglishInternational_x64.iso ?
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/22
I an with [Wayback] Craig Buckler to consider Dark Patterns being wider than the strict sense.
For me anything that costs a user extra time or makes accessibility harder is a Dark Pattern.
So I agree with the issues he explains at [Wayback] The Web’s Most Annoying Dark Patterns – SitePoint
Does the web delight or displease you? Craig lists his least favourite UI and marketing dark patterns. Have you developed on the dark side?
Paste is enabled, but does not function
Having had RSI, I’m dependent on keeping my hands and arms in good shape. This means minimising the use of pointing devices and also trying to minimise typing.
In addition, I have heavily segmented my use of email addresses (among others for cutting down SPAM). Basically any point of contact gets a new email address.
This means I realy on tooling like password managers and email address generators. It means copying and pasting information.
So I bumped into a web-site that disallowed pasting the (unique and long!) email address into the email verification field.
[Archive.is] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “The @olvg #mijnOLVG site is now on my Dark Patterns list as they make #accessibility harder by blocking pasting into the email address verification field. Blocking the paste-blocker. CC some people advocating mijnolvg.nl @MauricevdBosch @ronklitsie63 @kyntha”
Despite the popup menu, paste didn’t work. Chrome autofill did, but didn’t have the information for this particular (new and unique) email address yet, so could not be used yet.
It is relatively easy to disable a paste block. In this case, I was using chrome, but this can be done with any browser. Some browsers even have optional extensions that can do this for you.
In the case of Chrome, when right clicking, there is an “Inspect” option
Inspect is enabled and actually works.
It inspects the current element, which on this site looks like this:
The element does not contain event handlers. But the code hooks them behind our backs.
On the “Event Listeners” tab on the right, you can see there are two JavaScript methods hooked to the paste handler:
The paste handlers. The first is OK, the second blocks paste.
The first one is OK, though I did not really look into what the proxy does.
Second paste event handler: remove this one.
First paste event handler: keep this one.
The second is not OK, as it effectively prevents the event from being handled any further at all by calling preventDefault
Second paste event handler: remove this one.
- [Wayback] Event.preventDefault() – Web APIs | MDN
The Event interface’s preventDefault() method tells the user agent that if the event does not get explicitly handled, its default action should not be taken as it normally would be.
By clicking on the second Remove button above, the paste blocker is gone and you can paste again.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/01/20
For quite some time now, Chrome (think years) refuses to prompt for saving passwords whereas Firefox and Safari do prompt and save them, even for site types that it used to save passwords for in the past.
It has been annoying enough for too long now that I tried to do better than the Google searches I used back when I saw this happen first.
Below are some links based on new searches (starting with [Wayback] adding a password in chrome settings – Google Search); hopefully I can try them after I made a list of sites that Chrome does not show the password save prompt for.
Solutions I tried that failed (but maybe useful for others):
input field being marked with type="password", and if not add it.Solutions still to try:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/01/14
If use the Chrome web browser, it’s fairly likely you will find Chrome autofill suggestions recommending things for various forms and text entry points. Sometimes those autofill suggestions c…
[Wayback] How to Delete Specific Chrome Autofill Suggestions
Most important are the steps:
- Open the related website which has a form entry where autofill suggestions appear
- Start typing so that the suggestion shows up as an option in Chrome
- Using the keyboard arrows, navigate down the suggestion list to the item(s) you want to remove from the Chrome autofill suggestions
- With the suggestion highlighted, use the appropriate keystroke sequence to delete the Chrome suggestion:
- Mac:
Shift+FN+Delete- Windows:
Shift+Delete- Chromebook / Chrome OS:
Alt+Shift+Delete- Repeat with other suggestions to delete if desired
Via: [WayBack] edit google chrome autocomplete list – Google Search
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 