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Beeper — All your chats in one app

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/13

[Wayback/Archive] Beeper — All your chats in one app

Via a friend that mentioned Beeper to me.

On the list to try out somewhere during the year.

It is open source; some more links:

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Meredith Whittaker on X: “Facebook messages turned over by the company served as key evidence used to convict Jessica Burgess and her daughter. E2E encryption keeps people safe.”

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/24

This is why you don’t use Facebook Messenger (and use E2E encrypted messengers):

[Wayback/Archive] US mother sentenced to two years in prison for giving daughter abortion pills | Nebraska | The Guardian

Court documents in the case revealed that Facebook’s parent company Meta supplied police with the private Facebook messages that Celeste and Jessica Burgess had sent one another. In one message, Celeste told Jessica: “Remember we burn the evidence.”

Via

  1. [Waybacksave/Archive] Meredith Whittaker on X: “Facebook messages turned over by the company served as key evidence used to convict Jessica Burgess and her daughter. E2E encryption keeps people safe.”
  2. [Wayback/Archive] Max Burns on X: “People scoffed and said it was overdramatic to say that overturning Roe v. Wade would mean putting women in prison. Welcome to the new America. Nebraska Mom Who Gave Teen Daughter Abortion Pills Sentenced To Two Years In Prison”
  3. [Wayback/Archive] Nebraska Mom Who Gave Teen Daughter Abortion Pills Sentenced To Two Years In Prison

–jeroen

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Elon loves burning equity. TechCrunch: Twitter now requires an account to view tweets

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/07/01

In other news since yesterday [Wayback/Archive] Twitter now requires an account to view tweets | TechCrunch

Like many of Twitter’s recent changes, this could easily backfire. If tweets aren’t publicly accessible, search engine algorithms could rank the site’s content lower, meaning that fewer people would be directed to the site from Google.

This not only hampers SEO, but any anonymous access to tweets resulting in Twitter to have become a walled garden without any prior announcement.

As of yesterday, this for instance makes it way harder for researchers to access Twitter in a non-biased way (the Twitter Algorithm will always bias the timeline for an account). It also prohibits the Wayback Machine from archiving Tweets (which I rightnow cannot archive):

https://twitter.com/jpluimers/status/1675070261274484736

Twitter is now more restricted than LinkedIn or Facebook, so I think it is a next step of burning the Twitter Equity to the ground followed after many other steps scaring Twitter users away, for instance as of:

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Facebook id numbers

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/02/01

Shortly after one of the many Facebook breaches, Miko from F-Secure posted this:

Mark Zuckerberg’s own data is in the Facebook leak. His Facebook ID number is 4.

There are no user IDs 0-3.

The only other single-digit user IDs in the leak seem to be:

  • ID 5: Chris Hughes
  • ID 6: Dustin Moskovitz

Other early facebook users include:

  • ID 11 Soleio Soleio
  • ID 27 Colin Kelly
  • ID 74 Daniel Mejia
  • ID 86 Jason Wen
  • ID 87 Emily Hurd
  • ID 102 Alex Lee
  • ID 104 Amy Ng
  • ID 139 Jeff Winer
  • ID 158 Teresa Grado
  • ID 185 Zach Seward
  • ID 210 Adam Levine
  • ID 287 Peter Buttigieg

And yes, they all have a phone number listed in the leak. That includes Mr. Zuckerberg.

Also, the Winklevoss brothers are not in the leak. (Source: [Wayback/Archive] https://threader.app/thread/1378694432652939264?s=09)

I wonder how you would get the Facebook ID of an account (for instance your own account).

–jeroen

PS: Since Threader died after writing this post, the above thread is now at WayBack: ThreadReaderApp, Archive: ThreadReaderApp, ThreadReaderApp, and [Archive] Twitter.

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For my link archive: Facebook banned me for life because I created the tool Unfollow Everything.

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/08/23

For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive.is] Facebook banned me for life because I created the tool Unfollow Everything.

Via:

Related:

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Need to revisit osquery: SQL powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics supports more platforms and also aggregates to central log locations

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/01/18

Almost two years ago, GitHub – facebook/osquery: SQL powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics published from the automatic blog queue.

It was in the midst of my rectum cancer treatment, so I was glad the blog queue back then was still about 18 months deep.

This meant I looked into osquery in 2018, which I remember because I needed it on MacOS as I did not want to remember the syntax for MacOS specific commands on getting system information. It also coincides with how much my repository fork was behind: [Wayback: jpluimers/osquery commits/Archive: jpluimers/osquery commits].

Fast forward to now, the breath of systems I’m involved with has widened, so I was glad to see that Kristian Köhntopp mentioned it:

So time to try it again (:

The links he mentioned:

  • [Wayback/Archive] Welcome to osquery – osquery

    osquery is an operating system instrumentation framework for Windows, OS X (macOS), Linux, and FreeBSD. The tools make low-level operating system analytics and monitoring both performant and intuitive.

  • [Wayback/Archive] Welcome to osquery – osquery: High Level Features
    The high-performance and low-footprint distributed host monitoring daemon, osqueryd, allows you to schedule queries to be executed across your entire infrastructure. The daemon takes care of aggregating the query results over time and generates logs which indicate state changes in your infrastructure. You can use this to maintain insight into the security, performance, configuration, and state of your entire infrastructure. osqueryd‘s logging can integrate into your internal log aggregation pipeline, regardless of your technology stack, via a robust plugin architecture.
    The interactive query console, osqueryi, gives you a SQL interface to try out new queries and explore your operating system. With the power of a complete SQL language and dozens of useful tables built-in, osqueryi is an invaluable tool when performing incident response, diagnosing a systems operations problem, troubleshooting a performance issue, etc.
  • [Wayback/Archive] osqueryd (daemon) – osquery
  • [Wayback/Archive] osqueryi (shell) – osquery
  • [Wayback/Archive] Aggregating Logs – osquery
  • [Wayback/Archive] AWS Logging – osquery

Main site: [Wayback/Archive] osquery | Easily ask questions about your Linux, Windows, and macOS infrastructure

Repository: [Wayback/Archive] osquery/osquery: SQL powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics.

–jeroen

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Security questions are evil because of social media “games” phishing for them

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/01/11

Via [Archive.is] Jilles Groenendijk on Twitter: “what @AppSecBloke said… “, from:

I don’t normally do this but here goes:

First job STOP
Current job SENDING
Dream Job YOUR
Favorite food POTENTIAL
Favorite dog PASSWORDS
Favorite footwear OR
Favorite Chocolate bar MEMORABLE
Favorite Ice Cream DATA
Your Vehicle color TO
Favorite Holiday PEOPLE
Night owl or earlybird WHO
Favorite day of the week COLLECT
Tattoos THIS
Favourite colour INFORMATION
Do you like vegetables FOR
Do you wear glasses SOCIAL
Favourite season ENGINEERING

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Abel Wang, a true legend, is gone.

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/07/30

Hopefully my response to his spouse was appropriate enough:

Thanks for this tribute. It’s amazing, lovely, wonderful, all at the same time.

Abel is one of the persons that I would have loved to meet in real life.

I’m forever grateful that Scott Hanselman got me into touch with Abel Wang. Abel informed and motivated me. After that we stayed in touch every now and then about being ill and how to deal with that.

I had to contemplate for a while as this hit me harder than I thought, especially given the “always positive Abel” he is in my – and many others’ – minds.

So to all his close ones: remember the positivity and try to be like that. Abel expects that from us.

Glad I could send him some good thoughts last week, and miss him already.

Related twitter links (Image by Donavan Brown) as my memory still is not what it used to be:

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WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram are down (:

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/03/19

[Archive.is] Whatsapp down or not working? Live status, problems and outages. | Downdetector


[Archive.is] Facebook down? Current problems and status. | Downdetector

[Archive.is] Instagram down? Current status and problems | Downdetector

 

–jeroen

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Downloading Facebook videos as mp4 files in both mobile and HD quality for offline viewing

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/02/22

Videos from the above links below the sig.

–jeroen

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