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All the Cyber Ladies: Een podcast voor, door en over vrouwen in cybersecurity. – PodcastFeed

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/06/20

Een ontzettend belangrijke podcast is [Wayback/Archive] All the Cyber Ladies – PodcastFeed

Een podcast voor, door en over vrouwen in cybersecurity.

Ik mis geregeld de periode van 30-35 jaar terug waarin IT-teams vaak “gewoon” uit 25% vrouwen bestonden. Gemêleerde teams zijn van onschatbare waarde voor goed functionerende IT, niet alleen vanuit oogpunt van #a11y en #inclusie: ook voor information security.

De tijd maakt inmiddels gelukkig een inhaalslag: er komen steeds meer vrouwen in de IT en je merkt gestaag dat teams diverser worden. All the Cyber Ladies draagt eraan bij dat proces binnen information security verder te versnellen.

De podcast is begin juni dit jaar van start gegaan en heeft nu al een trouwe schare volgers die hopelijk verder groeit naarmate Google deze hoger in de zoek-index opneemt.

Uiteraard is er ook een [Wayback/Archive] All the Cyber Ladies – PodcastFeed RSS zodat je die aan je eigen Podcast Player kunt toevoegen (en vaak staat die er al zoals bijvoorbeeld bij [Wayback/Archive] Player.FM: All The Cyber Ladies podcast)

Via [Wayback/Archive] Lucinda on Twitter: “@jpluimers Zeker!! Je kan de podcast in veel andere players vinden. https://t.co/ksUB8Hd7e4” / Twitter.

–jeroen

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Thread by @aakashg0 on Thread Reader App: the Twitter tweet ranking algorithm

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/04/05

Interesting read: [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @aakashg0 on Thread Reader App with this takeaway:

If you take away anything, remember this – the models take in 3 inputs:

• Likes, retweets, replies: engagement data
• Mutes, unfollows, spam reports: user data
• Who follows you: the follower graphImage

Read from the start at [Wayback/Archive] Aakash Gupta 🚀 Product Growth Guy on Twitter: “Twitter revealed its algorithm to the world. But what does it mean for you? I spent the evening analyzing it. Here’s what you need to know:”

The algorithm is at [Wayback/Archive] twitter/the-algorithm: Source code for Twitter’s Recommendation Algorithm.

Via [Wayback/Archive] Andrea on Twitter: “Haha, dát is het dus!” / Twitter

Note: for me the only way to reliably follow people is this: [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers @wiert@mastodon.social on Twitter: “@chrisbensen @geerlingguy @TwitterBlue @elonmusk @tweetbot About the only tweeps I see tweets from on a regular base is the ones I turned notifications on for. It does not matter if they are blue or not. The blue ones tend to post overly large tweets. Those I skip reading.”

–jeroen

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ThreadReaderApp alternatives?

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/03/30

A while ago, Threader died, and about the only alternatives back then seemed to be ThreadReaderApp and Archive Today: Threader is dying: save your content as soon as possible:

The alternatives [Archive] @ThreadReaderApp, [Archive] @WayBackMachine and [Archive] @ArchiveIs for the win (:

In the end that’s not completely true, though they do seem to be the only places where that can be triggered without tweeting a kind of “unroll” response to a thread-to-be-archived.

There are more of the latter kind that were active at the end of 2021 when I queued this post:

This one died a silent death somewhere fall 2020:

This one is registered, but does not reply with unrolls:

A repository I want to check out later: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – the-crib/thread-unroll: Unrolls twitter thread and sends it as a DM to anyone that mentions the bot on the thread.

Finally, some of the helper accounts that ThreadReaderApp uses:

Related: yesterday’s post Some notes on converting Twitter threads/tweets to Markdown.

–jeroen

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English time @engIishtime on Twitter with AltTextCrew alt-text: INFORMAL versus FORMAL English terms

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/03/03

[Archive] Alt Text Crew on Twitter: “@jpluimers Repost parent tweet with extracted text in image descriptions https://t.co/OETTugffrm” / Twitter

INFORMAL FORMAL find out ascertain free release obtain get get in touch with contact It concerns purchase It's about buy keep leave out let retain omit permit examine look at make up fabricate need to required point out put off put up rack up ring up indicate delay tolerate accumulate call orry apologise appear establish seem set up show illustrate show up stand for arrive represent start commence think about consider

The original tweet [Archive] did only contained the image, so here is the OCR of the text:

INFORMAL FORMAL
find out ascertain
free release
get obtain
get in touch with contact
It’s about It concerns
buy purchase
keep retain
leave out omit
let permit
look at examine
make up fabricate
need to required
point out indicate
put off delay
put up tolerate
rack up accumulate
ring up call
orry apologise
seem appear
set up establish
show illustrate
show up arrive
stand for represent
start commence
think about consider

–jeroen

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Reminder to check if Dutch teletext now has RSS or is cached outside nos.nl – (via @Schellevis)

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/02/18

Reminder to self to check out the results of these two tweets:

A few related links, most via [Wayback/Archive] nos teletext rss – Google Search:

The teletext/teletekst feeds are also not on these URLs:

The feeds site seems to be based on Feedburner which is a product that Google seems to be gradually winding down.

Oh: if you have DVB-C or DVB-T, you can filter out the teletext signal and host it. VLC can do the filtering towards a visual teletext representation:

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Exclude replies from official twitter search widget (retweets now seem to be excluded by default)

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/02/10

[Wayback/Archive] Exclude replies from official twitter search widget – Stack Overflow (thanks Willem de Wit):

I found an option to include retweets include:retweets so I tried to change that to exclude:replies and it worked!
My search-string is now: from:account_name exclude:replies

Note that there used to be exclude:retweets, but that seems to be the default for some time now, as per [Wayback/Archive] twitter – Is there a way to filter out retweets? – Web Applications Stack Exchange comment (thanks [Wayback/Archive] jxd):

Correction: the checkbox is missing because using advanced search by username now seems to exclude retweets by default.

–jeroen

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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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The big-4 eavesdropping myth explained

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/01/30

Interesting Dutch thread about the myth that Google, FaceBook, Apple and Amazon are eavesdropping on us in order to send advertisements.

[WayBack] Thread by @danielverlaan: De vraag die ik altijd gesteld krijg: “Luisteren Google en Facebook ons af? Ik had het gisteren over een vakantie naar Portugal, en nu krijg…

Saved from

[Archive.is] Daniël Verlaan on Twitter: “De vraag die ik altijd gesteld krijg: “Luisteren Google en Facebook ons af? Ik had het gisteren over een vakantie naar Portugal, en nu krijg ik er allemaal advertenties over!” Dit is een hardnekkig gerucht waar geen bewijs voor is. Hoe werkt het dan? Een draadje.”

Related: [WayBack] Virtual assistant: voice interaction – Wikipedia

–jeroen

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steven ”italian elon musk” monacelli on Twitter: “Master thread of recent suspensions of left leaning accounts under Elon Musk:” / Twitter

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/12/16

For my link archive:

[Wayback/Archive] steven ”italian elon musk” monacelli on Twitter: “Master thread of recent suspensions of left leaning accounts under Elon Musk:” / Twitter

Oh, and there was this Mastodon fear from uncle Elmo [Wayback/Archive]:

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Great tags: #BugMagnet #IAmATester

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/11/24

I should use the great tags #BugMagnet #IAmATester more often.

Via: [Archive.is] Stephan Kämper on Twitter: “Moin @VIVANI_official, wenn man vom Twitter-Profil auf den Link zur Webseite klick, dann landet man auf einer Login-Seite von @WordPress, nicht beim Impressum, wie es der Link-Text vermuten lässt. #BugMagnet #IchBinEinTester”

–jeroen

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