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John Scott-Railton on X: “Where are the Quote Tweets? 1️⃣ Find & click the tiny dots 2️⃣ Navigate this cumbersome menu 3️⃣ Marvel at the deliberate enshittification of Twitter 4️⃣ Ponder whether this change is because someone didn’t enjoy getting ratioed.”

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/14

[Wayback/Archive] John Scott-Railton on X: “Where are the Quote Tweets? 1️⃣ Find & click the tiny dots 2️⃣ Navigate this cumbersome menu 3️⃣ Marvel at the deliberate enshittification of Twitter 4️⃣ Ponder whether this change is because someone didn’t enjoy getting ratioed.”

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Help:Two-factor authentication – Wikipedia

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/06

For my link archive as this page contains instructions to request 2FA privileges at Wikipedia: [Wayback/Archive] Help:Two-factor authentication – Wikipedia

Checking whether 2FA is enabled

To determine whether your account has 2FA enabled, go to Special:Preferences. Under “Basic information”, check the entry for “Two-factor authentication”, which should be between “Global account” and “Global preferences”:

Viewing m:Steward requests/Global permissions#Requests for 2 Factor Auth tester permissions is possible to do without being logged on at Wikipedia, but for requesting the 2FA permission and accessing Special:Preferences you need to be logged on.

Visit [Wayback/Archive] Steward requests/Global permissions/2018-12 – Meta and look for “OATH tester” for some examples of motivations for requesting.

–jeroen

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Email Handling and vBulletin Cloud – vBulletin Community Forum

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/25

For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] Email Handling and vBulletin Cloud – vBulletin Community Forum.

  • Asking your end users to white list your email address and the Sendgrid IP (167.89.58.99) can help alleviate the issues.

I didn’t know the above but bumped into an issue because I didn’t know a supplier had moved to vBulletin Cloud, my account password stopped being accepted and my account password reset messages would not arrive.

So I wrote this as part of a mail to sort this out, and it was confirmed to be correct:

Then I re-checked a few connection refusals that appeared close to the password reset tries. Not sure if this a pattern, but a few of them had this:
2022-02-20T19:41:42.999415+01:00 snap sendmail[24314]: NOQUEUE: connect from o1678958x99.outbound-mail.sendgrid.net [167.89.58.99]
2022-02-20T19:41:43.015958+01:00 snap sendmail[24314]: NOQUEUE: dns 99.58.89.167.bl.spamcop.net. => 127.0.0.2
2022-02-20T19:41:43.016442+01:00 snap sendmail[24314]: ruleset=check_relay, arg1=o1678958x99.outbound-mail.sendgrid.net, arg2=127.0.0.2, relay=o1678958x99.outbound-mail.sendgrid.net [167.89.58.99], reject=553 5.3.0 Spam blocked see: http://spamcop.net/bl.shtml?167.89.58.99
2022-02-20T19:42:29.527789+01:00 snap sendmail[23814]: 21KIeTfo023814: engine10.uptimerobot.com [69.162.124.231] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA
From the linked page I got to https://www.spamcop.net/w3m?action=blcheck&ip=167.89.58.99 indicating

167.89.58.99 listed in bl.spamcop.net (127.0.0.2)

If there are no reports of ongoing objectionable email from this system it will be delisted automatically in approximately 13 hours.

Causes of listing
  • System has sent mail to SpamCop spam traps in the past week (spam traps are secret, no reports or evidence are provided by SpamCop)

Express-delisting is not available

Listing History

In the past 44.4 days, it has been listed 12 times for a total of 13.3 days

Can you check if the forum software uses sendgrid?

The confirmation linked to the first post in this blog entry on how to whitelist the SendGrid outgoing IP-address.

One thing I wonder: why does SendGrid use a single outgoing IP-address? If it gets blacklisted, many of their clients have problems.

Anyway: before adding the entry to my whitelist, the problem had resolved itself, and the blacklist entries were done:

Related: [Wayback/Archive] Forum Move – Scooter Forums

We’ve moved our forums to vBulletin Cloud.

New forum URL: https://forum.scootersoftware.com/

Links to the old forum will be redirected to the new URL.

If you notice any problems after the move, please let us know.

[Wayback/Archive] Forums – Scooter Forums

–jeroen

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Some notes on the WordPress Press-This bookmarklet

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/23

I want to improve my WordPress blogging experience especially since most of the pages I link also have two extra links of the archived pages in the Wayback Machine and Archive.is.

The WordPress Press-This bookmarklet does not always cut it. It is slow too as it does a POST request to the WordPress site which then renders a new page.

It is also highly minified, so below are some links that will hopefully allow me to research it further to see if I either could improve it for my own workflow, or need to start from scratch.

I want to figure out:

  • what the values of the v= version parameter were (I know about v=8 and v=4, there are likely more)
  • which commits were involved
  • can I get more information (like summary, first heading or first paragraph of a page too)
  • what techniques are used for opening new windows/tabs

TODO: make diffs of the various versions

–jeroen

Posted in Bookmarklet, Development, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Power User, Scripting, SocialMedia, Software Development, Web Browsers, Web Development, WordPress, WordPress | Leave a Comment »

Burninator Sec: Twitter Removed the Blocked Account Export – Let’s Put it Back!

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/18

Hoping I can still use the Twitter API to perform thousands of requests: [Wayback/Archive] Burninator Sec: Twitter Removed the Blocked Account Export – Let’s Put it Back!

I dug around in the Data Archive and eventually found block.js, which is a JSON object of all the blocked accounts in their ideas. From there you can write a quick Python script to use the Twitter API to resolve all of those IDs to usernames.

Related: [Wayback/Archive] How to download your Twitter archive and Tweets | Twitter Help.

Via [Wayback/Archive] twitter export blocklist – Google Search and

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WhatsApp Help Center – How to use broadcast lists

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/18

Cool, did not know this and used readonly groups (with one writer) for this before: [Wayback/Archive] WhatsApp Help Center – How to use broadcast lists

Via: [Archive] Sylvia on Twitter: “Ik wist nooit van t bestaan van verzendlijsten op whapp. Zusje kwam er gisteravond mee. Ging wereld voor mij open. Ideaal in deze situatie. Gewoon 1 bericht er uit en hele familie en vriendenkring is op de hoogte.”

–jeroen

 

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Youtube – Extract Meta Data – Amnesty International

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/16

Cool that Amnesty International can do a YouTube [Wayback/Archive] Extract Meta Data (Amnesty International).

Via:

I wonder if I can write a Bookmarklet for this (it will likely require an HTTP POST request).

–jeroen

Posted in Development, HTML, JavaScript/ECMAScript, LifeHacker, Power User, Privacy, Scripting, SocialMedia, Software Development, Web Development, YouTube | Leave a Comment »

Interesting: analytics.twitter.com

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/03

I didn’t know about analytics.twitter.com. It cannot be archived in the WayBack machine or Archive Today (because of http 307 redirects without a logged on Twitter account), but it gives analytics of your past twitter behaviour.

The about link does archive though: [Wayback/Archive] Twitter Analytics: about.

Via [Archive] An on Twitter: “@Walrathis al even gekeken op analytics.twitter.com?” / Twitter

–jeroen

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Characters you need to escape in the Title of a WordPress post

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/07/18

I forgot to post this: [Wayback/Archive] Which characters need to be escaped in HTML? – Stack Overflow

If you’re inserting text content in your document in a location where text content is expected1, you typically only need to escape the same characters as you would in XML. Inside of an element, this just includes the entity escape ampersand & and the element delimiter less-than and greater-than signs < >:
& becomes &amp;
< becomes &lt;
> becomes &gt;

I didn’t quote further, as this bit is somehow important for WordPress posts. WordPress reminded me the hard way when initially these posts were wrongly titled:

Warning:

It also means the “Press This” bookmarklet always gets unescaped plain text wrong. Watch this when selecting text for blogging and check if the selected text actually got into your post fine.

Thanks [Wayback/Archive] Ahmet for asking the above question and [Wayback/Archive] Jeremy for answering it.

–jeroen

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@b0rk (Julia Evans): SPF & DKIM records

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/07/17

A nice zine by @b0rk (Julia Evans) [Wayback/Archive.is] SPF & DKIM records

And a few days later [Archive] 🔎Julia Evans🔍 on Twitter: “… looks like a really nice way to learn about SPF/DKIM (h/t @CubicleApril) you send it an email and it walks you through everything the receiver does to verify the email …” / Twitter which referred to

[Wayback/Archive] Learn and Test DMARC.

Related:

Via: [Archive] 🔎Julia Evans🔍 on Twitter: “SPF & DKIM records …” / Twitter (the original got deleted as it had a [Archive] typo)

–jeroen

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