Posted by jpluimers on 2022/07/28
Easiest way to video call from your PC via WhatsApp is to use [Wayback/Archive] WhatsApp: Download – Mac or Windows PC.
This should be an alternative for Hangouts Video Calling as Hangouts is yet another product killed by Google as mentioned in many places for instance:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/07/20
I have seen this work on some mobile devices for some accounts but not yet in the web-userinterface at http://www.twitter.com or mobile.twitter.com
[Wayback/Archive] Twitter Safety on Twitter: “Sometimes you want to see yourself out. Take control of your mentions and leave a conversation with Unmentioning, now rolling out to everyone on all devices.”
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/06/21
If you are still on Atom, try to see if other cross platform open source editors suit your needs.
Myself, I have moved to Visual Studio Code quite some time ago as, though based on Electron – the core of Atom, it is way faster and much better supported than Atom.
The official announcement is at [Wayback/Archive] Sunsetting Atom | The GitHub Blog.
Various sites reported it in different phrasings:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/05/19
Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day, so it is a good day to write about a Twitter bot that tries to coerce people in having more accessible Twitter names and messages.
I knew I made a bookmark of [Wayback/Archive] Jacques Favreau on Twitter: “@Conundrum9999 @asciiArtHelpBot will make a little video of reading these things if anybody wants to try it out on a tweet.”
But when searching for it earlier this month, I could not find it (see below how in the end I did find it back).
The tweet was part of a thread that started with this tweet which very well describes why you should refrain from using fancy characters in Tweets or Twitter names:
[Wayback/Archive] Katie Mixtochtli – read my pinned – use alt text on Twitter: “Why you should avoid symbols and nonstandard letters in your twitter name if you want to be screen reader friendly: #DisabilityTwitter #disabilityinclusion Read on to see how “𝕁𝕒𝕞𝕖𝕤 – ʷʰᵉʳᵉ ⁱˢ ᵗʰᵉ ᵖʳᵒᵗᵉˢᵗ – ℂ𝕣𝕠𝕩𝕥𝕠𝕟 liked your reply” sounds to me 👇🏼”
The thread contains the long text you get when a screen reader reads that tweet. A video of that is below, and I saved the thread at [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @Conundrum9999 on Thread Reader App:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/04/08
(English link for OSINT video/photo checking at the bottom of the post)
[Wayback/Archive] Peter Burger on Twitter: “Zo check je waar die foto vandaan komt: foto’s controleren met een paar muisklikken.”
Met voorbeeld video’s hoe je dit met foto’s kunt doen, en een wat langere YouTube video hoe je dat ook met video kunt doen via [Wayback/Archive] Peter Burger on Twitter: “@ManoelServal Hebben we net een video over gemaakt! …”
[Wayback/Archive] Hoe check je video’s? – YouTube
Soms kom je op internet video’s tegen waarvan je denkt: klopt dat wel? In deze video van Nieuwscheckers zie je hoe je heel simpel kan controleren waar een video vandaan komt. http://www.nieuwscheckers.nl
Verderop in de replies een eenvoudige manier om video’s terug te vinden [Wayback/Archive] Peter Burger on Twitter: “@CarelBrendel Met gewoon screenshots maken en dan reverse image search kom je vaak een heel eind. Wil je meer dan is er speciaal voor video de Amnesty YouTube Data Viewer en vooral de geweldige plugin van Invid: …”:
[Wayback/Archive] InVID Verification Plugin – InVID project
A plugin to debunk fake news and to verify videos and images
It is available on that page for both Firefox and Chrome.
Via:
The last link also pointed to a tweet English content on tracing the source of video/photo material [Wayback/Archive] Jan Vergouwe on Twitter: “Ook benieuwd wat je zou kunnen doen om te checken of een foto of video nep of echt is? Een goed te volgen (in Engels wel) introductie…”
[Wayback/Archive] Shayan Sardarizadeh on Twitter: “Are you keen to learn how to use free, open source tools to investigate and verify videos and images online? @_kRaay @BenDoBrown @paulybrown and I have made a video with some tips about how we in @BBCNews verify online content. You might actually like it! …”
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/28
Suddenly, a while ago, because of a stuck modifier key I suddenly had the WordPress classic editor running in full screen without any indication to go back, nor an opportunity to save the content.
It wasn’t the usual “Shift-Alt-W” [Wayback] Distraction Free Writing – Make WordPress Support (which still allows you to hover over the sidebars to make them visible, and has a visual indication of the mode).
After lot’s of trying, I figured out the toggle “Shift-Ctrl-F” toggles between normal and full screen mode. It seems unavailable in the new editor, so that might be a reason ([Wayback] Keyboard Shortcuts | WordPress.org)
The shortcut is odd too, as in most tooling “Ctrl-F” modifications like “Shift-Ctrl-F” have something to do with find or replace operations.
It was quite tough finding any reference to this shortcut, as my initial search revealed none: [Wayback] “WordPress” “Shift-Ctrl-F” full screen – Google Search.
Later I reversed the modifiers in [Wayback] “WordPress” “Ctrl-Shift-F” full screen – Google Search and found [Wayback] How to disable non-system hotkeys on Windows – gHacks Tech News
Simple Disable Key is a free software program for Microsoft Windows devices that enables you to block non-system hotkeys.
…
Not all hotkeys are useful however. When I work on a WordPress site for instance, I sometimes press the shortcut Ctrl-Shift-F by accident. This switches the editor to full screen view which I never use.
First time I invoked the full screen editor I had to look up the shortcut as I could not reproduce it.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/21
Quite often, but at unpredictable intervals and durations, twitter.com/i/timeline fails.
I finally got the right search terms for this, so via [Wayback] twitter search your timeline – Google Search I found [Wayback] How to search your Twitter timeline | iMore.
The alternative:
Their trick is to filter your tweets on filter:follows filter:nativeretweets, then order by latest (the f=live bit below).
Direct web-link: twitter.com/search?q=filter%3Afollows%20filter%3Anativeretweets&src=typed_query&f=live
For me, this filter seems to work better: filter:follows -filter:replies -filter:nativeretweets as it allows me to easily include or exclude retweets.
Direct URL: twitter.com/search?q=filter%3Afollows%20-filter%3Areplies%20-filter%3Anativeretweets&src=typed_query&f=live
I bolded a few bits above for readability; below you can see how the URI is formed from the filter parts:
| filter part | URI part | notes |
|---|---|---|
twitter.com/search?q= |
base of URI | |
filter:follows |
filter%3Afollows |
show tweets of people you follow |
%20 |
encoded space | |
filter:nativeretweets |
filter%3Anativeretweets |
only show new-style retweets |
& |
URI parameter separator | |
src=typed_query |
tells Twitter this is a “filter” | |
f=live |
the “filter” is “Latest” tweets (without this, it is “Top” tweets) | |
-filter:replies |
-filter%3Areplies |
do not show replies (those are in your regular “notifications” already) |
-filter:nativeretweets |
-filter%3Anativeretweets |
do not show new-style retweets |
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/18
For my link list as WordPress.com is actively hiding them:
?classic-editor or &classic-editor to outgoing links in order to forego the Gutenbeg editor)/ slashes in categories: it hangs while saving those)You can see the old versus new infrastructure by comparing these branches:
WordPress.com does not have the “Classic Editor” plugin, but just gradually discourages use of the old infrastructure which is far more feature rich, thereby screwing old users.
Some of these features from the old infrastructure that are gone (despite the pretentious name of the Gutenberg editor):
For reference, WordPress – Wikipedia: Gutenberg versus classic-editor:
WordPress 5.0 “Bebo”[edit]
The December 2018 release of WordPress 5.0, “Bebo”, is named in homage to the pioneering Cuban jazz musician Bebo Valdés.[90]
It included a new default editor “Gutenberg” – a block-based editor; it allows users to modify their displayed content in a much more user friendly way than prior iterations. Blocks are abstract units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a web page.[91] Past content that was created on WordPress pages is listed under what is referred to as a Classic Block.[92] Prior to Gutenberg, there were several block-based editors available as WordPress plugins, e.g. Elementor, and following the release of Gutenberg Elementor was compared to existing plugins.[93][94]
Classic Editor plugin[edit]
The Classic Editor Plugin was created as a result of User preferences and helped website developers maintain past plugins only compatible with WordPress 4.9.8, giving plugin developers time to get their plugins updated & compatible with the 5.0 release. Having the Classic Editor plugin installed restores the “classic” editing experience that WordPress has had up until the WordPress 5.0 release.[95] The Classic Editor Plugin will be supported at least until 2022.[96]
The Classic Editor plugin is active on over 5,000,000 installations of WordPress.[97]
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/15
On my research list: [Wayback/Archive.is] How to access Archive.org’s Google+ communities archive? : googleplus, as there are so many interesting programming related posts there.
The main takeaway is that in order to access an archived Google+ post, you need to know or be able to reconstruct the canonical URL with language specifier to the Google+ post, see the comment in the first related link below.
It looks that for my archived profile links Wayback – Google+: Jeroen Wiert Pluimers (UUID) / Wayback – Google+: Jeroen Wiert Pluimers (user name) only some 30 links were archived directly through the WayBack save-as feature based on my UUID and some 250 based on my username profile:
. Hopefully more
Some related links:
dredmorbius Author of the article you’ve linked.
Unfortunately, no, there’s not a really good way of finding content on the Internet Archive’s WBM, unless you already know the URL(s) you’re looking for.
Keep in mind that:
Not everything got captured. I’ve been having a discussion with another G+ user over this, and spot-checking multiple URLs finds no archive of many.
There are several variants of G+ post URLs. You want the one with the 20-digit numeric UUID, and NOT the “vanity url” +FirstnameLastname format.
Also strip out any instances of
/u/[0-9]+/within the URL. E.g., if you see “https://plus.google.com/u/0/<UUID>”, change that to “https://plus.google.com/<UUID>” (where UUID is the numeric user string).User profile homepages are frequently archived, but the visible posts cannot themselves be opened. This is … unfortunate.
Similarly: only the first page of an infinite scroll of User, Brand, Collection, Community, etc., pages is captured. Unless there are multiple captures over time, you’re not going to get a full user history there.
Generally, your best bet is to have some link to G+ content that you can convert to the appropriate format as Internet Archive might have saved, and check to see if it’s stored. Again, this is tedious, though at least in many cases, useful.
There’s a list of some of the more notable G+ users and Communities at PlexodusWiki which may also be helpful in tracking down specific references.
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Also: it turns out that slight variations in URL format can mean you do or don’t find a page.
I just ran into this trying to track down a post and discovered that the URL arguments — here a language specifier — are critical in returning the intended post.
Discussion: https://mastodon.cloud/@dredmorbius/103592826938741244
The fully qualified G+ URL is found: https://web.archive.org/web/20190325032955/https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/4REjF1smHpE?hl=en
But stripping off
?hl=en, even when wildcarded, is not:https://web.archive.org/web/2019*/https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/4REjF1smHpE
Unfortunately, the IA’s WBM requires JS to return content, which means that simple means of testing with common shell tools in scripts (allowing a large number of candidate URIs to be checked quickly) isn’t possible.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/08
The [Wayback/Archive] Embarcadero/IDERA Documentation Wiki has been mostly down since March 3rd, 2022 (not the main page, but almost all other pages are).
I modified [Wayback/Archive] Docwiki https – EmbarcaderoMonitoring to show the actual status of a deeper page as the (mostly static) top page is up, so monitoring that is useless as the deeper pages are down.
The deeper pages are dynamic and require a functioning MySQL database connection. That connection is mostly down (the error message is not clear, so this could be a network or a database server problem, or maybe even a loadbalancer gradually entering bit heaven).
Since it had been down for like 6 days in February*, I’d expect Idera to keep an eye on it and prepare for more downtime. Apparently that’s either not a 24×7 thing for them or they missed the “pre” in preparation as it is dead-silent on .
It also runs on an unsupported version of Mediawiki 1.31** which by itself does not explain the outage, but does indicate that their idea of handling their internal lifetime management is different than what they advocate to clients in their software subscription model, see [Wayback/Archive] Delphi – Embarcadero store, [Wayback/Archive] Update Subscription – Embarcadero and [Wayback/Archive] Special Offers on RAD Studio, Delphi & C++Builder – Embarcadero:
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