Posted by jpluimers on 2017/02/10
[WayBack] The 2017 web is bloated and slow, and I am guilty, too. – The Isoblog.
My site on 2G: load time 60 seconds: [Archive.is] WebPagetest Test Result – Dulles : wiert.me – 02/09/17 21:45:23
–jeroen
For Player-FM:
https://plus.google.com/+JeroenPluimers/posts/ASnejgv5M9r
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/01/16
TL;DR: http://www.davidghoyle.co.uk/WordPress/?feed=rss2
Since there is no RSS link on the page [WayBack] Dave’s Development Blog – Software Development using Borland / Codegear / Embarcadero RAD Studio
Since I wanted to follow his “blog” (which is sort of a collection of WordPress pages, mainly about the programming OTA: the Open Tools API interface to Delphi and C++ Builder), I was looking for the RSS feed.
Luckily, Feedly knows how to detect most blogging platforms, so it came up with https://feedly.com/i/subscription/feed/http://www.davidghoyle.co.uk/WordPress/?feed=rss2 which indicates the final bit is the RSS feed URL.
Some interesting links from there:
via: [WayBack] OTA Interface Search 1.1 and GitHub http://www.davidghoyle.co.uk/WordPress/?…
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/11/28
A while ago, I remembered xyzzy by David Bolen: a VAX/VMS program for the BITNET Relay conference system on BITNET/EARN. Yes, relay chat before IRC. Even ELIZA did operate as a chatbot on BITNET Relay.
I was part of it from the late 80s until the early 90s and vividly remember the chat rooms where at one time you could have smart people from all around the world participating: Asia, Middle East, Europe, North America and other regions.
All people had one thing in common: an enthusiastic vibe as they had immediately recognised what the benefits of near instant feedback were. World Wide before you had the WWW. It was addictive too (:
The most important Dutch relay node was HEARN which was named unlike the HNYKUN patterns at the University in Nijmegen (now Radboud Universiteit, but previously known as Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen hence the KUN in the HNYKUN pattern).
I had an account at HLERUL52 (chemistry department) at first, then later at HLERUL5 as well (computer technology department). Only later I got an SMTP email address [Wayback/Archive] jeroenp@rulfc1.leidenuniv.nl.
Anyway: based on the list of Bitnet/Earn links and connections below, you’d think you could plot a route. The example is between me and a cyber friends who – in 1992 – I finally met in real life:
But that table is not the only one, the actual routing tables were generated from [Wayback/Archive/Google] LINKSWT files (see below), which means that HEARN and DEARN had a direct connection collapsing the (expensive) transatlantic steps 3..5 into one.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/11/03
I very often see the captcha. Today Google managed to DoS G+.
It happened right after RDP-ing into my work machine that has like ~100 research related tabs open of which about half are Google hosted pages.
G+ wouldn’t work as those tabs send so many G+ requests that Google effectively did a DoS on G+ for my IP-address and user (switching to another user was fine).
Google doing a DoS on G+ because all the open tabs generate G+ traffic
Later this got simplfied into this:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/11/01
The below is even more convoluted when you have ad-blockers installed: then the G+ integration won’t even appear and the behaviour differs between classic G+ and current G+.
So here are the steps:
Modern G+ settings at https://plus.google.com/settings does not have the above permissions integration link but classic G+ at https://plus.google.com/settings?gmbpt=true&fd=1 does.
via:
Hi there,
I have good news!
A few weeks ago, Google+ made some changes to their API. In doing so introduced some issues with Publicize. The module still worked, but the updates posted by the WordPress app on your Google+ Profile or Google+ Page were only visible to you.
In the past few weeks, we’ve worked with Google+ to start using a new API. That API works just like the old one, with one exception: publicized posts are now public. You can’t change the visibility of publicized posts to “My Circles”, or anything else.
If you’re happy to have Publicize publishing public posts to your Google+ Profile or Page, you can follow the instructions below to delete your old connection, and then reconnect your Jetpack site to your Google+ account:
https://jetpack.com/support/publicize/google/#reconnectingI hope this helps.
Source: Topic: [Resolved] Sharing on Google Plus Private..? Why? « WordPress.org Forums
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/10/31
A few months ago was my first ever presence on IRC wich started like this:
[13:45] bear with me: after BITNET relay chat, I've totally skipped the IRC thing, so [13:46] * jeroenp_ is IRC n00b and wonders if netiquette is roughly the same as in the mid 1990s (: [13:46] jeroenp_: I don't think it changed a lot... [13:46] Cool: /me works on IRC too (: [13:47] Anyone having time to help me with `zypper dup` on Tumbleweed indicating `python3-urllib3-1.16-1.1.noarch requires python(abi) = 3.5` ?
I will post later on my own chat history (including BITNET Relay conference system on BITNET/EARN).
This post is just to mention a few keywords of Let’s have a chat – a taxonomy and some context(This is a text I wrote for work, but it contains nothing work specific and I might as well drop it here.… – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+
Kristian Köhntopp now basically uses his G+ as a blog (blog.koehntopp.de is now defunct) with a great set of collections.
I’ve kept my blog as I find G+ very hard to search for content and a “bla bla site:wiert.me” for me often is the fastest way to find something back that interests me.
Hence the keywords below on his post Let’s have a chat – a taxonomy and some context.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/10/31
When you share a screenshot with Dropbox, then it will copy a URL to the clipboard like this: https://www.dropbox.com/s/mzm7uf775rnjvnv/Screenshot%202015-01-29%2022.25.15.png?dl=0
That is not the actual screenshot. It is a web page around the screenshot that contains a lot of hoopla so you cannot easily copy the download link of the image.
Getting that download link is easy: make the below replacement:
Example: https://www.dropbox.com/s/mzm7uf775rnjvnv/Screenshot%202015-01-29%2022.25.15.png?raw=01
Or embedded:
–jeroen
via How to directly link or embed Dropbox images – Canton Becker.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/10/03
Ugh, this new Google+ is killing me.I used to be able to click someone’s name in Google+ and then start a hangout with them by clicking the hangout icon… – Koushik Dutta (Koush) – Google+ has this nice comment:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/29
Should work in classic G+ stream too: “Restrict stream to single column layout on all screen sizes”
Source: Became used to the Material Design Google+ thingy but then comments…
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/26
Interesting reads:
–jeroen
via http://applehelpwriter.com/2016/08/29/discovering-how-dropbox-hacks-your-mac/ – Joe C. Hecht – Google+ [WayBack]
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