This 2020 project is still so cool!
[Wayback/Wayback] Can you IoT an Airwick air freshener? – James Callaghan:
Can you IoT an Airwick air freshener? – James Callaghan
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/02/02
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Preventing to eject/unmount a MacOS drive (opposite of figuring out what prevents the unmount)
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/02/01
Not long after Figuring out which processes are preventing to eject/unmount my MacOS Time Machine backup USB drive, I wanted to do the opposite: prevent /Volumes/Sandisk1TB from being ejected, as this is the “built-in” MicroSD card I use to store large or infrequently used files on (ISO and other disk images, drivers, hardware and software documentation, stuff to be installed on a fresh machine).
The opposite is straightforward: have a process keep at least one handle open on the Volume as per [Wayback] macos – How do I not accidentally eject external drives? – Ask Different (thanks [Wayback] kLy, [Wayback] dan and [Wayback] gerlos):
If your important external drive is mounted on the following mount point:
/Volumes/important_diskThen you can protect it against an accidental removal by locking this mount point as opened. For this one very simple method consists in opening
Terminaland doing this basic command:$ cd /Volumes/important_diskTo get rid of this locking, you might type within the same
Terminalwindow:$ cd /or you might as well just close this
Terminalwindow ($ exit, or ⌃+D, or ⌘+W).…
An even more elegant way to do it is open a
screensession (just typescreeninTerminal) and open the mount point from that session. This way you can even closeTerminal, since the session will keep running in the background, until you reattach it and stop it (so there’s no need to keep a window open if you don’t need it). I guess you can even create anAutomatoraction for it. For tips onscreensee: [Wayback] kinnetica.com/2011/05/29/using-screen-on-mac-os-x
–jeroen
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Julia Evans (b0rk on Twitter) does not just make cool zines (like the DNS one) but also cool sites (the DNS lookup one). It’ is better than Google Toolbox, IntoDNS and others
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/01/31
A while after writing notes on updating DNS info with bind DNS, b0rk (Julia Evans) posted about her DNS zine which got a reply about her DNS lookup tool. Below is part of that thread.
The reason I post is that – unlike the Google DNS ToolBox – you can bookmark her DNS tool link including the actual search part, which makes it far easier to do systems administration.
Examples:
- [Wayback/Archive] DNS lookups!
- [Wayback/Archive] DNS lookups! –
example.org– all records - [Wayback/Archive] DNS lookups! –
example.org–SOA - [Wayback/Archive] DNS lookups! –
wiert.me– all records - [Wayback/Archive] DNS lookups! –
wiert.me–SOA
There is a trace tool too:
- [Wayback/Archive] DNS lookups! –
trace - [Wayback/Archive] DNS lookups! –
trace–example.org - [Wayback/Archive] DNS lookups! –
trace–wiert.me
The thread:
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Manon. on Twitter: “Een mooier eerbetoon aan Melis kan niet, haar eigen handschrift💖” – Met volle angst vooruit *
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/01/30
[Wayback/Archive] Manon. on Twitter: “Een mooier eerbetoon aan Melis kan niet, haar eigen handschrift💖”: Met volle angst vooruit *
Met volle angst vooruit *
–jeroen
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“Oh shit git” seems to have been succeeded by “Oh shit GitHub Copilot”: ‘Downward Pressure on Code Quality’
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/01/29
Not sure about you, but when I write code I want it to be better – way beter even – than average code.
The problem with any LLM based Generative AI is that it generates text based on the average of the past corpus they were trained with at the time they were trained.
It is exactly why I have been advocating for a while: be careful when using Generative AI, as you get generated text based on the combination of averaging over the LLM corpus with the relatively small prompt you phased trying to reflect a tiny bit of the model of the reality you are trying to write software for.
So I was not at all surprised by this article: [Wayback/Archive] New GitHub Copilot Research Finds ‘Downward Pressure on Code Quality’ — Visual Studio Magazine.
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Need to try “@pdfmakerapp grab this” on Twitter
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/01/29
I missed this, hence it is now in my link archive:
[Wayback/Archive] PDFMakerApp on Twitter: “We are experimenting a new way to grab Twitter conversations using Twitter Developer Labs. Please try it out by mentioning us at the beginning of any Twitter conversation with the keyword “grab this” like below!👇”
Via: [Wayback/Archive] Thread Reader Unroll Helper on Twitter: “@francvs Hi! please find the unroll here: @pdfmakerapp: We are experimenting a new way to grab Twitter conversations using Twitter Developer Labs. Please try it… Have a good day. 🤖”
Saved thread: [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @pdfmakerapp: We are experimenting a new way to grab Twitter conversations using Twitter Developer Labs. Please try it out by mentioning us at the beginni…
–jeroen
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Note the Ziggo Wifispots certificate will often not install on Android the default way
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/01/26
A long time ago, I wrote about Wifispots instellen | Klantenservice | Ziggo « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff.
For that, you need a Ziggo VPN certificate, which you can download from [Wayback] www.ziggo.nl/content/dam/www.ziggo.nl/tools/WifiSpots certificaten/WifiSpots certificaat Android en Windows Ziggo.crt .
On many Android phones, that does not install the default way any more as back then.
The reason is that it is a CA root certificate (in this case identifying Ziggo as certificate authority) thereby allowing them to issue any certificate. This can be a serious risk, so you have to be really sure to trust them before installing the certificate.
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Hopefully the stream capture will become available on YouTube: Insanely Great – CHM – The Apple Mac at 40
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/01/26
The drawback of evening live USA broadcasts is that most of Europe and Africa are asleep.
The Americas, Asia and Australia are awake, so I get it that [Wayback/Archive] Insanely Great – CHM – The Apple Mac at 40 was streamed live at 04:00 UTC at [Wayback/Archive] Computer History Museum – YouTube: live.
Hopefully the capture will be available soon.
Not holding my breath though as not response whatsoever from the moderator when I asked for it.
Via [Wayback/Archive] David Pogue on X: “40 years ago today, Steve Jobs unveiled the Macintosh. Tonight, I’m hosting an astonishing event that reunites many of its creators: Bill Atkinson, Andy Hertzfeld, Susan Kare, Steve Capps, Bruce Horn, Guy Kawasaki, many more. Free livestream at 7 pm PT:”.
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PRANK: Windows XP Updates
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/01/25
This one is cool: [Wayback/Archive] PRANK: Windows XP Updates.
Note that unlike the screenshot below, the actual prank does count the percentage. The actual page does.
You can start this one and various other OSes plus Windows versions and other pranks via [Wayback/Archive] FakeUpdate.net – Windows Update Prank by fediaFedia (at the time of writing Windows 98 install, Windows Vista update, Windows 8 update, Windows 7 update, Mac OS boot, Windows 10 install, Windows 10 update, steam and “fake ransomware”).
It is a cool and relatively harmless way of teaching people to use their lock screen when away from their machine (Windows: Win+L, Mac OS: Ctrl+Shift+Power).
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Disturbing replies to Tim Urban on Twitter: “What, if anything, do you regularly use ChatGPT (or another LLM) for that has provided a dramatic improvement over your previous workflow?”
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/01/24
Gotten there from the reasonable ChatGPT use below, I was negatively surprised what people use ChatGPT for and totally rely on the ChatGPT responses: [Wayback/Archive] Tim Urban on Twitter: “What, if anything, do you regularly use ChatGPT (or another LLM) for that has provided a dramatic improvement over your previous workflow?”
I think this is about the only reasonable ChatGPT use today: [Wayback/Archive] Barry Kelly on Twitter: “@waitbutwhy – minor scripts for things like ffmpeg or Image/GraphicsMagick – trying to do something with an API I’m not familiar with; often gets screwy when it’s obscure though Things I’m not using it for: any kind of creative writing. Execrable.“
Remember that ChatGPT is a text generation model that averages the quality of the text in its corpus that was obtained in the past which means at it’s release, the “knowledge” was already dated.
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