Though after C# 4 (covariance and contravariance) and C# 5 (async/await) the evolvement of C# might have seemed to slow down a bit, the big picture hasn’t as shown in the [Wayback/Archive] Why is C# Evolving This Way? – YouTube video by Zoran Horvat which comes down to:
Watching “Why is C# Evolving This Way?” strengthened my realisation that the Delphi 12 language by now is light years behind C# 12
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/12/07
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Kollaboratives Bloggen | Un*xe
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/12/07
For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] Kollaboratives Bloggen | Un*xe.
Via:
- [Wayback/Archive] Marianne Spiller on Twitter: “Ein Feldtest in Sachen „Kollaboratives Bloggen“ #blog”.
- [Wayback/Archive] Kris on Twitter: “Blog mit Source auf GitHub ist so eine feine Sache.”.
Related:
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Yet another reason not to use SMS based 2FA: those phone numbers get leaked or sold as Daniel Cuthbert mentioned on Twitter: “@LinkedIn did indeed sell my 2FA phone number”
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/12/06
Many recommend against using SMS for 2FA because of security reasons (SIM swapping, sniffing, etc), but there is another privacy+security reason: these 2FA phone numbers get leaked or sold as [Wayback/Archive] Daniel Cuthbert (@dcuthbert) found out the hard way last year:
- [Wayback/Archive] “An account manager proved to me today that @LinkedIn did indeed sell my 2FA phone number as part of their sales offering. What’s rather disgusting is that at no point did LinkedIn tell you that they were going to do this”
[Wayback/Archive] Turn Two-Step Verification On and Off | LinkedIn Help
- [Wayback/Archive] “Collection of your phone number to be sold isn’t in their Ts and Cs either: … What annoys me the most is that I’m now inundated by salespeople on a private number that has not been shared anywhere but a test for multiple 2FA devices.”
- [Wayback/Archive] “The cynic in me feels that the 2FA offering is more to harvest phone numbers, which are very valuable to sales and marketing teams than providing security. This has left a very sour taste in my mouth.”
–jeroen
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The Wayback Machine Chrome extension got a big update. Every journalist & researcher should install it ASAP! Faster URL archiving w/ customization, access to yr personal archive, and it tells you if the page you’re on has already been archived, etc.
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/12/05
Last year I learned about [Wayback/Archive] Wayback Machine – Chrome Web Store via a Twitter thread starting at
[Wayback/Archive] Craig Silverman on Twitter: “The Wayback Machine Chrome extension got a big update. Every journalist & researcher should install it ASAP! Faster URL archiving w/ customization, access to yr personal archive, and it tells you if the page you’re on has already been archived, etc. #osint”
I saved the full thread at [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @CraigSilverman on Thread Reader App:
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Need to find a better way to log the essentials of a browser side HTML element using JavaScript object
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/12/04
The basic options for logging an HTML Element using JavaScript are for instance described in [Wayback/Archive] google chrome – How can I log an HTML element as a JavaScript object? – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Ben Flynn for asking and [Wayback/Archive] Mathias Bynens for answering)):
Useconsole.dir:var element = document.documentElement; // or any other element console.log(element); // logs the expandable <html>…</html> console.dir(element); // logs the element’s properties and values
Both log all html or all properties even though often these are enough (most via [Wayback/Archive] Element – Web APIs | MDN):
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notes on updating DNS info with bind DNS
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/12/01
Steps:
- Edit the DNS zone file in
/var/lib/named/master - Make sure you updated the SOA serial number
rcnamed restart- Watch
/var/lib/named/log/generalfor errors (you can even increase logging, for instance by reading [Wayback/Archive] this serverfault entry and editing/etc/named.d/logging) and – on my system – these other logs for the actual zone transfers:/var/lib/named/log/in-xfer.logfor incoming zone transfers on the secondary server/var/lib/named/log/notify.logfor notifications of zone transfers on the primary and secondary servers/var/lib/named/log/out-xfer.logfor outgoing zone transfers on the primary server
- Check on [Wayback/Archive] mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=dns:example.org&run=toolpage# to see if the SOA serials have been replicated (one day I will write a bookmarklet for this)
Alternatives for the last step are sites like these:
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25 years ago today – Windows NT and VMS: The Rest of the Story | ITPro
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/11/30
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The circle of online interaction life (yes, before social media there was online interaction): Nick Wright on – Mastodon.ART
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/11/29
Low-tech beats hi-tech. It always does.
Oh, and it so much reminds me of BITNET relay, early internet and BBS/Fidonet days.
[Wayback/Archive] Nick Wright: “1993: I use BBSes for online i…” – Mastodon.ART
1993: I use BBSes for online interaction. Each BBS is run by some random person. They connect to a federated worldwide network. I keep my notes in .TXT files.
2008-2022: I use social networks like Facebook and Twitter for online interaction. They’re huge and popular. I use Evernote for my notes, which is full of features.
2023: I use Mastodon for online interaction. Each instance is run by some random person. They connect to a federated worldwide network. I keep my notes in .TXT files.
--jeroen
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Destructuring assignment – JavaScript | MDN
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/11/29
Since I didn’t know that JavaScript could deconstruct (a superset of Parallel Assignment) [Wayback/Archive] Destructuring assignment – JavaScript | MDN of which I copied the topmost examples (there are far more in the rest of the article):
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Google: inactive account policies
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/11/28
Reminder to self to yearly check all my Google accounts because of [Wayback/Archive] Updating our inactive account policies
we are updating our inactivity policy for Google Accounts to 2 years across our products. Starting later this year, if a Google Account has not been used or signed into for at least 2 years, we may delete the account and its contents – including content within Google Workspace (Gmail, Docs, Drive, Meet, Calendar), YouTube and Google Photos.The policy only applies to personal Google Accounts, and will not affect accounts for organizations like schools or businesses. This update aligns our policy with industry standards around retention and account deletion and also limits the amount of time Google retains your unused personal information.We are going to roll this out slowly and carefully, with plenty of notice:
- While the policy takes effect today, it will not immediately impact users with an inactive account — the earliest we will begin deleting accounts is December 2023.
- We will take a phased approach, starting with accounts that were created and never used again.
- Before deleting an account, we will send multiple notifications over the months leading up to deletion, to both the account email address and the recovery email (if one has been provided).
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 