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Need to take a look a Scoop (as a long time Chocolatey user)

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/04/06

Based on

So:

Related blog posts:

–jeroen

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Thread by @aakashg0 on Thread Reader App: the Twitter tweet ranking algorithm

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/04/05

Interesting read: [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @aakashg0 on Thread Reader App with this takeaway:

If you take away anything, remember this – the models take in 3 inputs:

• Likes, retweets, replies: engagement data
• Mutes, unfollows, spam reports: user data
• Who follows you: the follower graphImage

Read from the start at [Wayback/Archive] Aakash Gupta 🚀 Product Growth Guy on Twitter: “Twitter revealed its algorithm to the world. But what does it mean for you? I spent the evening analyzing it. Here’s what you need to know:”

The algorithm is at [Wayback/Archive] twitter/the-algorithm: Source code for Twitter’s Recommendation Algorithm.

Via [Wayback/Archive] Andrea on Twitter: “Haha, dát is het dus!” / Twitter

Note: for me the only way to reliably follow people is this: [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers @wiert@mastodon.social on Twitter: “@chrisbensen @geerlingguy @TwitterBlue @elonmusk @tweetbot About the only tweeps I see tweets from on a regular base is the ones I turned notifications on for. It does not matter if they are blue or not. The blue ones tend to post overly large tweets. Those I skip reading.”

–jeroen

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Need to take a look a Scaleway

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/04/05

Based on

I need to take a look at Scaleway, at least at thee links via [Wayback/Archive] scaleway instance – Google Search:

Related blog post: Dave Anderson on Twitter: “Cool minor @Tailscale moment: I’m recommissioning a server that got moved from a different network, so all its network config was wrong, and generally I couldn’t get at it over the network, only IPKVM console. But then my ping over Tailscale started working?!” / Twitter

–jeroen

Posted in Cloud, Infrastructure, Power User, Scaleway, Scoop, Windows | 1 Comment »

CVE-2023-29218: Recommendation Algorithm Manipulation via mass blocks · Issue #1386 · twitter/the-algorithm · GitHub

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/04/04

https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/issues/1386

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-29218

Via

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Two now 3 months old O’RLY book puns “Getting ChatGPT to write your code” / “Copying and Pasting from ChatGPT”

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/04/04

Earlier this week I got reminded of the “book” so many people seem to fall for via the Tweet by [Wayback/Archive] turbo (@turboCodr) / Twitter.

The image (and text) is in fact a parody both on ChatGPT and on the Stack Overflow meme it is based on (more on my opinion on both further below).

Back to the book title referred by [Wayback/Archive] turbo on Twitter: “Something something last tech book you’ll ever buy”.:

Deploying untested code at break-neck speeds
Essential
Copying and Pasting from ChatGPT
O’REILLY
The Practical Developer

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Dave Anderson on Twitter: “Cool minor @Tailscale moment: I’m recommissioning a server that got moved from a different network, so all its network config was wrong, and generally I couldn’t get at it over the network, only IPKVM console. But then my `ping` over Tailscale started working?!” / Twitter

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/04/04

Wow, I wrote about Tailscale a few times before, and it is still on my research list, but this is a very compelling reason to use it. [Archive] Dave Anderson on Twitter: “Cool minor @Tailscale moment: I’m recommissioning a server that got moved from a different network, so all its network config was wrong, and generally I couldn’t get at it over the network, only IPKVM console. But then my ping over Tailscale started working?!” / Twitter

I archived the thread so it becomes easier to read: [Wayback/Archive] A readable Thread by @dave_universetf Says Cool minor @Tailscale moment: I’ – UnrollThread.com.

The core are these three tweets:

Turns out, IPv6 autoconfiguration is what happened. Sure, v4 configuration was entirely wrong (it was trying to connect to wifi, via a wifi dongle that was no longer installed, and wanted to talk to a DNS server that doesn’t exist any more), but eno1 had a cable plugged in!
The server noticed IPv6 router advertisements, went “I’ll have some of that”, and got global IPv6 connectivity automagically. IPv4 and DNS were still down though, so all it had at this point is the ability to send/receive IPv6 packets.
So, how did Tailscale get from there to a working setup? It still needs to contact https://t.co/hEs4S8qvTw to get a network map, and still needs to talk to DERP servers to get p2p tunnels working outside the LAN. Enter bootstrap DNS!

It means I have to re-read Source: Some links on Tailscale / Wiregard, especially the [Wayback] How Tailscale works · Tailscale bit, then decide how I want to organise my infrastructure to run parts under Tailscale (I have the impression it is a peer based set-up, not router based).

Then I have to read [Wayback/Archive] IPv4, IPv6, and a sudden change in attitude – apenwarr of which the conclusion is this:

IP mobility is what we do, in a small way, with Tailscale’s WireGuard connections. We try all your Internet links, IPv4 and IPv6, UDP and TCP, relayed and peer-to-peer. We made mobile IP a real thing, if only on your private network for now. And what do you know, the math works. Tailscale’s use of WireGuard with two networks is more reliable than with one network.

Finally I need to not just read it, but understand all it (:

Or maybe I should ask Kris, as I got here through:

I saved Kris’ message thread here at [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @isotopp on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App.

An OK translation is at [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @isotopp on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App.

–jeroen

Posted in Hardware, Network-and-equipment, Power User, Scoop, Tailscale, VPN, Windows, Wireguard | 1 Comment »

Eight Dollars – Chrome Web Store: see who fell for the twitter blue scam

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/04/03

[Wayback/Archive] Eight Dollars – Chrome Web Store

It’s available for other browsers too (Brave, FireFox, Edge, Opera; Safari should become supported too), and more importantly: open source as well at [Wayback/Archive] wseagar/eight-dollars: A browser extension that shows twitter blue vs real verified users.

Via [Wayback/Archive] Alan Neilan on Twitter: “@IanColdwater pssst check out”.

––jeroen

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Two more Twitter bots that help with inclusion and accessibility (a11y): @get_altText and @captions_please

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/04/03

  1. [Archive] Alt Text Reader (@get_altText) / Twitter
    I read alt texts from images for you – just mention me in the reply to an image! (alt texts are a cool & accessible way to describe images – see pinned tweet)
    (If I’m broken, complain to @malfynnction)
  2. [Archive] captions_please (@captions_please) / Twitter

    I’m a bot, just starting to beep boop. Tag me in a tweet (or a reply to a tweet) and I’ll do my best to describe the image. Try @captions_please help for more

The first is developed and maintained by [Archive] φnn (@malfynnction) / Twitter with source code at [Wayback/Archive] malfynnction/AltText-Tweeter.

The second is developed and maintained by [Archive] Anil (@TheOtherAnil) / Twitter, with source code at [Wayback/Archive] AnilRedshift/captions_please_go where I learned the bot actually understands more commands, even some German:

Look for these methods in the file [Wayback/Archive] captions_please_go/parse_command.go at main · AnilRedshift/captions_please_go:

  • parseCommand
  • parseGerman
  • parseEnglish
  • parseGermanRemoveModifiers (removes words und and das)
  • parseGermanDirectives (understands the words hilfe, alternativtext, scannen, beschreiben, text)
  • parseEnglish
  • parseEnglishRemoveModifiers (removes words and and the)
  • parseEnglishLang (conditionally removes words in and into)
  • parseEnglishDirectives (understands the phrases help, auto, text, ocr, describe, caption, alttext, alt_text, alt text, translate, get)
  • parseTag (gets the target IETF Language Tag – like du-nl for Dutch-Netherlands or de-de for German-Germany, and fr-be for French-Belgium)
English / German Example Action
(nothing, internally called auto) As in @captions_please Tweets best it can do:

  • alt text if there is an image with an alt attribute,
  • ocr if there is an image without an alt attribute,
  • describe when no alt text or ocr can be returned.
help / hilfe As in @captions_please help Tweets help text
alt text, alttext, alt_text / alternativtext As in @captions_please alt text Tweets user-supplied alt text
ocr, text, get text / scannen As in @captions_please ocr Scan the image for text, then tweets the result
describe, caption / beschreiben As in @captions_please describe Tweets the AI generated description of the image
translate As in @captions_please translate Tweets the translated text

Also observe the commands set boolean flags in a structure, so it is possible to issue multiple commands at once (like @captions_please ocr translate fr-be)

The above Twitter accounts are complementing the below accounts/commands that I wrote about in One of the coolest Twitter bots commands: @AltTextCrew OCR please (and which both are being developed and maintained by [Archive] LGBTired 🏳️‍⚧️⚢ (@hbeckpdx) | Twitter):

 

–jeroen

Posted in About, accessibility (a11y), Awareness, Development, Inclusion / inclusive society, LifeHacker, Personal, Power User | Leave a Comment »

Reminder to self: check if FritzOS 7.50 has become available for Fritz!Box 7490

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/03/31

This post is a reminder to myself to check if Fritz!Box 7490 can be upgraded to the FritzOS (sometimes spelled Fritz!OS or FRITZ!OS) 7.50, which is the firmware that introduced WireGuard on various Fritz!Box models.

Initially it wasn’t available for the wildly popular Fritz!Box 7490 series which, at the time of writing was still a current Fritz!Box model, has been very popular in The Netherlands because of (now defunct) internet provider XS4ALL started shipping it to customers almost 10 years ago ([Wayback/Archive] Property:XS4ALL – BoxMatrix). Currently Fritz!Box products are offered by KPN, Solcon and Freedom Internet.

So I asked [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers @wiert@mastodon.social on Twitter: “Is there any information if (and hopefully estimate when) the @AVM_NL @AVM_DE 7.50 firmware is going to be available for the (in The Netherlands very well sold/distributed) Fritz!Box 7490 model? FritzOS 7.50 supports @WireGuardVPN: a big step forward.”

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ThreadReaderApp alternatives?

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/03/30

A while ago, Threader died, and about the only alternatives back then seemed to be ThreadReaderApp and Archive Today: Threader is dying: save your content as soon as possible:

The alternatives [Archive] @ThreadReaderApp, [Archive] @WayBackMachine and [Archive] @ArchiveIs for the win (:

In the end that’s not completely true, though they do seem to be the only places where that can be triggered without tweeting a kind of “unroll” response to a thread-to-be-archived.

There are more of the latter kind that were active at the end of 2021 when I queued this post:

This one died a silent death somewhere fall 2020:

This one is registered, but does not reply with unrolls:

A repository I want to check out later: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – the-crib/thread-unroll: Unrolls twitter thread and sends it as a DM to anyone that mentions the bot on the thread.

Finally, some of the helper accounts that ThreadReaderApp uses:

Related: yesterday’s post Some notes on converting Twitter threads/tweets to Markdown.

–jeroen

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