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Hapy Wiert/Weird Pride Day – #WeirdPride – #WeirdPrideDay

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/03/04

Be weird, be happy, be proud!

Today is already the 3rd edition of what in 2021 was announced as [Wayback/Archive] Weird Pride Day. The first ever Weird Pride Day is this… | by Oolong | Medium

Many people need desperately to receive this message: ‘I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.’
– Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake

…

Be safe, be kind, be weird.

–jeroen

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English time @engIishtime on Twitter with AltTextCrew alt-text: INFORMAL versus FORMAL English terms

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/03/03

[Archive] Alt Text Crew on Twitter: “@jpluimers Repost parent tweet with extracted text in image descriptions https://t.co/OETTugffrm” / Twitter

INFORMAL FORMAL find out ascertain free release obtain get get in touch with contact It concerns purchase It's about buy keep leave out let retain omit permit examine look at make up fabricate need to required point out put off put up rack up ring up indicate delay tolerate accumulate call orry apologise appear establish seem set up show illustrate show up stand for arrive represent start commence think about consider

The original tweet [Archive] did only contained the image, so here is the OCR of the text:

INFORMAL FORMAL
find out ascertain
free release
get obtain
get in touch with contact
It’s about It concerns
buy purchase
keep retain
leave out omit
let permit
look at examine
make up fabricate
need to required
point out indicate
put off delay
put up tolerate
rack up accumulate
ring up call
orry apologise
seem appear
set up establish
show illustrate
show up arrive
stand for represent
start commence
think about consider

–jeroen

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Canarytokens

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/03/02

Cool: [Wayback/Archive] Canarytokens

Canary tokens are a free, quick, painless way to help defenders discover they’ve been breached (by having attackers announce themselves.)

How tokens works (in 3 short steps):

  1. Visit the site and get a free token (which could look like an URL or a hostname, depending on your selection.)
  2. If an attacker ever uses the token somehow, we will give you an out of band (email or sms) notification that it’s been visited.
  3. As an added bonus, we give you a bunch of hints and tools that increase the likelihood of an attacker tripping on a canary token.

The above documentation is just a small portion of what is at [Wayback/Archive] Canarytokens.org – Quick, Free, Detection for the Masses with even more documentation starting at [Wayback/Archive] Introduction | Canarytokens.

Source code (either the site or a docker image):

It is provided by [Wayback/Archive] Thinkst Canary.

I learned it at the height of the Log4Shell mitigation stress. Some related posts from that period:

Via: [Archive] ᖇ⦿ᖘ Gonggrijp on Twitter: “IP in Luxembourg, owned by Frantech Solutions from Cheyenne, WY. Judging from a quick round of Google appears to be a bulletproof VM hoster, with clients to match. ” / Twitter

Below image via [Wayback/Archive] Tweet2Img.com | Perfect Tweet screenshots with just one click

––jeroen

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Programming is hard; Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich: Exact Instructions Challenge – THIS is why my kids hate me. | Josh Darnit – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/03/01

[Archive.is] Exact Instructions Challenge – THIS is why my kids hate me. | Josh Darnit – YouTube

We asked the kids to write instructions for a simple task but left out that we were going to be following their instructions EXACTLY as written. Great lesson for communication and a fun practice in patience!

Via [Archive] Maarten van Smeden on Twitter: “This is why programming is an acquired skill ” / Twitter

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It spurred all kinds of reactions about software development, like that programming should read like poetry, software development is about slowing down your thoughts, and that some high schools and some universities do this experiment at the start of their software development curriculum.

This is a cool experiment to do, even outside the USA, as many countries or regions have their own sandwich style, some of which are way harder to make than PB&J (:

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Wireshark Cheat Sheet – Commands, Captures, Filters, Shortcuts

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/02/28

[Wayback/Archive] Wireshark Cheat Sheet – Commands, Captures, Filters, Shortcuts

It is available both a huge [Wayback/Archive] jpg (2500×2096 pixels), so it already prints well on A5 or A4 sized paper for reference and as a [Wayback/Archive] PDF (so you can print it on even larger paper sizes).

Via: [Archive] Murdock (@Generic42) / Twitter in a DM.

–jeroen

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Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Communications Development, Development, Hardware, Network-and-equipment, Power User, Software Development, Wireshark | Leave a Comment »

Some Bitly Support links

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/02/27

Knowing part of URL shortening by browsing through shortened URLs and creating auto-generated ones, I was new to create custom shortened URLs.

So here are some links about using bit.ly:

–jeroen

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Bindende uitspraak Kifid: kosten nieuwe hypotheekakte bij eeuwige erfpacht voortaan voor bank

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/02/24

Voor mijn link-archief: [Wayback/Archive] Bindende uitspraak Kifid: kosten nieuwe hypotheekakte bij eeuwige erfpacht voortaan voor bank

–jeroen

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Excel for MacOS seems to have no post-paste shortcut to modify the paste options

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/02/24

Excel on Windows has a neat trick where you can press the Ctrl key after a paste operation.

This lets you determine after pasting if you want to change the [Wayback/Archive] Paste options in a similar way “Paste Special” will modify this while pasting as shown for instance at [Archive] What is the Excel keyboard shortcut for ‘paste special’? – Quora (excluded from the WayBack machine)

  1. Copy your source (Ctrl + C)
  2. Press Ctrl + V – Pastes as usual
  3. Press Ctrl – Paste options get displayed
  4. Press ‘P’ for paste special /‘V’ for values/’F’ for formulas etc

and [Wayback/Archive] Shortcut in Word or Excel for Special Paste?

Word 2013:

After having copied something go where you want to paste it (without pasting the format). CTRL+V (it will temporarily paste the format too) then CTRL (push and release the control key) then T (the last T means “keep text only”).

Excel 2013:

After having copied something go where you want to paste it (without pasting the format). CTRL+V (it will temporarily paste the format too) then CTRL (push and release the control key) then V (the last V means “paste Values”).
It’s important that the second CTRL key is released before typing the last letter.
This method requires just 4 keyboard hits, no macros and no use of the mouse in a dialog window.

The cool thing about this feature is that you can visually see the original paste, then determine how you want to modify it.

On MacOS, there is the post-paste glyph you can click, but no keyboard shortcut.

Basically, here are three ways I now work on MacOS while pasting:

  • When I really want to paste all properties on the ckipboard:
    • Command–V: Paste
  • When I want to decide which properties to copy:
    • Ctrl–Command–V: Paste Special
  • When I want just text:
    • Ctrl–U, Command–V: Edit cell, Paste

On MacOS, Ctrl–U is the equivalent of F2 on Windows (similarly, Command–T is the equivalent of F4) and brings the cell into edit mode before pasting. The mouse-equivalent is double clicking the cell before pasting.

I got that Ctrl–U / F2 trick from [Wayback/Archive] Always Match Destination Formatting | PCMag via [Wayback/Archive] Excel copy-paste: always match destination formatting – Super User.

Related

All based on [Wayback/Archive] macos excel “paste options” shortcut – Google Search

–jeroen

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geerlingguy/my-backup-plan: How I back up all my data.

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/02/23

Long read worth your time: [Wayback/Archive] geerlingguy/my-backup-plan: How I back up all my data.

Video titled [Archive] Backups: You’re doing ’em wrong! – YouTube below the signature.

Via: [Archive] Chris Bensen on Twitter: “Just watched the latest @geerlingguy video on backups (…). Watch it! My personal backups have gone through some changes and it’s currently horrible so I’m going to implement the 1-2-3 backup plan in the new year. Thanks Jeff!” / Twitter

–jeroen

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Don’t stick at version 3.7: How to Update Your Python Version Without Risk

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/02/22

For anyone else that things they are still stuck at Python 3.7 or older: [Wayback/Archive] How to Update Your Python Version Without Risk

Via [Wayback/Archive] CircuitSwan on Twitter: “#Python codebases are rarely updated due to time constraints, complexity & fear of breaking the build. Learn best practices to overcome this issue and reduce security risks! #100daysofcode”.

–jeroen

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