I wish I had found this overview eons ago: [Wayback/Archive] Managing the Mail Queue Files and Directories.
The most important bits on the various kinds of files that appear in your message queue:
Managing the Mail Queue Files and Directories
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/15
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What Are Dreams For? | The New Yorker
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/14
Interesting: [Wayback/Archive] What Are Dreams For? | The New Yorker
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In a series of papers, Blumberg articulated his theory that the brain uses REM sleep to “learn” the body.
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Are the robots really dreaming?
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Via:
- [WaybackSave/Archive] Jordan Mechner on X: “Interesting theory: the brain uses REM sleep to “learn” the body…”
- [Wayback/Archive] The New Yorker on X: “Neuroscientists have long believed that our bodies are paralyzed during REM sleep to prevent us from acting out our dreams, and the twitches we make are movements that slip through the cracks—but recent research tells another story. “
--jeroen
https://x.com/jmechner/status/1967129596903711139
https://x.com/NewYorker/status/1966950083024334849
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DeCENC is yet another way to beat Amazon, Netflix video DRM • The Register
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/12
From a while ago. I wonder what the current state is.
[Wayback/Archive] DeCENC is yet another way to beat Amazon, Netflix video DRM • The Register
- [Wayback/Archive] .:: Phrack Magazine ::. which is also a great example on how to publish an article including diagrams in ASCII
- [Wayback/Archive] DeCSS for Linux and DVD
--jeroen
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bitfocus/companion: Bitfocus Companion enables the reasonably priced Elgato Streamdeck to be a professional shotbox surface for an increasing amount of different presentation switchers, video playback software and broadcast equipment.
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/12
Cool: [Wayback/Archive] bitfocus/companion: Bitfocus Companion enables the reasonably priced Elgato Streamdeck to be a professional shotbox surface for an increasing amount of different presentation switchers, video playback software and broadcast equipment.
I was hoping this tool also could steer other kinds of equipment, so that’s on my list of things to try out.
More info:
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Jeff Geerling: Trying out a cheap USB VK-172 GPS dongle on a Mac | Jeff Geerling
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/11
On my list of things to try out (and see if it is better than an NTP clock):
- [Wayback/Archive] Trying out a cheap USB VK-172 GPS dongle on a Mac | Jeff Geerling
- [Wayback/Archive] DIY PTP Grandmaster Clock with a Raspberry Pi | Jeff Geerling
--jeroen
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xahteiwi.eu – Handy Git aliases
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/11
For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] xahteiwi.eu – Handy Git aliases
- List branches by their date of last modification
- Delete old topic branches that have been merged
- Find the origin of a branch point
- Fix trailing whitespace
–jeroen
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What Every Programmer Should Know about How CPUs Work • Matt Godbolt • GOTO 2024 – YouTube
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/10
[Wayback/Archive] What Every Programmer Should Know about How CPUs Work • Matt Godbolt • GOTO 2024 – YouTube
Main takeaways for me:
- CPU pipelines have grown a lot longer than I was aware off
- there are many more internal registers than I was anticipating
- clever ways to convert if statements to non-jumps
--jeroen
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“The Pocket Guide to Debugging” zine and Debugging Puzzels by b0rk (Julia Evans)
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/10
I forgot scheduling this post, but it is still very relevant: about the debugging related materials by b0rk (Julia Evans) as they are not limited to just “The Pocket Guide to Debugging”.
It is excellent material to learn at home, work or be used during education.
Before the Elmo* takeover, she mainly used Twitter to post beta material and later the final versions. Easiest queries to find back the Tweets are:
- [Wayback/Archive] from:@b0rk debugging zine – Twitter Search
- [Wayback/Archive] from:@b0rk debugging stragegy – Twitter Search / Twitter
Here are some of links found via the above lists of tweets:
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Excel: sorting an array on 3 different columns using functions
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/09
Given Excel is the most popular functional language (see the video under my post “Everybody should have an obsession with Lisp-like language at least once in their life” @KevlinHenney), this post is on sorting with Excel functions.
I had an array in Excel starting at row 2 (to exclude the headings) where I had to sort on 3 different columns: C, A, B (or numerically 3, 1, 2) so [Wayback/Archive] sorting – How to multi level sort an array in excel, using formulas? I am aware about the way, using SORT button on DATA tab – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Armaan Gohil and [Wayback/Archive] Jos Woolley) didn’t fully apply but did put me on the right track as I wasn’t aware that the SORT function allows to specify multiple columns using an embedded array argument.
The functions that worked:
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vx-underground (@vxunderground) / Twitter
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/09
I thought I had been living under a stone for decades when I bumped into vx-underground (@vxunderground) / Twitter
The largest collection of malware source code, samples, and papers on the internet.
Password: infected
That appeared to be untrue as vx-underground, ran by a team of volunteers, started in 2019 ([Archive] web.archive.org/web//vx-underground.org) right when a few crisis in my life came together at the same time.
So here are the links for my archive as they are great content for both Red Teams and Blue Teams on many things cyber security related:
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 