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Playing around with spammers is easy

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/12/09

Thread start: [Archive.is] Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on Twitter: “I created a fake company to play around with spammers, and it is just such a joy to use, and you can use it too. A thread: I receive an email from a scammer/spammer. Like this:… “

Archived unroll: [Wayback] Thread by @Boris on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App.

Via: [Archive.is] Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on Twitter: “Or, next time you receive spam reply with this: “Please forward this email to bill@noprocurement.com, and delete my email, as I’ll be changing jobs soon, and this email address will no longer be active.””

The [Archive.is] inspiration partly came from [Wayback] The Story of Lenny, the Internet’s Favorite Telemarketing Troll:

Lenny is a decade-old chatbot designed to troll telemarketers that has developed a cult following online. It’s remarkably convincing, but is it actually effective?

Research indicated that Lenny is effective and wastes time of scammers which they cannot spend on calling real people.

Some highlights

Waste time by sending spammers in an auto-reply loop of personas.

“Please forward this email to bill@noprocurement.com, and delete my email, as I’ll be changing jobs soon, and this email address will no longer be active.”

One of the email forwards bounces:

There even is a (http-only) web-site [Wayback] Nordic Procurement Services – Providing Procurement services worldwide since 1994.

A plugin for gmail or other mail systems would be cool, just as having more domains and accounts:

Some people are already adding these to their own domains:

Be sure to spread the word.

Oh, and have some spammers contact john@noprocurement.com

–jeroen

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Jan Schaumann: “The secret language of coders, part N of many. Today: “risk acceptance”… “

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/12/08

From a while back, but more relevant than ever:

[Archive.is] Jan Schaumann on Twitter: “The secret language of coders, part N of many. Today: “risk acceptance”… “

Obligatory video below the fold.

–jeroen

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In case I ever need rails performance troubleshooting: I feel like I should be able to ask @datadoghq “What’s the CPU load across all our Rails controllers”, but have no idea where to start with that.

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/12/08

Just in case I need to do performance troubleshooting in Rails some day: [Archive.is] hey on Twitter: “@shelbyspees @honeycombio From a browser. Thinking is we had trouble even narrowing it down to a section of the site. Thinking if we could see that most of the load was in some_controller we could maybe dig in there. I don’t want to take up too much of your time, but how would a double request show up?” / Twitter

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Chrome Print dialogue not offering fit to page, landscape, other printing options ( I’m looking at you @OHRA )

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/12/08

Some sites manage to disable various printing options (including layout, so you cannot choose between landscape and portrait any more, or force landscape when portrait works better or vice versa).

Googling this got me into a web of things that didn’t help me (see links below), but those led me to this query [Wayback] chrome save as pdf layout missing portrait landscape – Google Search.

That returned a helpful result at [Archive.is/Wayback] Chrome Print dialogue not offering fit to page, landscape, other printing options – Google Chrome Community:

I found a solution.

1.  Install the Stylus Extension.
2.  Go into the Stylus extension and click on “Write new style”.
3.  Put the following code in:
​​​@page {
  size: auto;
}

4.  Give it a name (I called mine “Fix Orientation”) and save it.

5.  Reload the page you’re trying to print and the print dialogue should now have the “Layout” option and you should always get it for any page you print from now on.

It’s about the extension [Archive.is] Stylus – Chrome Web Store

Redesign the web with Stylus, a user styles manager. Stylus allows you to easily install themes and skins for many popular sites.

I reconfigured the OHRA Mijn Zorg site to force re-enabling of layout by adding @page { size: auto !important; } for https://mijn.ohrazv.nl/ (click the Save button to save this change permanently):

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Kristian Köhntopp on Twitter: “Playing with a Ceph Storage Volume in a VM: The new openstack backend provisions an all-flash Ceph volume, which after tuning delivers a commit latency of around 1.1ms or so”

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/12/07

Not on an average VM (8 threads and 16gb memory) or network (100gbit), but ceph isn’t average solution.

For my link archive this long Twitter thread:

Archive.is Kristian Köhntopp on Twitter: “Playing with a Ceph Storage Volume in a VM: The new openstack backend provisions an all-flash Ceph volume, which after tuning delivers a commit latency of around 1.1ms or so. My dev VM has 8 Threads and 16 GB of memory, and mounts the Ceph Volume with XFS in /a.”

Hopefully this one day makes into a blog post at [Wayback] Die wunderbare Welt von Isotopp | Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.

–jeroen

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How to build a CD ISO image file from the windows command line? – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/12/07

As I might need this in the future, some highlights from [Wayback] How to build a CD ISO image file from the windows command line? – Stack Overflow:

–jeroen

 

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On TStrings (and TStringList) sorting: what the default Sort behaviour is and how to change sorting order

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/12/07

Because I need this eventually, here the full quote of my answer in [Wayback] sorting – How can I get TStringList to sort differently in Delphi – Stack Overflow (The default Sort behaviour is to accommodate i18n sorting in natural order):

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Wiskas -> Snorharen, Gardena -> Tuinierder en andere gekke merknamen

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/12/06

Grappig tweet boompje:

er zijn er vast veel meer dan deze:

  • Wiskas -> Snorharen
  • Gardena -> Tuinierder
  • Pampers -> Verwenners
  • Q8 -> Koeweit

–jeroen

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Some links on EPC, EPA and Energielabel in The Netherlands

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/12/06

For my link archive:

–jeroen

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When a cross-head screw is not Philips, and you might need a JIS screwdriver

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/12/06

A while ago, when messing with some Asian electronics, I found that the cross-head screws in it do not fit Philips screwdrivers well.

The cause is the use of JIS (Japanese Industry Standard) cross-head screws in Japan and some other Asian regions.

JIS screws can also been found in other Asian mechanical stuff like motor-cycles and cars.

Here are some links about JIS screws and screwdrivers.

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