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To every site out there asking me to whitelist them from my adblocker: No.

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/09/08

I totally agree with [WayBack] To every site out there asking me to whitelist them from my adblocker: No. – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+

To every site out there asking me to whitelist them from my adblocker: No.

Why I am running an Adblocker. Also, it does not matter any more what you do. Running an Adblocker is a necessity because of the things below.

“No exceptions”.

Because it’s over – it may be your site that is better, but I don’t care any more.

Just running an Adblocker, revoking JS and Plugin privileges, and blocking third party bullshit everywhere, because that’s a secure default and a significant cognitive simplification.

The group you are part of, if you want it or not, made that necessary. It’s the world your people created. You will have to live in it, no matter how much of an exception your site is.

–jeroen

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Blacklist Filters on MikroTik RouterOS

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/09/08

Some blacklist filters you can use on Mikrotik RouterOS devices:

Blacklist Filter update script – MikroTik RouterOS [WayBack]
- Downloading it by hand [WayBack]
- You might want to use raw drops instead of filter drops: http://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=98804&start=100 [WayBack]
BGP blacklist filter [WayBack]
MikroTik Automatically Updated Address List – Joshaven.com [WayBack]
- Mikrotik RouterOS scripts converted from these sources:
Mikrotik RouterOS Malicious IP Blacklist – Firewall Import Script – Gratis – Blog.Squidblacklist.org [WayBack]
- Has a slightly different version of DShield than Joshaven
- Has spamhaus1 that is virtually same version of SpamHaus as Joshaven but extends with spamhaus2 that Joshaven does not privide.
- Does not provide OpenBL nor malc0de.
- Has halfway instructions on how to install them; use this gist in stead: https://gist.github.com/jpluimers/3e4e0c854dad83c169442a33d8bd25e9

You might consider to use these instead of action=drop:

action=tarpit to delay incoming traffic even further (for instance to help against DoS attacks).
action=reject reject-with=icmp-admin-prohibited [WayBack] which is explained very well [WayBack] by Chris Down [WayBack] referring to the iptables man page [WayBack]
- Note this is not documented in the most recent /ip firewall rule properties [WayBack] any more, but it is

–jeroen

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Posted in Development, Internet, MikroTik, Power User, RouterOS, routers, Scripting, Software Development | 2 Comments »

One day I will find back my Casio 79QGS-39 Universal Calendar watch from the 1980s

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/09/08

I think it’s Jan Wildeboer that referred me to the vongestern Blog: Smartwatch 1986: Casio DBX-100 [WayBack] entry.

It’s about database watches (and also shows the DB-520 and DBC-610) which were of the first smart watch generations and reminded me I’ve misplaced my Casio 79QGS-39 Universal Calendar digital LCD watch from the same era (mine was chrome unlike some of the Casio 79QGS-39 images around).

Back then smart watches were focusing on very few things, but did them well, unlike today where they try to be jack of all trades: Niemand braucht Computer in Uhren. Der Artikel fängt langsam an, aber macht gute Punkte zum Ende hin. – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+ [WayBack]

Hopefully one day I’ll find my smart watch back, get it working and can post some pictures. The battery should be easy to replace though:

–jeroen

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Posted in About, Geeky, LifeHacker, Personal, Power User | Leave a Comment »

How to Find Saved WiFi Passwords in Windows – Geeks Gyaan

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/09/07

How to Find Saved WiFi Passwords in Windows – Geeks Gyaan [WayBack]: the rescue is netsh [WayBack].

netsh wlan show profiles netsh wlan show profile name=network-name key=clear

–jeroen

via: Easily find save WiFi passwords in Windows – Joe C. Hecht – Google+ [WayBack]

Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 | 3 Comments »

Fedora BTRFS+Snapper PART 2: Full System Snapshot/Rollback « A Random Walk Down Tech Street

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/09/07

Interesting reads:

Need to research how I can fit noatime ino.

–jeroen

Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, btrfs, File-Systems, Power User | Leave a Comment »

how to filter name/value pairs under a registry key by name and value in PowerShell – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/09/06

A long time ago I asked this question how to filter name/value pairs under a registry key by name and value in PowerShell? – Stack Overflow [WayBack] but forgot to schedule a post about it.

It’s an interesting scenario, so lets start with a log of the outcome (it’s on my ix500 scanning VM which has Office15 a.k.a. Office 2013 installed) of this script:

$path = 'hkcu:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Extensions'
$key = Get-Item $path
$key

$namevalues = $key | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Property | 
  ForEach-Object { 
    [PSCustomObject] @{ 
      Name = $_; 
      Value = $key.GetValue($_) 
    } 
  }
$namevalues | Format-Table

$matches = $namevalues | 
  Where-Object { 
    $_.Name -match '^xls' `
    -or $_.Value -match 'msaccess.exe$' 
  }
$matches | Format-Table

It outputs this:

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Posted in Development, PowerShell, Registry Files, Scripting, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Some links to post helping to detect the compiler used to build an EXE file

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/09/06

These helped me into some past investigation:

Source: compile – Detect compiler used for EXE file – Super User [WayBack]
disassembly – How to know in which language/technology program (.exe) is written? – Reverse Engineering Stack Exchange [WayBack]
IDA: About [WayBack]
PE iDentifier (PEiD) 0.95 / Binary Analysis / Editing / Downloads – Tuts 4 You [WayBack]
Marco Pontello’s Home – Software – TrID [WayBack]
Stud_PE [WayBack]
pid.gamecopyworld.com ProtectionId [WayBack]
Language 2000 [WayBack]
(marked harmful by Google when testing on 20161021) Detect-it-easy [no Google cache and no WayBack]
www.virustotal.com

–jeroen

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Delphi analog to C# ?? null-coalescing operator and Light Table like debugger evaluation

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/09/05

Interesting stuff:

https://gist.github.com/lynatan/673e574faa8343fa01d7a91e75065c54 OpOverloadWithGenerics.pas which is very similar to the C# ?? null coalescing operator [WayBack]
DLight in-line debugger evaluation which is very similar to parts from the Light Table IDE concept [WayBack] which reminds me and others of the smalltalk days [WayBack] (https://github.com/lynatan/DLight)
RSS feed: http://feedly.com/i/subscription/feed/http://d.hatena.ne.jp/tales/rss
Github: https://github.com/lynatan
Gists: https://gist.github.com/lynatan

via:

In more detail:

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Posted in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development | 3 Comments »

Windows – WorldTransform on the Printer’s Canvas can be a challenge…

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/09/05

// Don't use SetWorldTransform [WayBack] on Printer. // Some drivers don't handle it correct // We will only use ModifyWorldTransform [WayBack] // Let Windows and Driver do the Job

Source: Hello, I use a component that do some nice things on the Printer’s Canvas…… [WayBack]

–jeroen

Posted in Delphi, Development, Software Development, Windows Development | 1 Comment »

Positive Technologies – learn and secure : Disabling Intel ME 11 via undocumented mode

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/09/04

Interesting: [WayBack/Archive.is] Positive Technologies – learn and secure : Disabling Intel ME 11 via undocumented mode

Repository: ptresearch/unME11: Intel ME 11.x Firmware Images Unpacker

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To every site out there asking me to whitelist them from my adblocker: No.

Blacklist Filters on MikroTik RouterOS

One day I will find back my Casio 79QGS-39 Universal Calendar watch from the 1980s

How to Find Saved WiFi Passwords in Windows – Geeks Gyaan

Fedora BTRFS+Snapper PART 2: Full System Snapshot/Rollback « A Random Walk Down Tech Street

how to filter name/value pairs under a registry key by name and value in PowerShell – Stack Overflow

Some links to post helping to detect the compiler used to build an EXE file

Delphi analog to C# ?? null-coalescing operator and Light Table like debugger evaluation

Windows – WorldTransform on the Printer’s Canvas can be a challenge…

Positive Technologies – learn and secure : Disabling Intel ME 11 via undocumented mode

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