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On accessibility (thanks Bianca Prins!) and archivability.

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/27

A long while ago, I participated in a Twitter thread that started with a translation of some important accessibility posts by Bianca Prins, then extended it to the concept to archivability:

[WayBack] Thread by @jpluimers: “I am going to first translate this, then extend this to archivability…. @jpluimers […]” #UXdesign #accessibility.

TL;DR

  1. make sure what you create is accessible
  2. ensure your (online) content is archivable
  3. help archiving content

Let’s go

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OpenAI Researchers Find That Even the Best AI Is “Unable To Solve the Majority” of Coding Problems

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/26

[Wayback/Archive] OpenAI Researchers Find That Even the Best AI Is “Unable To Solve the Majority” of Coding Problems

Either Erik Meijer begs to differ, or this is sarcasm: [WaybackSave/Archive] Erik Meijer on X: “I don’t think many developers realized their white collar job could be implemented by a few hundred lines of JavaScript … plus a couple of billion floating point numbers. And we are only just beginning.”

[Wayback/Archive] gist.githubusercontent.com/1rgs/e4e13ac9aba301bcec28d761992ec4e8/raw/7c7cd5b91c6d355e72c7a34b6662006018588780/claudecode.js

Claude Code is a Beta product per Anthropic's Commercial Terms of Service.

It is part of [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – anthropics/claude-code: Claude Code is an agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal, understands your codebase, and helps you code faster by executing routine tasks, explaining complex code, and handling git workflows – all through natural language commands. for which you need to be aware of

Data collection, usage, and retention

When you use Claude Code, we collect feedback, which includes usage data (such as code acceptance or rejections), associated conversation data, and user feedback submitted via the /bug command.

Via: [WaybackSave/Archive] Marcel Weiher 🇪🇺 on X: ““OpenAI Researchers Find That Even the Best AI Is “Unable To Solve the Majority” of Coding Problems” “

--jeroen

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Some interesting tweets by @isotopp and others on home power measurement and what to do to optimise energy usage at home

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/26

For my link archive (browse back and forth in the tweets: lots of useful tips):

[Wayback/Archive] Kris on Twitter: “@mausdompteur @HildebrandtRalf … Tasmota Support P1-mqtt in Python, für den oa Zuidwijk Slimme Lezer Diese Lösung setze ich ein.”

A few of his power usage pictures:

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Going Native – Malicious Native Applications

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/25

On the reading list wondering which tool chains can deliver NtAPI based development: [Wayback/Archive] Going Native – Malicious Native Applications

Via [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @MrPc69257431 on Thread Reader App with first tweet at

https://x.com/MrPc69257431/status/1864855379651498292

Note that being able to call NtAPI from your code base does not mean NtAPI based development: Pure NtAPI means you need a linker that can target a different output. See the quote from the above article (emphasis mine):

So, to get started with an empty native executable, all we have to do is include the “phnt.h” file, and set up the NtProcessStartup function. Then it’s important to tell the linker that we want to link against ntdll, and that we’ll be making a native application by passing in the “Native” text to the Subsystem linker option

It means that for instance Delphi is kind of out of the question for this, see these links on why:

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GitHub – Sanakan8472/copy-dialog-lunar-lander: Play lunar lander in you windows file copy dialog

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/25

[Wayback/Archive] Sanakan8472/copy-dialog-lunar-lander: Play lunar lander in you windows file copy dialog

Hard

Via:

--jeroen

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3 Ways to Convert Kindle to PDF for Free

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/24

After last weeks post Download your Kindle books soon, because Amazon will block them after February 25, 2025. Since I could not get a physical Kindle on time, I decided to do the conversion on Windows as:

  • the conversion without a physical  Kindle required Kindle 1.17 for MacOS or Windows
  • finding the Kindle 1.17 for Windows was way easier because Chocolatey pointed me right to the executable¹ when installing 1.17
  • ² finding the Kindie 1.17 for MacOS was hard because it had been deprecated by Homebrew and finding back the 1.17 version was too hard.

[Wayback/Archive] How to Remove DRM From Kindle Books [DRM-free books 2025 ] has steps not just for a physical Kindle, but also when running Kindle 1.17 on MacOS or Windows.

Windows was easiest to find through [Wayback/Archive] Chocolatey Software | Kindle for PC 1.17 which mentions how to try to install version 1.17. That leads to the below mentioned error which mentions the download location and full filename.

The downloads/installers you need are at:

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Toeristenbelasting per gemeente 2025, plus overzicht belastingen Bollenstreek

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/24

[Wayback/Archive] Toeristenbelasting per gemeente 2025

via [Wayback/Archive] Toeristenbelasting in Zuid-Holland stijgt: in deze gemeenten betaal je meer dan vorig jaar

Gerelateerd

Allemaal via [Wayback/Archive] Overzicht tarieven | Belastingen Bollenstreek

Toeristenbelasting

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Some more links on HEARN/EARN and BITNET relay (which chat and precedes IRC)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/24

Edit 20260218: added archived links to the July 1988 “USERS’ DIRECTORY OF COMPUTER NETWORKS” and the direct link to the Kremvax article from Piet Beertema himself (in addition to the April Fools on the Net posts that were already there) .


Triggered by [Wayback/Archive] Hillel on Twitter: “Gen-Z programmers are always chasing the new shiny thing like Tailwind and Svelte instead of learning CS fundamentals, like React”, below some links on HEARN, EARN and BITNET Relay: conference system before IRC.

I might amend it later with more information, but for now the list is so that I do not have to re-do the search queries.

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Battery Chargers | ctek.com -> MXS 5.0: the 5 ampere charger for 12 volt batteries

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/21

I needed to charge a bunch of 12V gelbatteries, but most of the CTEK pages are location specific and localised so it’s hard to get English pages on the EU version of the MXS 5.0 charger: the one that can deliver 5 ampere to 12 volt batteries.

The universal English start page is [Wayback/Archive] Battery Chargers | ctek.com with the EU sheet at

[Wayback/Archive] MXS_5.0-productsheet-low-EN.pdf [Wayback PDF View/PDF View]

Note that Google docs does not always start the PDF View correctly due to cloud resource usage.

Localised links:

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ufrisk/MemProcFS: The Memory Process File System

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/21

Interesting: [Wayback/Archive] ufrisk/MemProcFS: The Memory Process File System

MemProcFS is an easy and convenient way of viewing physical memory as files in a virtual file system.

Easy trivial point and click memory analysis without the need for complicated commandline arguments! Access memory content and artifacts via files in a mounted virtual file system or via a feature rich application library to include in your own projects!

Analyze memory dump files, live memory via DumpIt or WinPMEM, live memory in read-write mode from virtual machines or from [Wayback/Archive] PCILeech [Wayback/Archive] FPGA hardware devices!

It’s even possible to connect to a remote LeechAgent memory acquisition agent over a secured connection – allowing for remote live memory incident response – even over higher latency low band-width connections! Peek into Virtual Machines with [Wayback/Archive] LiveCloudKd or [Wayback/Archive] VMWare!

Use your favorite tools to analyze memory – use your favorite hex editors, your python and powershell scripts, WinDbg or your favorite disassemblers and debuggers – all will work trivally with MemProcFS by just reading and writing files!

On Windows, there is even the cool tool [Wayback/Archive] evild3ad/MemProcFS-Analyzer: MemProcFS-Analyzer – Automated Forensic Analysis of Windows Memory Dumps for DFIR:

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