For my reading list (will likely be extended in the future) as covariance and especially contravariance often give me headaches (even after all these years of C#):
Since covariance and especially contravariance often give me headaches (especially with Action and Func), some links
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/12
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#inclusion #accesibility: List of emoticons: Unicode characters – Wikipedia #a11y
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/11
A lot of forum software (not just on retro computing or history) embed image smileys in their messages translated from text-smileys.
It seems they missed that a lot of them have made their way into Unicode, making it not just easier to display but also a lot easier for visually impaired.
So, please software developers, use the Unicode characters whenever possible.
Here is a good start
- List of emoticons: Unicode characters – Wikipedia
- List of emoticons: Western – Wikipedia with a mapping from text emoji to the Unicode glyphs
- List of emoticons: Eastern – Wikipedia also with a mapping from text emoji to the Unicode glyphs
--jeroen
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Payload Box
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/11
For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] Payload Box.
It has lots of examples on payloads for various kinds of injections that are excellent teaching material.
Covered are Cross Site Scripting (XSS), SQL Injection, Server Side Template Injection, RFI/LFI, Command Injection, CSV Injection, Directory, Open Redirect and XML External Entity (XXE) Injection.
Got there when inspired by:
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Notities Warmink / Wuba staande klok met drie melodieëen en wijzers voor minuten+uren, seconden, weekdag, maand, maanstand
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/10
Inn de basis een door mijn opa gebouwde opwindbare (3 gewichten) Warmink Wuba triple chime – Westminster, St. Michael, Whittington clock.
Die liep nauwelijks meer, en sloeg zowel geen melodie meer, maar ook geen uursignaal meer.
Hieronder links die me hielpen met uitzoeken wat er van dit merk nog bestond en kennis aanwezig is.
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“To protect your privacy” this invisible app automatically scans all your images: Google System APK Transparency | Android Binary Transparency | Google for Developers
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/10
Remember [Wayback/Archive] Apple Provides Further Clarity on Why It Abandoned Plan to Detect CSAM in iCloud Photos | MacRumors Forums?
Google now forces a similar thing.
Uninstall this as soon as it appears on your Android phone: [Wayback/Archive] Google System APK Transparency | Android Binary Transparency | Google for Developers
Via [Wayback/Archive] jack: “You remember #Apple scanning a…” – Mastodon @ SDF:
If you have an #Android #phone, a new app that doesn’t appear in your menu has been automatically and silently installed (or soon will be) by #Google. It is called #AndroidSystemSafetyCore and does exactly the same – scan all images on your device as well as all incoming ones (via messaging). The new spin is that it does so “to protect your #privacy“.You can uninstall this app safely via System -> Apps.
For more information, see:
- [Wayback/Archive] Guys help some app called android system safetycore installed automatically : antivirus
- [Wayback/Archive] What’s new in the November 2024 Google System Updates [U: 11/25]
- [Wayback/Archive] Google Messages adding ‘Sensitive Content [nudity] Warnings’
- [Wayback/Archive] android system safety core – GrapheneOS Discussion Forum
Query: [Wayback/Archive] “Android System Safety Core” – Google Search
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Refrain from hacking all the things (:
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/10
It’s hard to not hack all the things…
- [Archive.is] Jilles🏳️🌈 on Twitter: “I SHOULD NOT ROOT THE TABLET… “
- [Archive.is] ＣｏｄｅＡｓｍ 💾 on Twitter: “Mijn vrouw houd me vaak al tegen. Heb al paar keer bij de AH die scanners laten crashen. Maar eh, speciale app lijkt dat, soort van kiosk mode ofzo… “
- [Archive.is ]Jilles🏳️🌈 on Twitter: “Single quote in de Blokker search dan is het over en uit met de kiosk. #bobbytables… “
–jeroen
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Dr. Nadia Drake has discovered both her dads Golden Record pulsar map, and the sketches for the Arecibo message
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/07
Ain’t history extra lovely when someone discovers the original drawings of what her dad had sent to space?
Back in the 1970s, Frank Drake did two memorable things: he helped design the Pioneer plaque (sent to space in 1972 on Pioneer 11) containing among other things pulsar map, and later helped design the 1977 Voyager Golden Record (sent to space in 1977 on both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2) again containing the pulsar map. In between, he helped designed Arecibo message broadcasted to space in 1974.
And guess what: today is the 50th anniversary of that message being broadcasted.
Almost 10 years ago, in 2016 his daughter Nadia Drake found back the original drawing of the pulsar map: Read the rest of this entry »
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If you thought you found cheap directional WiFi antennas (2.4GHz or 5Ghz), then think twice
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/07
Nice [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @jhewitt_net on Thread Reader App that started with [Wayback/Archive] Joseph Hewitt on Twitter: “I bought some cheap aliexpress directional 2.4GHz antennas. As expected, they aren’t very good. (A small thread)”:
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Mailen en communiceren zonder Musk en Trump: Cloud Kootwijk – Bert Hubert’s writings
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/06
Hopelijk lukt dit iemand van de grond te krijgen, maar het zal wel stranden in regelgeving (net als GPT-NL wat tegen licentieproblemen aan loopt¹ en GEITje – wat vanwege licentieproblemen uit de lucht gehaald is ²) [Wayback/Archive] Mailen en communiceren zonder Musk en Trump: Cloud Kootwijk – Bert Hubert’s writings.
Via onder meer:
- [Wayback/Archive] Jurjen Heeck 🍋: “Mailen en communiceren zonder …” – Mastodon.nl door Stichting Activityclub
Mailen en communiceren zonder Musk en Trump: Cloud Kootwijk – @bert_hubert
“Nu in 2025 heeft Europa, Nederland en specifiek de Nederlandse overheid, besloten om al z’n communicatie en bestandsverwerking via Amerikaanse servers te laten lopen, gepaaid door slappe en ongeloofwaardige beloftes dat het wel goedkomt. Dat de Amerikaanse computers in de EU zouden staan doet namelijk niets voor de beschikbaarheid en vertrouwelijkheid.”
- [Wayback/Archive] laAckxtra: “Prima stuk van @bert_hubert ” …” – Mastodon.nl door Stichting Activityclub
Prima stuk van @bert_hubert ” Maar het is een ONUITSTAANBARE gedachte dat onze overheid, politie, defensie, ziekenhuizen en zorg binnenkort totaal niet meer met elkaar kunnen communiceren zonder Amerikaans goedvinden! Of zonder dat ze meelezen in onze (belasting)bestanden en berichten, overigens.”
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Stable Diffusion – a Hugging Face Space by stabilityai
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/06
I’m anxious to see how some 2.5 years after the introduction, Stable Diffusion has evolved.
By then, you could run it either on-line at for instance [Wayback/Archive] Stable Diffusion – a Hugging Face Space by stabilityai:
Stable Diffusion DemoStable Diffusion is a state of the art text-to-image model that generates images from text.
or run it yourself if your GPU was powerful enough by using the base repository [Wayback/Archive] CompVis/stable-diffusion or one of the many forks: [Wayback/Archive] Forks · CompVis/stable-diffusion (back then some 1.4k!)
The original announcement was [Wayback/Archive] Stable Diffusion Public Release — Stability.Ai.
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 