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Links to HTML versions of RFC’s need to move from “tools” to “datatracker” – Meta Stack Exchange

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/07

Some work to do replacing dead IETF RFC and draft links in my blog posts.

From the accepted answer on [Wayback/Archive.is] Links to HTML versions of RFC’s need to move from “tools” to “datatracker” – Meta Stack Exchange:

  1. [http/https]://tools.ietf.org/html/[rfc/RFC] became https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc network-wide
  2. [http/https]://tools.ietf.org/html/draft- became https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-

>Both of these should conform to the reply we received from IETF.

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Posted in C, C++, Carbon, Development, Power User, SocialMedia, Software Development, Web Development, WordPress, WordPress | Leave a Comment »

Strive for a work environment that allows for continuous improvement over delayed perfection

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/06

Interesting picture posted by [Wayback/Archive] Syed Balkhi on X: “It always seems impossible until it’s done.”

Regrettably, Syed forgot to attribute the source, as the picture is a few years older, from [Wayback/Archive] Mélodie | Visual Ideas on X: “Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection”.

You should strive for a working environment that allows this:

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Ghostbin – lightweight, but unmaintained

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/06

A while ago, I saw a [Wayback/Archive.is] Ghostbin url, a Pastebin type of text storage site, so I got curious.

It seems the code (mostly Go and JavaScript) is on GitHub, but unmaintained software for years.

Here are some URLs I found:

I got there via [Archive.is] Kristian Köhntopp on Twitter: “Using ML^wSQL to make Twitch a safe space. … Technology prevails!… “ who pointed to [Wayback/Archive.is] Ghostbin (part of a SQL script that tries to make Twitch a “safe” place). That was a follow-up on [Wayback/Archive.is] Reddit: Over 120GB of Twitch website data has been leaked online (source code, encrypted passwords, streamer payouts, etc.) : Twitch

Oh, I also learned about other open source paste systems: ZeroBin is unmaintained software as well ([Wayback/Archive.is] since mid 2016), but got forked into PrivateBin.

Some more links:

–jeroen

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Posted in Development, Go (golang), Software Development | Leave a Comment »

If you use web-logon for your app, show the web-browser pop-up including the URL (via @wesbos on Twitter)

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/05

Edge browser Window without address bar of a Microsoft logon page for wesbos@gmail.com not indicating what the logon is for.

Edge browser Window without address bar of a Microsoft logon page for wesbos@gmail.com not indicating what the logon is for.

[Wayback/Archive] Thread by @wesbos on Thread Reader App

Every single app that uses a popup to sign in needs to stop hiding the address bar.

There is no way to test if its a legit website and 1Password doesn’t work

Without this, your logon borders on a dark pattern which can easily be abused by scammers.

Basically there are three things to make very clear for any logon page belonging to an actually executable: what you are actually logging on to, for and with.

Preferably your application also makes very clear that the logon page actually belongs to the application executable (despite users can figure out the application itself through for instance the Task Manager, or Process Explorer).

For web based logon, this last step is not possible, so for that it is really important to show the URL and the relation of the URL to the application (especially if you use a 3rd party logon like a Microsoft account – formerly Microsoft Passport, Google Account or Facebook account like was popular in OpenID heydays decade surrounding 2010).

Tweet:

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Bookmarklet idea: find Wikipedia entry for currently selected text, then (when editing in WordPress) make the selected text link to it

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/05

Two stage bookmarklet idea (so if will be easier to create this in an agile fashion):

  1. create a bookmarklet that looks up the currently selected text in Wikipedia (or another source)
  2. modify the current selection to link to that Wikipedia entry (convenient when editing blog posts)

Hopefully these links will help me getting started:

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Posted in Bookmarklet, Development, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Web Browsers, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

Summer 2024: Our audit of Homebrew | Trail of Bits Blog

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/04

In the summer of 2024, something interesting happened in the Homebrew world: [Wayback/Archive] Our audit of Homebrew | Trail of Bits Blog.

This is really cool, while not only it caused some fixes of by then unknown issues, but also improved the various processes that already made Homebrew such a great tool by focusing on these aspects:

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How to check if your device meets Windows 11 system requirements after changing device hardware

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/04

For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] How to check if your device meets Windows 11 system requirements after changing device hardware

Press Windows logo key + or select Search, type pc health check, and select PC Health Check from the list of results.

The trick os to install and run the above tool:

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Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 11 | Leave a Comment »

Kris auf chaos.social: “Fernfusion?” -> Fernfusion!

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/01

[Wayback/Archive] Kris: “@Natanox @moranaga Lizenz: do whatever you want with it…” – chaos.social

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My E61 BMW dashboard showed a yellow icon with a car on a lift: it meant the battery was running low

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/01

DIY resetting service "due" lights… - Page 5 - BMW 1 Series Coupe Forum / 1  Series Convertible Forum (1M / tii / 135i / 128i / Coupe / Cabrio /  Hatchback) (BMW E82 E88 128i 130i 135i)It looks like my E61 needs the battery to be charged at least every few weeks. Need to figure out why.

If I don’t, then the light on the right shows.

At first I thought this might be a key-fob issue (which was also running low on batteries), but that is a different icon. A few weeks later without using the car, date and time in the car were being reset, so it is definitely a car battery charge issue.

Some links:

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Block 185.235.84.0/22 (which ad broker criteo – used by WetterOnline/WeerOnline/others port-scans) via Sven222@Friendica Social Network

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/31

[Wayback/Archive] Friendica Social Network | Sven222 @ Friendica Social Network:

Also, falls jemand UFW am laufen hat und keinen Bock auf criteo hat:
edited: UFW Regel nach Hinweis aus Kommentaren angepasst.
ufw deny out from any to 185.235.84.0/22

Or [Wayback/Archive] Tobias Klausmann: “@sven222 Bei mir ist nftables …” – mas.to:

@sven222 Bei mir ist nftables statt ufw, ich hab dann das hier gemacht:

ip daddr 185.235.84.0/22 tcp dport 443 jump rd
ip daddr 185.235.84.0/22 tcp dport 80 jump rd

rd” it eine chain, die normal rejectet (also wie “port ist zu” aussieht), aber bei hohen Paketraten zu “drop” wechselt.

Oh, and WetterOnline were the ones that forced the German state weather agency to limit the usability of their free app: [Wayback/Archive] BGH-Urteil: Staatlicher Wetterdienst muss Gratis-App beschränken | heise online.

For that reason alone, WetterOnline and their obvious local brands are blocked here, as is criteo.

If you want to read more: [Wayback/Archive] WetterOnline | DE – Criteo.com

--jeroen

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