Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/31
A few years back I had an error happen a while on one of my Windows machines after a git pull: fatal: detected dubious ownership in repository at 'C:/versioned/repository' followed by a few lines with Windows SIDs (Security Identifiers) that I had to map to actual users.
I thought I had it scheduled, but my notes were in a draft post, so when I bumped into it again when upgrading an old virtual machine with new versions I finished it and scheduled it for now.
The first time I got the error was after git for Windows fixed security vulnerability [Wayback/Archive] CVE-2022-24765 and included the quote from [Wayback/Archive] Uncontrolled search for the Git directory in Git for Windows · Advisory · git-for-windows/git:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/28
For me, it is always difficult to navigate to the Amazon help pages where you can reach their chat.
These are some of the links; follow the pattern to figure out which domain part you need to replace to get to your local ones:
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/28
Hopefully by now I have given GitHub Copilot so I can put this link from a while back into more perspective: [Wayback/Archive] 8 things you didn’t know you could do with GitHub Copilot | The GitHub Blog.
I saved it for my link archive as these thought processes take me a while. The conceptual thing here is if I want to pay for products that harvest profit from the enormous time and effort invested by open source authors (in this case even after the fact, as there was no way to opt out while most of the harvesting took place). See my earlier post On my list of extensions to try in vscode: tab nine.
An alternative for parts of GitHub Copilot might be the (then working title) TLDR from [Wayback/Archive] Beyond Code (German and have the domain beyondco.de). Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/27
It has been a very long time since I played around with ripping audio from audio CDs and wrote software for audio handling. I lost access to that source code some 20 years ago, so part of this post is from memory. Hopefully that is still good memory (:
Yes, I am one of those old farts that still has computing equipment with optical drives (:
Much has improved since then, so one needs to write far less code nowadays as a of tooling is now open source or has been open source for quite some time. The hardest part was finding back CDex (which I think is still very useful especially as it handles not-so-well-handled audio CDs quite OK).
Anyway: I didn’t document much of my audio history. The only post I mentioned CDex in was Streaming your mp3 collection through an Icecast server using ezstream, which does not does it justice as back then it had been reliable for such a long time.
Funeral web-site
That web-site was horrible, especially as it was picky on audio formats. In the end, it handled 128-bit fixed bit-rate MP3 files best.
CDEX
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/26
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/25
Bookmarklets are basically URLs that execute a JavaScript function.
Sometimes you want to rely on external JavaScript files (for instance jQuery), but Bookmarklets themselves cannot do that.
Bookmarklets can modify the current page though, and use those to load a script, wait until it is loaded, then continue executing.
Often that is OK as you want to operate the Bookmarklet on that page anyway, but be careful though that you do not mess up the page by loading an incompatible script: test, test, test!
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/24
My filter removal tool broke, so while I had new ones on order, I had to figure out how many F-stops I would need to compensate for especially because I would be shooting during the evening.
Here are some links that gave me an impression:
Don’t you love the accessibility (a11y) awareness of people that put tables as images on their web-pages? The last link above did (see the image on the right below), I don’t: I love plain HTML with plain old rules and left-alignment content when it makes things more readable, so I converted it into a plain HTML table (: Read the rest of this entry »
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 