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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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:
https://ghostbin.com (the project got renamed from ghostbin into spectre)pst.klgrth.io seems more up to date with the source code as it has an active about page: [Wayback/Archive.is] About – GhostbinI 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:
PrivateBin is a minimalist, open source online pastebin where the server has zero knowledge of pasted data.Data is encrypted and decrypted in the browser using 256bit AES in Galois Counter mode.This is a fork of ZeroBin, originally developed by Sébastien Sauvage. ZeroBin was refactored to allow easier and cleaner extensions. PrivateBin has many more features than the original ZeroBin. It is, however, still fully compatible to the original ZeroBin 0.19 data storage scheme. Therefore, such installations can be upgraded to PrivateBin without losing any data.
–jeroen
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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.
[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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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/05
Two stage bookmarklet idea (so if will be easier to create this in an agile fashion):
Hopefully these links will help me getting started:
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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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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 + S 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 by jpluimers on 2024/11/01
[Wayback/Archive] Kris: “@Natanox @moranaga Lizenz: do whatever you want with it…” – chaos.social
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/01
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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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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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/31
A few of my git repositories and technical surroundings (like pages) should outlast my life expectancy, for instance the ones supporting the IT infrastructure of my mentally retarded brother after I pass away.
Most of the involved repositories have no write-activity (they are either documentation that the people can use after I passed away, or are semi-static web-pages that require TLS in order to keep functioning; GitLab provides an automatic update mechanism for that which is based on Let’s Encrypt).
Summer 2022, GitLab caused quite some stir when they planned to first delete dormant repositories. Links on tose below.
Of course I could move to GitHub, but that lacks access control through project hierarchy provided by GitLab and could implement a similar repository dormancy scheme in the future.
Using an external “keepalive” mechanism only induces a game of walls and ladders [Wayback/Archive] (likely requiring intervention after I die) and also makes the infrastructure more brittle so I proposed a lump sum plan.
Some links for my reminder:
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