Know why and what you (don’t) measure [Wayback/Archive] Meeting Cartoon # 512 – ANDERTOONS
So, as you can see, customer satisfaction is up considerably since phasing out the complaint forms.
Meeting Cartoon # 512 – ANDERTOONS: customer satisfaction
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How to reset an Anker PowerCore+ 26,800 USB power bank
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/21
I have a few Anker PowerCore+ 26,800 USB power banks of which one would not show the charger lights any more. This is how to reset these power banks (should also work with other Anker power banks).
Below is how to reset it; after that the charging indicator started functioning again:
- [Wayback/Archive] Complety dead PowerCore+ 26,800 Power Delivery – Questions & Answers – Anker Community
Try another outlet. If that doesn’t work, plug it into itself.Take a USB cable and plug that into the output and plug the output into the input. This will reset the battery.
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Supporting Young People After a Distressing Event (Alys Cole-King, Dom Thompson, Jess Read, Mike Armiger, Knut Schroeder, Tom Cole-King, Andrea Walraven-Thissen)
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/18
Important evidence-informed ‘quick read’ guide: [Wayback] Supporting Young People After a Distressing Event.
Via [WaybackSave/Archive] Dr Alys Cole-King on X: “Important advice to support young people after a distressing event. Please read and share our evidence-informed ‘quick read’ guide Thanks @Walrathis @drdomthompson @MikeArmiger @jk__read We sincerely hope this will help. Thoughts and prayers with everyone affected #Southport” which initially only had a screenshot (see below the signature) but later had a co-author provide a link to the PDF.
Without downloading the PDF document, you can view it on-line here: [Wayback PDF View/PDF View].
Link to the PDF view via this thread:
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How can I enable the Windows Task Scheduler History recording? (via Stack Overflow)
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/18
For my link archive, as apparently the history recording for the Windows (not just server) Task Scheduler is disabled [Wayback How can I enable the Windows Server Task Scheduler History recording? – Stack Overflow
- Open an elevated Task Scheduler (ie. right-click on the Task Scheduler icon and choose Run as administrator)
- In the Actions pane (right pane, not the actions tab), click Enable All Tasks History
That’s it. Not sure why this isn’t on by default, but it isn’t.
At the time of writing, I did not have energy to figure out which steps on the console to take to enable this history.
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AI generates covertly racist decisions about people based on their dialect | Nature
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/17
LLM are just statistic text generators which depend on the texts they have been trained which and alleviating this usually makes things worse: [Wayback/Archive] AI generates covertly racist decisions about people based on their dialect | Nature
Related:
- [Wayback/Archive] LLMs produce racist output when prompted in African American English
- [Wayback/Archive] AI worse than humans at summarising information, trial finds “A test of AI for Australia’s corporate regulator found that the technology might actually make more work for people, not less.”
Of course these issues are not limited to natural language LLM: artificial computer language LLM are also full of training issues that are likely very hard to resolve. What if covert organisations succeed poisoning LLM platforms with malicious code?
Via
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Kris on Twitter: “On a scale of 1-8, how pessimistic is your code?”
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/17
Interesting series of tweets about what to harden your application for in a reply to [Wayback/Archive] Kris on Twitter: “On a scale of 1-8, how pessimistic is your code? “Write code to provision a Google Chrome Extension for an end users Mac.”” which I saved to [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @isotopp on Thread Reader App (actually the scale is 1-9):
Extensions are stored in a 32 letter directory in the user profile in the Extensions directory.
i.e.
/Users/kris/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Extensions/<32letters>
- The User has set up their Mac so that their home directory is not in /Users.
- The User has set up their Mac so that the home directory name is different from their login user name.
- The User has multiple user profiles in Chrome, so that the path is not
$HOME/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default, but some other profile directory.- The target profile is not “
Default“.- The target name is not a directory, but a symlink to some interesting system config file or directory instead.
- The target name already exists, and is a file, not a directory.
- The target name is a file, and has permissions set to
000(chmod a-rwx).- The file has an ACL that denies deletion to the user.
$ chmod +a "$USER deny delete" <32chars>- The file has been
chflags‘ed toschg(immutable; irrevocable, unless the machine is rebooted to single user mode).
The above idea was for Chrome Extensions, so the below links are relevant, but it could be extended to any installer use case.
- [Wayback/Archive] Apps und Erweiterungen automatisch installieren – Chrome Enterprise and Education-Hilfe
- [Wayback/Archive] Automatically install apps and extensions – Chrome Enterprise and Education Help
–jeroen
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Five Geek Social Fallacies – Plausibly Deniable
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/16
So relatable: [Wayback/Archive] Five Geek Social Fallacies – Plausibly Deniable
Via: [Wayback/Archive] Ian Coldwater 📦💥 on X: “It has come to my attention that there are younger folks who haven’t heard of Five Geek Social Fallacies. It was written in 2003 and the social dynamics stay real. Once you read it, you’ll see them everywhere.”
--jeroen
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Need to check out the Windows AutoLogonSID registry value and other autologon security features in Windows
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/16
On my list of things to look at via [Wayback/Archive] “AutoLogonSID” – Google Search:
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Accessibility Myths – debunked
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/15
[Wayback/Archive] Accessibility Myths has great debunks.
Quite a few of them are phrased with a web perspective in mind. That’s just because of prevalence. These myths are there on native platforms (mobile, Windows, MacOS and Linux) as well and can be debunked in the same way.
Similar myths are even there for real life: accessibility of buildings, signage, streets, you name it are just that and can be debunked with common sense.
An inclusive society actually is cheaper than a exclusive one, as it benefits everyone. The same holds for your software.
Related: [Wayback/Archive] Learn Accessibility | web.dev
Via:
- [Wayback/Archive] Accessibility Awareness on X: “When you make the pitch for accessibility, be prepared for pushback. There are several myths and misconceptions, so it’s good to be aware of what they are and how to dispel them.”
- [Wayback/Archive] Accessibility Awareness on X: “”Learn Accessibility” is a course that takes you through the essentials for building accessible websites and web apps. Created for both beginners and advanced users, this course can be taken beginning to end, or used as a reference for specific topics.”
--jeroen
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Some winget packages that will get you x86 or x64 versions of vcredist140
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/15
A while ago I downloaded some internal tooling that required vcredist140.dll (and related DLLs).
From the name you cannot see if that is a 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) dependency so you often have to trial and error to figure out which one you need.
I adopted some winget package install command-lines with package IDs current at the time of writing this blog post; similar should be available at the time of publication:
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 