Recently someone commited a large set of LLM (Large Language Model often wrongly called AI or Artificial Intelligence as at best they are an AI model, or better phrased machine learning model, not even a machine learning reality¹) assistance files to the pixelfed repository. This caused quite some turmoil resulting in pixelfed banning AI generated contributions. This is for good reason: too many LLM generated commits lack quality control.

Interesting: [Wayback/Archive] Low Power current measuring with Nordic Power Profiler Kit 2 - YouTube It's a review of [Wayback/Archive] Power Profiler Kit II - Get started - nordicsemi.com. The Power Profiler Kit II (PPK2) is a standalone unit, which can measure and optionally supply currents all the way from sub-uA and as high as 1A on all Nordic DKs, in addition to external hardware.

Interesting question with (too few but) nice comments: [Wayback/Archive] Tom Schuster: "To my security peeps: Was the …" - Hachyderm.io To my security peeps: Was the introduction of widespread fuzzing similar to AI-based bug hunting now, or is this really a different beast? @evilpie IMHO it's very similar, definitely larger scale though @buherator @evilpie agree that it is similar, it feels like the larger scale is mainly because the security industry grew and many people experiment with LLMs.

Just in case I ever want to migrate a repository from SourceForge to GitHub: [Wayback/Archive] ipmitool/sf2gh: migrates tickets to GH from SF This was developed for the Gene Ontology but is generic and will work for any project. The project consists of two files, the extensive [Wayback/Archive] sf2gh/README.md at master · ipmitool/sf2gh · GitHub…

[Wayback/Archive] amp8888 comments on PSA: The ASUS Hyper M.2 x16 Gen 4 Card Is VERY Long (~27cm) via [Wayback/Archive] PSA: The ASUS Hyper M.2 x16 Gen 4 Card Is VERY Long (~27cm) : homelab Just a quick PSA to everyone out there: the PCIe gen 4 version of the ASUS Hyper M.2 x16 card is very long, so take that into consideration if you're planning to use them in a server.

Ronald Koeman heeft zijn dankbaarheid geuit voor de steunbetuigingen na het overlijden van zijn vrouw Bartina. De voormalige bondscoach voelt zich "gedragen" door "de enorme hoeveelheid liefde en steu...

Onze druiven hebben een sterk wisselend gehalte aan pectine, daarom onderstaand wat linkjes zodat een volgende badge jam hopelijk een consistenter resultaat aan dikte geeft. Pectine lost niet makkelijk op en kan klontjes geven. Daarom is het vaak makkelijk om het met een heel klein beetje water tot een gelijkmatige pasta te roeren en dan pas aan je kokende fruitmengsel toe te voegen.

I got a "The signed image's hash is not allowed (DB)" when booting an OpenSUSE Linux ISO Image: [Wayback/Archive] p.png (624×351) It was the signed image ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/linux/opensuse/distribution/leap/15.5/iso/openSUSE-Leap-15.5-DVD-x86_64-Build491.1-Media.iso which isn't trusted by Hyper-V to perform UEFI secure boot. Technically, the UEFI secure boot specifications support adding acceptable digital signatures in order to allow booting from media not signed by Microsoft, but alas, Hyper-V does not allow that option as per [

Despite, or maybe thanks to, being a duplicate I like this [Wayback/Archive] command line - How can I view all Wi-Fi network names (SSIDs) in my area in the terminal? - Ask Different (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Jandroid and [Wayback/Archive] Ray de Groat) The reason is that unlike similar questions it has a single answer that works on more recent MacOS versions:

A long time ago I mentioned remapkey.exe. It was part of various Microsoft Resource Kit versions and still available from the Wayback Machine at [Wayback rktools.exe: install, then run remapkey.exe as admin]. It however is unmaintained and does not support quite a few keys. So for more than 20 years now, there has been the still maintained [

This Tweet from a year ago still is too relevant today: [WaybackSave/Archive] hayden on X: "there's too many people with "AI/ML" in their bio asking what this image is." [Wayback/Archive] hayden on X: "this is who you're arguing with online " [Wayback/Archive] G0yRztcXUAAen1f.png:orig (1400×700) Via: [Wayback/Archive] 4censord :nfp: 🔜@eth0: "Stealing to add alt text …" - UnFUG Mastodon

[Wayback/Archive] Hashtopolis HashtopolisHashtopolis is a distributed password recovery tool working with hashcat Via: [Wayback/Archive] security.nl on Twitter: "NFI onderhoudt opensourcesoftware voor kraken wachtwoorden smartphones #securitynl" [Wayback/Archive] NFI onderhoudt opensourcesoftware voor kraken wachtwoorden smartphones - Security.NL --jeroen

When joining or assessing a team or taking up a codebase, be sure to run these five git commands to get a quick overview on the state of affairs: [Wayback/Archive] The Git Commands I Run Before Reading Any Code These five commands take a couple minutes to run. They won’t tell you everything. But you’ll know which code to read first, and what to look for when you get there.

A while back (actually: a long time ago), in JavaScript Bookmarklet to enable Mastodon publishing for a WordPress.com post that is edited in the Classic Editor I promised to improve that code. Actually I did improve the gist, but I forgot to write the blog post on it. So below is the old code, new code, and explanation of the improvements.

Op onze 24e trouwdag en de uitvaart van mijn oudste oom (ook een soort reünie) was voorafgaand aan [Wayback/Archive] taptoe Lisse als onderdeel van [Wayback/Archive] Feestweek Lisse 2026, ook de reünie ter gelegenheid van het 70-jarig jubileum van het [Wayback/Archive] RLO, ofwel het Rijnlands Lyceum in Oegstgeest…

Elke zoveel jaar is hier weer ophef over, dus tijd om te iedereen te herinneren dat dit 30 jaar geleden was: [Wayback/Archive] Jongeren vinden Internet saai - Archief - TROUW. Inmiddels staat het stuk - minder goed in paragrafen ingedeeld - achter een betaalmuur op [WaybackSave/Archive] Jongeren vinden Internet saai | Trouw…

[Wayback/Archive] Wie du eine vergilbte Klobrille ganz einfach wieder weiß bekommst! - YouTube … Als Hausmittel eignet sich Backofenspray gut zum Saubermachen eines gelben Klodeckels oder Klobrille. … --jeroen

Need to figure out how to script [Wayback/Archive] How can I make WiFi passwords per-user rather than per-system? - The Old New Thing This is hampered by the first link in the article generating a 404, the text of the link containing soft hyphens, a plain Google Search for script just failing. Some links that I figured out which should help me:

For my future self: [Wayback/Archive] Jan-Piet Mens :: Deploying SSH host keys and certificates with Ansible --jeroen

Closely looking at the archived versions of [Wayback/Archive] JavaScript Bookmarklet for the WordPress classic editor which enables mastodon publishing (assuming you have one mastodon publishing account enabled under / I found out there is a link gist.github.com/mine. Investigating it, I found it has special meaning depending on being logged on to GitHub or not:

Food for thought, and the on-line translations actually do a good job on it: [Wayback/Archive] Nog nooit was het zo makkelijk om het verkeerde product te bouwen | De Tijd. It explains that nowadays, it never has been easier to quickly build the wrong product. A comparison is made between vide coding making this way easier with the covod-19 period where also a plot of products were built quickly and failed miserably because - like most vibe coding "products" - end-users were not involved in the design.

Reminder to self as I see see people disposing [Wayback/Archive] HttpClient Class (System.Net.Http) instances: [Wayback/Archive] You're using HttpClient wrong and it is destabilizing your software | ASP.NET Monsters HttpClient is different. Although it implements the IDisposable interface it is actually a shared object. This means that under the covers it is 

A song I am kind of ashamed how true especially the last phrase is: [Wayback/Archive] Your Ancestor - Nynke Laverman (Official Music Video) - YouTube. I got referred to it exactly one year ago in a Mastodon comment on my blog post Yes the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders.

Since Elon is trying to burn some USD 44 billion as rapidly as possible, many on-line communities that grew big on Twitter are now trying to re-establish themselves on other social network services. One of them is Mastodon, the Fediverse based federated or distributed social network. Like Twitter (or maybe "unlike Twitter", because of the tremendous API…

Today, 42 years ago the famous Infocom game The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy got released. There is a bit of confusion on that date, as the above Wikipedia page mentions November 1984 for the USA and January 1985 for the EU. Those are the time frames the boxes reached the public, but the actual release on 1984-09-14 is documented in [

Note that actual writes to SSD can be just as slow as to HDD. [Wayback/Archive] How does Linux really handle writes? really well describes writes to HDD which equally holds for other operating systems (like Windows) with the exception that the SYNC systems calls are named differently. From the article: Here’s how the write really works.

De beste podcast voor angry nerds (met onder meer veel infosec content): [WaybackSave/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers @wiert@mastodon.social on X: "@ngrynerds en via de RSS feeds in je favoriete podcast app of feed-processor vind je hier de Angry Nerds Podcast en Specials terug: - Podcast: … - Specials: … (dacht ik ooit via @CrazyA99nl gekregen, waarvoor eeuwige dank)" / X…

For my link archive (see related tweets why): [Wayback/Archive] Jilles Groenendijk on Twitter: "Big shoutout to @paderijk who helped me kickstart the #LoraWAN addiction and @SchizoDuckie for supplying me the extra hardware. Gateway: ... Scanner Software: ... Scanner Hardware: ... My Map: ..." Gateway: [Wayback/Archive] antratek.nl/the-things-indoor-gateway Scanner Software: [Wayback/Archive…

Reminder to self to one day create a conference session on Delphi and composite controls: [Wayback/Archive] delphi - Is it wise to create composite controls? - Stack Overflow. Too few, even die-hard, Delph developers realise the meaning of these concepts: Forms Frames Panels Controls Component templates Controls that can and cannot have focus Parentship Ownership…

Interesting: [Wayback/Archive] The CAN Bus Companion (+ GRATIS CAN-module) | Elektor Comes with free [Wayback/Archive] CAN-module MCP2515 | Elektor. Via [Wayback/Archive] MagPi Nederland on Twitter: "The CAN Bus Companion (+ GRATIS CAN-module) Order Now #canbus #elektronica #arduino" --jeroen

TL;DR: AI safeguards aren't, not even to protect humans. [Wayback/Archive] We let AI buy a tank and drone, it does exactly what experts warned - YouTube --jeroen

Hack your home: [Wayback/Archive] Chris Bensen on Twitter: "Web server on @arduino connected to a MOSFET, soldered 3 wires to garage door opener and bada bing bada boom, I can open the garage door from any web browser. Next up, Home Kit integration, Arduino sensors for door state, clean it up, then blog it if there is interest?"

Naming of the Golmar series is confusing: Stadia, Tekna, Szena. Documentation links:

An important tool for inclusion and accessibility awareness about colour usage: [Wayback/Archive] CoreyGinnivan/whocanuse: WhoCanUse is a tool that brings attention and understanding to how color contrast can affect different people with visual impairments.. It is online at [Wayback/Archive] WhoCanUse and mainly written in JavaScript and CSS. Via [Wayback/Archive…

On the to do list is do this for my own blog: [Wayback/Archive] Static version of my blog – twm's blog. His static site is very rudimentary, but also loads very quickly. Just take a look at [Wayback/Archive] twm's blog – Programming is thinking, not typing (was: Common sense isn't) TWM set this up a few years after introducing the static [

For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] How to restrict a Google search to results of a specific language? - Web Applications Stack Exchange (thanks [Wayback/Archive] ZygD): 1. Web interface language: hl= Example: www.google.com/search?q=vilnius&hl=lt 2. Pages in specified language: lr=lang_ Example: www.google.com/search?q=vilnius&lr=lang_lt 3. Pages originating from specified country: cr=country Example: www.google.com/search?q=vilnius&cr=countryLT Note that the two country code characters have to be in UPPERCASE !

I am so glad that TWM wrote this down: [Wayback/Archive] How to export Google Maps Timeline – twm's blog A while ago, Google changed Maps to no longer store the Timeline data on Google’s servers but only on an Android phone. It also supposedly encrypts that data. Optionally you can enable a “cloud backup” which stores an encrypted backup of that data on Google’s server so you can move your Timeline from one Android phone to another and don’t lose your history.

A nice idea to reuse your empty 3D printing filament spools: [Wayback/Archive] Make a WiFi SMART LAMP from Empty Spools - Alexa - Philips Hue - MQTT - Sound Reactive - WLED - YouTube Via [Wayback/Archive] Miro Hibler on Twitter: "@Merocle @Ultimaker Recycling? Maybe there are companies in your neighborhood(?) to whom you can send it to… Or dump them in a recycling bin (plastic)… Or, make LED lamps out of them 😜" --jeroen

[Wayback/Archive] GitHub - computerequipmentgroup/equip-1: Compact DV recorder · GitHub Compact DV recorder. Connects to any FireWire camcorder and saves footage directly to microSD. No laptop required. Supports MiniDV, DVCAM, DVCPRO, Digital8, and HDV. Controls the tape deck on supported cameras, so you can digitize an entire tape automatically. Pressing record on the camera triggers capture on the Equip-1.

Found this way after I fiddled doing this in PowerShell: [Wayback/Archive] sjmulder/netwake: Simple Wake-on-LAN utility for Windows – all the way up from 3.11, plus a CLI by [Wayback/Archive] sjmulder (Sijmen J. Mulder). Unlike PowerShell, this works on a way broader range of Windows versions (: (note that on Windows 3.11, you need to install…

This is the reason you cannot limit your skeets from harvesting by machine learning sites: [Wayback/Archive] Bluesky Firehose Explained: Real-Time Data Streaming with Jetstream & ATProtocol | Skyscraper Basically the "posts only visible only to people who are signed in." is a suggestion to the BlueSky UI front-end, not to the protocols in the back-end that handle your data.

A topic that will stay revant during all of our software building life: [Wayback/Archive] Kevlin Henney on Code Refactoring - Semaphore Via: [Wayback/Archive] Darko Fabijan on Twitter: "I had a great time discussing with @KevlinHenney about the value of code refactoring, managing technical debt, and balancing workload. Listen to our conversation: ..."

Interesting back-channel: [Wayback/Archive] BASE64 Over DNS - SANS Internet Storm Center covered in the blog [Wayback/Archive] SANS Stormcast Wednesday, September 3rd, 2025: Sextortiion Analysis; Covert Channel DNS/ICMP; Azure AD Secret Theft; Official FreePBX Patches Audio: [Wayback] traffic.libsyn.com/securitypodcast/9596.mp3 Video: [Wayback/Archive] SANS Stormcast Wednesday, September 3rd, 2025: Sextortiion Analysis; Covert Channel DNS/ICMP; A… - YouTube…

Cool addition on my tools list: [Wayback/Archive] mxrch/GHunt: 🕵️‍♂️ Offensive Google framework. usage: ghunt [-h] {login,email,gaia,drive} ... positional arguments: {login,email,gaia,drive} login (--clean) Authenticate GHunt to Google. email (--json) Get information on an email address. gaia (--json) Get information on a Gaia ID. drive (--json) Get information on a Drive file or folder. options: -h, --help show this help message and exit…

Preview on MacOS has a great set of zoom keyboard shortcuts. They all feel very natural, and unlike Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader, include shortcuts for one-page view and two-page view. The screenshot on the right shows all of them in the menu, as somehow a simple Google Search did only reveal a page documenting a limited set of them. So further below, I will document the list.

I edited an answer to [Wayback/Archive] git - View rendered output of a gist? - Stack Overflow¹ and it appears that Stack Overflow / Stack Exchange have introduced a WYSIWYG editor of which the help still points to the old Markdown editor. [Wayback/Archive] Markdown Editing Help - Stack Overflow The problem is that the new…

Lot's of power supplies on [Wayback/Archive] MikroTik Routers and Wireless - Products, most (except the internal ones) I listed below grouped by output voltage and amperage (and wattage which I rounded down). I didn't realise there were so many and that there basically is no consistent naming scheme. 24V

Likely what I want is not possible because of CORS or CSP (both security features, often mixed up in writings), but just in case below are some links I found. The problem at hand was that I wanted to use the functionality of a site like [Wayback/Archive] Redirect Checker | Check your Statuscode 301 vs 302…

Cool: [Wayback/Archive] ceceradio/twitter-block-chain: Chrome extension to block all users on a followers/following page. On the play store: [Wayback/Archive] Twitter Block Chain - Chrome Web Store Via: [Wayback/Archive] Ӏօղցմìçհ on Twitter: "Weet iemand een goede tool om alle volgers van iemand in een klap te blocken ? En dan liefst een tool die niet 30 dollar per maand kost .." / Twitter…