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woutersf

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Gets things done.
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woutersf··on Game Engine White Papers: Commander Keen
If you want to play it you can do that here: https://www.playdosgames.com/play/commander-keen-4
woutersf··on Drupal launches community-funded AI Initiative
And the announcement: https://new.drupal.org/ai/announcement
woutersf··on Drupal launches community-funded AI Initiative
Related blogpost: https://dri.es/accelerating-ai-innovation-in-drupal
woutersf··on We identified a North Korean hacker who tried to get a job
What do you mean by this (genuinely curious).
woutersf··on Obituary for a quiet life (2023)
Yep and they did not have insulation obligations and what not. A house was much simpler back then too (i think). European here so i could be biased.
woutersf··on A disgruntled federal employee's 1980s desk calendar (2018)
About the drawing: i draw like this on everything too. Agendas, todo lists. Its not like i want to do this. Its to keep my fingers busy. I can attest that some people’s paper is filled with drawings ugly and nice. I cant speak about the authenticity of this document.
woutersf··on Deleting Software I Wrote Upon Leaving Employment of a Company
I agree. Put a modal in it, the trial period is over, contact x for renewall.
woutersf··on Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]
I call these problems ticking time bombs. This way business has a catchy name to use for the thing they dont understand, its also very clear this needs to be looked at.
woutersf··on My PHP Problems
This sentence does not make sense and still I understood it perfectly. It's the reason I love PHP over JS.
woutersf··on How Group Chats Rule the World
That would be awesome
woutersf··on Get ready to hear more about "pre-internet" times
Before internet times I had a girlfiend that i often called. That was our main connection. After our breakup(dont remember how that happened) I lost her number and forgot her last name. She could be dead and I wouldn’t know.
woutersf··on Fixing annoying blue standby lights
Only mildly related but just as annoying; old cars would have a dimmer button to reduce the backlight in the dashboard.

With all the screens in midern cars, even the minimum brightness is too bright for me driving in the night.it wont let your eyes adapt to the dark.

My last Hyundai had a moon button to turn off screen but that was an exception ithink.

I have driven hours with a cloth over the screen of my skoda octavia in the night.

Please let me turn off the screen for dark night driving, thank you.

woutersf··on What happens when a reservoir goes dry
Roman aquaducts come to mind
woutersf··on Blue Zones, where people reach age 100 at 10 times greater rates
Recently there was a study on here that said the sun is good for you. And its effects were underrated.it threw a shadow over big pharma because 1 in very many gets skin cancer.
woutersf··on Found: The ‘how to draw’ books Pablo Picasso created for his daughter
In some sports it is also a saying that you improve your game drastically the moment you start teaching. I think in some way in tech this is also true. Be a mentor !
woutersf··on The House That Vanished
Maybe everybody got their share. The materials had to go somewhere.
woutersf··on Ask HN: Best “I brought down production” story?
I have some of these.

Does self DDOS count?

We worked for Flanders radio and television (site was one of Flanders biggest radio stations). The site was a angularjs Frontend with a CMS backend.

The 40x and 80x pages fetched content from the backend to show the relevant message (so editors can tweak it). The morning they started selling tickets for Tomorrowland I deploy the frontend breaking the js fetching a non existing 5x page, looping to doing this constantly. in a matter of seconds the servers were on fire and I was sitting sweating next to the operations people. Luckily they were very capable and were able to restore the peace quite quickly.

And also (other radio station) deleting the DB in production. And also (on a Bank DB2) my coworker changing the AMOUNT in all rows of cash plans in stead of in 1 row (and OR and braquets and trust you know).

woutersf··on Ask HN: I am PHP developer who want to contribute to open source projects
Contributing to Drupal modules or underlying (symfony and other) libraries is very fulfilling. And the conferences are really nice (and big) with lots of interesting people there with all sorts of problems. There is all kinds of difficult there if you like difficult.
woutersf··on This maze looks familiar
Did you contact them?
woutersf··on Why Europeans Don't Refrigerate Their Eggs
Belgium also no refrigeration...
woutersf··on One of my Drupal sites was hacked
how did you find this, and what to do with it now?
woutersf··on One of my Drupal sites was hacked
[indiana jones whip gif] http://www.abc.net.au/news/linkableblob/5057546/data/indiana... in it for the adventure :)
woutersf··on One of my Drupal sites was hacked
Yes I will advise my client to change hosting to a proper hosting company.

I am interested in how it operates. Is it as simple as : "It runs the remote php file and adds whatever html?" or is there more to it?

I find similar functions in all the files (error_404/http_request_custom/getUseragent/getReferer/convertIpToString/getIp)

woutersf··on One of my Drupal sites was hacked
Thanks for your comment. I will advise my client to take a proper hosting instead. "Getting hacked" was only one of the many trouble we had (and I advised for other hosting in the past already).
woutersf··on One of my Drupal sites was hacked
haha no, the 1-5.php I found a long time ago (7 Yrs or something like that). I just kept it becaus I thought it was cool you could'n mail them (gmail thinks they are viruses). The drupal 7.22 hack was for a client who against my advice wanted to choose own hosting server (from a friend). So I'm not really bothered they got hacked. It's just cool dissecting this stuff.
woutersf··on One of my Drupal sites was hacked
I have also added somme older scripts I found over time in this repo: https://github.com/wouters-frederik/hack_scripts They are not obfuscated as much.
woutersf··on Would you buy a device that keeps you awake while driving?
Airbags are do-gooder tech too, and they save lives. If implemented well it could be as hidden and unnoticed too. Saab and lexus use the described technique to monitor the driver in expensive models.
woutersf··on Would you buy a device that keeps you awake while driving?
You are right, I am now much more attentive for this, but much people aren't.

<quote> The need for anti-sleep alarms is no joke. A poll conducted by the National Sleep Foundation showed that 60 percent of Americans have driven while feeling sleepy, and 37 percent admit to falling asleep at the wheel in the past year. In fact, sleepy driving can be deadly: The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reports that drowsy driving causes more than 100,000 car crashes -- and kills more than 1,500 people -- each year [source: Fenton].</quote>