Lionel Dricot: Le Bitcoin va-t-il détruire la planète ?
Article co-rédigé avec Mathieu Jamar.Vous n’avez pas pu manquer les nombreux articles qui comparent la consommation énergétique du réseau Bitcoin à celui de différents pays. Et tous d’insister sur la...
View ArticleFrank Goossens: Preventing WP Super Cache from caching if no Slimstat in HTML
I was struggling with an occasional loss of reported traffic by SlimStat, due to my pages being cached by WP Super Cache (which is not active for logged in users) but not having SlimStatParams &...
View ArticleXavier Mertens: [SANS ISC] Malicious Bash Script with Multiple Features
I published the following diary on isc.sans.org: “Malicious Bash Script with Multiple Features“:It’s not common to find a complex malicious bash script. Usually, bash scripts are used to download a...
View ArticleDries Buytaert: Drupal hooks vs Drupal events
Jonathan Daggerhart wrote a fantastic tutorial on Drupal 8's events system. I especially liked the comparison to Drupal's traditional hook system. When reading Jonathan's tutorial, I couldn't help but...
View ArticleDries Buytaert: How Boston.gov is moving government forms online
Josh Gee, former product manager for the City of Boston's Department of Innovation and Technology, recently shared how Boston.gov identified 425 PDFs used by citizens and moved 122 of them online. Not...
View ArticleDries Buytaert: Cooking with Alexa and Drupal
When I'm home, one of the devices I use most frequently is the Amazon Echo. I use it to play music, check the weather, set timers, check traffic, and more. It's a gadget that is beginning to inform...
View ArticleXavier Mertens: SMBv1, The Phoenix of Protocols?
Everybody still reminds the huge impact that Wannacry had in many companies in 2017? The ransomware exploited the vulnerability, described in MS17-010, which abuse of the SMBv1 protocol. One of the...
View ArticleRuben Vermeersch: Jupyter lab with an Octave kernel
Octave is a good choice for getting some serious computing done (it’s largely an open-source Matlab). But for interactive exploration, it feels a bit awkward. If you’ve done any data science work...
View ArticleFrank Goossens: Long overdue: WP YouTube Lyte update
It took me way too long (Autoptimize and related stuff is great fun, but it is eating a lot of time), but I just pushed out an update to my first ever plugin; WP YouTube Lyte. From the changelog:new:...
View ArticleJohan Van de Wauw: Don't use zonal statistics in ArcGIS
Short version: Don't ever use zonal statistics as a table in arcgis. It manages to do simple calculations such as calculating an average wrong.Example of using zonal statistics between grid cells (from...
View ArticleDries Buytaert: Drupal 8.5.0 released
Earlier today, we released Drupal 8.5.0, which ships with improved features for content authors, site builders and developers. Content authors can benefit from enhanced media support and content...
View ArticleXavier Mertens: [SANS ISC] CRIMEB4NK IRC Bot
I published the following diary on isc.sans.org: “CRIMEB4NK IRC Bot“:Yesterday, I got my hands on the source code of an IRC bot written in Perl. Yes, IRC (“Internet Relay Chat”) is still alive! If the...
View ArticleFrank Goossens: Love thy brand
I ordered a mug with the logo of my favorite brand;Let there be coffee!Possibly related twitterless twaddle:Pinguïn-heuvel te Lokeren? Tijdelijke gezinsuitbreiding Kick yourself in the butt for...
View ArticleDries Buytaert: Thank you, Tiffany
I recently had the opportunity to read Tiffany Farriss' Drupal Association Retrospective. In addition to being the CEO of Palantir.net, Tiffany also served on the Drupal Association Board of Directors...
View ArticleLionel Dricot: Pour l’abolition du Like
Le like est lâche, inutile, paresseux. Il ne sert à rien, il nous entretient dans un état d’hébétude.Je ne suis pas assez courageux pour assumer, pour repartager à mon audience. Je ne suis pas assez...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: Laravel & MySQL auto-adding “on update current_timestamp()”...
The post Laravel & MySQL auto-adding “on update current_timestamp()” to timestamp fields appeared first on ma.ttias.be.We hit an interesting Laravel "issue" while developing Oh Dear! concerning a...
View ArticleDries Buytaert: Many small contributions add up to big results
I just updated my site to Drupal 8.5 and spent some time reading the Drupal 8.5 release notes. Seeing all the different issues and contributors in the release notes is a good reminder that many small...
View ArticleDries Buytaert: That "passion + learning + contribution + relationships" feeling
Talking about the many contributors to Drupal 8.5, a few of them shouted out on social media that they got their first patch in Drupal 8.5. They were excited but admitted it was more challenging than...
View ArticleXavier Mertens: [SANS ISC] Payload delivery via SMB
I published the following diary on isc.sans.org: “Payload delivery via SMB“:This weekend, while reviewing the collected data for the last days, I found an interesting way to drop a payload to the...
View ArticleJeroen Budts: budts.be v5: Pelican
It's been 5 years since I wrote my last blogpost. Until today.The past years my interest in blogging declined. Combined with the regular burden of Drupal security updates, I seriously considered to...
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