Sander van Dragt's Notes

• Sander November 14, 2017 at 1:13 pm

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  It is 2017 and we're still asking for 10 character alphanumeric passwords?

• Hide Trackbacks 1.1.1

  Sander November 2, 2017 at 11:57 am

  Hide Trackbacks is a WordPress plugin that hides pingbacks and trackbacks from your website comments.

  I've updated the plugin to indicate it works correctly with WordPress 4.9 and earlier.

  #hidetrackbacks #link #wordpress

• Sander November 2, 2017 at 11:53 am

  Embedding a ted.com video by pasting the URL into a WordPress post means the whole video loads (33mb!) on pageload! Great videos, bad service.

  #technology #wordpress

• Sander November 2, 2017 at 9:55 am

  Fix iPhone lightning port disconnection issues by cleaning out the port with a tooth pick. If the inside isn't white then it's not clean.

• We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads

  Sander October 31, 2017 at 10:19 am

  We're building an artificial intelligence-powered dystopia, one click at a time, says techno-sociologist Zeynep Tufekci. In an eye-opening talk, she details how the same algorithms companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon use to get you to click on ads are also used to organize your access to political and social information. And the machines aren't even the real threat. What we need to understand is how the powerful might use AI to control us -- and what we can do in response.

  This is why I run PrivacyBadger to block tracking, not ads.

  [

  ](https://www.ted.com/talks/zeynep_tufekci_we_re_building_a_dystopia_just_to_make_people_click_on_ads)

  #link #technology

• Brexit

  Sander October 31, 2017 at 9:47 am

  [caption id="attachment_2699" align="alignnone" width="245"] A perfect illustration for Brexit[/caption]

  #life

• The Death Of Stalin

  Sander October 31, 2017 at 9:36 am

  Can't wait to see this film!

  #life #link

• Sander October 20, 2017 at 7:25 pm

  Get about thirty percent more battery life and preserve your mobile data plan by deleting Google Hangouts from your iOS device.

• How to install pip and pipenv properly on Ubuntu 17.10

  Sander October 20, 2017 at 5:48 pm

  Ubuntu 17.10 comes with python3 3.6.3 installed by default but not pip and pipenv. We can install install pip systemwide and pipenv into the user local bin so we can use all the convenience when working with our python projects:

  wget <a href="https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py%C2%A0-O" target="_blank">https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -O</a> /tmp/get-pip.py
  sudo python3 /tmp/get-pip.py
  pip3 install --user pipenv
  echo "PATH=$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH" >> ~/.profile
  source ~/.profile

  Sources: Installing Python 3 on Linux; pip installation; Installing pipenv; How to permanently set PATH on Linux

  Update 9 Nov 2017: replaced curl with wget, thanks Peter

  #python #technology

  #virtualenvironments #14638025

• Sander October 9, 2017 at 8:05 pm

  @manton on iOS I can only post after attaching my WordPress blog even though I have a micro blog via Kickstarter?