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Having cancer is not a fight or a battle, it is about having luck or misfortune

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/12/10

It has been a while after my last post about me having cancer. No, I am not giving up. But I am having the regular fear of the upcoming checks: did the metastases return, or do I have the luck to outlive some 30% of my peer group.

The last metastases surgery has been slightly more than a year ago. A year from now, that percentage hopefully will be 50% and slowly increase over time until about 90% in some 9 years from now.

At year’s end, I will know for sure.

Below are some links on, mostly Dutch but with English abstract, articles about the mental side of having cancer, or having survived it for now.

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In 2024, I missed a great flash-mob in Utrecht – Hoog Catharijne by the Wish You Were Here -Pink Floyd Project Tour

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/25

From [Wayback/Archive] Beach Roy☀️🏄‍♂️🏝️🏖️ on X: “Ik huil niet. Jullie huilen. Wat een ontzettend gave flashmob. Utrecht – Hoog Catharijne Wish You Were Here -Pink Floyd Project Tour – 2024”

[Wayback/Archive] Tweet JSON

Note: the Twitter account does not exist any more, but the media do.

--jeroen

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Dit is de NPO Radio 2 Top 2000-lijst van 2025

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/25

Na elk jaar lijkt de lijst te verdwijnen, dus daarom gearchiveerd:

NB: Archive.is kan geen .xls bestanden archiveren.

--jeroen

 

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rcmcdonald91/pfSense-pkg-WireGuard: This is a port of the original WireGuard UI bits as implemented by Netgate in pfSense 2.5.0 to a package suitable for rapid iteration and more frequent updating on future releases of pfSense.

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/25

This is actually the WireGuard package you can install on pfSense CE 2.5.2 and higher: [Wayback/Archive] rcmcdonald91/pfSense-pkg-WireGuard: This is a port of the original WireGuard UI bits as implemented by Netgate in pfSense 2.5.0 to a package suitable for rapid iteration and more frequent updating on future releases of pfSense.

Note that the source code mentions a lot of web-technologies but that is because the majority of the code is the pfSense plugin. Underneath it pulls the actual build from [Wayback/Archive] git.zx2c4.com/wireguard-freebsd/snapshot which is almost exclusively C code.

Like WireGuardNT on Windows, it uses a high performance kernel mode driver.

Some more links on it:

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Posted in Conference Topics, Conferences, Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, Event, git, GitHub, Hardware, Network-and-equipment, pfSense, Power User, routers, Software Development, Source Code Management, Tailscale | Tagged: , | Leave a Comment »

25 years ago, around this period, the InterBase 6 / Firebird 1 prerelease gaping security hole was detected: a user politically with password correct would gain database access

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/24

Before Firebird version 1.0 got released, a gaping security hole that InterBase introduced in 1994 before InterBase 6.0 (mostly written in C) got open sourced in 2000 was detected by the team that frantically tried the Firebird fork to first get building on various platforms, then released.

It had a maximum CVSS score of 10.0 because it could access the security database in read/write mode, thereby allowing adding users with SYSDBA privileges.

The detection is now about 25 years ago; on 20260109 the publication (by IBPhoenix) of the bug will be 25 years ago too.

So below are some links, including the original InterBase 6 source which was hard to find as the attachments of the original release links had not been archived in the Wayback Machine.

But first some of the code parts, which also shows the source file I did find back:

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See a List of All Wi-Fi Networks a Mac Has Previously Connected To

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/24

[Wayback/Archive] See a List of All Wi-Fi Networks a Mac Has Previously Connected To

n modern versions of Mac OS, like macOS Mojave, Catalina, Sierra, OS X El Capitan, and Yosemite, you can shorten the syntax considerably as so:
defaults read /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.airport.preferences |grep SSIDString
In prior versions of Mac OS X, you can opt for the same as the above command, or use the lengthier string below with heavy regex:

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Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Apple, bash, bash, Development, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, Power User, Scripting, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

“Mozart or Bach?” – YouTube: The very first polyphonic music on a computer – Peter Samson programmed it on a PDP-1

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/23

Such a cool piece of computer history: [Wayback/Archive] “Mozart or Bach?” – YouTube

Full article: [Wayback/Archive] Programming in Harmony – CHM

--jeroen

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Micro Men – 720p (2009) – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/23

Interesting dramatised video about Clive Sinclair, Chris Curry, early Acorn Computer days and more early home computer days: [Wayback/Archive] Micro Men – 720p (2009) – YouTube originally for the UK market at [Wayback/Archive] BBC Four – Micro Men.

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Gamifying Security – Security Boulevard

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/23

Interesting thought: [Wayback/Archive] Gamifying Security – Security Boulevard

Via [Wayback/Archive] CircuitSwan on Twitter: “…”.

–jeroen

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Chrome/chromium gripe: cumbersome screenshots; Firefox much better (but management hates employees having cancer)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/22

On Firefox, taking a screenshot is just a shortcut away [Wayback/Archive] Take screenshots in Firefox | Firefox Help:

  • Ctrl + Shift + S on Windows/Linux/Chrome OS
  • Command + Shift + S on MacOS

Too bad Mozilla also appears to be amongst the bad guys in firing an employee having cancer ¹.

On Chrome not so much and require opening the Chrome Developer Tools which take up precious screen estate, and saves the screenshot in the downloads folder instead of the clipboard. Many guides exist, for instance:

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Dorstlust | Drink wat Anders – via @ngrynerds

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/22

Interessant zowel een B2B als B2C site:

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