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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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/02
For people like me that use Gist or GitHub comments as a image hosting service like Imgur or the the now defunct ImageShack.
In due time (parts of) GitHub might become unavailable too, but since they diversified, I think the chance is lower. This is great because the list of List of image-sharing websites is not really growing but the subset of Defunct photo-sharing websites is.
You have to remember that unlike for instance Imgur, which can be used anonymously, the URL of pictures that are added to Gists or GitHub comments are bound to your GitHub user id.
So for instance [Wayback/Archive] 232005837-5d3c45d8-4efe-4759-a968-4ce276e35a35.png (899×503) contains the ID 2033367 which us the user ID of jpluimers.
Queries and results
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/01
Get it while supplies last, as this Pentagon shaped board game of which parts of the proceeds to to charity is both too much a parody and even better resonates with the original “The Landlord’s Game” (that evolved into Monopoly) to let go:
[Wayback/Archive] AMERICAN DICTATOR? Board Game – E-UP Games
That page does not mention the proceeds, but their home page does, see [Wayback/Archive] Making Board Games Great Again! – E-UP Games
We are a Canadian family-owned company.
Our games are dreamed up, illustrated, play-tested, and brought to life by teenagers who love board games!
A portion of each purchase goes to charity.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!
For more on the history – Elizabeth Magie was heavily anti-capitalist – read these:
Via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/01
Cool:
MOST bus based [
Wayback/
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Elektronik-Idee – CP740BMW – USB wireless MP3 Player for various
BMW models which
also does
Bluetooth, and Audio/Video in (English link: [
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Elektronik-Idee – CP740BMW – USB wireless MP3 Player).
Via:
- DE: [Wayback/Archive] CP740BMW USB wireless MP3 Player
Musik und Nachrichten beim BMW-Fahren mit dem neuen Streaming Player CP740BMW
für die Baureihen BMW E60, E61, E63, E64, E65 E66, E70, E71, E87, E88, E89, E90, E91, E92, E93
- EN: [Wayback/Archive] CP740BMW USB wireless MP3 Player
Music und messages while driving with the new Streaming Player CP740BMW
For the series BMW 3,5,7,X,Z E60, E61, E63, E64, E65 E66, E70, E71, E87, E88, E89, E90, E91, E92, E93
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/30
Edit 20260601: Tagged “missed schedule” vanwege de WordPress.com missed schedule bug die sinds 2012 niet is opgelost (kennelijk kan WordPress wel iets met AI, maar een lijst met meer dan 100 geagendeerde blogposts is “too big” voor ze)
Origineel:
Voor in het huurdossier: [Wayback/Archive] Wat is de maximale huurverhoging voor een vrijesectorwoning in 2026? | Rijksoverheid.nl
In 2026 is de jaarlijkse huurverhoging voor vrijesectorwoningen maximaal 4,4%. Dit geldt ook voor ligplaatsen voor woonboten. De huurverhoging moet wel als afspraak in uw huurcontract staan.
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/29
A follow-up on my previous post on Logitech presenters: Logitech remotes for presenting
Did my Logitech Spotlight die, or did the charging cable die?
I had not presented for a couple of years because of my cancer. So I tried to recharged my hardly used Logitech Spotlight presenter. No light would turn on. I thought it was the USB cable being broken.
[Wayback/Archive] Logitech Spotlight presentation remote LED status indicator
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/28
Every now and then, documentation in source code requires an ASCII table. Sometimes table cells are spanning multiple rows or/and column.
TL;DR: The tools I tried did not support that, so manual labour is still needed.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/27
Got an error when pushing a relatively large commit to GitLab: error: RPC failed; HTTP 502 curl 22 The requested URL returned error: 502
There was no big difference in information between these commands¹:
git pushgit push --verbose
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/27
After the 2022 GitLab.com backlash* to auto-delete “inactive” (for whichever metric of “inactive”) repositories of free users, I thought they would have multiple checks in place to prevent that from happening.
TL;DR: of two possible checks to prevent this, only one is in place.
This means that if by accident one of those checks stops working, all inactive repositories will be be deleted after a 7 day retention period. Which is very short, especially when you miss the email about it (for instance because of holiday or health reasons).
That bad!
How/why I found out
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 