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.
We’re pleased to announce that version 4.4.32 of our extension introduces convenient keyboard shortcuts for your most-used features.
Default Shortcuts
Function
Shortcuts
Capture > Visible Part
Alt+Shift+V
Capture > Full Page
Alt+Shift+F
Capture > Selected Area
Alt+Shift+S
Start Recording Desktop
Alt+Shift+R
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I was worried it would clash with shortcuts in existing web-sites or extensions, so I was glad the blog post continued explaining how to change the settings in two ways:
Every patient is unique, so don’t suggest alternatives unless you have been in exactly the same situation as they are in.
Even then, better than bringing up their disease, ask them how you can help, show your care, sit down and just listen, or talk normal aspects of anyone’s life: hobbies, family, weather, food, etc.
The worst you can do is not being there at all. This is how long lasting friendships end.
For anyone, it is very tiring to talk about a single aspect of their life for each and every day. Not even new moms as the article from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center mentions.
I regard is as both fun and insightful, fun for instance as all rules are rated “RULE #1”, and insightful for instance as this is a great quote for on a T-shirt:
You might be wondering – I don’t write C! Why should I care how C programs represent variables in memory?
In this playground I’m mostly interested in showing people how integers and floats are represented. And low-level languages generally all represent integers and floats in the same way – a 32-bit unsigned int is going to be the same in C, C++, Rust, Go, Swift, etc. The exact name of the type is different, but the representation is the same.
In higher-level languages like Python it’s a little different, but under the hood a float in Python contains a C double, so the C representation is still pretty relevant.
20260805: edits as since scheduling, some links suffered link rot and a new tool appeared.
For my link archive because – for offline usage – sometimes Windows XP is still useful to run tools that have never been made compatible with less ancient hardware/software combinations.
The xp_activate32.exe mentioned below emulates the phone-activation response and is the important bit for me as I can re-use existing Windows XP license keys that I already have.
The WindowsXPKg generates new Windows XP license keys.
I forgot to schedule this post, but it was great news: a 50+ year old Unix V4 tape that was discovered in November 25 and digitally restored in December 25.
This was a big step forward in restoring the History of Unix.
Control key – Wikipedia, mostly described as Ctrl (Control or Ctl) and usually symbolised with a ^ like ^ Ctrl (^ Control or ^ Ctl) though by now the official symbol is ⎈, so the descriptions should be ⎈ Ctrl (⎈ Control or ⎈ Ctl). Note they can be translated like on German keyboards as Strg, ⇧ Strg or ⎈ Strg).
English (Nederlands hieronder): The same thing happened Joke Boon as to me: she got rectumcancer with full treatments. Unlike me she already was a book author, and decided to write a book about the whole process, with the second half of the book dedicated to recipes that worked well during and after her treatments.
The rest of the post is in Dutch.
Nederlands: Joke Boon overkwam 3 jaar later hetzelfde als ik: Endeldarmkanker. In tegenstelling tot mij was ze al auteur van een reeks boeken, en schreef ze er een boek over. Het eerste deel vooral met het proces en ervaringen rond kanker en de behandelingen; het tweede deel gevuld met recepten (maar liefst 80 stuks!) die haar in de periode van en na kanker hielpen.
Het is een mooi boek, een geweldig kado voor mensen die zelf kanker hebben/hadden en hun omgeving, maar eigenlijk gewoon voor iedereen: het helpt je meer inclusief te worden en je krijgt er een berg fijne recepten mee die makkelijk aan te passen zijn naar niet veganistisch.
With both the ever increasing amount of internet data, and ever increasing number of web sites pulling the plug, archiving them into the Internet Archive is ever more important.
The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 