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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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Copilot – Terms of Use: “Copilot is for entertainment purposes only.”

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/07

Now you know it from the update of the Microsoft [Wayback/Archive] Copilot – Terms of Use: “Copilot is for entertainment purposes only.”

Via [Wayback/Archive] Post by @doublepulsar.com — Bluesky “What happened to the world daddy?” “We destroyed it, but for one beautiful moment in time, we had copilot entertainment” using a blurred image which I found the source for in my past blog post Yes the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders. – Finding back the source.

The blurred image: [Wayback/Archive] bafkreibc4wqxxv5hjfs2fuv5ccuc2bobqj3ysx7t7ca5vndzzmiy3ouzfu (730×636)

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Steven Murdoch on Twitter: “However, the new “more secure” Universal Windows Platform (UWP) sandboxes the file picker in a separate process, allowing neat features like capability-based access control. It returns a file handle which, if the selected file exists, will not overwrite the existing content! 3/9”

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/07

Windows had its own aCropalypse in the Snipping tool, but other UWP based applications are vulnerable of that too because of this:

[Wayback/Archive] Steven Murdoch on Twitter: “However, the new “more secure” Universal Windows Platform (UWP) sandboxes the file picker in a separate process, allowing neat features like capability-based access control. It returns a file handle which, if the selected file exists, will not overwrite the existing content! 3/9”

It is part of this interesting [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @sjmurdoch on Thread Reader App with these two parts just after the above Tweet:

The old Win32 API for saving a file was (roughly) to show a file picker, get the filename the user selected, and then open the file. To open a file, the programmer must specify whether to overwrite the file or not, and example code usually does overwrite the file.
However, the new “more secure” Universal Windows Platform (UWP) sandboxes the file picker in a separate process, allowing neat features like capability-based access control. It returns a file handle which, if the selected file exists, will not overwrite the existing content!

The tread continued supporting this statement, that in the new situation you need to manually truncated the file, and referenced these links:

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“Your YouTube Comments” is part of “Google – My Activity”

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/06

It took me a while to find, but the canonical URL is Source: [Wayback/Archive] Google – My Activity – Your YouTube Comments

It was a relatively short queste:

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Vandaag om 12:00 waren wel de kerkklokken, maar niet de sirenes te horen. Het is onduidelijk wanneer ze wel te horen zullen zijn.

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/06

Op [Wayback/Archive] Sirenes – Brandweer staat dit:

👉 Geen testalarm!

Op maandag 6 april (2e paasdag) en op maandag 4 mei (dodenherdenking) is er geen test-alarm. De sirene zal dan niet te horen zijn.

Ze vergeten daar de vervolgvraag: wanneer gaan de sirenes dan wel af?

Met andere woorden: wordt het uitgesteld tot een week later, of wordt het maar liefst twee maanden overgeslagen tot maandag 1 juni? Of pas als de voorraden fossiele brandstoffen op zijn en er chaos uitbreekt?

Dit is een iets aangepaste versie van mijn toot [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers: “Vandaag om 12:00 waren wel de …” – Mastodon

--jeroen

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Pumpkin soup recipe

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/06

Recipe for pumpkin soup that I got from a friend quite a while ago and further below a Dutch recipe from another friend.

I posted it a while ago in a Dutch pompoensoep thread a few years back: [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @jpluimers on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App

Start message: [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers @wiert@mastodon.social on Twitter: “@Marjo_Sl @Dinsdal85174312 Dit is het enige pompoenrecept wat ik heb: kreeg ik ooit van een vriend. De truc is 45 minuten in de oven op 200 graden. Dan komt het vel er makkelijk af en is de pompoen ook al flink gaar, dus gaat snijden veel makkelijker. Recept over de alt-text van beide plaatjes verdeeld.”

English recipe

Text OCR-ed from image, then fixed:

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keyboard – Shortcut to apply header style 4 (and 5, 6…) – Ask Different

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/03

[Wayback/Archive] keyboard – Shortcut to apply header style 4 (and 5, 6…) – Ask Different (thanks [Wayback/Archive] bouke!):

Found it, although I did not expect the solution to be this simple. To do this, follow these steps:
  1. Right-click the Heading 4 style in the ribbon and choose ‘Modify’ (Or through Layout > Styles > Heading 4 > Modify
  2. In the left hand bottom corner, select ‘Shortcut’
  3. Assign shortcut ⌘⌥4
  4. Repeat for Heading 5, 6…
  5. Done!

Query: [Wayback/Archive] macos microsoft word shortcut for heading levels – Google Suche

More: [Wayback/Archive] Keyboard shortcuts in Word – Microsoft Support: MacOS

--jeroen

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Super Agent – Automatic cookie consent – Chrome Web Store

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/03

This works in other browsers too; you can sync between them if you logon to it: [Wayback/Archive] Super Agent – Automatic cookie consent – Chrome Web Store

Via: [Wayback/Archive] #607: De opgesmukte maan | Tech45 Podcast

Site: [Wayback/Archive] Super Agent – Automatic Cookie Consent

Note: I think, but need to check, this only works for sites for which you have JavaScript enabled.

–jeroen

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On our list of places to visit: ICC Berlin

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/02

This is definitely on our list to visit, despite it being permanently closed: [Wayback/Archive] ICC Berlin (de) / [Wayback/Archive] ICC Berlin (en).

Wikipedia pages:

Last year, it was open during the [Wayback/Archive] Day of the Open Monument | visitBerlin.de (the German term is Tag des offenen Denkmals “seit 1993 am zweiten Sonntag im September”).

Just like the celebration of the Mauerfall gained popularity¹, the ICC Berlin has regained popularitly, hopefully later this year, a decision will be made if/how it will be repurposed, as well as the status of the asbestos. There seems to be enough potential:

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Excel: operations involving the last occurence of a substring (with examples getting the current Worksheet, Workbook and file/directory path)

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/02

Last month I wrote about CELL function looks interesting but beware: language nightmares coming up….

There I mentioned both formulas from [Wayback/Archive] Get sheet name only – Excel formula | Exceljet and [Wayback/Archive] Insert the current Excel file name, path, or worksheet in a cell – Microsoft Support failing to deliver the expected results

an official Microsoft example of obtaining the Worksheet name which I suspected would not work on systems allowing ] in path names. And indeed it is true: that case fails on both MacOS and Windows in the same way.

Here you see the failures of both the ExcelJet function and the ones from Microsoft Support on two operating systems:

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Maartje: “in Brussels to start a conversation … do the Language 3-way handshake …” – BLÅHAJ Social

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/01

[Wayback/Archive] Maartje: “Remember in Brussels to start …” – BLÅHAJ Social

  1. Remember in Brussels to start a conversation you have to do the Language 3-way handshake. Here is a scenario:
    SYN: Goeiedag/Bonjour!
    SYN-ACK: Goeiedag!
    ACK: Hoe kan ik i helpen?
  2. Do keep in mind that this 3-way handshake is ILLEGAL outside of the borders of brussels. Here is a map.
    Yes people have been sued.

    Language map of Belgium

Indeed: sued – [Wayback/Archive] Train Conductor language outrage in Belgium « Euro Weekly News

TL;DR

  • If you say “Bonjour” in the Dutch part, you can get sued
  • If you say “Goeiedag” in the French part, you can get sued

--jeroen

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