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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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LostMyPassword – Recover lost passwords stored on Windows applications

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/14

Released in august 2025, about a year ago, LostMyPassword seems to be replacing a lot of separare NirSoft tools that could reveal various specific password types:

[Wayback/Archive] LostMyPassword – Recover lost passwords stored on Windows applications

LostMyPassword can extract the passwords from popular programs, including Web browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Brave, Internet Explorer, Opera, and more…), POP3/IMAP/SMTP passwords stored by email software (Microsoft Outlook, Thunderbird, Windows Mail), Dialup/VPN passwords stored by Windows operating system, login passwords of remote computer stored by Windows operating system.

Via [WaybackSave/Archive] NirSoft on X: “New tool: LostMyPassword – “

On their Twitter account [WaybackSave/Archive] NirSoft (@nirsoft) / X, you can track various changes in their tools.

--jeroen

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Found out that a few years back the Unifi Network Controller got replaced with Unifi Network Application

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/14

My Unifi Cloud Key (the original one) had been broken for some years (not just the Micro-SD card: even with a fresh new card it would not boot), but I didn’t bother as my WiFi network was configured well enough.

But then I had to do some configurations and found out newer Cloud Key iterations have their issues well: batteries dying, hard-disks failing, you name it.

[Wayback/Archive] Unifi Network Controller replaced with Network Application ? | Ubiquiti Community

UI Marketing department decided to change the name. However, depending on the version you are on now, the new versions make a lot of changes to the UI as well as the operation of the APs.

Then I discovered you do not need to run it on either hardware or docker container (the latter I know because of [Wayback/Archive] Die wunderbare Welt von Isotopp), you can now also run it on various other host operating systems:

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Automating archival of web pages in Ghostarchive

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/13

Some notes because of Some links on the Archive Today controversy and steps I need to take on this blog: some more notes and links to automate archival into the Ghostarchive:

  • Ghostarchive seems to need a POST request instead of a GET request to archive pages
  • A POST request is harder to start from a script than a GET request
  • There are some tools that automate an embedded Chrome browser to accomplish archiving
  • There seems to be no user script or plugin yet

Related:

My earlier blog posts mentioning Ghostarchive:

Via: [Wayback/Wayback] Ghostarchive does a decent job for the same sites in my experience: https://ghos… | Hacker News

Query: [Wayback/Archive] automate ghostarchive at DuckDuckGo

--jeroen

Posted in Software Development, Development, Web Development, CSS, HTML, Scripting, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Python | Leave a Comment »

“AirJet” Solid state active cooling is here and working in a mini-PC • The Register

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/13

Some 3 years after the introduction, I wonder what has come from AirJet: [Wayback/Archive] Solid state active cooling is here and working in a mini-PC • The Register.

I am especially curious to the durability of how solid-state technology that moves air will last over time: will it last, won’t dust fill the gaps, and other questions come up.

Via [Wayback/Archive] The Register on Twitter: “WTF is solid state active cooling? We’ve just seen it working on a mini PC”

–jeroen

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Bypass Paywalls Clean – Wikipedia

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/12

DCMA banned in various places, but still interesting, especially because of the way it functions: Bypass Paywalls Clean – Wikipedia

Current repositories:

Note these have limited sources, but historic sources can still be found. At the time of writing, some were at:

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2023: Ben Collins on Twitter: “Here’s the thing with the current AI panic: pretty much any technology that uses an algorithm is being relabeled as AI right now. It’s a way to sell investors or shareholders, to say what you’re doing is the future. A lot of it is just rebranded tech that’s been around a while.”

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/12

I wonder how now, 3 years after the AI hype started in 2023, the situation has changed.

[Wayback/Archive] Ben Collins on Twitter: “Here’s the thing with the current AI panic: pretty much any technology that uses an algorithm is being relabeled as AI right now. It’s a way to sell investors or shareholders, to say what you’re doing is the future. A lot of it is just rebranded tech that’s been around a while.”

[Wayback/Archive] Михайло Ska Tov on Twitter: “@oneunderscore__ It also sounds like this isn’t even AI, but just like, a cable-company level helper bot”

[Wayback/Archive] Ariel Guersenzvaig on Twitter: “How it started How it’s going”

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–jeroen

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Some links on the Archive Today controversy and steps I need to take on this blog

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/11

In nerd space, there is a big Archive Today controversy which comes down to these two things:

  • They used their captcha mechanism to have their end-users DDoS a party that they had a dispute with
  • They altered archived content

Over the last half year or so I noticed an increase in captaches, which skyrocketed over the last couple of weeks. My speculation is that this has to do with the controversy.

Their actions blew up far enough for Wikipedia to actively started replacing almost 700k links to archived content hosted on various domains  of the Archive Today platform with content by other archival sites.

For my blog, with some 10k published and scheduled blog posts, my estimate is that I would need to replace at least 100k links: an effort that I cannot perform with the energy levels left after my cancer treatments in 2020.

What I can do is for future posts to use other archival sites, of which this is a short-list (all to their Wikipedia entries):

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Posted in Power User, Internet, InternetArchive, WayBack machine, archive.is / archive.today, Archiving, Archive Today controversy | Leave a Comment »

Great implicit breadboard tip by PH1X on Twitter

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/11

There was a great embedded breadboard tip in this tweet:

[Wayback/Archive] PH1X on Twitter: “Working on a Quad 43 pre-amp that has problems with the source selection. Don’t have al logic IC’s in stock to replace them so instead I made a little test circuit. This CD4001 works as it’s supposed to do so I have to dig a little further.”

Do you see it in the picture he posted?

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Vehicle-to-Grid: Bidirektionales Laden lässt Akkus am stärksten altern – Golem.de

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/10

[Wayback/Archive] Vehicle-to-Grid: Bidirektionales Laden lässt Akkus am stärksten altern – Golem.de

Dass sich über smartes oder bidirektionales Laden Geld sparen lässt, ist aber kaum zu bestreiten. Das ist vor allem dann der Fall, wenn man den eigenen Solarstrom im E-Auto zwischenspeichert und für den Eigenbedarf nutzt. Doch dem steht die Anschaffung einer teuren Wallbox gegenüber.

This corrects the car-market centric article [Wayback/Archive] Bidirektionales Laden beeinträchtigt die Lebensdauer von Elektroauto-Batterien nicht – Sonnenseite – Ökologische Kommunikation mit Franz Alt

Bidirektionales Laden (V2G) wirkt sich nur minimal auf die Gesamtalterung aus und bringt dem E-Autofahrenden einen Mehrwert von 600 Euro pro Jahr.

Via [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @solarpapst on Thread Reader App

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The hardest debugging task: reliably reproducing the issue

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/10

This happens so often:  [Wayback/Archive] Jen Gentleman 🌺 on Twitter: “@XenoPanther This happens to me way too often”

Or on public repositories: [Wayback/Archive] Xeno 🐈‍⬛ on Twitter: “… Seriously? I was able to repro an issue but as soon as I began filing feedback. Fixed”

A reliable CI/CD environment helps on the former: that way you can produce a breaking build both locally and on the CI/CD in one go.

Step 1: finally repro the bug Step 2: Tell your teammate Step 3: The repro goes away Wait, what? Gru, who has been presenting the steps on a whiteboard, looks back at that one, wondering if there's a flaw in the plan

–jeroen

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