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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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Zorgcriminelen richten zich op Wlz, zorgkantoren beloven actie – Skipr

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/22

Waar altijd de PGB-houders onder vuur liggen, lopen vooral de grote zorginstellingen al jaren de kantjes af van Wlz maar declareren wel alles (vaak 4 maal het PGB tarief van een naaste), betalen de Wlz-“cliënten” volledige eigen bijdrage ook al ontvangen ze meestal veel minder zorg dan geïndiceerd.

Zorgcriminelen hebben dat gat ontdekt: dat kunnen zij ook, maar dan vloeit de winst af naar hunzelf in plaats van externe aandeelhouders van de zorginstellingen.

Die lezen dan ook de handleiding die bij [Wayback Zorgcriminelen richten zich op Wlz, zorgkantoren beloven actie – Skipr gelinkt staat, en volgen precies dezelfde stappen die reguliere zorginstellingen ook gaan volgen.

[Wayback/Archive] Handreiking-integriteit-gecontracteerde-Wlz-zorg-RIEC-ON.pdf [Wayback PDF View/PDF View]

--jeroen

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Be careful running Proxmox with Samsung SSDs

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/22

In 2016, Proxmox within 6 months caused so many media errors on a Samsung MZ-7KE2T0BW 850PRO SSD 2TB that I had to RMA it. A year before that, a friend has similar issues with Samsung SSDs as well.

Other Samsung products seem to suffer with Proxmox when NCQ is enabled [Wayback/Archive] 201693 – Samsung 860 EVO NCQ Issue with AMD SATA Controller.

Reminded because of [Wayback/Archive] corbosman on Twitter: “@jpluimers That might be because of excessive logging. But sure, it’s relatively old but still relevant if you own this specific combination of hardware. For me the workaround was not turned on automatically.”.

–jeroen

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Started making people walk me through their AI PRs in person. The 500-line diffs disappeared overnight : ExperiencedDevs

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/21

“Explain it to me like I’m five” works!

[Wayback/Archive] Started making people walk me through their AI PRs in person. The 500-line diffs disappeared overnight : ExperiencedDevs

Via [Wayback/Archive] Post by Frans Bouma (@fransbouma.com) — Bluesky: This is just brilliant.

--jeroen

Posted in AI and ML; Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, Issue/Bug tracking, LLM, Software Development, Source Code Management, Versioning | Leave a Comment »

Some tools for conference organisers

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/21

Just in case I ever get involved in organising a conference:

Via:

  1. [Wayback/Archive] Angrynerds Podcast – YouTube: hackerhotel review
  2. [Wayback/Archive] Hackerhotel 2020 – Review – YouTube (starts at around the 07:30 mark)
  3. [Wayback/Archive] 2020-03-28-Content-meeting-minutes – MCH2022 wiki
  4. [Wayback/Archive] OrangeCon on X: “@J0R1AN who is giving a workshop on hack the box methodology at Orangecon found a stored XSS on pretalx. (Which would probably be able to make CFP reviewers automatically accept his submission.) It is now fixed. Thanks for the quick response and fix @pretalx” / X

Queries:

–jeroen

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Some notes on the The Internet Archive command-line interface (CLI) and Python API tools

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/20

Few people realise that in addition to uploading through the Internet Archive web user interface at [Wayback/Archive] Upload to Internet Archive, you can also upload through the command-line.

Fewer people know using the CLI is more reliable, as the web UI often has trouble with recovery from upload interruptions (but it is better than the Wayback Machine archiver which seems to have no recovery options at all).

Jason Scott responded to a really rude comment of an uploader, but the Internet Archive does not really advocate the CLI uploader much. I added a comment, but doubt that has changed: it regrettably is an organisation that has a track record of being quite reluctant to publicly show improvement.

The whole thread is at [Wayback/Archive] Post by @textfiles.com — Bluesky: Regarding large-size uploads, especially over, let’s say, 750mb to the Internet Archive, I highly suggest the ia command-line client, which has a separate pathway not dealing with weird browser oddities and behavior.… and archived for posterity.

TL;DR

  • you can batch upload to the base Internet Archive
  • you cannot  batch upload to the Wayback Machine of the internet archive

First, a list on how you can find the CLI tooling the normal way:

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A source for many batch-file tricks: ghidra/launch.bat at master · NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/20

If you want to improve your batchfile-fu, this might be your start: [Wayback/Archive] ghidra/launch.bat at master · NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra

After a quick look, I already recognised these tricks:

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the 90 day disclosure policy is dead :: Himanshu Anand :: Threat Notes

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/19

15 minute important read: [Wayback/Archive] the 90 day disclosure policy is dead :: Himanshu Anand :: Threat Notes

TL;DR: (not sugar coated; read the full post and their follow-ups on the why and how)

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Posted in AI and ML; Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Blue team, Development, LLM, Power User, Red team, Security, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

You thought Windows drivers from 2006 were old, wait’ll you see the Intel drivers from 1968! – The Old New Thing

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/19

ImageInteresting strategy that driver vendors use to prevent their drivers to be installed when newer versions are installed [Wayback/Archive] You thought Windows drivers from 2006 were old, wait’ll you see the Intel drivers from 1968! – The Old New Thing

Or in other words: with this mechanism drivers can be a generic alternative to be installed when no more specific or newer driver is available.

Via [Wayback/Archive] ⚜ 8-bit Hero (aka Sven) ⚜ on Twitter: “Wow, Intel has been writing windows divers for a long time! Had no idea.”

Related

Intel Drivers dated 1970 shown by [Wayback/Archive] Kevlin Henney (@KevlinHenney) in his Keynote streamed at around the 1200 second mark: [Wayback/Archive] KotlinConf’23 – Effectenbeurszaal Day 2 – YouTube.

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Some notes on Nikon cameras and HDR (I have F-lenses)

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/18

Still using Nikon F-mount DSLRs here, though I might upgrade to Nikon Z-mount and appropriate Z-mount adapter to continue using my F-lenses.

Anyway: some links on HDR, as for older bodies that require extra steps.

--jeroen

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TrueNAS ZFS: on my list of things to tinker with

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/18

I totally missed that FreeNAS has been renamed into TrueNAS CORE. Since FreeNAS had been on my list to tinker with, now is TrueNAS – Wikipedia.

Relate/via:

Tweets:

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