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 2026/03/03
For Some links on getting the most recent defragmentation time of a Windows volume I needed to copy back and forth some XML code back and forth between my ARM MacBook Pro to a remote Windows machine accessing via the Microsoft Windows App (the app formerly known as Microsoft Remote Desktop for Mac).
The problem with that is the copying would lose line breaks, which for XML meaning is no problem, but for human understandability while editing the XML in the Event View query dialog was.
So I decided to go to the “Code” view in my Classic WordPress editor (did I ever tell you much I dislike – especially the accessibility of – the not so new but still haughty named Gutenberg editor?), copied the HTML encoded form and wanted to convert it to unencoded XML text.
Well, here I got to naming confusion land, on which I will talk further below, but first two of the potential solutions:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/03
A few years back I tweeted [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers @wiert@mastodon.social on Twitter: “@b0rk @jilles_com Acids vs bases.”
It was a kind of tongue-in-cheek reaction (with a way better picture below) to a very valuable post by b0rk (Julia Evans) on both Twitter and Mastodon [Wayback/Archive] Julia Evans on Twitter: “bases” / [Wayback/Archive] Julia Evans: “bases title: bases # we usually…” – Mastodon for two reasons:
- There are various interpretations of bases
- Octal is very important to educate as errors introduced by its support are hard to spot even if you do know about octal.
Back to Julia’s post:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/02
Being so used to open PDF files using MacOS Preview – which remembers the last view settings and re-applies that when opening a new document, it took me a while to figure out that in both Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader (formerly Acrobat Reader) you have to set it in the preferences using Ctrl-K as explained in [Wayback/Archive] Changing default page view in Adobe Acrobat
When you open a PDF in Adobe Acrobat Reader, the default page view may not be to your liking. For example, it may show a full page when you really need to see part of a page in full width.
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To change these settings follow the steps below.
- Edit, Preferences (or Control-K).
- Choose Page Display in the Categories section.
- In the Default Layout and Zoom section (top of page), change the Page Layout and Zoom selections to your preference. “100%” and “Fit Page” are most commonly used in the Zoom selection.
- Click OK to save your settings.
Contrary to the above, the defaults for both my Acrobat Reader both the “Paye Layout” and “Zoom” settings were “Automatic”. I just changed the “Page Layout” to “Two-Up” and am much happier now (:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/27
AliExpress aggressive acidic flux solder has remarkably heavy reels:
| Total |
Reel |
Solder |
% Solder/Total |
| 100 gram |
67 gram |
33 gram |
33 % |
| 51 gram |
32 gram |
19 gram |
37 % |
| 20 gram |
10 gram |
10 gram |
50 % |
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/27
Reading SubStack via RSS skips the nag screens and other annoying steps.
If you sign in to your.substack.com/feed then you get redirected to your own RSS feed link.
Even easier if you want to read from a link:
- if you see a Subtack URL hosted at
domain.substack.com
- then the accompanying RSS feed URL is
domain.substack.com/feed
Via [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Baert on Twitter: “Tip voor mensen die substacks lezen: elke substack heeft een RSS-feed onder https:// whatever . substack . com / feed – Inladen in je RSS-lezer, en geen nag screens of gedoe, gewoon de content.”
Related:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/26
The description of [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – dessant/web-archives: Browser extension for viewing archived and cached versions of web pages, available for Chrome, Edge and Safari is missing Firefox and Opera, but in the meantime the extension is available in these stores for:
As a great example of how to write a browser plugin for all these architectures, it shows how to write this in mostly JavaScript with Vue.js with a tiny bit of play HTML.
Web Archives is a plugin that lets you search either the URL from the current browser tab, or a URL you type, within various archival sites (all Wikipedia links):
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Posted in Archive Today controversy, archive.is / archive.today, Archiving, Chrome, Development, Edge, Firefox, Internet, InternetArchive, Opera, Power User, Safari, Software Development, WayBack machine, Web Browsers, Web Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/25
This worked on the built-in Windows PowerShell to get the recommendation status:
$volume = Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Volume -Filter "DriveLetter = 'C:'"
$analysis = $volume.DefragAnalysis()
$analysis.DefragAnalysis
$analysis.DefragRecommended
Without elevation token, $analysis.DefragAnalysis will be empty and $analysis.DefragRecommended will return False, but elevated it will return the analysis data and $analysis.DefragRecommended will return False or True depending on the analysis result.,
And this gets the most recent defragmentation action from the event-log:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/25
[Wayback/Archive] Airco’s massaal gebruikt voor verwarming, TNO waarschuwt voor gevolgen stroomnet
Via [Archive/Archive] Post by @ruudholswilder.bsky.social — Bluesky
Ruud Holswilder
@ruudholswilder.bsky.social
In feite is een moderne airco een lucht-lucht warmtepomp met een COP van 3,5 tot 5.
1 kWh elektriciteit wordt omgezet in 3,5 tot 5 kWh warmte.
Geen aandacht hiervoor in het artikel van NOS.
--jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 