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 2026/06/09
A very important report from September 2025 for users of 18650 lithium-ion battery cells: [Wayback/Archive] The Lumafield Battery Quality Report.
Summary:
… beneath the surface, a hidden world of quality control issues and dangerous counterfeits puts consumers and manufacturers at risk.
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Our automated analysis focused on key indicators of cell safety and quality, including anode overhang (AOH) and edge alignment, two critical factors that directly impact battery performance and safety.
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Flawed anq quality battery cells:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/08
Voor wanneer je meer afwisselend wilt eten in plaats van het bijna vaste assortiment in veel supermarkten: [Wayback/Archive] Wat zijn seizoensgroente en seizoensfruit? | Voedingscentrum
Als er nog een weekmarkt bij je in de buurt is: veel seizoensproducten.
[Wayback/Archive] Voedingscentrum seizoengroente- en fruitkalender.pdf [Wayback PDF View/PDF View]
Volledige quote omdat de uitklapstructuur belachelijk irrutant is: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/08
[Wayback/Archive] Mastodon Flock
Welcome to the Mastodon Flock installation wizard.
This program will guide you through finding your Twitter contacts on the Fediverse, provided they have added their external contact information on their profile name, description, URL or pinned Tweet.
It is open source in the repository [Wayback/Archive] WesSouza/mastodon-flock: Let the birds flock to Mastodon.
I love the retro Windows 95 Installer look which is even continued in the [Wayback/Archive] About (“how this software works”), and [Wayback/Archive] Privacy Policy:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/04
Seems this is not an easily accessible built-in feature of MacOS: [Wayback/Archive] macos change brightness of external monitor at DuckDuckGo
Basically there seem to be two apps that are most popular:
Lunar is free, but has a fee for some features. MonitorControl is free derived from Lunar, but has less features than the paid Lunar license has and is less often updated.
Both have been developed in Swift and are on GitHub:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/03
[Wayback/Archive] Show HN: Live-updating version of the ‘What a week, huh?’ meme | Hacker News
As a fun evening project, I made a live-updating version of the ‘What a week, huh?’ meme (based on a panel from The Adventures of Tintin comics [1]).
There’s a page for every timeframe:
Current time is determined by a Cloudflare Worker using the request IP (not logged or stored). No JavaScript is sent to the browser.
[1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/what-a-week-huh
It was easy to edit the HTML to change the message and CSS for the text dimensions, see the image on the right.
MacOS users will likely recognise the font as it is the Marker Felt font which is included by default on MacOS.
And it would be cool to alter the speech bubbles to be more like the ones Hergé used, see this comment:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/03
Interesting, but be aware that using it outside a shielded environment likekly is illegal: [Wayback/Archive] Osmo-fl2k – osmo-fl2k – Open Source Mobile Communications
- osmo-fl2k allows to use USB 3.0 to VGA adapters based on the Fresco Logic FL2000 chip, which are available for around $5, as general purpose DACs and SDR transmitter generating a continuous stream of samples by avoiding the HSYNC and VSYNC blanking intervals.
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- Operating a transmitter with the unfiltered FL2000 DAC output attached to an antenna outside a RF shielding chamber is dangerous. Don’t do it!
Related/via
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 