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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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Found out that a few years back the Unifi Network Controller got replaced withΒ 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:Β [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

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“AirJet” Solid state active cooling is here and working in a mini-PC β€’ 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 β€’ 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] ΠœΠΈΡ…Π°ΠΉΠ»ΠΎ 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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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 lΓ€sst Akkus am stΓ€rksten altern – Golem.de

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/10

[Wayback/Archive] Vehicle-to-Grid: Bidirektionales Laden lΓ€sst Akkus am stΓ€rksten altern – Golem.de

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

This corrects the car-market centric articleΒ [Wayback/Archive] Bidirektionales Laden beeintrΓ€chtigt die Lebensdauer von Elektroauto-Batterien nicht – Sonnenseite – Γ–kologische 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.

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

Or on public repositories:Β [Wayback/Archive] Xeno πŸˆβ€β¬› 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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New and More Screenshot and Screen Recording Keyboard Shortcuts Now Available! – Awesome Screenshot Blog

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/07

From last year, but the blog queue was deep (:

TL;DR: defaults not the same for Chrome and Edge; modifiers differ between Chrome and Edge.

[Wayback/Archive] New and More Screenshot and Screen Recording Keyboard Shortcuts Now Available! – Awesome Screenshot Blog

We’re pleased to announce that version 4.4.32 of our extension introduces convenient keyboard shortcuts for your most-used features.

Default Shortcuts

Function Shortcuts
Capture > Visible Part Alt+Shift+V
Capture > Full Page Alt+Shift+F
Capture > Selected Area Alt+Shift+S
Start Recording Desktop Alt+Shift+R

…

I was worried it would clash with shortcuts in existing web-sites or extensions, so I was glad the blog post continued explaining how to change the settings in two ways:

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Say what? 8 things you shouldn’t – or should – say to a cancer patient – Fred Hutch

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/07

[Wayback/Archive] Say what? 8 things you shouldn’t – or should – say to a cancer patient – Fred Hutch

This holds for many non-cancer patients as well, see for instance [Wayback/Archive] How to comfort people to actually make them feel better ? : socialskills.

Every patient is unique, so don’t suggest alternatives unless you have been in exactly the same situation as they are in.

Even then, better than bringing up their disease, ask them how you can help, show your care, sit down and just listen, or talk normal aspects of anyone’s life: hobbies, family, weather, food, etc.

The worst you can do is not being there at all. This is how long lasting friendships end.

For anyone, it is very tiring to talk about a single aspect of their life for each and every day. Not even new moms as the article from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center mentions.

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