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 2026/03/18
Relatively old mathematics that is still relevant: Markov Chains.
It is about predictability of events based on the current state of affairs (and not past state of affairs). Lot’s of AI have been about Markov Chains for a long time: spam filters, text prediction while typing, search engine results, language recognition by letter-pairs, and many more.
A nice video about it is [Wayback/Archive] The Strange Math That Predicts (Almost) Anything – YouTube
Related are many foundations in information technology, of which Markov and Shannon are mentioned in the video:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/18
From a long while back, but I forgot to add it as a blog post.
The answer to [Wayback/Archive] delphi – How to have both VCL and FMX in one application? – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Gad D Lord for asking and [Wayback/Archive] Aleksey Timohin for commenting) is actually straightforward so Gad wrote a blog post on it back then [Wayback/Archive] MTG Studio: How to create and application which compiles both for Firemonkey and VCL.
It follows my answer closely, so here it is:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/17
During a Cloudflare outage¹, I learned about [Wayback/Archive] Wisp.place Documentation | Wisp.place Docs
Decentralized static site hosting on the AT Protocol.
Wisp.place enables you to host static websites directly in your AT Protocol repository. Your Personal Data Server (PDS) holds the cryptographically signed manifest and files as the authoritative source of truth, while hosting services index and serve them with CDN-like performance.
This is the documentation of [Wayback/A] wisp.place by [Wayback/Archive] Ana (@nekomimi.pet) — Bluesky.
Related:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/16
Apparently people are fed up enough that finally El Reg published an article like [Wayback/Archive] RSS dulls the pain of the modern web • The Register.
So I wrote this [Wayback/Archive] Post by @wiert.bsky.social — Bluesky
I have been consuming the majority of web content through RSS for at least 15 plus years now, and The Register explains exactly why:
the web has become unbearable to consume. Not just because of ads and their risks, but especially because every web site has a different user experience.
Before 2013, I used Google Reader, but Google has the habit of killing products, so now I use Feedly.
These are some prior blog posts I wrote on them:
- Google Reader stops at 2013-07-01: How can I download my Reader data? (via: Reader Help)
- Google Reader alternatives: did you make a choice yet?
- A few notes on Google Reader replacements that I’m testing
- Is there a Google Reader replacement that keeps ALL Google Reader history?
- knowledge worker tip: adding a Google Group to #Feedly using one of its RSS feeds
El Reg linked newer posts by others:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/13
Kennelijk heb ik gestudeerd aan de:
- Vrije Universiteit
- Universiteit van Amsterdam
- Technische Universiteit Delft
- Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
- Technische Universiteit Enschede
- Universiteit Leiden
in de vakken:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/13
The notes are based on the NanoKVM PCIe as that is what I wanted to set-up on a Windows 11 compatible PC that could be remotely managed for someone not savvy enough to do that themselves. They had an old Supermicro based PC with IPMI which kind of does IPKVM when using the embedded video hardware, but back when I wrote this early 2025 – the year Windows 10 would become end-of-life – it was:
- a nightmare to figure out which Supermicro mainboards were Windows 11 compatible
- remote IPMI tooling ¹ was a pain to get working (the most important one is IPMIView which requires Java and even with Java installed would have issues connecting to various generations of IPMI)
- newer KVM tooling has way better
- user experience than classic ones like IPMI and iDRAC
- features like for instance WireGuard support which makes for way less network configuration
- open source software (for at least NanoKVM I mention here, but also for Pi-KVM which has the drawback of also requiring a Raspberry Pi)
Since none of the modern remote KVM hardware tooling seems to be able to do passthrough video, the solution I researched for was to split the outgoing video signal (either Displayport or HDMI), then optionally convert Displayport to HDMI and finally route that HDMI into the remote KVM hardware.
Links
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/12
There used to be this great site, but it disappeared in 2023: [Wayback/Archive] Bowden’s Hobby Circuits
To ensure the table of contents stays somewhat indexed, I quote it below in full (all links are to the Wayback Machine; I have not checked them yet).
Found back via:
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 