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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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Posted in About, Cancer, LifeHacker, Personal, Power User, Rectum cancer | Leave a Comment »

GitHub – omegat-org/git-svn-sync: Continuously sync a svn to git, in the cloud.

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/18

Interesting: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – omegat-org/git-svn-sync: Continuously sync a svn to git, in the cloud.

It lives in the Amazon cloud, but should be adaptable to other cloud providers.

Query: [Wayback/Archive] service to sync between sourceforge svn and github git at DuckDuckGo

--jeroen

Posted in Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, git, GitHub, Software Development, Source Code Management, Subversion/SVN | Leave a Comment »

RubyConf Mini 2022: Keynote: Learning DNS by Julia Evans – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/18

[Wayback/Archive] RubyConf Mini 2022: Keynote: Learning DNS by Julia Evans – YouTube

Via [Wayback/Archive] 🔎Julia Evans🔍 on Twitter: “Just noticed that the recording of my keynote “Learning DNS in 10 Years” from @RubyConfMini is up!”

–jeroen

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Posted in Communications Development, Development, DNS, Internet, Internet protocol suite, Power User, Software Development, TCP, UDP | Leave a Comment »

Finally! A Home Upgrade That Makes Sense (E-Ink Display) – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/17

Interesting, especially for my mentally retarded brother, as it uses a large E-ink display.

For him, it would require some batteries as well.

I learned from this that HomeAssistant has goodl Google integration. Great!

[Wayback/Archive] Finally! A Home Upgrade That Makes Sense (E-Ink Display) – YouTube

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Posted in Development, ESP32, Hardware Development | Leave a Comment »

Achtenveertig – Gewoon een of andere WordPress website (over Domotica, ESP8266, Linux, Vinyl)

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/17

Voor mijn linkarchief:

[Wayback/Archive] Achtenveertig – Gewoon een of andere WordPress website

Via [Wayback/Archive] Ronald (@Ronald@mastodon.nl) – Mastodon.nl

–jeroen

Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Development, Domotics/Smarthome, ESP8266, Hardware, Hardware Development, Linux, Network-and-equipment, Power User | Leave a Comment »

Some notes on Delphi Debugger Visualizers

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/16

Ever since Chris Hesik spoke on “RAD Studio 2010 what’s new in the IDE debugger”, wanted to write a blog post about it.

Still haven’t found time to do that in depth, but it’s important to at least jot a few notes, so let’s start with the 20111020 conference session notes.

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Posted in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development, Software Heritage | Leave a Comment »

Some links on Twitter automation through Selenium web-browser automation

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/16

A few years ago, Twitter basically killed API access by making it cost prohibitive for anything but very large organisations.

Here are some links I archived back then that might be able to replace some automation behaviour by using Selenium to drive a web browser.

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Hoe omgaan met iemand die ernstig ziek is en (misschien) niet meer beter wordt

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/15

Lees deze, juist ook als je dit nog nooit aan de hand gehad hebt:

Het sluit enorm goed aan op mijn eigen ervaringen als partner/naaste van, patiënt, overlevende en ondersteuner van andere mensen met (al dan niet terminale) kanker.

Via:

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Posted in About, Awareness, Cancer, Inclusion / inclusive society, LifeHacker, Personal, Power User | Leave a Comment »

Monitor Brandstofprijzen ACM: lichte daling brandstofprijzen gehele keten, diesel weer goedkoper dan benzine | ACM

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/15

[Wayback/Archive] Monitor Brandstofprijzen ACM: lichte daling brandstofprijzen gehele keten, diesel weer goedkoper dan benzine | ACM

Via: [Wayback/Archive] Autoriteit Consument & Markt: “⛽Brandstofprijzen over de gehe…” – social.overheid.nl (Mastodon)

⛽Brandstofprijzen over de gehele brandstofketen zijn licht gedaald ten opzichte van een maand. Diesel is aan de pomp weer goedkoper dan benzine. Het beeld dat gemiddelde winstmarges niet bij tankstations, maar bovenin in de keten zijn gestegen blijft onveranderd. Dat blijkt uit onze Monitor Brandstofprijzen.

--jeroen

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Raspberr Pi with openSuSE: trying to fix a microSD card causing “A start job is running for File System Check on /dev/disk/by-id mmc” … some time elspased / no limit

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/15

I wrote about Raspberry Pi And The Story Of SD Card Corruption | Hackaday before, quoting my tweet

[Wayback/Archive] @hackaday I’m have been running a few Raspberry Pi systems with 8-32Gb micro-SD cards as web-dashboard with refreshes every few minutes or so: much write access. When using Sandisk (no matter the type) they last about a year, Samsung (no matter the type) cards last multiple years.

That post got scheduled when I was recovering from my rectum cancer treatments and coping with bad LAR-syndrome. The good news when writing is that I survived and LAR-syndrome is more manageable. The bad news is that at the time you read this some 75% of my peer group didn’t, including some good friends .

I write this post at time around 50% of the peer group have passed away. A kind of tribute to them: let them be remembered.

This time I am trying to see if a microSD card causing the boot to hang on starting with “A start job is running for File System Check on /dev/disk/by-id mmc” then containing  some time elapsed  followed by “/ no limit”.

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Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Flash-memory, Linux, openSuSE, Power User, SD/miniSD/microSD/MMC, Storage, SuSE Linux, Tumbleweed | Leave a Comment »

What is the best way to get Windows 11 Pro Key for cheap ? : bootcamp

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/12

Needed this for some Windows 11 Virtual Machine experiments of Windows 11 on Apple Silicon ARM under VMware Fusion to see how well the Intel x64 emulation on ARM provided by Apple Rosetta or/and Microsoft Windows actually works: [Wayback/Archive] What is the best way to get Windows 11 Pro Key for cheap ? : bootcamp

At the time of writing (especially the “/Archive]” versions of the links below under “Queries” show remarkably cheap licenses):

Wondering what these will do during Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

In the meantime: reset timer galore (:

TL;DR from most links below on activating Windows 11 on ARM under VMware Fusion: it should work, but back in the experimental days (around 2021-2022) it sometimes failed.

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