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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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Some LoRaWAN notes to decide buy or build?

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/19

A long time ago, I volunteered to participate in the first Dutch LoRaWAN initiative but somehow no more follow-up after the first initial 2015 email exchange.

Now that I have reached peak recovery of all my cancer treatments and LoRaWAN is far more available there is some room for experimentation.

Related blog post: Kerlink IoT station page | LoRa | Semtech

History:

So now some links in case I want to have my own LoRaWAN gateway:

  1. [Wayback/A] Jilles Groenendijk on Twitter: “And we are Live, second LoraWan gateway in Hellevoetsluis. This was the easiest setup of Hardware I have ever seen. Nerds get one, it is affordable, mod-able and you’ll extend the network! NL link: antratek.nl/the-things-indoor-gateway“

    [Wayback/Archive] The Things Indoor LoRaWAN Gateway, TTIG-868 – Antratek Electronics

  2. [Wayback/Archive] Jilles Groenendijk on Twitter: “Supposed to receive my TTIG today. Need to void the warranty though. #TheThingsNetwork #LoraWan”
    1. [Wayback/Archive] Hacking the TTI Indoor Gateway – Tinkerman
      • DIY Schuko plug for the TTI Indoor Gateway
      • Adding an external antenna, is it worth it?
      • Peaking into the firmware
      • Final touch: originates with TrackNet
      • How to enable the CP2102N on the TTIG
    2. [Wayback/Archive] The Things indoor gateway EU power plug by Rdfo – Thingiverse
    3. [Wayback/Archive] TTN Indoor Gateway – Stand, Rod- and Wallmount by LittleJoeMuc – Thingiverse
    4. [Wayback/Archive] TTIG_POWER
    5. [Wayback/Archive] The Things Network by Wienke Giezeman — Kickstarter
    6. [Wayback/Archive] The Things Indoor Gateway | The Things Network
    7. [Wayback/Archive] www.iot-shop.de The Things Indoor LoRaWAN Indoor Gateway TTNv3 Enabled for Installing LoRaWAN Networks: Amazon.de: Computer & Accessories
  3. [Wayback/Archive] Jilles Groenendijk on Twitter: “Ladies and Gentlemen, we’ve got him!”

    Image

–jeroen

Posted in Communications Development, Development, Hardware, Hardware Development, IoT Internet of Things, LoRa - Long Range wireless communications network, Network-and-equipment, Power User | Leave a Comment »

The pitch deck is dead. Write a pitch.md instead. Oh, and do this for any presentation you need to give.

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/18

I have been doing presentations based on Markdown since, gosh let me look, oh, at least 2014¹!

But I’m glad it is getting traction: [Wayback/Archive] The pitch deck is dead. Write a pitch.md instead.

… the “quality” of the deck is inversely correlated with the quality of the thinking behind it …

The quote hits the nail on the head, but be sure to read the rest of the article as well: it’s inspiring, holds for way more than pitch decks: it holds for any presentation, especially because of this quote²:

William Zinsser argued in On Writing Well that the act of writing forces clarity – because you can’t write a clear sentence about a thing you don’t understand.

Markdown has so many advantages. You write. It is text based. It can be versioned. I could go on.

Let me quote the closing summary too, as it is so well written showing the advantages of writing:

Write the pitch.md first. You might find you don’t need the deck at all, or you might find that when you do build the deck, it’s better, because you finally know what you’re trying to say.

Via:

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No more /etc/rc.local in ESXi 7 and up, use /etc/rc.local.d/local.sh in stead

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/18

Where in ESXi 6.x you could change /etc/rc.local in ESXi 7 and up tightened security and now use /etc/rc.local.d/local.sh [Wayback/Archive] virtualization – ESXi 7.X file permissions – how to buypass new security measures – Server Fault

Notes:

  • some ESXi (for instance when booting from PXE do not have persistent storage)
  • be sure to always backup an ESXi configuration after changing it

Via [Wayback/Archive] “esxi 7” run your own shell scripts – Google Search

–jeroen

Posted in ash/dash development, Development, ESXi6, ESXi6.5, ESXi6.7, ESXi7, ESXi8, Scripting, Software Development, Virtualization, VMware, VMware ESXi | Leave a Comment »

Tabellen met plugmaat en schroefmaat

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/17

Deze tabellen waren nuttig voor me, want ik dacht dat voor 7mm schroeven 8mm pluggen nodig waren:

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3D printer: Jeff Geerling on Twitter: “If you want to spend a month building it and then the rest of your life telling everyone about it, get a Voron. If you want something quick to assemble and practical, get an Ender 3 S1. If you want the nice coffee-sippingest model that looks good in orange, get a Prusa.”

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/17

I wonder if this still holds: [Wayback/Archive] Jeff Geerling on Twitter: “@NetworkChuck @joeltelling @Barnacules If you want to spend a month building it and then the rest of your life telling everyone about it, get a Voron. If you want something quick to anssemble and practical, get an Ender 3 S1. If you want the nice coffee-sippingest model that looks good in orange, get a Prusa.”

–jeroen

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LostMyPassword – Recover lost passwords stored on Windows applications

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/14

Released in august 2025, about a year ago, LostMyPassword seems to be replacing a lot of separare NirSoft tools that could reveal various specific password types:

[Wayback/Archive] LostMyPassword – Recover lost passwords stored on Windows applications

LostMyPassword can extract the passwords from popular programs, including Web browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Brave, Internet Explorer, Opera, and more…), POP3/IMAP/SMTP passwords stored by email software (Microsoft Outlook, Thunderbird, Windows Mail), Dialup/VPN passwords stored by Windows operating system, login passwords of remote computer stored by Windows operating system.

Via [WaybackSave/Archive] NirSoft on X: “New tool: LostMyPassword – “

On their Twitter account [WaybackSave/Archive] NirSoft (@nirsoft) / X, you can track various changes in their tools.

--jeroen

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Found out that a few years back the Unifi Network Controller got replaced with 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: [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 • 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 • 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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