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Archive for July, 2024

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Aan- en uittrekhulp Doff N’ Donner, voor het aan- en uittrekken van steunkousen | Aantrekhulp voor sokken/panty’s en steunkousen | Winkel met Zorg

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/26

[Wayback/Archive] Aan- en uittrekhulp Doff N’ Donner, voor het aan- en uittrekken van steunkousen | Aantrekhulp voor sokken/panty’s en steunkousen | Winkel met Zorg

Aan- en uittrekhulp voor steunkousen (alle typen elastische kousen), de Doff N’ Donner ook wel Donner genoemd. De Donner is een uniek hulpmiddel om alle typen compressiekousen van alle drukklassen in alle maten snel en comfortabel aan en uit te trekken.

Video’s:

Deze kan zonder handschoenen gebruikt worden.

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Figuring out what domains/IPs to whitelist for installing/updating winget sources and packages

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/25

A few years ago I asked for some help figuring out what to whitelist so that winget can update its sources and install packages.

This is how I found out.

The queste started with [Wayback/Archive] Need help trying to figure out what domains/IPs to whitelist for installing packages · Discussion #2304 · microsoft/winget-cli

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Posted in Batch-Files, Development, Firewall, Fritz!, Fritz!Box, Hardware, Network-and-equipment, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 11, winget | Leave a Comment »

David Fowler on Twitter: “Playing around with using static interface methods and the new IParsable to make generic callsites for HTTP APIs. Before .NET 7 there was no way to write generic code that did {Type}.TryParse/{Type}.Parse. The type system didn’t have a way to describe these contracts. #dotnet”

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/25

Reminder to check out this [Wayback/Archive] David Fowler on Twitter: “Playing around with using static interface methods and the new IParsable to make generic callsites for HTTP APIs. Before .NET 7 there was no way to write generic code that did {Type}.TryParse/{Type}.Parse. The type system didn’t have a way to describe these contracts. #dotnet” (and OCR the images):

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Goldman Sachs: AI Is Overhyped, Wildly Expensive, and Unreliable

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/24

If even companies that normally charge a fukcton of money* to advise the obvious gets it, why are so many still falling for it?

[Wayback/Archive] Goldman Sachs: AI Is Overhyped, Wildly Expensive, and Unreliable

“Despite its expensive price tag, the technology is nowhere near where it needs to be in order to be useful for even such basic tasks”

Via [Wayback/Archive] tldr.nettime – tante: “”What this means in plain Engl…”

“What this means in plain English is that one of the largest financial institutions in the world is seeing what people who are paying attention are seeing with their eyes: Companies are acting like generative AI is going to change the world and are acting as such, while the reality is that this is a technology that is currently deeply unreliable and may not change much of anything at all.”

(Original title: Goldman Sachs: AI Is Overhyped, Wildly Expensive, and Unreliable)

  • do I really need to mention the USD 4 million contact for figuring out that for NYC, putting garbage bags on OTTO garbage wheelie bins would  on the streets would work better than putting plain garbage bags on the streets?

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PowerMac G5 ATX Gaming PC Case Mod | by Patrick Robert Doyle | Medium

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/24

Cool idea: [Wayback/Archive] PowerMac G5 ATX Gaming PC Case Mod | by Patrick Robert Doyle | Medium

Some of the links from that article which I have archived:

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Injection Travel Kit by frozenfoxx | Download free STL model | Printables.com

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/23

https://web.archive.org/web/20240712145919if_/https://archive.is/MTJf5/b31c22e9bbd617dc60c3203f66f4f167d3ff8066.webpThis is kewl: [Wayback/Archive] Injection Travel Kit by frozenfoxx | Download free STL model | Printables.com

Travel case for an injection kit. Includes spaces for draw and injection needles, syringes, vial, wipes, and bandages

Not just because they are injection kits, but because they form a base for other travel cases like one mentioned in the [Wayback/Archive] Comments: Injection Travel Kit by frozenfoxx | Download free STL model | Printables.com

Would it be possible to make this with a space for a horizontal storage for a similar sized via, and a 1-2mL ampule storage? The space could even be taken from one of the needle spaces, maybe.

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Need to give this some thought: Poor Man’s Auto Update. by Chris Bensen | by Chris Bensen

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/23

Sometimes you need a relatively low-tech solution for updating.

I will need to give this some thought: [Wayback/Archive] Poor Man’s Auto Update. by Chris Bensen | by Chris Bensen | Jun, 2022 | Medium

Back then I posted some edits on Twitter which by now should be reflected in the script and GitHub repository at [Wayback/Archive] chris-blogs/PoorManAutoUpdate.md at main · chrisbensen/chris-blogs (with script at [Wayback/Archive] chris-blogs/updater.sh at main · chrisbensen/chris-blogs)

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Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, cron, Development, Hardware Development, Linux, Power User, Python, Raspberry Pi, Scripting, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Reusing the motors and magnets of your old hard drives

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/22

Likely not suited for drones (as the motors are too heavy and have too high RPM), but maybe for other usage: [Wayback/Archive] Unlock the Potential of Your Old Hard Drives: Build a Drone Engine! – YouTube.

The motors do require extra controller logic, as they are BLDC (brushless DC), see for instance:

The other reason I like the video is that it shows how easy it is to salvage parts of your HDD. This comment is golden:

The magnets for the actuator are neodymium! Fun to play with!

--jeroen

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Great tip by Jen Gentleman on Twitter: “Colour coding all my meetings – seriously I don’t know why I held off for so long, it made my calendar so much easier to read

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/22

Reminder to check out the tools I use so I can go [Wayback/Archive] Jen Gentleman on Twitter: “Colour coding all my meetings – seriously I don’t know why I held off for so long, it made my calendar so much easier to read”

This is the scheme that Jen uses: [Wayback/Archive] Jen Gentleman on Twitter: “@melvinjoosten Yeah – I have a lot of recurring meetings, so I use one colour for 1-1s, one colour for big team meetings, and one colour for office hours. It makes it a lot easier to spot the one off meetings which have been added to my calendar (which I leave the default colour)”

or in list form, differentiate between:

  • one-on-one
  • big team
  • office hours
  • default (for events added by others)

–jeroen

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IKEA ESCHER play table and chair (700×906)

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/19

Via [Wayback/Archive] ★ govertschilling on X: “die linksonder is het leukst 🙂”: IKEA ESCHER play table and chair

[Wayback/Archive] GQ7TPlKW4AAFE_M (700×906)

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