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Archive for August, 2024

Rondje kanovaren: Greveling Lisse via Ringvaart Haarlemmermeer en Ringsloot

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/26

Rondje 11km

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Rondje buren 2.6km:

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Op bezoek bij vrienden:

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--jeroen

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With the ever increasing heatwaves all around the world: important PDF. Print it. Have it with you. Even better: read it before and prepare! “Heat Illness Prevention Pocket Guide Approved for public release, distribution unlimited TA-010-JAN20” @Walrathis

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/26

This is a reminder of a tweet I posted two years back: [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “With the current heatwaves all around the world: important PDF. Print it. Have it with you. Even better: read it before and prepare! “Heat Illness Prevention Pocket Guide Approved for public release, distribution unlimited TA-010-JAN20”  CC @Walrathis”

Climate change makes the weather expres happen more often and more prominently.

This means in the summer more heat waves.

Be prepared, so download and print this booklet: [Wayback] 54_HIP Pocket Guide.pdf titled “Heat Illness Prevention Pocket Guide Approved for public release, distribution unlimited TA-010-JAN20”.

It is from the USA army. They know this shit well.

I got the link from [Wayback/Archive] ReverseSlope on Twitter: “@jpluimers @J_Green_505 @GameOverMike @MDArcheologist @KristeninAlmo @diggingellen @OSHA This is a good summation. …”

Via [Wayback/Archive] Either Ellen or Dr. Chapman on Twitter: “Kaylen Gehrke, a 24 year old archaeologist on her first day on the job, died of a heat related medical emergency in Louisiana yesterday. Thinking back to past heat illness of myself and others and the varying responses from supervisors. So sorry for her, her family, and friends.”

Related: Rode Kruis on Twitter: “#hittetip voor de komende dagen en de zomer. 👉 Zo herken je de symptomen van oververhitting:…”

–jeroen

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25e KatwijkBinse Truckrun reed 24 augustus ook weer door Noordwijkerhout: foto’s door Jeroen

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/25

Ik heb foto’s gemaakt: [Wayback/Archive] 20240824: 25e Katwijkbinse Truckrun op Victoriberg Noordwijkerhout bij Dorpsstraat

[Wayback/Archive] Blik op Noordwijkerhout: 25e KatwijkBinse Truckrun rijdt 24 augustus ook weer door Noordwijkerhout. (route + tijd)

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512GB to 8TB for your M1: Mac Studio Storage Upgrade – Made EASY with Custom Parts – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/24

Video: [Wayback/Archive] Mac Studio Storage Upgrade – Made EASY with Custom Parts – YouTube

Tweets in [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @dosdude1 on Thread Reader App

  1. Just finished an awesome upgrade on an M1 Mac Studio, upgrading the stock 512GB of storage to its maximum of 8TB. Thanks to Gilles of Polysoft Services reverse-engineering and designing a custom storage module PCBs, I was able to perform the upgrade with ease!
  2. Be sure to check out my video of the complete upgrade process, found here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDFCurB3-0Q

The PCB are by [Wayback/Archive] Polysoft – centre de services à Tours/[WaybackSave/Archive] Gilles AUREJAC (@gillesaurejac) / X Hopefully, they will be available for sale soon.

Tweet images:

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20240511 – 20240512 – Noorderlicht – Northern Light – Aurora Borealis – Google Photos

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/23

At ages 55 and 53, this was the first time ever we saw the Northern Light [Wayback/Archive] 20240511 – 20240512 – Noorderlicht – Northern Light – Aurora Borealis – Google Photos.

It was a quiet night right after the R171 of the better half broke after I had been using it. We were both frustrated and vented of by driving to the coast in my car with no expectations seeing the Northern Light. Oh, how wrong we were. It was great in real life and even better on camera.

All photos were taken by hand with my smartphone (OnePlus Nord2 5G) at Nederzandt Beach which is both a 15 minute drive from the broken down car and 15 minutes from our home.

I like the ones below the signature most.

In the same weekend, I got pointed to this [Wayback/Archive] “Colors of Aurora” Poster for Sale by Leo the Alien | Redbubble from his [Wayback/Archive] alienyrox shop | Redbubble.

Via (the first tweets did not attribute the author by cutting top and bottom of the picture, which I think is a shame for professional social media users):

--jeroen

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Is the world still homogenising towards anonymous pile of monotony?

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/23

A few years back there was a great thread on Twitter starting with [Wayback/Archive] David Perell on Twitter: “What’s causing all these logos to look the same?”

The trend wasn’t just about logos. Architecture was looking more and more the same too and society at large was affected as well.

I wonder if by now the trend has changed.

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Algoritmes nemen beslissingen over ons leven: hoe besluiten we of we automatische beslissingen van algoritmes willen accepteren? | Amsterdam University Press Journals Online

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/22

[Wayback/Archive] Algoritmes nemen beslissingen over ons leven: hoe besluiten we of we automatische beslissingen van algoritmes willen accepteren? | Amsterdam University Press Journals Online

Via: [Wayback/Archive] Ionica Smeets: “Het nieuwste nummer van Tijdsc…” – Mathstodon

Het nieuwste nummer van Tijdschrift voor Communicatiewetenschap staat online en gaat helemaal over Human-Machine Communication. Met bijvoorbeeld dit interessante artikelvan Gabi Schaap over hoe we besluiten of we automatische beslissingen van algoritmes willen accepteren.

--jeroen

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The mojibake “creëer”

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/22

A while ago, I found the “creëermojibake in a Dutch page on the IKEA site.

They were not alone to make this mistake which is easily explained using [Wayback/Archive] ftfy:

>>> ftfy.fix_and_explain("creëer")
ExplainedText(text='creëer', explanation=[('encode', 'latin-1'), ('decode', 'utf-8')])

(you can run this on-line at [Wayback/Archive] Welcome to Python.org: interactive shell, see my post The things I didn’t notice during cancer survival: ftfy 6.0 and more versions got released during my recovery on how to do this)

So the text is easily fixed:

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windows – What does SetFileValidData doing ? what is the difference with SetEndOfFile? – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/21

While researching how to allocate space for empty Windows files, I bumped into this: [Wayback/Archive] windows – What does SetFileValidData doing ? what is the difference with SetEndOfFile? – Stack Overflow.

Interesting but dangerous: SetFileValidData allows setting the end of the “valid” file data to a point into the file without Windows pretending the content was zero-filled.

The big important thing here (a drawback for security, a blessing for adversaries): the file will incorporate data that was on disk before it got incorporated into the file, potentially leaking deleted data.

That’s why the SetFileValidData required at least the SE_MANAGE_VOLUME_NAME privilege.

QA content and salvaged/archived related links:

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If I ever need to do OAuth: aspnet-contrib/AspNet.Security.OAuth.Providers: OAuth 2.0 social authentication providers for ASP.NET Core

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/21

This is cool: [Wayback/Archive] aspnet-contrib/AspNet.Security.OAuth.Providers: OAuth 2.0 social authentication providers for ASP.NET Core.

Based on ideas at [Wayback/Archive] TerribleDev/OwinOAuthProviders: OAuth providers for Owin.

Via [Wayback/Archive] David Fowler 🇧🇧🇺🇸 on Twitter: “Since we’re on the auth topic, there’s a repository maintained by @martin_costello and @kevin_chalet for interacting with pretty much every oauth provider on the planet github.com/aspnet-contrib/AspNet.Security.OAuth.Providers… #dotnet #aspnetcore”.

OAuth 2.0 providers covered at the time of writing are in the [Wayback/Archive] AspNet.Security.OAuth.Providers/README.md: Providers at dev · aspnet-contrib/AspNet.Security.OAuth.Providers.

–jeroen

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