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Archive for June, 2025

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Solution for “mac flush DNS cache” by Jan Lehnardt :couchdb:: “@christopherkunz alias dnsreset=’sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder'” – narrativ.es

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/10

https://narrativ.es/@janl/114658491232292970

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TFrame – What is the accepted way to use frames in Delphi? – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/10

From a while ago: [Wayback/Archive] TFrame – What is the accepted way to use frames in Delphi? – Stack Overflow.

Besides me referring to my blog post Delphi – Frames as visual Components – don’t forget your Sprig!, these were important comments and answers with notes by myself:

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For my link archive: swSIM and swICC by Tomasz Lisowski, two open source repositories to enable SIM card emulation

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/10

I wonder how this evolved, as the links are from fall 2022:

More links and info below, but first the image from the above Tweet:

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grief doesn’t shrink we grow around it

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/09

On the TODO list is to write more about the origin of “grief doesn’t shrink we grow around it”. For now, this is good enough:

The theory is from the influential 1996 article “Growing around grief—another way of looking at grief and recovery, Lois Tonkin TTC, Cert Counselling (NZ)”

Nowadays most people refer to it as the “grief jar”, see image below, but these weren’t the original images: those are on the right. Initially everyone thought that grief would shrink as seen in Figure 1 and Figure 2, but in fact we grow around it as shown in Figure 3.

Links:

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Too bad @googledrive downloads cannot work without 3rd party cookies. These cookie settings (and JavaScript) need to be enabled in order for them to work correctly

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/09

[Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “Too bad @googledrive downloads cannot work without 3rd party cookies. These cookie settings (and JavaScript) need to be enabled in order for them to work correctly:(see also support.google.com/drive/answer/2423534 )” / Twitter

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Bye bye: Changes to Microsoft Authenticator autofill – Microsoft Support

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/08

autofill in Microsoft Authenticator will be discontinued from July 2025

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/account-billing/changes-to-microsoft-authenticator-autofill-09fd75df-dc04-4477-9619-811510805ab6

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Reminder to self: check if other internet providers can deliver over the “Open” Dutch Fiber network

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/06

When “Open” Dutch Fiber (ODF) builds a fiber network, the internet provider Odido (ex T-Mobile Netherlands) gets a year exclusive use of the infrastructure.

In practice that is longer (see below tweets why), and for me it might become almost 2 years after ODF announced they would start building the local fiber network in the area where I live: [Wayback/Archive] [Odido Glasvezel] Ervaringen & Discussie – Internet en hosting – GoT.

You really do not want Odido, as they do NOT support IPv6 (I have Does Odido (the old T-Mobile Netherlands) which took over Tweak Internet (they supported IPv6) already support IPv6? scheduled on that).

Currently Odido does a lot of colportage, even threatening that copper will be phased out – yeah, that is going to take years! – likely because their exclusivity period is about to end. Which is a reminder for me to check if other providers can already deliver over the ODF network.

Dates to remember:

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Wanneer de papierkliko stuk of gestolen is: Ik heb een vraag of melding over mijn rolcontainer. Waar kan ik terecht? – Gemeente Amsterdam

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/06

Voor mijn link-archief: [Wayback/Archive] Ik heb een vraag of melding over mijn rolcontainer. Waar kan ik terecht? – Gemeente Amsterdam

--jeroen

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On my list of tools to check out RustDesk (as replacement for TeamViewer, Remote Desktop and similar)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/05

For non-Windows systems, I have used TeamViewer in the past and when they started being obnoxious reverted mostly to VNC derived alternatives. For Windows, I’d usually combined VPN with Remote Desktop.

Recently, I found out that during my first rectum cancer year (and for others, the first COVID-19 year), the development of RustDesk – which can be self-hosted – started as an open source project on [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – rustdesk/rustdesk: An open-source remote desktop application designed for self-hosting, as an alternative to TeamViewer. with their first commit being [Wayback/Archive] Initial commit · wabarc/wayback@650ea87 · GitHub.

I got pointed to this in [Wayback/Archive] Your Remote Desktop SUCKS!! Try this instead (FREE + Open Source) – YouTube.

One of the main things to figure out is how reliably RustDesk does firewall hole punching*.

Another personal interest is to learn more about Rust and Dart, the main programming languages in which RustDesk is written.

Here are some links:

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html – How to display an unordered list in two columns? – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/05

For a, I wanted to a HTML ul list the SQL keywords in multiple columns I was afraid this would be a tough CSS job, but in practice it was way easier than even explained in the below Stack Overflow answers that made me find

[Wayback/Archive] columns – CSS: Cascading Style Sheets | MDN

The columns [Wayback/Archive] CSS shorthand property sets the number of columns to use when drawing an element’s contents, as well as those columns’ widths.

TL;DR:

  • I used <ul style="columns:3">...</ul>
  • For setting column width, this failed in Chrome <ul style="column-count: 2; column-width: 15em;">...</ul>
    but this worked: <ul style="column-count: 2; width: 480px;">...</ul>

Here are the answers:

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