Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/24
Interesting, especially the early classic Macintosh and Apple II machinery: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – geerlingguy/retro-computers: Retro Computers – Info and status for all my retro Macs, PCs, gaming systems…
Via: [Wayback/Archive] Saving my Aunt’s 1991 Mac Classic: Tear it apart, don’t turn it on! – YouTube
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/24
Used it for instance for this edit: [Wayback/Archive] Lightweight Directory Access Protocol: verschil tussen versies – Wikipedia.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/23
Sometimes I feel like having lived under a rock for ages despite trying to live the command-line life as much as possible.
Anyway: not that long ago I learned about [Wayback/Archive] mutool: all purpose tool for dealing with PDF files | mupdf Commands | Man Pages | ManKier
It is part of [Wayback/Archive] Package mupdf – man pages | ManKier which also has [Wayback/Archive] mupdf: MuPDF is a lightweight PDF viewer written in portable C | mupdf Commands | Man Pages | ManKier.
MuPDF – a kind of sibling to GhostScript – lives at [Wayback/Archive] MuPDF: The ultimate library for managing PDF documents.
The below query got me to [Wayback/Archive] mupdf/docs/man/mutool.1 at master · ccxvii/mupdf · GitHub in the “wrong” repository [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – ccxvii/mupdf: mirrored from git://git.ghostscript.com/mupdf.git
The actual repositories are at:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/23
This was a cool post: [Wayback/Archive] 433 MHz is not dead! Using an ESP32 board with LoRa module to talk to 433 MHz sensors – CNX Software
433MHz LoRa Transceiver-based ESP32 board work with regular 433 MHz sensors found on the market. This gives end users a simple off-the-shelf solution for receiving these signals without having to use a soldering iron and making a circuit.
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This opens many doors regarding 433 MHz sensor readings with one device, including weather stations, doors, PIR, TPMS, temperature, and BBQ sensors.
Related: [Wayback/Archive] Making your RF 433mhz sensors and devices communicate with your home automation, gateways comparison
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/22
Sinds vorige week tot 5 december 2025 kun je weer een Covid-19 vaccinatie krijgen.
Iedereen die wil kan een afspraak maken via telefoonnummer 0800-7070 of via de eerste link hieronder.
Linkjes:
[Wayback/Archive] Sorry, je bent geblokkeerd / Sorry, you have been blocked
Probeer het dan later, of via een andere internetprovider, nog een keer.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/22
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/22
Two kinds of RP-SMA dual-band WiFi antenna parts having :
Both are also supposed to work for Dell OptiPlex Micro models 3020/3040/3050/5020/5040/5050/7020/7040/7050 (as 5030/7030 models were never released and 3030/9030 only released as a different all-in-one PC form factor): basically the end of the Micro form factors in Dell OptiPlex Series 4 and start of Dell OptiPlex Series 5.
Links (some also containing part numbers for other related components like internal wiring and M.2 Wi-Fi cards):
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/19
Observaties waarin de maatschappij als geheel vast aan het lopen is:
De eerste is via [Wayback/Archive] Post by @huibmodderkolk.bsky.social — Bluesky
‘De samenleving zou weleens wat kritischer tegenover het verhaal van Silicon Valley mogen staan. Technologie is niet zomaar een instrument, maar verandert ook hoe mensen denken’
Belangrijk gesprek met hoogleraar Reijer Passchier
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/19
In a German thread, Kristian Köhntopp perfectly explained why I too always use light mode, so I put the English translations here:
The German thread:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/18
NewsGuard August 2025 One Year Progress Report: Percentage of Responses Containing False Information
This is what I have been warning for since 2020: AI LLM will end up in a downward quality spiral.
My reasoning back then, and still now is that they:
I’m not surprised by the [Wayback/Archive] August 2025 — AI False Claim Monitor – NewsGuard summary:
AI False Information Rate Nearly Doubles in One Year
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 