I don’t have words to describe how cool this tool is: [Wayback/Archive] Kaitai Struct: declarative binary format parsing language:
Archive for September, 2025
Kaitai Struct: declarative binary format parsing language
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/18
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Beyond the Cloud: Brooklyn Zelenka on Local-First Software | gotopia.tech
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/17
I bumped into [Wayback/Archive] Beyond the Cloud: Brooklyn Zelenka on Local-First Software | gotopia.tech
It is a great session with guidance how to kind of go “back to the future” by amending cloud based applications to run locally by means of caching and syncing data. No small feat, but very convenient for end-users to have their – recently regarded as old-fashioned – local running applications back.
There is a – member’s only – video of it as well at [Wayback/Archive] Beyond the Cloud: The Local-First Software Revolution • Brooklyn Zelenka & Julian Wood • GOTO 2025 – YouTube
--jeroen
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Wijkcentrales – VVDSL.robinflikkema.nl
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/17
Voor mijn link archief: KPN telefooncentrales, waarvan een paar waar familie of ik een aansluiting had:
[Wayback/Archive] Wijkcentrales – VVDSL.robinflikkema.nl
Deze hadden Mojibake met de generic replacement character (“�”):
Wijkcentrales Code Plek Ctlr [Wayback/Archive] Wijkcentrale: Castelr� – VVDSL.robinflikkema.nl
(moet Castelré zijn)Odi [Wayback/Archive] Wijkcentrale: St. Odili�nberg – VVDSL.robinflikkema.nl
(moet Sint Odiliënberg zijn)
Let op: de [Wayback/Archive] fourstack KPN UI (toenmalig gebouwd door [Wayback/Archive] FourStack) is sinds 2021 uit de lucht, zie [WaybackSave/ArchiveBad] FPI Fourstack Snelheid DSL – Internet en hosting – GoT , dus de gegevens worden niet meer bijgewerkt.
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Notes in case I want to create my own homebrew cask for installing software they disabled/removed
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/16
Some notes as it might enable me to install software that homebrew has deprecated or removed (note that local changes by default are ignored as the brew API takces precedence):
- [Wayback/Archive] Alert API users that edited formulae won’t be included automatically in commands · Issue #15073 · Homebrew/brew
- [Wayback/Archive] What are the precise step-by-step instructions for creating a cask in the Homebrew repo? · Homebrew · Discussion #4640 · GitHub
- [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – Homebrew/homebrew-cask: 🍻 A CLI workflow for the administration of macOS applications distributed as binaries
- [Wayback/Archive] Adding Software to Homebrew — Homebrew Documentation
- [Wayback/Archive] Taps (Third-Party Repositories) — Homebrew Documentation
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brew tap <user>/<repo>makes a clone of the repository athttps://github.com/<user>/homebrew-<repo>into$(brew --repository)/Library/Taps. After that,brewwill be able to work with those formulae as if they were in Homebrew’s homebrew/core canonical repository.…
- [Wayback/Archive] How to Create and Maintain a Tap — Homebrew Documentation
- [Wayback/Archive] Interesting Taps and Forks — Homebrew Documentation
Despite the homebrew repository being a high commit-volume one which makes following it from a clone hard, just did already clone it Read the rest of this entry »
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Some notes on running Windows 11 on virtualised hardware and some on TPM
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/16
Not all virtualised hardware (older hardware usually has died by now) conforms to the Windows 11 minimum specifications.
So here are some links that should be of help to still get Windows 11 running on those:
- [Wayback/Archive] How to Install Windows 11 Without a Microsoft Account | Tom’s Hardware
- [Wayback/Archive] How to Bypass Windows 11’s TPM, CPU and RAM Requirements | Tom’s Hardware
Note that Microsoft also has also created an official registry hack to bypass TPM 2.0 and CPU requirements for an in-place upgrade. However, this method still requires at least TPM 1.2 so, if you have no TPM at all, it’s worthless.
If you insist on running older hardware that has a TPM header on the mainboard:
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Yes the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders. – Finding back the source
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/15
A lot of people publish unattributed copies of the cartoon “Yes the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders.”, so I tried finding it back.
I found out that the Google Image Search has deteriorated to the point where it could not find the 2012 original.
Luckily [Wayback/Archive] Yes the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders. – Google Suche did find the original.
So, without further ado, these are links, the original cartoons by [Wayback/Archive] Tom Toro, first published in The New Yorker:
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Managing the Mail Queue Files and Directories
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/15
I wish I had found this overview eons ago: [Wayback/Archive] Managing the Mail Queue Files and Directories.
The most important bits on the various kinds of files that appear in your message queue:
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What Are Dreams For? | The New Yorker
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/14
Interesting: [Wayback/Archive] What Are Dreams For? | The New Yorker
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In a series of papers, Blumberg articulated his theory that the brain uses REM sleep to “learn” the body.
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Are the robots really dreaming?
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Via:
- [WaybackSave/Archive] Jordan Mechner on X: “Interesting theory: the brain uses REM sleep to “learn” the body…”
- [Wayback/Archive] The New Yorker on X: “Neuroscientists have long believed that our bodies are paralyzed during REM sleep to prevent us from acting out our dreams, and the twitches we make are movements that slip through the cracks—but recent research tells another story. “
--jeroen
https://x.com/jmechner/status/1967129596903711139
https://x.com/NewYorker/status/1966950083024334849
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DeCENC is yet another way to beat Amazon, Netflix video DRM • The Register
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/12
From a while ago. I wonder what the current state is.
[Wayback/Archive] DeCENC is yet another way to beat Amazon, Netflix video DRM • The Register
- [Wayback/Archive] .:: Phrack Magazine ::. which is also a great example on how to publish an article including diagrams in ASCII
- [Wayback/Archive] DeCSS for Linux and DVD
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bitfocus/companion: Bitfocus Companion enables the reasonably priced Elgato Streamdeck to be a professional shotbox surface for an increasing amount of different presentation switchers, video playback software and broadcast equipment.
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/12
Cool: [Wayback/Archive] bitfocus/companion: Bitfocus Companion enables the reasonably priced Elgato Streamdeck to be a professional shotbox surface for an increasing amount of different presentation switchers, video playback software and broadcast equipment.
I was hoping this tool also could steer other kinds of equipment, so that’s on my list of things to try out.
More info:
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