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Archive for September, 2025

Ringvaartaquaduct | NavShip

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/04

Source: Ringvaartaquaduct | NavShip

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LAN/WAN network building: test and know how to locate your cabling

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/04

I have seen too many sites where cabling was laid en never tested before actual use, which meant locating the cabling and faults was a nightmare.

Be sure to have good (which can be very simple, but more complex when Power over Ethernet is involved) testing hardware and use it during installation. You will thank yourself later.

A few videos that can be helpful:

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Posted in Development, Ethernet, fiber, Hardware, Hardware Development, Internet, Network-and-equipment, PoE - Power over Ethernet, Power User | Tagged: , , , , , | Leave a Comment »

Thread by Cameron R. Wolfe on Twitter about why GPT-3 is better than larger language models

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/04

For my link archive the [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @cwolferesearch on Thread Reader App starting with [Wayback/Archive] Cameron R. Wolfe on Twitter: “After GPT-3 was proposed, a lot of research was done to find an even better language model. Initial attempts focused on just training larger models. Contrary to popular belief, however, there is more to creating a good language model than size… 🧵[1/8]” / Twitter

3 years later, I’m anxious to know what the current state of the art on GPT is, as between GPT-2 and GPT-3 there was about a 3 year period.

–jeroen

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The Miracle of Flux – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/03

I see so many people not using flux while desoldering.

Flux works like magic: [Wayback/Archive] The Miracle of Flux – YouTube

This trick work like magic too: [Wayback/Archive] Soldering hacks Soldering 9 contacts at once with a soldering iron and how to use Desoldering wire – YouTube

--jeroen

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Some notes on getting CrystalDiskMark portable on Chocolatey

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/03

I needed the portable version of [Wayback/ArchiveCrystalDiskMark on Chocolatey (unlike the [Wayback/Archive] Chocolatey Software | CrystalDiskMark (Install) package). Luckily I found the auto-update package [Wayback/Archive] Chocolatey Software | CrystalDiskInfo (Portable) and knew both that CrystalDiskMark is from the same author as CrystalDiskInfo, and that their code is on GitHub like the Chocolatey package.

Given I had a the below chocolatey-packages/automatic/crystaldiskinfo.portable as a template, I asked the CrystalDiskInfo (Portable) package maintainer if they were willing to maintain CrystalDiskMark (portable) as well and was glad the response was “yes”: [Wayback/Archive] Portabe CrystalDiskMark similar to the current CrystalDiskInfo? · Issue #159 · mkevenaar/chocolatey-packages

So for my link-archive:

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Posted in .NET, Chocolatey, CommandLine, Development, Lightweight markup language, MarkDown, Power User, PowerShell, PowerShell, Scripting, Software Development, Windows | Tagged: , | Leave a Comment »

Revisited: Bookmarklet to save a page both in the WayBack machine and Archive.is (ending on the latter to solve a reCAPTCHA)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/02

Quite a I while ago, I wrote Bookmarklet to save a page both in the WayBack machine and Archive.is (ending on the latter to solve a reCAPTCHA).

The bookmarklet has been very stable, but as of a week or so I need to press the Enter key for it to actually archive.

The reason is that Archive.is, also known as Archive Today, introduced a new URL parameter for auto-starting the archive of an URL.

The old one looked like this: https://archive.is/submit/?run=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Ffeed%2Fhistory%2Fcomment_history

The new one like this: https://archive.is/submit/?anyway=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Ffeed%2Fhistory%2Fcomment_history&submitid=auT7eAltRDxCOGSjdoRMhu3H9d91VEFlvjVztfvNU8XO0ccAhji5DvTyqQew6rfm

The new submitid URL 40 character base64 parameter is being checked in the back end. One way of obtaining one by loading https://archive.is/ then wait for it’s completion and grab it from there.

The alternative is to wait for the submit page to fully load, then find the “save” button via its HTML <input type="submit" value="save"> and press it.

So that’s on the todo list for the updated Bookmarklet of the above blog post.

For now, I just have to press the Enter key for each archived page, I wonder how long that will last (:

Oh: to get the “do you want to save the page again” URL you will have to know the canonical URL first, as that ID is in the again URL, see the bold bits here:

  1. https://archive.is/c6d09
  2. https://archive.is/c6d09/again?url=https://www.youtube.com/feed/history/comment_history

--jeroen

Posted in archive.is / archive.today, Bookmarklet, Development, Internet, Power User, Software Development, Web Browsers, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

RunElevated.bat: Run an Elevated command on Windows

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/02

For a long time, I have ran with the runelevated.bat in [Wayback/Archive] Run an Elevated command using that: “net file” returns errorlevel 1 when not UAC, and “PowerShell Start-Process” has a “-Verb RunAs“; see the answers at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7044985/how-can-i-auto-elevate-my-batch-file-so-that-it-requests-from-uac-admin-rights for more information

By now, I would just prepend this oneliner into each batch-file needing elevation:

@pushd "%~dp0" & fltmc | find "." && (powershell start '"%~f0"' ' %*' -verb runas 2>nul && popd && exit /b)

Both the initial batch file and one-liner are from [Wayback/Archive] windows – How can I auto-elevate my batch file, so that it requests from UAC administrator rights if required? – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Ir Relevant,  [Wayback/Archive] ceztko, [Wayback/Archive] Jamesfo, and [Wayback/Archive] PDixon724)

Note that the net file trick below should actually be repeated twice. This is explained in [Wayback/Archive] windows – Batch script: how to check for admin rights – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] zumalifeguard), but wait: there is even a better solution!

The fltmc trick above works much better than the net file trick and is available from Windows XP and up, see [Wayback/Archive] windows – Batch script: how to check for admin rights – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] npocmaka).

Oh: on systems where I have full installation control, I always install gsudo, see gsudo (sudo for windows).

–jeroen

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Mystery boxen – Retourtjes.com

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/01

Interesting: [Wayback/Archive] Mystery boxen – Retourtjes.com

Via [WaybackSave/Archive] Lia🌈❤ on X: “Kocht voor weinig een pakket ongeclaimde pakketjes… kon net door de deur🤣 merendeel is niet interessant voor mij (gereedschap, opladers, cartridges) maar ook leuke zooi (waterkan, stickers, knutselspul). Er zitten ook mystery items in, oftewel “ik heb geen idee wat het is”.” / X

Related:

--jeroen

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gsudo (sudo for windows)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/01

Not that long ago, I bumped into [Wayback/Archive] Home | gsudo (sudo for windows)

I wish I had bumped into this much longer ago (:

Source at [Wayback/Archive] gerardog/gsudo: Sudo for Windows.

One installer package (there are others like winget and scoop on the documentation site): [Wayback/Archive] Chocolatey Software | gsudo – a sudo for windows.

Via [Wayback/Archive] windows – How can I auto-elevate my batch file, so that it requests from UAC administrator rights if required? – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Gerardo Grignoli)

Edit 20250901 (thanks [Wayback/Archive] mterwoord (Matthijs ter Woord) · GitHub):

Windows 11 has a built-in sudo which has different semantics, and is disabled by default.

Enabling Windows 11 sudo

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