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Archive for October, 2025

Trick OR/AND/XOR/NOR/NAND/XNOR Treat.

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/31

Distorted jpeg of "Trick OR/AND/XOR/NOR/NAND/XNOR Treat"

Distorted jpeg of “Trick OR/AND/XOR/NOR/NAND/XNOR Treat”

Last Halloween,  📊 on X [WaybackSave/ArchiveWip] posted the image on the right:

[WaybackSave/Archive] GbOGt73WcAAAqnz.jpg (1199×594)

[WaybackSave/Archive] Tweet JSON

It is a play on [Wayback/Archive] Visual Representation of SQL Joins- CodeProject, which made [Wayback/Archive] Visual Representation of SQL Joins [RTzRa’s hive] to include it as well.

The original with some extensions are from @38mo1:

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My geigercounter (thanks Dinsdale for doing almost all the work!)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/31

Thanks [Wayback/Archive] Dinsdale. – D💉ane ديانا дiане Blijf thuis ⭕️🇺🇦 (@Dinsdal85174312) / Twitter for all the effort (solder, 3D-print, assemble) to get it to work!

Documentation links:

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Posted in Hardware, IoT Internet of Things, LoRa - Long Range wireless communications network, Network-and-equipment, Power User | Tagged: | Leave a Comment »

nixCraft 🐧: “I’ve got some news about office environments.…” – Mastodon

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/29

Are remote workers really working all day? No. Here's what they're doing instead. USA TODAY by Jessica Guynn in USA Today website

Are remote workers really working all day? No. Here’s what they’re doing instead. USA TODAY by Jessica Guynn in USA Today website

Useful thread about remote, remote-first and in-office experiences starting with [Wayback/Archive] nixCraft 🐧: “I’ve got some news about office environments. The absolute worst part for me was dealing with the rampant gossip and laziness. People would chat all day, accomplish next to nothing, and then pretend they were some kind of heroes for staying late.…” – Mastodon

I’ve got some news about office environments. The absolute worst part for me was dealing with the rampant gossip and laziness. People would chat all day, accomplish next to nothing, and then pretend they were some kind of heroes for staying late. People walk around, take lunch or bathroom breaks, attend meetings, etc. Office or Home people will walk around. Stop writing stupid stories to promote back-to-office culture and risk everyone’s health.

Read the responses for more experience.

And don’t feel bad when you slack when working remote: within boundaries, that is OK.

Image on the right from [Wayback/Archive] d9b6668ac611ef68.png (640×360) referring to USA TODAY article [Wayback/Archive] Do remote workers actually work? Yes, but they also shop and shower

--jeroen

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WinWorld: Microsoft Office 95

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/29

Just in case I ever need it for historic reasons:

[Wayback/Archive] WinWorld: Microsoft Office 95

Because back in the days various Office products had localised VBA (at least German and French products had; I’m not sure about other languages)

Via:

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Posted in Delphi, Development, History, LifeHacker, Office, Office 95, Office Automation, Office Development, Power User, Software Development, Windows, Windows 95 | Leave a Comment »

Some ADS-B API link notes (hoping to be able to get from/to airport data from it)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/28

For my link archive initiated because I was trying to find out why ADS-B Exchange does not list originating and destination airports for flights, then on how to get at that data.

It is grouped in a few parts, starting with:

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Posted in Communications Development, Development, HTTP, Internet protocol suite, JavaScript/ECMAScript, JSON, REST, Scripting, Software Development, TCP, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

Having some Technical Debt is OK as long as you keep paying the debt: Refactoring Is Not Just Clickbait – Kevlin Henney – NDC Oslo 2022 – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/28

[Wayback/Archive] Refactoring Is Not Just Clickbait – Kevlin Henney – NDC Oslo 2022 – YouTube

Via:

–jeroen

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GitHub – networkupstools/nut: The Network UPS Tools repository. UPS management protocol Informational RFC 9271 published by IETF at https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9271 Please star NUT on GitHub, this helps with sponsorships!

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/27

After having moved, I finally need to take a loog at [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – networkupstools/nut: The Network UPS Tools repository. UPS management protocol Informational RFC 9271 published by IETF at https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9271 Please star NUT on GitHub, this helps with sponsorships!

It supports a whole range of other UPS vendors, and we have a mix of vendors at home: APC, Cyberpower and Victron.

Documentation: [Wayback/Archive] Network UPS Tools – Welcome

To be continued….

Via [Wayback/Archive] Power Outage – YouTube (Level 2 Jeff).

Past blog posts mentioning Network UPS Tools:

  1. Some notes on apcupsd, a SUA3000XLI and a SUA48XLBP battery pack
  2. CP1500EPFCLCD – Backup UPS Systems | CyberPower

--jeroen

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Cyber bands and relates stickers – loet.bar + ZBF

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/27

[Wayback/Archive] Cyber – loet.bar + ZBF examples

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Writing Doom – Award-Winning Short Film on Superintelligence (2024) – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/24

Today a year ago, this interesting short film got available on YouTube about what an Artificial Super Intelligence could bring, especially when it became the villain or bad guy: [Wayback/Archive] Writing Doom – Award-Winning Short Film on Superintelligence (2024) – YouTube (some interesting comments below).

Synopsis from [Wayback/Archive] ‎Writing Doom • Film + cast • Letterboxd:

A writing team are given the task of making Artificial Superintelligence the ‘bad guy’ for the next season of their TV show. With the help of a newcomer to the team (a Machine Learning PhD), they must figure out how and why an ASI might function as an antagonist – and the threat it might pose to humanity.

A few important notes:

  • there is no good single definition of intelligence that well defines intelligence, let alone AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) or ASI (Artificial Super Intelligence)
  • ASI and its goals might be different from human intelligence and human goals
  • humanity might not realise or recognise there is ASI (at all, or when it has just become ASI)
  • if humanity does recognise, it might not be able to control (i.e. shut down) an ASI (for many reasons, not just it being too intelligent, but also because lack of consensus – read humanity smashing each others heads for no reason before even reaching consensus)

Maybe AGI and ASI are like nuclear war, and this WarGames conclusion is sensible after all: “the only winning move is not to play” though with the money at stake, AGI and ASI might be obtained. I doubt that will be in my lifetime though.

See also:

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Symbolen voor plattegrond in huis (muren, ramen, meubels, elektriciteit)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/24

Omdat ik geen architect ben, maar wel een redelijke tekening wilde maken hier wat linkjes voor wat ik gebruikt heb in draw.io:

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