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Archive for October, 2025

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113 bellen is sinds begin oktober 2025 gratis: welkome hulp als je diep in de put zit

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/05

Velen kennen gelukkig de slogan “Denk je aan zelfmoord? Neem contact op met 113”.

Dat kan altijd gratis en anoniem: bellen via 113 of 0800-0113, of via de chat of teletolk op [Wayback/Archive] Homepage | 113 Zelfmoordpreventie.

Na 5 jaar gratis via 0800-0113, en toen betaald via 113 (nu nog steeds betaald via 0900-113) is het eindelijk gratis te bereiken via 113.

Een enorme mijlpaal, want bij gedachten aan suïcide is elke minuut belangrijk.

Zelf ben ik niet alleen met anderen bekend rond trajecten over mentale gezondheid, maar ook met mezelf. De huidige wachttijden voor hulp via de GGZ, maakt de bereikbaarheid van 113 nog belangrijker.

Ongeveer 1 procent belt nog met 0900-113 en dat is uiteraard prima: stichting 113 Zeldmoordpreventie draait voor een groot deel op donaties, dus elk dubbeltje is welkom¹.

Nieuwsberichten

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From Hurricane Humberto to Storm Amy – what’s in a name? | Royal Meteorological Society

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/05

Ah, thanks to the investigative nature of a friend, I now know that hurricanes Humberto and Imelda had a thing going on dancing together over the Atlantic which resulted in the birth of Amy. Check.

More details: [Wayback/Archive] From Hurricane Humberto to Storm Amy – what’s in a name? | Royal Meteorological Society

--jeroen

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de BouwApp – A44 – Onderliggend wegennet bij Lisserwegviaduct gestremd vanaf 14 oktober 2025 tot ongeveer april 2026

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/04

Altijd handig wanneer er geen beschrijvende titels in web-pagina’s zijn, of jaartallen bij planningen.

Daarom deze toevoeging: [Wayback/Archive] de BouwApp gaat over de A44

Onderliggend wegennet bij Lisserwegviaduct A44 gestremd vanaf 14 oktober 2025

Dit duurt tot ongeveer april 2026 volgens [Wayback/Archive] Vervanging eerste A44-viaduct start in oktober 2025

In de tussentijd geldt dit:

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transcaffeine: “New Netbox Feature just dropped…” – Mondbasis

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/03

Reminder to test out Netbox, as it looks like a tool that very much resembles reality: [Wayback/Archive] transcaffeine: “New Netbox Feature just dropped…” – Mondbasis

[Wayback/Archive] 8a0c2652d8582172.png (1150×841) (full image below)

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Fraudehelpdesk ontvangt groot aantal meldingen over fraudetelefoontjes – Security.NL

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/03

[Wayback/Archive] Fraudehelpdesk ontvangt groot aantal meldingen over fraudetelefoontjes – Security.NL

Ik had zelf al gemerkt dat de hoeveelheid SPAM calls enorm was toegenomen: 2025 first quarter (our winter): a set back in energy, slowly getting back, taking preventions to keep this from happening again

Kennelijk ben ik niet alleen hierin.

--jeroen

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Liquidated: ISOSTEEL Deutschland GmbH, Wiesbaden

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/02

Just found out about the liquidation of [Wayback/Archive] ISOSTEEL Deutschland GmbH, Wiesbaden.

Their availability of spare caps were the reason for getting their thermos flasks and caps in the first place. As a bonus, their flashs had a wide opening as well. Much wider than the 25+ year old HEMA thermos flasks I used before (one of which the cap had died, the other one lost its vacuum):

The Isosteel caps are slowly dying, which means I need to find an alternative brand that provides spare parts and has a large flask opening, and kept liquid hot for 24 hours or cold for 48 hours. Just see their prior products at [Wayback/Archive] “ISOSTEEL – Isoliergefäße aus Edelstahl”.

Liquidation:

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Notes on Oracle Cloud Free Tier (via «I got the “free forever” 4 core/24GB ARM VM from Oracle Cloud. What should I do with it?»)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/02

Some notes (mainly links) on the Oracle Cloud Free Tier as at the time of writing it is the only provider with a “free forever” tier.

In the past for FOSS, there was [Wayback/Archive] Fosshost on Twitter: “@d_feldman Check out fosshost.org for an alternative to Oracle Cloud for ARM/AArch64. We are free, open source and you will never get bill shock. Open source projects must apply only.”, but at the end of 2022 they started to wind down their services as per [Wayback/Archive] Fosshost to Sunset Tenant Services

Fosshost to Sunset Tenant Services

At this time, Fosshost is deeply sorry to announce we are no longer able to continue offering our services.

Because of this, we strongly recommend all Fosshost tenants to backup their data immediately, and migrate elsewhere as soon as possible.

Oh before you begin: if you need a reverse DNS record then be sure to request that as soon as your free tier starts: at that time you have USD 300 credits for running paid services which includes the support to request reverse DNS records.

Anyway, many links on the Oracle OCI Cloud Free Tier (especially the ARM deal is great: lots of RAM as compared to the x86 VMs):

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Question got closed in May 2025 due to bureaucrazy: Sites for beginning Delphi programmers – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/01

The whole idea of “community questions” was to create collective topics or references about important material without gaining any “points”.

Stack Exchange has left that concept in the dark by closing questions like this 2010 one that still contains relevant links: [Wayback/Archive] Sites for beginning Delphi programmers – Stack Overflow

The next step by their moderators is to delete the question, which will lose the valuable material forever.

Stack Exchange also dislikes humour.

And Embarcadero keeps deleting useful sites.

So for posterity, here is the question plus answers in full, amended with archived versions of each link when still available (I used † to mark the dead ones):

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Jip van den Toorn | de Volkskrant – Vrijwilliger (1 oktober 2025)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/01

In aanloop naar de verkiezingen:  [WaybackSave/Archive] Jip van den Toorn | de Volkskrant over een vrijwilliger:

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Steve Troughton-Smith: (paraphrased) ChatGPT can be OK for translating ObjectiveC to Swift

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/01

[Wayback/Archive] Steve Troughton-Smith: “I’m sure everybody is sick of …” – Mastodon

I’m sure everybody is sick of hearing about ChatGPT by now, but one OP feature it has is the capability to translate code between different programming languages, for example from Objective-C to Swift (or vice versa). An incredible accelerant, if nothing else. This was indeed the final push I needed to get @broadcastsapp over the finish line on its migration, and Broadcasts v3.1 doesn’t have a single line of ObjC left 🫡

–jeroen

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