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Archive for April, 2026

Super Agent – Automatic cookie consent – Chrome Web Store

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/03

This works in other browsers too; you can sync between them if you logon to it: [Wayback/Archive] Super Agent – Automatic cookie consent – Chrome Web Store

Via: [Wayback/Archive] #607: De opgesmukte maan | Tech45 Podcast

Site: [Wayback/Archive] Super Agent – Automatic Cookie Consent

Note: I think, but need to check, this only works for sites for which you have JavaScript enabled.

–jeroen

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On our list of places to visit: ICC Berlin

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/02

This is definitely on our list to visit, despite it being permanently closed: [Wayback/Archive] ICC Berlin (de) / [Wayback/Archive] ICC Berlin (en).

Wikipedia pages:

Last year, it was open during the [Wayback/Archive] Day of the Open Monument | visitBerlin.de (the German term is Tag des offenen Denkmals “seit 1993 am zweiten Sonntag im September”).

Just like the celebration of the Mauerfall gained popularity¹, the ICC Berlin has regained popularitly, hopefully later this year, a decision will be made if/how it will be repurposed, as well as the status of the asbestos. There seems to be enough potential:

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Excel: operations involving the last occurence of a substring (with examples getting the current Worksheet, Workbook and file/directory path)

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/02

Last month I wrote about CELL function looks interesting but beware: language nightmares coming up….

There I mentioned both formulas from [Wayback/Archive] Get sheet name only – Excel formula | Exceljet and [Wayback/Archive] Insert the current Excel file name, path, or worksheet in a cell – Microsoft Support failing to deliver the expected results

an official Microsoft example of obtaining the Worksheet name which I suspected would not work on systems allowing ] in path names. And indeed it is true: that case fails on both MacOS and Windows in the same way.

Here you see the failures of both the ExcelJet function and the ones from Microsoft Support on two operating systems:

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Maartje: “in Brussels to start a conversation … do the Language 3-way handshake …” – BLÅHAJ Social

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/01

[Wayback/Archive] Maartje: “Remember in Brussels to start …” – BLÅHAJ Social

  1. Remember in Brussels to start a conversation you have to do the Language 3-way handshake. Here is a scenario:
    SYN: Goeiedag/Bonjour!
    SYN-ACK: Goeiedag!
    ACK: Hoe kan ik i helpen?
  2. Do keep in mind that this 3-way handshake is ILLEGAL outside of the borders of brussels. Here is a map.
    Yes people have been sued.

    Language map of Belgium

Indeed: sued – [Wayback/Archive] Train Conductor language outrage in Belgium « Euro Weekly News

TL;DR

  • If you say “Bonjour” in the Dutch part, you can get sued
  • If you say “Goeiedag” in the French part, you can get sued

--jeroen

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Notes for a Bookmarklet that fixes Wayback Machine archivals of Google Search queries

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/01

For a while now, after initially displaying archived Google Search results, it changes the Wayback Machine archival URL after displaying.

Examples:

  • https://web.archive.org/web/20230322163526/https://www.google.com/web/20230322163526/https://www.google.com/search?q=excel+last+delimiter
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20230321192712/https://www.google.com/search?q=excel+textafter+textbefore+textsplit+site:https:%2F%2Fsupport.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Foffice%2F&google_abuse=GOOGLE_ABUSE_EXEMPTION%3DID%3D3020867903a1f6fa:TM%3D1679426832:C%3D%3E:IP%3D207.241.225.236-:S%3DTSrpWMPwWKoNpiXh-oD21Q%3B+path%3D/%3B+domain%3Dgoogle.com%3B+expires%3DTue,+21-Mar-2023+22:27:12+GMT
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20230321192712/https://www.google.com/web/20230321192712/https://www.google.com/search?q=excel+textafter+textbefore+textsplit+site:https:%2F%2Fsupport.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Foffice%2F&google_abuse=GOOGLE_ABUSE_EXEMPTION%3DID%3D3020867903a1f6fa:TM%3D1679426832:C%3D%3E:IP%3D207.241.225.236-:S%3DTSrpWMPwWKoNpiXh-oD21Q%3B+path%3D/%3B+domain%3Dgoogle.com%3B+expires%3DTue,+21-Mar-2023+22:27:12+GMT

I want to write a Bookmarklet that fixes these.

There is not much in the results of

[Wayback/Archive] “GOOGLE_ABUSE_EXEMPTION” “Wayback” – Google Search, but I think this happens when there is a high frequency Google Search archivals from the Wayback Machine.

–jeroen

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