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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/29
Besides the August 2025 XKCD infrastructure dependency inspired cartoon on the right, the more recent and great [Wayback/Archive] XCKD: Dependency derivative below is a monumental piece as it combines the recent:
- fiber outage of the Internet Archive
- DoS of Cloudflare by itself
- AWS us-east-1 dependencies outage
- Crowdstrike DoS of Windows machines
- framework-du-jour mentality in the JavaScript world
- many more¹
Image [Wayback/Archive] 36247840bf294a9d.png (1080×1389) from [Wayback/Archive] xyla 🐀🪇: “someone pls alt text this shit…” – buy shitpost cheap:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/28
For me, it is always difficult to navigate to the Amazon help pages where you can reach their chat.
These are some of the links; follow the pattern to figure out which domain part you need to replace to get to your local ones:
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/17
Download & transfer via USB Transfer Tip: After downloading, use your USB cable to connect your computer and Kindle. Your Kindle will appear as a drive on your computer. Copy your downloaded file from your computer to your Kindle’s documents folder. ❗️Starting 26 February 2025, the ‘Download & Transfer via USB’ option will no longer be available. You can still send Kindle books to your Wi-Fi enabled devices by selecting the ‘Deliver or Remove from Device’ option. Learn more about managing downloads
Amazon will disable downloading of Kindle books after 2025-02-25 (yup: slightly more than a week!):
(image on the right via Jan Wildeboer)
Edit 20250224: steps to convert from Kindle 1.17 on MacOS or Windows in 3 Ways to Convert Kindle to PDF for Free.
It allowed me to convert everything to PDF except one book which I found a free PDF of at [Wayback/Archive] Linear Algebra Done Right as [Wayback/Archive] linear.axler.net/LADR4e.pdf [Wayback PDF View/PDF View] via [WaybackSave/Archive] Sheldon Axler on X: “The free Kindle version of the fourth edition of my book Linear Algebra Done Right is now available at www.amazon.com/Linear-Algebra-Right-Undergraduate-Mathematics-ebook/dp/B0DDT4WVRD. The free pdf version of the book is available at linear.axler.net. The free translation into Chinese is also available as a pdf file at linear.axler.net“ ¹
Back to the original:
Table with URLs for your Kindle libraries where you can download manually based on https://www.amazon.com/hz/mycd/digital-console/contentlist/booksAll/dateDsc/ which I got form the below mentioned download tools:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/03
Yup, I have been in the Ring ecosystem since way before Amazon took them over, and it is kind of hard to part from the useful cameras, so here is for my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] Latest Products/Feature Request Board topics – Ring Community
Via two suggestions I did:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/18
At the end of 2020, in the midst of the Covid-19 crisis, [Wayback/Archive] den (@DennisCode) / Twitter started [Wayback/Archive] Engineering Festivus
The only thing 2020 needed is Seinfeld making a career change and getting into tech.
It is a series of IT parodies that at the time of writing just had its’ 35th episode: [Wayback/Archive] den on Twitter: “Kubernetes.”
Kubernetes
Kramer decided to use Kubernetes for his website. Jerry tries to explain what that entails. Kramer is adamant to do it all himself.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/06
Reminder to show how well my experimentation with [Wayback/Archive] Better Uptime went and how they compare to [Wayback/Archive] UptimeRobot.
For now I am at this plan in [Wayback/Archive] Pricing | Better Uptime:
Free:
- e-mail alerts
- 3-minute checks
- 10 monitors
This suffices to keep an eye on the modest IT infrastructure at both our home and the one from my mentally retarded brother.
Note that other prices on that pages are per month. Despite the default selection being “annual plan” the very light grey and thin “/mo” on a black ground indicates they are still per month, but you get 20% discount with the annual plans).
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/16
For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] s3-ocr: Extract text from PDF files stored in an S3 bucket
One reason is archival of books. Even (or maybe especially) in IT, books already have historic meaning especially in narrower fields where they often are not available in the Internet Archive or have been scanned by Google Books.
Via/related:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/04/02
I will need this one day as keeping resources up for sandbox or test accounts can cost a lot when things do not happen according to plan:
Both have been written in golang.
Warning: these can be abused, wreak havoc when accidentally used in production, or not even delete all (it’s software; there might be bugs).
Via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/04/07
I missed this 2 weeks ago, but in fact “AmazonSmile Is Ending” means it has already ended. Amazon.de purchases do not help charity any more.
[Wayback/Archive] smile.amazon.de
AmazonSmile Is Ending
Thank you for your support over the past decade. We appreciate your help in donating more than $450 million across hundreds of thousands of charities worldwide. Moving forward, we are excited to focus on other philanthropic initiatives.
You can continue shopping on http://www.amazon.de for the same selection of products you know and love.
in German:
AmazonSmile wird eingestellt
Wir danken Ihnen für Ihre Unterstützung in den letzten sieben Jahren. Mit Ihrer Hilfe konnten hunderttausende gemeinnützige Organisationen weltweit mit mehr als 450 Millionen US-Dollar unterstützt werden. Amazon wird sein soziales Engagement künftig auf andere Bereiche fokussieren.
Sie können weiterhin auf http://www.amazon.de einkaufen, wo Sie die gleiche Produktauswahl vorfinden.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/02/09
Getting the latest cloud outages is easy: just follow [Archive] howisthecloud (@howisthecloud) / Twitter
Feeding cloud provider statuses from all over the Internets. Currently tweeting AWS,SFDC,Heroku,GoogleApps,Azure,Sakura,Rackspace,Pivotal statuses. By
I used it to keep an eye on the december 2021 US-EAST-1 AWS outage I wrote about in Does it still hold: “Never keep anything important on AWS in US-EAST-1”?.
–jeroen
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