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Some LoRaWAN notes to decide buy or build?

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/19

A long time ago, I volunteered to participate in the first Dutch LoRaWAN initiative but somehow no more follow-up after the first initial 2015 email exchange.

Now that I have reached peak recovery of all my cancer treatments and LoRaWAN is far more available there is some room for experimentation.

Related blog post: Kerlink IoT station page | LoRa | Semtech

History:

So now some links in case I want to have my own LoRaWAN gateway:

  1. [Wayback/A] Jilles Groenendijk on Twitter: “And we are Live, second LoraWan gateway in Hellevoetsluis. This was the easiest setup of Hardware I have ever seen. Nerds get one, it is affordable, mod-able and you’ll extend the network! NL link: antratek.nl/the-things-indoor-gateway“

    [Wayback/Archive] The Things Indoor LoRaWAN Gateway, TTIG-868 – Antratek Electronics

  2. [Wayback/Archive] Jilles Groenendijk on Twitter: “Supposed to receive my TTIG today. Need to void the warranty though. #TheThingsNetwork #LoraWan”
    1. [Wayback/Archive] Hacking the TTI Indoor Gateway – Tinkerman
      • DIY Schuko plug for the TTI Indoor Gateway
      • Adding an external antenna, is it worth it?
      • Peaking into the firmware
      • Final touch: originates with TrackNet
      • How to enable the CP2102N on the TTIG
    2. [Wayback/Archive] The Things indoor gateway EU power plug by Rdfo – Thingiverse
    3. [Wayback/Archive] TTN Indoor Gateway – Stand, Rod- and Wallmount by LittleJoeMuc – Thingiverse
    4. [Wayback/Archive] TTIG_POWER
    5. [Wayback/Archive] The Things Network by Wienke Giezeman — Kickstarter
    6. [Wayback/Archive] The Things Indoor Gateway | The Things Network
    7. [Wayback/Archive] www.iot-shop.de The Things Indoor LoRaWAN Indoor Gateway TTNv3 Enabled for Installing LoRaWAN Networks: Amazon.de: Computer & Accessories
  3. [Wayback/Archive] Jilles Groenendijk on Twitter: “Ladies and Gentlemen, we’ve got him!”

    Image

–jeroen

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

No more /etc/rc.local in ESXi 7 and up, use /etc/rc.local.d/local.sh in stead

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/18

Where in ESXi 6.x you could change /etc/rc.local in ESXi 7 and up tightened security and now use /etc/rc.local.d/local.sh [Wayback/Archive] virtualization – ESXi 7.X file permissions – how to buypass new security measures – Server Fault

Notes:

  • some ESXi (for instance when booting from PXE do not have persistent storage)
  • be sure to always backup an ESXi configuration after changing it

Via [Wayback/Archive] “esxi 7” run your own shell scripts – Google Search

–jeroen

Posted in ash/dash development, Development, ESXi6, ESXi6.5, ESXi6.7, ESXi7, ESXi8, Scripting, Software Development, Virtualization, VMware, VMware ESXi | Leave a Comment »

Tabellen met plugmaat en schroefmaat

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/17

Deze tabellen waren nuttig voor me, want ik dacht dat voor 7mm schroeven 8mm pluggen nodig waren:

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3D printer: Jeff Geerling on Twitter: “If you want to spend a month building it and then the rest of your life telling everyone about it, get a Voron. If you want something quick to assemble and practical, get an Ender 3 S1. If you want the nice coffee-sippingest model that looks good in orange, get a Prusa.”

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/17

I wonder if this still holds: [Wayback/Archive] Jeff Geerling on Twitter: “@NetworkChuck @joeltelling @Barnacules If you want to spend a month building it and then the rest of your life telling everyone about it, get a Voron. If you want something quick to anssemble and practical, get an Ender 3 S1. If you want the nice coffee-sippingest model that looks good in orange, get a Prusa.”

–jeroen

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LostMyPassword – Recover lost passwords stored on Windows applications

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/14

Released in august 2025, about a year ago, LostMyPassword seems to be replacing a lot of separare NirSoft tools that could reveal various specific password types:

[Wayback/Archive] LostMyPassword – Recover lost passwords stored on Windows applications

LostMyPassword can extract the passwords from popular programs, including Web browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Brave, Internet Explorer, Opera, and more…), POP3/IMAP/SMTP passwords stored by email software (Microsoft Outlook, Thunderbird, Windows Mail), Dialup/VPN passwords stored by Windows operating system, login passwords of remote computer stored by Windows operating system.

Via [WaybackSave/Archive] NirSoft on X: “New tool: LostMyPassword – “

On their Twitter account [WaybackSave/Archive] NirSoft (@nirsoft) / X, you can track various changes in their tools.

--jeroen

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Found out that a few years back the Unifi Network Controller got replaced with Unifi Network Application

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/14

My Unifi Cloud Key (the original one) had been broken for some years (not just the Micro-SD card: even with a fresh new card it would not boot), but I didn’t bother as my WiFi network was configured well enough.

But then I had to do some configurations and found out newer Cloud Key iterations have their issues well: batteries dying, hard-disks failing, you name it.

[Wayback/Archive] Unifi Network Controller replaced with Network Application ? | Ubiquiti Community

UI Marketing department decided to change the name. However, depending on the version you are on now, the new versions make a lot of changes to the UI as well as the operation of the APs.

Then I discovered you do not need to run it on either hardware or docker container (the latter I know because of [Wayback/Archive] Die wunderbare Welt von Isotopp), you can now also run it on various other host operating systems:

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Some links on the Archive Today controversy and steps I need to take on this blog

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/11

In nerd space, there is a big Archive Today controversy which comes down to these two things:

  • They used their captcha mechanism to have their end-users DDoS a party that they had a dispute with
  • They altered archived content

Over the last half year or so I noticed an increase in captaches, which skyrocketed over the last couple of weeks. My speculation is that this has to do with the controversy.

Their actions blew up far enough for Wikipedia to actively started replacing almost 700k links to archived content hosted on various domains  of the Archive Today platform with content by other archival sites.

For my blog, with some 10k published and scheduled blog posts, my estimate is that I would need to replace at least 100k links: an effort that I cannot perform with the energy levels left after my cancer treatments in 2020.

What I can do is for future posts to use other archival sites, of which this is a short-list (all to their Wikipedia entries):

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Posted in Power User, Internet, InternetArchive, WayBack machine, archive.is / archive.today, Archiving, Archive Today controversy | Leave a Comment »

Vehicle-to-Grid: Bidirektionales Laden lässt Akkus am stärksten altern – Golem.de

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/10

[Wayback/Archive] Vehicle-to-Grid: Bidirektionales Laden lässt Akkus am stärksten altern – Golem.de

Dass sich über smartes oder bidirektionales Laden Geld sparen lässt, ist aber kaum zu bestreiten. Das ist vor allem dann der Fall, wenn man den eigenen Solarstrom im E-Auto zwischenspeichert und für den Eigenbedarf nutzt. Doch dem steht die Anschaffung einer teuren Wallbox gegenüber.

This corrects the car-market centric article [Wayback/Archive] Bidirektionales Laden beeinträchtigt die Lebensdauer von Elektroauto-Batterien nicht – Sonnenseite – Ökologische Kommunikation mit Franz Alt

Bidirektionales Laden (V2G) wirkt sich nur minimal auf die Gesamtalterung aus und bringt dem E-Autofahrenden einen Mehrwert von 600 Euro pro Jahr.

Via [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @solarpapst on Thread Reader App

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New and More Screenshot and Screen Recording Keyboard Shortcuts Now Available! – Awesome Screenshot Blog

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/07

From last year, but the blog queue was deep (:

TL;DR: defaults not the same for Chrome and Edge; modifiers differ between Chrome and Edge.

[Wayback/Archive] New and More Screenshot and Screen Recording Keyboard Shortcuts Now Available! – Awesome Screenshot Blog

We’re pleased to announce that version 4.4.32 of our extension introduces convenient keyboard shortcuts for your most-used features.

Default Shortcuts

Function Shortcuts
Capture > Visible Part Alt+Shift+V
Capture > Full Page Alt+Shift+F
Capture > Selected Area Alt+Shift+S
Start Recording Desktop Alt+Shift+R

…

I was worried it would clash with shortcuts in existing web-sites or extensions, so I was glad the blog post continued explaining how to change the settings in two ways:

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Say what? 8 things you shouldn’t – or should – say to a cancer patient – Fred Hutch

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/07

[Wayback/Archive] Say what? 8 things you shouldn’t – or should – say to a cancer patient – Fred Hutch

This holds for many non-cancer patients as well, see for instance [Wayback/Archive] How to comfort people to actually make them feel better ? : socialskills.

Every patient is unique, so don’t suggest alternatives unless you have been in exactly the same situation as they are in.

Even then, better than bringing up their disease, ask them how you can help, show your care, sit down and just listen, or talk normal aspects of anyone’s life: hobbies, family, weather, food, etc.

The worst you can do is not being there at all. This is how long lasting friendships end.

For anyone, it is very tiring to talk about a single aspect of their life for each and every day. Not even new moms as the article from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center mentions.

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