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Emergency power resets on Lenovo, HP, Dell, and Acer laptops – The Old New Thing

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/05

For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] Emergency power resets on Lenovo, HP, Dell, and Acer laptops – The Old New Thing

Links from the article (archived in case of link rot)

--jeroen

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Badger 2040 – Badger + Accessory Kit – Pimoroni

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/02

An image of Badger 2040Want: [Wayback/Archive] Badger 2040 – Badger + Accessory Kit – Pimoroni

A hackable, programmable badge with E Ink® display, powered by Raspberry Pi RP2040.

Via

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Is this the ultimate XKCD “Dependency” derivative?

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/29

xkcd modern digital infrastructure torn down by a satisfied looking cat

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 in *nix, Amazon.com/.de/.fr/.uk/..., AWS Amazon Web Services, C, CDN (Content Delivery Network), Cloud, Cloudflare, cURL, Development, Fun, Hardware, Infrastructure, ISP, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Network-and-equipment, Node.js, npm, Power User, Rust, Scripting, Software Development, Web Development | Tagged: , | Leave a Comment »

Interesting; Meshtastic

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/27

ImageOn my list of hardware/software to experiment with is [Wayback/Archive] Meshtastic:

An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devices

Via [Wayback/Archive] @jilles_com@infosec.exchange on Twitter: “Will be taking to meshtastic.org Lora 433MHz modules to @hotelhacker. Might be cool if more people could bring some to setup a larger mesh and play with them. amzn.eu/d/aCgULy4“

Products:

For both boards, this holds:

1. The Meshtastic program is not pre-installed on this product. If you need to install, please check the steps:

github.com/geeksville/Meshtastic-Android/blob/master/README.md

github.com/meshtastic/meshtastic-device/releases

2. If GPS does not work, the following situations may occur:

Install the Meshtastic firmware before and now reset the GPS when you switch to another firmware.

Reset steps: github.com/Xinyuan-LilyGO/LilyGo-LoRa-Series/tree/master/firmware/GPS_%20reset_test

3. If GPS is weak indoors, it can be used outdoors

4. The GPS antenna is not installed stably, you can check if the interface is attached to the GPS antenna

Related:

–jeroen

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Do WiFi-cables (German: WLAN-Kabel) exist?

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/21

There is this German joke about “WLAN-Kabel” (WiFi-cable) ** that goes with (Germans mocking about Internet and technology still being uncharted territory*).

Yes, they do!

There is [Wayback/Archive] IWLAN RCoax Cable | Industrial Wireless LAN | Siemens Global:

* Neuland

See:

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Naming devices and animals

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/18

Via [Wayback/Archive] Diederik Jekel on Twitter: “@CaAl @michielveenstra Mijn montage PC’s voor video-editing heette Edit Piaf, Chiel Montage en Antje Montero. Kwam in brainstorm naar boven met mijn maatje Jon.”:

  • Video-editing equipment:

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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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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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Domotica/IoT: Smarthometweaks uit de community – Tweakers

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/13

Interesting ideas about home automation, domotics and IoT:

  1. [Wayback/Archive] Smarthometweaks uit de community – Tweakers
  2. [Wayback/Archive] Smarthometweaks uit de community – Verlichting – Tweakers
  3. [Wayback/Archive] Smarthometweaks uit de community – Huishoudelijke taken – Tweakers
  4. [Wayback/Archive] Smarthometweaks uit de community – Huisgenoten en -dieren – Tweakers
  5. [Wayback/Archive] Smarthometweaks uit de community – Verwarming, klimaat en energiegebruik – Tweakers
  6. [Wayback/Archive] Smarthometweaks uit de community – Multimedia – Tweakers
  7. [Wayback/Archive] Smarthometweaks uit de community – Platform en automatiseringsfilosofie – Tweakers
  8. [Wayback/Archive] Smarthometweaks uit de community – Platform en automatiseringsfilosofie – Tweakers

–jeroen

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Rudimentary DaynaPORT packet driver to use WiFi from DOS using BlueSCSI: GitHub – cml37/daynaport-dos-packet-driver

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/08

Despite beta or early alpha quality [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – cml37/daynaport-dos-packet-driver by by [Wayback/Archive] RetroTech Chris – YouTube is very cool.

Main source: [Wayback/Archive] daynaport-dos-packet-driver/src/dayna.c at main · cml37/daynaport-dos-packet-driver · GitHub

Related:

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