Tips rond overstappen tussen ISPs:
[Wayback/Archive] Goedkoop vast internet is soms best duur – Wordt dit de zomer van goedkoper internet? – Achtergrond – Tweakers
--jeroen
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Goedkoop vast internet is soms best duur – Wordt dit de zomer van goedkoper internet? – Achtergrond – Tweakers
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/17
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Ziggo klantenservice wanneer 0900 nummers geblokkeerd zijn
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/26
Voor mijn contact-archief voor als je het Ziggo 0900-nummer niet of slechts tegen kosten kunt bellen:
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Some notes on Wikipedia tags for references, citing URLs that are archived like in the Wayback Machine
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/24
- Help:Using the Wayback Machine – Wikipedia
- Wikipedia:Citing sources – Wikipedia
- Template:Cite web – Wikipedia
- Template:Ref – Wikipedia
- Template:Lang – Wikipedia
Used it for instance for this edit: [Wayback/Archive] Lightweight Directory Access Protocol: verschil tussen versies – Wikipedia.
–jeroen
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Wijkcentrales – VVDSL.robinflikkema.nl
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/17
Voor mijn link archief: KPN telefooncentrales, waarvan een paar waar familie of ik een aansluiting had:
[Wayback/Archive] Wijkcentrales – VVDSL.robinflikkema.nl
Deze hadden Mojibake met de generic replacement character (“�”):
Wijkcentrales Code Plek Ctlr [Wayback/Archive] Wijkcentrale: Castelr� – VVDSL.robinflikkema.nl
(moet Castelré zijn)Odi [Wayback/Archive] Wijkcentrale: St. Odili�nberg – VVDSL.robinflikkema.nl
(moet Sint Odiliënberg zijn)
Let op: de [Wayback/Archive] fourstack KPN UI (toenmalig gebouwd door [Wayback/Archive] FourStack) is sinds 2021 uit de lucht, zie [WaybackSave/ArchiveBad] FPI Fourstack Snelheid DSL – Internet en hosting – GoT , dus de gegevens worden niet meer bijgewerkt.
--jeroen
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msftconnecttest/msftncsi: Trouble connecting to Web sites and services because of certificate errors? Check if you’re being held captive – The Old New Thing
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/05
Note that http://neverssl.com is the way to figure out if you are in a captive portal, see below.
In Windows 10, the name of the endpoint changed from
msftncsitomsftconnecttest, presumably to make the purpose of the access more obvious in security and audit logs. Nobody will understand that NCSI stands for Network Connectivity Status Indicator.
[Wayback/Archive] Trouble connecting to Web sites and services because of certificate errors? Check if you’re being held captive – The Old New Thing
It refers to a few other interesting sites, for instance about modifying if/how NCSI detects internet connectivity:
- [Wayback/Archive] How does Windows decide whether your computer has limited or full Internet access? – The Old New Thing
- [Wayback/Archive] An Internet Explorer or Edge window opens when your computer connects to a corporate network or a public network – Windows Client | Microsoft Learn
- [Wayback/Archive] Manage connections from Windows 10 and Windows 11 Server/Enterprise editions operating system components to Microsoft services – Windows Privacy | Microsoft Learn: network connection status indicator
You can turn off NCSI by doing one of the following:-
Enable the Group Policy: Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System > Internet Communication Management > Internet Communication Settings > Turn off Windows Network Connectivity Status Indicator active testsNoteAfter you apply this policy, you must restart the device for the policy setting to take effect.
-or-- Create a
REG_DWORDregistry setting namedNoActiveProbeinHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\NetworkConnectivityStatusIndicatorwith a value of1(one).
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- [Wayback/Archive] Policy CSP – Connectivity – Windows Client Management | Microsoft Learn
- [Wayback/Archive] Use authenticated proxy servers – Windows Client | Microsoft Learn
As mentioned at the top: my blog post on http://neverssl.com: NeverSSL – helping you get online on WiFi networks requiring authentication
Other related blog posts:
–jeroen
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LAN/WAN network building: test and know how to locate your cabling
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/04
I have seen too many sites where cabling was laid en never tested before actual use, which meant locating the cabling and faults was a nightmare.
Be sure to have good (which can be very simple, but more complex when Power over Ethernet is involved) testing hardware and use it during installation. You will thank yourself later.
A few videos that can be helpful:
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Revisited: Bookmarklet to save a page both in the WayBack machine and Archive.is (ending on the latter to solve a reCAPTCHA)
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/02
Quite a I while ago, I wrote Bookmarklet to save a page both in the WayBack machine and Archive.is (ending on the latter to solve a reCAPTCHA).
The bookmarklet has been very stable, but as of a week or so I need to press the Enter key for it to actually archive.
The reason is that Archive.is, also known as Archive Today, introduced a new URL parameter for auto-starting the archive of an URL.
The old one looked like this: https://archive.is/submit/?run=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Ffeed%2Fhistory%2Fcomment_history
The new one like this: https://archive.is/submit/?anyway=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Ffeed%2Fhistory%2Fcomment_history&submitid=auT7eAltRDxCOGSjdoRMhu3H9d91VEFlvjVztfvNU8XO0ccAhji5DvTyqQew6rfm
The new submitid URL 40 character base64 parameter is being checked in the back end. One way of obtaining one by loading https://archive.is/ then wait for it’s completion and grab it from there.
The alternative is to wait for the submit page to fully load, then find the “save” button via its HTML <input type="submit" value="save"> and press it.
So that’s on the todo list for the updated Bookmarklet of the above blog post.
For now, I just have to press the Enter key for each archived page, I wonder how long that will last (:
Oh: to get the “do you want to save the page again” URL you will have to know the canonical URL first, as that ID is in the again URL, see the bold bits here:
- https://archive.is/c6d09
- https://archive.is/c6d09/again?url=https://www.youtube.com/feed/history/comment_history
--jeroen
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Fix a “Automatic Repair couldn’t repair your PC” on an UEFI system: when Windows cannot be located
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/22
I got the below error when booting a Dell Optiplex 7060 Micro, a machine not just supporting supporting UEFI but preferring it, on which I had copied a backed-up disk image, then moved the hidden Recovery partition to the end of the physical disk (to make room to extend either the OS or DATA partitions).
Fixing it lead me to a trip that was on the boundary of software archaeology, so this blog post has a truckload of archived links to information that is still relevant, but for which the original links have long vanished due to link rot or (often worse) part of the historic information got lost because of migration to new tooling forgot to cover important additions (especially in comments).
One thing that I had to unlearn was MBR disk basics, for instance the fact that on GPT disks a partition can be active (they can only be on MBR disks, but despite UEFI supporting both MBT and GPT, GPT disks are way more common and required). The same holds for partitions having a boot flag: that too only applies to MBR disks. For the same reason, bootrec is only useful for MBR disks. More details towards the end of this blog post. CSM (Compatibility Support Module) booting is the UEFI way to simulate BIOS boot for operating systems that do no support UEFI.
Back to the error at hand:
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DNS/web options: How to verify your Bluesky account – Bluesky
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/21
Just in case I ever want to bind a BSKY handle to a domain name I own:
- [Wayback/Archive] How to verify your Bluesky account – Bluesky
- [Wayback/Archive] Bluesky with own domain-handle and .well-known/atproto-did – Capi’s Corner
Via:
- [Wayback/Archive] Jilles Groenendijk: “Welcome to BlueSky. In this post you will find a 2 starter packs for both Dutch as well as InfoSec people to follow to get you kickstarted here. Profile names use different characters. You can claim your own domain-name as username (like I did) by registering an _atproto TXT dns-record.” — Bluesky
You can claim your own domain-name as username (like I did) by registering an
_atprotoTXTdns-record. - [Wayback/Archive] _atproto dns – Sök på Google
- [Wayback /Archive] “_atproto” dns – Sök på Google
--jeroen
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Robust Links – Make Your Link Robust: automagically amend them with archived versions
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/26
Need to look into this further: [Wayback/Archive] Robust Links – Make Your Link Robust.
Likely running it on my blog requires JavaScript to be enabled which means going from the premium to the small business plan (at te time of writing from USD 8 to USD 25 per month: a 200+% increase).
Let’s first start with an example:
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 