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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/13
[Wayback/Archive] The Worlds BEST One Handed Knot! – YouTube which “The Bear Essentials” in this video calls “the thumbs up knot” but in fact is the Falconer’s Knot (which in turn is a one-handed way of tying a Halter Hitch) and also covered in his longer video [Wayback/Archive] TOP 10 BEST Knots for Life – YouTube.
The Thumbs Up knot is in fact a different knot which you can for instance use at the start of a paracord keychain: [Wayback/Archive] THUMBS UP! – YouTube
The short video explains the Falconer’s Knot well, but I do more like the step by step pictures in [Wayback/Archive] The Modern Apprentice – How to Tie a Falconer’s Knot
A video that also explains it better is [Wayback/Archive] Tying the Falconers Knot – YouTube.
More links:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/13
I found these maps:
- Years at the time of writing this post (spring 2023)
Via:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/10
I mention dead links a lot, and always try to archive content before scheduling it in a blog post.
No different for [Wayback/Archive] Some URLs Are Immortal, Most Are Ephemeral, which provides background information about how the short lifespan of most URLs.
Their 2024 publication was a poster in PNG and PTTX format (linked below under the abstract), so I created this PDF out of it:
Abstract
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/10
Cool: [Wayback/Archive] scr.im « Share your email in a safe way. Get less spam.
Bumped into this via [Wayback/Archive] Mary Branscombe (@marypcbuk) / Twitter.
At the time of writing, it had an invalid TLS certificate, so you would get red warnings when accessing it over HTTPS.
Hopefully that has been fixed by now.
It’s not exactly security through obscurity, but it allows people to access your email after solving a captcha so it is not 100% secure but a lot more secure than otherwise.
I found it 5 years after mailhide got discontinued by Google. I used it on my [Wayback/Archive] Contact form through mailhide.recaptcha.net which Google slowly killed without me noticing likely because Google didn’t want to upgrade it from using reCAPTCHA v1 into v2 or v3.:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/06
Op [Wayback/Archive] Sirenes – Brandweer staat dit:
👉 Geen testalarm!
Op maandag 6 april (2e paasdag) en op maandag 4 mei (dodenherdenking) is er geen test-alarm. De sirene zal dan niet te horen zijn.
Ze vergeten daar de vervolgvraag: wanneer gaan de sirenes dan wel af?
Met andere woorden: wordt het uitgesteld tot een week later, of wordt het maar liefst twee maanden overgeslagen tot maandag 1 juni? Of pas als de voorraden fossiele brandstoffen op zijn en er chaos uitbreekt?
Dit is een iets aangepaste versie van mijn toot [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers: “Vandaag om 12:00 waren wel de …” – Mastodon
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/30
Het was me al een tijdje opgevallen dat ik nauwelijks meer fysieke post van Movir kreeg.
Ik dacht aan een probleem bij de post, maar het bleek erger:
Toen ik een tijd terug een on-line profiel aangemaakt had ik een PDF van mijn profiel gemaakt zodat ik wist wat er was geregisteerd.
Daarin stond “Communicatievoorkeur Per post”.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/27
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/20
They have existed since early this century, and manage to continuously feature up to date Dutch speed trap information on the interwebz:
I wish they had linked to a site like [Wayback/Archive] HMpaal.nl to quickly access location information, for instance [Wayback/Archive] HMpaal.nl: A4/R/36.6:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/18
Relatively old mathematics that is still relevant: Markov Chains.
It is about predictability of events based on the current state of affairs (and not past state of affairs). Lot’s of AI have been about Markov Chains for a long time: spam filters, text prediction while typing, search engine results, language recognition by letter-pairs, and many more.
A nice video about it is [Wayback/Archive] The Strange Math That Predicts (Almost) Anything – YouTube
Related are many foundations in information technology, of which Markov and Shannon are mentioned in the video:
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